and hearing by the word of God.” And again: “Yet a little while, and He that shall come will come, and will not tarry; now the just shall live by faith.” … And then, soon after, the words of the text: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen2.” Such is the great weapon which Christianity employs, whether viewed as a religious scheme, as a social system, or as a moral rule; and what it is described in the foregoing texts, it is also said to be expressly or