THE CREED OF CHRISTENDOM; ITS FOUNDATIONS AND SUPERSTRUCTURE. BY WILLIAM RATHBONE GREG. "THE PRAYER OF AJAX WAS FOR LIGHT." LONDON: JOHN CHAPMAN, 142, STRAND. MDCCCLI. "I should, perhaps, be a happier, at all events a more useful, man, if my mind were otherwise constituted. But so it is: and even with regard to Christianity itself, like certain plants, I creep towards the light, even though it draw me away from the more nourishing warmth. Yea, I should do so, even if the light made its way through a rent in the wall of the Temple."— COLERIDGE. "Perplexed in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out; There lives more faith in honest doubt, "He fought his doubts and gathered strength; He faced the spectres of the mind, "To find a stronger faith his own; And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness and the light, "But in the darkness and the cloud. ' TENNYSON. "No inquirer can fix a direct and clear-sighted gaze towards Truth, who is casting side glances all the while on the prospects of his Soul."-MARTINEAU. "What hope of answer or redress? TENNYSON. b |