The Labor enquirer., 1885-04-11
established ssshs first ricsns council
had obscnred Acknowledge Of The truth,

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until read this book, and found an in
telligent man capable of writing suct
enormous b1unders. Mary and Christ
and all their friends, did claim thai
Jesus was the Son Of God I; that he had
n no human father, and Joseph believed il
TO be true; nearly the whole Jewish
4 nation believed it TO Be true, for faith in
this fact of the. conception ofa virgin
had been the national faith Of Israe
from tbe DAYS of Moses down. Either il
!, was true,pr else the Jewish people, for
more than twenty centuries, had con-
Espired together, age after age, generation
after, generation, to palm off a fraud upon
mankind, !. and all other nations had
!. aided them ln in the great lmposture. A
man who can believe that, is certainly
ignorant Of. the constitution Of human
d societies. For it was not faith in any
system Of religion, politics, or law; but
it was faith in the one fact that virgin
should conceive, and that her son should
be called Shiloh, the Realeaser, because
he would release the people from all op-
preston, tyranny and injustice. It may
be true that the earlier Jews did not
1 fully understand the matter, but it is
true that all the ceremonies Of Judaism
Ipointed to Jesus whether they knew it
I Of not and it is true also that all Of the
[great social and political statutes OF
| Moses had reference to Him and to His
! Kingdom. All of these statutes were
statutes against private property-rights
lin Office, prerogatives, lands. money,
slaves. and every form of; wealth. Surely,
if this writer had ever read the statutes
entitled, '"The Lords Release y )" The
Jubilee against "Usury;;" against
slavery and the comments upon these
laws, by Nehemiah, jeremiah and Isaiah,
he could not doubt that whether it was
\ true or false Jewish civilization, at least
from the days of Moses, was builded
upon the faith that a virgin should con-
ceiYe, under the power of the Holy
Ghost Jehovah, the feminine element
of the dual God and that her son should
establish a civilization in the world, of
which the laws of Moses and the proph-
ecies were the antitype. which kingdom
might accomplish for man release
from tyranny oppression and injustice,
and give to weary labor rest. He must
have singularly, constituted mind, or
must be actuated by bitter and unrea-
soning hatred of Christ, who can read
Lev. XIV: XVI Deut. XIV; Neh. V, land
cognate passages in other Jewish
scriptures) without being forced to the
conclusion that whether there is a God
or not, whether Moses and the prophets
were inspired or not, whether Jesus was
divine or not, all Jewish civilization was
builded on laws taught as religion, the
essential purpose of which was to train
: up nation to be capable of self-govern-
ment, free, and from that estate capable
of holiness. No man who will study
the jewish statutes can doubt it. And
the liberty contemplated by Jewish law
was not alone freedom from foreign
bondage. but equality among themselves.
But the central point in this Jewish
civilization was faith in the fact, of con-
ception by virgin-Shiloh was to be con-
ceived without human father. Will the
author of New Dispensation" forget
the Trinitarianism of Constantlne's s
ecclesiastics for short time, and take a
common sense view of this fact?
"a virgin shall conceive" Impossi-
Bile says mole eyed science for centuries.
Why? Every man who engages IN silk
culture knows that perfect silk-worms
are born of the eggs of virgin moth ;
and know that virgins do conceive. All !
says science, that is true, but silk-worms
are not human. Very well it does not
matter; it simply proves that when sci
ence declares that it is impossible" for
virgin to conceive, science talks las it
often does) like self, conceited ass.
But let US 90 a little further.
The human virgin does not ordinarily
conceive the fact never happened but
once, and it cannot occur again, simply
because the conditions under which it
occurred cannot be reproduced. We
have some knowledge of the fact of gen.
Grafton and conception, and careful ex-
animation of the matter will show that,
whether the writer's of the Old and New
Testament were inspired or not, they
very clearly anticipated the most recent
physiological discoveries by thousands of
years, in their account of the conception
of Christ. We know that the facts of
natural generation are such that the
mother supplies to the making of "the
new creature" the Soul, the Life, in
) which inheres will, desire, affection and
the father supplies the spirit in which
understanding inheres; while from the
fact (which Moses clearly teaches) that
the sexes were originally in one form or
person, and are of one substance, the
contribution of each to the child born of
their conjunction, is modified by the
other to an extent that we are incompe-
tent to fully trace out, but it is 80 thor
ough that the human fetus has no sex
until long after conception. But heredity
depends upon this truth, and every