Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-07

Admiral FarrGxut.
Admiral Farragut, one of the most
admired men of the American navy,
early became a victim OF this Christian
delusion and, seated not long before
his death at Long Branch, he was Civ
ing some friends an account of his
early life. He said: my father went
down in behalf of the United States
government to put an end to Aaron
Burr's rebellion. 1 was a cabin boy
and went along with him. 1 could
swear like an old salt. l could gamble
in every style of gambling. I knew all
the wickedness there was at that time
abroad. One day my father cleared ev-
erybody out of the cabin except my
self and locked the door. He said:
David, what are you going to do?
What are you going to be? Well
said, father, I am going to follow the
sea- Follow the sea and be 4 poor,
miserable drunken sailor, kicked and
cuffed about the world, and die Of a fe
yer in a foreign hospital oh, nor l
said. Father, I will not be that; I will
tread the quarter deck and command
as you do No, David my father
said; mo, David, a person that has
your principles and your bad habits
will never tread the quarter deck or
command My father went out and
shut the door after him, and [ said
then, will change, L will never swear
again, l will never drink again, [ will
never gamble again. and, gentlemen,
by the help Of God, I have kept those
three vows to this time. I soon after
that became a Christian, and that de-
cided my fate for time and for eter-
nifty
Another captive of this great Chris
tan delusion. There goes Saul of
Tarsus on horseback at full gallop.
Where is he going? To destroy Chris
tians. He wants no better play spell
than to stand and watch the hats and
coats of the murderers who are mas
sacring Gods children. There goes the
same man. This time he is afOOt.
Where is he going now? Going Oh the
road to Ostia to die for Christ. They
tried to whip it out of him, they tried
to scare it out of him, they thought
they would give him enough of it by
putting him on small diet and denying
him a cloa'C, and cOndemning him as a
criminal, and bowling at him through
the streets; but they could not freeze
it out Of him, and they could not sweat
it out of him, and they could not pound
it out of him, so they tried the surgery
Of the sword, and one summer day in
&C he was decapitated. Perhaps the
mightiest intellect of the 5000 years Of
the worlds existence hoodwinked,
cheated, cajoled, duped by the Chris
tian religion.
''DeIusiOn'' of Christianity.
All, that is the remarkable thing
about this delusion of Christianity! It
overpowers the strongest intellects.
Gather the critics, secular and reh-
gious, of this century together and put
a vote to them as to which is the
greatest book ever written, and by
large majority they will say paradise
Lost Who wrote paradise Lost"
One of the fools who believed in this
Bible, John Milton. Benjamin Frank
lin surrendered to this delusion, if you
may judge from the letter that he
wrote to Thomas Paine begging him
to destroy THE Age of Reason" in
manuscript and never let it go into
type, and writing afterward, in his old
days, "Of this Jesus of Nazareth l
have to say that the system of morals
he left and the religion he has given us
are the best things the world has ever
seen or is likely to see" Patrick Hen
ry, the electric champion of liberty, en-
shaved by this delusion, SO that he
says, 'The book worth all other books
put together is the Bible" Benjamin
Rush, the leading Psychologist and
anatomist Of his day, the great medical
scientist-what did he say? ''The only
true and perfect religion is Christian
ity" Isaac Newton, the leading phi
losopher Of his time-What did he say?
That man surrendering to this delu-
sion of the Christian religion, crying
out, '"The sublimest philosophy on
earth is the philosophy of the gospel"
David Brewster, at the pronunciation
of whose name every scientist the
world over uncovers his head, David
Brewster saying, ooh, this religion
has been a great light to me, a very
great light all my days" President
Theirs, the great French statesman,
acknowledging that he prayed when
he said, II invoke the Lord God, in
whom l am glad to believe" David
Livingstone, able to conquer the lion,
able to conquer the panther, able to
conquer the savage, yet conquered by
this delusion, this hallucination, this
great swindIe Of the ages, so when
they find him deal they find him on
his knees William E. Gladstone, the
strongest intellect in England, unable
to resist this chimera, this fa1lacy, this
delusion of the Christian religion, went
to the house Of God every Sabbath
and often, at the invitation of the rec
tor, read the prayers to the people. If