Article November 9, 1899 Issue

The Liberal Christian

Carol Norton

Eastport (Me.) Sentinel

"The liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand."

That man is liberal who stands with face toward the rising sun of Truth wheresoever it riseth, and who joyously drinks in the inspiration of the higher life. Such a man lives, progresses, and mounts as "on wings of eagles," and never for an instant thinks that the "Sun of Truth has as yet reached the full noon of complete understanding and realization by man."

That man is liberal who depends more upon the unfolding of the divine Life within his own chastened heart and purified mind, than upon the opinions of men, the doctrines of creeds, scholastic speculation, and so-called churchly decrees; who delights to commune with the Christ-Spirit of his own being, and who puts Principle above personality, Spirit above creed, Right above party, and inward conviction above outward sense evidence.

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