" To doubt that is to lay
our hearts and minds open to the insidious poison of that Pelagian heresy
which, received under new shapes and names, is becoming the cardinal
heresy of modern disbelief. No; we will have faith in Christ, faith in
our creeds, faith in catholic doctrine; and will say to that man or that
woman, even as they wallow still in the darkness and the mire, "Behold
your God! That cup of cold water which you gave, you knew not why,--
Christ told you to give it, and to Him you gave. That night watch beside
the bed of a woman as fallen as yourself,--Christ bade you watch, and you
watched by Him. For that drunken ruffian, whom you, a drunken ruffian
yourself, leaped into the sea to save, Christ bade you leap, and like St.
Christopher of old, you bore, though you knew it not, your Saviour and
your God to land." And if they shall make answer, "And who is He that I
did not know Him? who is He that I should know Him now?" Let us point
them--and whither else should we point them in heaven or earth?--to
Christ upon the cross, and say, "Behold your God! This He did, this He
condescended, this He dared, this He suffered for you, and such as you.
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