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FALSE CLAIMS OF IMPOSTERS. During the past few years a great deal has been written on the subject, claiming that new remedies had been discovered for the prevention of conception, etc., but these are all money making devices to deceive the public, and enrich the pockets of miserable and unprincipled imposters.
But it insisted that the different sects keep the peace among themselves and obey the wise rule of "live and let live." The Christian communities however, refused to practice any sort of tolerance. They publicly declared that their God, and their God alone, was the true ruler of Heaven and Earth, and that all other gods were imposters.
But to charge the word of God with the odium of seditions, excited against it by wicked and rebellious men, or of sects raised by imposters, is not this extreme malignity? Yet it is not without example in former times. Elias was asked whether it was not he "that troubled Israel." Christ was represented by the Jews as guilty of sedition. The apostles were accused of stirring up popular commotions.
Those books, therefore, have neither been written by the men called apostles, nor by imposters in concert. How then have they been written? I am not one of those who are fond of believing there is much of that which is called wilful lying, or lying originally, except in the case of men setting up to be prophets, as in the Old Testament; for prophesying is lying professionally.
Morally speaking, disaster and triumph are imposters. The cheers of the moment are not what a man ought to think about, but the verdict of his conscience and of the consciences of mankind. In an introduction to "The Panama Canal Tolls Controversy," edited by Hugh Gordon Miller and Joseph C. Freehoff, Mr.
On such occasions there are imposters ready to make a profit of the credulity of the husbandman who, like all others whose employments expose them to risks, are prone to superstition, by pretending to a power of causing or retarding rain.
The very style of such persons will serve to discriminate them from those numberless imposters who have deluded the ignorant with professions incompatible with human practice, and have afterwards incensed them by practices below the level of vulgar rectitude.
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