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"Yours sincerely, "B D"

[I have received about fifty letters written in precisely the sa of the insufficiency of "so-called Religion, which is often a ma and superstition"--and I ask--What are the preachers of Christ's clear er anxious souls as these, who are evidently ready and willing to live noble lives if helped and encouraged ever so little? Shah vocation of the priesthood for the sake of self-love, self-interest, worldly advance Christ's teachings If there are y who can neither plant faith, nor consolation, nor proper comprehension of God's infinite Beauty and Goodness in the hearts of their hearers, I say that their continuance in such sacred office is an offence to the Master whom they profess to serve "It must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!" To such may be addressed the words, "Hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdoo in yourselves, neither suffer ye theo in"--AUTHOR] LETTER VII

"MADAM, "I hope you will not think it great presu to you My excuse reat Spirit that 'hteousness,' and I cannot! Your book puts it all so clearly that if I can only know it to be a true experience of your own, it will go a long way in dispersing the fog thatfor troubling you, I am faithfully yours, "CME"

LETTER VIII

"MADAM, "I trust you will pardon the liberty I take in writing to you My excuse must be the very deep interest your book, 'A Romance of Two Worlds,' has excited in me I, of course, understand that the STORY itself is a ro it carefully it seems to me that it is a book written with a purposeThe Electric Creed respecting Religion seems to explain so much in Scripture which has always seemed to me impossible to accept blindly without explanation of any kind; and the theory that Christ came to die and to suffer for us as an Example and a means of communication with God, and not as a SACRIFICE, clears up a point which has always been to rateful I shall be if you can tellyou will excuseyou, I am, Madam, "Yours truly, "H B"