worthy of
the honor that martyrs bear.

It is better that we "suffer for well-doing than for ill-doing," therefore
let us criticise ourselves severely, but deal with others in love. The
Bible is our authority in religion, and the civil arm is our protection in
the state. Religious freedom is ours--may it long remain the glory of our
country. In comparison with this freedom all else is mere illusion. You
may enjoy all the freedom that this world can give, and if you are slaves
to sin you are miserable slaves to a cruel master. The intellectual and
moral condition of the soul, constituting its highest glory, is a liberty
worthy of the name. Such an one, in a very important sense, is free
indeed, free in solitude, free in poverty, free in abundance, free in
life, free in death, free everywhere, and forever free.

THE ORTHODOXY OF ATHEISM AND INGERSOLISM, BY REV. S. L. TYRRELL.

"Hail human liberty; there is no God!" Such is the exulting song of many a
human heart when bewildering metaphysics or superficial science has
crowded from its convictions faith in the Deity and his moral government.
Few men have reached the pure, unclouded heights of religion and morality,
where the unselfish love of the holy and the right, for their own inherent
excellence, forms the controlling motive of their conduct, regardless of
penalty or reward. Humanity is yet on the low moral plane, where penal
laws, human or divine, are the most potent forces in regulating human
life. Hence the sad fact appears that when theism seems most successfully
assailed we hear from many quarters ill-concealed rustlings of exultation
at the welcome loosening of the bonds of morality and religion. It seems
to be overlooked that a very stern theological system may be quite
rationally evolved from atheistic premises; and there is now a new and
very tempting field inviting some bold Calvin or Luther in the ranks of
positivism to write an immortal book, with the original and attractive
title, Ethics of Atheism. The great offense of the scientific (sciolistic)
atheist is his lofty arrogance. He complacently assumes the name of
Infallible Wisdom. He "understands all mysteries;" his mental telescope
sweeps eternity "from everlasting to everlasting;" his microscopic vision
pierces the secrets of creation,--sees the beauty and order of all
celestial worlds emerge from fiery chaotic dust,--by the fortunate contact
of cooling cinders of the right chemical propertie