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LOYALTY AND LIBERALITY.
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"Theologia Germanica," the schoolmen and priests with Columbus and Galileo.

In the reaction from mysticism and church theology the claim to eternal life has been founded on doing to such an extent that one is ready to shout with the revivalist, "Doing is a deadly sin." What has become of rapt absorption in the thought of something which is not of concrete apprehension? Where now are the faces that should make a Sistine Madonna and a St. Jerome? A loyal, liberal faith takes not meanness as a synonyme for deacon, nor petition for prayer, and finds the equivalent terms for religious and political economy in the text-book of life. The reconciliation of science and religion is the finding and the worshipping.

Many are so liberal up to a certain point that it is almost thought that they have the breadth of universal sympathy; but suddenly they reach a bound beyond which they refuse fellowship. Many find it hard to be fair and

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