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Secularism seeks to supersede Religion, and to substitute morality in its stead, but a morality which leaves men irresponsible for their belief, their passions, and even their actions, to any superior Power. "The histories of all ages," says Mr. Holyoake, "and the bitter experience of mankind, prove the pernicious influence of piety.
To some such cause, if it can be called a cause, Mr. Holyoake ascribes all the phenomena of the universe; or he leaves them utterly unaccounted for, and takes refuge in an eternal series of derived and dependent beings, without attempting to assign any reason for their existence. He undertakes to account for nothing. He leaves the great problem unsolved, and discards it as insoluble. "Mr.
Considerable controversy took place in the daily and weekly press. Professor W. A. Hunter contributed a timely letter to the Daily News, in which he described the Blasphemy Laws as "a weapon always ready to the hand of mischievous fools or designing knaves." Mr. G. J. Holyoake wrote in his usual vein of covert attack on Freethinkers in danger. Mrs.
Gal. 4: 8; 2 Tim. 3: 4; Titus 1: 16. ESTLIN, "Discourse on Atheism," pp. 8, 19, 28. DR. CHALMERS, "Institutes," I. 375. DR. CHALMERS, Works, "Natural Theology," I. 58. "The Reasoner," edited by HOLYOAKE, XI. 15, 232. ROBERT HALL'S Works, I. 58. Romans 1: 21, 28. HALL'S "Works," I. 128. ESTLIN'S "Discourse," p. 57. ROBERT HALL, "Modern Infidelity Considered," I. 38, 67.
But when driven to this last resort, and before taking up the position which it is concerned to defend, Secularism puts forth certain preliminary pleas, partly in the way of self-defence, and partly with the view of exciting prejudice against the cause of Theism. "I make no pretence," says Mr. Holyoake, "to account for everything. I do not pretend to account for what I find in Nature.
George Jacob Holyoake, of England, tells how in the days of utter poverty, his believing mother asked the Lord, again and again on her knees, with tears streaming from her eyes, and with absolute faith in Jesus' ability to keep His promise, to give her starving children their daily bread. But the more fervently she prayed the heavier grew the burden of her life.
Lady Sylvester Elmshade, Mrs Barbara Lovebirch, Mrs Poll Ash, Mrs Holly Hazeleyes, Miss Daphne Bays, Miss Dorothy Canebrake, Mrs Clyde Twelvetrees, Mrs Rowan Greene, Mrs Helen Vinegadding, Miss Virginia Creeper, Miss Gladys Beech, Miss Olive Garth, Miss Blanche Maple, Mrs Maud Mahogany, Miss Myra Myrtle, Miss Priscilla Elderflower, Miss Bee Honeysuckle, Miss Grace Poplar, Miss O Mimosa San, Miss Rachel Cedarfrond, the Misses Lilian and Viola Lilac, Miss Timidity Aspenall, Mrs Kitty Dewey-Mosse, Miss May Hawthorne, Mrs Gloriana Palme, Mrs Liana Forrest, Mrs Arabella Blackwood and Mrs Norma Holyoake of Oakholme Regis graced the ceremony by their presence.
At this same Conference a committee was appointed, consisting of Messrs. Charles Bradlaugh, G.J. Holyoake, C. Watts, R.A. Cooper, Gimson, T. Slater, and Mrs.
But to say, "I do not pretend to account for what I find in Nature," what is this but to discard the whole question, to give it up as one insoluble, at least by him, and to leave to others the problems which have ever exercised the noblest and most gifted minds? Mr. Holyoake is not bound, indeed, to explain everything, and he mistakes if he supposes that any one expects this at his hand.
Mr. Holyoake refers to his own experience, and appeals to the experience of his fellow-men, in confirmation of his negative conclusion in regard to a special Providence and the efficacy of Prayer. But what weight is due to his testimony in such a case?
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