The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-01

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Il love everybody. love every
thing. ;, said Mr.. Burbank. II love
humanity. 1t has been a constant
delight during all my II years of
life, and I love all the works OF
nature
All plants. animals and man are
already in eternity travelling across
the face of time, whence we know
not. whittier who is able to tell?
Let us have one world at a time.
Let us read the Bible without
the ill-fitting colored spectacles OF
theology. just as we read other
books. using our own judgment and
reason.
Use Reasoning Powers
Most Of us possess discriminat-
ing reasoning powers-can we use
them or must we be fed by others
like babes?
What does the Bible mean when
it distinctly says by their works We
shall know them? Works count
far more than words with those
who think clearly.
II love to look into the fearless.
who so long has been by the theolo.
gians conceived and born in sin and
proclaimed at birth" said Mr.. Bur-
bank. do you believe all our
teachers without question? i can
not. We must prove all things and
hold fast to that which is good
"The universal voice of science
tells US that If we misuse this won
derful body, mind or the all.per-
vading spirit of good the conse-
duence fall upon ourselves here and
now. Why not accept these plain
facts and guide our lives according
"? We must not be deceived by
blind leaders Of the BIND calmly
expecting to be saved by any one
except by the kingdom within our
selves.
THE truly honest and brave
ones know that II saved it must be
nv their own efforts The truth
hurts for a while as when an old,
useless tooth is removed, but health
and happiness may be restored by
the painful removal of the disturb.
ing member.
1T reiterate, the religion Of most
people is what they would like to
believe, not what they do believe,
and a very few stop to examine its
foundation. The idea that a good
God would send people to a burn
ing hell is utterly damnable to me.
I don't want to have anything to
do with such a God.
II am a lover Of man and Christ
as a man and His work and all
things that help humanity. but,
nevertheless. just az lie was an in.
fidel then. am an infidel today. |
prefer and claim the right to wor-
ship the infinite everlasting AL
mighty God OF this vast universe as
revealed to US gradually step by
step by the demonstrable truths OF
our Saviour science.
do YOU think Christ or Moham'
med, Confucius. Baal or even the
gods Of ancient mythology are
dead? Not so. Do you think Peri.
cies, Marcus Aurelius. Moses, Shake
speare. Spinosa, Aristotle, Socrates,
Plato. Empedocles, Humboldt, Oar.
win, Tolstoi, Franklin, Emerson, are
dead? No Their very personality
lives and will live forever in our
lives and all who are to follow us,
All of them are with us today, No
one lives who is not influenced
more or less by these great ones
according to the capicity of the
cup OF knowledge which they bring
tor these ever-flowing fountains to
be filled
"Euripides Ions ago said, Who
dares not speak lis free thought IS
a slave | nominated myself as All
infidel' as a challenge to thought
for those who are asleep. The word
is harmless II properly used. Its
stigma he been heaped upon it by