Blue-grass blade., 1899-12-10

IL NOu w PteI
fair why don't you have your chill
1ren TO read equal amounts on both
sides OF the question OF religion2
Why do you stir up strife bee sse
we point out your wrongs, rial
laws and injustice2
Christians ask us How could the
Christian religion have grown so, u
IL be false2"
Because, when IL was started, the
people were very ignorant compared
with what they are now, and the
more ignorant people are the more
rapidly superstition will grow
among them. IL other religions,
which you say are false, have grown
so, is that not evidence that the
Christian could have grown and be
false also2 ,
Christian nations are estimated
to number 485, 900, 600 including Lib
erals, non-Church members, Prot
estants and Catholics. The Buddhist
religion is estimated to be 300, OOO-
900 strong. The population OF the
whole earth is 1850, 100000. The
death rate per day is $1,000 and the
birth rate per day is 100, 900.
Honest ignorance says the Bible
is the Oldest history in the world,
and that the world was made about
six thousand years sago, when that
India and China were Inhabited
over seven thousand years ago by
human beings has been proven by
histories older than the Bible.
(The Christian University OF
Pennsylvania excavated Nippur,
in Assyria, and said it was city
with an enlightened population ten
thousand years ago, and the Acad-
emy of Science in France excavated
Karnak, and said it was an enlight-
ened city thirteen thousandyea RS
ago-Editor)
The Chinese are taught by their
religion that an all wise and ever
living being created all things, but
their starting point widely differs
from our Adam and Eve story.
Christians claim that their paid
missionaries are doing much good
in China, but how does the story tai
ly with the fact that scarcely any
conversions are made among the
thousands OF Chinese who live in
California, and who daily witness
our religion and our civilization.
The Chinese religion is more SUI
perstitious than ours, but that does
not prove it less inspired. Instead OF
Offering them one superstition for
another, we should send the teachers
of science, philosophy and grander
morality than the majority OF this or
their country possess.
China and Christian Russia are
two OF the most tyrannical of ma
tions. All intelligent persons are
familiar with the intense ignorance
and suffering that prevail in those
two countries. II a Liberal exists
in either Of those countries, we never
hear from him. All Liberals are In
Saa,uonsS;i.us,l E ynfidels. are not. Ialil6S :.
.-..0' eoA --Eust.sy Stands ror an oP n
lectual conviction while Liberal
ism goes step further and includes
sentiment, feeling and disposition.
Liberalism is not libertinism which
is vicious disregard of morality
and is dissoluteness, Nervousness
and debauchery. 1t is no uncom-
mon thing to find people unjustly
misrepresentjng Liberalism. They
are people who never examine into
things themselves but leave all such
matters to the clergy. Gentlemen
of the clerical profession are none
too accurate and trustworthy in
their knowledge of auy system other
than the one they are employed to
advocate, aud where competing |
one comes in conflict with theirs |
they apt to look upon it with pref |
udice that leads them to make loose
and incorrect statements regarding
it. Many of these gentlemen would
not deliberately misrepresenta a thing
perhaps, but they are so very conf
dent that all the good and the true
morality is contained with
In the morrow confines of their creed
that they feel justified in branding
as vicious and immoral all that is
outside of it.
Tuey know nothing of Liberalism
except that it is not in harmony
with their theology, and therefore
they ignorantly denounce it as
system OF libertinism
There are others though who, we
regret to believe, coolly and deliber-
,tely, misrepresent the truth for the
sake of weakening it in the estlma
ion OF their hearers.
II Liberalism were synonym for
ibertinism we would see it in the
ives OF Liberals. II it could be
how that they are dissolute, licen-
;ious and immoral as a class. there
would be some ground for this
,harge; but every honest observing
person knows that they are as cor
'ect in their morals as trustworthy
n business, as intelligent, charit-
.ble and patriotic as any other class,
ot excepting Christians or even
,hristian ministers.
1t is not our purpose to retaliate
pom those who slander Liberalism
ven by our telling the truth-that
) the whole truth about Christians
but We believe that In any given
lumber of Liberals, selected from