Excerpt from Here and Beyond, or the New Man, the True Man In the church, there has been too much neglected the study of scriptural proportions. The worldling has, therefore, taken leave to curl his sneers. Nothing so strengthens scoff ing, nothing so expands its range, as the spectacle of a crude, unshapely, and incongruous pietism. It is easy for an adroit sophistry to put contempt upon defect, as if it were deceit, and reject distortion, as if it were delusion. In this way it has come about, that there is less genuine religion accredited in the world than is really found there, scant and fragmentary as the actual amount may be. And this skepticism of the concrete religion among men, is the mother of more desperate skepticisms. 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.