Milford chronicle., 1904-07-29


with prayer We can place upon tn,
statute books thestatement:'Th UniteC
States government is entirely a human
government No divine hand is today
| guiding the helm Of state Therefor,
no name of God and no prayer to any
God shall ever be heard in any Of it,
legislative buildings or public halls
/ We, the people of this fair land, car
decree that hereafter we can attend tC
/ our business. We viii make no public
recognition of an Overrullng Divine
/ Providence
My friends, as intelligent Americans
have you not recognized the fact that
the infdels, 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
hardly a state college in all this land
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 10 teach Buddhism, COnfucan-
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
denomlnationalsm 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 its religious and
moral principles. / 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 ana Burns and Walter
Scott ana Goethe and Victor Hugo.
claim that it is more important edu-
cationAlly to know who Jesus Christ
is than who Nlohammed was and what
was the cause Of the Trojan war. If
the atheistic clements of this country
are not trying to get possession of this
government, why did certain intidel
newspapers a 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 90 render allegiance TO any
one particular God. Men who write .
Sophistries of this kind are enemies .
whom we cannot afford TO derlde.
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 dcSpieable op,
poncnts or that there is no danger of
their ever electing a president of the
American people tell you that to.
lay the church as we'll as the people
1t large should recognize the evil in
luences which are working under
heath us and all about us TO render
his a goddess nation and to exclude
III recognition of God from the acts
md 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
distance to God is the spirit of anarchy,
which, when developed. becomes social
md political anarchy and is subversive
# every form Of civil government
When under the teaching Of that great
ntdel Noltaire the churches Of Paris
we're closed and harlot dressed in gor-
eOuS robes and seated upon Il gilded
hrone was carried about the French
apital and worshiped. then the "reign
f terror" was mt hand. Where were |
he bullets Of the slayer of Garfield
nd Of the slayer Of William Mckinley I
lOlded? Amid the hot, kissing flames
fire started in the attempt to burn {
p the throne of Cod You never saw !
] your life an anarchist who was not c
[ heart an inhdel Furthermore. you c
ever studied the history of a stable L
)rm of earthly government which did '
OF first give its allegiance to an over I
lling Providence before it gave its al
glance to an earthly ruler. r
was never more impressed with c
his thought than when some years t
go from noted atheistic as well as c
narchistic paper l cut out the full o
eveloped poisonous results Of those Il
vo accursed doctrines. Like Siamese c
wins, these two words. atheism ana p
in their ultimate meaning n
lould never be separated. This was d
le editorial l found in that famous 7
leet: "This is our doctrine: We be- a
ave in no divine government. We be- h
we in no human government. Might II
lly is right The only remedy for Il
rongs is butchery. The tree of lib d
'ty bears fruit only when manured ca
ith the bones of fat usurers, insolent n
spots perfidious politicians and J
acklegs generally. If squatters op- az
'ess you, plant rackarock for their
lggies; also fire low and lay them "
It, If Shylocks of the bloody city &C
'ece you, make their homes desolate. d;
udy the science Of death. Use bull bi
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