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A HINT FROM FRANKLIN 



"TN his autobiography Pranklin speaks of a ceitain 

 -*- sect of the Bunkers of his time who had wisely 

 refused to print their confession of faith, lest, as 

 they progressed in spiritual knowledge, they be too 

 much bound by it and it prove a bar and a hin- 

 drance to them. "When we were first drawn to- 

 gether as a society," said the Bunker, "it had 

 pleased God to enlighten our minds so far as to see 

 that some doctrines which were esteemed truths 

 were errors, and that others which we had esteemed 

 errors were real truths. From time to time He has 

 been pleased to afford us further light, and our prin- 

 ciples have been improving and our errors diminish- 

 ing." Franklin adds that " this modesty in a sect 

 is perhaps a single instance in the history of man- 

 kind, every other sect supposing itself in posses- 

 sion of all truth, and that those who dififer are so 

 far in the wrong ; like a man traveling in foggy 

 weather, those at some distance before him in the 

 road he saw wrapped up in the fog as well as those 

 behind him, and also the people in the fields on 

 either side, but near him all appears clear, though, 

 in truth, he is as much in the fog as any of them." 

 These Bunkers were indeed wise in their day and 



