Is The Bible Worth Reading, and Other EssaysWashburn, L. K. (Lemuel Kelley)
Religion
Is The Bible Worth Reading, and Other Essays
Washburn, L. K. (Lemuel Kelley)
Free thought
The authority of the world may be disputed without any of the stars being
thrown out of their course or any of the processes of life being
disturbed. The notion that all has been discovered that is essential to
the welfare of man is a mistaken one. The other notion that the
preservation of whatever is elevating and refining depends upon the
religious opinions of mankind, is equally delusive. The authority of the
Bible, of Jesus, of the church, has been quoted until the world is
prepared for a better. We might lose the Bible and not lose our place in
the ranks of civilization. Jesus might be forgotten and man would still
strive for a higher life. The church might perish in a night and not a
single particle of goodness be lost. If we speak honest words, do honest
work and live honest lives, we need not ask for God’s help or the help of
anybody. We do not give to immorality the hours we redeem from
superstition. We give to manhood and womanhood every hour which we make
natural and free. It is not necessary for a man to go to church in order
to be righteous. The world found assistance before Jesus was born. There
has always been saints outside of a convent. We need no book holy that
good counsel shall be valuable. The highest authority is the highest human
enlightenment. It needs no priest back of opinion to give it force.
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Why does a man enter the Christian ministry?
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The reason that revelation is always made to the simple is that the wise
could not be imposed upon.
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There is no sadder grief than that which lies at the bottom of a life that
has been wrecked through deception.
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An organization that requires the suppression of facts and the
discouragement of knowledge in order to maintain its supremacy, is the
relic of a tyranny which our free age and our free thought are in duty
bound to remove from the earth.
A CLEAN SABBATH
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