A good, pious lady said to us not long ago: “Don’t you think that you
ought to make your peace with God?” We have never had a bit of trouble
with God. We have got along with him tip top. He has never shown that it
was at all necessary for us to make peace with him. We have never
quarrelled. If we are not at peace with God, we did not know it. We have
no wish to have a row with anyone, and if God has the idea that we are mad
with him or want to injure him in any way, we wish to disabuse his mind of
such a notion.
We wish to say that we have never had any dealings with God, to our
knowledge. If we have seen him, we did not know it. If he has spoken to
us, we were not aware of the fact. If he has been in our presence at any
time, we were not conscious of it.
We do not know that we have ever wronged God or that God has ever wronged
us. We do not say that some word or act of ours may not have injured God.
All we can say is that we have no way of finding out whether such is the
fact or not. Of course, we could not take the word of a priest or minister
on this point. We want God’s own assurance in the matter.
Up to this time God has made no complaint to us that we have wronged him,
or that we need to make our peace with him, and until we hear from his own
lips that we owe him an apology, we do not intend to make one.
God is just as good to us as though he was dead. He does not cross our
path, stand in our light, dog our steps, or interfere with what we are
doing. He does not get in our way any more than if he lived in the planet
Jupiter. So we do not see that we need to make our peace with him. We do
not comprehend how there can be any collision between us.
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Priests will pardon thieves but not philosophers.
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Priest and God have formed some of the worst combinations in history.
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Too long has this world been at the feet of the priest. Man is never in
that position for his own benefit, but for the benefit of the priest.