Excerpt from What I Believe: My Religion The thief on the cross believed and was saved. Would it, indeed, have been a bad thing, a thing hurtful to any one, had the thief not died on the cross, but descended from it and related his belief in Jesus? I too, like the thief on the cross, believed the teaching of Jesus and was saved. And this is no far fetched comparison, but the most exact representa tion of that mental state of despair and horror at the problem of life and death in which I once found myself, and of that condition of peace and happiness in which I now live. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.