Faith of Centuries

Excerpt from The Faith of Centuries: Addresses and Essays on Subjects Connected With the Christian Religion It is a commonplace to speak of the mental restlessness of the present age. Whether, as we are sometimes tempted to assume, that restlessness is greater than it has been at many past periods of our social history may perhaps be questioned. Each age is apt to exaggerate its own difficulties and troubles, and our present religious difficulties and troubles doubtless loom larger in our eyes than they will appear to our children's children to have really been. At the same time there can be no question that doubt and inquiry and a deep-seated anxiety about the religious doctrines which have been handed down to us are not the least prominent characteristics of our generation. The times are not indeed positively infidel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.