The Worthington advance., 1882-01-26


FREE THOUGHT AND The ADVANCE,
A gentleman at Doylestown. Pa,
subscribes for the ADVANCE, and adds:
haye seen your sprightly journal
frequently quoted from and it certain.
ly has the correct name and ring. You
have taken it in hand to expose the im-
posture of Christian mummery, and the
telling thrusts you give the sacred
farce must certainly set yoar readers
to thinking. and you know it is consid-
cred dangerous for a believer to think
much on the subject of religion.
Have you heard anything recently of
those ministers who were charging
Guitteau's crime to intidelity? They
have not been heard from about here
for a long time, and thought probab
ly they might have moved toward the
setting sun.
We fear that our friend will he dis
appointed in the ADVANCE, for our
space is nearly all taken up with local
matters, and it is only occasionally
that we can enter a protest against
church mummery, hypecricy and
fraud. We are equally decided in de-
nouncinglsham and fraud in politics and
in society, and therefore the tone of the
ADVANCE in general is healthy and
tonic and no one can read it a year
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ening and his fore legs paving to get
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is struggling and walllowing. The most
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bout the people is that so many of them
do not know that mentally they are wal
lowing in rubbish. A large portion of
them are afflicted with leprosy and
they strike hands with and embrace
their fellow lepers and say 1--WE are
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healthy 1ngersoll who comes among
them like Il mountain breeze or an elec~
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and come to it at night to learn, but
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ligio-Philosophical Journal, the Ban
ner of Light, the Truth Seeker, the
Boston Investigator, and other liberal
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tional reputation.
AS to Guiteau, he is undoubtedly a
product of Old Theology. lie claims
the same kind Of inspiration that A.
braham claimed when he went out to
kill his son. Freeman. the Pocasset
fanatic, who killed his little daughter,
committed the act under the same kind
of inspiration. Guiteau and Freeman
are only two among millions who are
the legitimate product of u religion of
blood and sacrifice. And how quick
the cowardly churches and ministers
desert their own. No minister has yet
visited Guit,au in his cell. The glib
tongued church people ut first tried to
make Guiteau an Inlidel and then a
Spiritnalist, but the facts came out
that lie was Moody Sanky reviva'ist
and previous to that a member of
Beecher's church. Tie church peo.
pie then drowned all other cries in
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