Gem #62 - Heresy

The boasted power of man's reason has not changed in the last one hundred

and fifty years! It has piled up one thing, and then on another day it has

laughed at its own handiwork, demolished its own castle, and constructed

another, and the next day a third. It has a thousand dresses. Once it

came out dressed like a fool with its bells, heralded by Voltaire; then it

came out a bragging bully, like Tom Paine; then it changed its course, and

assumed another shape, until finally, we have it in the base, bestial

secularism of the present day, which looks only at the earth, keeps its

nose upon the ground, and like the beast, thinks this world is enough; or

looks for another world by seeking this one.

Why, before one hair on his head shall turn gray, the last secularist shall

have passed away; before many of us are fifty years of age, a new heresy

shall come. They will have altered their name, assumed a fresh shape, put

on a new form of evil, but still their nature will be the same; opposing

Christ, and endeavoring to blaspheme His truths. On all their systems of

religion, or non-religion--for that is a system too--it may be written

"Transient; fading as the flower, fleeting as the meteor, frail and unreal

as a vapor." But of Christ's religion, it shall be said, "His name shall

endure forever."