Literature Dogma - An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible #251988

To be convinced, therefore, that our current the ology is false, is not necessarily a reason for publish ing that conviction. The theology may be false, and yet one may do more harm in attacking it than by keeping silence and waiting. To judge rightly the time and its conditions is the great thing; there is a time, as the Preacher says, to speak, and a time to keep silence. If the present time is a time to speak, there must be a reason why it is so.