AT i-n 11. i>'7' ADDRM88. 4ir. 



would .ave good friends or \iolenteneniie,-; 



and that he i : \\ ho nossesses both." This "best" 



condition. 1 hau- iva-on to believe, is mine. 



Kelleeting on the fraction I i 



and judguie g not 



only the world thai now is, but that which 

 have noticed with mournful intei. trivial . 



seem to be inllueuced by what they call their religion, and 

 how potently by that " nalur< 



province of religion to eradicate or subdue. From fa 

 manly argument, from the tendered and holiot sympathy 

 on the part of lh,e whoih etei nal good, 1 pass by 



many gradations, through deliberate unfairness, to a spirit 

 of bitterness, which desires with a fervor inexpressible in 

 |q my eternal ill. Now, were religion the JM.I. 



a hoim _ utterance from 



those professing a common creed, while, if human nature 

 be the really potent factor, we may expect utterances as 

 heterogeneous as the characters of men. As a matter of 

 f act we have the latt. .-sting to my mind that the 



common religion, professed and defended by these dif- 

 ferent people, is merely the accidental conduit through 

 which they pour their own tempers, lofty or low, courteous 

 or vulgar, mild or ferocious, a s the case may be. l'u re abuse, 

 however, as nerving no good end, 1 have. \\ heie\ er pot-i 

 deliberately a\oi ; :ing, wishing, indeed, to k. 



not only hatred, malice, and uncharitableiiess, but e\en 

 v trace of irritation, far away from my side of a dis- 

 cussion which demands not only good-temper, but large- 

 ness. M, and many-sidedness of mind, if it is to 

 guide us to (\. 11 provisional solutions. 



It has been stated, with mai.\ variations of note and 

 comment, that in the address as subsequently published by 



gmans 1 "pinions uttered 



Belfast. A Roman Catholic writer is specially 



tiiH point. Startled by the deep chorus of dissent 



which my " da/./ling fallacies" ha\e evoked. 1 am now 



it, ThH hi- will b\ m. n , "It 



is too 1 . to seek to hide from the eyes of mankind 



one foul ! ghastly deformity. I'l.'fessor T\mhill 



address of b 



composed. It WHS \\iitt.ii ai ! the 



solitudes of the Swiss mountains. It was no hasty, in 



