Blue-grass blade., 1908-06-07

something must be invented to attract
them, and this is one of the latest. The Ig-
gorote, the monkeys, and other animals will
be just capable of extending saving grace
to souls in despair as the preacher but the
difficulty is ~ get the people to look at it in
that light
Religious professions depend upon the
size of the golden pile they can draw At
ter the whole of a persons life has been spent
in devoutly worshipping according to the Cath
Ollie ritual and obeying the rules of that form
of fanaticism, a few paltry dollars in sight
are capable of turning the heart and causing
an acceptance of Professionalism.
The world now knows that Madame Gould
has obtained divorce from Boni Castellane,
the dapper little Frenchman who managed to
get away with a fair portion of her income
The world also knows that Prince de Sagan a
cousin of Madam's former spouse, is anxious
to bestow his worthless title upon the fair
divorce in the hope of getting a chance at
the Gould fortune himself. In spite Of oft-re-
peated denials it is stated that Madame
Gould will wed the French Prince and that
the latter, a Catholic will renounce his faith
and has agreed to be married by some Prot
estant minister in fact, he agrees to anything
that will bring him in close communion with
Madame's millions What does it matter con-
corning the fate of his immortal soul so long
as he gets the cash. 1t is far easier mat
ter to turn cold shoulder upon Christ. through
the Vatican, than to let such glorious chance
get past him for a royal good time upon the
money of another. But If religion is something
that be taken and then discarded for a
new form, just like changing garments the
time may soon be here when the people will
be able to realize that they can get along
better without any religion than they do now
with much of it,
Mrs. S. j. Livingston of st. Louis has been
sued for divorce by her rate ege Isaac The
lady in the case is alleged to be the inventor
ess of a new tangled religious notion which
is designed and calculated to abolish poverty
from the earth. The tired husband does not
view the subject in exactly the same light
In his petition for divorce. after setting up
the necessary allegations showing why the
marriage bonds should be dissolved. he asserts
that If his msled wife continues to follow
the precepts of her religion. per schedule.
instead of poverty being relegated to a back
seat in some uninhabited Wilderness it will
continue to hover close to the hearthstone of
his domicilian ediice by of his wifes
sudden fondness for handsome and expensive
clothing. The lady. are told, styles her
religion under the alluring title of Practical
Christianity, In the Silence we are led"
We should Judge that II there Is any practi-
calty to any form of religion the lady in
this case ought to have discovered it by her
familiarity with the silence" and il is OBJ
served that it is just this part of the schedule
to which the husband files serious objection.
In other words. by bringing suit for divorce.
he is shown to have rebelled at the prospect
of being 'in the silence led" into further debt
by his wife's stated extravagances. The hid
den meaning in the name may be that the
man is expected to be kept in silence while
the wife leads a merry chase masquerading
under the name OF practical Christianity. Con-
siderng the fact that St Paul insisted that
the woman should keep silence" the man is