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Excerpt from Monseigneur Mermillod on the Supernatural Life: Being Conferences Delivered, in Retreat, to the Ladies of Lyons We believe that there never was a time when the impressive words of this holy and illustrious bishop were more needed than the present. The struggle which formerly was confined to certain places and certain minds, is now going on all over the world. I mean the struggle between God and the devil; between Faith and unbelief; between those who still revere the Word of God, and the entire negation of all divine Revelation. Religious subjects are now discussed everywhere with a dangerous facility. There is scarcely a daily newspaper which does not devote a leader to some disputed point in faith or morals. The reviews. Follow in their wake. In every corner of the earth the evil spirit of doubt and scepticism is prowling round our homes, suggesting to one, this religious difficulty; to another, that; flattering the pride of youth by persuading him that there is something new and original in the line of independent thought. Which he has struck out: that it was all very well. For his father and mother to believe so and so, but. That these are old-world ideas, unsuited to the present day, and to the present higher range of intellectual culture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.