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and rotten systems Of philosophy shall
passed into eternal oblivion.
More About King David.

guished opponent, FL Nathan-Paul Nor
ton. he rather insisted that God punish
ed David for his many crimes. and tina
David in the 5lst Psalm, so thoroughll
repented for the many crimes that h'
had been guilty Of that the record wat
made clear and that David was en-
titled to a Home in the Realms Of the
Blest.
El Nathan. If he desires can secure
the same sort of a confession and plea
for clemency from every convicted
murderer. Take for instance. Charles
Guiteau, the murderer of President
Garfield. His verse written in his last
days calling on the Lord and claiming
forgiveness win compare fayorably
! with some of King David's efforts.
The great trouble with all Defend
ers of Superstition is that they wor-
ship a fetch. and that fetch is the
Bible. If the readers of this Book
would reach it as they would any other
volume with the Fear out of their
hearts and the badge of reverence
from their eyes, they would pay no
more attention to the cruelties and
crimes Of the Book than they would
any other piece of literature.
David was the flower Of Judaism and
Christianity combined and the ae,
counts show conclusiyeIy that he was
an outlaw, a coward, an adulterer and
a murderer, and yet there are men
who will attemYt to offer a defense
and this defense is the 51st Psalm.
might note right here that the
pious fabrication that the renowned
nationalist voltaire fell to his couch
speechless on attempting to direct his
satire at this Psalm, is not only un-
true but foolish, and if the Elder who
wrote it had given it second thought
he would have realized that such
statements would make him the laugh
ing stock. of all people who examine
statements eandidly.
1t may have been that Voltaire was
overcome in pity of Religious and
barbarous people that would try to
harmonize the 51st and 109th Psalm.
The 136th Psalm has about 26 verses,
and Eel Nathan will quickly inform you
that this was a prayer of thanksgiv-
ing written by David and he will also
inform you that the last clause of each
verse or division. is the same SEN
tence: For his Mercy endureth for
ever. Verse 10 OF this Chapter says.
ITO him that smote Egypt in their
firstborn: FOR HIS MERCY EN-
|DURETH FOREVER.
Verse is, OF this Chapter says: And
slew the famous kings: FOR HIS
MERCY ENDURETH FOREyR.
How in the name of common sense
any one but blinded, ignorant and
Jealous bigot could see any mercy in
the fact that God had killed the first
born of Egypt is past comprehension.
| rather think If the mothers of Egypt
had been questioned on this point they
would have disclaimed the acts of the
Deity as Mercy. No doubt the rela-
tives of the famous kings who we're
hewed to pieces, hanged. and other
wise disposed of would be competent
witnesses as to the peculiar brand of
mercy that David had in mind when
he wrote this masterpiece on Mercy.
Does it even reach remotely the class
of the Bard of Avon's words on the
same subject? Listen: "The quality
of Mercy is not strained; 1t droppeth
as the gentle rain from heaven upon
the place beneath. 1t blesses him that
gives and him that takes"
Another damnable instance of
David's peculiar kind of Mercy is the
massacre of Sanls seven sons Hav-
ing escaped the wrath of his God and
people for the Bathsheba incident, he
caused to be hanged seven of the sons
and grandsons of his predecessor,
Saul. on the pretext that the three
years famine in the land would ter
inmate by this sacrifice Indeed, he
had consulted the Lord before hang
ing these innocent boys. with the re-
suit that, Immediately after the seven
corpses fell to the ground Before the
Lord" the famine ceased. See II
Samuel XXI, 1, 8. 1t is little curious
to note the fact that the Deity often
Furnishes the innocent for the guilty
as the account of God causing the
death of Bathsheba's first child on ac-
count of the sin of David 1t is inn
possible to conceive of such pro-
ceeding as being an act of Mercy, for
how could the innocent babe be held
anyway responsible for his Libertine
Father
God. however, made promise to
David that his next son by Bathsheba
should be powerful individual and
should be his successor and should be
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