Blue-grass blade., 1894-11-11

In answer to this last would say that
cheap edition of the "Age of Reason
can be gotten by writing to the Truth
Seeker" IS Lafayette Place, New York
City. That paper also publishes list Of
inhdel books, and it will send a sample
copy of the paper containing these, or
application. The "Age of Reason" is
simple but it is masterly production
One of the Present judges of the Appel
late Court of Kentucky, one said to me
that the age of Reason" was the mos
irresistible argument that he had evel
read.
got my infdelity from reading theo
logical books that are too big to be un
dertaken by the mere lay reader. The
best inhdel book is the Bible itself, anG
an Apocryphal New Testament, which
contains the books that were rejected
by the Council of Nice when the presenr
canonic New Testament was compiled j.
valuable inhdel literature, as it show.
that the books at present in the New
Testament were just selected at random
by lot of ignorant old Catholic priests
there being no Protestants, of course, Al
that day.
The most powerful argument against
the Christian religionof which know il
Bishop Horne's Introduction to tn,
Study of the New Testament Scriptures.
One great strength of the book is thai
it is written by an English Bishop in de
Tense of the Christian religion 1t show.
that the New Testament, as we new hav,
it, instead of being written as uninformei
Chrlstlans suppose, U1S Samriied- from
a great number OF old scraps OF parcn
ment without date and without any au
thors' names, found at Alexandria il
Egypt.
have given some account of this il
'The Rational view"
of course think there are some goot
points in THE Rational View" else
would not have published it.
There are some chapters in'.The Ration
al View" which discuss the so-called "Mes
sianic prophesies," and some on this dis
crepancies" if the Bible, especially those
in the New Testament, think give the
reader of fair average intelligence an in
sight into some OF the facts about tn,
Bible that can not be harmonized will
its alleged infallibility
| l call the attention of Christians I,
the fact that the first man who wrote t,
help me i'll my efforts against the use o
tobacco, and the first two women VIII,
have written ME sympathizing with MI
in my desire to help the fallen women
are infdels.
i l do not know the gentleman VIII
writes this letter. He writes nicely il
the ordinary long hand. and also in short
hand
AS to the best way to stop cigarette
or any other kind of tobacco, will tell
story, as Lincoln used to saw.
How to resume specie payment afte
the war, was question that was mucl
debated, and a great many elaborat
plans were suggested Finally som
man said the way to resume is to resume
and the government Just resumed an
there was an end of the trouble
On the same principle the way to sto
using tobacco is to stop, and that's tn
end OF it. And that is all of it. l wis
there was some easier plan that l coul
suggest to my young friend, but there
not.
must tell little story on my frien
Major Thomas, the famous turfman.
met him i'll the postoffice building fe,
hours before | write this and he wa
laughing at what l had said about tC
bacco chewers. He is one of the neates
and cleanest men | ever saw, and de:
pises tobacco as much as do.
He said that not long ago he went to
funeral that was being conducted in
handsome private residence, with fin
carpets on the floor. He said when tn
preacher was through the ceremony
man with hymn book in his hand, sp
a great puddle of tobacco juice on ii
carpet and then started the hymn.
The old Major said he just wanted
: get up and get that fellow by the back
: the neck, and kick him out the door.
The Major does not have much con
dence i'll hymn book religion.
! You see now we have made start in Il
E interest against tobacco. Can't somebot
D come to the aid and encouragement
this young man. Can't some old
: bacco chewing Christian reach out hel
inc hand to this youngi nfdel.
. You Christians who claim to be f
lowers of Jesus Christ, just try TO thin
how Jesus would have looked with
! great hunk of tobacco in his cheek al
& squirting around the extract of it.
i 1t does me good to see a youl
J, II infidel rebuke you old lying Christi
hypotrites.