UO ONE THOUSAND FAMOUS THINGS
Joan to Her Judges
WILL you say that you have no judge upon earth ?
I will say nothing to you about it. I have a good master,
who is Our Lord, and to Him I will submit all,
If you do not submit to the Church you will be pronounced a
heretic, and burned at the stake.
I will not say otherwise than I have said, and if I saw the fire before
me I would say it again.
" Superba responsio " wrote the clerk in the margin of the record.
An Unknown Soldier Wins His Immortality
JOAN asked for a cross. None was able to furnish one. But an
English soldier broke a stick in two and crossed the pieces and
tied them together, and this cross he gave her, moved to it by
the good heart that was in htm; and she kissed it and put it in
her bosom. From a Life of Joan
The Creed of Benjamin Franklin
HEBE is my Creed. I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe.
That He governs it by His Providence, That He ought to be
worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render Him is
doing good to His children. That the soul of Man is immortal, and
will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct
in this.
The Angel to Methuselah
ARISE, Methuselah, and build thee a house, for thou shall live yet
five hundred years longer.
Methuselah : If I am to live but five hundred years longer it is not
worth while to build me a house ; I will sleep in the air as I have been
used to do. A story made up by Benjamin Franklin
Man is More than Breath
No man can stand in the tropic forests without feeling that they
are temples filled with the various productions of the God of
Nature, and that there is more in man than the breath of his body.
Charles Darwin
Intolerable Thought
"T\ ELTEVING as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more
J3 perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that
he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation
after sueh long-continued slow progress. To those who fully admit
the immortality of the human sou!9 the destruction of our world will
not appear so dreadful. Charles Darwin