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...America." He explained that while we have here no established church, the religious thought of the whole American people unifies itself into a national church, of which the fundamental principle is the denial of the old Puritan dogma that man is by nature depraved, and a child of the devil. If Americans had believed this, they would never have allowed universal suffrage...
...lands, but that he might see god, and when he saw all that he had given up coming back to him it was not as wages but as a reward for the self-sacrificing life which he had lived. We can not work for God for wages; the devil alone gives wages...
Edward G. Knoblauch is the author of what is perhaps the vest article, entitled "Westward Bound"; but "Their Marriage was a Failure," by Luther W. Mott, and "God, Man and the Devil," both deserve praise. All three are short pieces, yet the plot of each is well developed and the interest of the reader is at once attracted and, what is rarer, is held to the end. Work of this kind will do much to raise the standard of the Advocate...
...many years ago John Ruskin spoke in bitter words of England's growing indifference to the laws of Christ. Other nations, he said, had rejected a Supreme Ruler, but had done it bravely and honestly. Englishmen acknowledged the existence of a God, but it was a foolish one. The devil's laws were alone practical. The Golden Rule was an ideal impossible to reach. All that was honest was unnatural and existed only in poetry...
...continued till he had almost everybody against him. In King James' reign he brought out three well-known comedies, namely "Volpone," "The Silent Woman" and "The Alchemist." In 1613 Jonson went to France to tutor the son of Walter Raleigh, and after returning to England wrote his comedy "The Devil is an Ass," which was directed very strongly against the mania for speculation...