Wabash express., 1859-05-25

and dissipation-by drinking aud earousing
or when they assemble in sheatsrs and car.
euses and other places Of smusement. II Is
not ''rsereation.'' bat. plsisiy asd simply, a
dsseersfisas Of The Ssttsfh. Those who become
initiated in these practices have already en-
tered fnly upon career Of dissipation, aud
while they may. as citizens. deal honestly and
uPrightly with all men, yet they will surely
6nd, in the end. that. although they may have
present grstifieation ia theis msrdmes,t. 10
calafi.y. aud songs. they may yet be forced 10
acknowledge that inienPersnce makes a child
Of the sloagesl man and psrayxes the lofticsI
intellect. Look 20. thou upon the wine
when il is red. when it gyeth It's color in the
cup. when it moveth itself Alright Al tia issf
Il slsfA like serpent, and sfiagefh Ike sa adder
II. II. B. calls my arguments in defense
Of the Sabbath, mere mad house ero,e4eis''-
This is nodest-very. But then the idea is
not original-it has often been made TO serve
the same purpose before. The great Pascal
wrote in defense Of Christianity aud the Sab
bath In France, In the Augustan age, and
when his powerful reasoning made the dry
bones OF infdelity rattle, VoltsIrc wrote 10
Condorcet--"P Pascal's has been dersnged -
Yet all the beauty aud eloquence Of Vol
taire's style could not save his philosophy
1 from contempt. while Pascals "thoughts" are
preserved as amongst the loitiest tributes 10
truth and virtue. can scarcely hope for a
fate like Pascals and am not spiteful enough
to wish for :" III. II. b." and end like that of
Yoltaire
lie thinks that the deeds wrought by
Christians, under the sanction, and at the in.
stigation Of the church." were the things
which gave rise to- the French Revolution.
In proof Of thIs he refers 10 the massacre Of
ST. Bartholomew, OF which Charles TX, "rex
christianissimus," was the author. What a
patient aud snduriDg people these revolution
lists must have been to have waited SO long az
ter this terrible massacre before they avenged
il The slaughter Of the Hoguenots during
the reign of Charles IN, on st Bartholomew.s
day. occurred in August. 1872; while the
festival Of reason to which referred in
my last article, was held in November. 1893
ouly i,oO hundred and tueafy-one years after !.
am not surprised that he does not under
staLd the distinction between prohibition aud
license. bat confess that am a good deal se at
his ignorance OF Ewoptan history, when he
tells Us that the massacre of St. Bartholomew
gave rse 10" The French Revolution
And he is equally at fault in calling Charles
lN, "the author" Of this massacre history
assigns to him no such position. He ascended
the throne Of France when but boy, about 10
years old and was placed under the regency
Of his mother, Catharine de Medici, the ambi
tious queen of Henry H. 1t was her hand that
gave direction to these revolving deeds that
she might remove out Of the way the op
position of the Guises TO tie princes Of the
blood.
But then, there was the Holy Inquisiiion''
with its track and faggot" and the thou
sands Of widows and mothers who were burned
at the command Of the church" and Charlie
magne driving 5000 Saxons at the point Of
the sword. into the Elbe. by way Of baptizinc
them" all these are paraded TO show what
voracious jaws The church has had, and how II
has swaIlowed up it's victims to elut IL m
hallowcd appetite for blood Nov. there
must be one of two objects in all this either
to show that The church is worse than the
French revolution and ought 10 have been pu,
down, or that they arc both alike,--onc abou,
as bad as the other Which horn of the di
lesama will be take
But the farther he goes the deeper and less
adroitly he plunges into error,-aud his pre-
texts are so iimsy that he can t conceal it
Did it not occur to him all the time he wa
writing these things. that the excesses to
which he was referring were those prac,iced
by The Roman Catholic Church We. in thi>
country consider these very cxcesses az show
ing he necessity for the protestant Claroa.- Z
But III. II. b." employs them against US. to
show-what Why. Of course, that We should
have no church al all for that is the necessa
ry effect of his argument. what have We. in
his country, to do with st. Bartholomew.
massacre. o. the Holy Tnquisition. or any Of
he other enormities oflhe Popcs Of Rome and
.he prela,es Of the Romish Church, We all
know that this massacre was bloody. cruel
emorseless that there is no language in
which We can convey our horror Of the Inqui
'ition and that the Romish hierarchy have
n the course of their history. perpetrated
very crime in the calendar. But did il ever
before enter the bead OF mortal man to employ
III this as an arrumeat AGAINST the p..,>.,..,
h"reA IN this country, or against the Christina
sabbath That which proves It's necessity.
o be used as an argument for it, destruction !
The fact -. that the German veforrneys FORGET
hat they are assaiiipg a church essentially
ifiereut from the one which they were accas.
omed TO assal IN Earepe, and therefore thev
sc the same arguments here that they did
here. They should recollect when they speak
"the church aud Its enornities. that. in
his cNuntry. the spirit Of toleratien presides
yer our christiani,y aud that there is neither
sck nor bow string here " IN which TO torture
hs body. nor any Inqaisitorisl tribunal TO :
Far upon the freedom Of Individual con
cience.
As Zoe the book Published in 1917, under
nc reign Of James l.. il gives no force TO his
rgumen,s in opposition to cur Sabbath By
se by. he i mistaken in the name Its tale
as"Book Of sports not "Innoccn: Sun.
ay Sports, though the latter expresses its
beet. it was designed by James l., to show
- hatred Of the Puritass, who. from the cx