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 by the  noonday  sun. Rationalists and  Protestants, on the  other  hand,  rejecting,  or  subjecting  revelation to  reason,  are  like  a  mariner  on  the  high  seas who should  throw  overboard  his  only  reliable  compass. Ah! no wonder  that  in  dogmas  they  have  woefully gone  astray! No wonder  that  in  morals  they are daily  coming  nearer  the  ancient  Greeks  and Romans! Why, they  have  not  even  the  merit  of  consistency. They pay  to  reason  an  unreasonable  worship. They are  rationalists  and  Protestants  by  ancestral prejudice. While clinging  to  the  doctrine  of private  interpretation,  they  flood  the  world  with scriptural tracts. Brethren, in  the  presence  of  revealed truth  be  ever  ready  to  exclaim:  "  Yea,  I  believe; Lord,  help  my  unbelief." Imitate not  the doubting but  the  believing  Thomas,  and  confess  your Lord and  your  God,  knowing  that  blessed  is  he  that hath not  seen  and  hath  believed. Thus you  may hope to  see  God  by  the  light  of  reason  and  faith here, and  by  the  light  of  glory  hereafter. " For  he that  believeth  shall  be  saved  but  he  that  believeth not  shall  be  condemned."