A REASONABLE FAITH.

SHORT RELIGIOUS ESSAYS

FOR THE TIMES.

BY

THREE "FRIENDS."

"We must be on our guard against identifying with the truth of
Scripture that which has become a current or popular notion. To do
so would be to give a lamentable application to the famous adage,
Vox populi, vox Dei."-E. DE PRESSENSÉ.

LONDON:

R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR,

BREAD STREET HILL.

I would much rather risk a trembling word
In honest zeal for holy Truth and Right,
Though in the Trial I should suffer loss,
Wherein I built not what will stand the fire;-
Rather than dare the heavier risk,-to know
Something perhaps of God that others miss,
And hide it in my soul, and seal my lips
Through slavish fear. For God is merciful
To such as bring Him all their hearts can hold
Of pure intent, and reverence, and love.