It is baldly taking the ground of denial of
everything outside of personal understanding and knowledge. The
skepticism of very many would blot out the greater part of science,
history, and geography. The facts of Christian experience and
Christian testimony are as truly facts as those which are discovered
by people who are hostile or indifferent to the Bible.
The broad, liberal man is he who accepts all truth and humbly
waits till the fuller wisdom of coming ages reconciles what is
now apparently conflicting. The bigot is he who shuts his eyes to
truth he does not like, or does not understand; and he is as apt
to be a scientist as the man who has learned that the God who made
him can also speak to him, through his inspired word and all-pervading
Spirit.
We are surrounded by earthly mysteries which the wisest cannot
solve, and some of them are very sad and dark. Why should there
not be, as Ida said, a heavenly mystery?
After all, it is a question of fact. The Christ of the New Testament
offers to give peace and spiritual healing. Does he keep his word?
We say yes, on the broad ground of human experience and human
testimony--the ground on which is built the greater part of human
knowledge.
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