"Thout shalt not commit adultery." He was charged with adultery, and the foul beast who made the charge was forced to pay a heavy fine for his libelous assault. "Thou shalt not steal." Were all mankind as honest as he was the locksmith's avocation would be gone. "Thou shalt not bear false witness." From his truthful lips no one ever heard a falsehood fall. "Thou shalt not covet." A man who consecrates his life to the cause of humanity, and who steadily refuses to be recompensed for his services, cannot be accused of covetousness. Now, let me ask the church, what is your record? How have you kept even the commandments of your own law? "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." And yet, you have persecuted, imprisoned, tortured, butchered, and burned thousands for not believing in a trinity of gods. "Before no idol shalt thou bow thy knee." Your places of public worship are filled with idols--virgins, and saints, and crucifixes, and Bibles--objects of as blind adoration as the idols of heathen lands. "Thou shalt not take the name of God in vain." On every hand our ears are greeted by the oaths of those who, whether belonging to any particular sect or not, believe in the existence of the God and the divinity of the Christ they curse. "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." For eighteen hundred years you have not kept a Sabbath of your God. You observe a day he never authorized you to observe. "Honor thy father and thy mother." The Christ you worship spurned the loving mother who bore him and declared that he who hated not father and mother could not be his disciple. "Thou shalt not kill." You have made of earth a slaughter house. For centuries it resounded with the shrieks of murdered millions, victims of your relentless fury. And today your votaries are drenching Europe's soil with blood. "Thou shalt not commit adultery." Your most immaculate saints violate this commandment and become a stench in the nostrils of decent people. "Thou shalt not steal." Today the prisons of Europe and America shelter three hundred thousand Christian thieves. "Thou shalt not bear false witness." Perjury is rife in Christendom; and even in heathen lands the very name of Christianity has become a synonym for falsehood and deceit. "Thou shalt not covet." Your history is the history of covetousness itself. Christian Rome has tried to devour the world. A little while ago we saw the Greek cross planted upon the Balkan--saw the Russian eagle perched upon those snowy crags, gloating over the misfortunes of Turkey, eager to clutch in his greedy talons the territory of Islam, and prevented only by the jealous wolves of Protestantism.