Show THE TRUTH AND NOTH ING BUT THE TRUTH recently in n nw NOW jersey court the the evidence of A ati atheist wa re jested it was a iving 1 statement which a wil on the tile stand was viral allied ed to relent when the witness 1 that tho the lyng man had hot allfred that he ile was wai nn an atheist the court rel ed 1 out t the il statement in conformity with previous pre v le ous bululk ganv year vears be fore form and in tomp compliance liance with the fund of the old common ia law lat 0 only illy fear 01 ol the tile divine punishment van can bilau that ali a witness wilt will tell tho the telu that Is f th reason for adminis bering cang nu onh to a m lie ile it Is to tit that he will tell tho the truth the aholo truth if tie tl lawyers will lot let him vind nothing but th truth 0 pro laed the lanvers ilo ala not make him say ay thing things ho he neer intend e el I 1 to sa tilt ie is done under tue pon alev fit of divine punishment of course there aln re is ii it statutory rv penalty for per I 1 iry but in theory punishment by law Is not eo so truth compelling as a icar car of 0 a it higher ju juse age little children mien placed ou oa the tand stand are questioned about their knowledge of the u td a of 0 en an oath and if they may ay ahn that t dorf win punish them if it they tell a lie they arc are considered competent witnesses passing 1 over oer ohp actuality of divine punishment for lying and other evil coill g bohn says ay in revelations that nothing that mabeth a he lie shall enter van gate gates of the heavenly city we vie might consider neider eo whether in fact feir fer of punishment in the future life makes for the telling of truth on the stand evidently tho the perjury with which our court trials abound I 1 in criminal eases does not lend itself to that idea it may have been no in the past when meas were somewhat nore more crude ne as to ape punishment punishments for specific deed deeds by divine act but christians of the present lay day have lave it tar higher concep tion of the subject of divine judgment than prevailed in the days of the corn com mon non law they bella belles c lit ali future judgment as harot str straty Sty tr ibi their father fathers but it is a judgment based upon a general condl conill ava itt ii and slid not upon specific deeds beels dee ie aro ore but an all indication of thai that condition bo so we nay may expect the title christian I 1 tu fell ell the truth on the wit iw s si ais abw bess uess danl stand whether under cath oath or not oot and we ue may ai aleo so exy r that I 1 the liar will not do 80 0 o many states itco recognize the tile fact that some truthful persons object to tailing taking in oath and vail provide for an affirmation it Is conceivable vable that an am atheist might be a person of 11 high agh integrity anil bm 1 l his h dying lying ment le im truthful in ite its intent vincil if not in fact that la Is all allaf enn lie be mid for any uny bolye bolys statement tb rouin condition and ato of miu of the dying man hulog been drawn from the witness wit nce it bould seem as though alq li bight boght to 0 9 free to ehe gibe the dying worda words of aar an f pernon for the jury to accept as it might choose if tho the dying lying if tf a gangster and 1 I 1 roes Ional erli criminal ninal is I 1 admissible that of ail an honest amheist alie iet oui t also to ie be french have been 48 46 beirs tom compiling piling a di ii ti flonary and are oily a thirl of the way through A cholo new rould could be do in that tim time serrat ser rat of them lave auch such aa as ro aal an I 1 ee fla eran to the great pit river loer aft tunnel five filp long ian ant on I 1 23 feet in diame 1 ter Is completed if the new wind power prove proves to be what Is claimed lal for it lt that would he ile a fine flue place to grow mushrooms |