Goodness and earnestness appeal to the heart alone.

The intellect is left out in the cold.

However good and earnest, and eloquent one of these great preachers may be, the reason we go to hear him is not only because of that, but because he appears to be thinking in a straight line, because he seems to recognize the long-resisted claim of the intellect, and we hope he will have a word to say to us.

He promises well, but listen to him a little longer, follow his thought, and you will begin to see that he will only look for truth within a certain area, that his steps are describing an arc, that he is tethered.

Give him time enough, and you will see him tread out the complete circle in which he and his brethren are equally bound to walk." "You forget," said Ruth, "that you are regarding the Church from the stand-point of the cultivated and intellectual class, for whom the Church has ceased to represent religion; but there are lots of people neither cultivated nor intellectual--women even of our own class are not so as a rule--to whom the Church, with its ritual and dogma, is a real help and comfort.