ABSTRACT
Perhaps it would be well, first of all, to try to make out what one means by the word 'Christian'. It is used in these days in a very loose sense by a great many people. Some people mean no more by it than a person who attempts to live a good life. There are different items which are quite essential to anybody calling himself a Christian. The first is one of a dogmatic nature namely that one must believe in God and in immortality. In the so-called ages of faith, when men really did believe the Christian religion in all its completeness, there was the Inquisition, with its tortures. In this world one can begin a little to understand things, and a little to master them by the help of science, which has forced its way step by step against the Christian religion, against the Churches, and against the opposition of all the old precepts.
