Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled!
The rise of the Christian Church broke up the intellectual pattern of the classical pagan world. By persecution of this pattern’s ideologies it drove the secret societies into greater secrecy; the pagan intellectuals then reclothed their original ideas in a garment of Christian phraseology, but bestowed the keys of the symbolism only upon those duly initiated and bound to secrecy by their vows. - Manly Palmer Hall
Mother of American Medical Association founder Nathan Smith.
In a speech given October 5th, 1901 Nathan Smith said "At the age of seven years, as a boy who had never been outside of his father’s farm, born in a log house, and when still in a log house, I was called to the bedside of my dying mother to receive her last words. I was the youngest of a family of seven children; I was in my seventh year. It made a vivid impression upon my mind. She was a Christian - a reader of the Bible. She said to me that she wished me to be a good boy, to learn to worship God and to do good to my fellowmen."