The religions of the future will have no veils. As far as they can
set before their worshippers truth at all, it will be truth as open
as the day. The Great Teacher in the New Testament--what an
eternal lesson on light itself: that is the beauty of his Gospel.
And his Apostles--where do you find him saying to them, 'Preach my
word to all men as the secrets of a priesthood and the mysteries of
the Father'?
"It is the tragedy of man alone that he has his secrets. No doubt
the time will come when I shall have mine and when I shall have to
hide things from you, Pansy, as Rowan has his and hides things from
us. Life is full of things that we cannot tell because they would
injure us; and of things that we cannot tell because they would
injure others. But surely we should all like to live in a time
when a man's private life will be his only life."
After a silence he came back to her with a quiet laugh: "Here I am
talking about the future of the human race, and we have never
agreed upon our marriage ceremony! What a lover!"
"I want the most beautiful ceremony in the world."
"The ceremony of your church?" he asked with great respect, though
wincing.
"My church has no ceremony: every minister in it has his own; and
rather than have one of them write mine, I think I should rather
write it myself: shouldn't you?"
"I think I should," he said, laughing.
He drew a little book out of his breast pocket: "Perhaps you will
like this: a great many people have been married by it.
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