The Archive · 1925

A Simple Faith

Belief in good and evil, belief that in clinging to God as far as in us lies is the best form of worship it of good; and in avoiding evil, 5 far as in us the best means of fighting the spirit of T think very likely we who hold this simple fulth are limited, even purblind; that there are men so much above us that they have the power to come into touch with the Great Spirit. I just speak for myself, and I am sure many like me, and' when T call it a simple faith I do not mean that it is easy of observance, for it implies in its recognition of good, not only good in its personal application, but in its application to others—the re-fact, of the rights of the way it was never set free from the Churches and Conventicles till recent years, and then it was released, I suspect, not by the parsons, but the congregations, redeemed by education from the deadening clutch of formalism and The Spirit with Us The result has been almost unthinkable; on March 7 1818, the Lincolnshire Lent sizes, the Right Honourable Sir Vicary Gibbs, the Honourable Sir William Farrow, and John Charles Lucas Cal-craft, Esquire, sheriff, all pillars of the Church and State, murdered in cold blood by hanging, 12 unfortunate men, guilty: of petty theft or small offences, scarce worthy of a ten-shilling One or a month's imprisonment.

'In October 1830, in Bedford Gad, was' murdered, by hanging, a boy,! go.

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