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The FoolKiller
Q Heathly Mustard-Plaster tor th
Blood-Boils of Society, CbsraJi
and State.
PUBLISHED MONTHLY.
Sssiea Larkin Pearson - - Editor
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THE FOOL-KILLER.
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Reduced Rates
Well, folkses. I have decided to
yr?SZhei
nn, i -tni nosMn- m txrice &n
much as it did before the war; but
the ereneral trend of prices is down-
ward, and I want to give my readers vnnr wvifp-n or,qwPro to tVia fnl
6he benefit of aU possible reduction, you.r written answers to tne ioi-
because I mow times are hard ana
money scarce.
Bo please tell everybody you see
and send wort to tne rst tnat toey
the old price 25 cents for a single
Bnsbcription, or 15 cents each in clubs
of five or more at one time.
Now please rush in the subs lilre
you did in the old days, and I'll do
my level best to keep 'em awake.
Let Us Talk It Over
WeU, dear sinner friends, this is
The Fool-KiUer.
How does it set on your stomach?
If you like it you can get more at
headquarters, .
The Fool-Killer is not even a forty-
Seventh cousin to any other paper on
Tt. fltAnrt in a class bv itself, and its I
fleid is as broad as the English
language.
This paper wears no oeu, muzzie,
l am the f eUow who works at the
pump-handle on this rag of reform.
I never traveUed any to speak of,
but I have read a great deal, and
have thunk some.
And then I started The Fool-Killer,
Inst to quiet my nerves and to keep
Se old press from getting rusty.
From the seclusion of these wooded
(II. A n will sv4Vt nkVi iMAnf n I
hills tkere will eo forth each month
h. bundle of literary dynamite that
will shake the rotten foundations of
society and cause the church of
Mamsson to at least turn over in its
sleep.
The Fool-Killer is a monthly mus
tard piaster far the blood-boils of
Bociety, Ohureh and State.
It is written with a red-hot
dipped in razor-soup.
poker
a saddle, and spurs him at every lope,
it is salted with wit, peppered with
It rides the devil a-straddle without
humor, and seasoned with sarcasm.
.Ei Very 11110 uum nno a wmu, uu
every word raises a blister.
If you are a fool you had better not
gubsenbe for Tne oei-.tLiiier. 11 you
are wiee you will, and that settles it.
JA2XES LABKHf FEAJBSOK
THE POOL-KILLER,
NUTS TO CRACK.
The Moody Bible Institue,
located at Chicago, what-a-noise,
has for the past two or three
years been sending me occasion
al batches of its advertising
literature with form letters urg
ing me to take up its correspon
dence courses in Bible study.
Well, I have looked into its
teachings considerably and de
cided that is didn't know enough
about the Bible to teach me any
thing, and so I haven't taken
up any of its courses. But I
have decided to ask the Moody
Bible Institute a few questions
and see if it can answer them.
A1vc, "cc" yy
warned to unicago witn a re-
quest for written answers. If
I get the answers I will print
them in The Fool-Killer for all
-
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Moody Bible Institute,
Chicago, ILL
Gentlemen: ,
tov tne past two years or
more I have been getting your
advertising literature and your
rm letters urging me to take
up your correspondence courses
in "Rihla st.ndv. T Viavp Tint vpf.
Udedto do so, but I have de-
acted tnat you can neip me m
making my decision. If you
will Ko en Vi'nrl fn cn wo
iuwmg queswuus, mui u. yuui
answers are satisfactory I will
consider the matter of taking
up mmB Qf your Bjbje study
courses. iui ii you cannot
t
answer these questions, or if
you try to dodge around them
nd make evasive answers,
shall have to conclude that you
do not know enough about the
Bible to teach me anything.
Now for the questions:
Was the Garden of Eden on
the earth or up in heaven?
Was Adam created mortal
or
immortal?
If Adam had not sinned, would
he ever have died?
he
have lived forever, and wouldn't
that have proved that he was
lminortal?
But on account of Bin he DID
he was mortal ?
Is there a difference between
eternal life and immortality ?
In other words, can a person
live eternally and never die, and
yet not oe lmmortaij
jf Adam had not sinned and
thus brought death upon him-
self, where would he have spent
his endless life?
Would he have lived forever
in the earthly paradise where he
was placed, or would he have
developed wings and flown away
to some place beyond the stars
caiied heaven?
If Adam could not go to
heaven Without dying, and COUld
not die without sinning, doesn't
that Drove that Sin and death
are blessings to the race?
