Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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Brapnnaihilitira
BY DINAH
a'f"i"i'¢lN E said to me one day "I have a right to my
'E' Q' own opinions, and I have a right to ex-
§ 3; press those opinions." I answered very
¢**$° readily, "Yes."
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But when I said "yes,"
"yes" implied a great deal.
I knew that that
In the first place we are compelled to grant others the
right to their own opinions, for no one has the power to
stop thought. We may imprison aperson within four
walls, but that does not stop thought; for when the body
is quiet thought is much more active. We may put the
person in stocks, but that does not stop thought, for intensity
of thought is often increased by bodily afiliction.
So it goes without saying, that all have a right to their
own opinions, for who can stop them?
"And I have a right to express those opinions," was
the next claim.
In this day of free speach, free press,
free everything we might say, we said, "Yes;" because
we knew that that person who made this claim had
nothing in mind but what was right and just.
But there is no one who has gone very far on the
higher spiritual path but who will see the fallacy of this
teaching, and this in our humble way, we will try to explain.
As a person proceeds on the higher path, he
learns new truths; truths perhaps never formulated before,
he sees new meanings in old truths, his eyes are
opened, and he sees what he could not see before tho it