ost in the mazes of doubt and
unbelief.

The fool hath said in his heart "there is no God." Life is too short
and too full of interest in other directions for us to turn aside to
combat fools of any sort. If we admit into our inner consciousness the
absolute recognition of the existence of a supremely loving and wise
God whose attributes are more marvelously great and grand than it can
ever enter into the heart of man, or the mind of the highest archangel
to conceive, we shall have taken the first step toward so positing
ourselves toward him, as we perceive him embodied in his works, as to
begin to see some faint indications of the divine purpose concerning
the souls of men created in his image. All that we know of his laws
and his intentions toward us, as indicated by our experiences here and
now, embodied as we are in matter, supplies the whole of the data from
which we infer truth, the truth as it is in God.

We find, first of all, that we are set here a homogenous race, for as
the means of communication between widely separated branches of the
family become established and easy, our horizons expand, racial
prejudice and antagonisms vanish, new interests and fresh sympathies
arise, and we are thus brought to recognize the fact of our common
origin.

What a dull and deadly uninteresting place this planet would be without
the differentiation of the races! What if the whole united world were
Irish or German, Russian, or even loudly pervading, assumptive
American! What an awful element of boredom would be added to our
existence; and yet there are people so blind to this most wonderful
expression of God's Providence, that they limit their sympathetic
regards to a chosen few, and virtually cast all other peoples into
outer darkness. This applies especially to religious prejudices and
beliefs. Let's see about this: your antecedents were, so far as you
know, Scotch and English, but by some providential intervention you are
now American. You are expected to scorn and despise all other clans
and races, and to condone all the faults and crimes of these which have
been so honored by you, and this is called patriotism, and makes you
feel virtuous and popular, and it is necessary and right--politically
considered--but not from the standpoint of the occult, the spiritual
side of existence. There is a wise intention and purpose in the
blending of the races in their intermarriages, it is for the breaking
down of prejudic