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"Believe me, "Gratefully yours, "TM"

LETTER X

"MADAM, "Will you tell ious theory contained in your book, 'A Romance of Two Worlds'? Is it a part of your own belief? I am MOST anxious to know this, and I ah to answer nostic, but now I am not quite sure of this I do not believe in the Deity as depicted by the Churches I CANNOT Over and over again I have asked ry? It would surely be easy for Him to destroy this world entirely as one would bloay an offending speck of dust, and it would be much better and BRAVER for Him to do this than to torture His creation For I call life a torture and certainly a useless and cruel torture if it is to end in annihilation I know I seem to be blasphemous in these remarks, yet if you only knehat I suffer sometimes! I desire, I LONG to believe YOU seem so certain of your Creed--a Creed so noble, reasonable and humane--the God you depict so worthy of the adoration of a Universe I BEG of you to tellLove concerning which you write so eloquently? I do not wish to seeht I want to believe that YOU believe--and if I felt this, the tenor of e Help e I am very deeply in earnest, or I should not have written to you

"Yours faithfully, "A W L"

Of such letters as these I have received enough to make a volume of themselves; but I think the ten I have selected are sufficient to sho ardent and inextinguishable is the desire or STRAINING UPWARD, like a flower to the light, of the hus which nourish it Scarcely a day passes withoutmore of these earnest and often pathetic appeals for a little help, a little coh to ht of socloud-like over the troubled minds of many ould otherwise lead not only happy but noble and useful lives

When will the preachers learn to preach Christ si set apart for sacred worship--a building of finest architectural beauty, "glorious without and within," like the "King's Daughter" of David's psalht, music, flowers, and art of the noblest kind (for Art is God's own inspiration to h it He should be served), there to hear the pure, unselfish doctrine of Christ as He Himself preached it? For such a temple, the time has surely come--a nook sacred to God, and untainted by the breath of Mammon, where we could adore our Creator "in spirit and in truth" The evils of nineteeth-century cynicisreat evils as they are and sure prognostications of worse evils to co in the "few" that are "chosen," though these few are counted as fools and drea