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LOYALTY AND LIBERALITY.
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divine obligation to love one another on earth? It is hard to do neither, but the more we know the easier will it be. One's own mental strength should facilitate comprehension of others' doubting or waiting attitude.

Words, like symbols, acquire special meanings, and are the keys to sectarian as well as to scientific storehouses. The kindly deception that permits one person to use a word in a mythical sense which another accepts as a statement of fact is incompatible with accurate thinking. Rather say: Your fact is my symbol; to you the fact, to me the symbol, is God's call to both to make the thoughts of each definite and clear. An Episcopalian clergyman preached for a Baptist parson. At the close of the sermon the Baptist said: "I am sorry I cannot ask you to partake of the Lord's Supper, but you are not a close communicant." — "Oh," replied the churchman, "even if you should ask me, I could not stay; for I cannot receive the bread and wine from one

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