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If census takers had prophetic telescope■ХSКDКDа░TЫ╨ОEMJ J.8J8J8J8Jаар=╨/╨8d8J    ╨МEtЮK8JJJT Deutere.nvoo,ey ~in year, in 3 And it came to pass the fortiethv~ole. and in the south. anot by too.' s,,.s sioi,.. to oloc the eleventh month, on the first dozy of the month, 0 lototol of tloo Canaunites, tood ono.' l.elo.tooo'tt. otnos tloa.t Moves spake onto the children of Isrool. tIe, trot river. tloe rivo'r Eooj,booooo,.. according unto all that the Lord had given hiooo inI ,.?o, II. Iloos,' sot 0 Ii'. l.boo. II,': . v,'io: O' Ott commandment unto them ;onol l~'~~'?~ tlt,' l:ooo.l ovloiilo the Iri ~o..o r,? 0000 0o 6 The Lord our God spake unto us in Iloreb, your fotloers, Alorohozoooo. I,.o:oo ,:o,oh I.'. oh. o, ove saying, Ye have dwelt long enooogh in this mosootot : unto theist otool to tlO,ir so.,, I otor o.ooo. 7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go toto Tloo' I.,orol yoooor 0;,,, I both oiioohoihobo,..h so. the mount of the Amorites, and unto all Sloe to'ooos beh,101. ye ut-c obois oloy ,o~ thin ,,o.or~ ot lioteto or nigh thereunto, in the plaito, in the hills, and in the multitudo. THIS book contains an account of what passed in the wilderness the last month of the fortieth year. which is stll)l)005e01 to be written by Ezra, as the history is contintle(l several (lays after the death of Moses. Moses' farewell atidress to) tile children of Israel is full of wisdom, with a touch of p;ltilos. This had been a melancholy year with the lIei)rews ill time death of Miriam, Aaron and Moses. The manner in which this people were kept wandering up and down on the very verge of the land of Canaan because they were rebellious mitoes seem like child's play. No wonder they were discouraged and murnsureml. It is difficult from the record to see that these people ~eere any better fitted to enter the promised land at the end of forty years than when they first left Egypt. But the promise that tiie~' should be as numerous as the stars in the heavens, accortling to Adam Clarke, had been fulfilled, lie tells us that only three thousand stars can be seen by the naked eye. while the children of Israel numbered at this time six hundred thousanti fIghting men, beside all the women and children. Astronomers, however, now estimate that there are over seventy-five Inillion stars within the range of their telescopes. If census takers had prophetic telescopes, they could no doubt see the promises to the Hebrews fully realized in that one line of their ambition. ############## Deuteronomy ii. 34 And we took all his cities at that time, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to ntterly destroyed the men, and the women, and remain. Though the women were ignored in all the civil affairs and religious observances of the Jews, yet in making war on other tribes they thought them too dangerous to be allowed to live, and so they killed all the women and children. The women might much better have helped to do the fighting, as it is far easier to die in the excitement of the battlefield than to be murdered in cold blood. In making war on neighboring tribes, the Jewish military code permitted them to take all the pure. virgins and child women for booty to be given to the priests and soldiers, thus debauching the men of Israel and destroying all feelings of honor and chivalry for women. This utter contempt for all the decencies of life, and all the natural personal rights of women as set forth in these pages, should destroy in the minds of women at least, all authority to superhuman origin and stamp the Pentateuch at least as emanating from the most obscene minds of a barbarous age. ########### Deuteronomy e, ei. n6 ? Honour thy father and thy mother, as the ist Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's Lord thy God bath commanded thee; that thywife, neither shale thou covet thy neighbour's days may be prolonged, and that it may go wellhouse, his field, or his manservant, or his maid- with thee, on the land which the Lord thy Godservant, his ox, or his ass, or any Ming that is thy giveth thee,neighbour's. t7 Thou shalt not kill. s That thou miglotest fear the Lord thy God, tG 18 N~hhrr ~huIt thou rt3mmit ~dtiI Wryokrep nfl his slnnnts mId his f.ftmmnndmplIl)~ whith sg Neither shalt thou steal.I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's so Neither shalt thou bear false witness againstson, all the days of thy life; and that thy days thy neighbour.may be prolonged. The best commentary on these texts is that no Revising Committee of Ecclesiastics has found it necessary to make any suggestions as to whom the commandments are addressed. Suppose we reverse the language and see how one-sided it would seem addressed only to women. Suppose this were the statement. Here is a great lawgiver and he says: ?Thou art to keep all God's commandments, thou and thy daughters and thy daughter's daughters, and these are the commandments: ?Thou shalt honor thy mother and thy father.' ?Thou shalt not steal nor lie.' ?Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's husband, nor her field, nor her ox, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.?' Would such commandments occasion no remark among Biblical scholars? In our criminal code to-day the pronouns she, her and hers are not found, yet we are tried in the courts, imprisoned and hung as ?he,? ?him? or ?his,? though denied the privileges of citizenship, because the masculine pronouns apply only to disabilities. What a hustling there would be among prisoners and genders if laws and constitutions, Scriptures and commandments, played this fast and loose game with the men of any nation. --V. ======= Adam Clarke in his comments on chapter iv, says, ?there was no form of worship at this time on the face of the earth that was not wicked and obscene, puerile and foolish and ridiculous, except that established by God himself among the Israelites, and every part of this taken in its connection and reference may be truly called a wise and reasonable service. Almost all the nations of the earth manifested in time their respect for the Jewish religion by copying different parts of the Mosaic code as to civil and moral customs.? As thoughtful, intelligent women, we question all this: First.?We see no evidence that a just and wise being wrote either the canon or civil laws that have been gradually compiled by ecclesiastics and lawgivers. Second.?We cannot accept any code or creed that uniformly defrauds woman of all her natural rights. For the last half century we have publicly and persistently appealed from these laws, which Clarke says all nations have copied, to the common sense of a more humane and progressive age. To-day women are asking to be delivered from all the curses and blessings alike of the Jewish God and the ordinances he established.In this book we have the ten com- mandments repeated.E.C.S. ############ Deuteromozmy nil. When the lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it and bath cast out many nations before thee. is Thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them: ~Neither sh-3t thou make marriages with them; thy daughter t on shalt not gve unto his son, nor hint sucbter shalt thou take unto thy son. 4 tor they will turn away thy son from following me. 5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall de. stroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their gravan omages with fire. 6 For thou art a holy people. ~The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, becauso ye were more in number than any people; for ye tooeee ohe fewest of all people: 8 But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he bad sworn unto your fathers, bath the Lord brought you out with a mighty band, and redeemed you out ofehehouse of bondmea, from the hand of Pharaoh king cof Egypt. WITH the seven nations that God cast out, the children of Israel were commanded to make no covenants, nor matrimonial alliances lest they should fall into idolatry. As men are more given to wandering in strange countries than women these injunctions are intended specially for them. Adam Clarke says, the heart being naturally inclined to evil, the idolatrous wife would more readily draw aside the believing husband, than the believing husband the idolatrous wife. That being the case, could not the believing wife with her subtle influence have brought over the idolatrous husband? Why should she not have the power to convert to one religion as well as another, especially as there was no choice between them. There could not have been anything worse than the Jewish religion illustrated in their daily walk and conversation, as described in their books, and if the human heart naturally inclined to evil, as many converts might have been made to the faith of Moses as to any other. With this consideration it is plain that if the Jews had offered women any superior privileges, above any other tribe, they could have readily converted the women to their way of think- ing. The Jewish God seems as vacillating and tempest-tossed between loving and hating his subjects as the most undiciplined son of Adam. The supreme ideal of these people was pitiful to the last degree and the appeals to them were all on the lowest plane of human ambition. The chief promise to the well-doer was that his descendants should be as numerous as the sands of the sea. In chapter ix when rebellion at Horeb is described, Aaron only is refered to, and in chapter x when his death is mentioned, nothing is said of Miriam. In the whole recapitulation she is forgotten, though altogether the grandest character of the three, though cast out of the camp and stricken with leprosy, in vengeance, she harbors no resentment, but comforts and cheers the women with songs and dances, all through their dreary march of forty years. Deaterooo,ny x. s8 He doth execute the judgment ef the father.t~ Lo'oe ye therefore the stranger: flor ye were less and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving strangers in the land of Egypt. him food and raiment. The sacred fabulist has failed to give us any choice examples in which the Jews executed just judgments for widows or fatherless girls; on the contrary in all their dealings with women of all ranks, classes and ages they were merciless and unjust. As to the stranger, their chief occupation was war and wholesale slaughter, not only of the men on the battlefield, but of innocent women and children, destroying their cities and making their lands desolate. A humane person reading these books for the first time without any glamour of divine inspiration, would shudder at their cruelty and blush at their obscenity. Those who can make these foul facts illustrate beautiful symbols must have genius of a high order. ############ Deuteronomy xii. st But thou must eat them before the Lord thy rejoice before the Lord thy God is all that thou God in the place which the Lord thy God shall pattes: tloine hands unto. choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and 09 Take heed to thyself tlo;ot thou forsake on~ thy manservant, and tlty maidservant, and the the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth. Levite that is within thy gates; and thou shalt If women have been faithful to any class of the human family it has been to the Levite. The chief occupation of their lives next to bearing children has been to sustain the