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Digital page images are linked to the text file. r Itf TT J ic t I1iJ j ii r J II J f 1 1FiN4J BLUJ U n GRASS BLADEPIer DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVijTHEM DO UNTO YOUCONFUCIUSR0 J 20soTIIIO PAINEAN 41L v 28 iSr 1L EDITED BY A HEATHEN IN THE INTERISTOF GOOD c MORALSPUDLISIfED WEEKLY 100 A YEAR IN ADV ANCc rIVQLXNO12 or LEXINGTON KY SUND Y MAY 5 E M 301r Iliis OF THE BLADE Issue for one year 100 5u u u 260 TKKM8Jt00 per year In advance inclubsof five cent foreign eorlptionIJie b MAKI AM drafts an Express orders payabloto the BLADE Lexington Ky DO NOT order your paper discontinued without pa ing arrears IKtUemWHENthis office giving old as well as new addrossj send as fBpHherOvtrlon of publication ast Tbir d r KNTjmHD at therPost offlo at ton Ky asSecond Glass Mall Address all communications BLUE GRASS BLADE P0 Box 893ILexlHgto KMtnoky yearinClxbRates aid Sample Ceplti Vbe BiADu will be sent for cents a year each for any order for FIVE or more Sample copies will be sent tree AGENTS FOR THE BLADE QjAnybodyBLADH by I papers or more Behind tile Bare 81408 9100 My second book Behind the Bars written while was the guest of your Uncle Samuel In the penitentiary at Columbus where he at the suggestion of the Christian brethren Is now on tap likewise on top It la bound In maroon and gold and Is hound to get there Ell The pages are IoThepaid to any part of the world and I am collector for this district thas a beau tiful halftone picture of fraternally a 0 so THE DAMNED STUFF CALLED ALCOHOL believe that alcohol to a certain degree demoralizes those who make It those who sell It and those who drink It believe from the time It Issues to from the coiled and poisonous worm of the distillery until It empties Into the hell of crime death and dishonor- It demoralizes everybody that touches It do not believe that anybody can contemplate the subject without coming prejudiced against this liquid crime All you have to do Is to think of the wrecks upon either bank of this stream of deathof the suicides of Insanity- of the poverty of the Ignorance of the distress of the little children tugging- at a the faded dresses of weeping and despairing wives asking for bread of the men of genius It has wrecked of the millions who have struggled with thdevilishAnd when you think of the Jails of the almshouses of the prisons and of the scaffolds upon either bank do not wonder that every thoughtful man Is prejudiced against the damned stuff called alcohol ROBERT INGERSOLL SPREAD THE NEWS Send 10 cents In silver or stamps- to to the Liberal Subscription Agenoy 128 Locust St Ottawa Tfixnn receive during the next month lea of all leading Prfiethouuht Splr ualltist Liberal and New Thought papers sail magazines 7 t From Buffalct Express SUNDAY OPENING TALKI 1OLD ARGUMENTS REPEATED Moncure Conway and E Darrow Speak In FavSr of Never I Closed Gates DlrectoGeneral Exlcutlvopany representing the Hoard of Di rectors yesterday afternoon gave n tavorthoon Sunday NewYorkand C E Darrow a prominent Chi InfnvorThe meeting was held In the Direct orQenerals office at StlGoolock Mr otficlnlsan tho friends of tho Sunday opening movement were desirous of giving putllcltyhowever that the hearing previously 811nllayollenlng belletor So newspaper men were not admitted titd0 o quite willing to give out the Hub stance of what they had said in favor befOlodid not represent any organization non Chrletian element but he had a study of tho character of lu and had come to the conch that the majority of people belii S they ought to be allowed to speiMi as thel wish He pointed to fact that Luther practically halt tr9mintbty eo ui r they were tree In thatrespwjt Ho quoted from the treaty made by Wash higtou with Tripoli In referring particularly to the opening sentence which reads As tho government of the United States Is In no sense founded on tho Christian religion anti onDr Conway said he was not antag nolzlng tho church in any way He was not seeking a victory over the JoJxposltlontlco to thousands of Americans by re fusing to open tho Exposition gates on Sundays The liberal thought of the country favored Sunday opening closing Dr Conway believes bo contrary to the Constitution which says this country shall establish no religious Institutions The directors should eliminate the question ot religion The religious people do not cry out against the operation of street cars of Sundays It was the opinion of Dr Conwayw that for every man who Exposition on Sundays thousands would benefit Besides ho believed ns that there are millions of people in or tho country who could see the Exposl only on Sundays Their work prevent them from seeing It at any other time Those people have rIght to see Exposition they have right to get an opportunity for doing The question as to the profit In on keeping the gates open on Sundays J101sencehavo not the chance to see the Expo- sitIon on any day but Sundays should on have an opportunity to pass through tho gates on Sunday Dr Conway hoped that the gates would ho opened and that visitors would be allowed see everything that was goadBMr Darrow covered same ground In talk He placid particular stress on fact that Sun day was the only day upon which the workingman could visit the Ex position The workingman has an much right as any one else to see the show ho is as muck interested as any ono In learning what progress Amer- Ica has made the lost century side that the many works of art that evenirgood Impression on the minus of the people Then what would the thou Is sands of people do on Sundays It they could not go to the Exposition Mr his Darrow wanted to know He thought e of the In fa fovonAt conclusion of the hearing Director gennrnl Buchanan said that a meeting of the Board of Directors probably would be held later In the week and action taken on the matter ed MAY COLLINS MEMORIAL Several letters have been written our Liberal friends In Cincinnati anti various points In Kentucky ask bePjJWithout t r r yftr lI tln nponded very favorably towards tl meeting and it nothing happens in ti meantime the meeting will be held yond doubt As heretofore It will at the grave of May Collins in tt Lexlngtou cemetery Among speakers for tho occasion there will CboICnufinaii and several others of a local character The Freethinkers eel talnly owe a debt of gratitude to th aUgetlag on this occasion Jrpors Buffalo Enquirer PROTEST FOR THE WORKING CLASSE- Sunday a Day of Rest Not Constltu tlonally a Religious Sabbath Is the Opinion of Dr Conway Moncuro D Conway of New York Doctor of Literature a degree con erred on him by tho leading Metho UniteStates n i Buffalnrthls moniing from New Yor and win address thu directors of th FanAmerT nn Exposition this attc noon oil the Sunday opening of the Exposition Mr Conway Is a venerablelooking and scholarly man has made an exhaustlvM ntudy or great exhibitions Ho attended the Paris lair of 1867 arid described It in his able article In Ha r pots at that time Since then he has visited tilts at Brussels Vienna the Centennial at Philadelphia In Paris Fair In 1889 the Chicago Worlds Fair and has Just returned from the recent ParlH Exposition Consequent ly he should he an authority on fairs Ifi general and especially on tho point of Sunday opening Jar Conway states that he comes to Bulfilo at a financial loss to himself to advocate Sunday opening because believes it his duty to do so in tho Itttr eat ot tho laborer tho skilled actintnand mankind In general cmavsarrttax people wuooupuaB auudaTT opening and desires no victory over theist but is simply trying to protect the poorer classes to whom Sunday closing will be a bitter dud cruel IIIRI appointment The idea of Iho Pan Amorlean Ex position sold Jie is a grand ception and Buffalo this summer will havo the opportunity of upholding the dignity and advancing culture of tho whole United States His arguments that the fair should not be closed on Sunday In short are that religion should not enter Into such a matter Sunday legally he says Is a day of rest for employee and not constitutionally a religious Sabbath any moro than tho Jewish Sabbath or that of the Seventhday Baptists Therefore in his opinion the talc should he opened or closed according to the Judgment of the dl rectors looking at It train a financial viewpoint Taking the case of millions of poorer New Yorkers who to see the Exposition Dr Con ay says that the great majority ot them eau not see It except on Sunday they can not afford to lose Urns stay away from business to come hero during the middle ot tho week With n halfholiday on Saturday during tho summer months and all day Sunday to go on most ot them can afford to come without losing Is much time If the Exposition Is closed Sundays they will go to Coney Island or other resorts as they have in the past and Buffalo will lose He also asserts that the extra labor Sunday due to the opening will not bo the onehundredth part of one per cent In comparison with number benofitted cnturyishop Potter Is the President of S DAR ROW FOR SUNDAY OPEN INGII teThisono of the ablest lawyers of Illinois will address the directors of the PantAmerican Exposition In behalf of American Secular Union presenting arguments why the gates should ho open every Sunday to the people Mr Darrow Is more than a paid rep resentatlve in this case If indeed he of paid for his trouble at Yet a young man he has devoted much of time and talents to fighting the battle of the people for Industrial soul religious liberty His address there re will not merely votes tho opln to liwhichhim here but of all tho people who bpld that freedom may be solely trustteven in a matter of servance The Secular Union ought not to be only organization to present this sde of the advocates of Sunday open That organization represents very Is small fraction of tho community- so to tar as Freothought Ideas are con corned Thousands of church ntem and earnest religious people boo that there Is nothing Inconslsf In their belief with the opening of ExpoalUonionSunday Buffalo En a Editorial Y fiM lrl WRITIeheRS ASSOCIATION cabershjiig Its Object Is to Insinuate ourtlll Into the commercial pros whlr now subsidized by the cle r gy gain par Just share ot pubd blsIIgrIonstnklnra pla e ho writes a protest thenbers lit all parts fcf the country and protestsObsetracted widespreAd attention ed publicSh obsen d that editors are Inclined give attention to a correspondent from a dlstT nce while they will consign the BameffBcntlment written by a local w the wastebasket As iin illustration we clip from tho Cincinnati Enquirer of April 20 following letter from Chas D 1 untie ot Snmoth III If I had writ ten It would have most Aral ably liven It no attention mewraTook serve by recent papers that two of yodF lawabiding citizens Mr Oh stcln nil Mr McOrath have been ar restete imprisoned and fined under charRs preferred ot obstructing the speaklngthat ho Salvation Army had a beta occupied the sumo spot Therefore itr Editor I ileslro to agalnij such tyrannical Invasion of dlvldwl rights and prerogatives our istltutlon obviously declares that e rights ot tree speech shall ho rammeled and the privileges th shall not be prolilblted Be cat e happens tp be a disciple wed Zoroaster the Fox Ingersollo arj 1k f5 1 RtIIelll1l blirel respe et I th ome of the bravt when such persecutions occur dally Is not this a tlnm to call a halt CHAS D ArnniDK I SV the good effects of the work being lions by this association and re great that can not more actively Join In the work my time being taken up with other duties I see Liberal artl doe In papers that never Inserted anything of the kind before The success of this organization lies In the fact that Its members put their John Hancocks to what they wrlttThey sot audience because they make themselves known and so command respect As an illustration Some time ago the Board of Education of Chicago at the solicitation of the Catholic and Episcopalian element was about to close the public schools on Good Friday Bro J B Seattle of that city protested In tho public press and also took steps toward testing tho matter legally all of which was aired In the papers and become a subject of gen oral comment Tho result was that the schools were not closed A few others followed Bro Beattio with their protests but there should have been thousands The trouble with us we dont come out with our opln Ions at the right time If wo did we command tho attention of the lIteRs They snub us because to all appearances there Is nono ot us When you see what tho action of one little letter accomplished you may Imagine what our success would bo if all Joined the shout Why dont you lend a hand Lately the Methodist church purrB the Trercont House one of hotels In Chicago The church Intends to make tho building a branch Its Northwestern University Hero this property has paid n tax to city of C000 Having passed In limn possession of a religious InstI