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But one aspect of Revelation must not be allowed to exclude or to obscure another; and Christianity is dogmatical, devotional, practical all at once; it is esoteric and exoteric; it is indulgent and strict; it is light and dark; it is love, and it is fear.\u00a0<\/span><\/i>

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In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span>

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This process of development has been well delineated by a living French writer, in his Lectures on European civilization, who shall be quoted at some length. \u201cIf we reduce religion,\u201d he says, \u201cto a purely religious sentiment \u2026 it appears evident that it must and ought to remain a purely personal concern. But I am either strangely mistaken, or this religious sentiment is not the complete expression of the religious nature of man. Religion is, I believe, very different from this, and much more extended. There are problems in human nature, in human destinies, which cannot be solved in this life, which depend on an {50} order of things unconnected with the visible world, but which unceasingly agitate the human mind with a desire to comprehend them. The solution of these problems is the origin of all religion; her primary object is to discover the creeds and doctrines which contain, or are supposed to contain it.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"