Heresy
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.”