accept as superior to Christianity? Take their several books and study them well; go into their temples and study well the worship conducted there; go out among the people, and examine care- fully the principles which govern them, the lives they are living, the spirit that animates them, and the hopes that cheer them ; make up your verdict care- fully, thoughtfully, patiently; render it, candidly, Walking in the Tndh. 141 what shall it be? Ah, there can be no question. Christianity, a thousand times over, rather than any of them. But there is a religion called " Deism." It contains two articles of faith : First, there is a God ; second, Christianity is untrue. Its simplicity commends it. One of its greatest lights, Thomas Paine, affirms '' that it teaches without the possibility of being mistaken, all that is necessary or proper to be known." Certainly a religion of which this is true is what we need, and all we need. But is this true of Deism? It has no great Prophet to outline its principles, and its disciples are agreed in abso- lutely nothing, except in the dogmas already stated. Bead over the pages of history and see what sort of results have been produced by this faith. Shall we give up Christianity and accept Deism? What then? It comes to this: Christianity or nothing.