Freethought Ideal and Vindicator from Ottawa, Kansas • 2

The ftuGETHouGHT Ideal. good looking widows and handsome young women frpm the wrath These words have no meaning to a preacher's wue, uuietss isne do aspnug: puuci. uui, like many other ministers' I kept my divine Origin. -You know! thatfwe; have about 132,000 ministers and i priests in America. I think there could not be found ten of this vast mumber, that believe the bible to be other than- a huge compilation of falsehoods and silly trash.

I look upon all preachers; and priests skeptics jand rank Infidels. HoWtcari these! men fee any-i thingtiut skeptics the most of them' are prletweH educatedH-1 have noticed that ears deaf and eyes partly blind, and far as the public knew, I made no complaint. Professor Darwm hit the mark Traen he said that man sprang from the lower strata of life. If the public could at. all times see the inside of iome preachers homesM.

mt the majority of our educated men arid wo sure they woul be somewhat men ar farT from -being J-true" believers, ye while this it true; i many? persons give Andjit might ejaculate, 'some men brutes, even unto this day." application to effect it. All that is deeded by the great majority of people Jforthe mastery and successful application of both the occult and the mystic science, is the desire and determination to do so. The specific aim of occult science is the normal development and exercise of the higher powers which give the inner, or direct insight into the secrets of mature and life, and corresponding mastery of control at first hand of the occult forces of life and being true thaumaturgic powers The immediate practical' results of this science, when applied, will be the universal cultivation and exercise of psychom-etry (adeific power of the mind,) clairaudience, mental telegraphy, mind healing and every phase of absent personal communication on the physic plane through the opened and perfected sixth sense. v-. The development and exercise of the mind's powers, on both, the psychic and spiritual planes, rest upon the operation of a law of being which can be understood and applied by all who are sufficiently cash freely for the support of i religion, re Now here comes Virchow and who have made thev startling discovery that monkeys sprang from man.

Why should we doubt it Some monkeys are the very pictures 01 rnen 1 andj some men look and act like, monkeys. All obervant women know this to be a fact. Now dear friend I will close by, once more requesting you to change your tactics, put on a new cloak; turn your paper; into a re gardless of the quality or styles and in the face of the fact, they take no more interest in religious matters than a wild Of course you have noticed these things in your experience with the well in ormed. an as a ule, can act the roleiof hypocrite in such a natural style that'he nis not questioned by hisiellowSy arid even when he is questioned, he7 covers up his skepticism with an easy gracel.tha is really- jiYou have noticed this in your intercourse with the business men of your. city.

Religion is r. rapidly drawing to an end where English; is spoken arid where good schools flourish. i 2 While this is true, it will be some years before it is obliterated in America. Now as these sects jwill survive our time is' it not well that you 'discard Free-thought ideas for a while and start in for awakened to desire it, so that the key 'of ligious messenger, go into the streets and by-ways and preach or every' dollar there is in the job.j We' nbw have including my self, 300V lady preherijn'merica, and we eat of the best arid dress in the finest of rairiient; Arid r'willsay? that in my long experiencd witfi 'm I have yet to see one bherii df aw-ra gen-tleman upon her knee and let down his back hair and knead mVneck and shoulders while trying to. save the wrath to come.

When I remind Mortality of this he gets hoppingimad and grabs up his rod and line and pokes off down to the river. destiny and personal mastery is, literally, in our own hands. Hence, the development and application of the higher occult and mystic sciences are as legitimate and necessary to the practical life as are the arts and sciences' of the physical or sense plane; and in the coming individual and social transfiguration and perfection of man on earth, art a necessity; Advice From Mrs. Old Mortality, all there is in jtj while rtligion is in style? Judging from your 4 would soon be able to draw a big You are a well 1 built and would ba aawingt xrjd in any pulpit. I hopeyour husband is not qf A WORD TO: ealous disposition.

Mortality wil 1 scarce iy allow me to be out of his. sight. 3 AVhy is Time to Stop and Listen to Your Children. it- that most men are inclined to; jealqus, if their wife is well shaped and Mr. Old Mortality has gone from home to stay several, days, so I am free to say and do what I please during his absence.

Last night I preached a short sermon to a few of our neighbors and it seemed to please them as well as it pleased me, for the donation was more than I expectedand I am happy Pp'; How, Sister Etta; I do not wish to dic nicely Take the average, husbananp one leg and down the; other, are fpplsf indeed have never failed -to notice this tate to you or offend you, so I trust your good nature may accept what I may advise in a friendly sp'fit. My advice is: turn where the wife fis passably tgood looking, haveii written lifar beyoindmy first in-; cessiri (he religious vvork): should you take it up: Mrs. Roxey Jane Mortality. Vi S. If my husband 4d6es not: return soonj Is will write iagain as 1 have no chil From A.

A. Bell, Madison, Ga. How often do we see specials iq the daily newspapers announcing people who have been jcrossed ly their par- erits in affairs of the heart Tragedies of this sort transpire with, alarming Jreqiiency. Parents is.it.not time Jor you to stop and listqn to your children ought to Jearn thdt love in young persons is a spe-; cie pf insanity. Therefore, to oppose, yip- lently youn persons laboring under the sirene.

songs of Cupid is dangerous. 0 A poet htas said: Who loves, raves; 3 'tis youth's frenzy." ThatrIoye is prone to gen to insanity; is well krioSyn and commented upon, by 1 alienists. This being soLaii cases of disappointed love should be, treated with the utmost consideration by par-ents and friends. The best $afe to watch the beginning. I have often won- your sheet into religious' paper.

Your past experience, no doubt, has taught you that there is "more money in religious literature than any other 'enterprise a' woman can enter into! -While your paper i the very best of its class, arid no doubt, is highly appreciated by its readers, I am sure it does not pay you for the time, 'worry, and expense that you are compelled to bestow upon it. Should you turn your paper into a religious journal, it would not be necessary for you to accept the bible as being of dren to bother me and I am glad of it; Yt I srimetimes 1 wish' I had one or two little children about the house so I coul spank them now' arid then, in order to take r6-Verige You cannot imagine the amount of spite Thave laid up against him.1 I look back Ho the 'time when he aVin the miriistryl and see him as he was see how anxious he was to save all th.