THE TRUE SPIRIT OF CHRISTIANITY.
From the Cartoon Book, "Christianity in Perspective"

TWO QUOTATIONS FROM THE BIBLE:

1) "He that believeth and is baptised shall be saved,
but he that believeth not shall be damned "
Mark xvi: 16).

2) "If any man preach any other gospel unto you than
that ye have received, let him be accursed"
(Gal. i: 9).

Commenting upon these utterances Mr. John E. Remsburg
says:
"What ghastly fruits these teachings have produced!
We see earth covered with the yellow bones of murdered
heretics and scholars; We see the persecutions and
butcheries of Constantine, of Theodosius, of Clovis,
of Justinian, and of Charlemagne; We see the Crusades,
in which nearly twenty millions perish; We see the
followers of Godfrey in Jerusalem - see the
indiscriminate massacre of men, women, and children -
see the mosques piled seven deep with murdered
Saracens - the Jews burned in their synagogues; We see
Coeur de Lion slaughter in cold blood thousands of
captive infidels; We see the Franks in Constantinople,
plundering, ravishing, murdering; We see the Moors
expelled from Spain; we see the murder of the
Huguenots and Waldenses; the slaughter of German
peasants - the desolation of Ireland - Holland
drenched with blood; We witness Smithfield and
Bartholomew; We see the Inquisition with its countless
instruments of cruelty; we see the auto-da-fé where
heretics clad in mockery are led to torture and to
death; We see men stretched upon the rack, disjointed,
and torn limb from limb; We see them flayed
alive-their bleeding bodies seared with red-hot irons;
We see them covered with pitch and oil and set on
fire; We see them hurled headlong from towers to the
stony streets below; We see them buried alive; we see
them hanged and quartered; We see their eyes bored out
with heated augers - their tongues torn out - their
bones broken with hammers; their bodies pierced with a
thousand needles; We see aged women tied to the heels
of fiery steeds - see their mangled and bleeding
bodies dragged with lightning speed over the frozen
earth; We see new-born babes flung into the flames to
perish with their mothers, or with their mothers sewed
into sacks and sunk into the sea……….. ; in short, on
every hand, we see hate, torture and death !"

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