Captain Anything

"Captain ANYTHING still survives, to capture fresh prisoners and to conduct new recruits to battle. Under the standard of “indifferentism” more souls are lost than, perhaps, under the more definite systematic forms of error.

When the soul, fighting the good fight, gains the upper hand, the hidden things of darkness are more and more brought to light, and put to open shame. The spirit of indifference, for example, is one of the first to be thus dealt with, as involving serious danger to the soul. Religion is a definite, decisive thing, and cannot consist with a careless, reckless, indifferent tone of mind. It generally happens that any religion means no religion. The soul that has been much and deeply exercised in doubt, and has resisted and fought against it, and overcome it, Will all the more highly prize the truth when it has ascertained it, and will scarcely be disposed to entertain that spirit of indolent indifference that sees and makes no distinction between truth and error. Hence, with the disciplined soul, MR. ANYTHING finds no place."[2]