The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-31

presidential act of taking the oath of office upon the leaves of an open Rible? They claimed that. as they 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 de- ride They masquerade under the ban ner of free thought" and they anneal to the intellectual pride which fiourishes among uneducated or half educated eie- ments in our population Do not imagine that they are despicabe opponents or that there is no danger Of their ever electlng a president of the American people l tell you that today the church as well as the people at large should recognize the evil influences which are working underneath 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.
 "Brambie of Free Thought"
 I would especially plead with the Amer ican people to fight the evil "brambe of free thought" because resistance of God is the spirit of anarchy which, when de- veloped, becomes social and political an- archy and is subyersive of every form of civil government. When under the teaching of that great infdel Voltare the churches of Paris were closed and harlot dressed in gorgeous robes and seated upon gilded throne was car rled 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. hissing flames of a fire started in the at tempt to burn up the throne of God You never saw in your life an anarchist who was not at heart an infdel Furthermore. you never studied the history of a stable form of earthly government which did not first gives its allegiance to an overruling Providence before 1t gave its allegiance to an earthly ruler.
 was never more impressed with this thought than when some years ago from noted atheistic as well as anarchistic paper l cut out the full developed poison ous results of those two accursed doc trines. Like Siamese twins, these two words. theism and anarchy, In their ulti- mate meaning should never be separated. This was the editorial I found in that famous sheet: This Is our doctrine: We believe in no divine government We be- lieve in no human government Might only Is right The only remedy fo, wrongs is butchery. The tree of liberty bears fruit only when manured with the bones of fat usurers. insolent deposits | perfdious politicians and blacklegs gen. erally. If squatters oppress you, plant rackarock for tAeir buggies; also fire low and lay them out. If shylocks of the bloody city fleece you, make their homes desolate. Study the science of death. Use bullets, steel, melnite. kerosene. phos- phorus, fire sticks. torpedoes lithofrac- teur poison, blasting powder. bombshells any weapon you can get hold of Also you must steal like Spartans think like heroes and lie like hell" Such Is the full grown poisonous plant which the soil and seed of atheism will ultimately produce If left alone. An, my fellow countrymen In the convention hall of the American people fight this foe miscaIled free thought" as you would fight death Drive God away form your land and you hand over this government to be the plaything of anarchists.