tax has been exempted Below Is a letter of Bro Bcnttles o thin Chicago Tribune touching this ofsubject Is It Just Chicago March 2dEditor of the frlbllneIn the real estate column todays Tribune Is an account of the sale of the Tremont House to the Northwestern University Tho ac cpwnt states that under tho new own crshlL the property will bo exempted in from taxation which has amounteda about 0000 a year By prln clplo of Justice can the small taxpayer e compelled to pay an added tax to It this deficiency Would It not amount to exactly tho same thing 1tw he university continued to pay tho a year tax and a lIke amount were appropriated from the public treasury each year as a donation to tho university The principle Involved thnttho Is compelled by law contribute to tho support of an In stltultoh that does not belong to tho publiH J n HEATTIE NovCitif every Liberal In Chicago of wlon bndWO1d Thoy might not be able IU j showingtlllr rooIshould be theirs Besides all sue agitations gain friends and aro edu to the masses The Press Writers are on tho right track Our Liberal papers do not rench very tam beyond tho Liberal n He A little article right to the po misn ether Frcethought paper i Lot th good work go on Dto1WILL BURN BOOKS ATGRAVE Athetatt fltohis grave Marcus A Miller educator and political writer wlll lio laid to rest In Floral cemetery tomorrow aft crnoonW thera n gioveland manager of tho Mosler Safe Company In Kansas City and gener of tho Smith Premier Type Company In St Louis lIe was follower of Ingersoll until a short ago when he agalnwnbrnced tho thnfit his Illnesswas fatal ho asked his rel tires to burn the books of Ingersoll his grave as an expiation and In hopIs that it might show others the sopht- e try of their teachings Tho books wl bo lighted by the Rev Samuel Dn clergyned as the casket Is being lowered Into the ground Blnghampton N YJ tc egram to the Chicago Chronicle 11ItMlr nccoivntlng for that stat mettL Tim r most probable tit a a a r r talka out dead lnfitloi or It another- caso like that old tel jvnggoner or Cleveland or It may eat the mans- mind became weakeueu by and In second childishness went to the religion of his childhood or last anti least It may bo true A preacher and a gang of people who are capable of piling a lot of fldel books on their friends grave burning them are not worthy of ere dence especially on any point pertain- Ing to religion An Infidel who would ask that a pile of Bibles should be burnt on bis grave would Magnet all a other Infidels To best of my knowledge belief there Is no such man as Marcus A ailller known to American Tnfldol propagandists unless he was a very obscure man It any Infidel knows anything about him please furnish the Information- to the Blade for publication I Iftive written to Uov Samuel Dunham Blngbampton N Y about It and will print any Information that I may get DR WILSONS Lecture In Pamphlet Form Since publication of Dr Wilsons lost article in the columns of the lade we have been In receipt of many letters train our subscribers In asking If It Is our purpose llsh the article In pamphlet form Everybody ot Who has written to us onlhe subject expresses great satisfaction and pleasure In reading the article ami believe that it will do a great deal good as a missionary document Some have stated their willingness to subscribe for the pamphlet and In view of this we now ask our readers to write us what they think about the matter We are not able financially to un this article than In tho Virgin Mary- ssurance that enough can bo sold to pay for the cost of publication and If Is the wish of our friends that we pubTi tho article we wish they would rite to us concerning the matter stating how many ot the pamphlets they will bo able to take There Is a great deal more matter inthls article than in tho Virgin Mary pamphlet and It will cost more to print It We can do this for IB cents n copy or eight copies for ono dollar The pamphlet will contain a portrait tho author Dr Wilson Wo shall e glad to hear from you on the sub- Ject J AN ATHEIST HERO fromlmTribute to n Plain Soldier The Star unconsciously has paid ft splendid tribute to an Atheist as It tIwill be seeh that the hero quotes from Ingers ill declaring that he wfll jcnothing about going to a klngdomond occupying a mansion in his Fathers house It Is very doubtful if tho Tlraesi rAttoan nnvt frnnklv innla fthoand Atheist may possess tho very t 4tIbraveryNature is kind toa man when she f puts into his heart tho fire of patriot y ft ism the bravery of a warrior and the roughaman as as a woman So hero Is a tribute to MaJ William Monaghan paymaster In tho regular army who diedsuddenly ot heart dies ease at Manila He fought all through countryt P was one flaglovlngsol dlers whoso greatest desire Isto tile llIn harness r whilen c steep mountain sides He reo tonin Cleveland be s 1masse he saM they might worryJday there came a swift p ng that caused his face to become ashenrlaid a hand over f dtetLam v frli nLITlHl Itt lirfaHmtrfuvijaii t nf tf t lamiQirtUtT age that It te worthy of space Her + lls I want to return and close lifes chapter In our own proud land Soon cuamberlnkThe world has hind but little pleasure and respite from care for me and leaving it will give me little concern myd Ti vivo me Dear Friend I trust I may over be found where death and duty may nobly blend Farewell The above words of Monaghan are grand funeral sermon within them ariddlire of tho struggles to overcome them of loye and courage and dutyo and faithfulness and how he hold death in contempt and faced thesum without any of the nature ofe the quarry slave In his heartJBW A MEMORIAL Free Thinkers Preparing for Annual Celebration In This City In May local Freethinkers of Lexlngtom r and vicinity under the management ot Editor Charles C Moore are arrange Ing for another memorial mcotingr over the grave of May Collins the high priestess of infidelity who died Boston some few year ago Negotiations are pending for some prominent speakers from various parts tho country to bo present at the meeting and deliver their eulogies over the dead Freethinker Accord Ing to present arrangements tho me mortal services will bo held at the gravy In the Lexington cemetery on Sunday May 12th May Collins will bo remembered by many Lexlngtonlans as a resident of Midway where her mother still llvcsi and was a frequent visitor to this city During her last yenta on earth she became an ardent advocate ot the doctrines of FreethougUt and traveled to several of the larger clUes whero she delivered lectures upon those subjects It is said that a largo crowd ot tho adherents of her creed will be present in Lexington on that day LICKING STAMPS When a postage stamp that has beensent uio has been licked and stuck to tho paper In which It is enclosed please send mo with It a notarial cer tlficato that It has been licked by a pretty woman CAMPBELLITE DYNAMITE At Stlllwator 0 T there was a quarrel In the Campbelllto church about the of an organ and one fac tlon blow up tho church with dyna mite IL pForthe Blue Grass Blade i HOW WE CAME To Have the New Testament Scriptures I By Dr C W Stowe Salinnl Kansas JThousantls of Bible readers belle veut modern pro duclion known as the New Testament 1V without doubt the revealed word God and that It Is therefore perfe ly reliable and that by believing J teachings they will be saved from ti devil They believe its precious promises of future place of torment and olh equally debasing Many Christians are disposed to believe lhal reasonable doubts exist as to the a thentlolly and genuineness of the 0 Ircstament but that the evidence of Is unimpeachable a Let us examine some of the proof r 6 tho Now Testament that is general rolled upon Tho books comprising the Not Testament were written a l J long limb after ChrIst is said to ha j lived and wcre written by priests at I WHNJ8tev sn11fUypKrsond whose flames they up rele o th e most LthjcgaII None of the four gospels were wr I arller than thirty years after ti death of Christ That may be a cle teal error I think he means 130 years I Editor Moore I T The first time any mention of tl I I four gospels was made was by u I h Christian Father lreneus in till year f 13 nearly years after time I t of Christ Seethe London cdlllon of l Dr Lardricrs Works in 12 volumes fK 1788 Vol 2 pages 154159 The publication of Father tjjr book against heresies Is thought beenfedthe as prior to that time Is It not strap I that they are not mentioned by an the Apostolic Fathers who livedot about that time nor by the early Chris V Han Fathers who flourished at end of the first and the commence byVI Clemens Itomnnus who nourished I D 96 nor by Hermon who lived A D I nor St Ignatius who lived 10- nor Folycarp 108 nor Papias 116 f Justin Martyr 140 Tatlah 172 nor HcgesIppiiB A D 176 vProf Dodwell In his writings upon dayIt wrlterabr the tierces as Clemens Ro f manus Barnabas Hermes Ignatius i f Polycarp who wrote tatter all theand Now Testament writers But In 4 Hermes not one word Is spoken co earning the New Testament neitli rll1e v f la ono word about It found In any T the other evangelists writings flrsI to mention e tour gospels does not occur until 150 years after f Christ Is said to have lived and Ir neusgivos noftlhcr authority for the genuineness of the Scriptures than his f swat c ffia priest like IreniuajHhould say General George Washington a man of lived In Lexington Ky who did wona derful things raised the dead caused by tho deaf to hear the mute to speak In cast out devils by the hundreds turn ed water to wine and all this sort of thing and that John Doe Seth John ton Jack Felt and Henry Whacker wrote of the wonderful things this man dld and even these four wit nesses were never heard of in the pub v lie press nor In the history of our country nor mentioned by any other wrIter of the tines in which he is said to have lived what credit should bo given to the tale of such a priest And yet upon just such evidence Christianity is founded This Ireneus is said to be a Chris llan Father credulous ignorant su persllllous cunning and dishonest asII will be seen from reading from Dr Whllleys De Script Interpret page 73 where in alluding to the conduct of Father Papias the Doctor complains till of their handing down the actions of the apostles and theIr disciples from paltry versions and dubious reports the and having scandalously deluded the It whole world with fables and lying narrations Can confidence be placed ells in the word of such a man When Ireneus tells us that the four the slgospelsMurk Luke and John are we not Jus titled In believing that this statement is like the rest of his productions mere fables and lying narrations be When we call to mind the reasons glv en by this dishonest old priest that of the gospels are Inspired our con vie lions are greatly strengthened that it is a put up Job on the part of Ire T neuss of Listen to his reasons Because there are glut four quarters of the ory world and every cherub has four cop faces What reasonings How worthy a priest And we are Infidels a because we can not believe such non but senslcal stuff I Would rather bo an infidel with by reason untrammeled cholsest of God lo man is sareasonbelieve that God requires me to eve anything at which my reason revolts to Let believe the yarn who wIshUi I ca tmJ1a others were In circulation atl the time Ireneus first mentioned to frti gospels some of which had ex and fisted for nearly a hundred years and were considered genuine by the early the Christians and were actually read as larly other saisifconsideredandls Amylnles as corrected by Jones In his treatise on the Canon copied to into Horns collections are as follows Gospels of St Peter St Thomas St of MatthIas St Bartholomew St Phil to Thadeus and Darn I felabasip St Thomas St and St John and the Revelations of ed St Paul St Thomas St Stephen and tin the great Apostle There were fitly altogether of these Gospels Acts and Revelations which were considered genuine and by only believing in these turb that men could Bovelatlonsthat ifbewe now I Sj i 44 l j trt den uneed as spurious l8 fables andyylng narralloire Which Gospels Arts and Revelallons thoseIwriting of the book I have quoted consitlered the genute and they may be the mo nearly correct but how do wo kn whlchjare and which are not spurious were to decide It would be in fay thct former If for no other revs their reJection as Christ was re Jetted by his counlrymeh It Is a tact that the best part ctthe Gospels Acts and Revelations an eaflv day were rejected and pass toed upon as fables and lying npr O Clirisllanily In what quandary Yottnr placed by rejecting the true gospels allowing them to pass Into obscurlt whlloyonthnve sanction those that are false and spurious IIIProt Robert Cooper exclaims Ii stony nlllons of credulous wretch ss have you by this moans led to stern all111Iythe wrong gospels theiour canon learned men of recent times favor sP tai tifh rtso discards