dgement
of God. This is not perfect love. Charity, over and above a kindly feeling
towards those who are in error, is unfaithfulness to the truth, to God,
and to the very best interests of our humanity. It is, in all such cases,
_love run mad_! A man should never get so broad in his religion as to be
unfaithful to truth.

The phraseology has also been appropriated by skeptics and semi-infidels
to popularize their own semi-infidel philosophy, which they love to
denominate "free thought." Deists, Pantheists and Atheists have seized
upon the phrase and appropriated it to their ungodly speculations. It is
true that others, in getting away from their old creeds, have run past the
standard of truth and right. All this wildness in the _standardless_ field
of thought, where Hobbes and other infidels reveled, without any guide
save the civil law, has been denominated "Broad-gauge religion," and
"Liberalism."

We should always remember that going beyond the truth and the eternal laws
of right is _libertinism_ or _lawlessness_.

"Charity," extending, or reaching out thus, is no longer "charity," or
"perfect love." Such expressions of love are misdirected, and, if
knowingly done, are blameworthy. Charity is governed by the perfect law of
truth; when it is not destitute of its own divine nature it conducts us in
the "_straight and narrow way_."

"Long as of life the joyous hours remain,
Let on this head unfading flowers reside,
There bloom the vernal rose's earliest pride;
And when, our flames commissioned to destroy,
Age step 'twixt Love and me, and intercept the joy;
When my changed these locks no more shall know,
And all its petty honors turn to snow;
Then let me rightly spell of Nature's ways;
To Providence, to him my thoughts I'd raise,
And love as he throughout remaining days."

--_Gray._

We should cherish a kind feeling for all our fellows, and in doing this we
should not forget our duty to point them to truth in word and example, to
be ever faithful to truth.

There are two great fields of thought for the exercise of the Christian
intellect of the present times. One is the corruptions of Roman Catholic
religion, and the other is the corruptions of Protestant religions.

That both are great feeder-dams to infidelity and skepticism is
demonstrated by the infidel productions of the day. The dogma of
ecclesiastic authority set up in opposition to reason and scientific