Answer this to yourselves, & expel from among you those who pretend to despise the labors of Art & Science, which alone are the labors of the Gospel: Is not this plain & manifest to the thought? Can you think at all, & not pronounce heartily! That to Labor in Knowledge. Is to Build up Jerusalem: and to Despise Knowledge, is to Despise Jerusalem & her Builders. And remember: He who despises & mocks a Mental Gift in another; calling it pride & selfishness & sin; mocks Jesus the giver of every Mental Gift. Which always appear to the ignorance-loving Hypocrite, as Sins. But that which is a Sin in the sight of cruel Man. Is not so in the sight of our kind God.

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