of Judaism with the
teachings of Christianity, when the two were absolutely irreconcilable.
It was the crass stupidity of the Church that had caused it--for its
self-protection, it fancied--to bitterly oppose every truth that was
revealed to man. The Church had tortured and burned at the stake
the great men to whom God had revealed the great facts of nature's
workings--the motion of the earth and the other planets. But these
facts, being Divine Truth, became accepted by the world in spite of the
thumb-screws and the fagots--the arguments of the Church against Divine
Truth. The list of the Divine Truths which the Church had bitterly
opposed was a sickening document. Geography, Geology, Biology--the
progress of all had, even within recent years, been bitterly opposed
by the Church, and yet the self-constituted arbiters between Truth and
falsehood had been compelled to eat their own words--to devour their
own denunciations when they found that the Truth was accepted by the
intelligence of the people in spite of the anathemas of the Church.

The intelligence of the Church was equal only to the duty of burning
witches. It burned them by the thousand, simply because ancient Judaism
had a profound belief in the witch and because a blood-thirsty Jewish
murderer-monarch had organized a witch hunt.

And yet with such a record against it--a record of the murder of
innocent men and women who endeavored to promulgate the Divine Truths
of nature--the Church still arrogated to itself the right to lay down
a rule of life for intelligent people--a rule of life founded upon that
impossible amalgamation of Judaism and Christianity. The science of
the Church was not equal to the task of amalgamating two such deadly
opponents.

Was it any wonder, then, that church-going had become practically
obsolete among intelligent men and women? the writer asked.

He then went on to refer to the nature of the existing services of
the Church of England. He dealt only casually with the mockery of
the response of the congregation to the reading out of the Fourth
Commandment by the priest, when no one in the Church paid the least
respect to the Seventh Day. This was additional proof of the absurdity
of the attempted amalgamation of Judaism and Christianity. But what he
dealt most fully with was the indiscriminate selection of what were very
properly termed the "Lessons" from the Hebrew Bible. It was, he said,
far from edifying to hear some chapters rea