Blue-grass blade., 1908-08-09

aid. Nothing Kills like worry. Too many
people worry themselves into an early
grave. Existing conditions are conducive
to and produce worry 1t is a worry to live
at all. A worry to maintain life. This calls
for improvement that worry may disappear
and with the contentment that must follow,
conditions will so improve that no man of
science need experiment with life in an
effort to prolOrb it. Like a tired, yet con-
tented child men may lie down to the ever
lasting sleep without fear or groan
without a pang of regret or despair. To
accomplish this We must first destroy the
deadly Upas tree OF Christianity.
The Brooklyn police made a recent raid,
Unexpectedly, of course, upon the congre-
CATION of the church Of the First Assembly
Ct Christ, and arr ested a number of women
whom it is claimed, following the mandates
of their particular cult were found, at the
time of the raid, in too decollettee a cost
ume to be considered even decent Strange
to relate the offenders were women, as the
newspaper reports make no mention of any
male person being in the church at the
time and services We're in progress. The
women, in interviews given after the raid,
insist that the policemen were altogether
too smart deny that they had their skirts
off, or anything else, and with a degree
of positive assertion insisted that the Lord
was on their side and that they would win
out and show the world how cruel it was.
The Blade is not informed just how
these foolish women conduct their form of
worship, but it must be in some sort of
strange fashion, shorn almost of wearing
apparel, for the raid was made it is said
upon neighborhood complaints, and the re-
luctant females were hauled before a mag
istrate when they gave bond for their ap
pearance Still we wonder why the ortho-
doX religion has such a hold upon the hui
man mind. Has it not been too frequently
urged that women constitute the backbone
of the church organizations and that with
out the women the church would soon per-
ish? And is it not a fact? The more fool
ish the religious fad the greater number
OF women 1t attracts, even to the exclusion
of morals and propriety. Start a new cult
and il is a ten to one shot that the first
converts will be women. But for the fool
ish women who followed in the wake of
Brigham Young, and Joe Smith, mormonism
would have died out in Year, but the
women kept it going and according no
Mormon teaching and practice the cult
must have boosted considerably more wo
men than men or The life of Brigham Young
was a failure. Going back to religious ira
dition, or history call it which you may,
even Jesus made an impression upon wo-
men and he was able to boast Martha
and Magdalene in his selection of choice
followers.
Ordinarily our sympathes are with wo-
mankind The mother of the race is en-
titled to every careful consideration at our
hands. Their feet rock the cradle and
they are always at the grave, if opportu-
nifty permits. We can only express the
nope, that in this case, the women may es-
cape any drastic punishment of the law,
but let them be taught moral lesson that
Is not to be found in the teachings of any
bible or in any known religious system.
They will then abstain from a repetition
OF such follies as those when have brought