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men % Dllnue0 DN elus BY hdtNeheus so utt' grateful to the Giver ofail their nerCies as o. penly to avOw and circulate in prin. the rGnk est in6Gelity--lhe darkest GiIIeisn.
 Yet such is the fact. It was reserved for the Nineteenth CenfUry,-when the light of Uhe Gospel is shining so brishtly.-when the prophecies are so accurately fu!flling,-when the hopes Of heaven are so joyfuly embraced hy thousands and tens Of.thOusands,-it was reserved for this age. and fora unhappy cir cle in this city, tO discover what had so often been discovered before. and as often shown SO be false, that the bible is " a string of con- tradictions," that there is no God, no heav- en, no hell, no existence after death, and no soul a.
 And those misguided men are not satisfied with cherishipg their dark and comfOrtless views to share in their wrptchedness--the guilty the weak, the ignorant, and wherever can be hound in their chains. Like their pro- tOtypes in France at the era of the revolution of whom they are but sorry imitators. they torture into their service that noble engine, the press. and by this means cast upon the pubck the most horrid hhsphemies against the Bible God" Some passages that have met our eyes, exceed in bitterness any thing which We have seen or heard of; and with al are too indecent to be read hv any decent person. Men W ho make no pretensions O religion. have expressed themselves as thun- derstruck with the perusal. The following libel upon the Scriptures, fend-hke as it IS, is innocence itself in comparison to the passag es to which we refer:
 "A Nation can never be happy or prosper 0us while such a contradictory mass of rules precepts, and doctrines as this old fabulous collection of Jew Booss, gives spirit to its laws. It is a string of contradictions, from the cosmOgony in Genesis to the destruction of the world in Revelations. Its descriptions of Deity are contemptible, and often horri ble He is made to assume all shapes and characters.accordingt to the dispositions of the writers of the story and in no instance a higherAor more dignifed character than that Ofa tyrant. The Jews never approached nything like civilization while nation and as the idol god Worshipped is always made the emblem ofthe worshippers, SD Jehovah has never beon painted civilized or mur- al being. The style of the bible is romantic throughout and could the original Hebrew copy be generally read and understood, it would be not only offensive to the present mo- tioas of morals, but disgusting. What is cal led the English Bible is not d literal transla- tion of the originally Hebrew into the English language; but merely an English version fab 5icated for the purposes of English prlests.- It is the fabled history of an obscure tribe that did not occupy greater extent of terri tory than the state of Rhode Island. Its bi- ography is confined to a history of viIlainy {: not one strictly moral life is therein recorded It is an account of forn:cations. adulteri.s, rapes. sodomies. assassinations, and massa- cres. It contains frivolous relation of Jewish Quuerels. jealousts, and lreat heries. Jew iSh temple must have resembed large slaughter house; while the frying and friz- zling of the carcasses, and the gormandiZing of the priests around the altars.mus have ex- hihited state of cannibalism. Jehovah is depicted as a ravenOus wild beast that deligh- ted in the savOry smells of burning fat and frying limbs and as only appeased by these perpetual feast of priests. Such are the laws ouch is the god, unfolded in this '' blessed" / book. 1t is outrage on the present state of knowledge and comparative civilization that 1t should be supported. It is impossible for an intelligent man to give it his conscientious credence. l. has no moral support, and is kept in countenance only by force and fraud It is the last remnant of priestly magic. and the last remains of idolatly. Its annihiIat,on as a creed and code mnst he the wish, as it will he the aim of all GOOD MEN and WO- MEN," @
 Reader. look at this and he humble. Who has made you to differ But for the restrain ing grace of God. you might have been Jeff to despise the Overtures of mercy and pour con tempt upon the only light that beams from heaven. We offer no cOmment upon this aw. full paragraph. except to remark ion point where some of our readers may nut be per sonally informed,) that all the translations from foreign languages of which we have a. ny knowledge. the Bible is the most exactly c0nformed to the original.
 In the next place. they have. formed Bi- ble suited to their own taste, which they call the !" Bible of Reason or Scripture selected from the most rational i. c. most atheistical] of ancient and modern authors" Add to these an infamous book entitled Ecce Homo, which, if report is true. has cost the .;:.h0r dear in England. Also Paine's '.Age of Req son." and others of the viest character which ever issued from the press. These they are circulating with all the industry of the spirits of darkness.
 Like others these men assemble on the sab bath-for what! To worship God, ,and pray for his gracious influence upon their hearts An, they have no God No light from hea- ven can reveal to their dark minds even the existence ofa God. Therefore they convene on his holy day, not to adore his holy maies- ty, but to viify his character and law, to cast n \ Al