But I will not pretend that this curt discussion is my real reason for accepting Christianity instead of taking the moral good of Christianity as I should take it out of Confucianism.
I have another far more solid and central ground for submitting to it as a faith, instead of merely picking up hints from it as a scheme.

And that is this: that the Christian Church in its practical relation to my soul is a living teacher, not a dead one.

It not only certainly taught me yesterday, but will almost certainly teach me to-morrow.

Once I saw suddenly the meaning of the shape of the cross; some day I may see suddenly the meaning of the shape of the mitre.

One fine morning I saw why windows were pointed; some fine morning I may see why priests were shaven.