"Shall we pray to a power not human For guidance miraculous When the nearest man or woman Will give help, and without that fuss?
"When the glorious future people Have realized our dream, Then the cross upon the steeple No longer shall blaspheme.
"The godhood of the lowly Their sacrifice unknown; Of the temple once held holy There shall not last one stone." P/
Only two stanzas of a poem which appeared in "The Call," March 17, 1912, are hereby given:
/P "The Gods are dead; Dead lies their Heaven, their Hell. The Gods are dead, With all their terrors! Well!
"Man now unmakes them, Who made them in his youth; He boldly breakes them With shattering blows of truth." P/
Editorials and articles attacking religion are of very common occurrence in "The Call." Several illustrations will suffice. In the May 1, 1912, edition we read:
"In our combat with the natural forces we have been taught by science to seek the cause and effect not in anything supernatural; we have gotten rid of superstition[18] and fear of revengeful gods."
The following short article appeared on November 19, 1911, in the same paper:
"Our exploiters might as well understand now that we have no use for the distorted and mystical figure that they present as Christ, a conservative member of the Property Defence League, a thing neither man nor woman, but a third sex--not understood of us except as a rightful object of suspicion; we have no use for this rant, cant and fustian of his holiness and immaculate qualities. That presentation has always been repellent to us and always will be, no matter how much he may be proclaimed as the friend of the workingman.... Christ, the democrat, the agitator, the revolutionary, the rebel, the bearer of the red flag, yes we can understand that figure."