The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30
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years have decreed, from which all dwell
ers i'm new houses suffer. and that is the
melancholy disappearance of the greatest
mitigation OF hot weather yet invented.
In climate like this IL is certainly sad that
the DEGREES of fashion and taste prohibit
use OF shutters They are not beautiful.
one may admit. but there is nothing yet in
vented that takes their place for exclud-
ing excessive light and heat and the public
gaze without also shutting out air currents.
All the brightness and convenience of a
pretty modern bonbon box OF a house. with
its gliding of great glittering windows can
hardly atone for the lack OF the green.
airy GOODNESS and twilight OF the old-fash-
toned shutters. Some years ago. I'm
builders magazine. young artist was rep
resented Directing that a certain design
for residence did not give room for out
side blinds and was assured that outside
blinds have no rights that any architect is
bound to respect. Tis true. and for five
months of the year. pity tbs. tits true.
The woman with the square jaw the COM
pressed thin lips and a fierce glare in her
gray eyes, drew closer TO the group con-
versing the deck of the steamboat. II
next her. but what was II you said the
American people were too neglected. OFF,
II said thought it was really an excel
lent thing that We had begun TO look up
our ancestry and keep our family records
that we had neglected IL too much"
"Oh, 1 thought you were speaking OF
something more important. When / see
our liberties in danger of being lost and
the connection between church and state
about to be restored. / don't trouble my
self about my ancestors. 1 do think the
way the newspapers and the church and
the people toadied to the Catholics In maxi
ing such fuss over the old Pope's dying
was the awfulest thing I ever knew. II IL
wasn't for we freethinkers there would
nobody even see the danger or try to save
the country at ALL"
81 thought that was beautiful" said the
other woman II thought il a great proof
of the progress of Christianity. I never
did admire the kind Of religion that con-
sists principally in hating the Catholics."
81 don't admire any kind OF religion"
said the square-jaw one 1.-The Protest.
ants are just showing themselves up I'm
their true colors. getting more like the
Catholics every day. 1 thought you were
a Liberal by the way you talked
eff you mean by liberal one who
claims the right to think for herself and
believe according TO the dictates of her
conscience, am one, but IL you mean an
unbeliever. / am not. ] believe with all my
heart and soul in God and in the Lord
Jesus Christ"
Then the square-jawed raved. ''If you're
a Christian you believe the world was made
in six days. The churches and ministers
and the Christians never did anything to
put an end TO slavery; they just upheld il
until after the emancipation proclamation,
then they fell into line. Lincoln and Wash
ington were never religious men; they were
free-thinkers, just like me. II there is any
thing that revere il is the men who mado
my country. but we're getting farther away
from their ideas every day-getting aristo-
cratic and giving government support 10 the
churches. Jesus Christ wasn't any model
for men, anyway. He never did any good
in the world or helped anybody; just went
around preaching These assertions were
the heads of her discourse. The other
woman put I'm a word occasionally: 'Of
course / do not believe the world was made
i'm six days: but what has that TO do with
the truth of the Christian religion? The
Congregational and Unitarian churches.
and to a great extent the new school Pres
byterian ones, led the anti-slavery fight.
The government and spirit of this Nation
are far more democratic and the separation
between church and state more complete
to-day than when the Nation was founded"
by these and other statements. che occa-
sionally was able to impress the free
nlxer nv f0r.
of her supposed facts. Finally. when the
diatribe came to pause the other woman
said:
But practically you are Christian your
self. You are a good woman. because you
live according to the consciepce and the
ideals of righteousness that you have in
herited from a long line of Christian an
oestors. All your ideas of the duty men
owe TO each other, of the obligations OF
kindness and mercy and helpfulness, all
your conceptions of human equality, are
just the ideas that Christ taught the world
You cannot even express, / notice, your
ideas of human duty and mutual helpful
ness without using the very words of the
New Testament. You cannot escape the
all-pervading Influence OF that heaven OF
the kingdom. which is permeating the meal
of human life and thought until the whole
shall be leavened."
The other thought that she die not ex-
press was: THE woman thinks herself a
sworn foe of bigotry and fanaticism. but IL
ever there bigot and a fanatic: il
ever there was a person so constituted as
to joyfully sentence those who disagreed
with her TO rack and stake. all for the good
of their souls. surely il is she. She i'm
AGNES herself in the forefront OF the twen-
tieth century, and really she is a survival
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