ARROWS OF FREETHOUGHT. By G. W. Foote Editor of "The Freethinker." LONDON: H. A. KEMP, 28 STONECUTTER STREET, FARRINGDON STREET, E.C. 1882. CONTENTS: PREFACE RELIGION AND PROGRESS. A DEFENCE OF THOMAS PAINE. THE GOSPEL OF FREETHOUGHT. FREETHOUGHT IN CURRENT LITERATURE. DEAN STANLEY'S LATEST. GOD AND THE QUEEN. CARDINAL NEWMAN ON INFIDELITY. SUNDAY TYRANNY. WHO ARE THE BLASPHEMERS? THE BIRTH OF CHRIST. THE REIGN OF CHRIST. THE PRIMATE ON MODERN INFIDELITY. BAITING A BISHOP. PROFESSOR FLINT ON ATHEISM. A HIDDEN GOD. GENERAL JOSHUA. GOING TO HELL. CHRISTMAS EVE IN HEAVEN. PROFESSOR BLACKIE ON ATHEISM. SALVATIONISM. A PIOUS SHOWMAN. PREFACE I republish in this little volume a few of my numerous articles that have appeared in the _Secularist_, the _Liberal_, the _National Reformer_, and the _Freethinker_, during the last five or six years. I have included nothing (I hope) of merely ephemeral interest. Every article in this collection was at least written carefully, and with an eye to more than the exigencies of the moment. In disentombing them from the cemeteries of periodical literature, where so many of their companions lie buried, I trust I have not allowed parental love to outrun discretion. I have not thought it necessary to indicate, in each case, the journal in which the reprinted articles were first published. Should anyone object to the freedom of my style, or the asperity of my criticism, I would ask him to remember that Christianity still persecutes to the full extent of its power, and that a Creed which answers argument with prosecution cannot expect tender treatment in return; and I would also ask him, in the words of Ruskin, "to consider how much less harm is done in the world by ungraceful boldness than by untimely fear." London, November 15th, 1882. RELIGION AND PROGRESS. (November, 1882.) The Archbishop of York is peculiarly qualified to speak on religion and progress. His form of thanksgiving to the God of Battles for our "victory" in Egypt marks him as a man of extraordinary intellect and character, such as common people may admire without hoping to emulate; while his position, in Archbishop Tait's necessitated absence from the scene, makes him the active head of the English Church. Let us listen to the great man.