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Hear?
ful thoughts and expresses them
about the Protestant church as a
for others the best he can.
reached, through work, the sam
useful
social
club,
and
have
just
f 'RA \ EK from someone’s break-
Religion ¡g atJ emotional excite­
condition of mind that he, John
ing heart, entreating
assumed for argument’s sake, that son, had reached by going t<
A cherished life, is raised to “hiui on ment whereby the devotee rises in­ the church is a religious institu
high’’:
church. Johuson hated work; Rey
to a state of spiritual sublimity, tion.
“ I fear, Lord, thpt my loved one’s life and for the moment is bathed in
nolds loved it. Johnson consider
Formalized religion is strongest ed one day in the week holy; tt
is fleeting;
an atmosphere of rest, and peace,
Hear me this time; O do not let him
where sin, slavery, tyranny, and ig­ Reynolds all days were sacred-
love. All normal men and norance abound.
die!”
sacred to work, that is, to the ex-
The moments speed, and even draws the women crave such periods; and
W
here
men
are
free,enlightened,
pression of his best.
curtain
Bernard Shaw says we reach them
and
at
work
they
find
all
the
grati­
About a corpse and one whose faith t rough strong tea, tobacco, opium,
Why should you cease to express
fication
in
their
work
that
their
sincere
whiskey, art or religion.
your highest and holiest on Sun­
Says, still and ever: “ He will live I’m
souls demand—they cease to hunt day ? Ah, I know why vou do not
Our idea of the supreme being is
certain;
outside of themselves for some­
It "is because
I’ve prayed to God for him I hold suggested to us by the political gov­ thing to give them rest. They are work on Sunday!
most dear,
you think work is degrading, and
ernment under which we live. Car­
at
peace
with
themselves,
with
man
And God doth hear!”
because your barter and sale is
lyle summed up the situation when and with God.
founded on fraud, and your goods
Behold one longing day by dav for par­ he said that Deity to the average
But
any
man
chained
to
a
hope
don
are shoddy. Your week-day deal­
British mind was simply an infiuite
less task, whose daily work does
From that dread Judge Fear’s eyes I George the Fourth.
ings lie like a pall upon yonr con­
The thought
discern above—
not express himself, who is dogged science and you need a day to
A Judge whose heart at wails of woe of God as a terrible Supreme Tyr­ by a boss, whenever he gets a mo­
throw off your weariness of slavery
ant first found form in an unlimit­
may harden,
ment of respite turns to drink or under which you exist. You are
Or may be moved to pity and to love; ed monarchy; but as governments religion.
Now, calm in confidence and high ela­ have become more lenient so have
not free, and you insist that others
Men with an eye to Saturday shall not be free.
tion,
the gods, until you get them down
night, who plot to supplant some
The “ culpirt” looks aloft and knows
T ou have ceased to make your
(or up) to a republic, where God is
no fear;
one else, who can locate their em­ work gladsome, and you toil and
Anon he cries: “ Is there for me salva- only a President and we all ap­ ployer any hour of the day, who
make others toil with you, and you
vation?
proach him in familiar prayer, on
think
of
the
summer
vacation
when
Pardon me, Lord, and make thy par- an absolute equality.
a ll well nigh faint from weariness
they
will
no
longer
have
to
work,
pardon clear!”
and disgust. You are slave and
Then soon, for the first time, we
are apt to be sticklers in the Sab­ slave-owner, for to own slaves is to
But none doth hear!
find man saying, “I am God, and
Poor human wrecks are day by day be­ you are God, and we are all simply bath-keeping and church-going.
be one.
seeching
Many men in business who give
Do not hesitate to work on Sun­
The Lord to give them joy and life particles of him,” and this is where eleven for a dozen, count thirty-
day, just as you would think good
the I resident is done away with,
again;
four
inches
a
yard,
who
are
quick
thoughts, if the spirit prompts you;
And trembling hands feel for those and the Referendum comes in. But
hands far-reaching
the absence of a supreme governing to foreclose a mortgage, and who for work is, at the last, only the
Of him who stoops to mortals in their head implies simplicity, honesty, say, “ Business is business,” are expression of thought, aud good
pain.
justice and sincerity. Wherever church deacons, vestrymen and work is religion.—[The Philistine.
