The Hour Before the Dawn. 129 



The idea of Natural Salvation as the result and outcome 

 of the evolution of life on the earth is still too novel, too 

 startling, to be accepted without a period of mental incu- 

 bation. It is too subversive of old beliefs to be enter- 

 tained without a struggle against it ; or, at best, the new 

 belief must have time to be born and grow up. And 

 there must be further demonstration and a long balancing 

 of the evidence. The incubus of indoctrination is still 

 heavy ; nor will the effort to attain Natural Salvation be- 

 gin in earnest, until the truth and the facts concerning 

 the " soul " of man are understood and accepted ; perhaps 

 not until children are taught the simple facts concerning 

 the course and promise of life on the earth. The effect 

 ,of two generations of such instruction would be decisive 

 and marvelous. Little can be done till the brains of 

 children are liberated and saved from the prevalent theo- 

 logical untruth as to supernaturalism. As fast as begotten 

 and born the brain of successive generations is now handed 

 over to this bondage of the unnatural, these fantasies of 

 the Orient. No child among us is permitted to see life 

 in the light of nature. 4 The young cells of their tender 

 ^brains are indo ctrinated in the cradle. Th ac-ne v e r behold - 

 _^e_univs g io in it o true lig iity-nQr_knoj;£-ffihajL-life_reaIlyjs^ 



or signifieSi^_but_jsa4k-JJuixugbr-4lieit_jpaJL-flf_XS^ '^ ^ 



species of doctrinaltiaJice. What genius among educators 



will rise to deliver unborn brain ! In very truth he will be 

 another of the Christs of men. 



