Show R MIGIO XI I 1 the d must control tilis thir lor e else Is e mankind will relapse into despotism and slavery what is that doctrine dodt he himself has said aid it and so did paul hi his s chief pread preacher her do a as you would be done by love thy fellow as thyself and ana paul said this is all the whole is comprised in this laye thy fellow man as thyself no ba baptism atis in no ceremony no other dogma what shall I 1 do to be saved savea sell all and give to the poor that is all for if more was required later it was a base fraud frandon on the young man that was told that was all U and we do know that interpolations and dogmas were later added by cunning but happily we knew the character of christ and that doctrines forged later are utterly at war with that character whence came the doctrine buddha centuries before had announced it if spiritualism be creditable these men were inspired by advanced spirits As to the Crea creator tori of odthe the universe we ate are as far from being near him from communicating with him as naught is ig from A infinity i that kind of feti schism as described in the old fye testament the jew worship of a being they called jehovah a jove of a man who got very angry and marched at the head of armies threw down stones atones on the enemies of jews met moses at a tavern and sought to slay him au all that is worthy only of savage or puerile minds it is all too ridiculous to consider beriou seriously sly As well believe literally true buethe but the doctrine of christ must live and have a sanction from some authority to believe christ was born of a virgin viren conceived of the holy ghost is absolutely indispensable to his divinity if he was so born bom that settles it now it re quires evidence equal to proof palpable to establish this most able of all statements what is the evidence first Isaia hB prophecy years before that A virgin shall conceive and bears son eap no facts as to where when rhe or by whom or any other circum circumstances stan ces were given aly only this A virgin v i nr i n shall conceive etc and this is is madeko made to apply toa to a daim baim made hundreds of years later meanwhile several such conceptions lad had been claimed notably a vestal virgin gi i n of blome and tillmore till more remarkable only a few days davs after this this prophecy pro J the prophet himself declares that in iuliis his presence th the priestess Tri estess conceived and borea son abdu and that before the child could uld tsak talk the land that hIsK his king 12 9 I 1 so 6 ab abhorred 1 had lost its kings kinga et cpr ahi s pro checy about the virgin was fulfilled then ihen and theae kj jk a beeble is the human intellect under ii 41 aw rf 47 y r ty so utterly y parah zed is it at that some 4 of our ok greatest F afi intellects lav have e r ii f i e r i I 1 abla vecy beyond ii Z birth of at lu chato what would bod become diki of w man ai tr dmd if spi sass z ass i they cereas careless md bad u unreason son 1 52 ing ing about i ilia gaeir every aty flay 8 Z business abd n aas sey si is af s as t they h arc f a n d x 3 d I 1 Z a R t sa s1 saas sass m of 6 14 chastia C m b mv 01 S mishew to ua i Z 5 ven drable sea SE carpe lr T 9 y g ajtal g ht aam aa 19 ani 5 q child waa te se amt MT g ie at I 1 i 4 digs 32 4 posed to make way with her secretly when he dreamed tha the expected infant was waa of 0 the seed of the I 1 holy ghost a personage of whom little or nothing seems to have been known prior to that time the old gen aleman related this dream among his simple country neighbors and whether the bad men and young fellows believed it we are not informed certainly tainy those of our tine time ti ne would not credit such a thing we do not believe in our dreams and why shall we credit this one of saint joseph ask thos paine and there thereisa is all ll the evidence as to christs divine birth repetitious repetitions of the story by others are but hearsay and not evidence at all do you not see that the christian religion so far as that claim goes rests on that repined dream of joseph joaeph and worse still matthew relates esit fit L at second hand for he had no acquaintance with christ until thirty years after his hia birth it is not probable he ever saw joseph so the christian religion as it is preached and proclaimed by nearly all the sects hangs by one single rotten thread the hearsay report of an old mans dream made about two thousand years ago not so however is christianity when measured by the doctrine and character of the man jesus christ and by the philosophy of human history he was more than man who conceived the idea of universal twi versal love by man for all his fellow men of all races kindreds and tongues amid a set of howling cannibals slave drivers and devils in human shape for two thousand years ago all mankind was divided in two societies gocie tiei the savage on one hand and brutal civilized dominating over myriads of wretched slaves save in a few savage brer brec ts where reigned a spark of tle the divine intellect all was beast ial sodden botish materialism and that a man could conceive and proclaim loudly what christ did was more mord than mental man could have done without inspiration and thus is the christ aud and christianity that is ii to rule role the human heart CLA ILKE |