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the Christians, notwithstanding their science and civilization,
commit more horrible sins, murders, thefts, intemperances,
adulteries, wars, oppressions, robberies, and insatiable greed
for conquest and money than all the rest of mankind put
together.
(5) John the Baptist could not be the precursor of Jesus
Christ in the sense in which the Churches interpret his
mission. He is presented to us by the Gospels as a "voice
crying aloud in the wilderness," as the fulfillment of a passage
in Isaiah (xl. 3), and as a herald of Jesus Christ on the
authority of the Prophet Malakhi (Mal. iii. 1). To assert
that the mission or duty of the Baptist was to prepare the way
for Jesus - the former in the capacity of a precursor and
the latter in that of a triumphant Conqueror coming "sudden-
ly to his temple," and there to establish his religion of
commit more horrible sins, murders, thefts, intemperances,
adulteries, wars, oppressions, robberies, and insatiable greed
for conquest and money than all the rest of mankind put
together.
(5) John the Baptist could not be the precursor of Jesus
Christ in the sense in which the Churches interpret his
mission. He is presented to us by the Gospels as a "voice
crying aloud in the wilderness," as the fulfillment of a passage
in Isaiah (xl. 3), and as a herald of Jesus Christ on the
authority of the Prophet Malakhi (Mal. iii. 1). To assert
that the mission or duty of the Baptist was to prepare the way
for Jesus - the former in the capacity of a precursor and
the latter in that of a triumphant Conqueror coming "sudden-
ly to his temple," and there to establish his religion of