Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19

doing anything that might give him pain. So
i've on without giving those ideas any place in
my thoughts. Al my desires are conferred in
one aim-to fulfill the law of love-love for our
fellowmen. That is the one thing necessary.
AS Tor wedlock, shall marry when am con-
WINGED that it is my duty to do so''
Those are your ideas. But the mother 8
standpoint may de different. 1t cannot surely
be 1mmaterial to her whether she gets a son-in-
law law who is kindly and Industrious or one who is
the reverse. She will be naturally DESTROYS OF
having you for such near relation
By no means. 1t is perfectly indifferent to
her; because she is well aware that all our
brethren are to the full as willing as am to
serve her, Just rs We are to be useful to every
otner brother ana sister, and that shall con-
same way whether do or do not become her
son-in-law. If the outcome of it all
should be my marriage with her daughter, I
shall welcome such a consumma ion with Joy
else
mo. no; what you are saying now is utterly
impossible. And herein lies the most terrible
thing have observed in You Christians-that
you SO completely deceive yourselves. And in
TINS way you deceive others as we'll. That
stranger whom 1 told vop about few minute s
ago was right in what he asserted about you.
-" lille listening to your glowing descriptions
involuntarily succumb to the spell of the charm
ing life which you depict; but when 1 think it
carefully over see that it is all deception which
leads to savagery, to brutality, to life ap-
preaching hat of the beasts
I'm what do you discern this savagery?''
In the circumstance that as you work to earn
livelihood you have no leisure or opportunity
to devote yourselves to science and art. Here
are you, for instance, attired in q ragged gar
ment, with rough, horny hands and feet. while
our mate, who might well be a goddess of
beauty, IS as like slave as free woman could
be. You Christians have no hymns of Apollo.
no temples, no poetry, no games-iu a word
nothing of all those gifts of the gods to man
which adorn life ana make it beautiful. To
grind, grind and grind, like slaves or oxen,
merely to support yourself on the coarsest of
food-what else is that but a voluntary and i'm
NATURE
There it is again. exclaimed Pamphilius,
that tiresome human nature. In what does
this nature consist, pray? Is it in torturing
slaves with work beyond their strength, in the
butchering of ones brothers or of reducing
them to slavery, or is it in transforming woman
from what she was and is into an objec, OF
amusement? And yet all this is absolutely in
dlspensable to that beauty and life which you
consider alone beseems human nature. Is that
the essence OF human nature. or does it not
rather consist in living in love and fellowship
with all men, and in feeling oneself q member
of one universal brotherhood?''
You too are grievously mistaken, IL you inn
agine that we refuse to recognize science and
arts We highly appreciate all the gifts and tai
ents with which human nature is endowed.
We look upon all mems Unborn capacities as
means given to assist him to attain one sole end,
TO the realization of which our whole life is
devoted, and that is the ful6llment of
the will of God. In science and arts we
discern not q vulgar pastime fit only to give
transient pleasure to idle people, but serious
aVocatlonS OF winch we have E1gnt TO demand
what We require of all human callings, namely
that in pursuing them, the same active love of
God and o. ones fellow man be maize manifest
which permeates all the acts of Christian. We
do not recognize true science anything called
which fails to help us to live better; neither do
We value art but that which purifes our thoughts
and projects raises up the soul and increases the
forces necessary to life of labor and of love.
We lose no opportunity to develop as far as is
possible knowledge of this kind In ourselves
and in our children; and the charms OF such art
ire ma
ments. We read and study tie writing be-
queathed to us by the wisdom of men who lived |
before US; we chant songs, We paint pictures,
and our songs and our pictures comfort us, cheer
US up in moments of sadness. Therefore it IL |
that we cannot bring ourselves to approve the |
way in which You Pagans apply the arts and |
sciences. Your scholars employ their natural |
capacities and acquired knowledge to invent new |
ways of working evil to others. They are |
always busy making the methods OF war |
more effective, more deadly; that ls to say, they
are engaged in making murder easier; they are |
ever connecting new schemes for earning /
money, that is for enriching some persons at the
expense of others. Your art is utilized for the j
building and ornamentation OF temples in honor |
II gods in whom the most enlightened among
iou have long since ceased to believe. but faith
n whom you try to keep alive in others. in the |
,ope that by of this fraud it will be all the
I our statues are raised TO the strongest and |
most cruel Of your tyrauts, whom no ons es-
Gems but all fear. In the plays given in your
heaters criminal love Is lauded and applauded.
Music among you is degraded to the role CT |
means OF tickling the senses Of rich glutaons
Ifier they have gofged themselves TO safety on
he meats and drinks Of their luxurious BAN