It would be a mistake to overlook that high-minded men are allowing themselves to be committed by plausible reasons to this growing evil.

It is misguided enthusiasm.
There is a divine authority that warns us all: "Be zealous for the better gifts." IV I wish to examine the attitude of the average Christian to the Agnostic.
"The world is falling away from religion," he will cry when depressed, without thinking how much he himself may be a contributing cause.

Let him study it in this light.

What is his attitude?
When he comes to speak of the tendency of the age he will indulge in vague generalities about atheism, socialism, irreligion, and the rest; always the cause is outside of him, and against him; he is not part of it.

I ask him to pass by the atheist awhile and take what may be of more concern.