Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

H':! DANVE~ IN THE DARK.
piness, men in their folly oft turn against themselves
There is nothing placed within the reach of man, but
what may be turned to a curse and rendered an instrument
of evil."
" Yet it seems to me, my venerable friend, that a
religion claiming God for its Author, ought to shine
with an undimmed effulgence, that, in spite of earth
and hell, would at all times make its glory visible."
"Clouds, you know, may vail the brightness of the
sun; yet how pure is the light of that glorious orb!
and how powerful his rays I So may error, ignorance
and superstition obscure, for a time, the great luminaryof
Christianity, hung out in the moral heavens,
to enlighten the benighted nations of the earth."
"It is the avowed object of the Christian system,
and the Gospel which is being proclaimed to the
world, to lead men to God, enlighten and save them:
still a large majority, after the long lapse of more than
eighteen centuries, are found confessedly unsaved,
unenlightened and far from God; now, how are we to
account for the failure ~"
" If you mean to take deistical ground, and maintain
that nature is a full and sufficient revelation, I
would ask, how shall we account for the failure in that
case ~ The mass of men, as little understand and
appreciate the great principles and sublime truths of
nature, as they do those contained in revelation.
Oomparatively few are to any considerable extent
enlightened in the book of creation. If you then
argue that Christianity is a failure, and therefore not