In reply to their murmurs I wrote an article in my paper on "Superstitious Freethinkers." It appeared in the number for December 31, and thus appropriately closed a year of combat.
A few passages are, perhaps, worth insertion here.
"It has been said of Robert Burns that, although his head and heart rejected Calvinism, he never quite got it out of his blood.
There is much truth in this metaphor.

Burns was, in religious matters, one of a very large class.

Many men rid their intellects of a superstition, without being able to resist its power over their feelings.

Even so profound a sceptic as Renan has admitted that his life is guided by a faith he no longer possesses.

And we are all familiar with instances of the same thing..." "Reverting to avowed Freethinkers, it is evident that some of them who have lost belief in God are afraid to speak too loud lest he should overhear them.