And yet unless devotional books be written, especially by those who have as yet no church, how are we to aid one another in the uphill straggle to maintain some elements of a heavenly life?
Can anything be more heartless, or more like the sneering devil they talk of, than Mr.
Harrington?
And here one who professes himself a religions man, and who deliberately, after protest, calls _me_ an INFIDEL, is not satisfied with having scoffed in an hour of folly--( in such an hour, I can well believe, that melancholy record the "Eclipse of Faith," was first penned)--but he persists in justifying his claim to jeer and snarl and mutilate, and palm upon me senses which he knows are deliberately disavowed by me, all the while pretending that it is my bad logic which justifies him! We know that very many religious men _are_ bad logicians: if I am as puzzle-headed a fool as Mr.Rogers would make people think me, how does that justify his mocking at my religion?
He justifies himself on the ground that I criticize the New Testament as freely as I should Cicero (p.

147).

Well, then let him criticize me, as freely (and with as little of suppression) as I criticize it.

But I do not _laugh_ at it; God forbid! The reader will see how little reason Mr.Rogers had to imagine that I had not read so far as to see Harrington's defence; which defence is, either an insolent assumption, or at any rate not to the purpose.
I will here add, that I have received letters from numerous Christians to thank me for my book on the "Soul," in such terms as put the conduct of Mr.Rogers into the most painful contrast: painful, as showing that there are other Christians who know, and _he does not know_, what is the true heart and strength of Christianity.

He trusts in logic and ridicules the Spirit of God.
That leads me to his defence of his suggestion that I might be possibly as much inspired as the inventor of lucifer matches.