"--_Government of the Tongue._
"Men are atheistical because they are first vicious, and question
the _truth_ of Christianity because they hate
the _practice_."--_South._
The following will, perhaps, be thought misplaced as a polemical
subject. But in relating what may be conceived as the true motive that
incited Sir Edward Stanley to the founding of that beautiful structure
Hornby Chapel, we may be allowed to show the operation as well as the
effect--to trace the steps by which his conversion from an awful and
demoralising infidelity was accomplished.
We have borrowed some of the arguments from "Leslie's Short Method with
the Deists," condensing and illustrating them as the subject seemed to
require. We hope to be pardoned this freedom; the nature of the question
would necessarily refer to a range of argument and reply in frequent
use; and all that we could expect to accomplish was to place the main
arguments in such a position as to receive the light of some well-known
and self-evident truth.
The dark transactions to which the "Parson of Slaidburn" obscurely
refers may be found in Whitaker's "Whalley," pp.
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