The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-05

'WHY GOD NO KILL THE DEVIL"
There isn't youngster in the lend
that cannot baifis Huxley and Balm by
asking them what makes the heart beat
and bring Theology II a smile by re
pesting Fridays question-"Why God
no Kill the devil? Bat healthy chill
dren grow out Of the habit in time.
No boy or girl with 4 Christian mother
carries past the crisis OF puberty the
au1acity OF infamy or shakes the torch
of humor in the fao9 of reverence.
Suppose that yDu reply to his kind
of suartness that the probable reason
why Moses did not say something
about slavery in the Decal0sue is that
he said enough to ultimately make
slavery impossible. You have OILY
opened the way for series of ques-
lions. Why didn't he say something
about ilfanticide then, or incendJsrism,
or piracy, or The morphine habit
Il you think that you cIn abolish
stupidity BY combating il you are
mistaken. Life is TOO short.
suppose the reason Why Christ did
not utter an aphorism OF the French
Revolution l. Because liberty, equality
and fraternity are by no means the
gfaudes st words that ever fell even from
human lips. There are three greater
words-the germ words from which
these later human phrases sprouted-
hoy are obedience, humanity, love.
Christ uttered no such miserable mar
row injuuctions as-My friend and fell
low citizens, let Us be fraternal. He
wasted DO Am IL -.uio., aYout tho
Bird of Freedom" His far-reaching,
undying, elemental command was
Love one another! u II applied t. both
sexes, to al nationslities and to all
time. Twas the grain Of mustard SEED
that in tie evolution of thought grew
to be the spreading tree of morsl and
religious life, on whose branches all the
song birds of our later civilization could
meet and sing together,
Mr.. Gladsto.e, in touching upon this
subject, asks. Where would have been
the wisdom lin CHRISTI of delivering to
an uuinstructed population of partic-
to serve for ell nations, all ages, all
states of civiliz tiau?"
Certainly not. By no rule OF logic or
sion, and the attorney who is talking to
LtjG luIY t.Au nCS W Gll6 CaSC, hAOWc III.
Mr.. go dstone is speaking in unmis-
taxable English of a ''co1ifiad religion"
which Christ did not furnish, and the
the teachings" which Christ did
furnish
III othe; words his would be de-
fender of evolution insists that Christ
should have given Us the leaves and
IF no IoF = II
the seed, and as. he didn't proceed in
that manner his work will not serve for
al time.
This is what Mr.. Thorndyks Rice
calls crossing swords with MIR. Glad
store"
1t Is what Mr. Ingersoll in his seii Jus
torch of humor into the search for
truth" On. a. Rev. D. COZ
Ii Mr.. Gladstone would like to see
tbi; fambeau at its brightest, let him
turn over the pages Of the N'rth Amerj-
Gun ReuietO TO Mr.. IngersolI's reply to
Jucge Black and read ;hls:
Women were freer under Pagan
Rome than they were under Christian
rule. At the advent OF Chris aauity in
ali Pagan countries women ofticlated at
ehe sacred affairs. The position OF
women was far better in Egypt than it
was in Palestine. Before the Pyramids |
were built the sacred songs of Isis were |
sung py women. and women with pure |
hands offered sacrifices to the gods. |
Before Mo .es was born women had sat |
upon the throne of Egypt; upon
ancient tom be- the husband aud wife are |
represented as seated on the same
throne"
For condensation of fatuous folly
and mendacity, think this is worthy I
Of literary preservation.
There is at least one person in this |
country who does not know or care
what any tolerably well-read school |
boy could have assured them of, viz: |
that down to the time of the Macedon
ian Invasion the worship of Isis was a
N,gri ian fetishism aud COW Worship; |
that rhe pure hands, that ON ciated |
at the pagan affairs carried the phalluS; |
that the wGrshto of Isis that had bsen |
into Rome with every other |
nagan iniq iity, had to be forbidden by |
imperial edict to stop the5spread OF
vice.
UnquestionabIy woman had great
deal more freedom at the affairs OF
Moiocn Isis silva ana Venus than be |
ilaa eser had or ever wanted since.
AMI any attempt on Her part 40 TO |
re vive those sacred rites with pure
hands would Land her in the reforma-
tnry or the insens asylu n. And rs for
the husband and wife seated on tho |
saule IhrQne-Egyp !ogists tel Qs thati