Modern Substitutes for Christianity

'Why call ye Me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?'—S. LUKE vi. 46.
'The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you.'—ROMANS ii. 24.
'What if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?'—ROMANS iii. 3.
'By reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.'—2 S. PETER ii. 1.
'So is the will of God, that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.'—1 S. PETER ii. 15.

Such accusations, it may occur to us, cannot be made seriously: they bear their refutation in the very making; they cannot be propounded with any expectation of being accepted. This may seem self-evident to us: it is not self-evident to multitudes of eager, earnest men. The accusations are persistently made by vigorous writers and impassioned speakers, and are received as incontrovertible propositions. However astonishing, however painful, it may be for us to hear, it is well that we should know, what, in largely circulated books and periodicals, and in mass meetings of the people, is said about the Faith which we profess, and about us who profess it.
Listen to some of the terms in which Christianity is impeached.