Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1899-08-12

syvore and raced horses. now they find /
their chief iov among those who 90 10
praver meetings ard churches. SO com
plefc Is this delusion. Yea. their own
families have noticed 1.-THE wife has
noticed IL. the children have noticed ~.
The money TINT went for rum now
roes for books and for clothes and for
education. lie is a new man. All who
know him say there has been n won
derful change. What is the cause 81
this change This great Inflammation 4
~ the Christian religion. There IS ne /
ulucn cIueIrncc DeI vcCn wu1t nc II .
now and what lie once was as between .
a rose and nettlc. as between a dove
and a vulsure. a. between day and
night. Tremendous delusion.
Admiral Farragut. one OF the most
admired men OF the American navy.
early became a victim OF this Chris
tian oelusios. and. seated not long be-
fore his death al Long Branch, he was
giving some friends an account OF his
early LIE. lie said: MY father went
down in behalf OF the United States
government 20 put an end 20 Aaron
Rurr's rebellion. I was a cabin ooy and
went along with him. ] could swear
like ar old salt cou.d gamble in every
stvlc Of gambling. I knew all the wick
ednesS there was at that t-ne abroad.
One day my father cleared everybody
outofth the cabin except mysclfand locked
the door. He said. David. what are you
going 20 do? What are you going 20
beg Well said. father. am going
80 follow the sea- Follow tho sea and
f be a poor. miserable. drunken sailor,
+ kicked and cuffed about the world. and
+ die Of n fever in foreign hospitalT
I 'Oh. no. said. Father, I Will not be
I that; will tread the quarter deck and
command. as YOU do NO. David my
father said: no. David. n person that
has your principles and your bad habits
will never tread the quarter deck or
command Ny father went out and
shut the door after him. and 1 said
then: 4 will change. viii never swear
again. I will never drink again, 1 viii
never gamble again and, gentlemen.
by the help OF God have kept those
three vows 20 this time. / soon after
that became a Christian, and that de-
cided my fate for time and for eter-
nifty"
Another captive OF this great Chris
AaI AEAAc4Wn- 49, t"'N- -
Tarsus on horseback at full gallop
Where is he going2 To destroy Chris
tians. PIE wants nc better play spell
than 10 stand and watch the hats and
coats OF the murderers who are mas
sacring Gods children. There goes th'
same man. This time he Is afoot
Where il he going now? Going on th'
road 10 Ostia 10 die for Christ. Thel
tried ID whip IL out Of him. they triee
10 scare il out of him. they though
they would give him enough of II b,
Z putting him on small diet, and denying
him a cloak. and condemning him as
, criminal, and bowling at him through
the streets: but they could not freez
il out Of him. and they could not swea
il out OF him, and they could not poun'
IL out Of him. SO they tried the surger-
% the sword. and one summer day i
Sc he was decapitated. Perhaps n
mightiest intellect Of the 5000 year
: Of the WORLDS existence hoodwinked
I. cheated, cajoled. duped by the Chris
= tian religion.
. All. that is the remarkable thin
!. about this delusion of Christianity!
! overpowers the strongest intellect
, Gather the critics. secular aud rel
- giUus. Of this century together and pS
a vote 90 them as 20 which Is II
II greatest book ever written. and by
= large majority they VIII say "Paradii
a. Lost" Who wrote Paradise Lost
- One OF the fools who believed in tn
N Bible, John Milton. Benjamin Fran
D. lin surrendered 10 this delusson, il ~
Is may Judge from the letter that
wrote TO Thomas Paine. begging hi
- TO destroy The Age of Reason"
,e manuscript and never let il go in
J. type. and writing afterward. in his o
pr days: "Of this Jesus of Nazareth
v- have 70 say Of the system OF mora
n lie left and the religion BE has given
lie are the best things the world has ev
as seen or is likely 10 see" Patrick Henr
OF the electric champion of liberty. c
o. shaved by this deluSion. SO that he say
IL The book worth al other books put
a gether is the Bible" Benjamin Rus
a the leading ply siologist and anatomi
el- Of his day. the great medical scient
rs what did he say? The only true a
re perfect religion is Christianity" lisa
al Newton. the leading philosopher
is his time-what dld he say? That m
as surrendering 10 this delusion of
n Christian religion, crying out: IT
Of subliuest philosophy on earth is
ill J philosophy Of the Gospel" Da'
IN. Brewster, at the pronunciation of whG
he name every scientist the world over 4