Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-11-13

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come out here Just for friendly talk,
know, so just spit out what you have
and 60.
The officers face changed color under
this rough greeting. For Mark Hillary
had been particularly hard upon several
Of Atlee's weak points, and a most bitter
enmity had sprung up between them.
But he quickly regained the usual malig-
nant look which always marked his face
when near Hillary, and, in the manner
which his soul thought would be most
aggraVating to the rough ieonoclast. re-
piled:
%Pm sorry to come ou'cheer on such
an GRAND, being as me and you used to
be such cronies; but an 'umb1s officer O.
the law must do his dooty, If It is IN
pleasant. I've got here in my pocket q
writ for you, Mark Hillary, which bids
you come before the magistrate and
plead guilty or not guilty to a charge of
lounge along with me.
The church and the state keep up this
nagging pretty well, was HillRry's re-
joinder. Wonder which one Of my re-
marks touched the parsons flank this
time" And he burst into g loud laugh
tn at made the little constable turn pale,
as, perhaps, Hillary meant 1t to do.
Throwing on his loose blouse, which
had been hanging upon the limb of tree,
Mark, with brief Come along" started
for the village. This was not the figure
the little man had been expecting to cut.
He had been proud of his commission
and had thought with citation of appear
ing upon the street of Sagnauck with his
old enemy following in submissive cap
tivity. His peace Of mind was not in
creased by the cutting witticisms which
Hillary fred at him continually, and
which were all the more CALLING because
the poor fellow felt his 1nferiority In not
being able to understand them all.
Arriving at the Squires house Hillary
entered with no more ceremony than he
would have entered the poorest cabin in
the village. and with hearty salutation
to the Magistrate said:
The church must love me well to send
for me in the midst of Woodchopping.
Seems as if I am about the most popular
man in Sagnauck, at least you send for
me oftener than any other. I'm ready
fire away. The meetings. open" With
a glance at the minister, who squir4ned in
his chair, and half rose intending to re-
Duke such lightness, but whom the Squire
motioned to remain seated, Mark sat
down.
The charge was read, in which it was
stated with all due form, that Mark
Hillary, of Sagnauck, Commonwealth of
| Mass achusetts, had on several occasions
offended the sacred laws of Sagnauck, his
| Majesty the King, broken the peace OF
Sagnauck, and done lasting injury to
| Gods church by denying the power of
| God, denouncing His holy word, and in
| dulging in his vicious propensity for
sneering, and by ridiculing the holy men
of old whose lives were given US for pat
terms of life.
Mark Hillary" began the Squire, after
the charge had been read, you are here
charged by the Rev. Henry Granville,
| first, with having stated openly that the
ten commandments were not to be
obeyed. What have you to say to the
charger"
Il never said exactly that" replied
Hillary. But what did say was that
where we are commanded to make no
image of anything in heaven or on
earth or under the earth, that it is not
binding, because, if binding, you, Squire,
must take down those pictures from your
walls; and also said that where we are
told to observe the Sabbath day is not
binding, or, if it is, we are all breaking
| Gods law, for no one observes that day.
We all keep Sunday, not Saturday"
-Blasphemyl" CALCULATED the Rev.
| Henry Granville.
Again, you are charged with speaking
lightly of the Holy Bible, the sacred book
Of God, and have not only ridiculed the
| holy men therein mentioned, but have
denied that we are to be governed by
those books known as the Old and New
| Testaments."
| w as OaNlQ SUCH q
sanity man that we should follow his
| example2 Didn't he steal a mans farm
and kill another to get his wife, when
he already had a hundred or morei
How many wives does Rev. Henry Gran
vile think man ought to have2 And, as
to that old book, confess care little
| for the first part OF it, for 1t is only 6
history of the Jews, and I'm no Jew.
Some parts of the New Testament are all
! right and some are not. Paul runs down
matrimony, and, while running it down,
says he thinks he has the spirit of God.
If he thought so, don't. And, as fol
sending that slave back to the man who
claimed to own him I know you al
believe in one man owning another, but
don't; and I don't believe that what Paul
said then will hold good hundred years
from now. 1t may to-day, but that does
not make it right"
You hear himl" again interrupted the
minister. His own words bear witness
against him."
Again" continued the Squire, %yor
are charged with denying that the in
spired words of our Lord, the New Tesla
ment. are to be the rule of our lives"
mo, never, for read than every day
What did say was, that you worshipeC
the book instead of God. And I deny
that God wrote it. Christ founded Hi
Church and left His apostles to run it.
| (Groans from the minister.) They wrote
to different churches according TO INT
churches needs. Some of them are
good for Us. some are not
Lastly" said the squire, II have here
what purports to be poem, in your hand
Is it yours2"
Yes; see no reason for denying it,
quoth Hillary, after looking at the manu-
script.
In measured tones the minister the1
read the following:
GOD Is DEAD.
! The God Of ages, God of might and power,
| The mystic dread AM who through the past
Ruled all the universe, lay still in death.
The glorious symphony of earth and sky
Had ceased, and death-ike silence reigned
heaven.
! In state the Monarch lay before the Throne;
His pail shining cloud of light, so bright,