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hnitely benevolent, still He has doomed to
endless lortures uinety-nino hundredths Of
a1s children, and could sa9e thst
bood snS only by snaG
Sou, whom He sent to this earth,--to this grain
OF saud on the shores Of His infinite universe,
and hAd Him put to death here to appease
a.s own infinite wrath that tells us that our
Heavenly Father requires us to believe this,
and upon orr belief OF disbelief thereof depends
our eternal happiness OF misery; That however
bad mans life has beon, belief in this opens
the door OF heaven to him. aud hoWo7er saint
like auother's life has been, disbelief in this
dogma opens the gate Of hell to h;m,-am I
70 6e told that this is the religion Of Him who
SAID: .
Tho first Of Ill the commandments IL, Thou sh.lt
lore tho Lord thy God with ali thy heart aud Win III
thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with Ill thy
strength Tho second t. Thou shalt love thy neia-
Dor as thyseif. Tnera IL mono other commandment
greater than these
Aud whose religion one Of His Apostles also
describes Us follows:
Pure religion and undedled is this: to visit ths
fatneress and the widow in their affection, and ke4p
oueseif unspotted from the world.
No. indeed; the best we can SAY is that it is
fearfully base corruption o. Christ's religion.
II Mr. Fallows concedes the right to attack aud
expose the corruptions OF Christianity, that is
all that most skeptics desire to do. There is so
little Of the genuine article e1tant in the world
Is hardly to excite notice.
believe TINT other champions OF so-called
Christianity will hardly indorse soch conce4-
BiCus Of Mr. FailoTs. In fact, the world has
rigat to claim that Christianity IL to be judged
b. the creeds and codes pronounced br its eecle-
6iastical authorities, preached and enforced BY
it, priests and generally accepted By ts so:aries.
Until race Of refor4oars shall sppear Tho
will not halt - did Luther, with the hatus but
half begun, but who wilt keep on till they nava
raZed 30 tho ground all the corruptious which
have NTH tropical growth lowered shove, en-
yeloped, aud almost concealed the tIua temple
OF tho Lord, skept:cs will have tina right to
point to tha angrafted and hourlaEiug corruD-
tions aud say they will haye nothing to do with
the unclean thing. Indeed, these very re-
formers when they come Will be hailed by the
Church as skeptlcs, rs infdeIs, as heretica- Even
50 were Huss. aud Luther, and Zw1ugle hailed
by Christe'doua 10 their day. But thesa coming
reformers will claim something more TO bo re-
formed in the Church thAu tue form Of incanta-
ton oser the sprinklIus OF baby.
Let us have the rehgson that Jesus presched
and pfacticsd w4eo or tt, and lhsro will be
little that skep.ics Will find fault WITH, very little
that will come in collieion with SCIENCE when
science has read to us the vast volumes Of
Which DOW We only know tue ttle-fage, and
nothing 1nat will clash against the hlgaest and
uoliest aspirations Of the race. Hail, happy
day, tusn swiftly round 20 wheels OF lime aud
bripg the bl1Bful hour but until then the re-
l!gon that shall defanI II teach doctrines opposed
to science and every na,uralanstsncs ct the human
heart whether 1t caus itself Gu lstlaniiy or BY
auy other name, shall receive the unEemist.nx
criticism Of every earnest, ludapend-
ell. lover Of the Irntu- Hup1RRAs-