Dear Journal: Quaker Criticism objects to holding up the symbol of the Cross. Shall only the Crown be seen? No, a thousand times, No! Hold up the Cross, and show the sinner where the rocks are on which he is liable to make shipwreck, but which can only be seen by showing the Cross of suffering, representing the awful price paid for sin, and how to avoid paying it. I have long been a Christian at heart, and yet had paid this fearful price for eighteen years, till Mrs. Eddy's book relieved me.
It has occasioned for me, many times, an untold agony of fear, as I realized the unreality of bodily life, yet did not comprehend the spiritual government of the One Mind and Intelligence. What was I? I did not know. So I told myself; and plunged into doubt, to escape from the thought of the utter nothingness of myself.
There is no devil or evil (demon) in reality. Spell evil and devil backwards, and one is live and the other is lived. Spell live backwards, and you come into the unreality of supposed existence, apart from God and Good. Shall not the Cross, then, be held up, to show sinners the self-imposed suffering such a belief brings?
