The Christian’s Happiness
INGERSOLL says that he has “never known a happy orthodox Christian.” This is doubtless true. He would not know a Christian if he met one; and his ideas of happiness are of little worth in estimating the true product. As between the infidel and the Christian, the latter has all the advantages of the former, and none of his disadvantages. The man who is converted after reaching manhood, has, from experience, a good opportunity to judge as to the respective happiness of belief and nonbelief; but of this the infidel knows nothing. He knows only the happiness of sense; the Christian knows this, and, much more, the higher spiritual happiness of knowing God, compared with which all sensuous happiness is as nothing. Thousands testify to this, and justice demands that the testimony of each one is as worthy of credence as that of Mr. Ingersoll.