All's Love Yet All's Law

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...have read both sides--dipped into poetry, touched science, sailed over the seas of theology, skirted the continents of history, viewed untold islands of philosophical speculation, travelled over the broad waters of human biography and entered the great harbours of certain self-evident truths--and there are two things of which we are absolutely sure: First, the failure of Atheism. Second, the success of Christianity. Honest doubt has broadened human knowledge, but atheism has failed. Atheism is a building without a foundation, a train without a track, a tree without a root, a body without a head, a circumference without a centre, a bloom without a blossom, a stream without a source, a business without a manager, an effect without a cause and--a universe without a God. Atheism has never been able to steady the heart, still the conscience, satisfy the intellect, explain the universe or account for the undying and inextinguishable aspirations of the soul. It cannot provide a refuge in the storms of life or rob death of its sting. Ingersoll has laid out the cold, still, silent form of modern atheism and covered it with the beautiful flowers of an orator's rhetoric. Listen to his words.--This is the best and brightest message which the most eloquent apostle of modern unbelief has to offer.--" Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights; we cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of a wailing cry." Atheism always fails in the presence of Death. No wonder Robert Hall exclaimed: "I buried my materialism in the grave of my father." Christianity begins where Atheism ends. Christianity means Life, Love and Immortality. Christianity is the greatest fact...