Washington Times: "It is not at all difficult to find out whether or not Thomas Paine was an Atheist. All one has to do to discover his opinion on the subject is to go to any bookstore or circulating library, ask for his best known work, the 'Age of Reason,' and read the first page:"'I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.'" "He was, in fact, no more an Atheist than William Penn, Roger Williams or Ralph Waldo Emerson."--_New York World._ In his "Age of Reason" the recognition of a Supreme Being is made more than two hundred times. Rev. Daniel Freeman: "There has never been a believer in God if Thomas Paine was not a believer in God." Rev. Charles Alfred Martin (Roman Catholic): "Thomas Paine while not a Christian, was not an Atheist. His biographers declare that he penned his most famous book to stem with its Deism the tide of Atheism which flooded France at the time of the Revolution." Major J. Weed Cory: "Thomas Paine was not an Atheist. He wrote against Atheism, and Trinitarians will soon be appealing to his works to prove the existence of a God." Henry C. Wright: "Thomas Paine had a clear idea of God. This Being embodied his highest conception of truth, love, wisdom, mercy, liberty and power." "Paine was accursed as an Atheist and hunted and maligned by institutional religion for writing a book in defense of God."--_W. M. van der Weyde._ Henry Rowley: "His 'Age of Reason' was written as much in defense of God as in opposition to the church. He could not believe that God was guilty of the cruelties and crimes which the writers of the Bible attributed to him." "The 'Age of Reason' was the protest of a highly moral man against the doings of a deeply immoral God." Lucy N. Colman: "Thomas Paine's God was justice." Bishop Watson: "There is a philosophical sublimity in some of your ideas when speaking of the Creator of the universe." The work of orthodox religious teachers, unwittingly to many, is confined chiefly to the propagation of fictions and the suppression of facts. The Christian who has been surprised to learn that Paine was not an Atheist, may be equally surprised to learn that his great compeers, Washington, Jefferson and Franklin, were not Christians, but like him, Deists.