Excerpt from The Ministry of the SpiritChristianity is beset with three powerful cur rents, which insidiously Operate to de¿ect her from her course. Materialism, which denies or ignores the supernatural, and concentrates its heed on ameliorating the outward conditions of human life, criticism, which is clever at analysis and dissection, but cannot construct a foundation on which the religious faculty may build and rest, and a fine literary taste, which has greatly developed of late, and is disposed to judge of power by force of words or by delicacy of expression.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.