8o WITH GUN AND GUIDE 



To this he could make no adequate reply excepting 

 that Catholics were barred. Commenting on this 

 Henry the philosopher of the woods, the man who 

 has spent nearly sixty years in studying nature and in 

 living so close to her as to be able to interpret her ever- 

 varying moods said : 



" What rank folly it is for men to quarrel with their 

 most intimate friends, even with their own families at 

 times, on questions of religious doctrine, which, in the 

 end, seem only like the splitting of hairs ! How many 

 millions of people have been killed because they 

 wouldn't worship the God of the Jews in the early 

 days of Jewish history ! How many millions more of 

 the Jews themselves were killed because they wouldn't 

 worship God according to the light of the Gentiles ! 



"How many millions of so-called Christians were 

 killed because they did not worship God according to 

 the doctrine of the Koran, and the instructions of Mo- 

 hammed ! Then look at the millions slain by the Cath- 

 olics in their day of strength and the rapine and vio- 

 lence shown by the Protestants when their day of 

 vengeance arrived. And so on through all the muta- 

 tions of human life since the world began. 



" Begging money for churches ; begging money to 

 support pastors ; begging money for current expenses 

 of churches, which profess to be for the salvation of all 

 mankind, excepting for those who do not believe just 

 as you do, is not to my liking. 



