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


religion. This young fellow told me
he was perfectly happy, and he said:
Do you know that if you do not be-
lieve 10 Christ you are going to he'll {?
And L said you are perfectly happy,
and he said well, not quite, almost.
And | said l suppose you want me to
get religion, and he said when | get
to heaven | shall be perfectly happy,
and / said by that time | shall he in
hell. Now | am only going there.
you will be perfectly happy when !
get there. was reading in the paper
the other day about house floating
down the Ohio river and on the top of
the house was woman hOar row.
ed out to rescue her, but she would
not 90, saying / have four dead child
rem in there. Now do you think that
God would damn a woman like that
with such limitless love, with such Il
depth of affection, simply because she
did Not happen to believe in him ?
And vet according TO orthodox theal-
ogy, if she did not happen TO he a
Christian she would be damned. ana
80 they teach that any husband can he
happy in heaven with his wife in he'll
and it would not increase his iOy L.
look over and see her spread her
wings and fly to him. He would he
much happier you know with the
angels. | tell you it is a most in
famous doctrine, and while | live |
am going to 90 all | can against it. |
want il so that when the mother 10 Ks
her cradle the shadow of eternal pain
will not fall upon her bed. Christians
tell Us that human love is nOthin.
that after you get tn the Other world
you won't care anything about father,
mother, brother, sister, wife or child
rem; that You will be 50 happy in the
next world that YOU won't think of
these things. How do you know that
you will be so happy? How do YOU
know that ycu will like the angels.
and how do you know that the angels
would like you? Human love is the
morning OF heaven, and SOONER than
have this blotted out iu the existence
of a new world, | would prefer the
cold grave, and eternal sleep. The
doctrine that eternal pain is To be The
fate of large majority of the human
: race Is Infamous. The greatest enemy
f the church has ever bad in this world
: was Charles Darwin, the author of
: the doctrine of evolution and
the survival of The fi,-
: test. Superstition for anything
, is infdelity. Every truth Is sacred,
because there is not a truth in the
; world that will agree with superstition.
: They tell story of an old man w'-o
: never read the Bible much. Ills
wife got religion and induced the old
man to read chapter every morning.
; Their boy noticed that they were read
ing the fifteenth chapter of Corfu
thians We shall all be changed,
r and this boy rubbed the Oft the word
changed, so that the old man read,
show you a great mystery, for behold,
We shall all be hanged. And the old
: lady said, / don't think it's hanged. is
it ? And he said, Yes, it is hanged,
and | think it must be right, because
the greatest sin of this world YOU
know, is pride. and if there is any
thing calculated to take pride out of a
man, hanging will do it. | am Oppos-
ed to any religion that hardens the
heart. | am opposed to any religion
that teaches me that in another world
| shall not care for the ones who care
for me here. j believe in the religion
of the freside. | believe in the re-
ligion of home. 1t is better to love
your wife than to love God. 1t is
better to owe your little children than
to love Jesus Christ, because You can
help them, and you cannot help him.
The home is society and church
enough for every man. The duty
that We owe to each other is religion
enough, if properly discharged.
and it is time enough to think OF all
other world after you are confident
that you have fulfilled your duties in
this. My religion is one world at q
time /; but they tell me, You take
) awav the Bible. you take away this
: religion. and you take away the edu-
: Gator of mankind. deny it. The
! ministers say, Do as we say. Give
5 up your liberty to us, and We will
' make it so that you can meet your
friends again. What friends? Why
( the friends that do as you do. The
l friends that believe as you do. But,
3 you say. nv friends do not belong to
: your church. o, then, he says, you
, will have the pleasure of seeing them
: all i'm hell. That is their doctrine.
' What sort of a place do you think