cally on the sweet, innocent babes eaten up by
the lions in the den, after Daniel was rescued from their jaws, and
asked the question, what kind of a god was it that allowed such
horrible deeds?)

They say that I pick out all the bad things in the bible. Well, God
ought not to have put bad things in the book. If you only read the
bible you will not believe it. Why, it is such a bad book that it has
to be supported by legislation. In Maine and elsewhere they will send
you to jail for two years if you deny the bible or the judgment day.

No, we are told we must not only believe in the God we have been
talking about, but must also believe in another one.

Let us look at the church today. The orthodox church--that is, all but
the Universalist. He is trying to be orthodox, but he can't get in.
The God of the Universalists, to say the least, is a gentleman.

Now, what is this religion? To believe certain things that we may be
saved, that we won't be damned. What are they? First, that the old and
new testament are inspired. No matter how kind, how just a man may be,
unless he believes in the inspiration, he will be damned.

Second, he must believe in the trinity. That there are three in one.
That father and son are precisely of the same age, the son, possibly, a
little mite older; that three times one is one, and that once one is
three. It is a mercy you don't know how to understand it, but you must
believe it or be damned. Therein you see the mercy of the Lord. This
trinity doctrine was announced several hundred years after Christ was
born: Do you believe such a doctrine will make a man good or honest?
Will it make him more just? Is the man that believes any better than
the man who does not believe? How is it with nations? Look at Spain,
the last slave-holder in the civilized world; she's christian, she
believes in the trinity! And Italy, the beggar of the world. Under the
rule of priestcraft money streamed in from every land and yet she did
not advance. Today she is reduced to a hand-organ. Take poor Ireland,
groaning under the heel of British oppression; could she cast off her
priests she would soon be one with America in freedom.

Protestantism is better than Catholicism, because there is less of it.
Both dread education. They say they brought the arts and sciences out
of the dark ages; why, they made the dark ages and what did they
preserve? Nothing of value, only an account of events that never