The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-03-25

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from her on the subject of religion, that
is justified in the Bible. You are told
that if wife worshipped the sun or
moon, your duty is to kill her. What
do You think of that There is a
woman who says: Let us worship
the sun as the 6reside of the world.
1t was the sun that gave your face to
my vision that led me to look into
your eyes. Then it Is your duty to
kill her. Now if there is any God
want him to write in tie eternal book
of His, that | deny for him that &C
cording to the Old Testament persecu-
ton is right. Let us take an honest
step. According 20 modern theology, |
Christ was God, and God chose to Kill
any bOdy who happened TO differ from
Him in religion, and he came upon
the earth to teach difierenJ religion,
and thereupon the Jews crucitied Him.
Did not God reap exactly what he
had sown Look at it and see II that
doctrine be true. II won't do. There
is no sense il this business. We have
had no administrati, in the history
Of this country as great a failure as
that.
Another objection | have 20 the
Bible is that it teaches the existence
of witches, wizards, spoOks and hob
eohlirs. | have no respect for a
book that teaches the existence OF
such things. And this book Is held
up in every part of the land as bit fer
reverence and as the absolute wO. K OF
God. And we are taught to pay
, great respect to the old patriarchs.
) Let us compare Homer with Isaiah
, lei us compare Confucius with Moses
, who, when asked, what do YOU say u
! the doctrine that We return benefit
: for injuries. replied 1t is not my
D doctrine if you return benefits for
injuries, what do you propose to re-
e turn for benefits ? My doctrine is
this: For benefits return benefits,
= and for injuries return justice without
f any administration of revenge and
when asked if there was any word
/ which contained the whole duty OF
. man after thinking replied The
y nearset word | can think of is recipro-
. city there is another objection | have
: TO the book. and that's It's miracles.
- We are called upon 20 believe mira
q Giles that no man, woman or child can
e believe. If a man came to you and
- said that he had seen MN raised
e from the dead that he was present
i at the cemetery you would begin t.
Il say, how far is it to an asylum; ha:
4 this man any friends in this neighbor
- hood ? He had better be looked
= after. You wOulden't believe it ther
!. any more than you do now. Why
n should YOU believe somebody that
g. you don't know. Why should YOU
~ take the evidence of rnen that you
20 never saw, and more thsn that, don,
n know ever existed, and if you refuse
T to believe, your neighbOrs, and the
a men you know better than any human
IN being. you are not going to believe
To the stories In the Bible. And 1t Il
10 possible that these miracles were done
. and they lad no little eff, ct upon TN
ba people = The Jews lived in the pres
N ence Of miracles they were miracu
10 lousy fed. the Bible says, but the rea
- son these miracles had so little etiec
upon them was because they wer
there at the time, because they say
70 what happened. And if We had see
at what happened it would have had a
Ire little effect on us. And We take thi
i7' book and poison the minds of on
W. u. children. We read to them story
). Elijah who cursed the little chi!Gre
because they called him bald suppos
'I I did something like that. And vt
III when they Knocked at him he called o
80 his God who sent a couple of be r:
g He had no control of bears God ma
vs. to help him. Imagine God of intl
"" ~ tie love, when he heard these childre
al al laughing at that gentleman, who WI
~: ne out of hair, imagine that God to tie
lsh his secretary to send for some bear
Ia And there is another story abOl
no Elisha and Elijah going out into tt
eV country, and when Elisha came baC
my he had the other fellows clothes Oh
hG e and he said they were walking arour
there when a chariot of fire came an
i'a took his companion off. Imagine
De fellow in Kansas City going out wi
~" a friend and coming back with h
nJ' clothes and saying he was carried
's II to heaven you would take that ca
,o pe before the grand jury in less than
l T~r time. So might 60 on all nigt
NV NV But here is one thing about Jehova
't ,e and that is the only good thing
" ~ know of. After he once got his Ell
ner mics dead he was satisfied. He ney