Every Crime is a Mistake.

He will find that only that man carries a cross who does wrong, and for the man who does right the cross changes into wings on his shoulders and bears him upwards page 18 for ever. He will find that intelligent self-love embraces within its mighty arms all the human race. (Applause.) Ah, but they say to me, you take away immortality. I do not. If we are immortal, it is a fact in nature. We are not indebted to priests for it, nor to Bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief. As long as we love we will hope to live, and when one dies we will say we hope to meet again. (Applause.) And whether we do or not, it will not be the work of theology. It will be a fact in nature. I would not, for my life, destroy one star of human hope; but I want it so, that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is making kindling-wood for hell. (Laughter and applause.)

One world at a time. That is my doctrine. (Applause.) It is said in this Testament, "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." And I say, sufficient unto the world is the evil thereof. And suppose, after all, that death does end all. Next to eternal joy, next to being for ever with those we love and those who have loved us, next to that is to be wrapped in the dreamless drapery of eternal peace. (Applause.) Next to eternal life is eternal death. (Applause.) Upon the shadowy shore of death the