Roman Catholicsm and Agnosticism.

The current opinion, as I write, by many is that before the end of the present century, people must either be Roman Catholic or Agnostic. My reply is: "Surely people can worship the Great Creator of the Universe, Father and Mother God if people like—but still God. (Able a human unit as Ernest Haeckel is—one of the most noteable I know—yet he has done a great wrong to humanity in saying: "There is no God.") We have had some sixteen centuries of Trinitarianism, with the result, that every nation is embittered with some other nation, or kept simmering in civil or domestic strife. It has paid the Roman hierarchy, as I have said, to keep everyone at loggerheads, so as to benefit from the Macchiavellian doctrine—"Divide to Rule." The Anglo Saxon workpeople now very properly begin to see this, and to distrust and forsake the churches. I advise them to go on doing so; but to reverence God in their hearts and acknowledge Him their Creator, as the minimum of religious error, the great lesson of the Ten Commandments. God is very good to us if we only lead proper lives as citizens; those who have giving; to those who have not, and those who have not, ceasing to bring too many children into the world, whom they cannot support. I advise people to be neither Trinitarian nor Agnostic, but to follow the teachings of the Masonic Lodges—a superior morality to anything Christianity contains. It is not because people object to the present teaching, or the palpable errors of the Bible, or the wrong way in which the God of Nature has been taught to them, that they should turn away and say: "There is no God" Our civilisation will go under if they do that, and inferior nations rule. Asia will not subjugate Europe if the latter keeps to the Ten Commandments; but if these are abandoned, Europe must go under. To make our children good men and women we must teach them to reverence God, and adhere to simple truth in all things. The Churches and Sunday schools do not do that, which is the chief reason why men will not go to church now. Yet we cannot have a great soldier, sailor or statesman who, from his childhood, is taught to play with the truth. We must have God-fearing, truthful, simple-minded men for human advancement. A century ago there were many such, but of late years there has been a direct turning away from God by all the churches. Still the laity (Roman and Protestant), as apart from page 30 the clergy, are beginning to break away from present Church teaching and to doubt its truth, and I trust, by the end of this century, the world will see many millions of men and women proudly boasting that the are neither Christian nor Agnostic. In the third century it took a brave man to say: "I am a Christian"—it takes a brave man to-day to say he is not one. It is for the men and women (especially the women) of the British Empire now to check the license of the pulpit by saying they are not Christians, but only humble "worshippers of God, our Creator; and to insist that their children shall be educated side by side in God's worship. That virtue, harmony, reverence for home and their parents, and respect for old age be taught them in brief moral lessons, so that they may have some guide through life to cling to in time of mental stress. At present they have nothing—as the Gospel is worse than useless, by advising them to forsake home, parents and children so as to follow Christ. This only allows the different priesthoods to take advantage of their distress in order to benefit their church organisations. At heart, we New Zealanders say we are but the one people. Why then should we not have the one Church and one God, and live in harmony together? Christianity only divides us, and will soon have us flying at one another's throats, in the Same deadly religious strife that has prevailed in Europe for over a thousand years past.