The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-01-11

Reply 10 vox.
Now, friend, let US reason calmly and
good naturedly together, and look at the
facts that shall present from my stand
point.
The government did right to put down
the "slavc power" But l would AJAX
who first instituted human slavery 1t was
Jehovah, the "God" Of orthodoxy. He
not only aided and instructed Moses TO
enact laws for the enslavement of the
heathen nations roundabout, who as
slaves or servants were made articles of
merchandise regardless of parental or fl
ial affection, while at the same time he
considered the sale Of dog an abomina-
ton in his sight, but he even sold his
own chosen people-the Israelites-more
than score of times, for longer or short
er terms of years; and that too, into the
hands of their vilest enemies.
When such free thinkers as Garrison,
Phillips, Joshua Giddings and Ben.
Wade first agltated the enormity of
American slavery, the church; cried out
in alarm it would not do to interfere with
a Divine institution sanctioned by God in
his word. Abraham Lincoln, a free
thinker, gave liberty to four millions and
half of slaves. His assassin member
of the church. Good orthodoxy points
out the condition of these two men in a
future life, the condition one good man,
the other the vilest of wretches.
1t is not so horrible to the criminal to
be hung as you imagine, they nearly all
repent and accept of the atonement. 1t
is true, Almy did not want any of the
vicarious atonement remedy. Guiteau
went out at the end of ropeiwith Jesus
name on his lips. Frank Stiera and Har-
vey Pate, two young men, we've hanged
at Danville, ILL.,, December 8, 1898. They
were visited by Baptist clergyman.
They repented, believed on Jesus, were
baptised in a large bath tub and dropped
from scaffold singing tNearer My God
to Thee" Two negroes were recently
executed in Georgia for cruel murder ;
they repented while in prison and accept
ed of the salvation remedy, when on the
scafiold one said: "Hurry up the hang
ing want to take supper with Massa
! Jesus"
You say "society must be protected
| against lawlessness and crimes of its
enemies" ask who are the criminals
they are the dupes of the Christian
scheme of salvation as the prison sta
tistics show. Sir John Trelawny M
p. has taken the religious belief of con
victs in England and Wales There are
1888 Religonists, $40 Non Religionists
In &c prisons already heard from in The
United States there are 44,034 convicts
there are but Infidels. In the Canad,
prisons not skeptic. 80 per cent. Of
the convicts in Sing Sing attended Sun
day School when boys.
SO long as the church teaches there i.
vicarious atonement not only ready t.
pay that penalty, but especially provided
for sinners, and ready to wipe out guilt
why, then, should the worst of sinners
attempt to reform or consider it necessa
ry to pay the penalty of guilt willis
there was church that taught that tina
penalty had already been paid for them
The Christian doctrine of the vicariou,
atonement preached now for nearly tw,
thousand years has been anything but
success in reforming mans moral ant
Spiritual nature. When men are laugh
that an inevitable retribution would com
home in personal remorse and persona
suffering (only to be mitigated by person
al atonemenDto every soul that had don
wrong or committed crime then the worl,
will become better. Any other doctrin
than this is terrible delusion-it wa
false immoral, and the sole invention O
priestcraft. Christ never taught il
Gods laws of inevitable cause and effec
never taught it. H. B. S.