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Updated: June 14, 2025
Life indeed was good! it was a blessed thing for the eyes to behold the sun! Let death do what it can, there is just one thing it cannot destroy, and that is life. Never in itself, only in the unfaith of man, does life recognize any sway of death. A fresh burst of healthy vigour seemed born to answer each fresh effort.
If you brought a wife and showed her to me I should be sorry for her, and still not believe in your unfaith. Louis, I have been falling down flat and crawling the ground. Now I am up again. It didn't hurt. It is the old German fairy story. Every day gold must be spun out of straw. How big the pile of straw looks every morning, and how little the handful of gold every night!
Legends there were of small kingdoms torn asunder, of the slaughter of their kings, the mad fightings of their barons, and the faith or unfaith of their serfs. Here and there the eternal power revealed itself in some story of lawful or unlawful love for dame or damsel, royal lady, abbess, or high-born nun ending in the welding of two lives or in rapine, violence, and death.
And then it will be seen that unfaith and despair were but weapons of the "mind," to daunt the Soul, and put off the day when the neck of the "mind" shall be put under the foot of the Soul. Have you aspired, well-nigh hopeless, after immortality? You shall be paid by entering the immortality of God. Have you aspired, in misery and pain, after consoling, healing love?
There is no such thing known among these as a vulgar display, or a flaunting of the deposed forces in the faces of the creatures left behind. In man's treatment of his kind, there is everywhere betokened his unfaith and fear.
For unfaith is the belief in process; and faith is the belief in person. It is the belief in process that makes men sacrifice other men in thousands to some idol; it is the belief in person that makes them refuse to sacrifice anyone but themselves; and they are afraid when they sacrifice others, but confident when they sacrifice themselves.
A heart which had never once swerved, either from the other; a heart whole and sound, into which the least unfaith had never come that had never known, or recognized even as a possibility, the one first doubt, the ominous "Little rift within the lute, That by-and-by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all." Is it ever so in this world?
His praise and blame of the profession of letters, as the highest priesthood and the meanest trade; his early exaltation of "the writers of newspapers, pamphlets, books," as "the real effective working church of a modern country"; and his later expressed contempt for journalism as "mean and demoralising" "we must destroy the faith in newspapers"; his alternate faith and unfaith in Individualism; the teaching of the Characteristics and the Signs of the Times that all healthy genius is unconscious, and the censure of Sir Walter Scott for troubling himself too little with mysteries; his commendation of "the strong warrior" for writing no books, and his taking sides with the mediaeval monks against the kings there is no reconciliation of such contradictories.
Instead of doing the work of an infinite God and letting Him take care of the result I have been trying to please you. If the Almighty will forgive me for such unfaith such meanness I swear that I will never do it again." Then I preached. This brutal plainness created a sensation and several tried to dissuade me, but I had made up my mind.
Duff Salter arose and spoke with that lost voice, like one in a vacuum, while he folded his tablet. "Agnes," he said, "it has been cruel to a man of such a sceptical soul as mine to educate him back from the faith he had acquired to the unfaith he had tried to put behind him. Why did you do it? The suppression of the truth is never excusable.
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