,the ,christian ,foundation1 ,or1 ,scientific and ,religious ,journal ,vol4 #a4 ,no #e4 ,may1 #ahhj4 ,,contents ,the ,old ,covenant4--,the ,sabbath--,the ,law--,the ,commonwealth ,of ,israel1 ,and ,christ4 ,infidels ,live ,in ,doubting ,castle4 ,infidelity1 ,and ,the ,french ,and ,american ,revolutions ,in ,their ,relations ,to ,thomas ,paine4 ,shall ,we ,unchain ,the ,tiger8 ,or1 ,the ,fruits ,of ,infidelity4 ,the ,struggle4 ,the ,records ,respecting ,the ,death ,of ,thomas ,paine4 ,three ,reasons ,for ,repudiating ,infidelity4 ,col4 ,ingersoll ,is ,a ,philosopher8 ,life ,of ,elder ,e4 ,goodwin4 ,,the ,,old ,,covenant4--,,the ,,sabbath--,,the ,,law--,,the ,,commonwealth ,,of ,,israel1 ,,and ,,christ4 ,the original term1 rendered 8,testament0 and 8,covenant10 occurs thirty-three times in the ,new ,testament4 ,greenfield defines it thus3 8,any disposition1 arrangement1 institution1 or dispensation2 hence a testament1 will2 a covenant1 mutual promises on mutual conditions1 or promises with conditions annexed40 ,secondly1 8,a body of laws and precepts to which certain promises are annexed1 promises to which are annexed certain laws2 the books in which the divine laws are contained1 the ,old ,testament1 and especially the ,pentateuch40 ,upon a careful examination of these definitions it will be seen at once that the term 8,testament0 is a good translation4 ,this is confirmed1 in ,paul's letter to the ,hebrews1 in the inter-changeable use of the terms 8,will10 8,covenant0 and 8,testament40 ,our ,sabbatarian brethren claim1 that the ,old ,covenant1 which was done away1 was the verbal agreement of the ,children of ,israel to keep the law of the decalogue4 ,but this definition is not sufficient4 ,it excludes almost all that was current in its use4 ,it renders it improper to call it a 8,testament0 or 8,will10 because fathers make testaments or wills without the consent of their children1 and these are called dispositions of estates4 ,their definition of the term also makes the 8,covenant0 depend upon the will of man1 for covenants1 in the sense of agreements1 have nothing to do with those who do not enter into them4 ,neither can men be regarded as transgressing a covenant1 in the sense of an agreement1 unless they have first placed themselves under its obligations4 ,so1 if these men are right in their definition of the ,old ,covenant1 they are wrong in trying to fasten its conditions upon all mankind4 ,their logic also excludes1 from all the promises of the covenant1 all those who were incapable of making an agreement4 ,hence1 infants were left to the uncovenanted mercies of ,god4 ,and as for the wicked1 who never agreed to keep those commandments1 poor souls6 they must be dealt with as violators of a contract to which they never became a party4 ,these absurdities1 which are legitimately drawn from their own premises1 drive us to the conclusion that their whole theory1 upon the covenant question1 is wrong4 ,the apostle ,paul says we are the children of a covenant1 which he denominates 8,the free woman40 8,she is the mother of us all40 ,but1 according to ,sabbatarian logic1 they are the children of two covenants1 or women4 ,how is this8 ,one good mother is sufficient4 ,when they tell you that the old covenant1 which was done away1 was the people's agreement to keep the ten commandments1 remember that they1 by their own showing1 set up the same old covenant by agreeing to keep the ten commandments4 ,so it is done away1 and it is not done away4 ,that is1 if the people say1 8,we will keep and do them10 it is established1 but if they say1 8,we will not10 it is abolished4 ,again1 if it was the people's agreement that was done away1 and the ten commandments were the conditions of that agreement1 then they also are of no force1 for the conditions of an agreement are always void when the contract is nullified4 ,again1 if the ,lord had nothing to do in causing the ,old ,covenant to be done away1 how did it pass away by the action of one party to it8 ,and how can men enter into it without the concurring assent of the party of the second part8 ,accept the ,sabbatarian definition of the term covenant1 and it legitimately follows that none were ever in that covenant save those who held converse with ,jehovah1 through ,moses1 saying1 8,all these things will we observe and do40 ,it is an old1 trite saying1 8that it takes two to make an agreement40 ,and it also takes two to abrogate an agreement4 ,but these friends of the seventh day say1 ,the people rendered that old covenant void by their wickedness1 that they were at fault1 that ,god never abrogated it1 that ,he always stood firm in reference to its conditions and promises1 holding the people to its obligations4 ,then how was it done away8 ,we will let ,zechariah answer this question3 8,and ,i took my staff1 even ,beauty1 and cut it asunder1 that ,i might break my covenant which ,i had made with all the people4 ,and it was broken in that day2 and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the ,lord4 ,and ,i said unto them1 ,if ye think good1 give me my price2 and if not1 forbear4 ,so they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver4 ,and the ,lord said unto me1 ,cast it unto the potter3 a goodly price that ,i was prized at of them4 ,and ,i took the thirty pieces of silver1 and cast them to the potter in the house of the ,lord40 ,judas ,iscariot sold his ,savior for thirty pieces of silver1 cast the money down at the feet of the priests in the temple2 the priests took it and purchased the potters' field to bury strangers in4 ,and 8in that day0 the covenant of ,god was broken by the ,lord4 ,now1 if the ,lord broke that old covenant1 it follows that no man enters into it without one more concurring action upon ,his part4 ,upon what mountain has ,he appeared and renacted this covenant8 ,and if it was simply the people's agreement to keep the ten commandments1 how did ,he make it with all the people of ,israel1 seeing many of them were incapable of entering into an agreement8 ,the truth is this1 the ,lord made a covenant in the sense of a 8,testament0 or institution4 ,this sense alone admits of the irresponsible in its provisions4 ,in the argument from analogy1 drawn from the introduction of the ,new ,testament1 our position is confirmed4 ,the ,savior's death gave force to this testament or will1 without any concurring action upon the part of any man or number of men4 ,and it is a covenant in the sense in which ,greenfield defines the term1 that is1 in the sense of a testament1 or will4 ,this also admits of covenanted or bequeathed blessings for all the incapable4 ,the ,sabbatarian view of the term covenant1 if applied to the 8,new ,covenant10 cuts off all who do not enter into this 8contract40 ,but there is no reason in calling either testament a 8contract40 ,an earthly father may incorporate1 among other things1 conditions1 in his testament1 or will1 and it is in force1 by his death1 even though his children find fault with it4 ,so it mattered not whether any man in ancient ,israel was satisfied with that ancient 8testament40 ,but the ,bible nowhere limits the term covenant to the people's agreement to keep the decalogue4 ,on the contrary1 it is said1 8,and ,he declared unto you ,his covenant1 which ,he commanded you to perform1 even ten commandments2 and ,he wrote them upon two tables of stone40 ,deut4 iv1 #ac4 ,these commandments were ,,after ,,the ,,tenor of all that was given by ,moses1 as we learn in the thirty-fourth chapter of ,exodus4 ,after ,moses had given many precepts1 the ,lord said1 8,write thou these words2 for after the tenor of these words ,i have made a covenant with thee and with ,israel4 ,and he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant1 the ten commandments40 ,this covenant1 or testament1 like all other institutions which the ,lord established with the children of men1 is accompanied with reasons for its existence1 and all the laws and instructions necessary to carry out its principles4 ,the reasons were placed upon the tables of stone along with the commandments4 ,when ,sabbatarians hang up their copy of those tables1 it is always a mutilated1 partial copy4 ,the whole is given to us in the fifth chapter of ,deuteronomy4 ,no ,seventh-day ,adventist dare exhibit the full copy before his audience1 unless he does it at the peril of his teaching4 ,here it is3 8,i am the ,lord thy ,god which brought thee out of the land of ,egypt1 from the house of bondage4 ,thou shalt have none other ,gods before me4 ,thou shalt not make thee any graven image1 or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above1 or that is in earth beneath1 or that is in the waters beneath the earth4 ,thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them nor serve them3 for ,i the ,lord thy ,god am a jealous ,god1 visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me1 and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments4 ,thou shalt not take the name of the ,lord thy ,god in vain1 for the ,lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain4 ,keep the ,sabbath day to sanctify it1 as the ,lord thy ,god hath commanded thee4 ,six days thou shalt labor and do all thy work1 but the seventh day is the ,sabbath of the ,lord thy ,god3 in it thou shalt not do any work1 thou nor thy son1 nor thy daughter1 nor thy man-servant1 nor thy maid-servant1 nor thine ox1 nor thine ass1 nor any of thy cattle1 nor thy stranger that is within thy gates2 that thy man-servant and maid-servant may rest as well as thou4 ,and remember that thou wast a servant in the land of ,egypt1 and that the ,lord thy ,god brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm1 therefore the ,lord thy ,god commanded thee to keep the ,sabbath day4 ,honor thy father and thy mother as the ,lord thy ,god hath commanded thee2 that thy days may be prolonged1 and that it may go well with thee in the land which the ,lord thy ,god giveth thee4 ,thou shalt not kill4 ,neither shalt thou commit adultery4 ,neither shalt thou steal4 ,neither shalt thou bear false-witness against thy neighbor4 ,neither shalt thou desire thy neighbor's wife4 ,neither shalt thou covet thy neighbor's house1 his field1 or his man-servant1 or maid-servant1 his ox1 or his ass1 or anything that is thy neighbor's4 ,these words the ,lord spake unto all your assembly1 in the mount out of the midst of the fire1 of the cloud and of the thick darkness1 with a great voice2 and he added no more1 and he wrote them upon two tables of stone1 and delivered them unto you40 ,thus we have a fac simile of the law upon