The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-03-02
THOUGHTS ON RELIGION.

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To THE EprrsR OF The CHIEF Quite a number of
yers have been made at the receut meetings city
and probabIv good many more have been led to think
over their mast lives TO SECRETLY repent of their bad ways
and IN rssov In beneeortb live more rational aal useful
| lives hope they NAV do so.
ANY sv,,em of religion or code of ethics is good so "a
as il makes man better,bat is so far As il makes him
more honest more reliable more kind more peaceabIe
or. sohr mora and more Intelligent than
he ould have bcen itbou II Of the one thousand diff
frent reliops and forms of vorsbp in the world saw
rive them all fair and canal chance None of them are
vithout some good none of them without some fault
They are each suited 70 the Intellectual capacity or men
tai nscuIiartv of the persous bo profess them Nothing
ia more trps tba, ,ba, an updeveloped man can appre
ciata orv an uplo,.d relqiop If he il deficient in
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reason
As reeards the dominant religion Of our own country
ne conundum of the TRINITY right at the
tnresnou was always deahener To me. Many times in
carry hie nave tined as faithiuy tos~al"w IT. as ever
person tried to swallow dose Of OIL How three per
sons could be one person and one person could be three
anu now the son could be as old as the father and older
than his mother &C. &C. was beyond my ability at =Icss
ing Ana yet the TRINITY and the Deityshp oi Christ
constitute the cornerstone OF the Christian religion But
venture the assertion that oneaf OF ChrisendOm TO-
day are either outwardy or nwary unitarian in their
honest convictions Also the question arises how Jonah
could live three days in the whales belly and out all
nsht; how Moses could write history of his life DEATH
buralpaee and events hundreds of years subsequent
how Joshua made the sun stand still for him u butcher
his enemesi how Moses could issue his memorable order
Tor the butehery OF $4,000 children and women who had
known men, and the saving the virgins for deflement by
his brutal soldiers and yet be regarded as onequarer
decent as Quanrell how large number of people who
had lain IN their graves for centuries could come out all
at once ana go around and converse with folks and not
soul or historian know or say anything about it, except
Matthew how Aaron turned his rod into a serpent how
Moses made his rod sprout bud blossom and grow ripe
pomegranates in one night how Aaron turned every
drop OF water IN the whole land Of Egypt into bOO how
Daa ass ana the serpent OF Eden acquired the faculty
o. sPeechi now they TOOK ND out OF Adam and made