Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-07-30

with prayer. We can place upon the
statute books the statement: 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 he heard i'm 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
hardly state college in all this rand
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 hold that
denominationalism ought never to be
taught I'm II state institution. l contend
ed who has not been made familiar
with the Bible and It's religious and
moral principles | claim that rs edu-
Gated men and women il is just us i'm
pOrtant TO know who were Moses and
Joshua and David as who We're
Shakespeare and Burns and Walter
ScotR and Goethe and Victor Hugo.
claim that II is more important edu-
cationnlly tn know who Jesus Christ
is than who Mohammed was and what
was the cause of the Trojan war. II
the atheistic elements of this country
are not trying to get possession of this
government. why did certain infidel
newspapers Il 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 derlde.
They masquerade under the banner of
free thought" and they appeal to
the intellectual pride which iiourisles
among unelucated or half educated
elements in our population. DO not
imagine that they are despicable OPP
poncnts or that there Is no danger of
their ever clecting president of the
American people. tell you that to-
day the church MS well as the people
at large should recognize the evil in
flucnces which are working under
Meath us and all about us TO render
this goddess nation and to exclude
all recognition of God from the acts
and policy of the United States.
The "Bramble of Free Thought"
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
. IS ..s,-il
When under the teaching of that great
infidel Voltaire the churches of Paris
We're closed and harlot dressed in gor-
geOus robes and seated upon Il gilded
throne was carried about the French
capital and worshiped. then the reign
of terror" was ut hand. Where We're
the bullets of the slayer of Garfield
and of the slayer of William Mckinley
nodded? Amid the hot. kissing flames
of Il fire started i'm 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 stable
form of earthly government which did
not first give its allegiance to an over
ruling Providence before it gave its al
legiance 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 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 found in that famous
sheet: This is our doctrine: We be-
lieve In no divine government. We be-
licve i'm 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 usurcrs. insolent
despots. periidious politicians and
blacklegs generally. II squatters OPP
press you. plant rackarock for their
buggics; 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 bull
lets. steel melinite, Kerosene. phos-
pl,aruc fro sticks tOrnelOeS lithO-