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grandeur, that eighteen subsequent centuries have 

 done homage to Him as the Almighty in person." 

 Again he says : " Religion, since the birth of Chris- 

 tianity, has inculcated the belief that our highest 

 conceptions of combined wisdom and goodness exist 

 in the concrete in a living Being who has His eyes 

 on us, and cares for our good. Through the darkest 

 and most corrupt periods, Christianity has raised this 

 torch on high has kept this object of veneration and 

 imitation before the eyes of man." 



Hear what the historian Lord Macaulay says about 

 the old philosophers : " God the uncreated, the 

 incomprehensible, the invisible, attracted few wor- 

 shippers. A philosopher might admire so noble a 

 conception, but the crowd turned away in disgust 

 from words which presented no image to their minds. 

 It was before Deity embodied in a human form, 

 walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, 

 leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, 

 slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, 

 that the prejudices of the Synagogue, and the doubts 

 of the Academy, and the pride of the Portico, and 

 the fasces of the Lictor, and the swords of thirty 

 legions, were humbled in the dust." 



But Mr. Mill and other writers, eminent in diffe- 

 rent branches of science, seem to think it very impor- 

 tant that we have not what they consider logical 

 proof of even the fundamental truths of Christianity, 

 leaving everyone in most uncomfortable scepticism 

 and doubt. Though we may not have such demon- 



