Article June 18, 1910 Issue

One of the most rapidly increasing religious bodies in the...

Pasadena (Cal.) News

One of the most rapidly increasing religious bodies in the world today is based on the belief that all calamity and evil and suffering is to be finally eliminated through an improved and uplifted thought about God and man's relation to Him, and a more perfect understanding and abiding faith in the Principle underlying and operating through that relation.

We hold no brief for these people. Whatever may be thought of their belief or practice, there is more of abiding faith in good and less of enslavement to evil and fear of calamity in the world because of the fact that they are asking men to turn away from fear and worry and evil as unworthy of a place in the creation and household where Love is believed to be omnipotent. If such a belief, in the test of the daily life of its adherents, can and does eliminate fear and suffering, mental and physical, and supplant dread of calamity with mental peace and an ever-abiding faith in the omnipresence and omnipotence of good, it is worthy not only of just treatment but of a fair trial in every individual experience.

Truth is what men have been looking for, and no man is justified in any narrow or bigoted treatment of what is offered as truth, asking to be tried out in the crucible of daily living. The great Founder of Christianity said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Anything short of a realization of this full promise must lack something of being the truth to which he referred. He also said to a suffering humanity, "My peace I give unto you." Ecclesiasticism cannot justly complain at a popular demand for a religion which shall in daily application work out this freedom and this promised peace.

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