The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1898-07-22
perform all law. By this, and this alone
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man becomes eventually perfected.
Love implies service, sympathy and a
sensitiveness to the needs, sorrows, sins
and wrongs OF others. The independent
must ever have q free, op"n mind, IN
prejudicod, and ready to hear the truth
from every quarter. He feels that he
knows as yet very little, and like Newton
has only gathered here and there peb-
Die on the shore of the great ocean of
truth which rolls before him.
He will accept the fundamental truths
in all the forms and creeds OF past ages,
but will not be buried in their collins.
He will know no policy. He will speak
the truth and all he has of it. In help
ing others to do some good work he will
not ask that the Samaritan be converted
into Judaism, before he helps hig perish
ing brother by the way side. Net who
says thing; but what is it that Ia said.
Is it true? Not VINO is doing the work
but what kind of work is being done.
Not fastidi0us, nor factional, but brother
II and helpful. Quick to see the wheat
Or good intent in the chaffdust of action
In the mixed motives of his own mind
and those of others, carefully looking
for the nuggets Of good metal amid the
sand and dirt. Striving to be ever true
to the Divine vision within him. This
vision will speak to him of higher things
for struggling, toiling mankind. Where
in the existing form OF religion Is worth
less, morally impotent, tolerant Of
shameless violations of the law Ct
brotherhood, inadequate in it's motives
and ideals, he will, he must declare the
faith thai is in him. II called by his
felJowmen to stand between the Giving
and the dead" he must fearlessly speak
all truth given to him, fearing not lcsa
Of pulpit, or currying favor with the
pew. Never afraid Of being in major
ity of one, with godt to back him; first
being sure Of that; all else will come
right in good time. That this world is
good one, made expressly to live in, and
a wonderful chance for making himself
and it better.
That Christian liberty should never be
made cloak for the DEVILS license. That
lying, cheating, stealing, swearing and
drunkenness are Just as mean, contempt
ible and wicked lwhen practiced by a
church member, and more 80, than by
some poor fellow who never attends
church. That, as in Christ's day, the
thieves in the temple are the worst of all.
That man is greater than all the institu-
tions he can make, and that he is saved
by his character alone, and not by them.
That there is one great law of unity,
but an almost endless diversity in unity.
And plenty Of room for all diversitiea
which bear good fruit.
To be kind and lenient to wrong doing
through weakness and ignorance, but
bold and fearless against meanness and
pretentious hypocrisy.
That God alone is Judge and awardel
of the future destinies of men.
That moral choices are ever to be made
in preference to selfish interests.
That highest wisdom never conflicts
with purest love.
That true speaking and right doing are
not to be measured by Immediate results
That what Everybody says" is true
and what Everybody does" is right, ha'
no authority whatever. Once everybody
said the earth stood still and the sun wen
round, and if the world turned over ev
erybody would fall off.
Authority comes only from the author
first cause, law or principle of truth ant
right action. In short, the Independent
believes that the truth is to be taken ser
iously. That there is to be final cor
summation; that the whole creation
progressing "toward one far off divin
event." when the songs OF the "sons c
the morning, the visions Of poets, seer
and prophets OF all lands and ages, whe
peace on earth and good will among me
shall meet in one common triumph ove
the selfshness of man, and the sermon O
the mount become the constitution of th
world"