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... | {{Style P-No indent|afternoon of August 16th, and in the Courier of August 17 there was a report of the meeting from which we make the following extracts:—}} | ||
{{Style P-Quote|The Chairman explained he had received a letter from Mr. Reeve, from which it appeared that the Rev. Joseph Cook might possibly be able to come to Brisbane. He calculated to spend a fort-night altogether on the trip to and from Queensland, which would give time for five lectures—three in Brisbane and two at Ipswich—at £40 for each lecture.}} | |||
£40 for each lecture! What would the founder of Christianity say to this, were he now on the earth, that, after eighteen hundred years of promulgation, it takes an expense of £40 per night to bolster up the crumbling ruins of so-called Christianity—bogus Christianity. ''True Christianity'' does not want any Joseph Cooks to champion it. Why, the founder of Christianity himself, whom Joseph Cook professes to serve, commanded all those who would follow him and preach the Gospel to leave everything, to sell all they had and give to the poor, to take nothing with them, but with all earnestness to preach the Gospel to all people freely, in the open air, anywhere, as they reached the masses. Christ did not send a letter ahead to the next town asking a guarantee of £40 per night before he would preach to the people. No, he went on to a mountain in nature’s temple and gave a sermon free, gratis, for nothing, that was worth more than all the lectures of a thousand Joseph Cooks, and will never want his bolstering up, because there is truth in it, and truth will last for ever. Alas! that Christianity should have become so degraded that it should require a professional soul-saver, who will not save souls under £40, to hear whose lectures a exorbitant charges are made, and who advertises “No change given at the doors,” and who moves from a licensed hall, for which he had to pay rent, to a Church rent free, but which made no difference to the 3, 2, and 1. Of course it is not that he wants, he only wishes to save souls. If he and others like him were truly in earnest, and thought their fellow-creatures were really going into everlasting damnation, they would strive to rescue them as Jesus did without money, for the love of mankind, and not stand by and see them damned if they did not dub up £40 per night. | |||
In the same report we find the following: | |||
{{Style P-Quote|In seconding the resolution the Rev. J. Sutton said he regarded this as a very important occasion. There was a great deal of open infidelity in Brisbane, which his brother clergymen would know cast a chill on every thing they did. The very men who, from their intellect and influence, should be foremost in helping them, were chilled by doubts which they took no trouble to resolve, and the ministers could not get at them because of their reticence and delicate susceptibility; they did not like to say how far they had gone in unbelief.}} | |||
Joseph Cook might well take a lesson from the Rev. J. Sutton, for he evidently does not think the infidels are “propagators of immorality,” “distributors of infamous publications,” &c., as he is exceedingly complimentary, and rightly classes them as men of intellect and influence. The foremost men and women of society are, according to the orthodox Christian belief, “Infidels,” not only in other parts of the world, but in these colonies; even in our own sunny Queensland. The Rev. J. Cook says infidelity is on the decline. The Rev. J. Sutton does not think so. But what an open confession of weakness on the part of the clergy. It shows there is something wanting, that they ''do not'' satisfy the cravings of thinking minds, and that this is not done by a professional “soulsaver” and “mud-slinger,” is very evident. “Too many cooks spoil—Orthodoxy. | |||
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... | As announced in our last, Madame Blavatsky and Col. H.S. Olcott, the Founders of this Society, arrived here on Tuesday morning by the Mail train from Bombay at the Central Station, where a large concourse of members of the local branch had been anxiously in wait to receive them on the platform, among whom were observed the Hon. G. N. Gajapathi Row, Dewan Bahadur Ragoonath Row, Messrs. P. Sreenivasa Row, G. Muthusawmy Chetty, P. Iyalloo Naidu, T. Subba Row, {{Style S-Small capitals|b a., b l.}}, the Editors of the Philosophic Inquirer, and Madras Native Opinion, and several graduate-members of the association. The Founders, and their worthy assistant, Mr. D. K. Mavalankar, escorted by some of our brethren, drove off to a commodious residence at the {{Style S-Small capitals|Adyar}} where the Society has just established its Head Quarters, for reasons better known to the readers of the Theosophist, and stated by the President-Founder in his address at the last anniversary meeting held in Bombay.—{{Style S-Small capitals|Ed. Ph. Inq.}} | ||
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The November issue of the Theosophist,<sup>4</sup> which has for its motto a Sanskrit family motto of the Maharajahs of Benares, “There is no religion higher than truth,” gives us further information as to the movement, strangely mingled, of scepticism, mysticism, and Hinduism, now headed by Colonel Olcott and Madame Blavatsky. | |||
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<sup>1</sup> Longman’s Magazine. Longman, Green and Co., London. | |||
{{ | <sup>2</sup> Trübner’s American, European and Oriental Literary Record. Trübner and Co., Ludgate Hill. | ||
<sup>3</sup> This World. George Chainey, 51, Fort Avenue, Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts. | |||
<sup>4</sup> The Theosophist. H. P. Blavatsky, Bombay. | |||
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