_Question_. What do you think of the Pre-Millennial Conference
that was held in New York City recently?
_Answer_. Well, I think that all who attended it were believers
in the Bible, and any one who believes in prophecies and looks to
their fulfillment will go insane. A man that tries from Daniel's
ram with three horns and five tails and his deformed goats to
ascertain the date of the second immigration of Christ to this
world is already insane. It all shows that the moment we leave
the realm of fact and law we are adrift on the wide and shoreless
sea of theological speculation.
_Question_. Do you think there will be a second coming?
_Answer_. No, not as long as the church is in power. Christ will
never again visit this earth until the Freethinkers have control.
He will certainly never allow another church to get hold of him.
The very persons who met in New York to fix the date of his coming
would despise him and the feeling would probably be mutual. In
his day Christ was an Infidel, and made himself unpopular by
denouncing the church as it then existed. He called them liars,
hypocrites, thieves, vipers, whited sepulchres and fools. From
the description given of the church in that day, I am afraid that
should he come again, he would be provoked into using similar
language. Of course, I admit there are many good people in the
church, just as there were some good Pharisees who were opposed to
the crucifixion.
--_The Express_, Buffalo, New York, Nov. 4th, 1878.