(Aquila rises and speaks.) Sisters and Brothers in the Lord. You have heard the inspired words flow from the Holy Ghost through the Christian mouth of my charming Priscilla, and by your attention and seriousness, you seem to have been edified. Bear with me awhile, whilst I support, from our Scriptures, all that has fallen from the holy lips of the divine, the burning, the delightful Priscilla. You see that I wear long hair upon the head, the chin, and elsewhere; and this I shall continue to do, in spite of all that Paul or any other Apostle may order to the contrary. Priscilla has wisely told you, that Adam could not have had his hair cut for want of a pair of scissors; and I may add, nor his chin shaven and body purified, according to the law of Moses, for want of a razor. The scripture also informeth us, that that tremendous affair of the apple was occasioned by the influence of Eve over Adam: and though the serpent was an agent, it does not alter my argument; for he was subtle enough to see, that of the two, the influence of Eve was the more powerful: and so with Eve he worked. They were not the sons of men; but the daughters of men and the sons of God, that brought the flood upon the earth, as a piece of revenge on the part of that woman-hater the great Jehovah, to check the influence of these women. Nor did this flood drown the power of women; for we find that Sarah ruled Abraham, by first ordering him to lie with her servant maid, and when the usual fit of jealousy came on, to turn that maid out of doors! If this be an allegory, it is not so dark as some of those sent among us by Saint Paul. Again, we find, that Rebecca did with Isaac just as she pleased; and poor Jacob was hen-pecked from the day that he set foot in Laban's house, until his going down to Egypt.-By the quarrels of Moses with his wife Zipporah, we may see, that, if he was the meekest of men, she was not the meekest of women, (though meekness, by the by, is not a woman's virtue.)

By the playing off of that pretty little woman's trick of old, about being gotten with child by an angel, and making her husband believe it, we may be assured of what sort of influence the mother of Sampson had over her husband Manoab. And the influence of his wife about the riddle, and of that pretty named Delilah over the strong man Sampson and his long and never-shorn hair is all-convincing, that the strength of the strongest man is nothing in comparison with the influence of a woman. The influence of a woman has no competitor save one, and that is the influence of a priest. The priest influences both husband and wife and doeth with them as he pleases.-King David was continually being led astray by women; and his son Solomon, with his thousand, was influenced to worship a new God with each!--There was one who said, that wine was strong; another that woman was stronger; and a third that truth was strongest of all; but where the truth prevaileth once, a woman may be seen to prevail a hundred times. I honour the influence of woman, and bend both with adoration and admiration to the charming influence of my sweet Priscilla. Now to him who despised not the company of woman, and who was a greater and a better teacher than Saint Paul, who wore long hair, and condemned nothing in dress but phylacteries* and broad hems to garments, be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen.

(All the sisters admire the speech of Aquila: the brothers titter, but dare not condemn; and Aquila called on for a hymn, wets his pipes and sings:

* Phylacteries were strips of parchment or other skin with sentences from the sacred books written on them. The Mahometans have a custom of wearing one such about them, bearing a sentence of the Koran. The more superstitious Jews exhibited them to a ridiculous excess.

Adore and tremble, for our God
Is a consuming fire;

His jealous eyes his wrath inflame,
And raise his vengeance higher.

Thy hand shall on rebellious kings

A fiery tempest pour;

While we beneath thy sheltering wings
Thy just revenge adore.

(Phoebe prays like another Sappho; and at a late hour, the Church well drunken, salute each other indiscriminately with a holy kiss, fix a time for the next merry Church meeting, and separating depart to their homes, who have them, and the rest to the fields, hedges, and barns.)

There, Bailey! something like that we are warranted by the two Epistles to the Corinthians, particularly by chap. xiv. of the first Epistle, in saying, was a primitive Christian Church I have only to ask an excuse for the auachronism of putting Saint Watts' Hymns into the mouths of the Primitives. Well might Paul ask them, 2 Corinthians chap. xiii. ver, 5: "Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?"

Now, we have seen clearly what Saint Paul did with his Gospel of uncircumcision at Corinth, his first European effort at Christian-making. These Corinthian Christians were a fair sample of what all the European and American Christians have been, save that, when their power and their fanaticism had gone on increasing, in addition to quarrelling and making an earthly trinity in unity of mothers, wives and sisters, they began to cut each others throats, to hang, burn, and torture one another, as heretics, orthodoxy being always synonimous with power. IF EVER THERE WAS A SACRED WISH, IF EVER THERE WAS A NOBLE DESIRE, IF

EVER THERE WAS PHILANTHROPY IN MAN, IT IS TO SEEK THE EXTIRPATION OF CHISTIANITY, AND OF EVERY OTHER RELIGION, FROM AMONG MANKIND.

Saint Paul the first European Preacher of Christianity was a vile hypocrite. There is no uniformity in his doctrine. His instructions to the Corinthians about wives and marriage are directly at variance with his instructions to Timothy, to the Ephesians, Philippians and others upon the same subject. To the Jews he became as a Jew; to the Gentiles as a Gentile; to the Philosophers at Athens he affected philosophy; to every sect of Christians that he met with, as one of that sect. His habit of lying was truly atrocious, and such as every honest man must abhor. He began by preaching the coming of Jesus Christ, and that coming to be in a short time. He explains, that it was to be in the life time of some of those then living, and that that coming was to be a consummation of all human affairs, of all earthly things. At 1 Corinthians chap. xv. ver. 51 he says: "Behold I shew you a mystery: we shall not all sleep, but we shall be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." In the Epistle to the Romans, as it is called, chap. ii. ver. 16, he states this time to be: "In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my Gospel." Again, in the 1st Epistle to the Thessalonians, chap. iv. ver. 15 he says: "For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from beaven with a shout, with the ' voice of an archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with

the Lord." In the following chapter it is said, "The day of the Lord cometh like a thief in the night."

Flying in the air seems to have been a favourite prospect with the early Christians. Almost every Gospel and Epistle extant narrates feats or promises of the kind. The lying Saint Paul at 2 Corinthians, chap. xii. ver. 2 says: "I knew a man in Christ about fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell: or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth ;) How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter."

And is it possible, that I am in the sixth year of an imprisonment for exposing and condemning such abominable lies as these? Is it possible, that such is the fact, and the bulk of the inhabitants of this country at least ignorant aud base enough silently to acquiesce in such a matter? Verily, I may believe, with Saint Paul, second Epistle to the Thessalonians, chap. ii. ver. 11, that God hath sent the people of this country a strong delusion, that they should believe a lie and be damned!

I have now, Christian Judge Bailey, given you a fair exbibition of Saint Paul, and the Christians which he made, and you may go on to enlighten your mind, and your readers and hearers, with such lights, if you please. I have done my duty to shew you and them better things; and if I write no more, I feel, that I have not lived in vain. This great cheat upon mankind is now fairly exposed; all that is wanted is, that all be able to read that exposure. You will prevent this general reading if you can, and so will every priest and bad man; but you cannot eradicate the impressions made, you cannot erase my engravings upon a given number of human bodies. I hope they will prove like indelible plates, from which an endless number of impressions may be taken, and that another generation may be prepared to pry you, and to glory in my past imprisonment.