Christians! the farce is impudently broad.

Let us stand up in the sight of heaven and confess.

The ethics that we hold are those of Benjamin Franklin.
_Honesty is the best policy_, is perhaps a hard saying; it is certainly one by which a wise man of these days will not too curiously direct his steps; but I think it shows a glimmer of meaning to even our most dimmed intelligences; I think we perceive a principle behind it; I think, without hyperbole, we are of the same mind that was in Benjamin Franklin..