For I call life a torture and certainly a useless and cruel torture if it is to end in annihilation.

I know I seem to be blasphemous in these remarks, yet if you only knew what I suffer sometimes! I desire, I LONG to believe.

YOU seem so certain of your Creed--a Creed so noble, reasonable and humane--the God you depict so worthy of the adoration of a Universe.

I BEG of you to tell me--DO you feel sure of this beneficent all-pervading Love concerning which you write so eloquently?
I do not wish to seem an intruder on your most secret thought.

I want to believe that YOU believe--and if I felt this, the tenor of my whole life might change.