ABSTRACT
Henry Van Dyke has contributed an excellent volume entitled “The Gospel for an Age of Doubt.” For the most part it is a noble defense of “the faith once delivered.” In its popular manifestations, the wide-spread unsettlement takes the form of uncertainty rather than of denial, of unbelief rather than of disbelief, of general skepticism rather than of specific infidelity. The questioning spirit is abroad, moving on the face of the waters, seeking rest and finding none. Christ met men who maintained toward Him, toward His work and toward His Word, doubt. These men were at that time naturally divided into three classes, and the same divisions obtain to this minute, viz., the uninstructed, the non-convinced and the indisposed.” The skeptics are very fond of the phrase, “The thinking man believes” so and so. But if experience is to be our guide, the man who truly thinks, and thinks truly, at one and the same time, cannot remain skeptical.