Each mournful plaint upon the air is
Look arouud
plotting«, scheming«, and doubtful church trustees.
wasted,
No Hand from heaven to earth doth methods of life are employed, a you! Predacious real estate deal P resent S tatu s of Cannibalism
e’er appear;
ruler is necessary; and there, too, era who set nets for the unwary,
And none that “ living water” ever religion, with its thought of placat­ lawyers who lie in wait for their
RE all the cannibals dead? 1
tasted
prey, merchant princes, who grind
ing
God,
has
a
firm
hold.
Men
these days when darkest A
Which still the Christian craves with
their clerks under the wheel, oil
whose
lives
are
doubtful
want
a
sigh and tear—
rica has seen the dawn, an
No God doth hear.
strong government and a hot re­ magnates whose history never is civilization is exploring the remol
written or can be written, often
There is no God, or none who heeds the ligion.
est corners of the world, we migh
make
peace
with
God,
and
find
a
placing
Formal religion and sin go hand
gratification for their sense of su­ suppose that they were at leas
Of sorrow, joy and love in mortals’ in hand.
dying out. Yet trustworthy auth
lives;
blimity
by
building
churches,
Formal religion and slavery go
Of no avail ourselves in dust abasing-
founding colleges and libraries, and ors have estimated the number o
hand in hand.
The battle is to him who nobly strives
holding fast to a formalized re­ cannibals at the present day a
Formal religion and tyranny go ligion. Look around you!
Man is man’s savior! All the god-host
more than two millions. Dr. Zab
banish!
hand in hand.
orowski, a learned Polish anthrop
Great sinners are apt to be very ologist, has recently published some
Let but the hand of one true friend be
Formal religion and ignorance religious, and conversely the best
near
interesting and valuable details re-
To grip in hours of darkness, troubles go hand in hand.
men who have ever lived have been garding these savage people, which
vanish:
And sin, slavery, tyranny, and at war with established religions.
A brother’s all we need when life is ign ) rance are one—they are never
are thus summarized in La Science
And further, the best men are Française:
dear,
separated.
never found in churches.
For he doth hear!
“Anthropophagy is not primi­
Formal religion is a scheme
— [ J ohn Y o u n g .
Men deeply immersed in their
whereby man hopes to make peace work, whose lives are consecrated tive. Man did not venture to feed
with his maker; and formal relig­ to doing things, who are simple, on his own species except under
Religion a Resort for Sin.
ion also tends to satisfy the sense honest and sincere, want no formal compulsion of absolute necessity,
of sublimity where the man has religion, need no priest or pastor, , when famine and the desire for an­
AM not entirely sure this will
failed to find satisfaction in his and seek no gratification outside imal food pushed him to the last
hold in every instance, but it
extremity. A body of hunters, for
work. Voltaire says, “ When wo­
seemstrue in the main. Please man no longer finds herself accept­ their daily lives. All they ask is instance, in pursuit of an animal,
think it out for yourself,and if lam able to man she turns to God.” to be let alone; they wish only the I at a time when it is hard to find
privilege to work.
wrong put me straight.
game, meets another partv. Im­
When man is no longer acceptable
When
Samuel
Johnson
on
his
The proposition is this: The to himself he goes to church.
pelled by hunger, they begin to
In
Artist needs no religion beyond his order to keep this article from ex deathbed, made Joshua Reynold« light, and the bodies of the van-
work. This is to say, art is relig­ tending into a tome, I have pur promise he would work no more on quised take the place of the absent
ion to the man who thinks beauti posely omitted saying anything Sunday, he of course had no con-1 animal victims. In some such way
ception of the truth that Reynolds cannibalism originated. Moreover
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