Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-05

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and this has been by that part OF the
world where you of this council live,
upon whose college campus she mas left
part of her inheritance and seven
years of faithful service. Yet not be-
cause of any or all of this take this
step; but because when publicly placed
in position where must either affirm
or deny the unity of my life with hers,
or else evade the Interrogation. can
be truthful to the world in no other
way than by establishing the fact of this
unity. After this storm of savage and
senseless wrong was broken upon her,
after all she has given and lost, after
she has been the source and inspirer of
SO much of such good work as ! have
done. after l have lived for so many
years because she has lived also, after
she has dedicated my life to the social
list cause of freedom, for me to leave her
face the world alone, or wait an hour
after she would permit me to announce
her to men as my Wife. would be fol
me to commit spiritual suic..e. and try
TO deceive the world in order to win for
myself some place or work in 1t, or
some fragment of faith from It, If this
confession of life is evil to you, ard to
all the world. then let it be evil: If to
anyone on earth it is good. to that one
let it be good. If free and truthful liv-
ing be the final outcome of things. then
the outcome will vindicate US.
But we ask for no vindication; we
can expect none. If the chasm into
which we have been swept together
closes in above us, we shall not mut-
muir, nor judge our judges. nor SEEK for
mercy, nor ask anyone to defend us or
stand by US or with U.S. We face the
fact that il we join our lives In this
chasm, we condemn ourselves In the
ages of the world. We shah accept this
condemnation with open eyes and delib-
crate purpose. willingly paying the ut
which the world cannot touch or take
away. after it has done its worst. For
we shall feel that we are standing for
the liberty of countless millions of un-
born souls, and pay the fullest price to
liberty. We should not want to involve
a single friend or any cause in RESPONSE
bility for us, but 60 our way and live
such lives as remain to us. anywhere
the world Will permit.
And now you may judge us, But let
me say that would rather be the worst
that has been said about me, rather he
worse than the severest denunciation
made ms ont to be, than To sit in on. OF
Your places as my judge. or in the place
Of those clergymen who nave sought to
destroy my good name without knowing
anything of the causes or facts they
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last an the vnr,sinp class and ,hat vil,
not fail to disclose the immense and aw-
full gulf between the spirit of Jesus and
the church that claims his name.
You can not know any Of the sources
or causes of the crisis YOU are Judging.
for no one who knows Win tell YOU. and
YOU would not know il YOU we're told
Ana the depths of the elemental irnmui-
aity of s.lf-deceit and revenge lie IN
your saeerness 10 Judge one another.
and to face one another, under the woke
of our Judgment. When there is the
faith Of the Son of Man in the world.
life Will be left to make its own ludg-
ments The only Judgment We have a
night TO make upon one another is thu
free and truthful living Of our own lives.
In conclusion lat me saw. ON az ms
Tee TO you and 10 myseif that Il shail
not misrepresent your aclion. nor nut /,
@n other ,han yo,Ir own rro,nds i
shall rot rnisrepresent YOU as crucifying
me Tor socialism or heresy. or for my at
tacks on the ohurch. have nowhere
and a, no time used Language indicating
this. and every such word attributed ,c
me has been newspaper forgery. i am
dismissed from the church and its min
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