UookaC Illi In tom nti any Iff l un 17mre o ore any one sayH he ue so weak as to lmngi wmocotf1 sacre and unerring guides while Barnabas Thadetts Clement Timothy Hernias Ignallus anti Polycarp who were equally companions of the same Apos tics were pfcno authority at all Rbsoy we could recover the Gospels Hebre fltid those of the giveya epistle aetuOy exists by C16me whichC by een with the Gtejiel of Luke and t BoUebrt sayB Book pngecjlft From era Christ until latter end of the fourth centiSSihere was no aulhorlz ed colleclloiw the writings of tho New Testame1 All was doubt iipuie for fret three hwl years during yery time that every thing should here been certain and satisfactory was doubtful r teen hundred ago how cai U certain now Had It not fieoi for Orlgen a aria- among at the Christians of the middle of third century the books whit were rejected Isf sul1rlous and Tgla narrations have been canon ZLto cd in all probability with those thave al at or they mfg e been retaljyjl to the total exclu praseent per otiwas so after gohi y Jylroteli several c0t n cl of bishop Tho nr at deciding n books were Gods which wersHpt This was yes nw as we vote a la the Kansas Legislature How did IhMrouncil know which JDIdSIhaehave had received a majority of otes that were cast for rejection 01havetallied In which event our Bible would have been quite different from what Is now GItheSIIythrough the presumption of a cunning old priest and finally deter mined to be genuine by the dicta of a ble council of priests equally as deceit as hlmselCerThis simple fact alone is enough to ing convince any unprejudiced person that Bible has no more to do with De y than a comic almanac Tltt1 priests composing these coon no doubt had an eye to their own bi bread and butter They were paving way to make their livings by en aving the minds of the people They new from the start that they must make no bud break In their voting ability They must make a Bible to called the word of God Afterward The they moat cram It down the throats the people Jf they failed they knew their arfvocatlnn was gone Let ihe quote from an eyewitness he Christian writer Tindal page 195 his work enlllled RItes ot the Christian Church says St Greg his letter to Pros NaZlnlzenlIn that he fled assent bites of bishijps because he never saw good and Ifappy end of any council for that they did more increase thanI decrease the evil that the of contention and amblllon always overcame their reason Nazlanzen further ys as an excuse for never attending council Because nothing is as be heard there but geese and at woo fight without understand ins pus another Thus we have It an eyewitness that nothing was near be heard in these councils hilt cranes geeseI ed Again Tindal tells us in sti memorial council of Nice particu at which council Emperor ConI the piantlno presided This council d to have been held A D 327 that these accusations and libels which e bishops gave In of one another from the emperor were now extant and robnbllit p wo should have such rQUsl scandal that tow would have boast of first ecumenical council here with such fury the bishops upon one another insomuch that not the emperor by a trick burn their church memorials probably p must have broken up In confusion Ga After that coujicll was over the blshopc made grft umult and dls nco and were ft unruly that the Emperor was obliged to toll thorn that they would not bo more quiet and aceable in the fuftare he would no I c A j Xl I T BLUE longer continue lira expeditions tfo Infidels hilt mUst rotnrniwMcp them the bishops In order tl uI tho confusion anti disorder fasrogreat among them especially Ir synods that II son tlltlcs a o blows as for instance DloaCor bishop of AlexnhUrlacuffed aijljKj2k Cronre s IWwillI such fury that within UtrefftiuH fforh mops hang the creed ot the chore tTindal further say t For t they were most obstinate as to tr- or they were most flexible ns1o at anti in their councils compliment emperor with whatever creed it toIIccantor reenact they had oro recanted1 Nay so very variable wars it yAs IWbut write creeds while wjfir lot it words and raise quesUos 0 alentities while we e1aUout is Iblbtclll and lriiL4nHir s Ie wo contend In part fittwr q art set ie that are ChrlatsNo lO recSvcry year of the Lord a new creed c n ing God nay every change of Iho moon our faith changed and lter ed m Paplus In his Synodicon i ti Cotutcll lutarins s nguCtielr lifshos tiro to ascertain which books werolJode Prifrs he by putting nil the books utfitr a erahoy would Jump upon the table will the salsa ones would remain under Who lotto disbelieve the auBfJnll city nod Inspiration of the Scrl IUres now EpliestiasverInformed fUeJJCpand the whole city resounded wi fnc Itontbliss After the council oftab icen fhhthe other In D 680 The cd inn medChe council of restored them ilpMho former canon As Prof Cooper says Thus Jol1Itsect anti altered as the spirit o ac lion dictated eelov as Invented which occurred D 1442 the word of God rams fIncomparative seclusion The prle ygaltar or omIt Just as it was s t wh e Ie would rend the Bible that a bli actually Int In the Englbi fJlIameJlt prohibit the reading book y any one not nut I ed by law loijlc so Known illole became more accttts ble to laity and what was teswIt only laid the foundation fowun belief The New Testament publl had Evanston In 1807 mIstake itr late Editor contains only the scope of Luke Afts ten of Pauls epistles Revelations and even these ate said to abound with numerous and manifest Interpretations The gospels Matthew Mark and John he reject as spurious fiction of the second cThefour gospels and the Revelations The Baptists the followers of to do not receive the gospel of Matthew The New Testament have undergone so many changes since its first canonization that no man knows anti It is impossl to determine with any degree of certain what the original was EV teachings bear evidence of Lour been borrowed from the Vedas This Is plainly seen by comparing the birth and teachings of Christ with those of Buddha and Christ Roth Buddha and Christ were consldqrcd on their followers to be saviors of the lIuengeftndbothturned Both mothers wore of er shadowed by the holy ghost Both ere announced by heavenly mcsien Fern Both were foretold In a drebm husbands of bout Maya and Mary it renounced connubial rights until the yorelocatedvisited by wise men who presented glfls and tell down and worshiped them In both Instances angelic vies sensate descended to announce glad tidIngs of great Joy Both May halo and Herod were jealous of tHeir kingdoms and both instituted a any who might seek lo dethrone them Both Instituted a sl wio children of two years and under 27 thtaaattar several days he was found In assembly of savants who mare cd the childs wisdom and understand Jesus was also missed by its tars parents and after searching far lad ho was found in the Ie rest among the doctors who were nslonwh at tho boys wisdom and err jnBuddhaprince of darkness approaches tend weatthI has the Vedas the tempter ts from angels descend to salute Buddha tnlthebeJactssages of the Bible The devil O thehlteredBuddha walked on the waters of tpe low nges Christ walked on the waters how whyhaAt the death of Buddha the caflh trembled and the rocks split wt o do intAtIf 3 rt 1 dr r BLADE anytilt groves were manyI bodlw of the saints which slept arose As to their dogmas both taught that ballet In n supernatural mediator was necessary to salvation Christ loos cell fire and endless punishment ItI bnddha taught that there was a pr gious number of malicious demo and both taught the vanity of earthly joys Both depreciated labor Industry and the penult of worldly honors and advantages both taught monastic vows of poverty and abstinence and the sinfulness ot scepticism love of enemies submission to Injustice and tyranny and unholy affiliations Buddha advised believers to gather treasures which neither thieves cnn steal nor fire find water can spoil Christ advised believers to lay treasure In heaven where neiti moths nor rust can corrupt nor thieves brook through and steal Bnddha d Ignorant teacher was thntthe guiding the blind Jesus said the Ignorant teacher Was like the blind leading the blind As Buddhists dote their tells from the year bat before Christ and as their religion Is so similar to that of the Christians Is It not reasonable to believe the latter was taken from the former It seems so to me particularly when we consider the fact that the dhlsts gospel was preached on to shores of the Mediterranean sea many Idenrs before Christ was born alComment1 regard the above as a very valuable article and It In per feet accord with my Information along that line most cordially welcome Dr Stowo to the pages of the Blade Prom Buffalo Courier 1 ANOTHER FREETHINKER WRITES Buffalo Woman Glad That Exposition Directors Will Hear Both Sides of Sunday Opening Question Editor of The Courier motIthdPanAmerican Exposition sufllclently Frofe argument to the board In regard to the opening of the Exposition on Sun lay to offset It possible that of the clergy that has already been present ed If our people have employed Clarence S Darrow Esq to come here and present the legal aspect of the case the citizens of Buffalo should turn out In full force and listen to ono of the most impressive speakers In America The religious aspect as presented by Dr J B Wilson the President of the A S V was doubtless read and enjoyed by all of your rationally and 1VrIlse n one of thtj most prominent phyb clans iiiCl pn Jlf9 lift is kno n o th writers In congress was elected President by a unanimous vote In his address of ac ceptance he Was emphatic In pointing out the duties of the women members of the association Among them was the necessity of liberal letterwriting and directed to the clergyy for common courtesy would denfand a reading anti If they read they would begin to think analyze and then doubt and when the theologian begins to doubt he becomes an infidel- feel that I have done my duty at this end of the ministerial circuit and congratulate myself on my success In some of socalled bright dst theologians to say Im inclined think Im a doubter I have no in clihatlon to thresh over the old straw but inasmuch as Dr Wilson did not quote all the Scripture referring to the first or seventh day of the week want to soy there are two distinct reasons yet contrary why the seventh day of the week requires special atten tion The first biblical notice of the Snb bath is in Ex 2011 For In six lapsh the Lord made heaven and earth sea and all that in tebm Is and rested the seventh day and hallowed It The second occurred 2500 years after that august event and refers to a memorial lay of the Jews escape front Egyptian bondage See Dent Cxv One of these necessarily excludes the other hence both cannot be correct Remember the Sabbath day to keep holy Is as mythical as any of Moses sayings That God never made such a thefactdifferent nations devoted to the cele bration of religious services The substitution of the Christian Sunday or Sabbath for tho Jewish Sabbath was purely an ecclesiastical movement Jesus said that ono day ly was as good as another That the Sabbath was made for mon anti not man for the Sabbath Mark 1123 Tho Man of God would have e lofty think that Sunday was made clusively for him and we are oxhpeeled to pass our stickles into him that daytiNo That la their working day their busy day Do the churchgoers No As a rule they are restless of uneasy and delighted when tho set vices era closed that they can get out lovelyhatscourtesies and mingle with tho social world The domination of religious fanatics kept the minds of men mil women a healthy expansion for nearly 2000 years Civilization has been re science was at a standstill for ly re than 1000 years and had It not the en for that factor doubt the Dark would still exist for the same Imposition exists today with many of clergy that hold sway during that period of gloom It Is strange custom can establish laws and minds become warped by n pro lOBterous usage and todayunlesslilt to not believe the Mosaic ot as uition nor do they bellevotlrostory tbe Immaculate Conception yet the 1 J J JI lf dthey teach that bar one They caned hat the word It nUi stet by the Iconoclasts and evolution reigns Insteadr Feeling that their intelligent parish loners are becoming evolutionists rcasoners and analyzers of myth and miracle fiction and fable mid as th heroine educated they will conscien tlously slip owayf rom dogmatic dlscip line they are disposed to become Rue al In their religious views Yet therl ate many who retain their stock in trade and are hitter in denouncing doubters unbelievers deists Infidels mid agnostics although they are fully aware that to these men tho world owes a debt of gratitude that can nev cr be paid for Its present status In science and civilization 11odaugthdr of TJieon renown mathematician at I lexmtdrin was the kefirst woman who dared publicly to doubt and she was hauled Into church by a frenzied mob of religious fanatic monks and was there murder I0othe humzufjiodjr in consequence his doubts was Lorded at the stake by order of thatoldtytnittlohn Calvin In niordano Bruno roclved the same fate and tot the sitmo leas ons For fcauof s Prins for his titou recesses n tythree years hls discoveries Cam panclla and Gal leo wer inqu Isott for promulgafljifc tll hdoubt Prof Jotvefiay13rIlopUtconl ea In nt the wintlliei th lnqlilry nled at the door Titus It w Newton Kepler Leibnitz Descartes and hosts of other giant mlnds wet stimulated to study lclcnCrSuch fidels as AToltnlrc Gibbon Gbelhe Thos Paine Darwin Humboldt Huxley Tyndall Fiiltqn Mill aid Spencer waved the torch of reason too long for their testimony td be Impeached by tim powers that todayY flieso Sunday anti gate openers take into consideration fora moment that there are th0uanm- of unbeliever of tho Christian tell ion who will represent all nations nt the Exposition They should not for get that the Greeks celebrate their religious services on Monday thQ Ior slans On Tuesday Assyrians on Wednesday the Egyptians on Thurs day Turks on Friday and the Jews on Saturday The religion of human Ity Is by no means the Christian rolls Ion ntinlstoa ot tea Gospel 1I0llb1l18S see more of the doubting class soon than the l found In the city nt Its recent church census The golden rule will be exemplified as It is or should be the ethics of all softens and should not be lost sight of by Americans certainly not by that class who pretendto pueneh morals The sophist with all his suavity seemingly Ignores the golden ethics by closing the gales against the 3000 stenographers in this city whose every hour Is occupied during the week cept Sundays the same might bo a of some 30000 domestics many whom are desirous of frequently vii Itlng the grandest school America or any other nation ever had limo pot ers that be In the Catholic and Unlvorsallst churches exhibit Ing the discussion of the Sunday ques 1 ties and the grfttt mass of rationalists commend them Of people are with the Our experience rationalistsrsocalled heavenly gad us against the the clergy but the last straw broke the camels back and we involuntarily exclaimed Holy Smoky Shades of Luke and several other expletives when read of the man of God living in some benighted hamlet out West who wrote that ho had procured roundtrip tickets over the rail ways for himself an family and now if the Exposition committee would give them tree passes for two weeks and pay their board at some first class hotel he would feel under ohllIgallons anrl when he returned homo he would lecture on what ho saw ybodyremunerated Of all the cheek that over heard of that is cheekiest Belvidore had cheek ut ah twas one of beauty pockButYours in thb Interest of Justice right truth alit freedom of thought MK9 8 W WETMOUE M Buffalo April 190- 1ATTACKSTHE CHURCH New York Clergyman Says Christian ity Does not Believe the Gospelof sus New York April22Theiev Goo Hcrron lectured In till Park Tttw tel In Brooklyn lost night and blltor attacked existing religious OIl11lI lions He soil In part The socalled QhrlsliajuChurch hilsj taught Its way by JlI1ltotorce and au thority contrary to tho spirit of in dividual freedom taught by Qlirlst that which was AtJlClsm to Jesim as been orthodoxy to tho church church has nhVays put to death man who dared to stand for individual freedom ChrlsJIanity does not even Mow or Hollovo the gospel Testis Tho English pulpit hoe boon the bulwark of thacbvornmunt In Its unrighteous wars of conquest and ft from the American church UiaJ tho government receives hacking when It becomes betrnyerand assassin an oppressed and confiding pfcophV The Cents Club Plan for the Blade I am trying to arrange to material increase the mount of typo sot In Blade fall to print numerous matters of grpat interest because carnet sot typo enough Please help moon the cent club plan Send mo 50 cents each stir tie Blade for ono year tar live or innro mpers It you semi Ihe money any tlmo have not ftlio names to send theta the money will be put to your ere and I will send the papers Just you get the names the bo inning of ufdsubscription at the time paper Is first sent 8 II if J r ti1u1ltr I A CARD FROM WATSON HESTON Brother Liberals I need work Owing to the treacherous conduct hadeserved for years I was forced to sell our little home and personal prop- r erty last April at a sacrifice of over 500 beside tho loss of all tho wqrk dqno on the place I do excellent portrait work as all for whom will attest and at very low prices I have sacrificed the best years of mv life hca th home and splendid political opportunities working in interest of Free thought Do you intend to lot mo suffer or will you aid me by sending mo your work instead of giving it n some tramp agent or stranger My prices for portraits are as fol lows For Pastel or Oolorwofkf11x20 2 00 3 00 1Rx22 fill 4 tIrf 20x21 iJ r 00 T lixll my work so it Is porma neAt and docs not rub off and gunr mobeySongp1e Adnt6atate size wanted I furnish also pf Ingosoll Paiuo anti other famous JI nt thetsame rates Back photos with board to prevent breakage In the- o roads aiu if colorwork is wonted complexionsders anti will send back your rabnoy if not pleased Yours for Freer thought and honest dealing WATSON HESTO- NAforrlstown Tone Lock Box 112 P S Make nn effort friends to allgtry oat good value for their money bo sides the great good it would do mo oy giving me a chance to holy myself WH CULTIVATION Olt Personal Magnetism A11tILAIISit ON IIl1yL1NC11LTLIRhIt Leroy 8errlerlONIV roilIAKTIlKATISK IfS KIND Ilils not n treatise dovoteil entlrely to Hypnotism Personal Magnetism h Life Force and Mind Force treatment reverses the common belief that Personal Magnetism Life Torso and Mind Force cannot be culti paled and acquired It Is ucompletn cnurno of iiistructloiiH that will unable t pgtvArofIt glvoiJ as mucli Jnforinatlon as ufl flit jfotoiJSO Money trshtudbiltlf Imok ant satisfactory ehnantenv ta JIuIlhItP II THE FRIEND YJIES Hopkins CLOVESj BLEACHING f BEST GLovcKio iu Black Wine Tan and Chocolate Uusr for House Cleaning Gar dening Driving Wheeling Outing Golf Etc 78 Write for terms to agents Hopkins Glove CoMApollo Bldg CIn 0 LOUISVILLE HENDERSON AND ST LOUIS R R The Popular and Picturesque Route for all points WEST NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST First Class Equipment Courteous Treatment For farther iuforrna tlon address D L BRYANT or L J IRWIN T PA 223 Ith Ave G P A Louisville Ky Louisville Ky THE Queens Crescent v Route and Its conliectlng lines PanAmerldan ExposItion BUFFALO May lt to Now 1st xeurslonratesandspeclaltralnaervlca will nnllounr1 later The Pan American the greaten morlMn Expos Ilion slurs Ihu Worlds FaIr Imposing arellteeturo wonderful displays IPtctal features dazzling Mid- wayNIAGARA FALLS ro p 6 Giuundw Free ChoirsjfNk ufltJ =iiwWd rcilli1I wfip MDt x Jt1iiJ l r q r I4 P p rw J p c BLUE GRASS BLADE 3 THE PRESIDENJ Of the American Secular Union and Freethought Federation Appeal to Liberals to Join the Society and Urges the Necessity of a Strong Party Organization Believing that the Interests of tbe American Secular Union and F F wltl be enhanced by a closer relatlonshli ot Its members and officers I will from time to time report through the Liberal press Its financial status growth and tho conditions which al feet It believe the time Is opportune when a clear statement of tho condition or the organization should lie made nnl1 thatk certain delusions pertaininglo- should It be dispelled Every member should be Informed at Intervals of the standing character and work of the organization Otherwise Interest lings brotherhood files and progress ceases Tho olllclals ol this organization themselves can do but little The mustjbo backed by membershlp fan mtinrfy They must have thq qpopera tlon and advice of members rhe members should know what Is gout on and ovlnco an interest In thc wont Otherwise there can oxlst no enthusiasm and without enthusiasm an organization can not I am ambitious In my efforts to In crease the membership of tho A S U and F F It the present apathy con unties to prevail the organization will either collapse or remain Impotent und nonconsequentlal asMt now made a recent visit to Chicago foi tho purpose ot consulting with Sec Relchwald and looking over tho books and ascertaining for myself tho exact condition of xffalrs as well as Inform Ing myself upon the history progress c c of tho organization over which I have tho honor to preside I have been advised not to bring ur the subject of membership In good standing Iii this report I think ently I think a clear exposition ol the situation should be made It the very subject that should be rtls cussed This organization Is generally sup posed to have a membership of 65000 to 70000 I find that the Secretary has In his posses Ion a list of names of that many men and womon in the Liberal ranks and that fyjch persons are clas sifted as nominal members Most of these Liberals are people whom Buinath and others Induced to join Most of them Just gav uuruur uisTTielthitn alur and did not then or at any time since take any Interest the American Secular Union and F P or pay sill dues Into Its treasury Thousands ol them were never members at nny time During the year o6 the Worlds Fair the organization In order to raise money fur the extra expenses of the Congress for thnt year made tho of ficial offer of life membership to nil who would pay ten dollars About 300 tool advantage of this offer Dur bug the year 1900 only 118 pail stem bens were entered upon the hooks which number added to the 300 life members makes a total bona fldc membership of 118 The amount of money received Into the treasury fps the year 1900 by membership and nation was about 1300 Thus you see that the actual membership of this National organization Is less than that of many a country church and the money eoutrlbutcdf less than one ory common preachers salary After thirty years of organized effort tills national society representing nut lions of Freethinkers has never risen higher than threo or four thousand members and has now declined to tho insignificant membership of 418 The largest sum over contributed to tho or ganization was In 1876 anti amounted to 2300 Of late years It has aver aged 1200 Christian churches In tide fiUnited Slates In Jh year 1900 spent Whats the fault itla due to the gunoralvapnthy and Indifference on the part of the Liberals or to tho Inefficiency of tho ofllclaU In charge or to both We may as well look this matter Bquare In the face Something la wrong and tho wrong must he righted If never going to be righted by hushing it up and maintaining Indlffer enje about It It will never bo righted us long as we arc drifting apart and our membership dissolving As far as nm able to perceive tho inertia that exists Is chiefly duo to lack of system and organization Tho life ot every society and government of whatsoever nature depends largely upon the labor and zealot leaders who have tho genius of organization apathetic ns Liberals are I am not willing to believe that they can not be induced to form u powerful union It they are gone after and the neces slty of organization Intelligently tire seated to thou Some years ago un der Putnam there was a general rev viva and enthusiasm Good men were in the field State organizations existed and local socloUes were Increasing t M Ji Since then we have receded We wilt never get started again until we selectable organizers and place them In the field and support them as they should be supported- I do not believe that any national organization ot Liberate will ever be able to do effective work without subordinate bodies To progress we must extend to State and county organizations This Is the history ot devel opmcnt of every other society and It Involves the work of years The President and Secretary should devote their whole time to the work They should be men having the genius of organization and capable of In spiring enthusiasm They should be supported by a corps of captivating speakers able to defend our print plea before any legislative body and all should spend the greater part ot their tlAe effecting State organize lions Until some such plan Is started we wfll make hit little advancement We will goon pretending to he an organ ization of Influence and strength when In fact we are all ashamed of our weakness Tho work before us requires money We have now about one hundred dftllarn hi the treasury If we wanted to communicate with 10000 Liberals tide alone would cost 200 In postage What Is 1200 a year for work such ns ours I do not know how we are to make the start forward unless some of our wealthy adherents come to the front But we can riot wait for this Lacking the endowment we ought to have wo will have to work on In our adversities the best we can until some Qlrard arises some benefactor capable of perceiving that the most lasting good he bar possibly render the human race Is tho lifting up of an Institution devoted to dispelling the errors of the human understanding Men of wealth stand ready to contribute as soon as tfioy perceive that we are organized nad equipped for effective work and conduct tho management economically and with sound business principles This nation has forgotten Stephen 01 rand the patriot He lives and Is reverenced and will be everlastingly reverenced only liy the Secularists of tho country- know of no greater good our wealthy adherents can perform or one that will tend more to enshrine their memories in our grateful hearts and In those of our followers than by en lowing the American Secular Union with such a sum the Interest of which will enable Its ofllcers to live com fortably and devote their whole time to uplifting the order and sustaining mlsisonarles In tho field When State organizations are well under way the next thing nccepsary is the erection of a great publishing plant for the dissemination pt free literature The erection of such an Institution has lone been a ilnrtun of mine very church has from one to a dozen such places Why cant we have at least one We can We can have It running In thirty years There are thousands of Liberals who are ambitious to help tho cause tad to leave it a donation They cannot afford to give It one two or three thousand dollars but they are able to carry a thousand dollar policy on their lives for this purpose Have we liberals In this country liberal enough to take out policies on their lives nmonntlng to 200000 We ought to find two hundred among us who will do this We have men who are able to carry five ten twenty and fifty thousand dollars In what easier or cheaper way can they as fist the cause will take out 2000 Who will bo the next want to hear from you This Is a good test of Lib eralism The hall must be started rolling some time We must have a nucleus and It will gather snow as It rolls Wean learn something of the churches A common method which church congregations have ot overcoming a debt is that of carrying a policy on the life of their pastors or on some of their willing brethren If any ulberals object to carrying pol dies on their own lives let them then contribute and swell the general fund out of which wo can invest in policies on the lives of other willing members l ach year as we Increase In member ship we can mill another policy ten to twenty thousand dollars to our list thus insuring a perpetual income and maintenance In tho course of thirty years wo will have over 200000 With halt of this vf can set uua printing plant owning everything Then we will havo some thing of our own to take pride In ind rally around We will feel that we are accomplishing something En thusiasm will take the place of leth argy We will demonstrate to our wealthy business adherents that wo ire practical feud capable of obtaining waits They will not then hesitate to leave us money as they now n accojint of our disorganized con lltion We will take on new life We rtHI cease to be humble and grow conceited Xo lack conceit Behind conceit stands Pus It wo had half the Conceit of tho ulCcgy we would not bo waiting somoof their magnifi cence Now If any of you think that the American Secular Union Is going to progress or cut any figure a moral political and educational force with but 418 members and art Income of 1200 you are subject to bad dreams Wake up from this delusion Millions of Liberals In this country and only US members Only 118 added to the llfellBt last year Such Indifference amazingly contemptible If erals are not ashamed of It they ought to not have a membership of 100 0001 We can have It In a few years If wo work und manage as we should Every Liberal should Join at once and then hustle for other members yith a membership ot 50000 at ono dollar each we can afford to put able workers In tho fieldmen fitted to represent us before Congress and tho dif i J r ferent State Legislatures We will have enough left to invest in Insurance policies amounting to 100000 With a membership of 100000 wo can double our work In the course of twenty to thirty years we will have flourishing State organizations and a great printing plant Each year we can add a number of Insurance poll des and thus have a constant Income to support the printing establishment and assist In the free distribution of literature Our ranks will be swelling all the time and donations will come In Just as confidence In our abilities will be established If the Liberals of one remote locality can found and equip a college why cant this na tional body support Itself with dignity and establish a printing concern If we have enough Geers wo can do It If any of you can Improve upon this Idea or propose anything more practical lets have It am not a prac tical business man but I think have enough business sense to know that business principles must be applied to all propagandlc work to make it a success Being nn examiner for a number of Insurance companies and seeing the profits that may be derived from the investment make the above Insurance proposition The start forward must be made and see no better method It you have anything better make It known At our last congress we had much speechifying much eloquence all of which was highly pleasing but we didnt have one bit of business Not one single word was spoken for the uplifting of the organization Not one business proposition was submit ted for Its expansion Not ono serious concern was manifested about our fast dlssolving membership Only eight members In good standing were present By the business lethargy of the delegates one would imagine the American Secular Union to be as for tilled and formidable In Its strength as the foundations of the Russian Em pire Let the next Congress be a business Congress Lot the delegates come with business propositions for tho sub stantial development of the organiza tion We can have speeches and entertainment also Let us outline some business system looking to the accu mulation of a reserve which will en able us to shake an active start Tho church will plan a policy fifty one hundred years ahead and work up to It We should be equally politic Our Liberal Journals seldom mention the American Secular Union or urge their renders to Join It Most of their readers wouldnt know to whom to make application to become a memo ber will see that each paper Is supplied with a stereotype ot our letter reads which will contain the names anti addresses of the ofllcers the nine demands of Liberalism and an Invitation to Join if they will sert It among their advertisements By thus assisting tho organization the papers will assist themselves The more any party Is strengthened the more sentiment Is aroused and the more papers aro patronized In rev turn for publishing official communications and other favors every editor desiring our list of membership should have It I would like to see some action takeu toward purchasing tour to ten acres of the ground of the Paine farm at uociieilu is adjacent the Paine monument such ground to be held as a National Infidel Park Dr K n Foote Sen who Is enthusiastic in securing this property informs us that It can now bo bought cheap and the owner Is Inclined to sell to Freethinkers instead of others who want It This should be attended to soon or It will be too late want to see the next Congress take some action toward publishing a Free thinkers directory We should know each other It will strengthen our union In ninny ways It will bo the means of deriving Information and establishing closer communication It will greatly assist In developing State organization Some may object to their names being entered but those will be very few have been told that some members of the U and F do not want their addresses known for family and social reasons and others because they do not want to bo annoyed by cranks Suppose we all hid ourselves on account of cranks have come In contact with but one and dont think they are so numerous In our ranks that they will ever gather In swarms around any one Heretofore there has been a dispo sition to hide the names and addresses of the members of tho organization Whenever the names ot Joiners and contributors have been given to the public their addresses have been care fully omitted am satisfied that 99 out of 100 do not object to their ad dresses being given Because two or three do object Is no reason why the others should bo sent to tlc dungeon This Is not fellowship It Is keeping us apart Men have to meet and know each other in order to estab lish and strengthen any union I toll fellow Liberals the world outside will never respect us until we make Freethought respectable within ourselves until wo think enough ot It to stand up for It until wo gather Into a union and cement our strength until we begin to teach it to our chit dren and put some life and labor and love and sacrifice Into It Unllko the clergy we havo no hell to scare people Into our ranks and frighten them out of their money but wo tiara the host Incentives of all organizations the enthusiasm of development of moving onward of rev elling In the newness the ripeness and richness of thought of dispelling norance and superstition and making this world a good world all of which should attract Liberals Into our ranks and make thin a formidable union What this organization needs right now and must have Is members A nation at war must first rave soldiers It Is far more Important that we have members than donors It tubs appeal does not bring you Into the union I shall bo greatly disheartened The dues are hut one dollar a year It seems to me that nil Liberals should bo anxious to come Into tho organlza tion and swell Its strength until It will Indeed be felt and respected The four hundred and more mom bars which compose It are among the greatest and grandest of our ranks It Is an honor to be their associate as well as to bo a member of this union Your children and your childrens u rJl children will one day point with prIde to th tact that their ancestors were pioneers in the ranks of Frccthough away back in the days of Seaver and Bennett and our present great editors and Ingersoll and Putnam anti Stanton and Henry and Gardner and Walt and dd and Tenney and other great Secretary has tho names about70000 Liberals Surely out ot this vast army 10000 should bo fount who will come Into tho union at once wanto know why It Is that only 115 members came In last year If ypu who have once been members are dls satisfied with either the principles or management of the organization and remain out on such account write mo and It me know your grievance be In touch with all of you I wnnFto get at the bottom of this pool and understand why Liberals dont come to the surface The times are propitious Ever thing Is favorable for our advancement Why stand ye Idle Science Is leading and directing our way College faculties are leaning our side Fiction Is popularized Just as it is tinctured with our principles HumoV turned to seriousness finds IU highest ideal in untrammeled thought There Is great work for us to do We t bo n power If united that would stir the rottenness of hd nation This mean enthusiasm It means organization Let iiiregain nt least the member ship we had under Put noni want to see more than IIS members added to our list this year want to see thousandth conic In under my administration wnnt to see tin organization start forward again as want to establish a foundation upon which my successor will have easy building ask all my friends to Join request all our Journals to urge their to Join You all know the value of organization The constitution provides that only such member as are n good standing three months prior to the annual convention will be entitled to a vote In the Congress The convention will probably be held In BuffalU about the first of October If you want a vote In the Congress you must have your certificate of mem bership by July 1st Send one dollar the annual dues E C llelchwald Secretary 141 South Water street Chicago Ill and ho will Immediately mall you the certificate of membership and will also supply you With the constitution and other literature of the organization J B WILSON Pres 206 E Fourth street Cincinnati 0 From Philadelphia Times SUICIDAL MANIA ISTRONG AT EASTER Attempts at SelfDestruction Are Most Frequent in Holy Week ELEVEN SUCCEED TWELVE FAIL Why aro there more suicides in Holy eektho week that Is given to prayer and spiritual devotion than In any other week In the year If nn one cud answer this question will roll ia Coroner and hIs assistants o I pazaler elwlt IlIlt uJ1tell t cause It Mia peculiar thing but none tho less tme that more persons commit toll su ride last week the week that alt dr out Christians give up to pray er anu earnest solicitation than In any otnoj week for a year Lost week eleven persons In the city of Philadel phia committed suicide and twelve others failed In their attempts Does Holy Week havo a depressing effect on most people and cause them to hasten the end in their anxiety to en ter the gates of tho pronlised land or Is It caused by the prevailing weather or did It just happen that there were more suicides last week The hitter question can be easily answered For the last five years the Coroners records show more suicides In Holy Week than In any other week In the puzzles yenrIsuicides other time of the year but nevertheless such Is the case Eleven sui lilies last week thats an unusually large number Outside of Holy Week tho summer months generally furnish us the most work In that line Cant explain why It Is It certainly puzzles moOt the eleven who wore successful in their attempts nt selfdestruction tour used carbolic acid three laud anum two shot themselves and two used gas Carbolic acid seemed to bo tho most popular method but why It should be can not be understood as In case of a failure the suffering Is bound to bo greater than from any other caused Most ot those who attempt to commit Biiiclde and fall repent after being saved although somo few are detrained to end their lives that they continue In their attempts until success rewards their efforts CommentTheres nothing jolly about religion except to tho felloWs who are making money out of It and the dupes who are slum by It are correspondingly gloomy and suicide to get out of the scrape live me sometUIng harsh BEHIND THE BARS l 31498 PRICE My fecond book Behind the Bars 31498 written while I was the guest of ydifr Uncle Samuel In the penl tentlat at Columbus where ho putt me to Aboard at the suggestion ot the Chrlaffan brethren Is now on tap like wise en top It Hi commonly regarded and espe among the ladles as a warm baby It Is bound In maroon and gold ands bound to get there Ell The pages are by 9 long primer typo 303 pages The Internal revenue on It Is postpaid to any part of the earth or sea and im the collector for this district It baa4 beautiful halt tono picture ot Fraternally yours- CHARLES C MOORE Tbq Virgin Mary pamphlet Is now ready for delivery ten cents eaca or twelv for II ti tr A CATHOLIC PRIEST Says Some Sensible and Good Thing About Religion and Politics Mondota Minn April 12 1901 Dear Mr Moore Here Is an cllI tonal from a recent New York Free nuns Journal saying something I rave long wanted to say In your per and saying It not only better than I could but with much less trouble me I am at onco proud and IndIg- nant that a Catholic paper and no other besides yours so far as I can see protests against this smug Oboe Ing of the people But the honorabl eminence of Catholicism In tho chaplain question does not end here I think every experienced commando and war correspondent will allow that while Protestnnt chaplains are generally disregarded oven by a good portion of nonCatholic soldiers and aro even despised and disliked as fakirs drawing salaries for nothing the Catholic priests do the army and therefore the country a real and ns distinctly valuable and payworthy service as that of buglers drummers etc by their wholesome heartening 4n lluence on at least a largo proportion of the men They are but a few among tho en tine number of chaplains but In mQr than in inverse proportion aro twli services In making the men sober r In camp and braver in battle Besides however have we not read so as to take It as a matter of course of the Catholic chaplains making himself a daredeath messenger or scout 01 forager or ammunition chest or nurse or walking ambulance or all of these almost together One thing or another kept me always so busy that I have continued to put oft what I now do with sinter apologies to you and Mrs Mooro for the delay thanking you for tho honor of that Invitation to tho kind hospital- Ity of your home So delightful an out Ing could not feel worthy of or on titled to take till have clone some little thing against the surrounding and suporabound ing ignorance and In Justices After nit what are the chap loins salaries boslro the cost of each years gab and gammon in our legis natures and Congress Minnesota legislative payroll this year will be itOCiIO the newspapers printing ol this years new laws 40000 other printing contracts of nbqut equal ser vice to tho people It Is your work mill other hon est mens that pays forTiuch services as this sloppy message to Auckland mingle my tears with yours over the bier of your dead Queen etc etc for the moro than royal gorgeousncss of tho late Inauguration for tho sail- Ing of a battleship to Melbourne to swell tho splurge there for tho opening of the parliament nvJor the thou sand other futile Ishos that arc disgracing the county and impover ishing the people That dark and bloody ending of two young lives In your State what was It but lack of knowledge ignorance im polling tho old folks tojinnoy tho poor things about a marriaggthat was done with and set ting that young fool against going before a priest for a little mattorof form whilst he couULrush before God iiiryuwu uiuuu usjtyiuu as ills owl sweet young wifes upon him The American people know enough now to laugh at the Singapore Juntas description In detail the engines ol torture created by tlo Americans to torture Aguinaldo into taking the ontn Had they knowu as much three years ago to treat In the same way the like villainous inventions ot the Juntas In Hong Kong Havana Now York and London describing tho tor Lures prepared for insurgents by tho Inquisitors In the Philippines and the Spaniard in Cuba what taxation and debauchery It would have saved the AngloSaxon world Sincerely yours MARTIN MAHONEY Below Is the editorial referred to Principle vs Practice Tho Baptist Commonwealth lays it down ns a principle that Every man who lives under the American flag nest pay for propagating his own ligion and no other Tho principle that the Common wealth had In mind to announce Is sound but thin principle it has In tact announced Is evidently unsound anti we do not think our contemporary will on reflection undertake to de tend It By under tho American flag it means of course under our Constitution and laws Will it say that der our Constitution and laws everyman must pay for propagation of his own religion and that lip must pay for the propagation ot no other Is a man under our Constitution and laws not free to pay for propagating his own religion or not Just as ho may wish And may he not under those same laws pay for propagating somo other religion than his own Does the American flag compel him to support his own religion or forbid him to sup port somo other If so It Is not the emblem of religious liberty ns it Is generally supposed to bo What our In1tn slng contemporary set outtosay was doubtless this Under ho American flag every man is tree to support any religion nnd must not ho compelled to support any Thus formulated we heartily en torso the Commonwealths Idea This consistently practiced would put a lop to making our public schools as they are in ninny places propagandas of Protestantism though Catholics aro compelled to support them It would remove tho chaplain from Congress and chaplains from army and navy and front nil public Institutions sup ported by public taxes For tho tax paid chaplain It ho a Methodist propagates his Methodism it a hap tllst his Baptlstisin It a Presbyte rian his Presbyterianism a Cath olic his Catholicism etc Would we favor tho nboltlon ot all these taxpaid chaplaincies It Is not what we favor but what tho Constitu for and laws strictly and logically carried out require As It Is now we profess ono thing with loudmouthed vociferation and practice tho oppos- Ite Let us ho logical and hbnest with ourselves at least But should not the Inmates of our prisons and penitentiaries havo the benefit of religion Most certainly they should they ncgd it greatly t Is not for the government undei fIf our flagto supply it Tho zeal that sends missionaries to Europe Asia Africa and North and South America to convert tho heathen should send somo of them to tho Inmates ot our prisons without dickering with tho government about tho filthy lucre they aro to receive for their services It la not the business ot the government under tho flag to supply religion totfanybody In or out of prison for It no religion of ltd own and is Incompe tent to determine what kind of rellg ion to supply It has no commission from God or man to furnish any to anybody It leaves that and under our Constitution must leave It to those who claim to have such mission If these claimants neglect their duty of bringing religion to prisoners soldiers rresponsibilitytho secular government that knows no religion All that can bo asked of tho government under our flag Is that It place no obstacle In tub way of re ligion or Its propagation that It leave 1 thombnlsters of religion free to com rservices 1 In prison In army or navy nut ministers cannot live on air While serving these prpie they must bo supported and if they do not gettthat support from the whence are they to get It Frqm those religIonJust ns those who servo congregations get Ithy voluntary contributions St Paul and tho other apostles could not live on air nit they did not use that fact as an argument to get their heads into the public crib of the Roman Em pire nut if chaplains are not paid by the government those whom they servo would be neglected If so who 1s rev sponsible the ministry whose mission Is to teaCh religion or tho State whose functions are under the American flag purely secular Did our Baptist contemporary In formulating Its principle think this subject all through to Its logical con elusion We think not EDITORS COMMENT Father Martin Mahoney is a Cath olic priest who with his money and his moral support has been my friend fur years Ho has written much for the Blade and thorn la no man whose communications to my paper I moro prize Sweet name Is Ma honey 10000 BLADES To Be Distributed For One Half Cent Each Thoro are In the Blade office about 10000 old Blades loft over from the regular circulation Listing back to the time I was In the penitentiary and during the time that I was a prisoner I would send these to any body who would distribute them free of cost but if I would distribute them free of coat there would be Christians who would trend for them Just to destroy them so that will send them to anybody who will send for them at ono half cent each to btitethe r will return anymoney may com after the supply Is out I will send assorted coplag to each party Please send In your ordersI KIDDERS VIRGIN MARY Kidders Virgin Mary in pamphlet form with a preface by Editor Moore is out and ready for delivery Those who have subscribed for it and have not sent the money will please do so at once Price 10 cents single copy and a dozenIThis is the fourth article it having been published t three time in the BLADE to answer the demand for it It has bad moro influence than any Infidel article of its length ever written As was promised there were fine olisberfor Its publicattion in the BLADEI but Kidder would not furnish his picture for publication KIDDERS U METHODISM IS COMING San Francisco Cal March 293QI rDear Brother Moore It presetittho fifth of April Please insert this if and it in FraternallytM ORtER KIDDER 241 Webster St Son Francisco California 35 CENTS A YEARt FOR THE BBADE- ff You Take 10 Copies awl 1Behind the Bars ft If yon scud mo 60 cents each for f copies or more of the BLADE for a year to 4mcopy of Behind the liars for each ton copies of tho BLADE that youIpay That milkeD tho BLADE SSoentaa year the cheapest Infidel literature that was ever printed In the world- NAUGHTY JIMMY 1slstant1withJ I Wr o iN M ru dr 3tc n f e q 11 4BLDTHRASS BLADE t AN INFIDELS REPLY From Buffalo Review Editor Buffalo Review Rome has spoken the case is ond edFor centuries the people dared not dispute this maxim Then the Infidel Luther threw off the yoke which In fallibility had imposed and today we seem to have moved forward a pace and the scepter is given over to Proto estantlsm In this particular case Dr C E Locke has spoken and Infidell has received a scourging worthy n more deserving cause Tho question of the Sunday opening of the Pan American Exposition has been declared in the affirmative and placed beyond argument but if I maybe granted space I wish to correct a few of the misstatements made by Dr Locke In the Review of February 25 in which ho attacks Infidelity and cVl dently expects assertion to do dutyf r argument his denunciation of Ideas which disagree with his conception of belief and disbelief would cause Sixth IX of the Inquisition to exclaim Well done good ithful servant Dr Locke sass Infidelity is not entitled to a respectful hearing on this question of Sunday closing because It has always been opposed to our most saored Institutions It is Veil for us that our Infidel forefathers egtabHshe this government to be of by and for the people instead of by and for Chris tions else