me which have utterly distinct
worships and ideas of worship?

13. Can two religions be one, if the most sacred and peculiar act
of worship in the one is called 'a blasphemous fable and dangerous
deceit' in the other?

14. Has not the One Church of Christ one faith?

15. Can a Church be Christ's which has not one faith?

16. Which is contradictory to itself in its documents?

17. And in different centuries?

18. And in its documents contrasted with its divines?

19. And in its divines and members one with another?

20. What is _the_ faith of the English Church?

21. How many Councils does the English Church admit?

22. Does the English Church consider the present Nestorian and
Jacobite Churches under an anathema, or part of the visible Church?

23. Is it necessary, or possible, to believe any one but a
professed messenger from God?

24. Is the English Church, does she claim to be, a messenger from
God?

25. Does she impart the truth, or bid us seek it?

26. If she leaves us to seek it, do members of the English Church
seek it with that earnestness which Scripture enjoins?

27. Is a person safe who lives without faith, even though he seems
to have hope and charity?"

Charles got very sleepy before he reached the "twenty-seventhly." "It
won't do," he said; "I am only losing my time. They seem well put; but
they must stand over." He put the paper from him, said his prayers, and
was soon fast asleep.

Next morning, on waking, the subject of the letter came into his mind,
and he lay for some time thinking over it. "Certainly," he said, "I do
wish very much to be settled either in the English Church or somewhere
else. I wish I knew _what_ Christianity was; I am ready to be at pains
to seek it, and would accept it eagerly and thankfully, if found. But
it's a work of time; all the paper-arguments in the world are unequal to
giving one a view in a moment. There must be a process; they may shorten
it, as medicine shortens physical processes, but they can't supersede
its necessity. I recollect how all my religious doubts and theories went
to flight on my dear father's death. They weren't part of me, and could
not sustain rough weather. Conviction is the eyesight of the mind, not a
conclusion from premises; God works it, and His works are slow. At least
so it is with me. I can't believe on a sudden;