Ye shall know the truth, Jesus told his followers, and the truth shall make you free, and ye shall be free indeed. Jesus taught us to look into the depths of our hearts―to test our lives―
To try our motives and to weigh all we do.
He told us to be humble, merciful, truthful, pure, self-denying, honest in heart and intent―He set before us a living example of the life, which he preached.
He revealed glimpses of a better life in the hereafter.
He preached the religion of daily life, repentance for the past, amendment and progress in the future. He reasoned of life and death and eternity―of the true nobility and dignity of our nature and of the way to progressive knowledge of God.
He found a world buried in ignorance at the mercy of an unscrupulous priesthood in matters religious―under the absolute sway of a tyrant in matters political.
He taught liberty in both, liberty without licence―the liberty of a responsible spirit with duties to God and to itself―of a spirit corporeally enshrined with a corresponding duty to its brethren in the flesh. He came as the great fulfiller of the law and showed us the end for which the law was given—the amelioration of humanity.
He would elevate us to the dignity of the truth―the truth, which should make us free.
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