Blue-grass blade., 1895-01-06

men dCC1utntdilN DlptS tIlt last
Or writes il two or three ways one on
top Of the other, and leaves me to take
nv choice. Then when they want more |
than one copy they stick an to all the
singular forms above given.
But the people who write for copies Of
my paper do not all set themselves up to
be educated and educators and editors,
and have no right to ridicule them for
not knowing how to spell copy, but
there is no excuse for an editor whose
them about the Judgment day." not
knowing how to spell Judgment.
OF course there is no sense in the edi-
torial that have quoted from this relig-
ious paper, further than that II appeals
to the hate of the "Campbellites" by the
Baptists, to induce them to put up their
money to support this little sheet, be-
cause it panders to their religious hate.
The whole church business is now
kept up by these rascally religious edi-
tors and preachers encouraging the dif-
ferent sects of religious superstition to
hate each other, and they have good
New Testament precedent to warrant
them in doing this.
In Luke Ia, 26, Jesus is represented as
SAVING, dny D1du NohhS W ny ob'
hate not his father and mother, and wife
and children, and brethren, and sisters,
yea, and his own life also, he cannot be
my disciple"
That is the most villainous of all the
doctrines taught by any religion, and if
I believed Jesus said that would have
no respect for him. But do not believe
he ever said anything of the kind but
that some damned rascally priest or
preacher has stuck that in the New Tes-
lament, as they have done many other
passages, simply to afford them an op-
portunity to vent the spleen that is in
their base hearts.
There we're great mistakes in the life
of Jesus, and the Romans killed him be-
cause he was conspiring to usurp the
throne of Judea, after they had given
him fair trial, and he plead guilty to
the charge.
But he was hero and moralist, If we
are to believe any Of the account about
him, and it is simply impossible that
any man of any common moral decency
could ever have taught that men should
hate their mothers.
can respect man who has no love
for God, but have no respect for the
man who says he hates his mother. 1t
NAV have been that Jesus, like Moham-
med, was very mild and gentle, until he
thought he had the power i'll his hands
and then intended to force things by the
sword, as indicated by his alleged tell
ing his disciples to buy swords.
But as Jesus is not here to defend him
self, and has very few friends here to do
so, am inclined TO give him the benefit
of all doubts, and to believe that these
cruel and unjust and unmanly things
have been imputed to him by lying
priests who, through all the dark ages,
could put into the Bible anything that
suited their purposes, and that these
ugly things could not have come from
the same heart and brain that gave ut
turance ito the famous sermon said by
Matthew to have been preached while
Jesus sat on a mountain. and by Luke,
to have 1een preached as he stood in a
valley. This discrepancy in detail
KNOCKS lie stufflng out Of the Bible in
spiratioi gag, but evidently somebody
got up tlat sermon, or it could not be
here, and it is just as reasonable to sup
pose that Jesus did it as that any OF
those other fellows did.
| Between the "Campbellites' these
fellows call them, simply in meanness,
and because they know it hurts their
feelings-and the Baptists, there is no
difference in doctrine, except that when
they come to taking the sacrament the
"Campbellites" have free treat of their
bread and wine, and let any fellow have
some of it who wants it, but the Baptists
are SO burned rean and stingy that
though they are glad to have you come
and hear them preach in the hope OF
getting some of your money, you can't
get any of their grub when they pass
around their religious edibles and drink
ables. You can get a smell of the wine
as they pass it under your nose, and 1t
makes you feel like you want swig OF
it mighty bad, if you could take 1t
straight out of the bottle. like the dea.
cons and preachers do after church, and
did not have to take it out of the same
cup where a nasty lot of old whisky
drinkers and tobacco users had been
drinking; but if you don't belong to the
Baptist gang, you must not take drop
| of it, unless YOU have nerve like one OF
my old neighbors.
| have a neighbor named John Vance
Everybody knows him and everybody
likes him. He has got cord OF money
but the extreme economy of his toilet
makes him what they call caution,
and they have his full length photo
graphs in many prominent places; among
others some of the State buildings at
Frankfort.
| "Uncle John" as everybody calls him,
and Billy Breckinridge and l, are the
three men who have given Dog Fennel
precinct its world wide reputation. 1t is
true that Aaron Burr, and Chief Justice
Marshall, and William Henry Harrison,
and John c. Breckinridge, and Cassius
M. Clay and Carter Henry Harrison have
contributed to the fame of this precinct,
but all of these have gone down with
McGinty and some of them long way
down, except Clay, and he has recently
taken new lease on life by marrying a
girl fifteen years old; and all of Madison
county is afraid of him today. Clay and
Craddock and Daniel Boone came here
about the same time.
So it rests now on Uncle John Vance
and Billy Breckinridge and me to keep
up the reputation of Dog Fennel, and
all three of us are attending to our busi-
ness.
Uncle John Vance is the only man
ever knew to beat the close communion
Baptists at their own game.
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