Show THE dales it makes ono tic feel S sad nd often times to read rend the ravings of jibe liberal a and freethinkers free thinkers they affect to tilrow throw off all rc restraint and glory in being without god in the tile world they pride themselves in their infidelity A short time since one of f this class chiss of waiters and lecturers mr jaminson Ja recounting sonic some offis of hid per personal sollI experience X peri ence ellec spoke of his immunity from accidents and disasters olevery of every ind during his travels in the united states for the tile last 21 years to disseminate the lie the doctrines ol 01 free thou thought ailt among which is that th there ereTs is no god the writer says in ill all that time I never had a 11 nail railroad road accident except bag baggage ga cc smashing shing never in tho the whole awen tyone ty one years had one whole days s horsek never ran away have escaped fire and flood hurricane cyclone and pestilence abw always ays arrived the day before or a day lay too late wo we would naturally suppose the bestowal of such inesti inc mable blessings would inspire the recipient with tho the deepest to tho the power that conferred them that lie would acknowledge they were nvere given by a power superior to that of man mail and that he lie owed his preservation to a being that can and docs does control not only the elements clementsz but the whole universe but no ho lie is not a believer in any power greater than that of man inan hence with characteristic bravado lie exclaims despite all these mercies I am nin an In infidel fidell he hopes that bebas he has not ono drop of christian blood in ill liis his vains ho ile ask asks if there is is an orthodox god why is it that I am still an infidel Id fidel ridel the fool has said in Us hi heart there is no lie god and jamiesen Ja t the lie w writer riter referred to loves to let it fly the liot hot hissing hiang thoughts the bold blasphemy he ile however may yet live to discover there is a god who may laugh at liia his calami ties and mock when ills his fear comes upon him hini he ile may live long enough to learn that it is a fearful thing tiling to fall falla into the hands bands of the living god of course there are ather free thinkers besides A sir mr jamieson and of a rather different strip esome of them bezin to doubt the soundness of their doctrines among the tile numbers is the rev B frothingham ing bain who is not only a free thinker but also a deep philosophical 11 tb thinker inker lie ile is a gentleman of education and culture and is A 47 considered to bethe be the ablest most sellA scholarly arly of all the men of ultra free thought thou glit movement in ameri tea I he lie lias has bean earnest and it is believed he has been sincere in the ai of free thought but lie snow s now confesses that ins his work lias has bean a failure and ho lie hag lids drawn back bael in horror from its tendencies A few da days y a ago agomo air Mr frothing hain said to alie reporter of a new york paper ono one fact began to loom up before my mental vision in a disquieting way that the drift of free thought was ungues unquestionably tion i ably toward a dead materialism which I have abhorred deply the men who would become leaders in the free thought movement do not stop where I stop they feel no tradition behind them they have no special training t tor or the work of res restoring t oring in which ell light I regard much of my work I ke did not aim to create any new beliefs it or to tear down all exi existing titi ilni ones butto but to restore to bring to I light and prominence the spiritual essence of those faiths although air mr aiani had eschewed the modern christian faiths and had become a liberal a free thinker to a certa certain in extent I he be was not prepared to deny the existence of god and plunge into infidelity he experienced alio impotency p of natural religion and V philosophy alone to satisfy the yearnings of his soul for something more tangible than a it speculative belief can afford him hini he could not lot find it in the ethics of infidelity he lie says the men whom I saw coming 11 upon the stage as the apostles of t alie lie new dispensation coffree of free thought were destroyers who tore down wi tit thought of building up there I I see nod ned to b no limit to flicia destructive dc tivo tive nania mania antl no discrimination in their work their notion seemed to bp be to make a clean r weep of atry every existing breed ree aldr the they y apparently know knew not and und cared not aber anything in ill the tile of belief should arise from ohp thebes ashes of tile worlds creeds t t there is ii a power and a t lor force in in revealed religion that ho cannot understand der stand and will not attempt to deny IQ is i mystified he be id is in in I darkness and nud ingream in great doubt HP ile davs ys to sum suni up ill the whole matter the work which I have been doin doing appears to lead to nothing at and I may have been cell grounded upon upon mistaken promises iLses the therefore it is better to atop top mr frothingham inin has concluded to stop and wait for more light on oil the subject of true religion how forcial forcibly y wo arc are reminded of bic ho predictions odthe of the prophet the tile w wisdom of f t the ile wise men inen rhall anil perish and tit the understanding of of the prudent shall be hid it anso shows that man by liis his OM wik wisdom cannot lind find out god darkness lias has covered the earth and gross darkness the minds of the people it is as with the priest so with the laity tile blind lead the blind and they all fall into tile ditch together THE AUGUST son in law of queen victoria the marquis of lome lorne will sail for canada over which he bears sway as Vie viceroy croyl in tile steamer parisian parisia on oil jan alth it is is not known yet whether he will repeat his viat to Ir helena eletia montana next season LYNK MASS lifts has the largest qt shoe manufactures of the tile united states the arc great at cincinnati follows second in the brodu production action of f wearing apparel for the lower extremities es GUITEAU MUST taken take interest in ill the statement ement pa has the largest rope factory of the world TAKIS a recess reems for the christmas and new years holidays on the aul ines message sage was written on mourning paper |