Blue-grass blade., 1908-07-12
BLUE GRASS BLADE

woman loom up in its isolation and its
majesty. She has thrown down the gaun.
let 10 church and state and neither has the
courage to pick it up.
Marlla's dissertation on Immortality is
clear cut concise, and convincing. and l
heartily commend ii to the persons who
sermonize on Recognition in heaven"
shall we know each other there? THE
home of the Soul" THE New Jerusalem"
and 'Beuah Land" Marilla says Just so
long as man is taught that he has an i'm.
mortal soul that can never die" he is go,
ing to fear the future, and speculate on his
destiny in another world Thought fixed
upon fog that conceals the unknown is
a perpetual source of misery and live I'M
rest. The belief in personal Immortality
with is accompanying threats has forced
upon men the thought that this life is a
failure-the world a desert dread.
We will never produce great and mag
nificent race until we cease all thought of
another world, and devote ourselves to this.
A religion that embraces vicarious atone
ment, miraculous conception, regeneration
by faith, baptism and other absurdities;
religion that promises a heaven of idle,
ness fer all those who agree with us, and
hell for those who do not, is barbaric, de
grading absurd and unworthy
Marilla says without the belief in i'm
mortality, there could have been no demon
to science, no fighting of progress at every
step, and no continuance of superstitious
dogma into scientific age" This is an OPP
perfume time for theologians to silence this
women who is radiant with ideas and
guided by reason. The cornerstone CT
Christianity rests on the credulity and
silence of woman. When she awakes in her
mental majesty the faith delivered to the
saints will become obsolete and the cross
will CAPT ulate to the Torch of Reason
Marilla NJ Kicker is not only one OF the
strongest writer's in the Liberal press, Dut
she is an impressive platform speaker, she
is a great favorite at Paine Hall. Boston,
and she has spoken extensively before the
Liberals of the Eastern States, California
and Washington City Secular League.
Her sledge hammer arguments, trip hammer
sentences, scintillating with wi. musical
voice and individualZed personality, make
Ter one of the most forceful Freethought
speakers of our time
The great work Marilla Kicker has done
for Freetbought cannot be recorded in
short ske oh. She is ALWAYS on guard she
gets in some fine strokes in the metropoh-
tan press, writing with the vigor of an
Addison, and the clearness of Ricardo.
She never ceases her labors to help remove
the iron hand of priestcraft from the human
mind, or TO break the bonds of all VINO
spner injustice, and to break the pontlcai
chains of the most moral and lawaDiding
half of our people, namely women, all lovers
of Liberty and Justice owe her lasting graf
itude. Personally she has been tower
of strength" to me-
May this beloved woman live in health,
hope, and purpose, until the power OF priest
craft and injustice is paralyzed, and until
Reason -reigns where'er the sun
Doth his successive journeys run.
| reverentially place the laurel on the
living brow, and the rose in the living
hand of Marlla NJ. Kicker. because she has
proven herself zone of the glories Of our