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doctrines of the church which had always see block to him

"The Creation? But how did I explain existence? By existence?

By nothing? The devil and sin But how do I explain evil?

The atone, and I can know nothing but what has

been told to me and all le article of faith

of the church which could destroy the chief thing--faith in God,

in goodness, as the one goal of man's destiny

Under every article of faith of the church could be put the faith

in the service of truth instead of one's desires And each

doctrine did not simply leave that faith unshaken, each doctrine

seereat miracle, continually

manifest upon earth, that made it possible for each man and

millions of different sorts of men, wise men and imbeciles, old

ars and

kings to understand perfectly the sa, and to build up

thereby that life of the soul which alone is worth living, and

which alone is precious to us