CHAPTER VII. 



CONCLUSION. 



-i. 



/*1 FTER thus arraying the facts as taught by 

 ^T^ the Fathers of the First and Second Patris- 

 tic Periods, the Scholastics, the Creeds, and 

 Opinions of Snyods, we find a remarkable unani- 

 mity in the belief of the Christian church. 



The Trinity, the personality of the Holy Spirit, 

 and numerous other beliefs fundamentally re- 

 lated to Theology have stood the assault of the 

 combined enmity of God's opposers. The church,, 

 substantially, have stood shoulder to shoulder in 

 this polemic battle. None the less sanguine is 

 the effort to wrest from the visible church a 

 truth, the absence of which would transform 

 God's earth into Pandemonium, and strengthen 

 the hands of rebels, who are but too willing to 

 march against the citadel of God and obliterate 

 not only Hell but Heaven itself. 



"What none can prove a forgery may be true; 

 What none but bad men .wish exploded must." 



No tenet nor doctrine, affecting the basal prin- 

 ciples of the Gospel has ever been universally 

 held but for a short time, if at all. 



