The Labor enquirer., 1883-06-02
THE WORLDS FINAL CRISIS.
4 Series Of Letters to Workingmen,
The Exclusive Nobility Of,
- =. Earth.
Eighth Letter,

Our last letter traced the prophecy.
proof circumstances and conditions,
blended with present events, attending
the conception, birth, life and death Of
Jesus Christ, showing that they referred
to him as type only of the worlds
savior, proving by all authority that
these conditions never were fulfilled in
him, and that they have been largely in
man, and coming events that now cast
their shadows over US, prove beyond
doubt their fulfllment in. us will soon
be complete. .
We will now glance at the items of
Christ's crucifxion, and discover if they
are not each in kind duplicated by us,
with infinite enlargement:
Christ was arrested for perverting the
nation, taken to the high priests house
and Knocked by the rabble of priestly
worship. The church, intent ON Christ's
death, communed with traitor and
covenanted/ to give him money if he
would betray Christ, for them to kill.
Vice hitherto and now rules the world
and virtue counsels its overthrow vice
stands between God and man in vail
of impenetrable mystery, which the
church ties of superstition virtue snaps
these cords and lifts the vail. Progress
is riot, insurrection add perversion to
vicious rule. For this the world has ever
been held under conviction and sentence
of death. The church has ever claimed
to be the judge and guardian of virtue,
and is first to betray and cruelty it. You
may divorce all other marriage bonds,
but state and church are inseparable.
They have lived together and now they
die together. "Pilate knew that for envy
they had delivered him" The devil
cannot bear the presence of virtue. He
was scourged, bufeted, spit upon and
treated to general expression of ridi-
cule, nailed to cross, crowned with
thorns, and spear plunged to his heart.
Here is an ancient state and church
trial, conviction and execution Of virtue.
Let US examine present methods.
Take an English criminal, as multi
tudes of Irish are daily taken, con-
demned to die for desiring that women
and children might live. They are ar
rested for perverting the government
of the nation, turned over to officers to
whom, by comparison, PLATE was a
saint. Neither PLATE nor Herod desired
to commit their horrid crimes, but did it
to please the church. These English
devils delight in murder, and ring the
last change possible on bells of hellish
torment. They emphasize internal roy
atty by excessive rage. Their state lash
scourges, their lions paw buffets and
hell spits malice and ridicule on men to-
day as it never did before, The horrors
of lousy English prison-pen is hell
hole Christ never entered. The knout,
pet instrument of Russian torment, that
blows bone-deep burrows in human flesh,
bathed in fire and frenzy, never came
to him Punishment and burial in a
living tomb in Siberia, and yet forbidden
to die, he knew not, but saw it looming
in our horizon, when he said to the
women following him, weeping, weep
not for me, but for you and your chill
dren ;" "the time comes when they shall
say, blessed are the barren" Blessed
she who brings no child to her hell to
,doubly damn herself. Mighty Christ !
the time has come when maternity shud-
ders to launch an infant life on the
liquid fame of present conditions.
France recently enclosed men, women
and children by tens of thousands in a
pen surrounded by soldiers and mounted
guns, and froze, starved, mangled and
shot them, because their motto, was
liberty, equality, fraternity. Not in a
few hours does death promise relief
Crucifxion now is refined and prolonged
indefinitely. This rich boon was de-
sired in Inquisition days, and a doctor
was kept to watch the victim and give
notice to, the pious church to let up, lest
death came and shut off their delight in
the writhing of human woe; but they
have patent on their process now.
But, says Critic this is Europe Am
erica is clear of all such hell counts.
Wait, my friend. Pennsylvania is the