Excerpt from Beecherism and Its Tendencies Yet this same writer had (p. 8) pronounced the doctrine and ritual of the Catholic Church throughout the world excellent, and had espe cially commended her (pp. 9, 10) for her exclusiveness or denial of the pretensions of all other churches, and for maintaining that there is no sal vation out of her communion This Beecher can swallow any number of contradictions Without making a wry face 3 for he seems to hold that what ever seems to a man to be true is true for him, and that it matters not however false it may be if he esteem eth it true and is contented with it. For him, seeming is as good as being. Poor man, he seems never to have heard, at least never to have heeded, what the Scripture saith, that There is a way that seemeth to a man just, but the ends thereof lead to death (prov. Xiv. The fact probably is that he believes in nothing, unless perchance himself, and looks upon truth as a mere seeming, a pure illu sion of the senses or the imagination, or as a purely subjective conviction without objective reality. 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.