Gropings After Truth

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Excerpt from Gropings After Truth: A Life Journey From New England Congregationalism to the One Catholic and Apostolic ChurchCertain or exact criterion of doctrine, the sec ond, that it gives no sufficient rule of action. It cannot tell a man what he must believe or what he must do in order to be a true follower of Christ and child of God. Its failure has become so manifest as to produce a very gene ral stispicion that perhaps there is no positive religion revealed by God, but that, if there be one, it is the religion taught by the Catholic Church. There is, therefore, a twofold tenden cy, on one Side to scepticism, on the other hand to a return to the bosam of Catholic unity. The first is the beginning of a suicidal mania, the second, an impulse toward a new and more vigorous life. This impulse will be quicken cd and directed in many souls, I-doubt not, by the present volume and it is my heartfelt wish that every one who reads it may attain to the same faith and peace in the true fold of Christ, in which the struggles, doubts, and anxious inquiries of the author have so happily termi.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.