I have been a preacher for some years, and I thought the Testament was old and familiar to me; but you have made it a new and marvellous book full of most precious meanings, and I hope I may be able to impart to those whom it is my duty to instruct, something of the great consolation and hope your writing has filled me with.
"Believe me, "Gratefully yours, "T.M." LETTER X.
"MADAM, "Will you tell me what ground you have for the foundation of the religious theory contained in your book, 'A Romance of Two Worlds'?
Is it a part of your own belief?
I am MOST anxious to know this, and I am sure you will be kind enough to answer me.

Till I read your book I thought myself an Agnostic, but now I am not quite sure of this.

I do not believe in the Deity as depicted by the Churches.

I CANNOT.

Over and over again I have asked myself--If there is a God, why should He be angry?
It would surely be easy for Him to destroy this world entirely as one would blow away an offending speck of dust, and it would be much better and BRAVER for Him to do this than to torture His creation.