{"id":9167,"date":"2023-02-06T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9167"},"modified":"2023-02-06T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T06:00:00","slug":"creeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/creeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Creeds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn84022472\/1915-02-06\/ed-1\/seq-7\/\">The Bridgeport Evening Farmer, February 6, 1915<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Believe as I believe, no more, no less;<br\/>That I am right, and no one else, confess;<br\/>Feel as I feel, think only as I think;<br\/>Eat what I eat, and drink but what I drink;<br\/>Look as I look, do always as I do,<br\/>And then, and only then, I\u2019ll fellowship with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>That I am right, and always right, I know,<br\/>Because my own convictions tell me so;<br\/>And to be right is simply this to be<br\/>Entirely and in all respects like me;<br\/>To deviate a hair\u2019s breadth, or begin<br\/>To question, doubt, or hesitate, is sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I reverence the Bible if it be<br\/>Translated first and then explained by me;<br\/>By churchly laws and customs I abide,<br\/>If they with my opinion coincide;<br\/>All creeds and doctrines I admit divine,<br\/>Excepting those which disagree with mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Let sink the drowning if he will not swim<br\/>Upon the plank that I throw out to him;<br\/>Let starve the hungry if he will not eat<br\/>My kind and quality of bread and meat;<br\/>Let freeze the naked if he will not be<br\/>Clothed in such garments as are made for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Twere better that the sick should die than live,<br\/>Unless they take the medicine I give;<br\/>\u2018Twere better sinners perish than refuse<br\/>To be conformed to my peculiar views;<br\/>\u2018Twere better that the world stand still than move<br\/>In any other way than that which I approve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Bridgeport Evening Farmer, February 6, 1915. Believe as I believe, no more, no less;That I am right, and no one else, confess;Feel as I feel, think only as I think;Eat what I eat, and drink but what I drink;Look as I look, do always as I do,And then, and only then, I\u2019ll fellowship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-bridgeport-evening-farmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}