(1891.)
Christianity's Message of Grief--Christmas a Pagan Festival--Reply
to Dr. Buckley--Charges by the Editor of the Christian Advocate--The
Tidings of Christianity--In what the Message of Grief Consists--Fear
and Flame--An Everlasting Siberia--Dr. Buckley's Proposal to Boycott the
Telegram--Reply to Rev. J. M. King and Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr. Cana Day
be Blasphemed?--Hurting Christian feelings--For Revenue only What is
Blasphemy?--Balaam's Ass wiser than the Prophet--The Universalists--Can
God do Nothing for this World?--The Universe a Blunder if Christianity
is true--The Duty of a Newspaper--Facts Not Sectarian--The Rev.
Mr. Peters--What Infidelity Has Done--Public School System not
Christian--Orthodox Universities--Bruno on Oxford--As to Public
Morals--No Rewards or Punishments in the Universe--The Atonement
Immoral--As to Sciences and Art--Bruno, Humboldt, Darwin--Scientific
Writers Opposed by the Church--As to the Liberation of Slaves--As to
the Reclamation of Inebriates--Rum and Religion--The Humanity
of Infidelity--What Infidelity says to the Dying--The Battle
Continued--Morality not Assailed by an Attack on Christianity--The
Inquisition and Religious Persecution--Human Nature Derided by
Christianity--Dr. DaCosta--"Human Brotherhood" as exemplified by
the History of the Church--The Church and Science, Art and
Learning----Astronomy's Revenge--Galileo and Kepler--Mrs. Browning:
Science Thrust into the Brain of Europe--Our Numerals--Christianity and
Literature--Institution's of Learning--Stephen Girard--James Lick--Our
Chronology--Historians--Natural Philosophy--Philology--Metaphysical
Research--Intelligence, Hindoo, Egyptian--Inventions--John
Ericsson--Emancipators--Rev. Mr. Ballou--The Right of Goa to
Punish--Rev. Dr. Hillier--Rev. Mr. Haldeman--George A. Locey--The "Great
Physician"--Rev. Mr. Talmage--Rev. J. Benson Hamilton--How Voltaire
Died--The Death-bed of Thomas Paine--Rev. Mr. Holloway--Original
Sin--Rev. Dr. Tyler--The Good Samaritan a Heathen--Hospitals and
Asylums--Christian Treatment of the Insane--Rev. Dr. Buckley--The
North American Review Discussion--Judge Black, Dr. Field,
Mr. Gladstone--Circulation of Obscene Literature--Eulogy of
Whiskey--Eulogy of Tobacco--Human Stupidity that Defies the Gods--Rev.
Charles Deems--Jesus a Believer in a Personal Devil--The Man Christ.