The majority of civilized people have nothing to
regulate life but faith in the police. This condition
would be unbearable if it were universal. Fortu-
nately there is a remnant, made up of the noblest
minds of the age, who are not contented with this
religion, but have an entirely different faith with
regard to what the life of man ought to be. These
men are looked upon as the most malevolent, the
most dangerous, and generally as the most unbe-
lieving of all human beings, and yet they are the
only men of our time believing in the Gospel doc-
trine, if not as a whole, at least in part. These
people, as a general thing, know little of the doc-
trine of Jesus ; they do not understand it, and, like



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their adversaries, they refuse to accept the leading
principle of the religion of Jesus, which is to resist
not evil ; often they have nothing but a hatred for
the name of Jesus ; but their whole faith with regard
to what life ought to be is unconsciously based upon
the humane and eternal truths comprised in the
Christian doctrine. This remnant, in spite of cal-
umny and persecution, are the only ones who do not
tamely submit to the orders of the first comer.
Consequently they are the only ones in these days
who live a reasonable and not an animal life, the
only ones who have faith.
