And what are you doing?
We are building a city.
What! Do you not know that it is written in the Word of God that, "Here we have no abiding City?"
And you—
I have married and have decided to share my life with the woman I love.
And have you not read in St. Paul's Epistles, says the preacher again, that they who are married neglect the things of the Lord?
And you?
We are laboring to improve the world we live in—to make it a little cleaner and sweeter.
But do you not know, asks the man of God, that the world will soon pass away,—that, as Jesus has foretold, the sun will turn black, the stars will fall, and the elements will be consumed in a general conflagration?
The effect of the teaching of both Judaism and Christianity is to incapacitate man for earnest work now and here. And what do these religions offer in place of the home, the love, the world, which they take away from us? Let us ask the priest: