Christianity has failed to conquer the human heart." "It must be very dreadful for you to be convinced of that." "It is.

But more dreadful would be a loss of belief in the Christian spirit.

By belief, I don't mean faith in its ultimate triumph; I am not at all sure that I can look forward to _that_.

No; but a persuasion that the Sermon on the Mount is good--is the best.

Once upon a time, multitudes were in that sense Christian.