We have cares and fears and misgivings, because we are fallen beings, whom academic surmises always fail to console. We yearn for something positive, and this Christianity supplies; like the sun, it proves itself by lighting our darkness. It is positive, and hence it is the very creed to be preached with ready tongue and gladdened eye to every creature. It throws light upon and holds out an ultimate solution to the mystery of pain, which makes up human life. And, looking at it subjectively, in its renewing, transforming power, it carries with it its own credentials, for “he that believeth  ...  hath the witness in himself” (1 John 5:10), and again, “If any man will do His will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God” (John 7:17). Christianity, in short, sheds a divine light across my path, which judges me so effectually that I do not think of judging it. It reveals a divine Person dying to put away sin, and no mere vain ideas and shadowy images, like false religions and philosophies.
R. Beacon, Bible
Treasury (adapted)