XVIII.

NOT REALLY BELIEVED.

Present Enthusiasm for Missions--Former Lassitude--The Basis of
Missionary Enterprise--Supposed Damnation of the Heathen--If Really
Believed Would Drive Us to Frenzy--Minister's Monday Meeting--Pretence
Cuts the Nerve of Enthusiasm--Restoration the True Incentive--Effective
Because Reasonable--Torment Not Really Believed--The Heart Often Truer
Than the Head--Necessity for Preparatory State--Could Not Have Details
Revealed--Orthodoxy of the Torment View--Trying to Believe It--Be Not
Afraid of the Truth--Extreme Calvinists Signally Honored--The Reason
Why--Our Innate God-given Convictions--Meagre Expenditure for
Missions--Tacit Acknowledgment That Endless Suffering Is Not Believed.


XIX.

WORKING MEN AND THE CHURCH.

Efforts to Attract Working Men to the Church--Restoration Would Largely
Solve the Difficulty--Common Sense of Working-Men--Glorious Expansion of
Truth--Recasting Traditional Views--The True Basis for Unity.


XX.

THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN.