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them is practical religion. The
Christian doctrine of r»-wards and
punishments is false, and the one
great reason why I hate the Chris­
tian doctrines is because those doc­
trines do dishoner to the equity of
nature by giving salvation to a man
who has been a criminal all his life
in return for a penitent belief in
bis last hour, while they deny it to
one who has lived a whole life of
self-saving wisdom if he is infidel
to them, though faithful to his own
convictions.”
Much more he said in the same
strain, and he concluded by giving
me a copy of the Age of Reason
and a few words of advice, but the
latter was a superfluity. Fool that
I was, I thought I knew enough to
carry tw’O men through life, not to
speak of a boy.
Well, Wednesday evening came
and I was ordered to get ready for
prayermeeting. I objected. Ob­
jection was overruled. I wanted
to argue. They wouldn’t listen to
argument. I wanted to arbitrate.
They had nothing to arbitrate. I
tried to beg off. They turned.a
deaf ear to my entreaty. I then
refused pointblank to have any­
thing to do with their prayermeet­
ing. War was declared at once,
and without any preliminaries hos­
tilities began. The enemy sent out
a detatchment to turn my flank,
but owing to his age and weight,he
did not accomplish anything worth
speaking of. Casualities, a broken
chair, a skinned shin and a rising
temperature on the part of the en­
emy. But in the change of posi­
tion resulting from the first sortie,
I discovered that I was too small
in numbers to risk a set battle and
the field entirely too limited to ex­
ercise mv strategic manouvers to
any great advantage, so I decided
to make one brilliant move toward
saving my shin anyhow and let the
honor go by default. The general
and staff were stationed at one door
and the army at the other. There
was a table in the center of the
room. With an Apache warcry I
charged the general, letting fly a
lovely copy of Matthew, Mark,Luke
and John, which caught her amid­
ships. With a roar of rage the
army came charging down one side
of the table to her assistance.
When he had almost reached the
scene of action I executed a flank
movement up the opposite side of
the table and gained the door he
had left unguarded. Just as I was
going through the door the general
let fly the staff (stove shovel).
It
was a good shot, well aimed and
well timed, and it caught me in the
back of the head, but fortunately it
lacked force, and the only effect it
had was to draw a few drops of
blood and accelerate my speed. I
congratulated myäelf on my escape
and kept going. My fortune con­
sisted of a jack knife, a Waterbury
watch and chain, and $1.35. That
was sufficient. I never went back.
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