BRADLAUGH TAKING OATH.
The New York Mercury considers that the scene presented in tho British House of Commons when Charles. Bradlaugh took the oath prescribed for members was at once peculiar and disgusting, With a mob at his heels, the atheist has before presented himself at the bar of the House of Commons and been deniedadmission as a member from Northhampton. Re-elected, ho cameforwardouthomoeting of Parliament an with and air of vuiaav defiance kissednhe bible after the Speaker had administered the words of the oath, and then swaggered out of the House cheered by his waiting atheistic admirers. Mr Bradlaugh had said that he would not take the usual oath, but he at last succumbed to the inevitable. The Speaker Mr Arthur Peel, decided that tho Northhampton member might Bwcar as a Christian and take the responsibility of perjury if there was any. In his reported unctious kissing of the Bible, Mr Bradlaugh committed perjury, at least in a moral. Bense, for it is no excuse to say that ho attached no importance to tho Book. If atheism leads to deception, lying or perjury in any sense, it is a belief which gentlemen will repudiate.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2274, 19 April 1886, Page 2
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195BRADLAUGH TAKING OATH. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2274, 19 April 1886, Page 2
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