God in Christ Three Discourses
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When views of religious truth are advanced, which
either really or apparently differ from such as are com-
monly accepted, the difference will often be referable to
causes that lie back of the arguments by which they are
maintained — some peculiarity, of temperament, some
struggle of personal history, unknown to the public, the
assumption or settlement of some supposed law or prin-
ciple of judgment, which affects, of course, all subordinate
decisions.
Thus, if Hume or Blanco White had come, at last, into
a settled belief in what is commonly called orthodox
or evangelical truth, any man, who understands at all the
philosophy of opinions, will see that he would have held
all his points or articles of belief under forms and rela-
tions that had some reference, more or less palpable, to
his own spiritual history, and the struggles through which
he had passed. It must be so ; it lies not in his choice to
have it otherwise. This, too, most likely is, in the esti-
mation of Providence, the real value of the man; that
for which he exists, and for which his mental struggles
have been appointed — which, if it were known, ought
surely to secure him a degree of patience, or even a
respectful hearing. But, meantime, until the internal
• relation between his spiritual history and his opinions is
known, he is very nearly certain to be a suspicious char
acter. He may seem, indeed, to be scarcely true or earnest
in his professed belief, because of the peculiar type and
form observed in his opinions. It may even be suspected
that in assenting to standards, he is only willing to find
some shelter of impunity for his aberrations. Perhaps
he will also be observed, since consciously he was not a
devil himself in the painful struggles of unbelief or misbe-
lief through which he has passed, to have a certain warm
and even fraternal interest in persons or classes of men
similarly exercised ; endeavoring, possibly, to accommo-
date himself to their point of view : and this will be to
many, a sign yet more suspicious. Suspicious, not because
of any malignant purpose in them, but simply because
they have no such elements in their own personal expe-
rience as will enable them to understand or conceive
the man. It is only to be hoped that possibly they may
learn enough of him at last, by their friction against him
and his opinions, to pacify their suspicions, and rectify
their uncharitable judgments.
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