| Show nere in existence before lie he camo here and which had been allowed to lapse through the sinfulness and stubbornness of the children of men 3rd ard if orabe man ner of efi actuating 0 ii it which we call an ordinance were true then anen why not be true today or vice versa I 1 have never given i much thought to the question of animal sacrifices but I 1 have no hesitation la in saying that circumcision ought to be practiced today it t would put a stop to a great anio amount of crime and here lies liea the most powerful argument in its favor INVALID LAWS ath the constitution requires certain things to be done in connection with any and all laws it 19 is true that the doing of these thines thial va are matters of procedure but by what right shall any one be permitted to say that any of the things required hy by the conti aution to be done ae insignificant and may therefore he be omitted lias any one more right to say gay that one of the thin things required by the constitution is insignificant and may be omitted than he be has to say any other thing required is insignificant and may therefore b be 1 ie emitted if the abo right to 19 ignore J one Dro provision vision exists existe the right to ignore all exists if the court mutt wink at one violation of the it roust must wink at other violations of it if the court must approve one violation of the constitution it must to be con sister t approve other violations of it we must be subject tto to the con Eti sti lution or else be subject to the whims of those individuals who treat the sanctity of the constitution as fictitious and its provisions as irli irl insignificant i by the mere substitution of a S word or two still retaining the full sense of the above we would have a most powerful argument in favor of my poi position tion thus the christian constitution requires certain things to be done in connection with any or allot all of its laws it is true that the doing 0 of s are matters of pro procedure cedore but B t by b what right shall any one be e per bitted milted to say that any of the things required by god to be done are areia insignificant significant and may there fore be omitted atthe if the right to ignore one ordnance ordinance exi exists stEs the right to ignore all exists if we can wink at one violation we must wink at others 10 we must either be subject to the whole law or else be subject to the whims of those individuals a als who treat the sanctity of christianity as aa fictitious and it its provisions as insignificant eth 1 I do not believe that words were ever penned by man which anore truly describe the status of the case than the following ones of your great religionist coreligionist co prof drummond if god is only left to the gaps in our knowledge where shall we be when these gaps are filled up and if they are never to be filled UD is ia god only to be ba found in the disorders of the world if god appears periodically ile he disappears periodically whether is all god or occasional god the nobler theory christianity is history a history of some of the later steps in the evolution of the world the continuity of spirit their forms are different their forces confluent christianity y did not begin at the christian era it is as old a as ai i nature it did not drop like a bolt from eternity came in the falness of time the attempt to prove an alibi fo tor r christianity t to 0 show that it was in the skies till the christian era opened is as fatal to its acceptance by science as it is useless for defence to theology dont you abl think k ray my dear mr doyd boyd that the foregoing extracts from my last letter demaud demand kome reply or are you willing tb that it judgment should go by default now as to the new issues raised by your pseudo reply to my letter you cusay say themay the way to express our appreciation of a physician is to do so eo in the line oi his profession and the way to express our regard for god is ia in his character of supreme ruler precise precisely and as a physician I 1 should very soon rid myself of any any and all patients who he did not follow 10 w all the of my treatment do you see ee the point mr boyd you next want to know how we can call ascertain what gods laws are unless reduced to a code and how can that code be represented except through a book vav why my mv dear sir that is a very very pry foolish proposition to advance indeed suppose there had bad been no book what then have the great discoveries of science been deduced from books you airry inference that lain I 1 am a bible iconoclast but in your heart of hearts heart you know better than that mr boyd I 1 believe that the bible is the ge detest test anil and grandest literature known to man but I 1 also maintain maintain that before any intelligent being can allow himself to be bound by it it must first be cleared of all stupid human creations cret ions which have altmont alf float totally obscured obE Cured its pristine clearness and beauty my main point id ia simply an enunciation of the doctrine of law and I 1 claim to be true the be self 1 f evident ident fact that there is no difference bevelen jewish mathematics mati and christian mathematics between presbyterian astronomy and methodist astronomy or between mormon chemistry and agnostic genetic gnet ic chemistry it is the law which prevails in the universe and in every part of of it whether you find it in in a book or no you are guilty 0 of a total perversion of my ideas absolutely inexcusable inex in your profession when you accuse me of stating that there are some problems for the benefit of humanity which china alone has solved if you are the man I 1 take you to be mr boyd you will apologise apologize apol ogise to me for that thai your desire to be enlightened on sociology is a cofo of ignorance which I 1 had not expected from one of your scholastic attainments ments by their fruits shall ye know them exactly by your fruit we know you vou that is the grand test teat and by y it my dear mr boyd your christendom stands elands known it is a dead bia bea apple characterized by the establishment of a number of universities colleges hospitals libraries and por houses house which are but a mere cloak with which to lido bide the religion of greed and hate bat faintly covered by your vaunted Cli christian ristian civili civilization Lation the pagan philosopher who in his bis day denounced the hypocrisy of his bia age ae might be likened to a modern cassandra denouncing your christendom when he vehemently declared fugere verum que honorlue hon orque in locum alii i euziere frau deque et vis et amor us ha bendi your friend GEO PHILLIPS |
