He took with him an alcohol lamp and some asbestos into the pulpit and told his audience that God would turn their souls into a substance resembling asbestos. He showed them that though the asbestos were heated red hot it did not decompose into ashes. Fortunately the day of the hell preacher has gone by, and if we believe the Bible which says that “in God we live and move and have our being,” we can readily understand that _a lost soul would be an impossibility_, for were one single soul lost, then logically a part of God Himself would be lost. No matter what our color, our race or our creed, we are all equally the children of God and in our various ways we shall obtain satisfaction. Let us therefore rather look to Christ and forget Creed. _Creed or Christ?_ No man loves God who hates his kind, Who tramples on his Brother’s heart and soul. Who seeks to shackle, cloud or fog the mind By fears of Hell has not perceived our goal. God-sent are all religions blest; And Christ, the Way, the Truth and Life, To give the heavy-laden rest, And peace from Sorrow, Sin and Strife. At his request the Universal Spirit came _To all the churches_, not to one alone. On Pentecostal morn a tongue of flame Round _each_ apostle as a halo shone. Since then, as vultures ravenous with greed, We oft have battled for an empty name, And sought by Dogma, Edict, Creed, To send each other to the flame. Is Christ then divided? Was Cephas or Paul Nailed to the deathly tree? If not—then why these divisions at all? Christ’s love doth embrace you and me. His pure sweet love is not confined By creeds which segregate and raise a wall; His love enfolds, embraces _Humankind_ No matter what ourselves or Him we call. Then why not take Him at His word? Why hold to creeds which tear apart? But one thing matters, be it heard, That brother-love fill every heart. There is but one thing that the world has need to know; There is but one balm for all our human woe There is but one way that leads to heaven above; That way is human sympathy and love. CHAPTER IV. THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN