Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-07-25

erty We can say that the Bible should
be driven out of the public schools.
We can demand that no session of the
national legislature shall be opened
with prayer. We can place upon the
statute books thestatement: The United
States government is entirely human
government No divine hand is today
guiding the helm of state. Therefore
no name of God and no prayer to any
God shall ever be heard in any Of its
legislative buildings or public halls.
We, the people of this fair land, can
decree that hereafter we can attend to
our business. We will make no public
recognition of an overruling Divine
Providence
My friends, as intelligent Americans.
have you not recognized the fact that
the infidels, the agnostics, the atheists,
the deists and all those who would
deny public recognition of God are try
ing to drive out the Almighty from the
control of our public life? What is the
meaning of the movement that has ac-
complished this one fact? There is
where the Bible is now studied as a
text book In all those different schools
the faculty makes provision for the
teaching of English bellies lettres. They
are willing to teach Grecian and Ro-
man and Scythian and Alexandrian
and Asiatic mythologies. They are
willing to teach Buddhism, Confucian-
ism, Brahmanism and all other isms,
but they are not willing to teach who
Jesus Christ was and is and for what
the gospel of Jesus Christ stands.
Now, for my part, while l hold that
denominationalism ought never to be
taught in a state institution, contend
that no young man is properly educat-
ed who has not been made familiar
with the Bible and it's religious and
moral principles. l claim that as edu-
Gated men and women it is just as i'm
portant to know who were Moses and
Joshua and David as who were
Shakespeare and Burns and Walter
Scott and Goethe and Victor Hugo. l
claim that it is more important edu-
cationally to know who Jesus Christ
is than who MOhammed was and what
was the cause of the Trojan war; If
the atheistic elements of this country
are not trying to get possession of this
government, why did certain infidel
newspapers few years ago denOunce
the presidential act of taking the oath
Of office upon the leaves of an open
Bible? They claimed that, as the
government had no established church,
therefore the president elect had no
right to render allegiance to any
one particular God. Men who write
sophistries of this kind are enemies
whom we cannot afford to deride.
They masquerade under the banner of
free thought" and they appeal to
the intellectual pride which fOurishes
among uneducated or half educated
elements in our population. Do not
imagine that they are despicable OPP
ponents or that there is no danger of
their ever electing a president of the
American people. / tell you that to-
day the church as well as the people
at large should recognize the evil in
fuences which are working under
meath us and all about us to render
this a goddess nation and to exclude
all recognition of God from the acts
and policy Of the United States.
The "BrambIe of Free Thought"
l would especially plead with the
American people to fight the evil
''bramble of free thought" because re-
Sistance to God is the spirit Of anarchy,
which, when developed, becomes social
and political anarchy and is subversive
of every form of civil government.
When under the teaching Of that great
infidel Voltaire the churches of Paris
were closed and a harlot dressed in gor-
geous robes and seated upon a gilded
throne was carried about the French
capital and worshiped, then the reign
of terror was at hand. Where were
the bullets OF the slayer of Garfield
and of the slayer of William Mckinley
nodded? Amid the hot, Kissing flames
of fire started in the attempt to burn
up the throne of God! You never saw
| in your life an anarchist who was not
at heart an infidel. Furthermore. you
never studied the history of a stable
form of earthly government which did
not first give its allegiance to an over
ruling Provider &c before it gave its al
legiance to an earthly ruler.
l was never more impressed with
this thought than when some years
ago from noted atheistic as we'll as
anarchistic paper l cut out the full
developed poisonous results of those
two accused doctrines. Like Siamese
twins, these two words. atheism and
anarchy, in their ultimate meaning
should never be separated. This was
the editorial l found in that famous
sheet: This is our doctrine: We be-
lieve in no divine government We be-
lieve in no human government. Might
only is right. The only remedy for
wrongs is butchery. The tree of lib
erty bears fruit only when MANFRED
with the bones of fat usurers, insolent
despots, perfdious politicians and
| blacklegs generally. If squatters OPP
press you, plant rackarock for their