help; for while my intellect was held in doubt through the bondage of
rationalism, my heart held on to God, and thus I was in a mighty
conflict. In my despair I cried unto God, and when he had
accomplished his purpose concerning me, he set me free. Blessed be
his name! Surely "he bringeth the blind by a way that they knew not,
and leads them into paths that they have not known. He makes darkness
light before them, and crooked things straight, and does not utterly
forsake the honest in heart."

Most people have come to their religious and political position by
heredity and are held there by inertia. If you can set a person free
from this hereditary inertia, you can convert him to almost anything
at will; for it is but few who are sufficiently informed on any
subject to defend it against an expert, and none are thus qualified
on all subjects. So when I entered this school, free from all
hereditary ideas, determined to accept every position that I could
not refute in argument, you can imagine my experience. At first I was
converted from one thing to another by the different students and
professors until I was about all the "arians," "isms," and "ists"
ever heard of, together with a number of other things for which they
have no names as yet.

But how did I discover the fallacy of rationalism? and how was I
delivered from its mighty clutches by which it had dragged me from
one pitfall to another so ruthlessly? My deliverance came from a
source where you would perhaps least expect it. It was through the
study of John Stuart Mill's "System of Logic." In it I learned "that
inconceivability is not a criterion of impossibility," as rationalism
claims. On the other hand, that we know things to be true that are
just as inconceivable as that there can be two mountains without a