the Socialist movement in foreign lands is
atheistic and anti-religious, but as sufficient has been given, let us
dwell more on the anti-religious activities of the Revolutionists in our
own country.

In answer to a possible objection, namely, that the American Socialists
should in no way be held responsible for the anti-religious and
atheistic teachings of their comrades abroad, the attention of the
reader is called to the fact that the Socialist movement is an
international one, and that nearly all the Marxian leaders in Europe are
considered by the American Socialists as first class authorities on
Socialism. Moreover the books and writings of these foreign protagonists
form a very considerable part of the Socialistic literature of the
United States and are considered as standard works on the subject.

But in addition to the fact that the American Socialists thus share the
responsibility of their European comrades, the Revolutionists of our own
country will now come forward with more than enough testimony to prove
that they are just as guilty as their foreign comrades of propagating
atheistic and anti-religious doctrines.

Rev. William T. Brown, formerly the pastor of Plymouth Church,
Rochester, New York, after becoming a Socialist, wrote the following in
the May, 1902, number of "Wilshire's Magazine":

"For myself, I do not recognize any existing church or state as
complete in itself or founded by God. There is absolutely nothing
in church or state that cannot be traced to a perfectly natural
origin.... Instead of the religious idea that God breathed into
clay the breath of life, and so man came into existence in the
image of God, we know beyond question that man's ancestors were
animals, and he is the image of his animal parentage.... Singing
hymns, saying prayers, learning catechism, attending the services
of a place miscalled a sanctuary will do nothing whatever to effect
the ends for which men are striving.... The church will attract its
own, and the Socialist cause will draw those who belong to it.
People who are interested in fossils and relics and curios will
find a congenial place in the church as will also the ignorant and
deluded masses."

George D. Herron, who, like William T. Brown, had once been a minister,
on becoming a Socialist expressed his atheistic sentiments by writing in
the "International Socialist Review," Chicago, Augus