Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-12-06

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E1ND8McA Clothe the ehildren Of the brain
W hH|aO with the garments Of freedom.
Bigotry clothed with power is .
EcEF1S aE tyrant, and every cOnscienCe ofweak-
Ff>S'sz8As ness turns It back to the light.
Truth has ever been on the.cross when and where
ignorance ruled It Is the ever unfolding beauty Of
truth that charme and holds the Soul In sweet
munion with the Spirit Of the dawn
The micrCcosmiC mind in scientific pcise stands
at the threshOld Of the cosMc world ard holds the
lime light OF justice to demonstrate the divinity Of
order. Order has ever meant and will ever mean
freedom with laws and government withOnt oppres-
sion. ex ets
The door to the great Department Store" o.
Nature Is always open and the key TO the know.
ledge 0 business is to be found only in the orderly
system aerangsd 6y s"Truth" and man IN ordar to
become beneficiary must accept, and obey the
truth twithout fear" Fear has ever been an intel.
lectual pauper and slave Of ignorance. Courage
wears the garments Of freedom and speaks the Lam
guage Of the master builder ef worlds. In all ma
ture there il no court to which liar can take an
appeal. Nature abhors vacuum. a liar has .
show only where there is q liarstO judge. When
yoa view the efOits OF law makers to force man to
tell the truth you will not iail to notice that law
makers are usually lawyers and0Ct all philosophers
or good judges Of hnman nature. Some twenty diff
ferentforms Of cath have been made, usually Of .
religious nature to bind the Coincidence, and sup
pose the oath embodying reIigious sentiment the
witness did mot believe could mot control never Oc
cured to the mind of the lawmakers. s~
The religious form Of an oath defeats the very
point sought 10 be gained for II witness takes the
oath nnder ueligious form he does not believe he
il then ar to start with; again. II certain Eeig
GUS form ID prescribed h0w cOnld man not of,this
particular religion Conscientiously swear there be-
ing no other aorm( In some states); again BY
swearing man on protessed religion u not the
thought present that auch one would lie II other
wise sworn, end consequently not a man Of sound
moral honor. Again II any particular religion
molds, formgand fashions man in the likeness Of
truth why throw his religion in his face every time
You require 0g him - tell the ruthf moreover dOes
not tho form o. its faee presuppose religion test Of
mans honor. Yet Il say believe, how then does
fhe Judge know Il speak true Or false, he has only
the man,s word fOr Ii and II be truthful man my
religious convictions ID private matter; bscaase the
constitution Of the United States says mo relgious
test oath shall be required ID qualification 10 any
Office" Pray tell me is Che Office more sacred than
the man, Of the men that create the Oce and II sol
pray tell me what ID an Office where there is no man.
The IaCt Is our fOrefathers divorced church and
state and withheld from congress the power tres,
peCtng the estabIIshing oi religion prohibiting
the free exercise thereof therefore religion stands
AZ an individual matter free from legislative inter
ierenCe pands as civil right Inherent ii Citizen
ship guarded BY Che nations Constitution. In
passing this phrase ef the subject wish 10 observe
that II mans religion compelled him TO speak Che
truth at all times there is no sense IN the religious
form; and isman 4 disposed to speak falsely the
form c the oath wilIb useless other than 10 tOrce
him % he before be II asked for the truth.
Men that take The witness stand and swear away
mans lite 81 liberty, have no regard for religion,
God, man o. an oath. Thih dragging The religion 81
Christ into the ceremony Is an Insult TO Deity.
"A man should be sworn "TO tell the truth and
whole truth to the best Of his knowledge then make
perjury odious severe and certain ior here only has
society any protection. And for the form 60 witt;
ssTou ncIsmnly swear ii tho presence oithe living
God'' END ending, 'ao help yon God." Simply
treat il asscur orsiather'B treated II AZ shadow
from te medieval forest and consien IL to the funk
bile ii exploded aupsrrttIot.