God may emerge at last."

The following poem, entitled, "To the Religionist," appeared on the same
day:

"You bid us spare your vision;
Put faith in a life after death,
Strive on toward some realm Elysian
And heed all that one Book saith.

"You will pray to a power celestial,
To direct us in all our ways,
Lest we fall to a region bestial
And lose ourselves in its maze.

"You speak of the Crucifixion
Of one on Calvary
As if his benediction
Was a rank monopoly.

"Shall we pray to a power not human
For guidance miraculous
When the nearest man or woman
Will give help, and without that fuss?

"When the glorious future people
Have realized our dream,
Then the cross upon the steeple
No longer shall blaspheme.

"The godhood of the lowly
Their sacrifice unknown;
Of the temple once held holy
There shall not last one stone."

Only two stanzas of a poem which appeared in "The Call," March 17, 1912,
are hereby given:

"The Gods are dead;
Dead lies their Heaven, their Hell.
The Gods are dead,
With all their terrors! Well!

"Man now unmakes them,
Who made them in his youth;
He boldly breakes them
With shattering blows of truth."

Editorials and articles attacking religion are of very common occurrence
in "The Call." Several illustrations will suffice. In the May 1, 1912,
edition we read:

"In our combat with the natural forces we have been taught by
science to seek the cause and effect not in anything supernatural;
we have gotten rid of superstition[18] and fear of revengeful
gods."

The following short article appeared on November 19, 1911, in the same
paper:

"Our exploiters might as well understand now that we have no use
for the distorted and mystical figure that they present as Christ,
a conservative member of the Property Defence League, a thing
neither man nor woman, but a third sex--not understood of us except
as a rightful object of suspicion; we have no use for this rant,
cant and fustian of his holiness and immaculate qualities. That
presentation has always been repellent to us and always will be, no
matter how much he may be proclaimed as the friend of the
workingman.... Christ, the democrat, the agitator, the
revolutionary, the rebel, the bearer of the red f