Article December 6, 1900 Issue

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In a review of "The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley," the Church standard quotes the following interesting extracts from Huxley's letters to his friend Charles Kingsley: "I have the firmest belief that the Divine government is wholly just.... The ledger of the Almighty is strictly kept, and each one of us has the balance of his operations paid over to him at the end of every minute of his existence."

"Kicked into the world, a boy without guide or training, or with worse than none, I confess to my shame that few men have drunk deeper of all kinds of sin than I. Happily, my course was arrested in time—and for long years I have been slowly and painfully climbing, with many a fall, towards better things. And when I look back what do I find to have been the agents of my redemption? The hope of immortality or future reward? No—"

In the juvenile department of the (Swedenborgian) New-Church Messenger we find the following: "It certainly is not so difficult to live a life which leads to heaven as is supposed, and the more thought one gives to the subject the plainer it becomes that this is true. We have would ourselves up so deeply in snares and snarls that we think we are very badly off. We say we cannot cast off this fetter or that. We cannot rise to this or that standard of conduct. We cannot feel for others as we do for ourselves, and we work ourselves very severely to maintain the truth of our assertions. The snarls which look so thick and close while we are in them and in the acknowledgment of them, disperse with surprising ease once we see that there is a simple way out of them. They wind about us just as thickly as we will permit, and unravel when we make it possible."

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