ng 'nothing in' Christianity is 'not so
clear a case,' but we hope to show that if, amid present perplexity and
estrangement, many feel themselves obliged to go back and walk no more
with Christ, we, for our part, as we hear His voice of tender reproach,
'Will ye also go away?' can only, with heartfelt conviction, give the
answer, 'Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal
life.'

[1] Tennyson, _In the Children's Hospital_.

[2] _The Martyrdom of Man_.

[3] _The Churches and Modern Thought_.

[4] _Parsons and Pagans_.

[5] _Secularists' Manual_.

[6] _God and my Neighbour_.

[7] _Ibid_.

[8] _Earthward Pilgrimage_.

[9] Dean Church, _Pascal and other Sermons_, p. 348.

[10] Appendix I.

[11] Appendix II.

[12] _Queen Mab_.

[13] Hans Faber, _Das Christentum der Zukunft_.

[14] Appendix.

[15] Sir Leslie Stephen, _English Thought in the Eighteenth Century_,
vol. i. p. 144

[16] Appendix IV.

[17] _God and my Neighbour_.

[18] _God and my Neighbour_, ch. ix. p. 197.

[19] Appendix V.

[20] _Parsons and Pagans_.

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MORALITY WITHOUT RELIGION

'I am sought of them that asked not for Me: I am found of them that
sought Me not.'--ISAIAH lxv. 1.

'Not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the
law shall be justified. For when the Gentiles, which have not the law,
do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the
law, are a law unto themselves; which shew the work of the law written
in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their
thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.'--ROMANS
ii. 13-15.

'Strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without
God in the world.'--EPHESIANS ii. 12.

'The acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness.'--TITUS i. 1.

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MORALITY WITHOUT RELIGION

That Religion and Morality have no necessary connection is a popular
assumption. In books, in pamphlets, in magazines, on platforms, in
ordinary conversation, it is loudly proclaimed or quietly insinuated
that the morality of the future will be Independent Morality, Morality
without Sanction. Morality, it is iterated and reiterated, can get on
quite well without Religion: Religion is a positive hindrance to
Morality. This view is, no doubt, extreme. Perhaps it is only here
and there in the writings which fall into the hands of most of us, or
in the circles w