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es makes one chary of believing anything--in questions Human as well as Eternal. The "Personal Bias"--ever in our heart of hearts can we at all times decide where it ends and impartiality begins? Even our so-called impartiality is tinged by it--or what we fondly believe to be our impartial Faith. Doubt strikes at the root of Justice and of Love--not the doubt that is the half-brother to Disbelief, but the doubt which wonders always and always if we believe most easily what we _want to believe_, and if our firmest conviction against such Belief is not, more than anything else, yet one more manifestation of what we desire so earnestly _to doubt_. Sometimes I am in despair regarding the whole question of my own individual Faith. I am firmly convinced that there _ought to be a God_ and a Life Hereafter. But my faith in such facts is paralysed by the haunting doubt that they may both be such stuff as dreams are made of, after all. On the whole, I believe the best way is not to think about them at all--or as little as we may. The one question which really and truly concerns us--and most certainly only concerns God, if there be a God--in His relation to ourselves, is _this life_ and what we make of it for ourselves and for other people. Don't ask yourself always and for ever _if_ there be a God? _Act as if He existed_! So far as possible, _play His part on earth_. Then all will surely be well with your Immortal Soul in the Long Here After! And, if the reward of it all--if "reward" is what you seek--be but a Sleep Eternal, do not weep. If you have done your best, you will have left the world happier and better, and so more beautiful. To those around you, to those who walked with you a little way along the Road of Life, you will have brought Hope where before you came there was only resignation and despair; you will have brought laughter to eyes long dimmed by tears; you will have brought Love into lives so lonely and so desolate until you came. God surely can ask of no man more than this. That, at least--is my Faith. That is also my "religion." Theology is unimportant: FACTS, concerning the reality of God and a Life Hereafter--matter little or nothing at all. What is all-important is that _here on Earth_--in the world of men and women around us--there are many less happy than we; many infinitely lonelier, poorer, more desolate and depressed. To these--even the lowliest among us can give comfort, bring
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