It is like a great gentle mass.
It is like taking softly up one's own planet and offering it to God.
Here it is—the planet. Honesty is organized in the rocks on it and in the oak trees on it and in the people. The rivers flow to the sea and the heart of Man flows to God. On this one planet, at least, God is a success.
Possibly it is because many other people beside myself have been slow in clearly making this distinction between "Honesty is the best policy" as a motive or a Te Deum, that I have come upon so many religious men and women in the last two or three years, who, in the finest spirit, have seemed to me to be doing all that they could to discourage everybody especially to discourage me, about the Golden Rule.
The first objection which they put forward to the Golden Rule is that it is a failure.
When I try to deal with this or try to tell them about Non-Gregarious, the second objection that they put forward is, that it is a success.
If they cannot discourage me with one of these objections they try to discourage me with the other.
They point to the Cross.
Some days I cannot help wondering what Christ would think if He were to come back and find people, all these good Christian people everywhere using the Cross—the Cross of all things in the world as an objection to the Golden Rule and to its working properly, or as a general argument against expecting anything of anybody.
I do not know that I have any philosophy about it that would be of any value to others.