Blue-grass blade., 1899-12-10
A BETTER FUTURE.
BY AN EX-MINISTER.

If you wish this natiopFto be made
better, then please read and work
against the danger Of overpopulating
it, which has caused Europe and
China to work for nearly starving
wages.
Work against marriages OF bad
bad health, drunkards,
unsound minds, and the extremely
poor.
Ignorance has no moral right to
people this world with criminals,
scrotula and consumption.
The raising Of good, sound and in
telligent children we owe to human
ity, justice and future generations.
There should be stringent laws for
the betterment OF the present and
future generations.
Any person sustaining. or work
ing for any law that is for the inter-
est of the minority, and detrimental
to the majority must be supersti-
tious bigot, ignorant and naturally
mean.
We Liberals are in the minority
and powerless to pass any law. The
Bible teaches to marry and "replen-
ish the earth" Only proper per-
sons should be allowed to marry.
Which is the better, never to have
been born or to have been born, and,
al the age of 80, have the man to
say that the misery has been greater
than the Joy of life2
II you say it is the mans own
fault; that he could have lived diff
ferent life, and could have had more
happiness than misery, then why
can Z you make yourself President
OF the United States; why do you
get sick; why don't you have all the
money you want?
Instead OF our being free agents
we are merely tools; creatures OF
chance, governed by outer and inner
circumstances and abilities.
II the Bible be true, as they say 1t
IS, ...c.. a. II rsi5c the sflsJ Jesityr
hereafter, will be far worse than in
present life; for from the Bible
teaching we may be assured that
most of the people will go to an
eternal hell. You say 1t is their
fault; that if they believe the Bible
and do right they will 60 to heaven.
But will your answer lessen their
sufferings in hell?
When Christians ask US to believe
their Bible, the main evidence that
they offer US is, that it's supposed
authors said they were prophets, or
inspired, and that their book is the
word OF God. If this be true reason
ing then why not also believe the
Koran of the Turks and the Vedas
of the Hindoos2 Those books are
also claimed to be inspired and the
believers in them call the believers
in the Bible, heathen.
The Hindoo inspired books also
have a crucified Savior who arose
from the the dead 3100 years ago, to
save the world.
The Christians next strongest ar
gument is that the civilization Of
the Christian nations is due to the
Bible.
If this be true how do you account
for the civilization that China and
Japan have?
Neither OF those nations believe in
Jesus. or our Bible, except very
few who, from various reasons have
been persuaded by the Christian
missionaries. How do you explain
that their civilization is so far ahead
of our Indians, who for generations,
have had the Christian, religion
preached to them?
The Chinese and Japanese have
laws to punish crime; they have hos
pitfalls and asylums, and take care Of
their poor as best they can.
Col. Hall, an English officer. says,
after living one year in Japan, "For
honesty, charity and poll 'eness the
Japanese excel the Christians. I"
Capt. Cardonette, of 191 Marcy Ave,
Brooklyn, N. Y, a Christian, says
that he has found the Mohammedans
more honest aud temperate than the
Christians. There was time when
Egypt was the first nation in the
world. Could not an Egyptian then
have said Egypt is the most intelli-
gent, most civilized and richest OF
all .he nations and was made so by
it's religion? Would that have
proved that it's religion was OF more
than human origin?
Christians say that disbelief OF the
Bible means the downfall OF man.
We have all known naturally good
men who were Christians and turned
to be Liberals and remained just as
good citizens, and we have known
bad Liberals who became Christians
and remained just as bad.
Principle Is indepent and is not
made by belief in future punishment.
Christians are as badly mistaken
as they are honest In testifying to
their holiness, changed hearts and
anctitica tion IN thav eOuld iust