He wants, as it were, to save their beliefs rather than their souls.

He regards the emotionalist as occupying territory as dangerous to himself and to the victory of Christianity as the territory occupied by the traditionalist.

Both schools offend the mind of rational men; both make Christianity seem merely an affair of temperament; and both are exposed to the danger of losing their faith.
To convert the world to the Will of God, it is essential that the Christian should have a rational explanation of his faith, a faith which, resting only on tradition or emotion, must obviously take its place among all the other competing religions of mankind, a religion possessing no authority recognised by the modern world.
The modern world rightly asks of every opinion and idea presented to its judgment, "Is it true ?" and it has reason on its side in being sceptical concerning the records of the past.

If not, there are religions in the world of an antiquity greater than Christianity's, whose traditions have been faithfully kept by a vaster host of the human race than has ever followed the traditions of Christianity.

Is it to be a battle between tradition and tradition?
Is age to be a test of truth?
Is devotion to a formula to count as an argument?
The emotionalist, too, is no longer on safe ground in protesting his miracles of conversion.