ersified activity. And I saw,
too, men and women, rich and comfortable, riding along happily in
their automobiles, with not a thought beyond their physical
well-being. But, I asked myself, should they not ride thus, if they
wish? And yet, the hour will soon come when sickness, disaster, and
death will knock at their doors and sternly bid them come out. And
then?"

"Just what I have sought to impress upon you whenever you advanced
your philosophical theories, Doctor," said Reverend Moore, turning to
Morton. The doctor glowered back at him without reply. Hitt smiled and
went on.

"Now what should the man in the automobile do? Is there anything he
_can_ do, after all? Yes, much, I think. Jesus told such as he to seek
first the kingdom of harmony--a demonstrable understanding of truth.
The automobile riding would follow after that, and with safety. Why,
oh, why, will we go on wasting our precious time acquiring additional
physical sensations in motor cars, amusement parks, travel, anywhere
and everywhere, instead of laboring first to acquire that real
knowledge which alone will set us free from the bitter woes of human
existence!"

"Jesus set us free, sir," interposed Reverend Moore sternly. "And his
vicarious atonement opens the door of immortality to all who believe
on his name."

"But that freedom, Mr. Moore, you believe will be acquired only after
death. I dispute that belief strenuously. But let us return to that
later. At present we see mankind laboring for that which even they
themselves admit is not meat. They waste their substance for what is
not bread. And why? Because of their false beliefs of God and man,
externalized in a viciously cruel social system; because of their
dependence upon the false supports of _materia medica_, orthodox
theology, man-devised creeds, and human opinions. Is it not
demonstrably so?

"And yet, who hath believed our report? Who wants to? Alas! men in our
day think and read little that is serious; and they reflect hardly at
all upon the vital things of life. They want to be let alone in their
comfortable materialistic beliefs, even though those beliefs rend
them, rive them, rack and twist them with vile, loathsome disease, and
then sink them into hideous, worm-infested graves! The human mind does
not want its undemonstrable beliefs challenged. It does not want the
light of unbiased investigation thrown upon the views which it has
accepted ready-made from doctor and theologian. Ag