The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1888-02-23

Those questions Arc not lnecrsoll's
arguments unsnsscrableY wha. are you
going 10 DO sbont i,S"--having been sub.
miised 10 college president by several OF
bis students, hc replied as follows 80
You arr out halt dollar apiece. are you 7
No. no, can not answer him. Boys,
recall the incident IN my eaesr and impei-
uous youth OF wasting pound aud half
Of bird shot on a small owl. followed
him from tree 20 tree, and shot away as
much as ha,fal OF feathers. aud whon he
died OF fatigue | found tia, body Was
about as large as robins and could put
ii to no earthly use. He was deceptive
target. II understand the gentleman
from Peoria, ho wishes 10 liberate youth
from the ineabus aud thraliom OF super
sutton. The devasting inhuenee Of the
country clegyman on $500 Per aunum and
donation Is what worries Robert, aud he
proposes to cure IL and eradicate |, Tor the
trihing pittsnce Of $3.50 per lcciure. For
| Atty cents be proposes 10 libersts your
mind from that Influence which was filter
ed into il from the trembling lips Of your
mother and free you from the chains of
superstition loaded upon your soul by the
rough bu, loving hand OF your father OF
couree he worries about yon more than
hose old fogies did for tifty cents. You
look around you in the city here, aud you
discover several millions OF dollars invest
ed in hospitals. seminaties asyums, forced
on the suffering community by this same
mythical, miraculous aud superstitious
incubus Of religion, You ask the gentle
man from Peoria where his little public
institutions are. founded by his peculiar
teachings, and he says, In an absent mind
ed manner. Fifty cents at the door. Boys
you see sometimes, q poor mans little
funeral procession, with democratic wag.
on and little coffin in it. so small you
could carry it under your arm. A poor
couple walk behind it with breaking
hearts. Their baby is in the little coffin.
1t is their all Their hearts are broken.
oh, il we only had Bob here to tell them
about liberty and myths aud miricles for
fifty cents show il would cheer them up.
But you say, There are so many inhdels,
Boys, You are mistaken. An inddel is au
abnormal growth, and nature feels funny
once in awhile and creates freake o.,
the living skeleton, the fat woman, the two
headed girl So there is about one infidel
to million sane men. The most OF these
noisy fellows are amateur infdels. They
talk Ingerscl in fair weather and parry
themselves hoarse every time it thunders.
A we'll de veloped case OF cholera morbus
will knock their infdelity out Of them and
leave them ia cold sweat like china
dog in an icehouse. / know them. The
most oi them arc like the boy who runs
away from home and comes back TO stay
with his father nights. Then again, boys.
take look around you when you invest
another fifty cents In liberty and compare
the crowd with the kind OF people you
find in almost any church. Is II the odor
of sanctity you smel9 Hardly, boys. hard.
ly. But you can eat peanuts there and
choke on the shells, while you applaud
the funny joke about the heaven where
you know in your heart your dear mother
is, or hear the humble Nazarene ridiculed
who, you think. and always will think.
gave home to your weary old father when
be left the earth. Yes. boys, his argu-
ments are unansw erable, and think tho
seasons will come along, and the churches
will continue to bloom. and all nature will
most exasperatingly and calmly perform
her functions il Robert is not answered.
You know when the first steamer crossed
the Atlantic great philosopher was de-
liyering most conclusive argument to
prove that by no possibility could steam
vessel cross the ocean. and that provoking
steamer came snorting and sizzling and
splurging right into the harbor Boys, 80
will Gods foolish children go right on
praying and preaching and dying and go
ing to heaven in spite OF argument