Excerpt from The Light: Is It Waning? Why? How Much? And What Shall We Do? The author of this little treatise is deeply impressed with the belief that Yea is a more fruitful word than Nay. It is not what we deny that makes us strong, but what we believe. Similarly, he thinks, dissuasive appeals can at the utmost be but half-way effective. As John Newton long ago said, We can not sho'vel out darkness: we must shine it out. His plan, in the preparation of the essay, -has been to forestall timid Objections to the exposure he felt constrained to make, by showing, in the first place, how victorious Christianity really has been, and how it comes to pass that her victories stand out now in less bold relief than in former times. 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.