 | 1851 - 588 pages
...annually. Worship being THUS expensive, I appeal to your heads and your pockets, whether we are not too poor to have a God ? If poor men cost the State as...I think it would be wise to do the same thing with the Deity. Thus far I object, as a matter of political economy, to build chapels in communities. If... | |
 | Sophia Dobson Collet - 1855 - 74 pages
...fellow-creatures than in building churches; and after referring to the expense of church-rates, he said — " If poor men cost the state as much, they would be put, like officers, upon half-pay, and while our distress lasts I think it would be wise to do the same thing with Deity."... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1860 - 794 pages
...church-rates, he said : " If poor men cost the State as much, they would be put, like officers, npon half-pay, and while our distress lasts I think it would be wise to do the same thing with Deity." For this sentence, and another (which he could never recollect having uttered), viz., "I do not believe... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1860 - 786 pages
...fellow-creatures than in building churches ; and after referring to the expense of church-rates, he said : "If poor men cost the State as much, they would be put, like officers, upon half-pay, and while our distress lasts I think it would be wise to do the same thing with Deity."... | |
 | John Watts - 1865 - 206 pages
...poor men cost the state as much [as religion and the clergyj, they would be put, like officers, upon half-pay, and while our distress lasts I think it would be wise to do the same thing •with Deity." For this Mr. Holyoake was arrested, tried, and sentenced to be imprisoned for six months — a sentence... | |
 | Charles William F. Goss - 1908 - 210 pages
...annually. Worship being thus expensive I appeal to your beads and your pockets whether we are not too poor to have a God. If poor men cost the State as...think it would be wise to do the same thing with Deity . . . Morality I regard, but I do not believe there is such a thing as a God." The latter phrase Mr.... | |
 | Leonard Williams Levy - 1995 - 708 pages
...being thus expensive," he declared, "I appeal to your heads and your pockets whether we are not too poor to have a God? If poor men cost the state as much [as God] they would be put like officers upon half-pay, and while our distress lasts I think it would... | |
 | Joss Marsh - 1998 - 452 pages
...annually. Worship being thus expensive, I appeal to your heads and your pockets whether we are not too poor to have a God? If poor men cost the state as much, they would be put like officers upon half-pay, and while our distress lasts I think it would be wise to do the same thing with deity.... | |
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I appeal to your heads and your pockets, whether we are not too poor to have a God ? If poor men cost the State as much, they would be put like officers on half-pay, and while our distress lasts, I think it would be wise to do the same thing with the... 