The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-10-25

1 old. M b enlk SAa pposnGnafsn skn3 ea | he new. Thsnsnndh - mGn hayo aoxe~ tacked superstition TAe sueiec4 is eas ! bas the mnnner in uhfcA he hc1s ak handled. tAe arguneass gso1psd- tAe3 nay be forever neu. Millions q m kaS9 = preached christianity. Certainly there - ncshing new h ths original i6sa'. 2 Noshing can be nes except tAe pressat, = 1 ton. the grouping The ideAs nay - old, but they may b elothed h new gas ments of passion; they nay he given af .nS facs. cs an old subject, as sculptor sakf'.a os a rock the rock is not nes. Of hPssc rock he makcs . statue the ssafue - ep sew. And yes some ogthodox man miets0me say there is nothing nev about tt eess ss atue: C know the man that dag tkesn rock know the owner of the quarry, Ano Suhstznce is etemal foxms gre new. Sosse in he human mind certain ideas, og eon, the human heart certain passienA ap sao forever old but genius forever gives thefows new forms, new meanings; and this the perpetual originality q genius. ., osesAcs Do you ccns,der thF churches are injurious to the csmmunisyAse
 Assuey. To the exact piopauion ths churches teach falsehOod; in the exN proportion that they destroy ibersy ca1ea thought, the tree action ei the humA :, ,,. mind; in the exact proportion that the1
 teach the docirise of eternal pain, ane eAs convince people ot its uuth-they art oos injurious h the proportion that ths.Ao'e teach morality and justice. and Esaciic
 kindness and charity ID that propcrtiotos they are bene6t. Every church there .. fore, is a mixed problem-par good ans wisn part bad In one direction it leads to .. ward and sheds hghi ; in the other diree tAis ton its influence IS entirely bad.
 Nov. 1 would like to civiiixe tho
 churches. SO that they will be able to d. good deeds without building bed cseedssas In other words, take out the superstition.
 and the miraculous, and leave the1eV human and the moral.
 osessios Why do you not respond te,.
 the occasional clergyman who replies h mi. your lectures. ,.d.
 Hsssps, in the 6rst place, no clergy man has ever replied to my lectures. ir nc. the second place, no clergym ever vii
 reply to my lectures. He does not an-l, swer my arguments---he attacks me and. .s the see.ies tAss have seen are not wortf, ,on. answering. They are far below the dig nity of the question under discussion ...
 nu,s .,s - .ns"" a,e "' N,i", 'nsnasa, - sous had "os"as, A.. = 1'1Mr s~..... .fefal
 Py .ss:- s ners, weapons they do no, understand. at :" tack christianity because 1t is cruel, Ans.~,... they account for all my actions by pustink behind them base motives. They maks,sr srs is at oact a personal question. The,s~rs. imagine that epishets are good enough.
 arguments with which to answer an in ...s sdel 4 few years ago they would havs..,,. imprisoned me. A few years before thas,.k they would have burned me. We have. rs. advanced. Now they only slander ands o1 1 congratulate myself on the fact thatLss even that is not believed Ministers do. z. DO, believe each other about each other. ,n.
 The truth has never yet been ascertained
 in any trial by a church. The longer rh the trial lasts, the obscurer is the truth o..
 They will not believe each other, even on s.. oath and one of the most celebrated h.,
 ministers of thIs country has publicly he announced that there Is no use m an- s~eung lle s,sfted oy his own church
 that If he does answer iii he does kili o1' II forty more hes will come 10 the CT f,ne,.I :tly n this connection we must remember Am
 ,ha. the priests Q: one religion never aus credit the miracles of another religion. up Is this because priests instlnctively know u' priests. Now, when a christian tells sno Buddhs, some of the miracles of the !" Testament, he Buddhist smiles. When es a Buddhist tells christian he miracles .ne performed by Buddha, the christian .ne laughs This reminds me of an incident. usn
 A man told a mos, wonderful story. u'e
 Every body present expressed surprise and aey
 as,on,shmen,, except one man. He said .el
 nothing he did no, even change counte- 'eu
 nance. One who roticed that the story 'na
 had TO effect on this man, said to him: :,,s -' You do not seem to be astonished in i.a
 the leas, al this marvellous tale" TheIny
 man replied, No; am liar myself. "sve s You sec, l am no, trying to answer ln- s".
 dividusl ministers. am attacking ihen ~
 whole body of superstition l am trying
 to k,ll the entire dog, and do not feel .ne
 like wasting any time killing feas on. oP that dog When the dog dies, the heAs -
 SD. sh .u .n...r ,h.r, aIi ., orc. ing
 so do m, ho,h., nvs.n s,<v.,;o day religious newspapers. In the first place ,s" they are DO, worth answering and ID iher. .. . second place, 10 answer would only pro" !" duce a new crop of falsehoods. You
 kno~. the editor of religious newspa- oo
 per, as rule, IS one who has failed in ou' the pulpit; and yau can imagine ihe.
 brains necessary to edit a religious
 weekly from this fact. l have known APs some good religious editors. By some I~ee mean one. l do nos say that there are not others, but l do say l do Eot know. them 1 might add, here, thz, the one l.np did know is dead. aaa Since l have been in this city there1P have been some replies tC me. They
 have been almost idiosic- A Cafholic;u
 priest asked me how had the impudenceIH