The Bee-Hive. — 1872-04-13 (London, England)

BEE-HIVE. Sin,—Christianity was the seed of civilisation; and civilisation is the fruit of that seed. Ex. gr. Before an Emigrant can reap in the wilderness he must sow; and era he can sow he must search for seed. And when he has found and collected seed, he has need to examine and sift it, as well as to plant it in order to prove it; and afterwards he has need to replant the best of the seeds thus obtained in beds alongside of one another, in order that their relative qualities or virtues may commingle and be imparted to the seed resulting from this union, so that he may obtain in one perfect seed all the qualities which the others only had possessed collectively in an undeveloped, form. And then, with this perfect seed, he is as able to cover the land with fine golden waves of corn, as the waters cover the sea. _ _  Ana In Ike manner Christianity (i.e. the ---character of Christ), as a seed, was the embodiment or personation in one individual of all the good qualities and virtues of civilised individuals collectively. And after this holy and divine character of Christ had been thus produoed and manifested as the representative heir of all the prophets, it was, and is the aim of all who would educate and civilise humanity (as it was the mission of Christ) to reconcile all men to bring themselves to be at one with the character and conduct of Jesus Christ, in order that Christ's life and character, as a seed, might bear fruit by leavening, regenerating, and oivilising humanity individually, until the whole world became Christian, i.e., Christ-like, and in the image of God, wherein the Scriptures assert man was created. But the great adversaries to the successful attainment of this civilising mission of Christ's, were the proud priests and Pharisees, who, at Jerusalem, incited the people to destroy (Matt. xxvii. 20) Jesus, in order to save the theocratic authority and power of , the Church they had established from being destroyed (John xi. 48; Mark xii. 7). And their proud successors abroad and at home, in order to preserve and continue the infallible authority and supreme power of the several Churches, which they have re-established for the glory of themselves as gods, to receive confessions, and, as saviours, to deliver their worshippers from from hell through belief in their dogmas, continue to the present day to incite the people to persecute and despise as blasphemous  --heretics and infidel sceptics, all those whorefuse to abnegate their reason, and profess belief in their stereotyped creeds, evil doctrines, and mystical sacrifices. And thus, by their evil traditions, the modern Pharisees are proved to be as great adversaries to the success of Cheist's civilising mission as their pre, decessors, the ancient Pharisees were who murdered Jesus; and therefore the work of Christ, and the glory of God, require their disestablishment, for the civilising and exalting of suffering humanity, because they have blasphemously slandered God's name by their evil doctrine of atonement; proudly usurped God's power in their claims to infallible authority, and. their exercise of supreme power; and lastly, because they obstinately refuse to reform their evil doctrines which make the Word of God in the S criptures of none effect. Than (in the spirit of Daniel), "People of England, are ye such fools that, without examination or knowledge of the truth, ye would suffer your God to be accused falsely of having required the innocent blood of Jesus to be shed ?" See "History of Susanna" in the Apocryplut, verse 48.—Yours, &c. Potersharo, S.W.  T. G.