Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-06-28
FeIlow-Travelers Scattering Spring Flowers
and Autumn Leaves Along Times
Pathway While Destiny Stands
Waiting To Gather the Ripe
Fruits of Eternity.
(By Judge Parish B. Ladd)

(By Judge Parish b. Ladd.)
This time it is the fate of one of the last
great religions of the world that is dying;
its days and years mark an eventful epoch
on the dial of the dark ages it's life has
been a waste: it's harvest, one of desola.
tion mingled with tears of sorrow and sad
ness. The reaper is always in the field, the
FURNISHED blade of his sickle flashes on
the waving grain, the wheat is overripe,
decay, everywhere perches on the once
floating banners of spring life and gayety
of Christianity; there is no mstaking the
ominous signs of it's evening of life; it's
vivid flush must not be taken as sign of
vigor; its energy, more potent than ever
before is but the final struggle to proong
life; but the DEGREES of destiny are written
over the thresholds of its churches in all
lands; it and the bible, its anchor, have
outlived their choldhood, in the light of
full manhood, aided by history and science,
no religion can live.
Christianity at this time, is but dead
weight on the soulders of even the inlet
tered, more heavily does it bear on men
of deep thought, still heavier, If to thought,
learning be added. Everywhere among
thinkers and men of research, lawyers,
doctors and even clergymen Christianity
with it's three gods and Judaism with its
one, are no longer believed in. Many of
these unbelievers from force of habit con-
tinue to frequent the churches where they
can meet their old friends in social chat;
but the belief in any of the Christian
dogmas, or tenets has left them to return
no more nor are they longer believers in
the Hebrew Jehovah, or any other heav-
only monarch. All the old believed stories,
to such men, are now but fairy tales,
myths and legends. First, we had the sci
ences, all of which are at war with every
form of religion; then come the finds from
out the ruins, temples and on the monu
ments of ancient Babylon and Egypt, show
ing. as a matter of positive history, that
the bible was at least, In all its founda-
mental parts, untrue. To all this the natural
growth of intelligence and scholastic learn
ing have made longer belief in any re-
lgion an utter impossibility l. e. with all
others than the most ignorant and stupid
class. This class will cling to is idols,
for no amount of logic or array OF evidence
can ever penetrate their inherent darkness;
when Christianity is dead, these people;
largely women intuitionists, not thinkers
nor reasoners, will rally around some new
superstition, for totem, they must have
Christianity now on its death-bed, Is but
following its sister religions of the dead
past The once great and fourishing re-
ligons of Elan, Arabia, Chaldea, Babylon
Egypt, Scandinavia Ancient Finland
Phoenicia, Prehistoric Italy, Carthage
Greece, Rome, ct al, look down through the
misty veil of sleeping centuries to tell us
of their once greatness; that they were
false: that all that is false must die. pass
on, to live no more; that truth alone is
immortal Though crushed tn earth as in