Reviews.

Freethought Review, Volume I, Issue 6, 1 March 1884, Page 9

Reviews.

False Claims: An address delivered before the New York

Freethinkers' Association, at Rochester, New York, September Ist, 1883, by John E. Remsburg. New York : Truth Seeker Office. Lectures, brilliant, logical, and convincing, are delivered from time to time in the interest of Preethought, but the address under notice surpasses all we remember having seen, in its statistical range and the comprehensiveness with which it notices the salient features of Christianity. The address abounds in facts, figures, suggestions and deductions, and is an excellent summary of the arguments against the Christian system. We select one passage as an illustration of the vigour of the style : " The Evolution theory is promulgated. A million priests array themselves against it. From nearly every pulpit comes the cry of ' Darwin' and ' Monkey,' accompanied by an idiotic sneer that more than half reveals the ' missing link.' But Evolution triumphs. To-day the theory is accepted by every eminent scholar and scientist throughout the world. The Church has again been vanquished, and now her representatives are coming forward and declaring that henceforth Christianity and Evolution can dwell lovingly together. With what ease this theological baby swallows an unpalatable truth when powerless in the nurse's arms, unable to thrust the spoon from her mouth ! In less than twenty years the Church will be claiming Darwin, Spencer, Huxley, Haeckel, and Wallace as Christians, and pointing to their work as a monument of Christian civilization." For all purposes of ordinary controversy on the subject of Freethought and Christianity, "False Claims" is a perfect armoury of weapons of attack.