the tables of stone4 ,the terms employed in this law limit it to the ,jewish people1 a people who were servants in ,egypt4 ,this was the 8testament10 8institution10 or 8covenant0 given at ,sinai1 and it was after the tenor of all the rest that was given4 ,it is worthy of notice1 that there is not a penalty in all that was written upon those tables4 ,and yet there were terrible penalties inflicted for a violation of its precepts4 ,how is this8 ,was it all there was of ,god's law8 ,if so1 where shall we go to find its penalties8 ,this covenant is spoken of in ,galatians1 the fourth chapter4 ,it is called 8the bond woman10 that was cast out4 ,in the third chapter of ,corinthians it is termed 8the ministration of condemnation10 and 8the ministration of death written and engraven in stones1 which was done away40 ,which ,zechariah said was broken by the ,lord in the day of the terrible tragedy of the cross of ,christ4 ,the multiplicity of passages in the ,new ,testament bearing upon this great fact1 causes our legalists in religion to shift about most wonderfully4 ,at one time1 the people's agreement to keep the law was the covenant that was done away4 ,at another1 it was the act of executing the penalty of death that was set aside4 ,at another1 it was the glory of ,moses' face that was done away4 ,and at another1 it was none of all these1 but it was the ceremonial law of ,moses that was done away4 ,all these positions were taken by one man1 in one discussion with the writer of these lines4 ,all such turns are cheap2 it requires no great wisdom to accommodate yourself in this manner to the force of circumstances4 ,the fact that the 8first covenant0 was a 8testament10 or a body of laws with certain promises annexed1 as well as penalties1 is evident from ,paul's statement in the ninth chapter of his letter to the ,hebrews4 ,he says1 8,then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service1 and a worldly sanctuary1 for there was a tabernacle made2 the first wherein was the candlestick1 and the table1 and the show-bread2 which is called the sanctuary40 ,the distinction which our friends make between 8,moses' law0 and 8,god's law10 as they are pleased to express it1 is not only unscriptural1 the two phrases being inter-changeable1 but also absurd4 ,moses gave all1 that these men are pleased to term his law1 in the name of the ,lord4 ,the law of the passover1 found in the twelfth chapter of ,exodus1 is prefaced with these words3 8,and the ,lord ,god said unto ,moses40 ,in the twenty-fifth chapter of the same book we have the laws concerning the ark1 the tabernacle1 the priestly service1 and all are introduced with this saying3 8,and the ,lord spake unto ,moses40 ,moses never gave a law in his own name4 ,neither did he give one of his own in the name of the ,lord1 because it would have cost him his life4 ,the ,lord had guarded this point in the following3 8,but the prophet which presumes to speak a word in my name1 which ,i have not commanded him to speak1 or that shall speak in the name of other gods1 even that prophet shall die40 ,now one of two things is evident3 first1 all the laws that ,moses gave in the name of the ,lord were ,his2 or1 secondly1 ,moses violated the law governing the prophet4 ,and if the record is false on this account1 how can we trust it in other respects8 ,it is as easy to turn ,god out of all the pentateuch1 and put ,moses into it1 as to maintain the proposition that ,moses had a law of his own4 ,sabbatarians act the part of the unbeliever in getting the ,lord out of the law that was done away1 and ,moses into it4 ,all that is accredited to the ,lord was ,his1 otherwise the record is untrustworthy4 ,if our friend's position is true1 it follows that ,moses is the sole author of the sacrificial system of blood1 without which there was no remission1 and thus the ancient remedial scheme falls1 being without divine sanction4 ,but the ,lord claims all that our friends hand over to ,moses4 ,the following phrases are uttered with reference to the priests and other things3 8,my priest10 8,my sacrifice10 8,mine altar10 8,mine offering10 #ast ,samuel1 ii1 #bg-bi2 8,the ,lord's pass-over10 ,exodus1 xii1 #aa2 8,the feasts of the ,lord10 ,lev4 xxiii2 8,my sanctuary and my ,sabbaths10 ,ezekiel1 xxiii1 #ch4 ,the manner in which ,sabbatarians emphasize the phrase 8,my ,sabbath10 and 8,my holy day10 is well calculated to mislead the unsuspecting1 but those who are schooled in biblical literature will regard it as mere rant1 cheap theology1 mere display6 ,all that ,moses gave1 as law1 was from the ,lord1 was ,his4 8,the ,lord came down upon ,sinai1 and spake to them from heaven1 and gave them right judgments1 and true laws1 good statutes and commandments1 and made known to them ,his holy ,sabbath1 and commanded precepts1 statutes and laws1 by the hand of ,his servant ,moses40 ,nehemiah1 ix1 #ac1 #ad4 ,the seventh-day ,sabbath was not given to the ,gentile world4 ,it would require just as plain and positive legislation to bind it upon us as it did to establish it in ,israel4 ,it was a sign between ,god and the ,hebrews4 ,ezek4 xxxi1 #ac-ah4 8,moreover1 also1 ,i gave them my ,sabbaths1 to be a sign between me and them1 that they might know that ,i am ,jehovah that doth sanctify them40 ,if there are any ,gentile ,christians upon the earth who think it is essential to know that it was the ,lord that sanctified the children of ,israel1 set them apart from the surrounding nations1 ,i would say to such1 ,it is sufficient to your salvation that you know the ,lord1 as manifested in the flesh in the person of ,christ ,jesus1 and that you love and obey him4 ,i can not see that the seventh-day ,sabbath1 as a sign upon a ,gentile1 would tell the truth1 for the ,lord never sanctified the ,gentiles in the sense of setting them apart from the surrounding nations4 ,again1 if our friends could succeed in making it universal1 it would cease to be a sign4 ,it was a national badge1 or sign1 between ,god and the ,hebrews4 ,its object was to keep in their memory that which was true of them alone4 8,remember that thou wast a servant in the land of ,egypt1 and that the ,lord thy ,god brought thee out thence with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm1 therefore the ,lord thy ,god hath commanded thee to keep the ,sabbath day40 ,deut4 v4 ,can any ,gentile obey this instruction8 ,it is impossible6 ,moses said1 8,behold ,i have taught you statutes and judgments1 even as the ,lord my ,god commanded me1 that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it4 ,keep1 therefore1 and do them1 for this is your wisdom and your understanding1 in the sight of the nations which shall hear all these statutes and say1 ,surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people4 ,for what nation is there so great1 that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law which ,i set before you this day40 ,deut4 iv1 #e4 ,the authority and glory of ,christ forbid all such ,judaizing as that which we speak against4 8,he was given of ,god to be head over all things to the church40 8,and ,he is head of all principality and power40 ,the ,father put all things under ,him4 ,the prophet ,isaiah said1 8,he shall not fail1 nor be discouraged till ,he hath set judgment in the earth1 and the isles shall wait for ,his law40 ,ch4 xlii1 #d4 ,and ,paul said1 8,bear ye one another's burdens1 and so fulfill the law of ,christ40 ,gal4 vi1 #b4 ,the object of law is to regulate the exemplification of principles4 ,some principle is exemplified in every act that man performs4 ,and one principle may be in a great variety of acts4 ,the principle of hatred is exemplified in a great many different actions2 and the principle of love to ,god is manifested1 or exemplified1 in every act of obedience to ,god4 ,so the spiritual may be brought out under different dispensations1 and by different laws1 while it remains always the same4 ,indeed1 principles are unchangeable2 they belong to the nature of things4 ,covenants1 priesthoods1 dispensations and laws have changed1 but principles1 never4 ,so the moral objective of every law is the same1 viz41 to bring out and develop the spiritual in man4 ,to accomplish this great end it is necessary that the evil principles of a carnal1 or fleshly nature1 should be restrained by the penal sanctions of law1 and the principles of man's higher nature brought out by its motives of good4 ,such being the nature of principles1 and the facts of law1 ,paul says1 8,we know that the law is spiritual40 ,and again1 8,the law is fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh1 but after the ,spirit40 8,do we then make void law through faith8 ,god forbid2 yea1 we establish law40 ,i have left the article out of this text because it is not in the original4 ,b4 ,wilson translates the verse in these words3 8,do we then nullify law through the ,,faith4 ,by no means2 but we establish law40 ,the negative use of law is to restrain the evil2 and the affirmative is to bring out the good1 the spiritual4 ,so1 without any interference with the spiritual of any law that ever was1 either divine or human1 we have a better covenant1 or testament1 than the old testament2 one that is established upon better promises1 which contains 8,a new and living way into the ,holiest10 which ,paul says1 8,is heaven itself40 ,this new way was consecrated through the flesh of ,christ4 ,the rule of life in this way is the 8,law of ,christ40 ,it is a better law1 for us1 because its precepts are not limited to our neighbor4 ,the following is a part1 at least1 of the contrast3 ,,the ,,decalogue ,,given ,,to ,,israel4 8,neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor4 ,neither shalt thou desire thy neighbor's wife4 ,neither shalt thou covet thy neighbor's house1 his field1 or his man-servant1 or his maid-servant1 his ox or his ass1 or anything that is thy neighbor's4 ,thou shalt not commit adultery4 ,thou shalt not kill40 ,,the ,,law ,,of ,,christ ,,bound ,,upon ,,the ,,world4 8,whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer4 ,but ,i say unto you1 love your enemies4 ,if thou mayest be made free use it rather4 ,be ye not the servants of men4 ,thou shalt not bear false witness4 ,thou shalt not covet4 ,whosoever looketh upon a woman and lusteth after her hath committed adultery already in his heart40 ,i have presented a sufficient amount of each law to show you a part of the great contrast which exists on account of the ancient law being given to a people set apart from all the surrounding nations by a legal wall interfering with them in