, 1876-09-09
Final Answer 10 e.. III. VI.

EpIToR NORTHERN STAR.
see that your regular sermon critic
T.. II. W., has again been handling his
grey Goosc quill" take up my pen
not for the sokc of answering him be-
cause his ftvouritc Arguments, " false.
hood" ignorance" "" superstition, &c,
are altogether unanswerahle save by
silent contempt. see however that he
admits what he in the same paragraph
denys when he says" Paine was II
drunkqrd 50 was nearly every clergyman
of his day" Talk about smirohing
characters This beats anything have
ever seen in that line. Fortunately +.
II. NJ. has overdone the thing, There
are but few Of the intelligent readers Of
The STAR who cannot see clear through
to the other side Of that miserable de-
tense Of his Hight Priest and Messiah
the besottcd drunkard Tom Paine.
respectfully draw the attention of
your leaders to the face that did not
though +. II. NJ, asserts that did, yield
the whole ground" of controversy by
stating that 50 am not much Of con
tender for the peculiar dogmas of my
own branch OF the church" peculiar
dogmas" in this connection simply
mean those, in the belief of which, our
church differs from other evangelical
denominations. 1t is term well under
stood among intelligent people, and no.
body but q literary gladiator more
anxious to misin terpret his opponents
language than to arrive at its true mean
ing would have dreamed that had ex-
pressed the most remote intention of
q" yielding the whole ground" Some of
the ablest champions of evangelical
christianity have not been Jealous con,
tenders for the peculiar dogmas OF their
own branches Of the christian church
and yet they would have been ground to
powder rather than yield one single inch
Of ground to the common enemy of
truth, in any form of unbeliet and l
honor them for both for their liberality,
and for their unhinching devotion to
truth.
1t seems was all right in my asser-
tions regarding V"ltaire and the widow
burning and Thug murders of the
Hlndoo religion. T. H. NJ, silently con.
cedes those points, though he was very
angry about them few weeks ago.
Now there remains as solitary oflense,
the so called slander about the votaries
of his poor old friend the "mild and
benevolent" Juggernaut. Well it Is too
bad that universal testimony lies on one
side, to crush the best recollection" of
three capital letters. The readers of the
STAR can weigh this opposing evidence
about the character of Juggernaut.
The statement that detest free think
ers IS not true as my friends all know
Judging from this controversy the hatred
Ind bigotry is all on the side of my
critic, do honorable detest some of the
miserable bantlings Brought forth under
the sacred name of free thought, notably
the pernicious free love sentiments lately
promulgated through your pages by this
same self-dubbed champion of unbelief
+. Fl. NJ, expresses "a wonder if
Brother Thompson save the mark has
heard that Yicksburg was taken. "To
this very original conumdrum may be
excused for answering, that heard Of
such an event about eleven years ago,
but l am not in possession of minute par
iculars, perhaps he will furnish them 70,
the next issue Of the STAR. Possibly he
will also pardon NE if | suggest that in
any future controversy upon religious
topics he had better make at least dc.
cent attempt to write like a gentleman.
II does not become him to steal out
Wholesale yulgarity when addressing or
talking about wiser and better men,