ell you will get there;
they do not say, if you pay your debts and love your wife, and love
your children, and are good to your friends, and your neighbors, and
your country, you will get there; that will do you no good; you have
got to believe a certain thing. Oh, yes, no matter how bad you are,
you can instantly be forgiven then; and no matter how good you are, if
you fail to believe that, the moment you get to the day of judgment
nothing is left but to damn you forever, and all the angels will shout
"Hallelujah!"

What do they teach today? Every murderer goes to heaven; there is only
one step from the gallows to God; only one jerk between the halter and
heaven. That is taught by this same church. I believe there ought to
be a law to prevent the slightest religious consolation being given to
any man who has been guilty of murder. Let a Catholic understand that
if he imbrues his hands in his brother's blood, he can have no extreme
unction; let it be understood that he can have no forgiveness through
the church; and let the Protestant understand that when he has
committed that crime, the community will not pray him into heaven. Let
him go with his victim. The victim, you know, dying in his sins, goes
to hell, and the murderer has the happiness of seeing him there. And
if heaven grows dull and monotonous, the murderer can again give life
to the nerve of pleasure by watching the agony of his victim. I am
opposed to that kind of forgiveness. And yet that is the religion of
universal peace to everybody.

Now, what is the next thing that I wish to call your attention to?

"We believe in the ultimate prevalence of the Kingdom of Christ over
all the earth."

What makes you? Do you judge from the manner in which you are getting
along now? How many people are being born a year? About fifty
millions. How many are you converting a year; really, truthfully? Five
or six thousand. I think I have overestimated the number. Is orthodox
Christianity on the increase? No. There are a hundred times as many
unbelievers in orthodox Christianity as there were ten years ago. What
are you doing in the missionary World? How long is it since you
converted a Chinaman? A fine missionary religion, to send
missionaries, with their bibles and tracts, to China, but if a Chinaman
comes here, mob him, simply to show him the difference between the
practical and theoretical workings of the Christian religion. How long
since you have