A profession of scepticism is often nothing more than the whistling of the boy as he goes through the church-yard and is afraid of ghosts, and therefore “whistles hard to keep his courage up.” They try to get rid of the thought of God because of that ghost of conscience which makes cowards of them all. Perhaps we put too much of our own explanation with the Lord’s own word; perhaps we have thought that clever illustrations were needful, and so have overlaid the truth with our poor imagination. One