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All th at we call progress— the- Afterwards these men found that
U n iv e r s a l M e ta m o rp h o s is .
enfranchisem ent of man of labor, I Daniel, with his face toward Jeru-
F there’s something that yon know , hfi eubsthuU on
jm!irjsonm en, •»¡<•10. prayed three lim es a day to
’ about a brothel " ~ ~
lhe 8UbsOtutmn of imprisonment Jehovah. 1 hereupon Daniel was
BY H . » . STO D D A R D .
S o m e th in g s p ite fu l, so m e th in g h u rtfu l for d e a t h , o f lin e for i m p r i s o n m e n t,
cast into the den of lions; a stone
T h en I beg you n o t to do it,
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ruction of p o ly g am y , th e was placed at the mouth of the den > _ <
HE notion of force explains
You are very sure to rue it,
establishing of free speech, of t h e !and sealed with the king’s seal.
Foritw illrsactaponyourselfsom eday. rj & ht of v conscience-
in short all The king <-> r passed a bad night. The
nothing. E ither it is a rem ­
T he in ju s tic e you in flict u p o n a n o th e r,
“ o m t c , m tsu u ri, a n ,
,
T he in g r a titu d e you show u n to a frien d , t h a t h a s te n d e d to th e d e v e lo p m e n t ! n ’’x? m. , , i n P ie w e n t to th e d e n
n an t of the archaic, super­
D o n ’t fo rg et on som e to m o rro w ,
Qr..i
e
a n d c rie d o u t to D a n ie l.
D a n ie l stitious God idea, or it is essentially
W ill return to you in sorrow,
at on of m an, all the r®" answered and told the king that
A ll will be re p a id w ith in te r e s t in th e suits of investigation, observation, God had sent his angel and shut a restatem ent of the fact th a t there
en d .
experience and free thought; all the m ouths of the lions. Daniel is a series of known events. This
D on’t im ag in e you can sh irk a r e tr ib u ­ th at man has accomplished for the was taken out alive and well, and applies equally to alleged m inor
n;
Do not tio think
you can escape a moral benefit of man since the close of the f he J?1“ 8 '' ; 's .c',,"v<‘rtad ®"d ,be' forc*‘H 811,1 t0 the im agined one
leved .!" D a",le ,6 god:
? a,IU8’ great m aster-force.
People have
debt
Dark A g e s - h a s been done in spite heil|g then a believer in the lrue
He who tra m p le s on his n eighbor,
of the Old lestam ent.
God, sent for the men who had been unfortunately in the habit of
He who g rin d s th e face of lab o r,
C an b u t rea p a b itte r h a rv e st of reg re t. 1 Let me further illustrate the accused Daniel, and for their wives m aking a fetich ju s t giving a word
You m ay seek in c rav en fe a r fo r a b so ­
though th a t explained some-
m orality, the mercy, the philosophy and their children, and cast them
lu tio n ,
all
into
the
lions’
den.
thing; and, on the strength of th is
B u t y o u r selfish n ess will re n d e r it in a n d g o o d n e s s of th e O ld T e s t a m e n t :
vain ;
“ And the lions had the m astery habit, the priesthood, with th eir
If y o u th in k b u t of evasio n ,
T H E story OF A C » A N .
of them and brake all their hones
F o r th e ev ils you o ccasio n ,
J o s h u a to o k th e c ity of J e r ic h o . in pieces, or ever they came at the thum bscrews and the stake, rested
You w ill find th e evils th a t you give
during centuries.
Before the fall of the city he de­ bottom of the p it.”
r e tu r n e d in p ain .
[T he C o-operator.
W hat had the wives and little
To condense what we said in the
clared that all the spoil taken should
How had they T orch of R eason of May 9, 1901:
be given to the Lord. In spite of children done?
offended King D arius, the believer
ABO U T T H E H O LY B IB L E .*
this order, Achan secreted a gar- in Jehovah? Who protected D an­ 1 o claim th a t a thing exists as we
merit, some silver and gold. A fter­ iel? Jehovah! Who failed to pro­ find it, or th a t a thing behaves as it
And the Foundations of Faith.
wards Joshua tried to take the city tect the innocent wives and ch ild ­ does on account of a “ force” th a t is
in it, on it, under it, or behind it,
of Ai. He failed and many of his ren? Jehovah!
BY RO B ER T G. IN G ERSO LL.
T H E STORY OF JO S E P H .
is sim ply to say th at it is, “ an d
soldiers were slain. Joshua sought
Pharaoh
had
a
dream
,
and
this
III.
for the cause of his defeat, and he dream was interpreted by Joseph. th a t’s the end on’t.” It is a part of
T H E T E N COM M ANDM ENTS.
found that Achan had secreted a According to this interpretation the great orderly panoram a, and no
OME C hristian lawyers— some garm ent, two hundred shekels o f ■ there was to he in E gypt seven further explanation is possible.
J o h n Fiske ( “ The Idea of G od,”
em inent and stupid judges— silver and a wedge of gold. To Vears of p le n ty , follow ed by seven
years
of
famine.
Joseph
advised
p. 100) says: “ In no case whatever
have eaid and still say th at this Achan confessed. And th ere­
Pharaoh to buy all the surplus of can Science use the words ‘force’
the Ten C om m andm ents are the upon Joshua took Achan, his sons the seven plentiful years and store
foundation of all law.
