Poor mazed, bewildered
Mrs. Munday, preaching the eternal damnation of the wicked--who had loved
her, who had only thought to do her duty, the blame was not hers. But
that a religion capable of inflicting such suffering upon the innocent
should still be preached; maintained by the State! That its educated
followers no longer believed in a physical Hell, that its more advanced
clergy had entered into a conspiracy of silence on the subject was no
answer. The great mass of the people were not educated. Official
Christendom in every country still preached the everlasting torture of
the majority of the human race as a well thought out part of the
Creator's scheme. No leader had been bold enough to come forward and
denounce it as an insult to his God. As one grew older, kindly mother
Nature, ever seeking to ease the self-inflicted burdens of her foolish
brood, gave one forgetfulness, insensibility. The condemned criminal
puts the thought of the gallows away from him as long as may be: eats,
and sleeps and even jokes. Man's soul grows pachydermoid. But the
children! Their sensitive brains exposed to every cruel breath.
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