asonable economy, can get along without assistance.
Loudly this confession proclaims that salvation comes from Christ
alone. What, then, becomes of the savage who, having never known the
name of Christ, has lived according to the light of nature, kind and
heroic and generous, and possessed of and cultivating all the natural
virtues? He goes to hell. God, you see, loves us. If He had not
loved us what would He have done? The light of nature then shows that
God is good and therefore to be feared--on account of his goodness, to
be served and honored without ceasing. And yet this creed says that on
the last day God will damn anyone who has walked according to this
light. It's blasphemy to walk by the light of nature.

The next great doctrine is on the preservation of the saints. Now,
there are peculiarities about saints. They are saints without their
own knowledge or free will; they may even be down on saints, but its no
good. God has got a rolling hitch on them, and they have to come into
the kingdom sooner or later. It all depends on whether they have been
elected or not. God could have made me a saint just as easy as not,
but He passed me by. Now you know the Presbyterians say I trample on
holy things. They believe in hell and I come and say there is no hell.
I hurt their hearts, they say, and they add that I am going to hell
myself. I thank them for that; but now let's see what these tender
Presbyterians say of other churches. Here it is:

This confession of faith calls the pope of Rome anti-Christ and a son
of perdition. Now there are forty Roman Catholics to one Presbyterian
on this earth. Do not the Presbyterians rather trample on the things
that are holy to the Roman Catholics, and do they respect their
feelings? But the Presbyterians have a pope themselves, composed of the
presbyters and preachers. This confession attributes to them the keys
of heaven and hell and the power to forgive sins. [Here extracts are
read.] Therefore these men must be infallible, for God would never be
so foolish as to entrust fallible men with the keys of heaven and hell.
I care nothing for their keys, nor for any world these keys would open
or lock; I prefer the country.

We are told by this faith that at the last day all the men and women
and children who have ever lived on the earth will appear in the self
same bodies they have had when on earth. Everyone who knows anything
knows the constant exchange which is goin