Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-05-24

leIt some Time ago ne Travelled with BenJa-
min Fay Mills, the pulpit lecturer, his pri-
vate secretary. He had also been secretary
for DIR. Biddewolfe, noted evangelist
Goeet is 80 years old and native of Viz.
ginia. His parents, it is said, live in Wash
ington, ID. c. He in the Spanish War,
serving in the hospital corps in Cuba
Isn't this lovely layout?
Yet, evangelists strut the land telling the
people that nfdels the only people who
do wrong.
1t takes lot to disgust some persons with
the religious rot of this day, but we are get
ting there and the sanctiied are helping us
out. Christian theory is bad enough but
Christian practice is fierce.
Things getting so bad that professed
Christians often say to me that they are
tempted to quit the business and join me in
fighting the hypocritcal humbug. Fear of
retaliation has kept many from renouncing
Christianity but that fear is proving ground.
less and the timid are taking a few steps
in freedom. The hue and cry against Chris.
tianity" is heard in the land and seems an
outlet for the doubters to leave the sinking
ship of Zion. Preachers are kept busy apollo
giving for bad breaks" and out cropping of
ee-lovism. Since Jesus Christ allowed
women to wash his feet and dry them with
their hair, there has been an epidemic of that
business upon the part ofpastor and maid
accompanied with mshaps to the maids. 1t
was bad precedent to set and one
to initiate | that an Episcopalan rector
in New York State was charged by the father
of school girl with kissing the lass and the
rector stood his ground and declares that it
is his pastoral right to kiss the women of his
congregation and his duty to do so. The
irate parent and tie rector's wife both dissent
from this dictum. Quite a controversy is
raging over the matter the bishop of the
diocese upholds the rector while other rectors
express doubts as to the tenet. One rector
says that he sees no harm where the rector
is so years old and the girl about or s
years old. In the case at issue the man is
35 and the girl II. Kissing girls is no doubt
an agreeable passtime, but the damses lips
likely to be loaded with passion and the
kiss is apt to be felt, like an electric shock
throughout the system. Persistence in the
contact is apt to set both souls afame with
the love of Jesus name" or something else.
Preachers loudly proclaim that Freethought
and free-love are synonymous terms and that
the exponent of the one is the practitioner
of the other.
Freethinkers are mostly philosophers and
philosophy is more likely to turn to platonc
friendship than to amatory inhamatory yum.
yum. Philosophy, while it may not make
one immune to temptation, yet cools the
blood and systemizes the system. Mentality
predominates and the nerves are more or less
under control. This is much safer and saner
than the high pitched rhetoric OF passionate
religion. And religion is passionate. It stirs
the emotions and causes thrills. Thrills are
those telepathic soul carnations that find re-
sponsive echoes in opposite sexes. Emanative
missionaries are let loose to make dates be-
tween those who have no legitimate business
with each other. This makes religion popular
with the sensual minded. Street flirtations
have similar effects, and satisfy that prurent
element that is opposed to sermons, but
"feel" religion in their bones.
jim, I will keep you posted on burglarious
Christians. The police are kept busy with