The fountain : with jets of new meanings . A BIRD OP EVIL OMEN. OMENS AND SIGNS. 243 erable homes and mad-houses realize the unutterablehorrors implanted by a cateehismal education into thedeplorable superstitions of literal hells of fire and brim-stone, a personal devil of magnificent abilities in eternalopposition to Deity, and all the thirty-nine other name-less nightmares and mythic horrors which float current-ly as great truths in the best Christian communities. Physiologists havedemonstrated that the hog, although not amedium for the lesserdevils as reported instory, is a first-classboar
The fountain : with jets of new meanings . A BIRD OP EVIL OMEN. OMENS AND SIGNS. 243 erable homes and mad-houses realize the unutterablehorrors implanted by a cateehismal education into thedeplorable superstitions of literal hells of fire and brim-stone, a personal devil of magnificent abilities in eternalopposition to Deity, and all the thirty-nine other name-less nightmares and mythic horrors which float current-ly as great truths in the best Christian communities. Physiologists havedemonstrated that the hog, although not amedium for the lesserdevils as reported instory, is a first-classboarding-house for mil-lions of m a n-killingworms. Scrofulousdiseases, not personaldevils, arise from thepost - mortem remainsof swine. Christiansstill continue to eatthis devil-meat; over which many daily ask blessings and subsequently return thanks ; as if the God of eternal and unalter-able truth and justice would or could, by special mir-acle, convert pork into piety and scrofula into rose-tints on the lovely cheeks of childhood !. ANOTHER BAD SIGN. 244 JETS OF NEW MEANINGS. Bad dreams naturally visit the brains of pork-eatingChristians. Impossible works cannot be wrought; all
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