The ten Commandments.

A strong attempt is being made now by foolish, ignorant, or too zealous clerics, to dispense with the use of the Ten Commandments, owing to their inculcating the worship of one God. The whole effort of modern churches is to drag us away from God, and compel us to worship Jesus Christ and his mother, mistakenly styled the Virgin Mary. I advise all people not to give up these excellent Commandments, the foundation of our civilisation, for which we have to thank the Jewish people; but to insist upon their still being taught in the schools.

Monotheism and Polytheism.—The Books of the Old Testament may be criticised into non-existence (if such proverbs and magnificent prose can ever be lost to humanity), but so long as we have the Monotheism of the Ten Commandments taught in our schools the children will grow up to reverence one God. and have some bond of harmony with each other. The entire obliteration of the New Testament would be of vast benefit to humanity, and from the signs of the times the Nations intend very properly to relegate it to oblivion. Unfortunately, they wish also to throw the Bible away, as the natural revulsion from past clerical teaching. But the Crown and Sceptre of England rests upon the religious philosophy of the Ten Commandments, not upon the New Testament. It is the papal tiara that rests "upon the latter, and the nations very properly intend to throw down the Cross. The Churches in all countries now lead on the Rations to boycott the Jews, but these people have given us our civilisation, and, although Christ and his mother were Jews, it is the Jews of to-day who will not worship them, but insist upon obeying the Ten Commandments. In this they are God's peculiar people and the real light of the world, for their religious philosophy must triumph over all existing religions. The nation, therefore, that tolerates them, and keeps to the Ten Commandments must be first in the world of nations. Asia has nothing better to offer us. On the other hand the nation that allows its clergy to become mere Trinitarians, must sink and decay, like Italy, Spain or Russia, Cromwell, Nelson, and Wellington had page 17 simple faith in God. Their dispatches prove that conclusively. The leading Presidents of America (like Washington and Lincoln) absolutely objected to Christ worship. They were truly enlightened men. I cannot remember, as I write, any great soldier, sailor, or statesmen, in the cause of human freedom and truth, who was a Trinitarian only. It is impossible for the Roman Church to day to produce a great layman; only a great ecclesiastic. The only errors the Jews make:—(i) In not dividing their surplus wealth with the poor; (2) In not leading more simple lives. Rot in this the peers and nobles of England are to blame in leading too luxurious lives, thereby setting everyone a bad example.