Christian Educator and God's Defender from Great Bend, Kansas • 3

he is equally unable to harm his enemies if he had any. Mr. Alexander had a sad experience. Were God a real being he could not care how you treated his son since he has not the least idea or comprehension of paternal love. That is clearly proven by his utter indifference to Mr.

Alexander's feelings as he searches long in vain and is at last rewarded by a headless boy. But how could he care, for Mr. Alexander's son? He did not care for his own reputed sou Jesus, whom he allowed to die on the cross exclaiming, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" A God who cared nothing for the dying appeal of his own son cculd not care for yours or mine and could not care how any one else treated his son. In short a God who has no more feeling than that is a myth and is fully excusable for having no feeling. It only remains to note actions of the priests.

In so farJas they helped to save the living "and in prayer, with her back to the stage, from which had come the death dealing sheet of flame. She had sought to protect her child, but the little one was ueAd in her charred arms. Many bodies were nearest the front edge of the balcony, where they had succumbed after dashing into the very face of the flames to vainly seek safety by jumping. There were scores of women and children in the heaps of dead, their clothing torn from their bodies and their arms strtched pitably toward the haven they sought. Among the shining deeds of heroism which marked the Iroquois fire horror, that of a 17-year-old girl, Mary Donahoe, who lost her life in rescuing little children from the flames, stands forth as a most supremely beautiful exhibition of self-sacrifice.

This noble girl had every chance to escape from the dreadful death which claimed her, yet she chose to forget self in saving the lives of helpless children. Chicago, Dec. 31 M. Stark and I. J.

Tuttle, who came to Chicago Tuesday from Des Moines with their brides on their honeymoon trip, spent today searching the morgues for the bodies of their brides. Dr. Charles S. Owens, of Wheaton, the only survivor of of a family party of 12 that perished in the Iroquois fire, died at the Chicago Homeopathic hospital on the following Friday. Though seriously injured at the fire, Dr.

Owens' friends and the attendant physicians say that he died from a broken heart. In the fire perished Dr. Owens' wife and only child, his two sisters and their four children, his brother-in-law, and a friend of the family who had grown up with them from childhood. Managers Davis and Powers were arrested at the instance of Mr. H.

A Hull, whose wife and three children met death in the fire. Clinton G. Meeker, a clerk in the registry division of the Post Office, living in the suberb of Irving Place, lost in the fire his entire family, consisting of his wife, two daughters and two sons. A friend called Mr. Meeker up on the telephone at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and asked him if any of his family had gone to the theatre.

He answered that so far as he knew none of them had left home. When he reached the house, however, he found only his mother-in-law uui iuc ucau, as rai- 1 Were christian myths realities Satan could take that entire family to hell for all God would care. A God who does not care for us in this life could not care for us in any other. The truth has dawned on us. at last that God is a myth.

All we have to do now is to get up off our knees and help others up. Mr. Hull is going to have revenge on the guilty parties if possible for causing the loss of his wife and childred through neglect of the means of safety as provided bylaw. Will Mr. Hull go right on thanking God daily for the manifold blessings he bestows on him? Will Mr.

Hull repeat the silly sentence "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away and. blessed be the name of the Lord" oyer his silent loved ones? Does Mr. Hull reallly want to go to that fabulous place named heaven and live with a myth-God who is supposed by the christians to have been at the fire, seen and heard his loved ones beg him to aid them but he would not do it though he could have saved them easily? A man who would want to do that would leve the murderer of his family and would want to reward him by being his slave in the lowest meaning of that relation. To a man who loves his family the worst hell he could be consigned to would be the worship of any being who could have saved his dear ones but Would not. Mr.

Meeker "dropped right down on his knees and prayed that God might spare when ne. learned his family had gone to the ill-fated theatre. He could have done a more foolish thing, But people will continue doing foolish things as long as they are taught to. It is our duty to cease paying teachers for teaching people to do foolish things. In answer his God gave him a dead family.

Is that the kind of an answer your Heavenly Father gives his loving, trusting children? A fiend incardnate could have done no worse. Were I a swearing man and believed in God being a real being as most swearing men do, I would swear by the eternal progress of the human race God would never refuse a request from me. With the knowledge of Mr. Meeker's answer I would never make a request of any God. I have sense enough to know that although my family are dearer to me they could not be dearer to Gcd than Mr.

Meeker's family. No priest could ever extort money under the false pretext of saving me from the wrath of God. I would have sense enough to know if a God is unable to help his friends lowsdid, their services are highly commendable. But think of O'Brien and Muldoon who "with uplifted hands besought God to pardon all the frailties of his dying servants." That would be like a man begging the murderer of his children to forgive their frailties and take care of them. The stupidity of these priests is only equalled by their prytotypes of thousands of years ago when they told the sun and moon worshipers that their gods were mad at.

their conduct during eclipses and hid their faces until the faithful "dig up" for the priests aud thus satisfy the wrath of the gods. The priests of the long ago looked at the shadow of the earth on the there is no unseen power named God who knows or cares for any human being in any manner whatever. This is positive proof that God is a myth. That being we were taught to love, fear, praise and worship on account of his love for us, and his protecting, watchful care over us, is a myth and has not the least foundation in fact. Note the supplications and prayers ot the dying women and children as they stretch their arms ap-pealingl) to heaven.

