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formed into an exceedingly beauti- C hristian craze true, unless the The announcem ent of his supposed m ale dynasty, it is time for the
ful, composite, historic, evolutional, present victims of th a t craze tu rn birth was, “ peace on earth , to men m others o f the race to in au g u rate
d ram atic, and th a t is, a prophetic in with the m odern Despotism s of good will;” th at is to believers.; a new system in nam ing the sons
poetn. It is an unconscious but and C orruptionists, and defeat the All others were dam ned.
Not and daughters of the future gener
condensed picture dram a of the “ E arth ly Paradise,” as they, gen- j “ peace on earth , and good will to ations, handing down beautiful,
evolution of the life, soul and prog- erally speaking, are now stupidly m en,” which is not in the original dignified, euphonious names,
ress of M ankind and it ends with but stoutly trying to do.
text at all, and is a corruption. So
The fathers have heretofore, like
the prophecy of the tiiu m p h of
Phis is hut a birds-eye evolution- Paul says “ what concord hath medical students in cem eteries,
H u m an ity , in a realized Heaven. al view of the rise and progress of C hrist with Belial? Or, what part moused around tom bstones for the
1 his tu rn s out to be “ the E arth ly the Bible D ram a. In its mode of hath lie, th at believeth with an in- names of dead ancestors, and have
P aradise” to be grad u ally realized composition and getting together, fidel?” 2 Cor. 5:15.
given us such cognom ens as B ull,
in the evolutional p ro g ress of the unconsciously; and in re su lt now to So Janies,
[3:17] m ak es “ th e Hogg, Cobh, H oar, C all, C ruik-
future of the H um an Race on be sym bolical of the T rium ph o f “ the wisdom from on high, first pure, shanks, Croker, F ish, Bugg, Rugg,
E a rth .
C hrist th a t is to be,” it is the most then peaceable.” God will “ avenge Budd, etc., and C hristian names to
It th u s realizes A ristotle’s law for wonderful of Books. But more of his elect” on all their enemies. m atch, such as Job, E sau, and Ich-
the Dram a; th a t is, th a t it should this anon: M eanwhile let us unite Luke 18: 7-8. Thus in The Reve- abod.
have a beginning, m iddle and end: to prevent its being a block in the lation, only the Elect are “ avenged
T hink of girls g rad u atin g from
1. A beginning, showing the o ri path of progress; and one way is and saved.”
Au angel calls all college, being registered on the
gin and n atu re of the history. by m aking it a Symbol to light and the birds of ihe air to eat the flesh calendar as Dollie, Mollie, Poilie,
T his is shown in tfie Hebrew books cheer our progress on th a t path of the others. [Rev. 17: 21,] etc. K iltie, Rosie and Pinkie:
illu stra tin g the fabulous and an a r-i till it brings us in sight of the
The non-elect— not in the Book
Then, think of dignified women
chic tribal period of social bar- ■ Heaveu that is to be “ on earth .” of Life— are to be “ torm ented for- ' abrogating th eir own family nam es,
barism , an indispensible era in
ever and ever in the burning lake.” and adopting those of two hu s
early hum an evolution.
Rev. 20: 15.
So it all runs from bands, writing them selves down as
The
Moral
Revolt
Against
Christianity.
2. The second period is the tem
Genesis to R evelation. The Apoc- .Mrs. J o h n Roe- Doe 1’
A gain,
porary triu m p h of the T ribal gov
ra p h a, which did nave a “ purga think of two beautiful girls, in
M any people think th a t there is to ry -’ and a touch of hum anity in m uslin dresses and blue
ernm ent under the Maccabees; and
satin
then the g rad u al m elting change som ething good about C hristianity, it, was thrown out of the Bible by sashes, announced by an usher a t
of the Hebrew T ribal polity, under and th at it is the right thing to do the P ro testan ts in 1819, w ithout a London reception, in sten to rian
conquest, into the eth n ic and meta to sustain it as a cheap m oral, or so the slightest right, consistency or tones, as “ the Misses B u ll”, or
physical period of Greek thought, cial addition to the police force.
decency, and to their eternal dis “ the Misses C ru ik s h a n k s :”
W hat an u nfortunate illusion grace.
fancy and language. This is shown
I have been announced on such
in the A pocrypha, w ithout which underlies this belief m ay begin to
The point we make with abso occasions, and to a large audience
the Bible caunot be understood at be seen from the serm on of the lute certainty is, “ th a t all of the a t the St. Jam es H a ll, as “ Mrs.
all. U nfortunately several needed Rev. Mr. Ewing, on our 1st page. moral revolt and disgust,” which Elizabeth Cady S ta n to n .”
My
books are usu ally om itted, and all We say “ begin” —for the conscience the Reverend Ewing righteously early blunder was in perpetu atin g
should be re-arranged according to and h um anity of thio clergym an has against th e story of Ja e l, the my la th e r’s instead of my m oth er’s
date and purpose, and the Book of revolts quite lively at the horrid m urderess, applies with ten-fold nam e. How much more dignified
story of Jael, and he intim ates that force to the whole bible , which is Mrs. Elizabeth L ivingston S tanton
Daniel should go in with them.