their social walks in life4 ,that law was sufficient for all practical purposes among the ,jews4 ,but1 since that 8,middle wall of partition0 has been taken down1 it is utterly useless to talk about a law limited to your neighbor being any longer worthy of ,god1 or a perfect rule for man's conduct in his associations with all men4 ,indeed1 it never was a law regulating a man's conduct with all men4 ,the middle wall was taken out of the way1 and ,jews and ,gentiles have shook hands in ,christian fellowship under the new institution4 ,let us see how this was brought about4 ,when the law brings about a separation1 nothing short of law can undo it1 and bring about the union of the parties separated4 ,but1 as authority1 that controls law1 is alone competent to remove legal results1 we must look for this1 as a matter of necessity1 lying at the foundation of the new institution4 ,it is just there that we find it in these words3 8,all authority is given unto me in heaven and in earth4 ,go ye therefore1 and teach all nations1 baptizing them in the name of the ,father1 and of the ,son1 and of the ,holy ,spirit1 teaching them to observe all things whatsoever ,i have commanded you40 ,the result of obedience to this law of ,christ is expressed in these words3 8,but now1 in ,christ ,jesus1 ye who sometime were far off are made nigh by the blood of ,christ4 ,for he is our peace1 who hath made both one1 and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us1 having abolished in his flesh the enmity2 even the law of commandments contained in ordinances2 for to make in himself of twain one new man1 so making peace40 ,eph4 ii1 #ac-ae4 ,the ,god of ,abraham said unto ,rebecca1 8,two nations are in thy womb40 ,gen4 xxv1 #bc4 ,this language had its fulfillment in the decendants of ,jacob and ,esau4 ,the political history of the children of ,jacob begins at ,sinai with their beginning as a nation among the surrounding nations4 ,the law given at ,sinai was a political law1 for it was addressed to a community1 pertained to a community1 and was accepted by a community4 ,such is a political law in the strictest sense of the term4 ,this law was given to the ,jews1 the decendants of ,jacob4 ,moses said1 8,the ,lord our ,god made a covenant with us in ,horeb4 ,the ,lord made not this covenant with our fathers1 but with us1 even us1 who are all of us here alive this day40 ,horeb is a synonymous with ,sinai1 and means1 properly1 ground left dry by water draining off4 ,so1 ,horeb and ,sinai occur in the narrative of the same event4 ,the children of ,jacob are known as a commonwealth1 from the giving of the law onward until their overthrow by the ,romans4 ,paul1 speaking of the ,gentiles1 in past times1 says 8,they were aliens to the commonwealth of ,israel and strangers to the covenants of promise40 ,the ,jews called them 8dogs40 ,this great enmity had its origin in the two-fold consideration of the ,jew being favored in a temporal and political point of view1 and the pride of his heart1 which exalted him in his own imagination above even his moral superiors4 ,this corruption of the heart1 with the liability of its return1 being removed by the abrogation of all that was peculiar to the ,jews and their conversion to ,christ1 ,paul says1 8,that all are one in ,christ40 ,christ was the bond of union1 all were joined to him4 ,but the same authority that separated them by legislation must legislate with reference to this grand change that was to take place between these decendants of ,jacob and ,esau4 ,the law of commandments separating the ,jews limited them in moral duties to their neighbors4 ,it was unlawful for them to go in unto one of another nation4 ,it limited them in trade and traffic to their own countrymen2 also limited them to their own people in matrimonial relations4 ,so ,god must be heard again1 ,i say1 heard6 for ,he was heard at the giving of the law1 which is now to be taken out of the way4 ,when ,jesus took ,peter1 ,james and ,john up in a high mountain and was transfigured before them1 ,moses and ,elias1 the great representatives of the ,patriarchial and ,jewish dispensations1 appeared unto them and 8a bright cloud overshadowed them1 and behold a voice out of the cloud1 which said1 ,this is my well-beloved ,son in whom ,i am well pleased1 ,,hear ,,ye ,,him40 ,math4 xvii1 #e4 ,here is the authority that gave the institution peculiar to the ,jews legislating with reference to ,him whose doings were to end that system of things1 and lead all into 8a new and living way40 ,paul says3 8,god1 who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets1 hath in these last days spoken unto us by ,his ,son40 ,so ,christ took away the first will and established the second4 ,see ,heb4 x1 #i4 ,paul says3 8,as ye have received ,christ ,jesus the ,lord1 so walk ye in ,him40 ,this relation of duty to the reception of ,christ has direct reference to the character in which we receive him4 ,he was given to rule1 to exercise ,lordship4 ,he is ,lord of all4 ,the term ,lord signifies 8ruler by right of possession40 ,if ,he is not ,lord of all there is an abundance of false testimony upon this one subject1 and ,christianity is diseased in the head4 ,and if he is ,lord of all1 then we should leave that old mountain that shook and burned with fire1 and all the political paraphernalia of ,sinai1 and consider ourselves complete in ,christ1 who is 8,emanuel1 ,god with us40 ,if any man does this he is not troubled with the old 8bond woman40 ,jehovah said of ,christ3 8,i have given ,him for a covenant of the people1 for a light of the ,gentiles40 ,isaiah xlii1 #b4 ,new duties appear before us in the ,new ,testament1 with new obligations lying at their foundation4 ,jesus said3 8,if ,i had not come and spoken unto them1 they had not had sin1 but now they have no cloak for their sins40 ,again3 8,if ,i had not done among them the works which none other man did1 they had not had sin2 but now have they both seen and hated both ,me and my ,father40 ,john xv1 #bb-bd4 ,justification turns no longer upon the ancient law1 and the sacrificial and typical system of blood is no longer the means of pardon4 ,the law contained a shadow of good things to come1 but the body was of ,christ4 ,he that believeth on ,him is not condemned3 but he that believeth not is condemned already1 because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten ,son of ,god4 ,and this is the condemnation1 that light is come into the world1 and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil4 ,everything turns in this dispensation upon ,christ and his ,law4 ,jesus told his disciples to teach their converts to observe all things which ,he had commanded them to teach1 and they filled their mission4 ,paul said1 ,he 8shunned not to declare the whole counsel of ,god10 8kept back nothing40 ,with reference to law1 he said1 8,if any man think himself to be a prophet1 or spiritual1 let him acknowledge that the things ,i write are the commandments of the ,lord40 ,for the glory of ,christ1 as his just meed of praise1 it was written1 8,whatsoever ye do in word or deed1 do all in the name of the ,lord ,jesus40 8,christ is the end of the ,law for righteousness to every one that believeth40 ,in this major proposition the minor1 of the seventh-day ,sabbath1 is involved4 ,the ,lord said of ,israel1 8,i will also cause all her mirth to cease1 her feast days1 her new moons1 and her ,sabbaths1 and all her solemn feasts40 ,hosea1 ii1 #aa4 ,no man is threatened1 by ,christ or any of his apostles1 on account of ,sabbath-breaking1 or any of those things which are peculiar to the ,jews4 ,but men are threatened for disobedience to the ,gospel of ,christ4 ,the ,new ,testament is of ,christ4 ,its religion is not 8the ,jews' religion10 but ,christ's4 ,there was much in the ,old ,testament that is in the ,new1 but it is there by the authority of ,christ4 ,hence1 we are 8complete in ,him who is the head of all principality and power40 ,much in the laws of the ,united ,states was first in the laws of ,england1 but we do nothing with reference to ,english authority4 ,so it is with us1 as respects all who went before ,christ1 we do nothing in reference to them1 but do all in reference to ,christ1 and for ,his name4 ,the ,old ,kingdom of ,israel1 with its political law1 statutes and judgments1 has passed away1 and ,christ reigns 8all in all40 ,to ,him 8be glory and majesty1 dominion and power1 both now and ever40 ,jude1 xxv4 ,,infidels ,,live ,,in ,,doubting ,,castle4 ,having shown that no man in his senses can be an atheist1 unless he assume that he comprehends the universe in his mind1 with all its abstract essences and principles1 which assumption would be to make himself omnipresent and eternal1 a god in fact2 and having seen that the proposition of the divine existence and perfections is demonstrable from the universe1 as far as it is known in all its general laws and in all its parts1 we proceed from these prefatory considerations to other matters still more intimately introductory to our design4 ,it is essentially preliminary to a clear and forcible display of the reasonableness and certainty of our faith in ,jesus ,christ as the author of immortality to man1 that we ascertain the proper ground on which the modern skeptic1 of whatever creed1 stands when he avows his opposition to the gospel4 ,that we may duly estimate the strength of his opposition1 we must not only enumerate his objections or arguments1 but we must exactly ascertain the exact position which he occupies4 ,does he stand within a fortified castle1 or in the open field8 ,presents he himself to our view in a stronghold1 well garrisoned with the invincible forces of logic1 of science1 and of fact8 or defies he armies and the artillery of light1 relying wholly upon himself1 his own experience1 without a shield1 without an ally1 without science1 without history1 and consequently a single fact to oppose8 ,that we may1 then1 truly and certainly ascertain his precise attitude1 before we directly address him1 we shall accurately survey his whole premises4 ,does he say that he knows the gospel to be false8 ,no1 he can not2 for he was not in ,judea in the days of the evangelical drama4 ,he1 therefore1 could not test the miracles1 or sensible demonstrations1 by any of his senses2 nor prove to himself that ,jesus rose not from the dead4 ,speaking in accordance with the evidence of sense1 of consciousness1 and of experience1 he can not say that he knows the gospel to be a cunningly devised fable4 ,he has not1 then1 in all his premises knowledge1 in its