ealth increased. When
you read it, it is not necessary to throw away your reason. Neither
will you be damned if you do not understand it. It is a book that
appeals to everything in the human brain. In that book can be
found the wisdom of all ages. Long after the Bible has passed out
of existence, the name of Shakespeare will lead the intellectual
roster of the world. Dr. Fulton says there is not one work in the
Bible that teaches that slavery or polygamy is right. He also
states that I know it. If language has meaning--if words have
sense, or the power to convey thought,--what did God mean when he
told the Israelites to buy of the heathen round about, and that
the heathen should be their bondmen and bondmaids forever?

What did God mean when he said, If a man strike his servant so he
dies, he should not be punished, because his servant was his money?
Passages like these can be quoted beyond the space that any paper
is willing to give. Yet the Rev. Dr. Fulton denies that the Old
Testament upholds slavery. I would like to ask him if the Old
Testament is in favor of religious toleration? If God wrote the
Old Testament and afterward came upon the earth as Jesus Christ,
and taught a new religion, and the Jews crucified him, was this
not in accordance with his own law, and was he not, after all, the
victim of himself?

_Question_. What about the other ministers?

_Answer_. Well, I see in the _Herald_ that some ten have said that
they would reply to me. I have selected the two, simply because
they came first. I think they are about as poor as any; and you
know it is natural to attack those who are the easiest answered.
All these ministers are now acting as my agents, and are doing me
all the good they can by saying all the bad things about me they
can think of. They imagine that their congregations have not grown,
and they talk to them as though they were living in the seventeenth
instead of the nineteenth century. The truth is, the pews are
beyond the pulpit, and the modern sheep are now protecting the
shepherds.

_Question_. Have you noticed a great change in public sentiment
in the last three or four years?

_Answer_. Yes, I think there are ten times as many Infidels to-
day as there were ten years ago. I am amazed at the great change
that has taken place in public opinion. The churches are not
getting along well. There are hundreds and hundreds who have not
had a new member in a year. The you