BILLY AND HANS 



the Father must make them both but 

 as dust-motes in the sun. But Billy 

 first made me understand Him and 

 our place in His creation. To me he 

 is a dear part of my knowledge of the 

 Eternal Life, and I can no more dis- 

 miss him from the place he holds 

 than I could my first-born. In this 

 feeling I can face serenely the deri- 

 sion of a world. He taught me that 

 Life is one, and Love one, and that 

 the shades and distinctions we make 

 are only the result of alloys of the 

 pure metal — alloys with self and 

 sense, the Love — the pure gold — 

 being God's very self become evident. 

 He who has felt it fully knows that 

 it embraces all His creatures. 



This is my Religion, and the only 

 article of my Creed. I will not urge 

 it on others — I hold it for myself. 



