Woman's Faith and the Hope of Future Life
A CELEBRATED atheist gave it as the result of his observation that no mother who had buried a child could be persuaded to believe that there is no future life in which the sorrow and pain of this will find compensation. Infidel writers and speakers have attributed woman's faith in Christ and the unquestioned piety, and devotion of so many women to the church, partly to mental weakness, and partly to an excess of the emotional element. These cavillers seem to forget that religion has to do with the soul; that it is not contrary to reason, but has its foundation laid in faith. Religion does not aim to establish a philosophical scheme, but to produce holiness of heart. These free-thinkers will generally be found to be free-livers also, or those in whom there is such a disproportion of intellect and devotion to scientific studies that they have not the qualifications to sit in judgment upon religion, or the evidence by which the truth of Christianity is proven. Nor do we fear that woman will deny Christ until she find some better refuge for her soul.