Veiling, revealing, at His sovereign will,
His glory,—and His people guarding still.[96]
Wrestle then against the invasion of deadly doctrines, wrestle and do not fear. If men rise against God in the name of the modern mind, of the science of the age, of the progress of civilization, do not suffer yourselves to be stunned by these clamors. Let the past be to you the pledge of the future! To make of atheism a novelty, is an error. To make of it, in a general way, the characteristic of our epoch, is a calumny.
FOOTNOTES:
[40] Xenophon, Memorab. of Socrates, Bk. iv. 10.
[41] La Religion naturelle. Preface.
[42] Emile Saisset, in the Revue des Deux Mondes, of March, 1845.
[43] See the Lettres sur les vérités, les plus importantes de la révélation, by Albert de Haller, translated into French by one of his grandsons. Lausanne, Bridel, 1846.
[44] La Métaphysique et la Science, 2 tom. Oct. 1858.
[45] Notice sur M. Littré, page 57.