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avail themselves of the combined
advantages of the divinity school
and the state university. The four
y ears’ divinity course includes elo-
cution and several philosophical
and classical studies in the uni-
versity.”
If the university admits divinity
students to twelve of its classes
there must be a loss of time or an
increase of expense to the state,
The facts are,that we have a Chris-
tian state university, several Meth-
odist and one Campbellite state
normal school, and yet the people
are made to think that they are
non-sectarian, and go on paying
taxes to the tune of millions of dol
lars and then have turned loose
upon them every year a gang of
preachers to defraud them with
real estate booms of a country
above the clouds.
Eternal negligence is the price of
slavery.
E n e m ie s in C a m p .
schools that are reallv and truly
sectarian. Was it wrong for us to
help save the state several thous-
and dollars, as we certainly did?
But suppose we had, in our anx-
iety to build a school, made a mis-
take iu asking the state to aid us;
is it the manly thing for the editor
of a Freethought paper to endeavor
to prevent people who are interest-
ed in our work from helping us? Is
that the kind of Liberalism the
men possess who are asking the
people for sustaining money? We
would like to see his Freethought
organ well sustained; then why
should he try to tear down our
work?
It might lessen his subscription
list a little to have another Free-
thought paper in the held, and for
a short time our school might at
tract some attention from his little
corner, but in the long run it will
be a benefit all along the line, and
what possible harm can come from
a school that teaches all the natur
al sciences, and that from a Free-
thought (non-sectarian) stand
point? Why, oh why should those
who are endeavoring to do some
thing for our grand cause be oblig
ed to fight those who should lx?
their best friends?
We are not perfect, and may
make mistakes, but unselfish (
friends of mental liberty will help
and kindly advise us. They will
not be found thoughtlessly and self-
tiyingto tear us down,
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M uch depends on the work of the
coming year. If the Liberal Uni
versity is finished, it will put us in
an altogether different light before
the world. Our institution stands
for an Infidelity that cau and will
be respected. The other tribes of
the house of Freethought, that is,
those who cling to creeds worse
than the orthodox, will, of course,
combat us to some extent, but we
are bound to win, for sensible peo-
pie are the ones who can help us
and they are the ones who will T h e C o m p a n io n 's F i r s t S u b s c rib e r.
soonest find out what a great boon T he Y o u th ’s com panion is probably
our school will be to the cause.
th e only periodical in th e world seventy-
As we struggle along toward suc tw o years of age, whose first su b scrib er
cess, we can see why it is that free is still living and still a c o n sta n t read er
th e paper. The su b scrib er who enjoys
dom of thought has been so long of
th is u n iq u e d istin c tio n is M rs. H an n ah
held back. It is because many of U. P arsons of B rooklyn, N. Y., now in
the very men who are loudest in h e r 85th year. She was th e little siste r
shouting for freedom are those who of N ath an iel W illis, fa th e r of N. P. W il
combat every honest effort to bring lis, th e poet, an d founder of th e Y o u th ’s
C om panion. W hen Mr. W illis h ad re
it about. One of the monthly Free- solved
upon p u b lishing a new p a p er for
thought organs, which, it seems, is young people, his friend had him p u t
becoming somewhat fossilized, tried down his s is te r’s nam e as th e first su b
to hurt our work in its last issue scrib er. T he C o m p an io n ’s first issue was
by condemning us for our work in d ated A pril 16, 1827, and for m ore th an
the legislature this year. The ed seventy years th is first su b sc rib e r has
co n tin u ed to read and enjoy it.
itor tried to make it appear that
D uring th e re m a in in g weeks of 1869
we were doing the very thing we th e C om panion will m ain tain its fresh
condemn Christians for, that is, a n ,l varied in te re st for all subscriliers,
asking state aid for sectarian pur- o,<1 and y°un>?,by p resen tin g a volum e of
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a r t s t e 1 ea of e v e n building a vear> T he m ost p o p u lar of living w rit-j
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Now is this kind of w’ork right? hours to th e e n te r ta in m e n t of th e h u n -
Why should this editor try to de- dre(ls of th o u sa n d s of households in
feat the work of other Freethinker«? which the Youth’8 C om panion ia every
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is certain y a re a s o n fo r it, New subscribers will receive th e beau- . » i* .
ini this very thing has kept back tiful C om panion calen d a r — th e m ost
>»ur cause more perhaps than the beautiful one ev er given to Com panion
enemy outside our camp.
read ers—in ad dition to th e Com panion W
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