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Phyllis of Philistia

CHAPTER IV
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But how many thousand persons are there not, to-day, who think that the Church is on one side, and the truth on the other?
The intolerant attitude of the Church, still maintained in these days, when the spirit of science pervades every form of thought, has been productive of probably the largest body that ever existed in the country, of sensible men and women, who never enter a church door.

They want to know whatsoever things are true; they do not want to be dredged with the mummy dust of dogma." "But the Bible--the Bible!" "It is necessary for me to tell you all that I feel on this subject; all that I have felt for several years past--ever since I left the divinity school behind me, and went into the world of thinking men and women.

It is necessary to tell these men and women in unmistakable language that our faith aims at a perfect type of manhood--at the perfection of truth.

It is necessary to tell them that we do not regard, except with abhorrence, such types of men as have for centuries been held up to admiration simply because they have for centuries been the objects of admiration, of imitation, of veneration, on the part of the debased people who gave us the earlier books of the Bible.

The memory of Jacob became the dominant influence among the Hebrew nation; hence the continuous curse that rested upon them, the curse that rests upon the cheat, the defrauder of his own household, his brother, his father, his uncle.


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