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 who cannot sin, therefore in our hands all things are purified.

"We have a right from on high, through the grace of Christ, to use everything that we see, and use it as we please. But, what right have the non-elect to the kingdom of God, and to the rights and privileges that are only vouchsafed unto us? We, as the chosen people of the Lord, have a perfect right to use these people to our liking; hence, I say, why not conspire with, or solicit our enemies, or slaves—I mean the giddy worldlings, such as tipplers, rogues, politicians, or whoever or whatever they are to join us; because, they were born for our use; they and their everything belong to us; then, what scruples can we have to get them to fight as our allies, to subdue and annihilate all innovators? And this Dr. Juno is the only dangerous man that lives; because he endeavors to give a new and scientific explanation of the Holy Bible, and by that new interpretation he proves to his hearers and readers that the Bible and science agree, a thing that cannot be; or, if such would be the case, then our holy religion surely could not be sound.

"We need not dread any innovators who denounce the Holy Bible as being a fallible work; because they can easily be cried down by us; but this audacious Juno takes our own instrument of salvation, and endeavors to explain every portion of it upon fixed natural principles; upon principles that the natural man and carnal mind can understand, as people comprehend the multiplication table.

"Now, brethren and sisters, I want your vote upon this question: do you not think that, if Dr. Juno can make the natural man understand that the teachings of the Divine Master are only the teachings of nature, or the teachings of a natural law, that our holy cause will be esteemed as a bogus one? All those who believe in the affirmative please rise to their feet and say I.

"The entire sainthood unanimously agree with me. Then, again, does not our sainthood suffer more from such