EXTRACT XVI. 



"CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS," PHYSICALLY 

 AND THEOLOGICALLY. 



CLEANLINESS will thus not only be entitled to rank " next 

 to Godliness," but will, in conjunction with it, and as the 

 instrument to achieve the material advancement of the 

 people, enable it to lay a foundation for the quicker rearing 

 and longer standing of a spiritual edifice or kingdom, in 

 which will be taught and practised all that is noblest and 

 best in the annals of Holy Writ, and all " of light and 

 leading" that can be extracted from the teachings of 

 so-called profane literature and the findings of scientific 

 effort and culture. 



As leprosy represents or emanates from the accumula- 

 tion of matter no longer useful in the economy of the 

 human body, and calls for its prevention or removal, so 

 do all of the admitted spiritual anachronisms and effete 

 theological systems, which are usually only historically 

 interesting to the specialist as "time markings" in the 

 march of the evolution of divine truth, represent the no 

 longer useful, and thus far, therefore, the obsolete and, it 

 may be, hurtful call for abandonment as no longer effective 

 instruments in the achievement of the highest destiny of 

 mankind, but, nevertheless, as instruments to be kept 

 reverently stored in the archives of human progress for 

 comparative study and for use in the schools of Divinity 

 and Religion, and as materials for the equipment of the 

 militant forces of applied theology. 