N othing and his daughters, his oxen and it up against the years of famine. and ‘cause’except as m etaphorically
could be more absurd. Long be­ his sheep— stoned them all to death Pharaoh appointed Joseph as his descriptive of some observed or ob­
m inister or agent, and ordered him servable sequence of phenom ena,”
fore these com m andm ents were and burned their bodies.
There is nothing to show that to huv grain of the plentiful years. and p. 98: “ When astronom y speaks
given there were codes'of laws in
Then came the famine.
The
Didia and E g y p t— laws against the sons and «laughters had corn- people came to the king for help of two planets as a ttra c tin g each
m urder, perjury, larceny, adultery m itted anv crim e.
C ertainly, the He told them to g o to Joseph and other with a ‘force’ which varies d i­
and fraud. Such laws are as old oxen and sheep should not have do as he said. Joseph sold corn to rectly as their masses and inversely
as hum an society; as old as the love been stoned to death for the crime
E gyptians until all their money as the squares of their distances
of life; as old as industry; as the of their owner. This was the jue. |
he had it all When apart, it simply uses the phrase as
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the money was gone the people s a id : a convenient m etaphor by w hich
idea o f prosperity; as old as hum an tice, the mercy of Jehovah! After ‘Give ns corn and we will give you
love.
Jo shua had com m itted this crime, our ca ttle.” Joseph let them have to describe the m an n er in which
All of the Ten C om m andm ents with the help of Jehovah he cap- corn until all their cattle, their the observed m ovem ents of the
horses and the Hocks had been given bodies occur. It explains th a t, in
th a t are good were old, all that tured the city of Ai.
to him.
Then the people said: presence of each other the two
were new are foolish. If Jehovah
the story of elisha .
“ Give us corn and we will give you bodies are observed to change their
had been civilized he would have
“ And he went up thence unti» our jan(j M » go j OReph
them
left out the com m andm ent about Bethel, and as he was going up by have corn until all their lands were positions in a certain specified way,
keeping the Sabbath and in its ^ >e waY there came forth little gone. But the famine continued, and this is all th a t it m eans. This
place would have said, “ Thou shalt children out of the city and mocked a ,‘d so the poor wretches sold tbem - is all th a t a strictly scientific h y ­
not enslave thy fellow m en.” He him, and said unto him; ‘Go up, selves, and they became the ser­ pothesis can possibly allege, and
vants of Pharaoh.
fu;o is all
„11 th
,u a t ♦ observation can pos-
i i Then Joseph
p this
would have om itted the one about thou haldhead.”
And he turned gave them seed, i and
made an agree- ,
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swearing and said: “ The man shall hack and looked at them , and cursed m ent with them th a t they should 81 ’ Prove-
hatever goes beyond
have but one wife and the woman them in the name of the Lord, forever give one-fifth of all they this and im agines or asserts a kind
I of ‘p u ll’ between the two bodies is
hut one h u sb an d .” He would have Auc* there came forth two she-bears raised to Pharaoh.
left out the one about graven images out 0« the wood and tore forty and
" h'> enabl-d Joseph to in terp ret not science.”
Mr. Fiske’s state-
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and in its stead would have said:
“ Thou sh alt not wage wars of ex-
term in atio n and thou sh alt not un-
sheathe the sword except in self-
defense.”
If Jehovah had been
civilized, how much grander the
Ten C om m andm ents would have
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dr a T of Pharaoh?
Jehovah! menl ¡, unanswerable.
T h e “«e-
two children of them .”
Did he know at the tim e th at
P m nom ena he speaks of
'
waH
work of the good Joseph would use the inform ation fl uence
thus given to rob and enslave the
a ^ th a t can he affirmed. Force
God— the merciful Jehovah!
people of E gypt? Yes. W ho pro- resolves itself into this sequence.
T H E STORY OF D A N IE L .
King D arius had honored and duced the famine? Jehovah!
Here it may be objected: “ You
exalted Daniel, and the native .
i8 p erfectly .ap p aren t th a t the HAVE explained nothing .”
We
princes were jealous. So they in-
duced the king to sign a decree to
been.
the effect th at any man who should
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not to be hail except in the T h ird and Fourth make a petition to any god or man
volume« o f the D resden F d itio n . We w ill p rin t
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them in p«rta—each part reads aa a whole, ue except to King D arius, for thirty
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•1 the belief in “ th e s u p e rn a tu ra l,’'t h e r e is no
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of lions.
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t h p e
d p c f fi i
the G()d of E g y p t__the God of a)1
t he world. He was their God and
theirs alone. O ther nations had
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^oas, but Jehovah was the greatest
of a ll
H e h a te d n t h e r n e tin n a n n rl
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natea liner nati ins an
v Other
u iv i
&
gods, . and
abhorred
all i r re-
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I l g l O n s e x c e p t W o r s h i p Oi h i m s e l f .
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“don’t have to.” Nobody ever did,
ever will or ever can. It will never
be explained th a t 3 plus 2 equals 5,
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ar,d it is all the better th a t we
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“ don’t have to” explain
If men
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h ttd DO t t t t t c m p t c d
dry unexplainable
to
P X p l& in HUn*
things, there