Christians might well find exemplars in the early martyrs, those who for their principles went so readily to the lions.

One may anticipate the complacent rejoinder: "This is not so exacting an age; men are not asked to die for religion now"-- and one may in turn reply, that, perhaps our age may not be without occasion for such high service, but that we may be unwilling to go to the lions.

Our time has its own trial--by no means unexacting let me tell you--but we quietly slip it by: it is much easier to revile the infidel.

This as a test of loyalty should be pinned: we shall shut up thereby the hypocrite.

And the earnest man, more conscious of his own burden, will be more sympathetic, generous and just, and will come to be more logical and to see what Newman well remarked, that one who asks questions shows he has no belief and in asking may be but on the road to one.