and said “ do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last”
” when I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead … we think ourselves possessed, or at least we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment in all cases, and yet how far are we from these exalted privileges in fact.

There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny, or to doubt the divine inspiration of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, from Genesis to Revelations.
In most countries of Europe it is punished by fire at the stake, or the rack, or the wheel … continue reading