We can excuse the people from going to their aid when it only meant death to the rescuers, but we never could excuse a real God who could not be moved to pity by such a scene, and who was able to save them but would not. We know we never will be in greater n.ed of the services of a God than were those poor people and as no God came to their rescue we know none could come to ours so we will never ask one too. Note the mother found dead on her knees, as if in prayer, with her dead child clasped in her charred arms. To affirm that God cares more for us than our parents do is a libel on that poor mother that should be resented by all right minded people. But when they learn that God is a myth no such untrue assertions will be made No doubt scores of parents lost their lives trying to save their children.

Miss Donahoe gave her life to save a few children. If the Christians must worship something I suggest they worship her. It can now be proven she was a reality and that she gave her life to save children from a real fire, and that she did save some. That would be much more sensible than to continue worshiping the mythical son of a myth God called Christ. Jesus as God or the son of God, with the powers attributed to him, deserves no pity much less worship, since he only committed suicide to appease his own.

anger against his children and it could only have been a make believe death and suffering. Jesus as a poor deluded man, under the hallucination that he was the son of God, and was crucified because he tried to reform the existing religion ot his locality, deserves our pity and our thorough investigation of his claims the same as all reformers do whether they are mistaken or not. But we should not worship them. The two brides from Des Moines who were killed should prove to all that marriages are not made in heaven or that God has anything to do with them. How could God care who a girl married, or if she ever married, who could not care for her life? Why impose upon your children these mistakes and having your daughters praying to God to provide them with husbands? And then imagine any one who presents himself is God's choice and she has to accept him and endure mental 1 and physical slavery perhaps all her life because she supposed God selected him and there is no appeal from his selection.

Dr. Owens died from a broken 1 heart. He had received injuries' and was trampled down several times in trying to save his eight year -old son. It is affirmed by worshipers that every one has something to be thankful for. What had Mr.

Ow- ens to be thankful for? Because it was no worse? How could it have been worse? 1 moon but could not comprehend its meaning. Today the priests run against piles of evidence they can't climb over that God is a myth, but they are unable or wilfully refuse to comyrehend its meaning. In the interest of progress, civilization, truth and humanity the time has now come when these false teachers, who cannot or will not learn the truth and teach it to our children, must be waved aside and those who can and will learn brought forward as teachers of our children. If you, dear reader, can recognize the truth that this Chicago lesson proclaims I urge you to join the Church of Humanity at once. Your number, example and influence are greatly needed to help the world progress to higher planes of civilization.

Fill out the following blank and return it to me and receive a certificate of graduation in the knowledge of God and membership in the Church of mere. vvnere are maoei ana tne cniia-' ren?" "They have gone to the Iroquois theatre," was the reply. "I dropped right down on my knees," said Mr. Meeker, "and prayed that God might spare them Later Mr. Meeker had partially identified the bodies of his wife and two daughters.

He failed to find any trace of his two sons. Most horrible were the details of the identification of the headless body of Boyer Alexander, 8 years old The lad's father, W. Alexander sought his son all night long. In the grey of the morning the headless body of the boy was identified by a watch, a birthday present from his father, found on the remains. A pathetic scene attended the identification of Ma one Edwards, 1 4-year-old of Clinton, by her father, who recognized her by a sample of the cloth of her skirt which he carried in his pocket.

Chicago, Dec. 31. Bishop Samuel Fallows was among the hundreds of persons who rushed to the rescue when the cry of fire swept through the streets. The bishop rushed through the dense smoke of the darkened auditorium of the theatre to the top gallery and assisted in carrying out the victims Bishop Fallows said last night: "God forbid that I ever again see such a heartrending sight. I have been in wars and upon the bloody fields of battle, but never before have I witnessed anything half so grewsome." When the Rev.

O'Brien of the Holy Name Cathedral learned of the fire and heard that so many were dying, he rushed into the old Tretnont House, which is now converted into the Northwestern University law school, into which many victims had been taken, to administer the last sacrament to members of the Catholic church. During the brief moment that the two priests with uplifted hands besought God to pardon all the frailties of his dying servants, the poor, mangled men and women who lay in dozens on the lloor seemed to realize that they were face to face with the last scene in their lives. Both clergymen administered absolution, remaining till the dead were removed to the morgues and the injured to various hospitals. These accounts show plainly that Application for flembership In the Church of Humanity. W.

H. KERR, Great Bend, Kans. Believing God to be a fabulous being, I enclose one dollar for Life Membership in the Church of Humanity. Name Age PostofHce or St State Sex Occupation Nationality Language Previous Church.