The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1886-08-21
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deny the divinity of the Bible, OF
so called Word Of God, on earth.
deny, for myself, and all man
kind, any knowledge OF God. Mar
will never be capable of knowing
anything OF God. The only true
study for man is Nature-and all
that is required of him to cause
hlm to see clearly that all written
books that claim divine emanatio n
are spurious, rotten to the core, is,
to study the laws of creation
which is the only standard truth
we have. Old mother Nature
never told lie. Can't do it.
1t we disobey her-violate her
laws any way, she is on us at once
calling us to account. We Fave
to pay the rt'ialty of our foll.cs as
we go along The Bible God
will trust You lis long as You live
and gives YOU g,nd rair sh1wlng
tc ESCAPE his wrath. Nature will
not do it. Stick your finger in the
fire or Jump in bodily, and YOU
will find how long Nitric %ill
trust you-or rather how sooii YOU
will have to suffer for vour disobe-
ditncc of her unerring law. Che
will not let you sin on credit.
Let all mankind study well the inc
vetitdhle laws of the Author 'G our
being and live accordingly, and
the truth will soon be discovered
that it beats all the Bibles, prayer
books, and church discipline on
earth. lie who by dilligrnt stu
dy becomes acquainted with bis
own anatomy-or machinery and
the laws of hygene sufficiently to
live a life in harmony With its nat
itral dehiands, and will labor to
impart his knowledge to others as
earnestly as the ministers and ad-
yocates of the Christian Religion
have labored for nearly nineteen
hundred years to teach something
of which they know nothing them
selyes-he will do more good in a
single lecture than the ministry
and all the Sunday school teachers
have ever done-or ever can do.
1t is worth more to know the least
little naturai-or scientific truth
You can con ceive OF, thar to be
able to quote every word contain
ed in the Bible from Genesis to-
Revelation, and all the SUNDAY
school, and prayer-books on earth.
All regret is thai | did not learn
~hat | now know IN NY youth.
Had man had the intellectual ad
vancemcnt an hundred years ago
that Col. Irgersol and, many 9th
er free thinkers of the present day,
there would be many of the old
sages yet alive to tell MS what pap
penod more than a century ago.
We are through ignorance living
a lite that approXlmates IL burden
rather than true happiness. Why
Man should neglect to study his
surroundings, and learn what he
can of God through his works here
is more than | can see. When
our minds take on Imaginary
wings, and soar to imaginary
worlds in search Of suitable
place to rest our imaginary souls,
we are wasting time to an alarm.
ing extent. 1t reminds me of sen.
ding children to school each one
loaded down with extremely large
books every one 6t which is blank
and sit down TO studying with the
aid Of a teacher who has great
imaginary powers what beautiful
things will be therein written at
some future time. A child may
go to such school until it grows
to manhood, and until Did age
creeps upon it, and will finally die
as ignorant of a true school eiuca-
ZION, as d Christian dies Of God. |
All that so.called diyiues tell ms Of