The Washington herald., 1921-08-21
Kingdom of Heaven Within.
To the Editor. The Washington Herald:

To the Editor, The Washington Herald:
The Open Court department OF
your big daily is one Of the most
interesting. instructive, and at the
same time. amusing features Of your
paper. fully realize. that you have
to use discretion in the matter of
allowing your patrons to air their
pet opinions. Still there are times
when one just longs to say some
thing, to keep on good terms with
himself.
Now in what I have to say there
may appear to be a decidedly relig-
ious flavor. when In fact there Is
nothing OF religion. or religious pre-
judice in what / have to say. I be-
long to no church and I subscribe
to no creed, save that broad writ.
by that great hand. on natures open
face. For here is law, and here is
eternal Truth, that prove themselves
in twice ten-thousand tests. Nor can
they ever change, at the will of
Endor's witch. or Joshua's command.
And long have held that creeds are
but cunning schemes, to save cleric
cozeners from toll. And all relig-
are but nostrums of the priestly
tribes, who fear to lose their para
site rights. to suck the honest
blood of q confused and befuddled
husbandry. Do believe In God? II
faith, or belief, Is the result Of evil
dence, and II most assuredly is, with
what degree of consistency can
say L believe in God. In the sacred
name Of Truth, what are we
thinking about? Do ! believe I had
a father, and mother? When look
into the loving face of my friend.
when I grasp his. or her loving
hand. do I doubt their presence. or
love, and constancy? Do believe ]
am alive. or would I say, believed
the sun was shining, and still these
human shackles. that have weighed
the limbs of humanity for two thou
sand years, were riveted by fear,
and belief in that creed, or that
doctrine, or dogma?
The god I love. his name is not
spelled with three letters Of our
alphabet, but 1t takes the entire
universe to spell god to me. II God
is my Creator. my Father then I am
His son, and who can separate us?
Ask Paul. He knew. Can this Father
send me hate, or hell, for the sin
in which I had no conscious will OF
part? When ] look out on this Uni
verse I see nothing but the display
of infinite love, wisdom, goodness
and mercy.
hold that the. Almighty God.
who made the starry heavens and
the, vast expanse OF myriad worlds,
would scarce revoke the laws He
swung in motion at creations
dawn, to satisfy the savage unbelief
Of bloody and superstitious race,
who. In the wrack and tumult of
their trays deemed sacrifice and
murder as At means to flatter and
appease a bloodier god. Such tales
to me are but unholy writ, con-
ceiyed in gloomy cells. by gloomier
monks, whose madmen souls begat
those imageries of hell and torture.
And 1 deny the curse of Constant
tine. whose has his creed issued out
of Nice to blight our reason, and
our highest sense Of reason
and our faith in God. know no
God. save one. who in my soul looks
on creation asa lover might on his
beloved; who saw His works and
said that Il was all good: who sent
no fall to His children. Nor did He
suicide on a felon's cross
to save His family from the conse-
quences of plan which originated
In His own infinite wisdom. Nor
gave to Satan the foul power to
curse the. innocent and unborn
yet to be. For God is
good. and good is when we will,
and trust is heaven and distrust
Is hell. And whose sends me that
eternity of misery tof which we
hear more Of than 1ove) can hardly
be the fountain source of infinite
love and wisdom II. we are sprung
from God we are immortal. even
and His supernal self. He being all
took OF Himself the living spark
that burns. behind the windows OF
our every soul, willed that we
should see behind theN veil. Then
korans bibles OF aught else would
we need, of human groupings for
imagined truth, to direct our pass
age to yon nameless shore, whittier
we are bound by the flow OF the
restless. tides Of a neyer-ending
eternity. x,