"I, the Lord speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.'" - Isaiah 14:19.

An incontestable truth, one would say. "Who will dare to deny that God speaks things which are right? That were at once the height of folly and of guilt.

Is it so? Then do all men dwell upon the heights of folly and of guilt. They have built for themselves permanent habitations there. There are innumerable things that men declare to be right; they do them and repent not at the remembrance of them; they commend them in others; yet these things are diametrically opposite to the things that God sanctions. You speak of a becoming pride; God says, "Blessed are the poor in spirit." You say that men should not submit to injuries and insults. He says, " Blessed are the meek." You think it a light thing when men neglect religion; God says, " One thing is needful." When men pray much, you talk of cant and hypocrisy; God says, "Pray without ceasing." In a word go through the Bible; compare its declarations with your own expressed views; and if you still insist that God declares things that are right, you must admit that you have hitherto been in thought, word and practice, wrong, wrong, wrong I