Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-21
INFORMATION WANTED.

waterloo, NeD.-lO the EulIOr VI luo
World-Herald: l am Bryan man and
confidently expected his election, be-
cause l thought the religious vote
would and must go to him-as an OPP
ponent of legalized murder.
1 have for many years helped to
support a church here, but 1 found to
my establishment that only two of its
members remembered their religion
on election day. l now feel as if l
had been buncoed out of my good
money. l am, as one of my religious
neighbors say, "a woolyun," but l
sometimes have a few dollars to spare
that l should like to use in aiding
Christianity, if l can only find it. AS
editor of great religious newspaper
can you give me the address of
church, the members of which vote
as they pray?-C. P.
The correspondent of the World
Herald is away behind the times-he
is hunting for the unknown and hoping
for the impossible. AS rule,
church members do not vote as they
pray. They pray Thy kingdom
come" and then vote as hard as they
can to keep it from coming. The gen.
tieman will hardly be able to find a
church fit for reformers. He had bet
ter work for good politics than bad
religion. He had better connect him
self with the political reformers than
the religious reactionists. From the
beginning of history down to today
orthodoxy has blocked the wheels of
human progress. 1t has never been
the leader in any great reform. 1t
has fought the advance of science, of
literature, of freedom and of political
regeneration. The priests and the
| plunderers have ever gone hand in
| hand. The church and the tyrant
have ever united to retard the ad-
vance of the people. Orthodoxy MUIR
dered the Savior of the world. Ortho-
doxy burned Giordino Bruno at the
stake. Orthodoxy lighted the cruel
fires that consumed Servitus, and John
Calvin warmed himself at the blaze
| that destroyed the blessed martyr Or
thodoXy made Scotland a veritable
hell, and simple Christian men and
women were compelled to abandon
their homes and fly to the inaccessi-
Bile recesses of the mountains for
| safety. The priests have ever stood
by the tyrants and in the dark days of
the French revolution the preachers
stood at the right hand of the wicked
rulers who oppressed the people. in
our anti-slavery crusade it took longer
to convert the ministers than it did
to convert the mob. While Theodore
Parker was laundering at the evils of
slavery, orthodox ministers were
laundering at Theodore Parker, and
one of them played that God would
either convert the great Unitarian or
kill him.
When Lincoln was candidate for
president in 1860 every minister in
Springfield opposed him. During the
civil war God was importuned as
much for the success of Jefferson Da-
Wis as of Abraham Lincoln.
Today orthodoxy is justifying the
cruel wars in South Africa and the
Philippines and asking God for bloody
sacrifices. 1t is praying that freedom
may be blotted out and that tyranny
may prevail-that the gallant De Wet
may fail and that the unspeakable Ed
ward the 7th may succeed.
Orthodoxy has bounded on the cruel
war in China and has justified cruel
ties that would make barbarians
blush. Murder. rapine and lust have
been defended by the church of
Christendom and it has even justified
the robbing of sacred temples and
profaning the quiet resting places OF
| the dead
The Waterloo brother had better
cease hunting for men who vote as
they pray" and conflne himself to
searching for those things that will
produce justice, mercy, freedom and
happiness to all the people of this
wicked and piops old world.