Infidels would not be give even a disrespectful hearing and our voices would be silenced as wero tho voices of the heretics Infidels Ilurlng tho dark ages Some weeks ago there was a sympi slum by scholars in regard to the ten 1 hooks which had made the greatest prcssion on the thought of tho past century All tho writers agreed that Darwin had produced tho masterpiece The book which teaches our natura Instead of supernatural origin am therefore overthrows tho Bible theory of creation and its teaching Is accep cd by enlightened humanity througl out the world Evolution Is being taught from many orthodox pulpits day and Is accepted by tho credulous congregations as though their spct were tho originator Darwin was an Infidel and has moved the world yet we are told that Infidels arc not en titled to a respectful hearing on day closing Arc not men like Galileo Huxley Haeckel Mill Spencer En croon Watt Franklin Roentgen and Edison who have spoken to the world through their works for humanity instead of through the thunder of can non the tramp of armies and the clash of weapons of war entitled to a rc spectful hearing They do not tako refuge behind Comstock laws passed at midnight on Saturday at the close of a session their acts need no Justlf cation These together with thou sands of other brave Infidels have se cured to us the liberty we enjoy- I think Infidels can conscientiously plead guilty to being opposed to sa creel Institutions They arc too neatly related to the Holy Inquisition Bill does Dr Locke mean to Impl that there are degrees of holiness when he says most holy Institutions In what degree do they become un holy aln told that Infidellt disregards The fen corrimandnVcnts Let us see In France there Is a so ciety of Atheists numbering 20000 yet DeBows review of the census shows that thero are 19535 Christian convicts 164 Mohammedans and Jews but not a single Atheist In England 1873 there were over 151000 Chris tlan convicts in the prisons but only 879 nonreligious In the Illinois State penltentiaryy over 95 per cent of the Inmates are Christians Thcso fow references to statistics will show who is disregarding the ten commandments Infidelity has no standard of morality Dr Sangers report of prosti tutlon In New York states that over 95 per cent of fallen women are Christians and other cities show a like proportion In England where the church is established by law Lady Henry Somerset tells us that thou sands of shares of brewery stock are held by the Bishops Rev W T Brown of Rochester N Y says The British government maintains a regular system of prostitution and seeks out from the rural districts healthy pure clean girls and under deliberate misrepresentation sends them to India to be placed at the disposal of Its sol diers at a stipulated schedule of prices Custer Henderson In Chero kee Democrat writes from Manila Last October there wore brought hero from China 800 Chinese women who are installed in houses some for private soldiers and some for officers Each Inmate pays a tax of I to the military authorities which includes license to sell liquor These houses are decorated inside and out with the Stars and Stripes and at night the streets are a mass of drunken half naked women and American soldiers If this is Christian morality I for one am glad the Infidels have not acquired It Infiedlity builds no school houses sustains no philanthropic Institutions Over a hundred years ago our Consti tutional Congress began the work of liberal education by setting apart land of the public domain for school pur poses Taxation for the same Is borne equally whether Christian or Infidel The church opposed the public school in tho beginning and the Catholic wing still opposes it with a bitterness LIwhich shows Its fear of enlightenment see the policy of in ildorsln it and are already posing as the originator and sole supporter of the system The church strenuously opposed the liberation of slaves which can be verified by reference to reports of its conferences qncl its Bishops fa vor our war of conquest John Wes Icy the saint of Methodism believed in the divine right of kings and op posed the revolutionary struggle It seems inconsistent for Dr Locke t say that Infidelity builds no schools which one of the most liberally en foundby Christians And what of Peabodv and Cooper and Carnegie In regard to hospitals while many of them are claimed by Christians their exemption from taxation makes ell citizens sup rs of them and as nearly all are supported by popular contributions it Is only fall to conclude that Infidels are cheerful divers There is one kind t J fws of construction however which dels have never engaged in and that is tho erection of scaffolds tho bull ing Of funeral pyres the making ot racks and garrotes and which have served the well lief In the propagation thumbscrewsI Infidelity Is utterly with the Creators purpose in malting this beautiful world Dr Locke be a reincarnation of Jehovah mustI 0000 years old as he seems to mlllar with the plans and purposes of the Creator The Infidel makes no claim to divine kinship but Is salisflc if ho is ablo to servo the poor o pressed human beings about him nnd If all Ideals are from God as Dr Loci a elts the Ideally of the Infidel must emanate frpm tho same source and though differently expressed the believer should be entitled to a reo spectful hearing or any and all sub jectsWendell Phillips says in substance I desire but two words carved on m tombstone Infidel and Traitor del to a church which sanctions tho trading In human flesh and traitor to a government which sustains it HARRIET M CLOSZ Webster City Iowa TOLSTOI THE 1GREAT INFIDEL If Christianity stands for love and Justice anti humanity as It pretends why Is It that the head Bishop of the Greek church does not cry out against Russian persecution slaver and brutality an Imposed by the state upon tho common people of the his unfeeling attitude with that of the Infidel Tolstol As in all nations and in till times it is tho fidel who first cries out for retires of human wrongs It Is in the Infldi heart that pity builds her throne The spectacle of Count Tolstoi ar pealing to the Czat In behalf of tho peasantry of Ills oppressed counto Is one of tho heroic events that will live in history It is all the mor heroic when we consider that freedoii of speech is almost unknown in sin and that he who dares to utter his honest thought is in danger either of exile Siberia or death The people of Russia have endured their persecu lions for so IBhg that at last humat nature Is rebelling and tho country Is said to be on tho verge of revolution Under such conditions Count Tol stol Glares to address his monarch In this defying manner Why will you fight with what can never subdue by forco Instead of covering your name with Imperlsha ble fame by treading In the way of Justice You protect Injustice sire Free the peasant from the brutal tyranny of officials Give him equa rights with other ranks Do away with the present polled system which de moralizes society degrades the em plre and breeds Ws and Informers Do away with thJ restraints on edu cation so that tlulroad to enlighten ment may llet peuto all Prohibit no man from havlng ws free belief only All honor to liive TolstoL The people of Russia and of the whole world will honor him when its Czars and Bishops are swallowed up In ob Ivlotis night J Tho world is fast coming to know hat freedom and not religion is the emedy for poverty and Ignorance and Time It is fast coming to know that religion is only used ns a cloak to over the crimes of Kings and those high in authority in republics The Russian peasantry largely through he teachings of Tolstol have now cached the point where they do not car to speakout for themselves and to organize Many of tho educated lasses and most of the students sym athizo with them It is only a question of time until they will arise en masse and demand heir rights If they will have the good Judgment to march straight upon Sf Petersburg and cut a lot of royal ami sacred throats and cart a few thousand other privileged individuals out of the country It will be the easiest and most humane remedy that can be employed Nothing but a rench revolution will ever right af fairs in Russia The aristocrats and shops the cause of the troubles should be the ones to suffer and to lose tehlr lives The common people have suffered enough Enough of tlUlm have been exiled and died to scaffold and In dungeons and in Siberian mines Tolstol has well lllus trated that Infidelity and not Chris anlty is the savior of mankind All onor and all praise to his great name 313W ATTENTION PRESS WRITERS rovinc town Mass April 1901 Press Writers attention Armstrong GlOhand McBride having annihilated tho Christian1 bigots in the columnfTof the Boston Traveler are now gaged in the same task In the Boston Globl the paper that has the largest circulation in New England Let all hands write to the Globe if for publi cation the proper form is To tile Ed Itor of the Peoples Column and mgratulato the editor on his liber tlty in opening his columns to a hate of this nature assuring him the same time that the discussion is trading wide attention If you dont have time to write a letter put a few lines on a postal anyway or anything to let the editor know you aro interest cd In tho contest and watching it J T SMALL P SSunl1ay observance is the question that is being argued NAUGHTY SKYPILOT Rev Marion Jones Methodist ran oft from South Lebanon 0 with the- wlCe of Emerson H Stephens and In his church Jones soon abandoned her and she cam Beck to find that her husband had gotten a divorce In the rcsurrcc tlon wliosg woman will she be AN UNGODLY PAR Break Into a Salvation Arm Y Recruiting Office r Louisville Ky March 21181 Editor Mooro I had quite an amusing oxporloni c hero in Louisville this evening Strol lag down Jefferson street with a triontI of mine our attention was attracted by a Urge sign that hung in the hallway n building It was attached to a teller and read thus Mission all welcome 1 proposed that we enter as 1 nut a missionary myself having had tho hoi or of directing the work of the Young Mens Progressive League of Clncli nati Ohio all last summer acting H Its president My friend acquiesced When wu en tered they were singing There wIn 00 no dark valley when Jesus comes and the gay old boy on the rostrum did us the honor of leaving his placo toperooi ally deliver each a book ol gnRpel hymns and throughout the sertb seemed to have us spotted as proirilfiln sulJects JM- He delivered an address fUll lJ1ro and brimstone blended with bad m mar At the end of the address ho asked the audience to rise and sing Thro1 out the Ufo lincand announced hat he and the workers would seek tl10se who were present yet not within the fold f This old hypocrite in the course ot his remarks had stated that he one lime been the worst man in Lcmli villc He has been professional gambler a thief a drunkard yea oven I murderer I believe his name is Ho made for us occupied a seat next the wall so my friend was the first victim The old reprobate put his luted arm around the neck of myfrlom who never was guilty of a single crimi to my knowledge and the sight of this old pelfcoiifesed murderer ombrocin my friend made my blood boll wanted to know of my friend If hews saved and my friend answered No He told mo afterward that his dosir was to lead him on Thou the preacher murderer snit he had been watching him all evenlng and was struck by his face Ho said he had a good face and that it bore an hnnei stamp and he was going to pray for him He said My beloved brother I will pray that you can not sleep night that you will toss and turn on your bed all night and not sleep a dint that you will get up in the morning reeling III and without all appetite I will pray Ood to make you so tnlsojabl that you will cry in agony mercy and then you will begin fllv e i life of purity Joy and true hap roe you will know your God My friend told him to pray and f his prayer was answered ho would bdt here the following night and proclaim Utht Then itAvas my turn but from fjidlf erent source The old inurderofjwai ngrossed with my friend hat took mo In hand was a nice nib ooking fellow with a sweet still ding over his features making tSjoro look as pleasant and inviting tho raters ot the Ohio touched by a summers breeze Then there was the following idla ogee lieArc you a Christian Iulam no- tIieDont you want to ho ooe- 1IIII have no such desire lIoWtcro do you expect to spend where IIolWhore do you expect yourioul to go I= J have none t- He What I1 said I have none llcIiat my dear friend do you nttl believe In Go- dIs1 do not Then another followed chipped in and saldII Dont you believe In the Bible I said I do not 4 And they asked In chorus for the whole gang was around us now Will ont you believe In the Bible answered Because it is a mate of contradictions and absurd fairy tales Fairy tales they cried in a chorus Yes I