3. The th ird , the New T esta he has qualm s over other stories of a revelation and com m and, not only would have sounded.
m ent revelation, was the period of “ God’s chosen people.” One would for the m urder, hut the eternal
All vulgar, flat and silly nam es
the M essianic revolt of the Tribal alm ost believe th a t he had been burning of the whole hum an race, should be abjured, and it rests
Theocratic polity— S piritualized reading Colonel Ingersoll’s “ R eas except a few “ elect” as above cited. with women to do th is work.
We
into the ‘‘Kingdom of H eaven,” and ons for doubting the inspiration of The whole Hebrew and C hristian m ust refuse to m arry men with ob
clergym an religions and business are sim ply jectionable cognom ens, as they can
represented as then soon to ap the Bible,” as all
pear on th is earth , an d to be pre should do.
a servile obedience to a degrading be legally changed by a sim ple act
And yet it is am using to see prostration before an old im agined of the legislature, and thus save
sided over by J esus , the C hrist, the
Savior, the Son of Man and of God, th a t fie does not see th a t the whole barbarous T ribal T yrant God.
It their wives and daughters from be
“ Our F ath er in H eaven.” His a p Bible is a lot of Tribal books, [ex is sim ply the story of Jael enlarged ing ridiculed an d m ortified all
pearance on the earth was a clear cept Jonah, as Thom as Paine so to include and apply to the whole th eir days, as Hoggs, Crabbs and
case of M essianic “ S p iritualistic well pointed out,] and th a t their hum an race.
It has deluged the Bulls!
M aterialization,” which gave rise Law and M orality, which were only earth with hatred, discord and
I f men, proud of som e old ances
to the “ E p istles,” and the m iracle God’s will and com m and, are lim ited blood, and is doiug it today!
tor, would dig round the roots of
and visionary parag rap hs a fte r to the welfare and glory of the He
To look to Bible religions for their ancestral trees, they m ight
w ards pieced together and called brew tribes. The words M oral and m orality <>r h um anity is a fright- end in a snag, as I did, in tracin g
“ Gospels.”
H um an do not occur in the Bible, ful delusion, and an anachronism : the origin of “C ady.” I found my
The re-appearance of “ the C h rist” and its books and era of the world th a t is, it is the “ unpardonable ancestors quiet conservative people,
which he is m ade positively to have nothing to do with those ideas sin” against our era and the hu- never protesting against gross in
For evolution justice or absurd custom s.
promise and assert would occur which bad not then evoluted. m an race itself!
As I
d u rin g the lifetim e of those listen- You m ight as well look into the can never forgive errors against it- went on step by step, I found the
ing to him (M att., 24-34. 1 Thess. Bible for instructions about steam- self.
Think of subjecting our era y ” changed into “ e” u n til a t last,
4-15, 16, etc.) has never occurred, boats and telegraphs, as to look to the barbarous “ God slav ery ” of j in the reign of H enry the E ig h th ,
and should have proved the u tter th e re fo r the M orals or the Hu- over 2000 years ago!
T hink of J Jack Cade loomed up and was
folly of looking for any thing like m an Law of our Age.
All of the reading this horror in our schools, hung for criticising the king’s
fact, history or prescience in the horrid stories and “ laws” of the as a “ rule of faith and .practice” blunders in governm ent and his
New T estam ent— even to the most Old T estam ent from Adam to Ab- — a God rule which condem ns both la titu d in a ria n ideas on the ques-
deluded of C hristians. The dream raham , from Jacob and Easau to pupils and parents to an etern al tions of m arriage and divorce,
and wish, however, w hich was the David and Solomon; and even hell.
P retty stuff to teach them , E vidently, Jac k 's fate terrorized
father and m other of “ the C h rist,” down io the Maccabees, scarcely isn’t it?
O, Bibliologist where is all his descendents until I a p
and of his revelation, and of the disclose the trace of a moral senti- jo u r shame?
peared on the planet, possessing no
stories in th e Gospels, and of s u b -, m ent. It is all the will of Y ahveh
We defy Mr. Ew ing aud the doubt a few drops of his rebellious
sequent C h ristian ity , was in its for the glory and etc. of the Tribe, world to show th a t this article is biood, which has kept me p ro te st-
origin the desire for a betterm ent H um anity then had no existence, riot true.
¡ng all ray life against the com pli
of the C h ristian Believers only ,
In the New Testam ent the He-
— — — —
cations of the present civilization,
over and above the Roman Em - brew Tribe was enlarged by Paul
Lucy Stone, in keeping her nam e
W h a t's In a Name?
pire— its.cruel conquests and cor- to include Gentile believers, but
all her life, set a good ex am p le for
ruptions. It so happens th a t the th at was all!
All others were
m airied women, in preserving an
BY ELIZABETH CADY STANTON,
evolutional progress of the H um an dam ned. [M ark 16:16.]
Against
individual diguity and a proper
W hen we see what absurd nam es
race is at last about to begin to them C hrist came to bring “ not
Concluded on Page 8.
m ake this original dream of the peace, but a sword.” [M att. 10:34.], custom has perpetuated under a