iving light
and warmth to all creatures. The Sun of Truth is also shining, giving
light and warmth to the souls of men. The sun is the life-giver to the
physical bodies of all creatures upon earth; without its warmth their
growth would be stunted, their development would be arrested, they would
decay and die. Even so do the souls of men need the Sun of Truth to shed
its rays upon their souls, to develop them, to educate and encourage them.
As the sun is to the body of a man so is the Sun of Truth to his soul.

A man may have attained to a high degree of material progress, but without
the light of truth his soul is stunted and starved. Another man may have
no material gifts, may be at the bottom of the social ladder, but, having
received the warmth of the Sun of Truth his soul is great and his
spiritual understanding is enlightened.

A Greek philosopher living in the days of the youth of Christianity, being
full of the Christian element, though not a professing Christian, wrote
thus: 'It is my belief that religion is the very foundation of true
civilization'. For, unless the moral character of a nation is educated, as
well as its brain and its talents, civilization has no sure basis.

As religion inculcates morality, it is therefore the truest philosophy,
and on it is built the only lasting civilization. As an example of this,
he points out the Christians of the time whose morality was on a very high
level. The belief of this philosopher conforms to the truth, for the
civilization of Christianity was the best and most enlightened in the
world. The Christian Teaching was illumined by the Divine Sun of Truth,
therefore its followers were taught to love all men as brothers to fear
nothing, not even death! To love their neighbours as themselves, and to
forget their own selfish interests in striving for the greater good of
humanity. The grand aim of the religion of Christ was to draw the hearts
of all men nearer to God's effulgent Truth.

If the followers of the Lord Christ had continued to follow out these
principles with steadfast faithfulness, there would have been no need for
a renewal of the Christian Message, no necessity for a re-awakening of His
people, for a great and glorious civilization would now be ruling the
world and the Kingdom of Heaven would have come on earth.

But instead of this, what has taken place! Men turned away their faces
from following the divinely illuminated precepts of their Master, and
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