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distinguished appellation of "THE FATHER of all THEM THAT BELIEVE." Once, in Palestine, cities existed densely populated; the fertile hills and valleys yielded an abundant supply for millions of inhabitants; its metropolis was Jerusalem, with its magnificent Temple, courts, palaces, walls, towers, bulwarks, and a national family united to promote the spiritual worship of Almighty God, according to the Divine ritual of Hebrew ordinances. There the harp of king David was attuned to the concert praises of Zion's King. There prophets once taught and prayed. There the happy tribes in millions convocated periodically to renew their covenant with God, to observe his ordinances, and to worship in his holy presence. Oh, the Land of Palestine! There Jesus Christ was born, baptized, preached, wrought miracles, prayed in deserts and mountains, wept over sinners who hated. and persecuted him unto death: and there, there he purchased the whole Church of God with his precious blood!! But, alas! that once happy land, in consequence of Jewish unbelief, Christian unfaithfulness, Pagan persecution, and Mahometan delusions of the False Prophet, is now and has been for many generations past, in the hands of God's enemies; "trodden down by the Gentiles;" until the whole land is now a lamentable spectacle of desolated cities in ruins; territories of uncultivated and uninhabited lands; and the sparse population who inhabit dilapidated villages and wastes, are worshippers only of the god of the False Prophet, whose bible is the Koran of mere legendary fable and fiction, in which can be found no foundation to hope for any other state of future existence, than a Mahometan fictitious Paradise of sensuality !!! And to the whole population the Holy Bible and Christianity are merely contemptible by-words, that excite no other

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feelings than hatred and opposition, and contemptuous rejection.

From such alarming facts it is easy to see the virtual alliance between Popery and Mahometanism, in their objects and aim. Both are opposed to the holy Bible: both are hostile to spiritual, orthodox Christianity. And hence it comes to pass, that to the same degree that Mahometanism prevails in the east, the people under its dominion are kept in ignorance of the Bible, in ignorance of the Christian religion, and in ignorance of the only way of salvation through faith in the only Redeemer of Men. And the more that ignorance prevails, the easier are the people duped into the fooleries and ruin of the religion of the False Prophet.

The same is also true of Popery. To the same degree that Popery prevails in the west, the people under its influence are kept in ignorance of the Bible, and of the doctrines of Christianity, which comprise the Divine method of salvation through the atonement and righteousness of the Lord Jesus, received by saving justifying faith, which works by love when the soul is regenerated by the Holy Spirit. Thus, Popery and Mahometanism have been warring against the Bible and the Christian Religion during the long period of their simultaneous existence. And during the progress of this virtual combination of efforts for the destruction of Bible influence and the subversion of the Christian Religion, the amount of their achievements has been, for substance, that Popery has metamorphosed the Religion of "CHRIST CRUCIFIED," into the mere image of the heathen Roman Empire; with its persecuting spirit before the days of Constantine, greatly improved by auto da fe tortures unto death, and purgatorial fabulous horrors, devised to promote a system of religion based on the principle of substituting gain for

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godliness; and secular domination of absolute tyranny in the room and stead of true Christian humility: while Mahometanism, by the heterogeneous compound of various religions, all based on the doctrine of unmolested self-gratification in this life, and the promise of a paradise of sensuality in a future state of existence, has been progagated by the sword, carnage, and terrors of the battle-field, till millions upon millions have embraced it, as a religion congenial to all the natural propensities of the carnal mind, and the only religion needful for the millions who are in the broad way to destruction. Doubtless, Satan has been at the bottom of all this bottomless mischief, devised to destroy the only foundation of sinful man's hope of a blessed immortality. Hence, if it had been in the power of man to destroy the Bible and the Christian Religion, Popery and Mahometanisin would have done it long, long ago. But because the God of the Bible, the Founder and Sustainer of the Christian Religion still lives, and reigns supreme on the throne of the universe, therefore the Holy Bible and Christianity remain upon an unshaken foundation.

Once more:

In connection with the above-described antichristian powers of iniquity of simultaneous and long existence, MODERN INFIDELITY has boldly entered the field of contest with the Almighty, arrayed in the armor of Philosophical Illumination, and with the thunderbolts of Rationalism, set at defiance the Bible, and the God who gave it to man by inspiration; together with its laws, and religion, all which are now to be stripped of their garb of priestcraft-mysteries, shown to the world. as base hypocrisy, and torn away by the power of Reason, that mankind may be free from moral restraints on their native and predominant sensualities.

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How

Infidelity, in its systematic form, comprises both speculative and practical Atheism which we have considered as the origin of the present excitement in favor of abolishing Capital Punishment. And it is found also to be no less opposed to the Bible, to the God of the Bible, and to the whole orthodox system of Bible doctrines of salvation, than the notorious and long prevailing antichristian systems of Popery and Mahometanism. Now let them all be considered in connection as virtually combined in one cause. ever dissimilar they may be in their modus operandi for the accomplishment of the objects in which their powers virtually combine; yet to every attentive observer it must be evident, that to root out and exterminate from the earth the Holy Bible; the fear and the doctrine of the existence of the God of the Bible; the religion which the Bible inculcates; the future accountability, and state of rewards and punishments which the Bible reveals as the purpose of the Supreme Ruler of the universe; and to rid the world of all moral restraints which the Bible imposes as prohibitory injunctions on the sensualities of mankind, are objects in which the THREE above named powers of iniquity virtually combine to promote, to the extent of their respective ability, and influence, and power, in the world.

In accordance with numerous and veritable authorities of unquestionable celebrity, the following may be relied on as well authenticated facts, in relation to the origin and general characteristical designations of Infidelity, in its present organization against the Bible, against the God of the Bible, and against the religion which the God of the Bible has revealed to mankind as the truth and the only way of salvation.

The system of organized Infidelity may be consid

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ered as the result of the antichristian efforts of Voltaire, the celebrated French philosopher of the eighteenth century, and his accomplices and co-operators, Diderot, D'Alembert, John James Rousseau, Adam Weishaupt, Frederick II., king of Prussia, Thomas Payne, and a host of others, from whose mystical conclave issued forth the principles and materials of the French Revolution of a. D. 1789, about eleven years after the most indescribably horrific death of the Arch-infidel Voltaire.

In his youthful days, Voltaire exhibited a genius in opposing the Christian religion, in consequence of which he received the following rebuke from his instructor :—“ Unfortunate young man! you will one day come to be a standard-bearer of Infidelity" ! ! Truly so it came to pass. In early life he plotted the destruction of Christianity, and vowed to devote his life to that object. In process of time he and his accomplices formed themselves into a secret society, one noted watch-word of which was "Crush the wretch !" meaning CHRIST, the founder of the Christian religion! Oh, Christians, consider the import of that Infidel watch-word. It was a term agreed upon by an Atheistical club as a salute of membership when they met personally, or wrote to each other under the address and signatures of fictitious names, which they had assumed to conceal their works of darkness from the knowledge and suspicion of the world. But, Oh, what a plot was there formed! and what blasphemy adopted to conceal it! The plot was to destroy the Bible; to destroy all belief in the existence of the God of the Bible, the Creator and Sustainer of the universe; to exterminate the Christian religion of the Bible from the world; a plot to obliterate from this fallen race of rebels the last ray of Gospel light, and the only foundation of a penitent