Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him. People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practised. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them seriously.
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.
It must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case. God has written all the books. To himself every one is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. If the American people wish to adhere to the principle of separation as seen in the long perspective of history, they should decide to prohibit non-sectarian religious instruction in public schools as a form of multiple establishment of religion.