answered for Instance my friends if I came to you and told you that a lady friend of mine had given birth to a baby boy that this lady trlond was a virgin and continued a gin oven after giving birth to this child would you not consider that iry tale They did not answer but stood gaping open mouthed and I continued payfpg Jesus of Nazareth was no more a than you or I and If he lived heiflv6d as man was born as man died sarani- d his llcih decayed just us villfjny flosh Some one said I know that my re deemcr llveth I answered sa3lnglilt you know flint llron it to me and i will DIetedThe preacher murderer said are they who believe yet see notIanswered But that is not thojpy Jesus Is said to have answered hen Thbtnus declared ho would not beUee that Jesus hall risen from Jhe dead Jesus appeared and told Tho ass to place his hand in the wound In sldo r Now I declared J am ano nor Ihomas and I want to know that lYI leaner livothiComo my friends I said pray tor- mo and I will pray with you loins tho truth of this doctrine let us p ay- that Jesus shall appear and silos his wounds and then I like Tim will believe Vnd the dam hypocrites and 100- 1swered The age of miracles Is pas j t rhcu I said Your God has than id he does not love his children ash IhII m1ftj- in the days of Thomas He porformc a mlraclo to save tho soul of Thomai and ho refuses to do a like service for myself and friend If there was such a God I would despise him and so shoul you I said as Iturned and faced the mint ter am not a murderer a thief gambler or drunkard and never bo as long as nature loaves me in posse plonof my reason- I kayo absolutely no respect tuna a guilty of these things and wool not trust him as far as I can throw a stone I would not tako a life for it Is of all crimes the greatest I prize your life because J prize my own I love you not because I love God for there Is no God but because I love you my own kindAn Injury done to one Is an injtir done to all and the effects of n crlm against humanity can nomore bo wipe out b the blood of Jesus than could the dirty walls of this room bo painted with the water of the Ohio river This seomed enough for them they began to goody shove us toward the door suppose they thought I getting too personal for thin walls ot that room core sadly in need of something So we politely hid them Jood night but they did not answer It S Fitt a- nNO3 FROM REV GARATT rvaldc Texas April II Editor Moore Dear SirI have received copies of tho Blade with my first article correct printed and your comments on tho sane As you have used more space In your reply than was occupied by my article I presume your will allow me 0 row words by way of rejoinder Jnll now let us keep the object of our troversy constantly in mind and ream bor that wo are follow mortals trying to help each other to clearer views of truth Pardon mo for saying that to begin with you seem to havo mistaken m Introduction for my argument In viewing tho Brooklyn bridge you have doubtless been struck with the length std magnitude of the proaches As tho question of the Dlvln existence is one of the most stupendous that the human mind has to grapple with I think you should not object to my prefacing my argument on that subject with an Introduction less than quarter of a column In length My argument all follows the quote lion from St Paul It Is tho old argu ment of design in nature and 1 coup not be strictly honest without giving credit as I did to the preacher who used it first You seem to object to quoting from Paul anti yet you quol front Ingersoll As you are an aposll of liberalism let us bo liberal ia 61r nr lrl 8 from Ingerrfoll Voltaire or MIJ riper writer of note and I shall eta in tor myself the same privilege IQs ever if you object to my using a Bllvk quotation as tho text of my initial argu mont I will say that my text Is tho shlc hone of an infidel This ought to satisfy the most radical of your renders I take tho human fame and the bcyclo frame and place them side by side and contend hat both by the wise arrangement of tito material which they contain show tho work of an intelligent designer Ton say that this argument Is weak but I say that it strong and that no Joarer deduction can possibly be made from visible phenomena Then wo have ulnd and matter and tho question of irccedenco confronts something oust have existed first Mind Is evl d cntly superior to matter for it con role matter A stream does not rice above Its source and it Is more roasona ilo to couclttda that mind evolved mat- ert than that matter evolved mind more reasonable to conclude that that yhleh is superior was precedent than to sstimo tho contrary Your objection to the watch Illustra Ion on account of its ago does not hold gooll There aro some things which sin rove with ago and this is one of thorn forcovor a scriho instructed unto tine kingdom of heaven is required to bring orth things both now and old And now a few words about your tempt to impeach the goodness of God You say If tho world earth as the rorkinanshlp Ood is the best that God can do then God as a worker for mans happiness is far inferior to mats a worker for mans happiness But both the telescope and the Bible Inform us that tho earth is tint Ood a world astronomers toll us there Is a world which has four moons instead of one and presumably has moonlight every night And God sits tho earth his footstool which signifies Its inferiority In regard to your enumeration of earthly evils wUl simply remind you that Gods com icutary on book of nature tells us that since man became a sinner tho face ot nature has been changed to corres ndfvlth mans character Wo belong tol1 sinful race consequently partakers of good and evil But the good out wolghs tho evil In reply to your proposed Improve men18 on this world I must tell a short sjory about life in Texas In a certain field in Texas thero once lived a rabbit a fackass and an infidel Now Ood had proYlded grass to feed the rabbit and- the Jackass and apples and oranges tced the infidel lint tho Jackass wbo- lIad a broad mouth got moro than his- sbaro of grass and the rabbit who- was small and timid had a little mouth becamo lean and miserable So Uoe- lmado a special provision for the rabbit Ho mado tho prickly pear and placed on Its broad thick leaves sand thorns koop Jackass from eating It up Phcn tho rabbit thrust his nose lie x I R KJ J frJ IJ ijJl Ifl C H D 4 Trains DailyOve the Moooa Cincinnati itdh S oIn T Tndlc lit WATHENSI- CE CREAM FACTORY CREAMERY BAKERY 629 Eighth Street Louisville Ky Finest Vanilla and Lemon Cream per Gallon 75c Sherbets all kinds per Gallon 75c Peach Strawberry and Chocolate per Galloq85cpBrick and Euchre Cream per Gallon 100 Capacity 1500 Gallons per Day Goods shipped an fnras200 milo Fine Cakes made dally Special prices to Churches festivals hotels dealers and ovary day orders Long distance telephone 2M4 JM tweon the thorns Illlcd Ills belly withI the pear and was thankful and Now the Infidel was tall and learned and capable of appreciating higher things than foqd Ho nod made a spec ial provision for the happiness of the infidel Ho rondo a beautiful rod r0ge and loaded it with fragrance ami plan It beside the path which the Infidel wall wont to follow in his dally walks Am to keep tho greedy Jcckass who hind no eye for beauty from davourlngll heforoI the Inllllol got up in tho morning lTo put thorns on the hush around tho rust After I whU tho Infidel canto that way and saw tho rose but he did not pans to admire its beauty or Inhale Its Ira grance Ho hurried past simply re marking that ho thought it was a dnmean God who wouldnt make rose without thorns will close by referring to one mor point In your reply You saUH Ooll could make a perfect body for man and did not do It ho is neither perfect wise nor perfectly good conteni that tho fact that nod did not make a perfect body for man In first stag of his existence is a proof that Ho Is perfectly wise and perfectly good A wise and good father never gives Ills all that ho intends or is able to give him when that son first starts In business 7liechief benefaction cones after tin annir ltuandtdllt j Jvawv Ilf trledl firmly bolle otlear ctlltor that lTo designs to ultimately give Yon and mo bodleHjuoro perfect and more gloHoui than that possessed by tho angel 11 hriol andtuny prayer Is that you may not defeat tho bonellceut design of your Creator Fraternally JF OAIIATT EDITORIAL COMMENT Thoro aro lint fow things in your lot tor that need any reply There is great difference between way you quote Paul and tho way I quote Ingersoll You quoto Paul as being In spired and Infallible while I quote In Korsollas a fallible man think Pauls opinion about religious matters in not so good as IngernoIlH because Ingersoll knew much shore than Pnul did It not true that Something taut have existed first Everything may liavo existed always Is Just as easy for me to believe that you anlll or a or a rock existed always as that Ood has existed always It you liavo not existed always when did you lieglu toexlst In there an atom of anything In your body that was rondo out of nothing specially to he put Into your body Itis not true that Mind is evidently superior to mattur Mind Is simply a unction of organized ntatteriand there lore there coulil not have boon any mind before theta was any matter Matter evolved mind Just as the eye evolved sight Thero never was any sight mtll thero was an eye and there never vas any mint until there was a brain or ganglion or some material thing that lid thinking You cannot conceive of a thought as nuking a brain hut you do dally conceive of a brain making a thought The telescope does not tell us that t hero Is ally better wor Id than this but for sake of argumentwo will assume that there Is a bettor world than this Jr that better world lu It no Intelligent beings It was silly In God lo make It If It hanln itntollgent beings it was not just and fair for God to provide for one part of his Children hotter than did for the others It is Inaccurate to assort that tho taco ot nature has bedn changed to crorres pond with runes character All the rives that mon can commit would not take ono Jllrt11luako rite war against tho OblnoHO did not produce tho lulveH ton Hood All of Ingorsolla Infidelity and lilac horny could not make ono streak of lightning whole Christian world rayed for Uarflold and did not reduce his pulse one beat or ills temperature one degree You would have Just as gord health if you prayed to a totem polo or telephone polo or stump or Ohi nello god as you have now praying to your particular My life Just as itlsfaelory to mo as yours Is to you and never pray at all am muali happier thlln lUlled to bo when I was praying nlarly all the time Tho many men who j lIl1lf l havo Hulclded In Loxington and everywhere elso were all Christians dons not caro as much for a man as lie does for a mouse If somethingshould kill every human being on tho earth mm and moon would keep on doing businoHS ul their same old stands and the seasons and the birds and the wild flowers conic anti i go Just like we were hero to look at them Your telescope shows titay the face of nature has hen much perturbed lit Mars where nobody lives as on Uu earth People who preyed to Vishnu and Bel and Baal and and Osiris and Thor and Wodln and Odin and Jupiter anti louts and the Sun found Just as much encouragement to pray as you do and the old Irish woman who prays to tho Virgin Mary and countsV beads and the Chinaman who prays by 1110tyou dor1I do not see any force In your story about tho rabbit and the and In Idol There are places In tho world where there Is too much food for mats and places whefo titers are too ninny animals for Iho food Wh dont put tho food whore the animals can got It Is it a fact that Infidels do not onjoy flowers as much as ChrKllans do I love Showers much hafcajyd uro of Incersoll showing a tip era tahitt d mL4tr Yet certainly must appreciatrtho an surdity of reasoning making Imperfect bodies for men is an tJaclcnssgoodness Your statement that Ood going to give us nice bodies horeaftor no COilcnotation to us who do tint hclliwo In any Mod or eternal lifo My dhlklroii would not honor me for ipurposely withholding happiness from 01 them now and tolling them I was olng to make them happy In tho fu ture Your prayer for mo wont do mo my good Many women who are better than any man have told mo they woreVgoingto pray for mo uIJt never made mo any tether rather liavo one argument than a thousand prayers Low Rates Queen Crescent Route Low rates are announced for the rollowing named occasions via tIm Queen Crescent Route We tctii Gas Association Louisville May in17tli Medical Society of Kentucky Louis tulle May 222Hh National Association Credit Men Cleveland Juno 12inth American Association Nurserymen Niagara Falls June 1213th National Eclectic Medical Assocla ion Chattanooga June 1820th Kappa Alpha Convention 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