The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-03-22
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THE LUNATI@.

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| THE LUNATICS
The readiness and Rlibness with
which the ''satanic press" and the ''sa.
tans" who conduct it, apply the term
'lunatic" to the editor of the AD-
VANCE, afford excellent opportunities
to make Il public defence and to ex.
press thoughts in favor of human pro.
gress
The ADVANCE has often said that
the lunatics Of one age are the leaders
of the next. In fact, history records
that nearly every great leader Of
thought and great discoverer. rs we'll
rs their immediate followers, were re.
garded at the time rs lunatics. We
are proud to be one of these followers
and to be accounted worthy of this H.
macy, for it is, rightly viewed, the trib
ute aud compliment which ignorance
pays to intelligence. which slavery pays
to freedom, which biyotry pays to pro
gress.
Isaiah says, ale that dpparttth from
imiquity is accounted mad" Let a'y
man oppose or drnonnce the follies and
the established 81 s.. ms Of his age, and
l,e will See the truth of the inspired Ut
| terance.
Paul told the story of his conversion.
and proclaimed in burning words the
fact of spirit manifestation, and FestuS
said with loud voice. "raml. thou art
beside thySelf; mucl, learning doth
make thee mad.''
Gi''dann Bruno, the student. the
mystic, he seer, the Spiritu,list, il
who's" works are found the germs o.
the philosophers "f liegrl, Leibnitz and
SpinoZ.. "f the iudnctive method Of
Bacon aud of all modern SCIENCE, and
also OF the teachings IT Darwin and
Spencer us to evolution and the life Of
species, this devoted man was called
before the besotted and imbruted Pope
Of Rome and was assured that he twas
mad,' for, said the inspired ignoramus
and head Of the church, don't you see
that if the earth turns over. the water
will spill out of the sea at night?"
Emanual Swedenborg is called ''cra.
Zy" to this day; Sir Isaac Newton was
called crazy in his day; Morse was
called crazy when he was begging Con.
gress for an appropriation to erect the
first telegraph line between Washing
ton and Baltimore.
And last but not least, (for the last
shall be first,) the man Jesus, whom
the millions of fChristendom Ignorant.
ly worship" as Paul said to the Athe-
mans, WAS himself accounted mad.
According to the record, members of
his own family laid hold of him and
endeavored to restrain him, saying ''he
is beside himself"
And we might go further and show
that not only WAS he a lnnatic, accord.
ing to the testimony OF his neighb0rs,
but that, according to the testimony of
the church people of his day, hi was
much worse. ue was called u "wine
blbber and II Rlutton," what in our day
would he called 4 ''whiskey man" aud
u "convivial,st. He WAS called an
associate of publicans aud harlots, -
what in our day would be an associate
of the most obnoxious people and Il
frequenter of houses of ili.fame. And
he died under a charge of being an
''anarchist," of attempting to over.
throw ''society" and the ''law." He
was one of those maligned and misun.
derstood ''soclalists'' and "commu.
nists" and inspired the organization
of the first communistic society, tor
his immediate followers brought all
they had and threw it into = common
fund land they had all things in com
mOn."
| Perhaps this article will all be lost,
but it does seem good to US to COCA.
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rend US daily, and make an earnest and
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