Satires and Profanities

by James Thomson (1834-1882)

SATIRES

AND

PROFANITIES.

BY

JAMES THOMSON (B.V.)

[With a Preface by G. W. Foote.]

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LONDON:

PROGRESSIVE PUBLISHING COMPANY,

28 Stonecutter Street, E.C.

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1884.

CONTENTS.

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Preface	5
The Devil in the Church of England	9
Religion in the Rocky Mountains	21
The Story of a Famous Old Jewish Firm	37
Christmas Eve in the Upper Circles	53
A Word on Blasphemy	66
Heine on an Illustrious Exile, with Something About Whales	70
The Daily News	80
Jesus: as God; as a Man	88
The One Thing Needful	94
The Swinburne Controversy	99
Great Christ is Dead!	105
The Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus	110
Some Muslim Laws and Beliefs	116
The Christian World and the Secularist	128
The Athanasian Creed	133
Our Obstructions	138
Mr. Kingsley's Convertites	146
The Primate on the Church and the World	157
Spiritism in the Police Court	163
A Commission of Inquiry on Royalty	169
A Bible Lesson on Monarchy	178
Principal Tulloch on Personal Immortality	184
The Established Church	187

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