Is there, let me ask, anything like agreement among the creeds? Have the Bible expounders always seen eye to eye? Do the biblical critics all harmonize? Where, I would like to know, can you find more disagreement than in the Christian church?
Infidelity.
“Infidelity is honest. When it reaches the confines of reason, it says: I know no further.
“Infidelity does not palm its guess upon the ignorant as a demonstration. Infidelity proves nothing by slander—establishes nothing by abuse.
“Infidelity has nothing to hide. It has no ‘holy of holies,’ except the abode of truth. It has no curtain that the hand of investigation has not the right to draw aside. It lives in the cloudless light, in the very noon of human eyes.
“Infidelity has no bible to be blasphemed. It does not cringe before an angry god.
“Infidelity says to every man: Investigate for yourself. There is no punishment for unbelief.
“Infidelity asks for no protection from legislatures. It wants no man fined because he contradicts its doctrines.
“Infidelity relies simply upon evidence—not evidence of the dead, but of the living.