true and proper meaning1 to oppose to the ,christian's faith or hope4 ,what remains8 ,can he say1 in truth1 that he believes the gospel to be false8 ,he can not2 because belief without testimony is impossible2 and testimony that the gospel facts did not occur is not found extant on earth in any language or nation under heaven4 ,no contemporaneous opposing testimony has ever been heard of1 except in one instance1 the sleeping and incredible testimony of the ,roman guard1 which has a lie stamped indelibly on its forehead3 8,his disciples stole his dead body while we were asleep40 ,he that can believe this is not to be reasoned with4 ,we repeat it with emphasis1 that no living man can say1 according to the ,english ,dictionary1 that he believes the gospel to be false4 ,alike destitute of knowledge and of faith to oppose to the testimony of apostles1 prophets1 and myriads of contemporaneous witnesses1 what has the skeptic to present against the numerous and diversified evidences of the gospel8 ,nothing in the universe but his doubts4 ,he can1 in strict conformity to language and fact1 only say1 he doubts whether it be true4 ,he is1 then1 legitimately no more than an inmate of ,doubting ,castle4 ,his fortification is built up of doubts and misgivings1 cemented by antipathy4 ,farther than this the powers of nature and of reason can not go4 ,how far these doubts are rational1 scientific1 and modest1 may yet appear in the sequel2 meanwhile1 we only survey the premises which the infidel occupies1 and the forces he has to bring into the action4 ,these1 may we not say1 are already logically ascertained to be an army of doubts only4 ,some talk of the immodesty1 others of the folly1 others of the maliciousness of the unbeliever2 but not to deal in harsh or uncourteous epithets1 may we not say1 that it is most unphilosophic to dogmatize against the gospel on the slender grounds of sheer dubiety4 ,no man1 deserving the name of a philosopher1 can ever appear among the crusading forces of pamphleteers and declaimers against the faith of ,christians1 for two of the best reasons in the world2 he has nothing better to substitute for the motives1 the restraining fears to the wicked1 and the animating hopes to the righteous1 which the gospel tenders2 and he has nothing to oppose to its claims but the weakness and uncertainty of his doubts4 ,franklin was a philosopher1 but ,paine was a madman4 ,the former doubted1 but never dogmatized--never opposed the gospel1 but always discountenanced and discouraged the infidel2 the latter gave to his doubts the authority of oracles1 and madly attempted to silence the ,christian's artillery by the licentious scoffings of the most extravagant and unreasonable skepticism4 ,modesty is the legitimate daughter of true philosophy2 but dogmatism1 unless the offspring of infallible authority1 is the ill-bred child of ignorance and arrogance4 ,every man1 then1 who seeks to make proselytes to his skepticism by converting his doubts into arguments1 is anything but a philosopher or a philanthropist4 ,one of the most alarming signs of this age is the ignorance and recklessness of the youthful assailants of the ,bible4 ,our cities1 villages and public places of resort are thronged with swarms of these ,lilliputian volunteers in the cause of skepticism4 ,apprenticed striplings1 and sprigs of law and physic1 whose whole reading of standard authors on general science1 religion1 or morality1 in ordinary duodecimo1 equals not the years of their unfinished1 or just completed minority1 imagine that they have got far in advance of the vulgar herd1 and are both philosophers and gentlemen if they have learned at second hand1 a few scoffs and sneers at the ,bible1 from ,paine1 ,voltaire1 ,bolingbroke1 or ,hume4 ,one would think1 could he listen to their impudence1 that ,bacon1 ,newton1 ,locke1 and all the great masters of science1 were very pigmies1 and that they themselves were sturdy giants of extraordinary stature in all that is intellectual1 philosophic and learned4 ,these would-be baby demagogues are a public nuisance to society1 whose atheistic breath not unfrequently pollutes the whole atmosphere around them1 and issues in a moral pestilence among that class who regard a fine hat and a cigar as the infallible criteria of a gentleman and scholar4 ,these creatures have not sense enough to doubt1 nor to think sedately on any subject2 and therefore1 we only notice them while defining the ground occupied by the unbelievers of this generation4 ,they prudently call themselves skeptics1 but imprudently carry their opposition to the ,bible1 beyond all the bounds embraced in their own definitions of skepticism4 ,a skeptic can only doubt1 never oppugn the gospel4 ,he becomes an atheist1 or an infidel1 bold and dogmatic1 as soon as he opens his mouth against the ,bible4 ,were we philosophically to class society as it now exists in this country in reference to the gospel1 we should have believers1 unbelievers1 and skeptics4 ,we would find some who have voluntarily received the apostolic testimony as true2 others who have rejected it as false2 and a third class who simply doubt1 and neither receive nor reject it as a communication from heaven4 ,but1 though1 unbelievers1 while they call themselves skeptics1 often wage actual war against the faith and hope of ,christians1 still their actual rejection of the gospel has no other foundation than pure aversion to its restraints and some doubts as to its authenticity4 ,the quagmire of their own doubts1 be it distinctly remembered1 is the sole ground occupied by all the opponents of the gospel1 whether they style themselves antitheists1 atheists1 theists1 unbelievers1 or skeptics4--,alexander ,campbell1 in #ahce4 ,,infidelity1 ,,and ,,the ,,french ,,and ,,american ,,revolutions ,,in ,,their ,,relations ,,to ,,thomas ,,paine4 ,infidels can not free themselves from the bands which tie the universe to its ,god4 ,every effort has been fruitless4 ,not one writer among all their hosts has been lucky enough to avoid the use of ,christian terms that are in direct antagonism with their speculation and positions4 ,it will be interesting to review1 occasionally1 their literature4 ,speaking of ,thomas ,paine1 ,mr4 ,ingersoll says3 8,every ,american with the ,,divine mantle of charity1 should cover all his faults40 ,what use has ,col4 ,ingersoll or any other infidel for the word ,,divine8 ,the term is thus defined3 ,pertaining to the true ,god2 7from the ,latin ,,divinus2 from ,,deus1 a god7 proceeding from ,god2 appropriated to ,god2 or celebrating ,his praise2 excellent in the supreme degree2 apparently above what is human2 godlike2 heavenly2 holy2 sacred2 spiritual4 ,as a noun3 one versed in divine things or divinity2 a theologian2 a minister of the gospel2 a priest2 a clergyman4 ,zell's ,encyclopedia4 ,again1 ,mr4 ,ingersoll says1 8,upon the head of his father1 ,,god had never poured the ,,divine petroleum of authority40 ,so much the better for the race4 ,what would infidels do if they had the authority8 8,hume is called a model man1 a man as nearly perfect as the nature of human frailty will permit40 ,he maintained that pleasure or profit is the test of morals2 that 8the lack of honesty is of a piece with the lack of strength of body20 that 8suicide is lawful and commendable20 that 8female infidelity1 when known1 is a small thing2 when unknown1 nothing20 8that adultery must be practiced if men would obtain all the advantages of this life2 and that if generally practiced it would1 in time1 cease to be scandalous1 and if practiced frequently and secretly would come to be thought no crime at all40 ,lord ,herbert taught that the 8indulgence of lust and anger is no more to be blamed than thirst or drowsiness40 ,voltaire contended 8for the unlimited gratification of the sexual appetites1 and was a sensualist of the lowest type2 nevertheless he had the amazing good sense to wish that he had never been born40 ,rousseau was1 by his confession1 a habitual liar and thief1 and debauchee2 a man so utterly vile that he took advantage of the hospitality of friends to plot their domestic ruin2 a man so destitute of natural affection that he committed his ,,base-,,born children to the charity of the public4 ,to use his own language1 8guilty without remorse1 he soon become so without measure40 ,thomas ,paine was1 according to the verdict of history1 8addicted to intemperance in his last years1 given to violence and abusiveness1 had disreputable associates1 lived with a woman who was not his wife1 and left to her whatever remnant of fortune he had40 ,what would such godless infidels give us if the ,almighty ,god should 8pour the petroleum of authority upon their heads80 ,but1 in all candor1 what use has ,col4 ,ingersoll for the idea of authority coming from ,god8 ,can't he keep in his own ruts4 8,the ,,divine petroleum of authority was never poured upon the head of ,thomas ,paine's father40 ,well1 so much the better for the reputation of ,god4 ,but why does ,mr4 ,ingersoll use the term ,god1 and have so much to say of ,him8 ,let us hear him4 ,he says1 whoever is a friend of man is also a friend of ,god--if there is one4 ,yes6 8,,is ,,there ,,is ,,one40 ,this reminds me of an old infidel who was struggling with the cramp colic1 and just as a minister was approaching his bedside he turned himself over in the bed and said1 ,o ,lord1 if there is any ,lord1 save my soul1 if ,i've got any soul4 ,the minister walked out4 ,what is the condition of those minds which modify their declarations with the saying 8if there is any ,lord10 8if there is one10 8if ,i've got any soul40 ,how much more manly is it to own the great universal and instinctive or inate truth1 that there is a ,master1 ,god1 or great first ,living ,intelligence1 and cease acting foolishly4 ,once more1 the colonel1 speaking of ,thomas ,paine's work1 says1 8,he was with the army4 ,he shared its defeats1 its dangers1 and its glory4 ,when the situation became desperate1 when gloom settled upon all1 he gave them the #8,crisis4' ,it was a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night1 leading the way to freedom1 honor and glory40 ,what use has the colonel for such language8 ,from whence did it come8 ,is he sitting upon the bones of ,moses and making grimaces at the old prophet while he is adopting his sentences8 ,infidels blaspheme the name of ,moses1 and abuse his hyperboles and his facts as well1 and1 at the same time1 go to his quiver to get their very best arrows4 8,at the close of the ,revolution no one stood higher in ,america than ,thomas ,paine40--,ingersoll4 8,at that time the seeds sown by the great infidels were beginning to bear fruit in ,france40--,ingersoll4 ,well1 well4 ,to what 8mount0 have we come at last8 ,paine sailed to ,france in #aghg4 8,he was elected to represent the ,department of ,calais in the ,national ,convention1 and took his seat in that radical assembly in #agib40 ,at this time ,col4 ,ingersoll's church had everything its own way in ,france4 ,there was no ,god to respect or devil to fear4 8,free thought0 ruled--its reign was a reign of night4 ,the goddess of reason was the 8twin sister of the ,spanish ,inquisition40 ,the soldiers were in power1 and great hearts were made to bleed4 ,three hundred and sixty-six men in the ,national ,convention voted for the death of the king4 ,three hundred and fifty-five voted against his execution4 ,it is true that ,tom ,paine was one of the three hundred and fifty-five4 ,a year after the king's execution ,tom was put into prison1 and remained there nearly two years4 ,when he was released he wrote the second part of the ,age of ,reason1 and in #ahjb he came back to ,america4 ,what he did for ,american liberty was done while he was a ,quaker1 and before he wrote his detestable works against the ,bible4 ,let some bold infidel produce just one noble public act that ,paine did for our country after he avowed himself an infidel4 ,will it be done8 ,the leaders of the ,french revolution were the disciples of ,rousseau1 ,voltaire and ,diderot4 ,they were atheists1 or infidels4 ,tom ,paine was one of their number1 participated in their deliberations1 helped to get up the constitution they enacted4 ,what they did is what the infidels of the ,united ,states wish to have done4 ,they wiped out ,christianity by vote1 and forbade the utterance of the name of ,god to their children4 ,they abolished the ,lord's day1 and made the week to consist of ten instead of seven days4 ,they took the bells from the churches and cast them into cannons4 ,chaumette1 a leader in the convention1 came before the president 8leading a courtesan with a troop of her associates40 ,he lifted her veil1 and said1 8,mortals6 recognize no other divinity than ,reason1 of which ,i present to you the loveliest and purest personification40 ,the president bowed and rendered devout adoration4 ,the same scene was renacted in the cathedral of ,notre ,dame1 with increased outrages upon ,god and common-sense4 ,wrong was reputed right1 and the distinction between vice and virtue was banished4 ,from this time1 and onward1 the test of attachment to the government was contempt for religion and decency4 ,those suspected of disloyalty were gathered2 one thousand and five hundred women and children were shut up in one prison1 without fire1 bed1 cover1 or provisions1 for two days4 ,men escaped by giving up their fortunes1 and women escaped by parting with their virtue4 ,seventeen thousand perished in ,paris during this reign of infidel terror4 ,this ungodly abrogation of religion in ,france cost the nation three million of lives--think of it6 ,france's most dark and damning record was the fruit of the tenets of the men that ,col4 ,ingersoll lauds to the heavens4 ,they were the fruits of the labors of the men with whom ,tom ,paine sat1 and believed1 and voted4 8,his faith was their faith40 8,it was the ,quaker ,paine who worked for our independence1 and not the infidel ,paine4 ,he did nothing in the interests of our national liberty after he avowed his irreligious principles40 ,neither was he the first to raise the voice in favor of national liberty4 ,ten years before he wrote his work entitled 8,common ,sense10 at the suggestion of ,franklin and ,dr4 ,benjamin ,rush1 which was in #aggf1 ,patrick ,henry's voice was heard amid the assembled colonists in ,virginia4 ,he said3 8,csar had his ,brutus1 ,charles ,i4 his ,cromwell1 and ,george ,,iii4--0 ,just then some one cried out1 8,treason60 ,after a pause1 ,henry added1--8may profit by their example40 ,years before ,tom ,paine came to ,america1 even in #agdh1 it went to record that ,american legislatures were tending to independence4 8,they were charged with presumption in declaring their own rights and privileges40 ,our independence was predicted near at hand from #ageh and onwards4 ,in #aggd1 before ,paine came from ,england1 the word freedom was ringing out upon the air4 8,james ,otis was hailing the dawn of a new empire0 in #agfe4 ,in this year there were utterances of such sentiments as tended to evolve the declaration of #aggf1 and these were heard all over the land from ,boston to ,charleston1 ,s4 ,c4 ,in #aggc 8,samuel ,adams insisted that the colonies should have a congress to frame a bill of rights1 or to form an independent state1 an ,american commonwealth40 ,the ,north ,carolinians renounced their allegiance to the king of ,england in the ,mecklenberg declaration1 which was made in ,may1 #agge4 ,but ,paine's little book1 suggested by ,dr4 ,benjamin ,rush and ,franklin1 and called 8,common ,sense10 was published in #aggf4 ,hildreth1 writing of the year #ahjb1 says that 8,paine1 instead of being esteemed as formerly1 as a lover of liberty1 whose pen has contributed to hasten the ,declaration of ,independence1 was now detested by large numbers as the libeler of ,washington40 ,in #agie the ,aurora put out the following language1 which seems to be that to which ,hildreth alludes3 8,if ever a nation was debauched by a man1 the ,american nation was debauched by ,washington2 if ever a nation was deceived by a man1 the ,american nation has been deceived by ,washington4 ,let the history of the federal government instruct mankind1 that the mask of patriotism may be worn to conceal the foulest designs against the liberties of the people40 ,this1 gentle reader1 was from the pen of the man whom ,mr4 ,ingersoll would immortalize if he could4 ,william ,carver addressed a private letter to ,thomas ,paine1 dated ,dec4 #b1 #ahjf1 and published in the ,new ,york ,observer ,nov4 #a1 #ahgg1 in which we have the following revelations3 8,a respectable gentleman from ,new ,rochelle called to see me a few days back1 and said that every body was tired of you there and that no one would undertake to board and lodge you4 ,i thought this was the case1 as ,i found you at a tavern in a most miserable situation4 ,you appeared as if you had not been shaved for a fortnight1 and as to a shirt1 it could not be said that you had one on1 it was only the remains of one1 and this likewise appeared not to have been off your back for a fortnight1 and was nearly the color of tanned leather2 and you had the most disagreeable smell possible1 just like that of our poor beggars in ,england4 ,do you remember the pains ,i took to clean you8 ,that ,i got a tub of warm water and soap1 and washed you from head to foot1 and this ,i had to do three times before ,i could get you clean8 ,you say also that you found your own liquors during the time you boarded with me1 but you should have said1 #8,i found only a small part of the liquor ,i drank during my stay with you2 this part ,i purchased of ,john ,fellows1 which was a demijohn of brandy containing four gallons1 and this did not serve me three weeks4' ,this can be proved1 and ,i mean not to say anything ,i can not prove1 for ,i hold this as a precious jewel4 ,it is a well-known fact that you drank one quart of brandy per day1 at my expense1 during the different times that you have boarded with me1 the demijohn alone mentioned excepted1 and the last fourteen weeks you were sick4 ,is not this a supply of liquor for dinner and supper8 ,now sir1 ,i think ,i have drawn a complete portrait of your character1 yet1 to enter upon every minutia1 would be to give a history of your life1 and to develop the fallacious mask of hypocrisy and deception under which you have acted in your political1 as well as moral1 capacity of life40 ,so much for the apostate ,quaker's character after the close of the ,american revolution4 ,mr4 ,lecky1 an infidel1 says1 8,it was reserved for ,christianity to present to the world an ideal character1 which through all the changes of eighteen centuries has filled the hearts of men with an impassioned love1 and has shown itself capable of acting on all ages1 nations1 temperaments1 and conditions2 has not only been the highest pattern of virtue1 but the highest incentive of practice3 amid all the sins and failing2 amid all the priestcraft1 the persecution and fanaticism which have defaced the church1 it has preserved ,,in ,,the ,,character ,,of ,,its ,,founder ,,an ,,enduring ,,principle ,,of ,,regeneration40 ,if such be the fountain let the stream continue to flow4 ,,shall ,,we ,,unchain ,,the ,,tiger8 ,,or1 ,,the ,,fruits ,,of ,,infidelity4 ,by ,eld4 ,a4 ,i4 ,maynard4 ,an infidel production was submitted to ,benjamin ,franklin manuscript2 he returned it to the author with a letter1 from which the following quotations are extracted3 8,i would advise you not to attempt unchaining the ,tiger1 but to burn this piece before it is seen by any other person4444 ,if men are so wicked with religion1 what would they be without it80 ,he informs us that he was 8an advocate of infidelity in his early youth1 a confirmed ,deist40 ,he says his 8arguments perverted some other young persons1 particularly ,collins and ,ralph1 and when he recollected that they both treated him exceedingly ill without the least remorse1 and also remembered the behavior of ,keith1 another #8,freethinker1' and his own conduct toward ,vernon and a ,miss ,reed1 which at times gave him great uneasiness1 he was led to suspect that his theory1 if true1 was not very useful40 ,youth and inexperience have been the secret of many young persons being led astray1 like ,franklin1 by infidel speculations2 but age and observation have convinced many of them that all infidel speculations are empty and worthless4 ,look at the history of infidelity in ,france and ,scotland1 and then look at liberalism in ,america1 with ,col4 ,ingersoll leading the van4 ,can't you see that its only tendency is to loosen the restraints of morality and 8unchain the ,tiger80 ,the inconsiderate and inexperienced youth of both sexes1 have need of all the motives of religion to lead them from vice1 to support their virtue1 and retain them in its practice until it becomes habitual4 ,unbeliever1 if you read this article1 and remember that you have prepared one sentence to cut one cord that helps to hold the ,tiger1 burn it4 ,do not unchain the animal4 ,would you substitute infidelity for ,christianity1 for the religion of the ,bible8 ,would you do that