What a grim joke it will be if the _Freethinker_ is found guilty and punished for the same crime as the preacher of the Sermon on the Mount! Truly adversity makes us acquainted with strange bedfellows.
"Yet, whatever happens, we will not quail.

We will not vapor about legions of angels, but trust in the living legions of Freethought.

We will not yield to the weakness of an agony and bloody sweat, nor pray that the cup may pass from us, nor cry out that we are forsaken; for our sources of strength are all within us, and cannot be taken away.

We have a sense of truth, a conviction of right, and a spirit of courage, caught from the gallant men who fought before.

Let the bigots do their worst; they will not break our spirit nor extinguish our cause.