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| and e1pound them for tho benefit and bless
! ing Of mankind. :. -a~~'
r The majority Of the Witnesses in the
| BEEoHEB case have belonged to the class
known as advanced thinkers, Mr.. BEKon-
zR and his clique, Nj. TmroN and his clique,
all the advocates of Womens' Rights, and all
tho minor orbs which circulate about STEPHEN
PEAn1 ANDREWS, the great central sun Of the
Pantarch. Even Bessie TuRHEB, who thought
that she was picked up BY TnroN in the dead
waste Of night, and carried through several
halls and rooms TO- his apartment with
out waking, may be =, set' down as
one Of the advanced thinkers, How these
advanced thinkers have iedl~: How delber-
ate1y they have perjured themselves i How
completely have they vindicated Brother
THoMAs' assertion that g Perjury for good
reasons is, with advanced thinkers, no sin =
We are 10th to o,belieye, that all these advanced
thinkers have committed perjury, that there
is no personal honor among any Of them /;
but, making all possible allowances, it is cyl
dent that one~ha1f Of them have lied, and which
half it is may never be- discovered Inas-
much as every witness has been contradicted
directly, downrightly, and point -biankly BY
some other witness, both on general ,an and par
ticu1ar points, it follows as an ineyitable con-
clusion That at least 50 Per cent OF these ad-
vanced thinkers have lied Thus Brother
THoMAs' ASSERTION Is vindicated to tie letter.
The BEN rings of Brother THoMAs' assertion
upon the case are not 50 important, however,
as their bearings upon him personally - =
man and aa minister Of the Gospel In the
latter capacity, his duty is to preach the
Bible to his people. The Bible says =" Thou
shalt not bear fa1se witness 6gainst thy neigh
bor," and tsThou shalt rot take the name Of
the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will
not hold him gu1tless who taketh His namo
.in Yain-" In hundreds Of places perjury is set
down IS a sin, and the severest penalties
arc foreshadowed, among them the warning
that liars viii have their part in the
lake that burneth with birthstone. It
makes no exceptions Of advanced thinkers or
Of good reasons. Its application is universal
and without qualification, and, unless all
these awful warnings are 'groundleRs, there
will be hot work hereafter for some OF these
advanced thinkers. Being sin, does Brother
THOMAS believe that the advanced thinkers
can commit theft, murder, adultery, and ths
other rank crimes, With impunity, If they have
good reasons7 It would be interesting to
know, moreover, upon what grounds Brother
THos1As, being minister Of the Gospel,
L., .1n %~1 81 Ia
mitted, and why be has not also expressed
his great Joy that other crimes cen be CON-
mitted by these advanced thinkers; for most
certainly ii it be no crime for an advanced
thinker to deliberately tell falsehood, it is
no crime for him to steal OF murder. This is
curious code Of morals for q Christian min
lister: The worst feature Of the case Is tho
doubt which he throws upon his brother
HENEx WARD, who is An advanced thinker,
and may haYe had good reasons for commit
ting perjury. As soon, therefore, as the lat
ter's casa is settled, it will behoove Brother
THOMAS to rise and explain himself, and st
the samo time explain his illusions to another
letter: =. =.
ELx1kA, NOV. D, ls72--OEh BELLE: TO ALLOW tho
Devil hnnssH to b. crushed for speaking the truth
unspsakab1y cowaraly and eontemptils. I respect,
It present sdvtsed, Ars. WOODRUFF, while ahhor
hos philosophy. She only cAr1iea ont HENRY phoso
ply. against which recorded my protest twenty yaa1s
ago. Hs hss dr1fted and have hardeued. sAnnot
hslp him s1ospt by prayer. In my Indignant Hxxa1
il following his slippery doctrines of axpedency, and
in hin CRY of progress and the aoleness of hurazn
nature, hsa sacrificed e'eaE exact ideal integrity. OF
tbs two Woodruff IL ny hero, aud HENRY my
coward, ~ II present advtsod-
He might also explnin which is the worst,-
to cruah the Devil for speaking the truth, OF to
defend an advanced thinker for lying.