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I should wish these weary and earnest seekers to read the Article to which I have referred, and to ask themselves whether they find there what they are looking for. The Review is written with much gracefulness and eloquence. It contains the latest message of the new Unitarian school. It undertakes to expose the feebleness of my analysis, and the unsatisfactoriness of my logic. Very likely it may have succeeded. But the question at issue between us is not that at all, not whether they are good reasoners and I am a bad one, but what Gospel they have to bring to mankind, what light they have to throw on all the questionings and yearnings of the human spirit, what they can show has been done for the deliverance of our race and of its members, what hope they can give us of that which shall yet be done. On that issue I am willing to put their creed and mine. That which is true in itself, that which the God of Truth declares to his creatures, can, I am sure, bear the test. What proceeds from man will never satisfy man.

I have no cause to complain of the Writer of this Article for want of courtesy to me personally. On the contrary, he has paid me compliments to which I am not entitled, and which I am bound to disclaim. He thinks that I have some good and genial qualities of my own; that I should probably prefer truth to a lie, if I had not set myself to defend certain Articles of Faith. That necessity leads me into "miserable juggling," and makes me an object of the Reviewer's deepest compassion. It is very agreeable thus to get all honors for oneself, and to have all one's crimes attributed to an unfortunate

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