priesthood and the churches. With continual begging, fairs and donation parties, they have helped to plant religious temples on every hill-top and valley, and in the streets of all our cities, so that the doleful church bell is forever ringing in our ears. The Levites have not been an unqualified blessing, ever fanning the flames of religious persecution they have been the chief actors in subjugating mankind. E. C. S. #################### Deuteronomy xiii. 6 ? If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, other end of the earth; or thy friend, which is as chine own soul, entice 8 Thou shalt not consent unto hits, nor hearke, thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other unto him; neither shall thine eye pity hits, toniohet gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him; 3~thers;9 But thou shalt surely kill him; Chine hand 7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are shall be first upon him to put him to death, and round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from afterwards the band of all the people. HERE is the foundation of all the terrible persecutions for a change of faith so lamentable among the Jews and so intensified among the Christians. And this idea still holds, that faith in the crude speculations of unbalanced minds as to the nature of the great first cause and his commands as to the conduct of life, should be the same in the beginning, now and forever. All other institutions may change, opinions on all other subjects may be modified and improved, but the old theologies are a finality that have reached the ultimatum of spiritual thought. We imagine our religion with its dogmas and absurdities must remain like the rock of ages, forever. Deuteronomy ztiO. on And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within ood, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, atod thy gates. cey manservant, and thy maidservant, and the t~ 5even days shalt thou keep a solemn feast ,.,evioe that is within thy gates, and the stranger, unto the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among shall choose. you, in the place which the Lord thy God bath t6 ? Three times in a year shall all thy males chosen to place his name there, appear before the Lord thy God in the place which t4 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread. thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, tabernacles. In the general festivities women of all ranks were invited to take part, but three times a year Moses had something special to say to the men; then women were not allowed to be present. We have no instance thus far in the Jewish economy of any direct communication from God to woman. The general opinion seemed to be that man was an all-sufficient object of worship for them, an idea not confined to that period. Milton makes his Eve with sweet humility say to Adam, ?God thy law, thou mine.? This is the fundamental principle on which the canon and civil laws are based, as well as the English classics. It is only in the galleries of art that we see the foreshadowing of the good time coming. There the divine artist represents the virtues, the graces, the sciences, the seasons, day with its glorious dawn, and night with its holy mysteries, all radiant and beautiful in the form of woman. The poet, the artist, the novelist of our own day, are more hopeful prophets for the mother of the race than those who have spoken in the Scriptures. E.C.S. ############ Deuteronomy az'z~ is Thou shalt nof sacrifice unto the Lord thy or any of the hose of heaven, which I have not Ood any bullock or sheep, wherein is blemish, commanded; o,-any evil favootredness; for that is an abomln- 4 And it be told thee, and thou base heard ofit, atfun unto the Lord thy God, and inquired diligently, and, behold, itbe true, and ~? It there be found among you, man orwoman, fhe thingcertain, that such abomination inweought that bath wrought wickedness fn the night of the in Israel: Lord thy God, in transgreoosing his covenant:5 Then shall thou bring forth that man or that ~And bath gone and served other gods, and woman unto thy gates and shalt stone them with worshipped them, either the sun, or the moon, scones, till they die. This is certainly a very effective way of strengthening religions faith. Most people would assent to any religious dogma, however absurd, rather than be stoned to death. As all their healthy tender lambs and calves were eaten by the priests and rulers, no wonder they were so particular to get the best. To delude the people it was necessary to give a religious complexion to the sacrifices and to make God command the people to bring their choicest fruits and grains and meats. It was very easy for these accomplished prestidigitators to substitute the offal for sacrifices on their altars, and keep the dainty fruits and meats for themselves, luxuries for their own tables. The people have always been deluded with the idea that what they gave to the church and the priesthood was given unto the Lord, as if the Maker of the universe needed anything at our hands. How incongruous the idea of an Infinite being who made all the planets and the inhabitants thereof commanding his creatures to kill and burn animals for offerings to him. It is truly pitiful to see the deceptions that have been played upon the people in all ages and countries by the priests in the name of religion. They are omnipresent, ever playing on human credulity, at birth and death, in affliction and at the marriage feast, in the saddest and happiest moments of our lives they are near to administer consolation in our sorrows, and to add blessings to our joys. 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