TRUE LESSON OF PROTESTANTISM 



day will open half a dozen questions where it 

 settles one, and will presently be variously qual- 

 ified, and at last absorbed in some wider and 

 deeper truth. When all this shall have come to 

 be realized, and shall have been made part and 

 parcel of the daily mental habit of men, then 

 our human treatment of religion will no longer 

 be what it has too often been in the past, a 

 wretched squabble, fit only for the demons of 

 Malebolge, but it will have come to be like 

 the sweet discourse of saints in Dante's " Para- 

 dise." 



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