August 11, 1914
graphite pencil on commercially-made lined paper
5 13/16 x 3 11/16 inches
Burchfield Penney Art Center courtesy of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
promises of future bliss, if he ever made any, and so they go thru life looking forward to the heaven they imagine will come, going thru a set form of religious duties to prepare themselves for it, and spurn the heaven that is here on earth - which required neither money or religious rites for its possession - there is no mortgage on it.(HT)When religion becomes a duty it is no longer religion. If a man thinks he needs a religion let him choose the sim¬plest, the Golden Rule, keeping which, he be Buddhist, Mohammedon, Confucianist