Excerpt from The Faith of Charity Charity believeth all things. A dupe, is it? I ask you which is the greater dupe, the charity that believes all things, or the selfishness that believes nothing? There are knaves in the world, there are superstitions in the world, there are deceivers and deceived; but one who lives as if these were all loses the good and invites the evil. Before the cold gaze of suspicion, hearts close them selves as the sensitive ower closes beneath the cloud. What a bright, pleasant world it is, quoth the sun. What a dark, cold world it is, answered the cloud. Men, to a large extent, make their own world, as the sun and the cloud make theirs. The over-suspiclous man in the world is like a man who in a crowd keeps clapping his hand on his pocketbook to see if it is safe he invites the pickpockets. Over-suspicion stimulates fraud; it invites neglect and injury. Over-suspicion in religion invites delusion, - either the delusion of superstition, which is often a repressed religious instinct claiming its rights, or the delusion of materialism. 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."