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Which is the Christ, Jesus or Judas?

Has Adam the Third Arrived?

"Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit

Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us and regain the blissful seat,
Sing, heavenly Muse, that on the secret top
Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire

What in me is dark,

That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed,
In the beginning how the heavens and earth
Rose out of Chaos.
Illumine; what is low, raise and support;
That to the height of this great argument,
I may assert Eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men."

[MILTON: Introd. Paradise Lost.

"I, who erewhile the happy garden sung,
By one man's disobedience lost, now sing
Recover'd Paradise to all mankind;
By one Man's firm obedience, fully tried
Through all temptation; and the tempter foil'd
In all his wiles, defeated and repulsed,
And Eden raised in the waste wilderness."

[MILTON: Introd. Paradise Regained.

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JOHN THINKINGMACHINE CURRENTLY COMMENTS, CLAIMS, AND REASONS ON THE TRAGEDY OF GARFIE AND GUITEAU IN A SERIES OF LETTERS WRITTEN A SENT TO REVEREND X., WHICH ARE TO BE READ HE

UNDER THE DATE EACH BEARS.

ST. LOUIS, July 4, 1881

Dear Sir:- Now if we may begin to breathe ag a spell, tell me how was it, did I shoot the Presid or did my shadow?

"What could induce that man to shoot me?" a the sufferer innocently. His cheerfulness under s astounding fate is proportional, on a scale of subl ity, to that of the little boy in the story who, hav swallowed poison, could pull the apothecary's cat the tail while they hurried to snatch him from death

The slayer answers the question thus: "Thou ( Man, God needs thy death for the salvation of man

Is he the third Adam? I think this must be true Christ who was to come! For only observe look of omniscience as he predicts his acquittal by courts and the people. His egotism is only appar being the natural play of innocence in view of in

ity. When that roll of papers which he deposited at the news-stand, is examined, and contents published, the court and people will find what has been coming into the world these ten years through a single door. The Bible will be at last correctly interpreted, and the whole political and social system of the globe will be changed.

His theory will be something like this: "The events which happen after death do not occur. Therefore, all happiness must be contained and sought in history, or this life. The world does not agree on this, hence its unhappiness. As the President is only a man, he is a differential element in the circle of mankind. His taking-off is but a single atom in the vast mass of events and business which compose history past, present, future. Hence, if the sacrifice of James Garfield induces the world to believe and unite, the purchase will be a litttle below infinite and the cost a trifle above zero."

I anticipate, you will see that in order consistently to prove his theory correct and revelation true, Charles Guiteau will voluntarily ask to die on the gallows, or else to wear a ball and chain the rest of his days, without possibility of pardon or escape.

Yours, similarly,

JOHN THINKINGMACHINE.

(Brother-in-law, ridiculous lover, prophet of second advent, etc., etc.)