of God, are honest, our insurance companies and corporations will have to be watched. Permit sham in your religious life, and the disease will spread to every member of the social body. If you may keep religion in the dark, and cry "hush," "hush," when people ask that it be brought out into the light, why may not politics or business cultivate a similar partiality for darkness? If the king cries, "rebel," when a citizen asks for justice, it is because he has heard the priest cry, "infidel," when a member of his church asked for evidence. Religious hypocrisy is the mother of all hypocrisies. Cure a man of that, and the human world will recover its health.
Not so long ago, nearly everybody believed in the existence of a personal devil. People saw him, heard him, described him, danced with him, and claimed, besides, to have whipped him. Luther hurled his inkstand at him, and American women accused as witches were put to death in the name of the devil. Yet all this "evidence" has not saved the devil from passing out of existence. What has happened to the devil will happen to the gods. Man is the only real savior. If he is not a savior, there is no other.
1 Childhood of the World.—Edward Clodd.
2 Bygones Worth Remembering.—George Jacob Holyoake
3 Stories of Virgin Births. Reference: Lord Macartney. Voyage dans "interview de la Chine et en Tartarie." Vol. I, p. 48. See also Les Vierges Meres et les Naissance Miraculeuse. p. Saintyves. p. 19, etc.
4 Stories of Virgin Births. Reference: Lord Macartney. Voyage dans "interview de la Chine et en Tartarie." Vol. I, p. 48. See also Les Vierges Meres et les Naissance Miraculeuse. p. Saintyves. p. 19, etc.
5 Translated from the French of Didron. Quoted by Malvert.
6 Christianity and Mythology. J. M. Robertson, to whom the author acknowledges his indebtedness, for the difference between Paul's Jesus and that of the Gospels.
7 For a fuller discussion of the various "Christs" in mythology read Robertson's Christianity and Mythology and his Pagan Christs.
9 Rev. Frank Gunsaulus, of the Central Church, Chicago. See A New Catechism.—M. M. Mangasarian.
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