Daily globe., 1882-11-14

generation, being born again, or through
Jesus Christ. The promises of Christ in
the sermon on the mount were cited as a
proof of this. Matthew had been with
Christ three years and they must have
talked it over together. The church had |
to have mystery; no mystery, no
preachers; no preachers, no pay. Matthew |
taught simply the virtues of forgiveness |
and good will.
The gospel of Mark was then cited and |
copious illustrations given to demonstrate |
that there was nothing laid down about |
not word about belief, creed or dogma; |
it all rested on generosity, goodness, vir- |
tue, nobility of action, not a word. about |
intellectual belief.
In the last chapter he cited the saying
of Christ about baptism, except We believe
in Jesus Christ and be baptised ye cannot
be saved. This passage Was called
an Interpretation. Every word of
this declaration had been
a chain, a fagot, a dungeon; that passage
had been the source of more agony, dis
tress, ruin and misery than all the wars of
the centuries. 1t contradicted the sermon
on the Mount and travestied the Lords
prayer; it was the most Infamous passage
ever written. It was characterized as the
most important declaration ever uttered.
Citations from scripture were made to
show that this had been grated
into the text and that it was no
| condition in the plan of salvation.
The colloquy between Christ and the
thief on the cross was then citef.
| Christ had said this day shall l see you
| in paradise; how was this; was it because
the thief had pitied him; could it be then
that Christ could crush the flames of pity
in the human heart; could He let such
men be damned as Humboldt,
Darwin, Longfellow, Goethe, Shake
speare, Voltaire, who broke the
power of torture in France.
| The audience was here amused by the
speakers eloquent and brilliant play on
such passages as ''The wind bloweth where
it listeth,' 'sYe shall eat of my flesh and
drink of my blood,' etc. The Catholic
church, he said, was the
Oldest church; it was the only
church that kept direct communication
with the other world through the medium
of number of decayed saints; the Prot
estant church had not heard from the
other world for eighteen hundred years.
The Catholic church said you must be-
lieve certain thing; it had prosecuted to
the extent of its powers; its object was the
destructibility of the intellect; it taught
that nun was better than a mother: that
a girl was better shut up IN a convent,
taken from sunshine, JOY, and the delights
of home; he did not believe in supplying
convicts for God andreligious peniten-
tiaries; it taught that monk counting
beads was a higher sight in the sight of
God than the man who shouldered an
AK and went to the frontier to hew out
happiness and home.
A long analytical and humorous disser-
tation was given concerning what the
speaker called the absurdities of the God
head Or trinity. This creed he said had
shed an ocean of blood; it had destroyed
the greatest and best men of this world; it
had taken the father and the husband
from his home and piled fagots
aboat him at the stake.
This creed had changed this world into a
hell; if all these bead counters had been
scientists, all of these hymn singers inves-
tigators, all these priests philosophers,
what paradise this world would have
been.
Facetious reference was then made to
what the speaker called the pretensions OF
tie Catholic, and Episcopal churches
the former he said was beggar, hypo-
critic and tyrant; the latter he said had all
the faults of poor relation; it was al
ways crying about the mother country
The damnation doctrine of Wesley, who
preached on the cause and cure of earth
quakes and was opposed to freedom in the
colonies, was quoted, and the lines Oh Wes-
ley by Whittier given:
He babe the slaves speed from coast to coast
Famed by the wings of the Holy Ghost.
The creeds of the Presbyterian and other
churches. were then jokingly alluded to.
And these men said that Voltaire. who had
abolished torture, was now in hell. Calvin,
who advocated it, was now in heaven, the
leader of the choir.
The creed of the Presbyterian he said
was horrible; it made heaven jail and
God the everlasting turnkey; he thought
it had never done anybody good.
Facetious allusion was then made to the
doctrine of hell; the churches in this re-
spect have the same relation to heaven as
the insurance companies of earth, with one
difference, the churches paid no losses; one
honest merchant was worth thousand
missionaries; if you ever died the ministers
would be the pail bearers; they were tho
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the tomb and epitaphs. A man had met a
minister while travelling; he had asked
him to smoke, chew, have glass of wine;
to each invitation he said no; the man
of the world then said, let co
eat some hay; he replied,
l don't eat hay; the man said goodbye,
you are not fit company for either man or
beast" laughter The speaker believed
in the religion of cheerfulness. of pood
society; good clothing cut in the fashion;
the religion of a clean life; religion of
the body; soap had done more good
than the churches; he believed in intellect
ual liberty; he did not believe in the doc
trines that told the mother bending over
her dimpled babe that she was raising
kindling wood for hell.
Next to eternal Joy, was not to be; in the
tomb no yelled and sobbing sorrow;
hearts of dust do not break; next to the
supreme Joy was the eternal, dreamless
sleep of death; better to dream of our loved
ones as eternally dead than to leave their