It proposes to give serenity and content to the human soul. It will put out the fires of eternal pain. It is striving to do away with violence and vice, with ignorance, poverty and disease. It does not believe in praying and receiving, but in earning and deserving. It regards work as worship, labor as prayer, and wisdom as the savior of mankind.
Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood.
It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions. It considers the lilies of the field, and takes thought for the morrow. The Independent Pulpit, Waco, Texas, 1887. The Bank Of Wisdom is run by Emmet Fields out of his home in Kentucky. He painstakingly scanned in these works and put them on disks for others to have available.