Did Adam and his race lose
an earthly home or a heavenly
hosae?
it Jesus unnst came to re
store to the race that which was
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lost through Adam's falL what
will he restore?
Was Adam a human unit a
single individual or was he two
individuals in one?
If Adam was composed of
two parts soul and body
which part was the REAL
Adam?
Which part was it that could
think, feel, understand, and be
responsible for its conduct?
Which part was it that sin
ned, the soul. or the body?
If it was the soul that sinned,
why did the innocent body have
to suffer for it i
And if it was the body that
sinned and was condemned, why
is it said that souls have to
be saved?
When God said to Adam, as
recorded in Gen. 2:17, "for in
the day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die," which
part of Adam was God talking
to?
What does the word "thou
refer to in Gen. 2:17?
If you say it refers to the soul,
then what does the same word
"thou" refer to in Gen. 8:19?
How many different penalties
were passed upon Adam for his
sin?
Was one penalty pronounced
against his soul and another
against his body?
Is the penalty mentioned in
Gen. 2:17 a different penalty
from the one mentioned m Gen.
3: 19?
If there was just one penalty,
what was it?
Lfoes tne 5iDie say it was
death a returning to dust?
Or does it say it was an end
less life of misery in a burn
ing hell?
Suppose that Adam and Eye
had been created and placed in
the Garden of Eden just as they
were. And suppose they had
sinned and been driven out just
as they were. Suppose the same
penalty had been pronounced up
on them that actually was pro
nounced. And after all that had
happened just as it did, then
suppose that no Saviour had
come to redeem the&nr where
would Adam and his race have
spent eternity ?
Did Jesus really die on the
cross i
n .
Or was it just his body that
died?
If Jesus had an immortal soul
that didn't die, and if that im
mortal soul was the REAL
JESUS, then it seems to me that
the preachers have been giving
us a lot of bull about Jesus dy
ing for sinners. Why not just
say that the house Jesus lived
in died to save the house that
man lived in, but that the REAL
JESUS did not die and that the
REAL MAN is not saved?
When Jesus raised Lazarus
of Bethany from the dead, where
did Lazarus come fromA-down
from heaven or out from the
tomb?
If the REAL LAZARUS had
been in heaven four days, and
then came back to live with his
sisters again, can you explain
JAN., 1822.
why he never told them a woitl
about his wonderful trip and
what he saw up there?
These are just a few questions
that are bothering lots of peo
ple, and your answers to them
will be eagerly awaited.
Yours truly,
JAMES LARKIN PEARSON.
Now, folks, we'll have to wait
awhile and see what the Moody
Bible Institute will do about
hese questions. If it answers
them I will print its answers in
this paper soon as possible, and
if' it hums and haws and tries
to dodge the issue, I will tell
you about that. In either case
we are liable to have some fun.
Tell everybody to keep an eye
skinned and look out for the
answers.
And say, by the way, here's
how you can have some addition
al fun on your own hook : Take
this paper and read these ques
tions to some of your orthodox
friends and get their answers.
If it don t cook their gooses
I'll treat.
PARAGRAPHS
Nine decent Republicans in
the Senate. They voted against
the seating of Huckleberry.
If Japan is allowed to have a
Mutsu, it looks like some other
nation ought to have a Jeffsu.
The new Senator from Fen-
nsyltucky is named Pepper, and
he voted for Huckleberry. I
should sneeze!
The rule is that when you bur
and pay for a thing it belongs
to you. Probably that's why
the Senate allowed old Huckle
berry to hold his seat.
We used to hear the complaint.
that the proud fashionable wo
men "put everything, on their
backs." Well, you can't accuse
'em of that these days.
If the sensible people of At
hens, Ga., do not sro to church.
the preachers will have no right
x mi 1 , ., -
10 kick, iney nave not invited
anybody but the fools.
II JL. .1 J
An income is an awfullv curi
ous thing. A man can't possi
bly live without it, and it is al
most equally difficult to live
within it.
The Benited States Senate
seems to be getting awful full
of "blocs." But that isn't at
all surprising, because it has
been full of "block-heads" all
the time.
There is not a narfaVlA nf
to expect any reform frojn a
Senate that will nermit nlH
Huckleberry to have a seat in
it. You might as well try to
plant goober-peas in the moon
or nsn ior taapoies m tne top or
a naystacK.
to 11 rr.-a
I see it stated in a disnatch
from one of the fashion centers
that girls are going to abandon
galoshes. Now I am not croinff
to ask what a galosh is. It
might be something ugly.