NO RELIGION.

Bruce Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 1760, 22 June 1886, Page 4

NO RELIGION.

The worst kind of religion is no religion at all ; and those men who, living in ease and luxury, indulge themselves in " the amusement of going without a religion," may be thankful that they live in lands where the gospel they neglect has tamed the beastliness and ferocity of the men who, but for Christianity, might long ago have eaten their carcases like the South Sea Islanders, or cut off their heads and tauned their hides like the monsters of the French Revolution. When the microscopic search of scepticism, which has hunted the heavens and sounded the seas to disprove the existence of a Creator, has turned its attention to human society, and has found a place on this planet ten miles square where a decent man can live in decency, comfort and security, supporting and educating his children, unspoiled and unpolluted ; a place where age is reverenced, infancy protected, manhood respected, womanhood honored, and human life held in due regard ; when sceptics can find such a place ten miles square on this globe, where the gospel of Christ has not gone, and cleared the way and laid the foundations, and made decency and security possible, it will than be in. order for the sceptical literati to move thither and then ventilate their views. But so long as these very men are dependent upon the religion which they discard for every privilege they enjoy, they may well hesitate a little before they seek to rob the Christian of his hope, the sinner of his restraint, society of its governing power, and humanity of its faith in thab Saviour who alone has given to man that hup« of life eternal wnich make? life tolerable ane society possible, and robs death of its terrors and the grave of its gloom.— H.L.H., in 'Bible Standard.'