of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he
shall leave. ...

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn into the
lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase,
and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows
upon them.

They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning
heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth
of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the
young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of
grey hairs.

I think I have quoted enough to show that what I say of the Jewish
God Jehovah is based on fact. But I could, if needful, heap proof
on proof, for the books of the Old Testament reek with blood, and
are horrible with atrocities.

Now, consider, is the God of whom we have been reading a God of
love? Is He the Father of Christ? Is He not rather the savage
idol of a savage tribe?

Man and his gods: what a tragi-comedy it is. Man has never seen
one of his gods, never heard the voice of one of his gods, does not
know the shape, expression, or bearing of one of his gods. Yet man