strange it very often seems that men go to the Church, or to one another, and say:  “Must I believe this doctrine in order that I can enter into the Church?” “Must I believe this doctrine in order that I may be saved?” men say, with a strange sort of notion about what salvation is.  How strange it seems, when we really have got our intelligence about us and know what it is to believe!  To believe a new truth, if it be really truth and we really believe it, is to have entered into a new region, in which our life shall find a new expansion and a new youth.  Therefore, not “Must we believe?” but “May I believe?” is the true cry of the human creature who is seeking for the richest fulfilment of his life, who is working that his whole nature may find its complete expansion and so its completest exercise.  We talk a great deal in these days and in this place about a liberal faith.  What is a liberal faith, my friends?  It seems to me that by every true meaning of the word, by every true thought of the idea, a liberal faith is a faith that believes much, and not a faith that believes little.  The more a man believes, the more liberally he exercise his capacity of faith, the more he sends forth his intelligence into the mysteries of God, the more he understands those things which God chooses to reveal to his creatures, the more liberally he believes.  Let yourselves never think that you grow liberal in faith by believing less; always be sure that the true liberality of faith can only come by believing more.  It is true, indeed, that as soon as a man becomes eager for belief, for the truth of God and for the mysteries with which God’s universe is filled, he becomes all the more critical and careful.  He will hot any longer, if he were before, be simply greedy of things to believe, so that if any superstition comes offering itself to him he will not gather it in indiscriminately and believe it without evidence, without examination.  He becomes all the more critical and careful, the more he becomes assured that belief, and not unbelief, is the true condition of his life.  The truth that God has entered into this world in wondrous ways and filled its life with Jesus Christ, the truth that man has a soul and not simply a body, that he has a spiritual need, that God cares for him and he is to care for himself, that there is an immortal life, and that that which we call faith is but the opening of a gate, the pushing back of a veil,—­shall a man believe those things as imprisonments of his nature, and shall it not make him larger?  Shall it not be the indulgence of his life when he enters into the great certainties which so are offered to his belief, believing them in his own way?  Let us always feel that to accept a new belief is no to build a wall beyond which we cannot pass, but is to open the door to a great fresh, free region, in which our souls are to live.  And just so it is when we come to the moral things of life.  The man puts aside some sinfulness.  He breaks down the