The Common People called upon to Decide as between the Universities and the Synods--Modern Medicine, Law, Literature and Pictures as against the Old--Creeds agree with the Sciences of their Day--Apology the Prelude to Retreat--The Presbyterian Creed Infamous, but no worse than the Catholic--Progress begins when Expression of Opinion is Allowed--Examining the Religions of other Countries--The Pulpit's Position Lost--The Dogma of Eternal Pain the Cause of the orthodox Creeds losing Popularity--Every Church teaching this Infinite Lie must Fall. OUR SCHOOLS. Education the only Lever capable of raising Mankind--The School-house more Important than the Church--Criticism of New York's School-Buildings--The Kindergarten System Recommended--Poor Pay of Teachers--The great Danger to the Republic is Ignorance. VIVISECTION. The Hell of Science--Brutal Curiosity of Vivisectors--The Pretence that they are working for the Good of Man--Have these scientific Assassins added to useful Knowledge?--No Good to the Race to be Accomplished by Torture--The Tendency to produce a Race of intelligent Wild Beasts. THE CENSUS ENUMERATOR'S OFFICIAL CATECHISM. Right of the Government to ask Questions and of the Citizen to refuse to answer them--Matters which the Government has no Right to pry into--Exposing the Debtor's financial Condition--A Man might decline to tell whether he has a Chronic Disease or not. THE AGNOSTIC CHRISTMAS. Natural Phenomena and Myths celebrated--The great Day of the first Religion, Sun-worship--A God that Knew no Hatred nor Sought Revenge--The Festival of Light. SPIRITUALITY. A much-abused Word--The Early Christians too Spiritual to be Civilized--Calvin and Knox--Paine, Voltaire and Humboldt not Spiritual--Darwin also Lacking--What it is to be really Spiritual--No connection with Superstition. SUMTER'S GUN. What were thereby blown into Rags and Ravelings--The Birth of a new Epoch announced--Lincoln made the most commanding Figure of the Century--Story of its Echoes. WHAT INFIDELS HAVE DONE. What might have been Asked of a Christian 100 years after Christ--Hospitals and Asylums not all built for Charity--Girard College--Lick Observatory--Carnegie not an Orthodox Christian--Christian Colleges--Give us Time. CRUELTY IN THE ELMIRA REFORMATORY. Brockway a Savage--The Lash will neither develop the Brain nor cultivate the Heart--Brutality a Failure--Bishop Potter's apostolical Remark. LAW'S DELAY. The Object of a Trial--Justice can afford to Wait--The right of Appeal--Case of Mrs. Maybrick--Life Imprisonment for Murderers--American Courts better than the English. BIGOTRY OF COLLEGES. Universities naturally Conservative--Kansas State University's Objection to Ingersoll as a commencement Orator--Comment by Mr. Depew (note)--Action of Cornell and the University of Missouri. A YOUNG MAN'S CHANCES TO-DAY.