Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-12-24
Divine Humbrg s.
BY c. BusHaY.

A lunstic being taken to an in
sane asylum remarked to q strang-
er:-"These men with me are all era.
~, and | am taking them 10 the asy.
lum for safe keeping
Who has not audibly smiled w lille
listening to an empty headed mani
Kin prescribing and denouncing as
set of heretics, ignoramuses or fools.
thousands upon thousands of people
who have forgotten more of history,
theology and science, than their
shallow, pated defamer ever had the
ability to know.
have listened sometimes to self.
styled clergymen whose attainments
consisted simply in memorizing a
great many passages Of scripture
and strining them like SO many beads
without regard to the context or
original design of the writer, and
whose general information would
greatly suffer by comparison with a
school boy of ten summers, set them
selves up as "the light of the world"
and attempt to pat "the mark of the
beast" OF Ignorance and superstition
upon the forehead of the profound
est thinkers, most accomplished
scholars, and earnest searchers after
truth, thft the world has ever pro-
duced.
One hardly knows whether to
laugh az their ridiculous twaddle, or
pity their pureile weakness and ment-
al imbecility. tits sad commentary
on the intelligence of any communi>
ty to see people carried away with
the whining, cantirg sing-song fus-
tian Of would-be clerical informers
which infest small villages and outof
the way country places where they
suppose people are so unsophisticat-
ed as to believe and endor what
ever tonguey preacher may pro-
claim, mistaking sound for sense and
thunder for lightning.
Why don't those modern apostles
90 like Jonah to the great Ninecahs
to warn the people of the near ap-
proach of the end Of the world, and
their other wonderful discoveries,
y hich they have all memOrized and
sing 70 the same tune? They know
that educated people are rot so east
y gulled. and hence their absence,
unless among the least informed
classes. There is no religious doe
trine too foolish for some people to
indorse and the more absurd the bet
ter for unthinking people. | have
seen people who would lift up their
hands in holy horror at the mere
mention OF mOrmOnism and unwit-
tiogly advocating the resitable doc
trines of 10 Smith with all the earn
estness of q fanatic. Let mo lust
give some people an eye opener on
Salt Lake theology, and then let
them see if they can find anything
like it in Wisconsin under another
| name:
"THE NEAR APPROACH or THE ADVENT or
CHRIST 70 establish temporal kingdom
baptism by immersion gifts
OF healing, tongues and prophecy, THAT Con
HAS MATERIAL BODY, tobacco is interdct-
4 e
La addition to the above tenets
they have two or three doctrines Pc
culiar to themselves. among which is
polygamy and be it known that this
disgusting religion has more than
one hundred thousand adherents in
the United States to-day while a
somewhat similar organization OF
equal or even more arrogance and
professions. toots up the astounc ing
aggregate ofJoW thousand, eight hun
dred and ore "sants of the most
high" in population of forty million
ignorant aud deluded Americans. so
soon to be ashes under the soIes OF
the feet Of thst imposing body of
commandment keepers" A good
many ashes, | should say for the
number Of indebted.
After all the incorrigible Metho-
dists and Presbyterans, DC, shall
have been utterly annihiated for
not falling down and worshiping a
chart Of ridiculous images which we
fooishly supposed the Bible forbode
US doing the remnant" which "shal
dwell in the land" will have the ad-
vantage Of plenty room for exercise
and bread margin for intellectual
improvement.
The devil was very glib in quot
ing scripture in the Saviours time
and nlroys made it seem to sustain
his position. but was less successful
in his Bible arguments than many
an undergraduate has been 10 modern
times.
Every uewfangled notion that has
crept from the added brain of fam
attic has laid claim to scripture proof
aud authority, with any amount Of
detached quotations in its favor. By
separating, combining and transpos-
ing the twenty-six letters of the al
phabet, more than forty thousand
different words are formed How
easy then to make whole book say
thousand unmeaniRg things
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