in this country8 ,the enemies of this religion confess that its code of morals is holy1 just and good1 its doctrine is dignified and glorious2 its tendency is to purity and peace2 8it is pure1 peaceable1 gentle and easy to be entreated1 full of mercy and good fruits2 without partiality1 and without hypocrisy40 ,montesquieu1 the publisher of the ,persian letters and president of the parliament of ,bordeaux1 says3 8,the ,christian religion1 which ordains that men should love each other1 would1 without doubt1 have every nation blessed with the best political and civil laws1 because these1 next to religion1 are the greatest good that men can have40 ,the ,congress of #aggf1 speaking of religion1 declared it was the 8only solid basis of public liberty and happiness40 ,general ,washington said it was 8one of the great pillars of human happiness1 and the firmest prop of the duties of men and citizens40 ,what could we gain by exchanging it for ,deism1 or ,atheism1 or ,ingersollism8 ,infidelity proposes to break down the altars of prayer1 take away our ,bibles and our days of worship1 shut up the doors against all our ,sunday-schools and turn more than a million of children into the streets1 away from sweet song and moralizing influences1 and the pure morals of the gospel of ,christ4 ,this would bereave the living of his rule of life1 and rob the dying of the antidote of death4 ,shall we 8unchain the ,tiger0--unbelief8 ,what would it bring us in return8 ,its doctrines are vague speculations1 founded on neither data nor evidence2 some of its supporters believe in some kind of a ,god1 while some deny every ,god2 some few believe in the immortality of the soul1 while a majority1 with the ,french infidels1 write over the gates of their cemeteries1 8,death is eternal sleep40 ,in looking over the various infidel productions ,i think of the old saying1 8,be sure you are right1 and then go ahead40 ,there is no certainty in their speculations4 ,they do not agree even in their so-called moral code1 nor1 as yet1 in their doctrinal speculations4 ,lord ,herbert and the ,earl of ,shaftesbury thought that the light of nature would teach all men1 without the aid of revelation1 to observe the morality of the ,bible4 ,spinosa and ,hobbes1 one believing in a ,god1 and the other an ,atheist1 agreed that there was nothing that was either right or wrong in its own nature2 and also agreed 8that every man had a right to obtain1 either by force or fraud1 everything which either his reason or his passions prompted him to believe was useful to himself--duties to the ,state were his only duties40 ,blount1 another ,freethinker1 supposed 8that the moral law of nature justified self-murder40 ,lord ,bolingbroke claimed that it enjoined polygamy2 and neither ,blount nor ,bolingbroke prohibited fornication1 or adultery1 or incest1 except between parents and children4 ,but the vagueness and uncertainty of the doctrinal speculations of infidelity1 and the looseness and immorality of its rules of life1 are not the only objections to it4 ,its tendency1 wherever it has been introduced in the history of our world1 has been evil1 and only evil4 ,france1 at the commencement of her revolution in #aghi1 was an infidel nation4 ,the profligacy of the ,catholic priesthood1 and the demoralizing example of the ,regent1 ,duke of ,orleans1 and the infidel publications of ,voltaire and his associates1 had produced a contempt for religion through every rank of society4 ,the people of ,france were taught by their literati that the ,bible was at war with their liberties2 and that they could never expect to overturn the throne till they had1 first1 broken down the 8altar40 ,,here ,,the ,,tiger ,,was ,,unchained6 ,the lusts and passions of man were set free from the restraints of ,christianity1 and the bloody history of that nation1 in its devotion to infidelity1 should convince every man that infidelity only 8unchained the tiger06 ,it did ,france no good1 but much evil4 ,in this state of things ,france needed revolution1 as ,america did1 and had she engaged in it1 with as pious reliance upon ,god1 8and with the hearts of her people deeply imbued with the morality of the ,bible1 the scion of liberty1 carried in the honored ,lafayette from this country10 would have taken deep root1 and spread forth its branches2 and ere this time the fairest portion of ,europe might have reposed under its shadow4 ,but her principles poisoned her morals1 and her immorality disqualified her for freedom4 ,after expending an incredible amount of treasure1 and sacrificing more than two million of men1 she consented to be ruled by a despot in hope of some protection from her own people1 and in hope of some security against the animal which she had unchained4 ,with such facts before us1 let us ,americans decide1 not merely as ,christians1 but as 8patriots and fathers10 whether we will cling to the pure 8,gospel of ,jesus ,christ10 given to us in the love of ,heaven1 and in the blood of ,jesus1 rather than accept in its stead the empty1 ,godless1 ,christless1 good-for-nothing negative of ,god and ,christ and ,christianity4 ,the chief article in the unbeliever's creed is in these words1 8,i believe in all unbelief40 ------------------------------------- ,will not our friends take interest enough in the ,,journal to increase its circulation4 ,there is no reason why it should not be immediately doubled1 and thus placed upon a solid basis4 ,it is our intention to make it a thorough defense of the truth1 so much so that all will relish it1 and remember it with delight4 ,,the ,,struggle4 8,passion riots2 reason then contends1 ,and on the conquest every bliss depends40 ,there are two different periods in the history of the race2 in the history of a nation2 in the history of the church2 in the history of moral institutions1 and in the history of families4 ,in one the intellect predominates1 governs2 in the other the emotional nature1 or passion1 rules4 ,the fatal day in the history of a nation is the day in which1 through party strife or otherwise1 a nation of people becomes a seething mass of heated passion4 ,such a nation is like a vessel tossed upon the waves above the falls of some mighty river1 liable to be buried in the whirlpool of destruction4 ,men who are governed by their emotional nature are most liable to disappointments1 to troubles1 and difficulties of every kind4 ,select all the miserable families in your community1 tell me where they are1 and ,i will show you every family in which passion reigns4 ,troubles are generally legitimate children of passion4 ,who has not heard some one say1 repentingly1 8,if ,i had taken a second1 sober thought ,i would not have done it40 ,intellect belongs to our higher nature1 and emotion belongs to our lower4 ,intelligence is always at a discount where the emotional nature governs--it is subordinated to passion4 ,when the intellect governs1 the emotional is subjected to thought2 when either one predominates1 the other is brought under and enslaved4 ,these are the two conflicting elements in man's nature which are generally at war with each other1 leading to different and antagonistic results4 ,during the dark ages1 which were ushered in through the repudiation of intelligence and the predominance of passion1 the emotional reigned1 and men were governed by their passions in religious as well as state affairs4 ,the shadows of those ages still linger with some communities1 and with many persons in almost all communities4 ,our fathers had a long and hard struggle in getting away from an emotional to an intellectual state1 both in civil as well as religious affairs4 ,to-day1 if we consider this matter in connection with our people as a nation1 we may safely say that we are in an intellectual period--mind predominates4 ,this is an age of investigation4 ,the time was1 in the history of our fathers1 when a man was fined fifty pounds of tobacco if he refused to have his innocent child christened4 ,see the 8old ,blue ,laws40 ,the time was when innocent persons were tried1 condemned1 and put to death for being1 in the estimation of men1 clothed with disgraceful ignorance1 witches4 ,who has not heard of the 8,salem witchcraft80 ,the emotional nature of man1 as a ruling sovereign1 is losing its 8legal-tender value0 daily4 ,the time was when it brought a premium in the most of the churches in our country4 ,an aged father1 who is now 8across the river10 once said to me1 8,i was bewildered1 and mentally lost for thirty years of my life40 ,i asked him for the facts4 ,he1 answering1 said3 8,during all that period of time ,i was a church member1 and1 like some others1 ,i was a quiet1 still kind of a soul2 ,i paid my honest debts2 told the truth about my neighbors1 and lived a moral life to the very best of my abilities4 ,there were others of the same character4 ,the preachers frequently called us ,quakers--the ,quakers were a very still people in those days4 ,there were others who were reckless2 would not always tell the truth1 and would not always pay their honest debts1 but they were1 nevertheless1 very noisy in the church1 and the preacher always made most of those noisy fellows4 ,now10 said the aged father1 8,i never could understand that40 ,the old man lived to learn the secret1 and changed his religious relations and began a new life in religion4 ,the scenes of the 8,cane ,ridge revival10 down in ,kentucky1 have not been repeated in all our country for more than twenty years1 and it is probable that they never will be4 ,there are many things in the past history of religion in our country that will never be repeated4 ,did you ever witness a panic in a large congregation of people8 ,if you have1 you may go with me to 8,cane ,ridge40 ,before we start ,i wish to remind you of the fact that some of the most fearful panics known to men took place where1 and when1 there was no reason for them outside of existing ignorance4 ,fright or fear1 coupled with ignorance1 produced them4 ,now let us go to 8,cane ,ridge40 ,there we find the people in the emotional period in the history of religion4 ,they are laboring under the conviction that ,jehovah has concentrated all the powers of ,his ,spirit at ,cane ,ridge--it is the common conviction4 ,the people all over the country believe that ,god is there4 ,the excitement runs high1 and yet higher2 it becomes contagious--a religious epidemic--the ruling element being the thought of the presence of the ,divine ,majesty1 and the emotional nature of man the field of its operations4 ,all the ignorance of a genuine panic is there4 ,there were