Julian Joseph Overbeck

Catholic Orthodoxy and Anglo-Catholicism Julian Joseph Overbeck

There is a kind of constraining power and agency inherent in Truth; " for we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard (Acts iv. 20). Some may deem it wise not to startle the minds of settled persons by what they term a revolution in Religion. Some may deem it preposterous to oppose the rocky wall of the Church to the wild waves of a certain school of human science and researches. Some may deem it harsh and cruel to hurt the feelings of friends, whose most sacred convictions we attack unreservedly. Oh ! it is painful, I know, to disagree with those who are dear to our heart. But Truth is uppermost and permits no bartering, no deference to circumstances whatever.