Show ATHEISTS DESERVE SO SOME E EIlL IlL S. Brothel Brother Herbert Hays said some sonic very ery severe ere things of or the atheists In his sermon Sunda Sunday Anyhow he lie Is so o quoted Among other things ho said sald a cl the mouthed loud atheists of a hUndred hundred hun hUn- dred mired years ears ago sat at on soap boxes In n grocery grocer stores and delivered ered themselves themselves them them- selves of ot unpleasant things timings against re re- re ligion And all that sort of or thing Mr 11 Hays s 's is mistaken There worn wore vereno no soap boxes In tho the grocery stores a a. hundred years ago An And the atheists are In some measure entitled to the credit of or introducing those receptacle for a pl l detergent not in ii co common nm u use at the period referred to A hundred years ears ago the typical atheist ma may have been mouthed loud but he no more deserved the term than did the reverend gentlemen who devoted devoted de de- le- le voted their time to working out systems systems systems of or dogmatic theology theolog and IssuIng Issuing ing lug plans and specifications for tor salva salva- tion Indeed It was WIlS the plain speech of or the atheists which made mado tho the In Intolerant Intolerant intolerant In- In tolerant churchmen stop refining on orthodox and devote themselves to learning something oi of oi the God the they were honestly but mIstaken mistakenly mistakenly mis mIs- taken trying to serve Take a book of ot theological argument argument ment mont Issued a hundred years ears a ago Read It carefully faithfully following the dicta and the argument of or the he theauthor author and author and you will not wonder that It ha has sent some men craz crazy and others into unbelief There arc are no now more soap boxes and fewer works o on s systematic theolo theology theology the the- olo than there were a hundred years ears ago And mankind Is hotter better or off an and God is bett better r served because of It it The atheist is not necessarily one who denies enles the existence of or God In any exact definition of ot any time heIs lie he lieis lieis is more the man who confesses that he ho doesn't know all about divinity divinity- the thing which tho the writers of ot theology an and the preachers o of many churches wouldn't admIt admi One time Ume salvation was regarded D Da DIJa as DIJ asa a process Stages were described There was a way a to start and no soul could be saved by an any other beginning There were successive conditions con con- and and endless perdition with the worm that not and the tho fires that are arc unquenched awaiting the sou soul that sought peace b by any other method Preachers do not talk that wa way now nov The Tho atheist who didn't know and who convinced the tho world wold that the preachers didn't know Imo either have helped to a better conception of divinity to a better better better bet bet- ter standard of or humanity to a larger large number of ot clean people who use soap and and better soap too Thc They have had their uses And th time the Reverend Mr Ir Hays lIars hardly does them Justice when he ho lie calls caUs them loudmouthed loud mouthed mouthed any any more than he Is nc tc c- c curate when hen he lie says thc they sat on soap soapboxes soapboxes soapboxes boxes and vainly ranted |