The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-07-07

| vote some portion OK your hoard to help
give these inch-by-inch dying people q
little chance to breathe. I think il God
ever could hate man it would be q
stingy man.
should like very much indeed TO be
able to look into the future, cay in ten
years or 80, and see how many out and
out dyed in.the-wool Christian scientists
or faith curers or faith healers or what
not there would be then found on the
face OF the earth. Perhaps better put
the date twenty years ahead-how would
it be then? Do you know what hope?
Well, my reader friend-I trust step
on no pet corn of yours-I really hope
that there won't be one OF the whole crowd
left. Not that I wish them to 60 coffin
ward, by no means; but sincerely hope
that they may all by that time be led to
forsake what, for the most part, is as fool
ish delusion as ever led astray the good
sound sense Of any man or woman. Per-
haps you don't agree with me, perhaps
you think there is more in it than you
realize perhaps hope not, though
you really believe in this most stupendous
fraud OF the day. But must record my
view of the case and it may be summed
up something like this: First, almost
without exception those who are teaching
the principles" Of this craze are doing
it for but one meap, mercenary purpose
to coin money. And they are coming
it. Second, there never WAS time and
probably never will be time when peo-
pie will not allow themselves to be duped.
This is one Of them. Third, the vital I'M
DERIVING basic principles Of the religion
OF Jesus Christ were never laid for such
superstructure as these people would
like to build thereon. And it cannot be
built thereon. 1t Is with great interest
and with satisfaction born of sense of
justice that L note that the arm of the
law is being laid heavily upon some
whose ultra Christian science proclivities
have led them into criminal paths. The
man who sees his loved child burn up,
and will not save him from the cruel
flames, is he more guiltless than the wo-
man who sees her child die for want of
medical attendance when medical attend
ance may be had by calling for it? Out
on this cruel fraudl
What mean contemplate man liar
is. And how many of them there are in
the worldi 1 we'll remember the argu-
ment once had with big Drained Ger
-asn tutor who was trying to lead my
stumbling feet through rough, rooty
paths now in the land of the Greeks, now
among the Latins and anon in the realm
of his own people. Well can see as I
look back in memory the earnest face of
the professor as he strove with all the
strength of his skilled, logical mind to
prove to me that virtue was woman's
greatest merit, honesty or integrity mans.
couldn't see it as he did. / couldn't,
nor can I now, see any reason why the
young woman whom young man would
wed should be any purer than ne. take
it that it is rs much the part of every young
man to live pure and blanleless life as
it is the part OF his sister, or his mother
or of the "nearer one yet and dearer."
But still must say that have most
deep-seated aversion to man who is a
liar. II woman shall tell falsehood
shall we condone it more than the one
her husband shall tell? No; she is fully
as guilty, but some way 1t seems as
though it was meaner in man to lie.
think one reason for this may be found
in the fact that men lie SO much more
than women we are apt to look over the
latter's exceptional cases. It's mighty
mean man that will tell deliberate false
hoods, but it seems as though there must
be somebody whose business it is to tell
them and we can count ourselves lucky
if we have never been called upon to tell
one. 1t takes a remarkably strong pair
of spectscles to see the difference between
white lie and a black one.
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How strangely sometimes will thoughts
come to ones mind, unbidden and, may
hap, unwelcome. But the welcome ones
come just as often and I do not know but
that they come ottener. A moment ago
as was writing there came to me, why
or how cannot tell, the memory of the
most impressive prayer ever heard. 1t