The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-06

Farland said: Il would like to ask the
gentlemen, Do they know of the pres
ence of articles in many of the state
constitutions forbidding sectarian in
Struction, and that they are the results
of the work of the Protestant churches?
DR. J. M. King, of our church, was 1or
years president of a society in New
York which made it its business to pre-
sent these articles to the different state
legislatures for adoption. submit 10
you, is it an honest thing to send out a
thing like that, that grossly misrepre-
SentS the churches? The issuance of
this kind of a sheet reveals the animuS
of the minds of these men. Yonder in
China all the nations of the world stood
with uncovered heads while those wo-
men and men faced bullets and went
hungry and thirsty back of that little
company of soldiers and sailors. But
the circular tells us that the best use to
which these missionaries could be put IS
to be cut and quartered and hung up
by cannibalS. / submit that such
thing is a gross insult to men and wo-
men everywhere. would like to ask
the men of that class what infidelity
ever has done for the pagans. Did any
one of them ever take his life in his
hands and go to Africa? Do you know
of any free-thinking missionaries?
don't. Are we blind and deaf to the
facts being represented by the nations
today that the Christian missionaries
have been the forerunnerS of civiliZa-
ton everywhere? But the free thinkers
think the best thing to do with mis-
sionary is to kill him and eat him.
Abiding to the circular addressed to the
was referred to as Fetch book, Rev.
IF 1 went into the heart of Africa and
a mere stick or bone. I'd take off my hat.
That's sad. but it's infinitely better than
atheism 1t is the first working of re-
prompts these men to refer to this book
as a fetch Christian superstition
In the letter is the warning that the
free-thinkers may distribute broadcast
their literature among the school children.
Let them be distributed" declared Rev.
Mcfarland. 81 am not sure but that 1
am willing to risk the tract being put into
institution for the predetermined. Let
these men. if they will. circulate this
injunction upon them In it's assertion
that in worship there was no wealth, up
on which civilization depended, he
modern civilization there is nothing better
than wealth? You know the elements
are something other and apart from
conscience, the tenderness which helps
the outcaSt-theSe constitute civilization.
than gpesl9n 6 one fb Bb Pro aea
in the schools. L speak not only for the
great majority of the home in Topeka.
but for more Take the principles out of
the Constitution and the republic would
crumble to ruins in a quarter of cen
fury. l have scant patience with these
book: history is its eulogy, civilization it's
exponent. The whole world is full of its
results So far as the public schools are
concerned apprehend that the little in
cident of a month ago is ended. but /
would ask you to look into the book and
study it for yourself. Lay it down as the
and when they have grown to manhood
they will not regret that they learned |
the first and twenty-third Psalms, the
ten commandments by rote and the
Lords PRAYER