The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1882-1884, 1883-09-27

900 sick persons and presented 49,.
900 Bibles. They conducted 1882
street preaching performances, and
took 3.8O4 to the Lords Supper.
They recruited APT backsliders or de.
serters, and made 1922 drunk ards
take to chocolate solos. They male
PAT heather shopkeepers cluse their
establishments on the Sabbath, and
took ,284 ragged children to Snn-
day schools.
And vet we have 128,OOo street
arabs. who persist in hootins at 486
respectable old Bible women who trot
all over London crying like one mil
lion In the wilderness. And yet but
last Sunday the Koran was openly
preached in South Belgravia to a ali
lent five hundred, and yet there are
1000 worskipping Bud 1hists in Ions
don, to say nothing of those at the
University of Oxford.
Verify, Mr.. Buckle, you are right.
"Good people really do very little
good"
L'ATHEIsME EFT LIE PERIL SOCIAL.
It is terribly suggestive subject
in the midst of this progressive" age
to dwell ON the open and avowed
atheism of London. Every Sunday
in this city-and why Sunday for
them I cannot divine-somc 3,4OO
atheists assemble at different places
and imblbe and exhale their peculiar
conceits. Fully fifty such meetings
are held in various parts of England,
and it is worthy of note that where
aFreethinkers'' do most congregate
there are STRIKES" Jail. and
most immortality in great abundance.
Lancashire and Yorkshire are the ia.
vo1ed homes Of the atheists, but New.
castle, Glasgow and Northampton
carry on the palm in the great num>
bers of jealous adherants of Mr. Brad.
laugh. From 1000 to l,700 .ieet on
each occasion in these places, and in
hideous blasphemv predict the down
fall of Church, State and society.
Frequently one subject is on the tapis
of debate for a week continuously,
particularly it it touches social degra.
dation and moral ruin. The lustful
laughter associated with predictions
limperiling society is beyond descrip'
ton. Tom Paine, Geo. Combe, Vol.
ney, Mazzini, Congiere, Stuart Mill,
Bob Ingersoll and Bradlaugh are wor
SHIPPED with zeal worthy of French
fanatics. The vilest books and
pamphlets are subscribed to, and, IL
some cases, an atheists volume, il
racy of the secularist's soil, will run
through an edition Of 100000 copies
in three months. can cite four in
stances OF this Of my own knowledge
And what shall I say Of the leading
press of England, as well as the Prime
Minister, in relation to this atheism:
The popular educator, the leader oI
thought, is the press. The Pail Nal
Gazette has on more than one occa-
sion advocated the temporal teach
ling" of the rising generation as supe
rior to any spiritual advantage.
THE Saturday Review, owned and in
lspired by Mr.. Beresford Hope, NJ. P.
ILL. D., and lay pillar Of the estab
|lishment. holds similar views, only
cloaked in better philosophical acu'
men. 1t has said, Religious views
undoubtedly hinder the spread of ed
ucation.' AS close reader Of thu
London Times, Telegraph. Echo
Weekly Dispatch, and many of The
quarterlies, am constantly brough
in contact with series of set senten
ces that mean absolute atheism
Looking at the serials and volume:
issued by certain great publishing
houses, I daily detect tho insidiou
and snbtle infiltration Of atheism il
all of them. And yet good American
Episcopalians, Methodists. Presbyte
rians and Roman Catholics patroniz
with their liberal purses this poison
and allow the wholesome food Of thei
own publications to become mildewe'
and unpaid for. The blowing OF no
,, to-day and cold tomorrow In thes
atheistic days will not do. We mus
stand true and firm in Christian pur
ty. We must put our faces agains
: the imported or the plrated poison il
print. A Nemesis will surely com
after such publishers, and sit up o
3 high on any nation encouragln
l them. Such black reading beget
red revolution, and reviyes the rutl
' less tastes of that sad Renaissanc
of bastard age of Liberty,
: ssDefamed by every charlatan,
l. And soiled with all ignoble use."
q Mont.