CHAP. VI.] SCHOLAR OF TRINITY. 179 



Trespass on any plot of Holy Ground which any man has set 

 apart (as the rustics did their Gude-man's Eig) to the power 

 of Darkness. Such places must be exorcised and desecrated 

 till they become fruitful fields. Again, if the holder of 

 such property refuse admission to the exorcist, he ipso facto 

 admits that it is consecrated, and that he fears the power of 

 Darkness. It may be that no such darkness really broods 

 over the place, and that the man has got a habit of shutting 

 his eyes in that field, which makes him think so. 



Now I am convinced that no one but a Christian can 

 actually purge his land of these holy spots. Any one may 

 profess that he has none, but something will sooner or later 

 occur to every one to show him that part of his ground is 

 not open to the public. Intrusions on this are resented, and 

 so its existence is demonstrated. Now, I do not say that 

 no Christians have enclosed places of this sort. Many have 

 a great deal, and every one has some. No one can be sure 

 of all being open till all has been examined by competent 

 persons, which is the work, as I said before, of eternity. 

 But there are extensive and important tracts in the territory 

 of the Scoffer, the Pantheist, the Quietist, Formalist, Dog- 

 matist, Sensualist, and the rest, which are openly and 

 solemnly Tabooed, as the Polynesians say, and are not to 

 be spoken of without sacrilege. 



Christianity that is, the religion of the Bible is the 

 only scheme or form of belief which disavows any posses- 

 sions on such a tenure. Here alone all is free. You may 

 fly to the ends of the world and find no God but the Author 

 of Salvation. You may search the Scriptures and not find 

 a text to stop you in your explorations. 



You may read all History and be compelled to wonder 

 but not to doubt. 



Compare the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob with 

 the God of the Prophets and the God of the Apostles, and 

 however the Pantheist may contrast the God of Nature with 

 the " Dark Hebrew God," you will find them much liker 

 each other than either like his. 



The Old Testament and the Mosaic Law and Judaism 