no well-informed unbelievers there to tear off the veil1 nor better-informed ,christians to remove it1 not even so much as a ,wesley to exonerate ,god by saying1 8,i am constrained to believe that it is the devil tearing them as they are coming to ,christ40 ,no6 ,there is one conviction at ,cane ,ridge--it is this3 ,jehovah is here4 ,it was a wonderful panic--a wonderful time4 ,persons going on to the ground immediately fell down like dead men2 got up with the jerks2 barked like dogs4 ,women went backwards and forwards1 making singular gestures2 their heads were bobbing with the jerks1 and their long hair cracking like whips4 ,the scene was beyond description4 ,the whole country flocked to the place1 and all were confounded with amazement and astonishment4 ,if such operations were religion1 our country has been without it for a long time4 ,then our old-fashioned camp-meetings--where are they8 ,they are things of the past4 ,i recollect leaving a camp-ground at a late hour of the night1 just as the congregation divided up into groups1 and the groups went out into the woods in different directions to engage in secret prayer4 ,we heard them when we were three miles away--strange secret prayer6 ,do you know anything of that kind of secret prayer at the present time8 ,the common pulpit teaching of those times was wonderful7871 but it was the best they had4 ,it was common for preachers to make war upon education4 ,they often boasted of their ignorance4 ,they claimed that education was not necessary to qualify a man for the pulpit4 ,the best school teachers in our country received twelve and fifteen dollars per month for teaching1 and boarded themselves4 ,teachers who now pay five dollars per week for board1 can't see how those old teachers got along upon such wages4 ,in those times it was very common for teachers to get their board for seventy-five cents per week4 ,the farmers claimed that it was unnecessary to educate their daughters1 and only necessary to educate their sons sufficiently well to enable them to keep their accounts4 ,beyond this it was often claimed that an education was of no value--that it only made rascals4 ,i recollect a very zealous old man who preached for the ,german ,baptists2 he is now 8across the waves40 ,once1 in my presence1 he disposed of a grammatical argument that was put against him1 by saying1 8,it is the wisdom of the world1 and it is sensual and devilish40 ,it was common forty years ago for preachers to say1 8,i don't know what ,i shall say1 but just as the ,lord gives it to me ,i will hand it to you40 ,as a general thing those men knew no better1 and the masses of the people knew no better4 ,the people were living in an ,emotional period1 with the exception of a few brave thinkers1 and they were governed by their emotions4 ,prosperity grew with the growth of our country1 and the standard of education was elevated4 ,the free-school system took the place of the old-fashioned subscription schools1 which were worth twelve dollars per month to the whole community1 and the brave thinkers continued stirring up thought in religion1 and giving the fathers and mothers trouble about this thing of confounding religion with passion1 and our country is now fairly at sea in an ,intellectual period4 ,religion is now a thing to be learned and lived--to be done4 ,those brave men who advocated an intelligent religion forty years ago1 were denounced1 from almost every pulpit in our country1 as a set of 8whitewashed infidels10 having no religion1 and 8without ,god in the world40 ,but that day is past1 and we are in a period in which mind generally predominates4 ,the language of the emotional is seldom heard4 ,in that period it was common to hear men ask3 8,how did you get religion80 8where did you get religion80 8where did you get religion80 8describe it20 8,o ,i can't1 it is better felt than expressed40 ,such language was in keeping with a very common idea which was held sacred in those days4 ,it was this1 the ,lord made general provision for the salvation of men1 but ,he makes a special application to the sinner4 ,of course1 all to whom salvation was not especially applied1 were1 in the estimation of those people1 lost4 ,there are a few communities yet that are away back in the emotional period4 ,there are men and women in every community who are yet governed by their emotional nature in matters of religion4 ,those persons have no use for an intelligent1 argumentative preacher4 ,they want a preacher who will say smoothe things2 and there is now and then a preacher who has no strength outside of the emotional4 ,we have an emotional nature4 ,i am glad that we have4 ,i would not be an intellectual wooden-man if ,i could4 ,but if you say1 the ,almighty ,father intended that we should be intellectually subordinated to our emotional nature1 and therefore governed by our passions1 or feelings1 ,i shall deny it4 ,he never intended that we should be governed by our passions4 ,to-day there are strong intellects in unbelief flooding our country with their literature4 ,how shall they be met8 ,mr4 ,moody says1 8,show them that you are full of ,jesus ,christ and the ,holy ,ghost40 ,very well4 ,can you do that without the truth8 can you do that without word or wisdom8 can you do it without 8contending earnestly for the faith once delivered unto the saints80 ,in the days of ,christ and ,his apostles the men who were full of the ,holy ,spirit had a mouth and wisdom which none of their adversaries were able to resist or gainsay4 ,the antichrists of our day can not be met successfully without reason1 without argument1 without meeting the intellectual demands of the times4 ,there are intellectual men and women in almost every community throughout our country--men and women with whom intelligence governs--who want the whys and wherefores upon every subject4 ,this class is on the increase at a rapid rate4 ,it does no good to set ourselves against reason1 and oppose the current of thought with our emotional nature4 ,in that way we may succeed with those who are governed by their emotional nature1 but the work1 when it is done1 is a work upon the passions1 and will soon pass away1 unless the intellect was at the same time enlisted4 ,the men who stir the world with thought1 and give intellectual cast to the age in which we live1 are to be met with thought1 met with reason1 met with truths tried in the crucible4 ,christianity has nothing to fear in the great struggle that is being carried on for the truth's sake4 ,but it has lost much for want of investigation4 ,our free school and ,sunday-school systems are making the rising generation better acquainted with both science and the ,bible1 and a thorough acquaintance with both is the one thing most needed in order to a better future in religion1 as well as in every other human interest4 ,the time is come when men will no longer be content to listen to grave errors and keep silence4 ,every truth is being put to the test of logic1 as well as fact4 ,it is natural to abhor a contradiction1 and it is right4 ,all truth is harmonious4 ,i am glad that harmony is demanded in religious teaching2 ,i often think of pulpit teaching away back thirty and forty years ago4 ,it used to be very popular in some parts to tell people that they could do nothing to better their condition in a future state1 and1 at the same time1 exhort them to do better4 ,i heard of three brothers1 ,george1 ,william and ,james4 ,george and ,william were 8,hard-shell ,baptist0 preachers2 ,james made no profession4 ,his wife was a member of ,george's congregation4 ,she was a great 8scold40 ,one day ,james failed to do just as she wished him1 and1 as a matter of course1 he received quite a lecture2 finally the woman told him that it was a great pity that he could not be a good man1 like his brother ,george or brother ,william1 and fell to exhorting him to do better4 ,he finally became impatient and said1 8,yes6 ,george and ,william were too lazy to work1 and ,i called them to preach4 ,they both stood it until the third call1 and then put on their hats and went4 ,you belong to ,george's church1 and ,i go there with you to hear him preach4 ,he tells me that ,i can do nothing1 and you tell me that ,i can do nothing2 and1 now1 what in the h--l do you want me to do80 ,such inconsistent teaching was always repugnant to common sense and natural reason4 ,there are many persons yet teaching the old falsehood that man is passive in his conversion1 notwithstanding the fact that men are imperatively commanded to convert--turn1 that their sins may be blotted out4 ,men are yet found in some ,protestant pulpits who spend a great deal of their time praying the ,lord to convert sinners4 ,it is often the case1 in their own estimation1 that the ,lord gives no heed to their prayers2 but this has happened so frequently that it does not seem to trouble them4 ,it has been a very short time since ,i heard a minister advocating what he was pleased to call 8miraculous conversion40 ,i thought1 if you are right in that matter1 why did the ,heavenly ,father command his love1 commended in the ,savior's death1 preached to every creature1 and still refuse to convert every creature8 ,what difference does it make to me whether the ,lord passed me by before ,he made ,adam1 or passed me by on yesterday8 ,and if ,he refuses to send ,his spirit and convert me until the last1 and ,i die in my sins and am lost1 who is to blame8 ,what is the difference between ,his neglect to convert me and the old ,calvinistic idea that ,christ did not die for me8 ,what is the difference between the spirit of ,god being partial to communities--going into one and converting a great many persons and passing others by--and ,god ,himself being partial8 ,and why does the ,spirit not convert all the unwilling sinners in the community where it does convert sinners8 ,these are questions that have been asked in a great many hearts before they yielded themselves up to skepticism and infidelity4 ,in the present stage of critical investigation it is well for all preachers to remember that there is but one question involving this whole matter of conversion and pardon1 and that is the question coupled with the ,judgment2 it is not1 ,how much did the ,heavenly ,father love me8 ,he loved all men4 ,it is not1 ,how much did ,jesus do for me8 ,he tasted death for every man4 ,it is not1 ,how much has the ,spirit done for me8 ,it gave the gospel to all nations1 as the power of ,god unto salvation to every man that believeth4 ,the one1 and only1 question in the ,judgment is1 ,what have ,i done