sty of the word. High above the thunder-roll of
human discontent and awful pain, blazes the lightning of thought, and
the undying aspiration of the soul. And thus shall we tell our
story--thus record the history of the now oncoming race. Not in
material emblems only, consecrated to the forces of nature; but in the
spiritual records which tell of the freeing of humanity from the
tyranny of effete religions, and the upbuilding of a new composite
race, fear free, and worshipful only of recognized universal truth.

ETHICAL LAW.

Setting aside all our hereditary beliefs, all our theological teachings
let us try to consider the true teachings of Jesus as differentiated
from the instructions given by Moses for the guidance of the Jews.
Moses never told his people to love and forgive their enemies. Jesus
made a strong point of this, even bidding his disciples to forgive
injuries to the seventieth time. Moses impressed upon his people the
excellence of revenge, always demanding "an eye for an eye," a life for
a life. Jesus said all that sort of compensation rested forever with
God, that He alone, who saw and knew the hearts of men, could deal
justly with them. The old Jewish law stoned to death the immoral
woman--not the man--O no! certainly not! Jesus said to a flagrant
woman brought before him by a rabble of men: "Let him that is without
sin cast the first stone." What divine sarcasm, and how they are said
to have slunk away under his perception of them!

How is it now with the Christian religion in the so-called Christian
nations? Where on the face of the earth is there a community or a
people that is governed and controlled by the real teachings of the
Christ?

All our jurisprudence is based upon the laws given to the Jews by their
leader and lawgiver. We take the lives of those people who are guilty
of breaking certain laws of ours based upon the laws of Moses, and
while we do not stone the life out of those women--not men--whom we
prove guilty of breaking the seventh commandment, we do build up
against them walls of conventionality, and of uncharity harder than the
rocks once used for the killing of their bodies.

Consider this beautiful law now in operation in the state of New York.
If a poor, starving, homeless, hopeless human being, maddened by the
bitter woes of life, seeks surcease of pain by throwing off his own
individual life, by committing suicide, the law insists that such a one
shall be no