If God were such a One as many of those who would fancy themselves His apostles, the universe would be but a huge hell.

Look at certain of the so-called religious newspapers, for instance.

Religious! Their tongue is set on fire of hell.

It may be said that they are mere money-speculations; but what makes them pay?
Who buys them?
To please whom do they write?
Do not many buy them who are now and then themselves disgusted with them?
Why do they not refuse to touch the unclean things?
Instead of keeping the commandment, 'that he who loveth God love his brother also,' these, the prime channels of Satanic influence in the Church, powerfully teach, that He that loveth God must abuse his brother--or he shall be himself abused." "I fancy," said the rector, "they would withhold the name of brother from those they abuse." "No; not always." "They would from an unbeliever." "Yes.

But let them then call him an enemy, and behave to him as such--that is, love him, or at least try to give him the fair play to which the most wicked of devils has the same right as the holiest of saints.