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thousand love stories, and musical anecdotes, and you will have crowded assemblies to hear you. Then bring your heaviest artillery to bear down against Bible doctrines, and especially against Puritanical orthodoxy. Although it may be found in the Bible, discard it, for the reason, that nobody can understand it.

Inform the people in every meeting, that you have listing orders for recruits to form the greatest army that was ever raised. That your orders are to persuade every body to join some denomination of our infallible order; no matter which, nor what, if they will only join to root out those old Bible doctrines, and churches, and ministers and people, called orthodox evangelical Christians, who have so long disturbed the peace of the world with their old-fashioned religion. Let this point occupy the boldest, loudest, and most eloquent energies of your power.

If some of the old-fashioned doctrine folks should attend any social prayer-meetings where you have the control, and attempt to speak or pray, unless they are particularly invited so to do, by being called on by name, (which you will take care always to prevent,) no matter if it should be an old orthodox minister himself, let him know that such intrusion on our infallible rules is not admissible. Silence him at once. Or, send a committee to request him to cease at his peril. Let him know that the "precious time of the people cannot be so wasted" as to hear him speak or pray in a meeting of our order, and that even his presence in our meeting is a breach of infallible rules. Although your meeting should be in a school-house close by his door, and the door of his church, yet suffer him not to enter, but on condition of silence. Threaten him by an anonymous letter to burn his buildings over his head,

meeting-house and all, if he does not desist praying among the people of his neighborhood. If that does not silence him, the first time he rises to speak, let one of the most melodious and powerful singers ever heard, raise a tune, no matter if it is Auld Lang Syne, and sing a hymn of fifteen or twenty verses, at the top of his voice, and thus sing him to silence. And if that measure does not succeed, let a hue-and-cry be raised of persecution, persecution! and let all the people who have always had good hearts know, that you have learned from your diploma, to believe so much of the Bible as this, that it was once predicted that the time would come when "they will not endure sound doctrine," and that now that prediction is fulfilled. For the time has come when the good people, who have always had good hearts, and have been instructed into the principles of our university, will not endure the old-fashioned doctrines in the Bible, such as, " By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. The wicked go astray as soon as they be born. Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. The wicked shall be turned into hell. He that believeth shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. These shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?"

Such doctrines prove that all mankind are sinners; and yet, that a part of mankind will be saved, and the rest will be damned!-some saved and some lost!!! Awful partiality!!! Now sir, as our preacher, you must understand, that these, and many other such

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things found in the Bible, are old-fashioned doctrines, which thousands of heretics are teaching to their children in Sabbath schools, to make them old-fashioned Christians. But well-informed people, in this enlightened" Age of Reason," and "Illuminism," will never bear such doctrines! They cannot, they will not endure them. And let all the people who hear you preach, know that you cannot, and never will bear, nor believe, nor preach, nor endure them; and that because the Bible contains such doctrines, the book itself ought to be burned and annihilated. Let the people know, that all who believe and preach oldfashioned Bible doctrines, will soon have to stop preaching, for nobody will hear them.

It is also recommended in your diplomatic instructions, that wherever it is found that the old-fashioned Puritanical Bible Christians have established their doctrines, and churches, and ministry, and Sabbath schools so strongly that you cannot overrun, scatter, nor drive them from their ground, then change your policy. Profess full belief in the Bible and keep your diploma incog. Help them to get up an excitement, and even if it should prove to be an awakening, be sure to be there. Make thousands believe if you can, that they are good Christians by nature, and do all in your power to bring them right forward into the church. In order to multiply professors rapidly, put the questions often, Do you not wish to be happy on earth? Do you not wish to go to heaven when you die? Every body will answer, "O, yes, besure we do, of course!" Tell all and every such one, that this is a certain sign that their hearts are changed. Bring them right forward, exultingly, into the Church. In every assembly put the following motion: All you that wish to be happy after death, manifest it by ris

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ing. Then count and report, request their names, urge them right forward into the church, and you will have thousands. Let them all know that this is proof, all-sufficient, of their qualification to join the church: bring them forward, and they will doubtless feel happy. And the report of such success will bring thousands more into the church by the same means, and you will soon become famed as a revival preacher! If by any measures thousands can be persuaded, or even be dragged forward to be prayed for, or to cross themselves with holy water, this fact can be urged to prove the goodness of their hearts and their worthiness to join the church without delay.

In this way you may be of great service in supplying orthodox evangelical churches with thousands of members. And as soon as they are in the church, they can shortly be so trained, that an old-fashioned preacher will soon have to take a walking-paper. Nothing is wanting but to have such excitements, and such liberal management, to drive away every oldfashioned orthodox minister, scatter his church into the wind, and raise up an infallible church of our order. But one thing you must never forget. Be always on your watch to prevent, if possible, any person from making a profession of religion who is really a Puritan orthodox Christian in heart. Discourage all such; persecute and slander them, till they will wish they had never been born to be troubled with conviction for sin, or to make a profession of religion.

Such management is to be the great secret of your success in making and multiplying the right sort of Christians, such as will aid in ridding this world of all Bible laws and ordinances, and deliver mankind from the bondage of fear of being hung for murder, or of endless torment in hell after death, whatever they

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may believe or do. If you rigidly adhere to the prescriptions of your diploma, you will be able to get up an excitement almost everywhere; and after attacking and rooting out the influence of the old-fashioned pastor, and prejudicing the people against all old-fashioned Bible doctrines, and creeds, and measures, you will be able to convert thousands from all old-fashioned ⚫ notions about religion, to the most happy feelings, selfconfident knowledge, transporting joys; the profession of a perfectly sinless life; and glory-seeking, glorysinging, and glory-shouting professors, who feel perfectly worthy, and ready to fly away to happiness somewhere, before an old-fashioned preacher of Bible doctrines and Bible measures could get ready to convert a single soul in the old-fashioned way.

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But there are certain things which it is important for you to know, and which we commit to your knowledge in this diploma. But it is done in the unwavering confidence we repose in your integrity, that you will never reveal them to any mortal on earth; but that you will keep them as a profound and inviolable secret, as safe in your own breast as they were in ours, before committing them to you." All which you are hereby positively required to do, “binding yourself under no less penalty" than the forfeiture of our confidence in you; the loss of all the honors and privileges herein and hereafter mentioned in this your Diploma; together with the excommunication, denunciation, and curses herewith annexed.

The grand, most sublime, and all important SECRET, which we now commit to you, Brother, is as follows, viz., You are our preacher, educated, and sent out by us into the world to promulgate our religion, which will be explained to you in the sequel. We, the Faculty of our University, are your Directors.