ABSTRACT
The spirit of a creed is revealed more plainly, perhaps, in its songs than in anything else and the hymns of the Christian churches may be studied as to use some words in author's books preface a kind of ecclesiastical history. A number of the articles of the English Church are next presented to us, clad in verse, and in these we have some of the most objectionable of Christian doctrines. It is difficult to understand why modern and enlightened Christians permit the forty stripes save one still to be laid on the backs of their clergy. Even Moody and Sankey, nasty as they are in their praises of the blood, would turn away in disgust from these coarse gloatings over it the most uneducated Christian would not now venture to sing these amorous canticles to the God whom he worships.
