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We issue six Thousand copies of. ~ EE
GRANGE ADVANCE, this week, and that viii
explain our beisg little behind time, to
some sot sour subscribers Now is aEgoo'i go
time to subscribe for the paper. it Is per-
I. mancntly established sand we propose to
enlarge the size by fall and to~make it one
of the best and most complete family and
4 agricultural newspapers of the Stare. ma
Z stand with the Pstrons>all the time
We publish tie following communication,
not because we have the least sympathy
with many OF the sentiments therein sex-
pressed, but because we believe that moth
ing except cant and Hypocrisy are injured
by free discussion, and that the great ora-
i tor Wendell Philips was right when he said
'sI It is good sometimes to read and hear
( principles different from those which we
. hold. It stirs our principles about the
roots" Every man who has pure, strong
thoughts to offer in favor Of ..Meltal and
4 Moral Culture in favor OF independent
thought and = Brain Culture has a right
to a hearing, though We may think his
theories wrong. We have been informed
that certain persons have attempted TO use
former article from stfiis writer as an ar
gument that the Grange movement was de-
signed TO do away with the pulpit AND the
church. Probably those persons viii be
made easy when they are informed that the
manual Of the Patrons of HusbAndry was
gotten up by ministers ot' orthodox church.
es. while il contains nothing that win con-
Aict with any man's religious or political
belief, that it il full of religious thought, },
(; teaches faith in God anL obedience to His
laws, using in some places Bible texts for
that purpose. Any man who has ever nj
tended the public installation OF officers Of
a Grange, knows that Oranges are always
opened with prayer and that all are ex-
pected to join in the responses aud all
who have taken the trouble to read the
Manual Of Patrons Of Husbandry know that
hoth the Old and New Testament Scriptures
are therein recognized and the whole Bible
taken as the word Of God. 1t is: folly,
worse than folly +, Sc is the most miserable
cant and hypocrisy, or else most shameful
i and culpable, ignorance for any man to at
4 tempt TO show that Oranges make war on
any mans religion. It is worse than sll
this, when : man writes on IN entirely
" independent question, and does not pretend
in any manner TO represent or TO expound
the prinoiplessof the order Of Patrons. TO
B Try. 10 use his words 70 prejudice men Is
/ minds against the Order il IS the culmina-
zion of ignorance, hypocrisy and lying.
We have already made our sss editorial
! longer than the communication but We
+ wish to add and have it understood that
this paper IS open TO free discussion; be.
I lieving thattruth eternal and God given. il
not totbs advanced BY choking down, dis
scussion Such ideas might .have done for
the days When they roasted Prot testants, lbe- BE-
headed papists, Or hung witches. God has
jconde descendsds Z Is say 70 man 3. Come lei us
reason gsthesrr, and tLs who would
choke on free discussion places himself
above lis Maker rru.l s nsvers Injured
~ open ..ssack ~ free i she & s.,
jured q. Ill il; il by the 'cringing cowardice
/ of her weak y lypocriitica.l supporters.
Thsreupoun q yiss reader Il the KpsAsos,
if you ind anything "a the columns of this
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