It has been well said, "Nothing is easier than to doubt. A man of moderate ability or learning can doubt more than the wisest men believe." Faith demands knowledge, for it is an intelligent grace, able and anxious to justify itself; but infidelity is not required to give a reason for the doubt that is

in it; a defiant deportment and a blustering tone answer its purpose. The acme of unbelief is to know nothing. What is this but the apotheosis of ignorance?

A man may glide into agnosticism insensibly, and remain in it languidly; but to believe is to be alive. Those who think faith to be a childish business will have to make considerable advance toward manliness before they are able to test their

own theory.

If I find myself growing in God's garden, though I be the tiniest plant in all the bed, yet it is such a mercy to be in the garden at all—I, who was a wild, rank weed, out in the wilderness before—that I will not doubt but what He will water me when I

need it, and that He will tend and care for me until I shall come to perfection. Has he not said of every plant in his garden, "I will water it every moment"?