for myself8 ,what are the deeds done in my body8 the deeds which ,i have done4 ,christianity is right thinking and doing2 all that is to be attained in the religion of ,christ is enjoyed in an upright life4 ,every theory that conflicts with this grand sentiment is smoked with the darkness of the dark ages4 ,the ,father of ,spirits made us with the power of choice--gave us the liberty to choose--and we all may have1 in the future1 just such a state as we will4 ,the ,father loved all2 the ,son died for all2 and the ,spirit says to all1 ,,come6 ,the great struggle that is now going on between ,christianity and unbelief is accomplishing two good things3 ,first1 it is making it hard for professors of religion to hold their errors1 or cover up hypocrisy2 and second1 it is making it hard for infidels and skeptics to hold on to their flimsy objections to the ,christian religion4 ,let the struggle go on6 ,,the ,,records ,,respecting ,,the ,,death ,,of ,,thomas ,,paine4 ,that he bitterly regretted the writing and the publishing of the ,age of ,reason we have incontestable proof4 ,during his last illness he asked a pious young woman1 ,mary ,roscoe1 a ,quakeress1 who frequently visited him1 if she had ever read any of his writings1 and being told that she had read very little of them he inquired what she thought of them1 adding1 8,from such a one as you ,i expect a true answer40 ,she told him1 when very young she had read his ,age of ,reason1 but the more she read of it the more dark and distressed she felt1 and she threw it into the fire4 8,i wish all had done as you10 he replied1 8for if the devil ever had an agency in any work1 he has had it in writing that book40--,journal of ,stephen ,grellet1 #ahji4 ,dr4 ,manley1 who was with him during his last hours1 in a letter to ,cheetham1 in #ahji1 writes3 8,he could not be left alone night or day4 ,he not only required to have some person with him1 but he must see that he or she was there1 and if1 as it would sometimes happen1 he was left alone1 he would scream and halloo until some person came to him4 ,there was something remarkable in his conduct about this period1 which comprises about two weeks immediately preceding his death4 ,he would call out during his paroxysms of distress1 without intermission1 #8,o ,lord1 help me6 ,god1 help me6 ,jesus ,christ1 help me6 ,o ,lord1 help me6' etc41 repeating the same expressions without the least variation1 in a tone of voice that would alarm the house4 ,it was this conduct which induced me to think that he abandoned his former opinions1 and ,i was more inclined to that belief when ,i understood from his nurse1 who is a very serious1 and ,i believe pious woman1 that he would occasionally inquire1 when he saw her engaged with a book1 what she was reading1 and being answered1 and at the same time asked whether she should read aloud1 he assented1 and would appear to give particular attention4 ,the doctor asked him if he believed that ,jesus ,christ is the ,son of ,god8 ,after a pause of some minutes he replied1 #8,i have no wish to believe on that subject4' #8,for my own part1' says the doctor1 #8,i believe that had not ,thomas ,paine been such a distinguished infidel he would have left less equivocal evidences of a change of opinion4' 0 ,the ,roman ,catholic ,bishop1 ,fenwick1 says3 8,a short time before ,paine died ,i was sent for by him40 ,he was prompted to do this by a poor ,catholic woman who went to see him in his sickness1 and who told him if anybody could do him any good it was the ,catholic priest4 8,i was accompanied by ,f4 ,kohlman1 an intimate friend4 ,we found him at a house in ,greenwich1 now ,greenwich street1 ,new ,york1 where he lodged4 ,a decent-looking1 elderly woman came to the door1 and inquired whether we were the ,catholic priests2 #8for1' said she1 #8,mr4 ,paine has been so much annoyed of late by other denominations calling upon him1 that he has left express orders to admit no one but the clergymen of the ,catholic church4' ,upon informing her who we were1 she opened the door and showed us into the parlor4 #8,gentlemen1' said the lady1 #8,i really wish you may succeed with ,mr4 ,paine1 for he is laboring under great distress of mind every since he was told by his physicians that he can not possibly live1 and must die shortly4 ,he is truly to be pitied4 ,his cries1 when left alone1 are heart-rending4 8,o ,lord1 help me60 he will exclaim during his paroxysms of distress3 8,god1 help me6 ,jesus ,christ1 help me60 ,repeating these expressions in a tone of voice that would alarm the house4 ,sometimes he will say1 8,o ,god1 what have ,i done to suffer so much80 ,then shortly after1 8but there is no ,god10 then again1 8yet if there should be1 what would become of me hereafter80 ,thus he will continue for some time1 when1 on a sudden1 he will scream as if in terror and agony1 and call for me by name4 ,on one occasion ,i inquired what he wanted4 8,stay with me10 he replied1 8for ,god's sake1 for ,i can not bear to be left alone40 ,i told him ,i could not always be in the room4 8,then10 said he1 8send even a child to stay with me1 for it is a hell to be alone40 ,i never saw1' she continued1 #8a more unhappy1 a more forsaken man4 ,it seems he can not reconcile himself to die4' 8,such was the conversation of the woman1 who was a ,protestant1 and who seemed very desirous that we should afford him some relief in a state bordering on complete despair4 ,having remained some time in the parlor1 we at length heard a noise in the adjoining room4 ,we proposed to enter1 which was assented to by the woman1 who opened the door for us4 ,a more wretched being in appearance ,i never beheld4 ,he was lying in a bed sufficiently decent in itself1 but at present besmeared with filth2 his look was that of a man greatly tortured in mind1 his eyes haggard1 his countenance forbidding1 and his whole appearance that of one whose better days had been one continued scene of debauch4 ,his only nourishment was milk punch1 in which he indulged to the full extent of his weak state4 ,he had partaken very recently of it1 as the sides and corners of his mouth exhibited very unequivocal traces of it1 as well as of blood which had also followed in the track and left its mark on the pillow4 ,upon their making known the object of their visit1 ,paine interrupted the speaker by saying1 #8,that's enough1 sir1 that's enough4 ,i see what you would be about4 ,i wish to hear no more from you1 sir2 my mind is made up on that subject4 ,i look upon the whole of the ,christian scheme to be a tissue of lies1 and ,jesus ,christ to be nothing more than a cunning knave and imposter4 ,away with you1 and your ,god1 too6 ,leave the room instantly6 ,all that you have uttered are lies1 filthy lies1 and if ,i had a little more time ,i would prove it1 as ,i did about your imposter1 ,jesus ,christ4' ,among the last utterances that fell upon the ears of the attendants of this dying infidel1 and which have been recorded in history1 were the words1 #8,my ,god1 my ,god1 why hast thou forsaken me8' 0 ------------------------------------- 8,some thousand famous writers come up in this century to be forgotten in the next4 ,but the silver cord of the ,bible is not loosened1 nor its golden bowl broken1 though time chronicles his tens of centuries passed by4444 ,you can trace the path of the ,bible across the world1 from the day of ,pentecost to this day4 ,as a river springs up in the heart of a sandy continent1 having its father in the skies2 as the stream rolls on1 making in that arid waste a belt of verdure wherever it turns its way2 creating palm groves and fertile plains1 where the smoke of the cottage curls up at eventide1 and marble cities send the gleam of their splendor far into die sky--such has been the course of the bible on earth40--,theodore ,parker4 8,i must die--abandoned of ,god and of men40--,voltaire4 ,,three ,,reasons ,,for ,,repudiating ,,infidelity4 ,bishop ,whipple says1 8,i once met a thoughtful scholar who told me that for years he had read every book which assailed the religion of ,jesus ,christ4 ,he said he would have been an infidel if it had not been for three things3 8 #8,first1 ,i am a man4 ,i am going somewhere4 ,i am to-night a day nearer the grave than last night4 ,i have read all that they can tell me4 ,there is not one solitary ray of light upon the darkness4 ,they shall not take away the only guide and leave me stone blind4 8 #8,secondly1 ,i had a mother4 ,i saw her go down into the dark valley where ,i am going1 and she leaned upon an unseen arm as calmly as a child goes to sleep upon the breast of a mother4 ,i know that was not a dream4 8 #8,thirdly1 ,i have three motherless daughters4 ,they have no protector but myself4 ,i would rather kill them than leave them in this sinful world if you could blot out from it all the teachings of the ,gospel4' 0 ,,col4 ,,ingersoll ,,is ,a ,,philosopher8 ,col4 ,ingersoll tells us that 8intellectual liberty1 as a matter of necessity1 forever destroys the idea that belief is either ,,praise ,,or ,,blameworthy1 and is wholly inconsistent with every creed in ,christendom40 ,again1 he says1 8,no man can control his belief40 ,notwithstanding all this1 his whole occupation consists in traveling over the country and blaming men1 women and children for their belief4 ,he is consistent8 ,he is a ,scientist1 you know8 ,he does nothing that is absurd8 ,he is a philosopher1 sitting on the bones of ,moses and making grimaces at the faith of ,moses1 when neither ,moses nor his friends could control their belief8 ,he works hard for no purpose if men can't control their belief1 and does men injustice1 ,,if ,,he ,,blames ,,them ,,for ,,their ,,faith8 8,no man can control his belief40 ,then why labor to make your brother of humanity believe that he is but-- ,the pilgrim of a day8 ,spouse of the worm and brother of the clay1 ,frail as the leaf in autumn's yellow bower1 ,dust in the wind1 or dew upon the flower8 ,a child without a sire2 ,whose mortal life and transitory fire ,light to the grave his chance-created form1 ,as ocean wrecks illuminate the storm4 ,and then-- ,to-night1 and silence sinks forevermore6 ,if these-- ,the pompous teachings ye proclaim1 ,lights of the world and demi-gods of fame1 ,the laurel wreaths that murderers rear1 ,blood-nursed and watered by the widow's tears1 ,seems not so foul1 so tainted1 and so dread1 ,as the daily night-shade round the skeptic's head4 ,think of ,ingersoll at his brother's grave6 ,,life ,,of ,,elder ,e4 ,,goodwin4 ,this interesting 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