A Popular Handbook of Christian Evidences (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: soon becomes conscious, or rather it begins the quest with the consciousness, that God, if He is, is incomprehensible. But then all infinitude is incomprehensible ?and yet, as we have seen, the mind is " shut up " to faith in infinite space and time. 2. If it were possible for the mind to rest in a blank Agnosticism Agnosticism, it would be morally wrong to do so. In "wrorig! the most ordinary conscience there is at least enough to suggest the idea of a Moral Ruler, to whom we are responsible; and in our sense of dependence there is enough to suggest the idea that the good we enjoy Duty of comes from some unseen Benefactor. Now, we are ''oufoTthe8 morally bound to follow up these suggestions, and ldGodf a prove either that they are misguiding fancies, or that the Ruler and Benefactor they point to does really exist, and is none other than God over all. There is See Dr.t " a duty laid upon men by the probability, or even al the imagination of a God," to seek after Him if haply gg. they may find Him, or, on the contrary, if haply they may find that He is not. Neither the intellect nor the heart nor the conscience of man can rest in Agnosticism. Secular- Secularism is nearly allied to Agnosticism. It does not necessarily imply Atheism, nor does it even say that God and an unseen world and a future state cannot be known. But it says that all these are, in The alleged fact, so little known that the path of wisdom is to true, practical concentrate our attention on the life that now is. Wls om' " Putting the two worlds into two scales of value, the Secularist finds (or thinks he finds) that the one weighs much, the other either nothing or nothing that can be appreciated." He deprecates what he calls "the old policy of sacrificing the certain welfare of humanity on eart...