It is intended to give utterance to the wants, wishes, tastes, views,
hopes, culture of every part of our Union. Having no band of sectional
collaborators, with local views and prejudices, narrowed horizons and
similar cultivation, it is confined to no clique of thinkers however
vigorous, no set of men however cultured, but receives thought and light
from every part of our vast country, without favor or prejudice. It is
the _Continental_, and thus represents and addresses itself to the mind
of the continent.
The contributions flowing in, in a continuous stream from every quarter,
are subjected to but one great test--the test of real and substantial
merit. Thoroughly Christian in the noblest sense of that noble word, it
is never sectarian. Accepting Christianity as a _certain_ fact, it
rejects no scientific inquiry into its bases, convinced that all true
and thorough investigation will but lead men back to faith in a divine
Redeemer. Shallow thought and nascent inquiry may be sceptical, but the
deep mind is reverential and faithful. The problems of doubt torture the
soul, and call for solution. Infinite and finite stand in strange
relations in the mind of man; with his finite powers he would grasp the
infinite of God. He fails to find the equation of his terms, and,
baffled in his search, in the insanity of intellectual pride, denies his
Maker. He puts the infinite mysteries of revelation into the narrow
crucible of the finite, the residuum is--nothing; he calls it immutable
laws, as if laws could exist without a lawgiver, and bows before a
pitiless phantom, where he should love and worship the great I AM!
Examine fearlessly into nature, O earnest thinker, for the created is
but the veil of the Creator.
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