essentially the same, with their special lighting, gold, splendor, candles, choirs, organ, bells, vestments, intoning, etc.?

But however powerful this hypnotic influence may be, it is not the chief nor the most pernicious activity of the Church. The chief and most pernicious work of the Church is that which is directed to the deception of children — these very children of whom Christ said: “Woe to him that offendeth one of these little ones.” From the very first awakening of the consciousness of the child they begin to deceive him, to instil into him with the utmost solemnity what they do not themselves believe in, and they continue to instil it into him till the deception has by habit grown into the child's nature. They studiously deceive the child on the most important subject in life, and when the