And ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.
John, 8: 32.
IN human thought Truth has many sides; with God, but one. To mortals it is cloud-enveloped and tempestuous; with God it is eternal sunshine and calm. Truth is divine, and human conjecture is neither part nor interpreter of it. With eyes to earth, mankind have been groping for that Truth which is to light the way to heaven and immortality; and have found it not. They have looked within matter for that which is without matter, for that which is forever above all material things. Men have been deluded long enough by their own imaginations, and are weary of supplicating their deaf and dumb oracles. They have been led a sorry dance down the centuries, lured hither and thither by the changing hues of their own misconceptions. Truth is the white light of God, without a mortal tint.
The vagaries and inventions of the human intellect, formulated in creeds, doctrines, and dogmas, have been set up as beacon-lights to guide benighted mortals out of the darkness of error; but they have reflected no rays of light upon the world, they have demonstrated no Truth for mankind, and they abide still in the obscurity of speculation. They have never warmed the human heart into love for God or man. They have given the heavenly-hungry no crumb of comfort, nor refreshed the fainting soul (sense) with a cup of water in Christ's name. They have brought to the sick and imprisoned no hope of deliverance. They have left the stranger naked and to shiver, homeless and uncomforted, in the cold shades of materialism. Upon these foundationless dogmas must rest the eternal condemnation of Truth: "Depart from me, I never knew you."
