CONTENTS PREFACE. LUSCIOUS PIETY. THE JEWISH SABBATH. PROFESSOR STOKES ON IMMORTALITY. PAUL BERT * BRADLAUGH'S GHOST. CHRIST AND BROTHERHOOD. THE SONS OF GOD. MELCHIZEDEK. S'W'ELP ME GOD. INFIDEL HOMES. * ARE ATHEISTS CRUEL? * ARE ATHEISTS WICKED? RAIN DOCTORS. PIOUS PUERILITIES. "THUS SAITH THE LORD." BELIEVE OR BE DAMNED. CHRISTIAN CHARITY. RELIGION AND MONEY. CLOTTED BOSH. LORD BACON ON ATHEISM. CHRISTIANITY AND SLAVERY. * CHRIST UP TO DATE. SECULARISM AND CHRISTIANITY. ALTAR AND THRONE. * MARTIN LUTHER. THE PRAISE OF FOLLY. HAPPY IN HELL. THE ACT OF GOD. KEIR HARDIE ON CHRIST. BLESSED BE YE POOR. CONVERTED INFIDELS. MRS. BOOTH'S GHOST. TALMAGE ON THE BIBLE. MRS. BESANT ON DEATH AND AFTER. THE POETS AND LIBERAL THEOLOGY. * CHRISTIANITY AND LABOR. * AN EASTER EGG FOR CHRISTIANS. * DUELLING. * DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN. * SMIRCHING A HERO. KIT MARLOWE AND JESUS CHRIST. * JEHOVAH THE RIPPER. * THE PARSONS' LIVING WAGE. * DID BRADLAUGH BACKSLIDE? * FREDERIC HARRISON ON ATHEISM. * SAVE THE BIBLE! * FORGIVE AND FORGET. * THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM. THE GREAT GHOSTS * ATHEISM AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. * PIGOTTISM. * JESUS AT THE DERBY. * ATHEIST MURDERERS. * A RELIGION FOR EUNUCHS. * ROSE-WATER RELIGION. * ARROWS OF FREETHOUGHT. By G. W. Foote 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. BIBLE ROMANCES First Series By G. W. Foote CONTENTS THE CREATION STORY. NOAH'S FLOOD. EVE AND THE APPLE. THE BIBLE DEVIL. THE TEN PLAGUES; JONAH AND THE WHALE. THE WANDERING JEWS. THE TOWER OF BABEL. BALAAM'S ASS. GOD'S THIEVES IN CANAAN. CAIN AND ABEL. LOT'S WIFE. THE BOOK OF GOD IN THE LIGHT OF THE HIGHER CRITICISM WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO DEAN FARRAR'S NEW APOLOGY By G. W. Foote CONTENTS THE BOOK OF GOD. I. INTRODUCTION II. THE BIBLE CANON III. THE BIBLE AND SCIENCE IV. MIRACLES AND WITCHCRAFT V. THE BIBLE AND FREETHOUGHT VI. MORALS AND MANNERS VII. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL PROGRESS VIII. INSPIRATION IX. THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS X. THE BIBLE AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND XI. AN ORIENTAL BOOK XII. FICTITIOUS SUPREMACY