, 1874-05-04

damnablo reign, Of ignorant, british, ileniliah
prosecutions lad never boon known to mankind
Than TINT Of Calyiniatfo principles among the
hills Of Scotland q, The lecturer proceeded at
lioving which, and for not believing which. a
man might bo bounded down.. persooutod, and
done to leatf. lie had passing fling al tho
Thirty-Nine Articles md said that ropoatipg tho
ministers would fi,id their congregatons
loss numerous than tho "tlvo points" Of John
Calvin.
out il tho Church. Horo, in Chicago, : minis.
ter had already boen indicted for dating to
doubt that God had provided an otornal holl for
nF tue ppnismnt 1s: qf lost s0ulslo; ,ol daring to
SS maa ' naa besn esfay eaansa e esfG,s an
| daring the disbelief that tho 100th psalm was
| inspired by God (Great chocring.l
Col. 1ngorso!l hero read tue psalm In question,
proscnt believed tint tho God Of Hoavcn could
hayo inspired" palm which preached ''no
quarter" to man, and murder to women and
His remarks wero interrupted by continued
), THO leo!urer then proceeded to say that il
the, inluito God had inspired TINT ouraod,
ays nst on% nfe%oua psalm wS H. wsnt9d Va odx to
80 aendish, So miserable. and 80 egotistlcal .
to go to q heaven With that God, ho would rs-
fuse, and prefer to direct bis steps In tho OPP
Of the Churches preached, in tho nauao Of Je-
lovah, tho bloodiest wars that had over doao-
lated tho world. Il. recorded, chapter BY chap
ter, how oltlcs had been oscrrun and aaoked,
spsesr sa4sa sa Were 0ns sa n05 5uss ssd osss ossns
olty2 flo history of the ~ Church ] was vas
blstory Of epoliation and Of blood-aunalH Of
6; cfs 1 aansarPnssea 5y tue mqst brutal tEibss
GU idol.
Tho lecturer thcn proceeded to aonl at length
with the charges against Prof. awing-alludlng
tsev. Robert Collyor sud John Stuart Mill. Col.
1ngcraoll paid very high tribute to the ability
aud sincerity. Of Robert OolIyer, and added
r,;aS woia Of salogy e regarded the great Ea-
man who bicssed euch meu as these
to bo hold aH an inndel-as 4 hcretio7 uad
oither ona-Robort Collyer or Mr. Mill-boon at
Gonoga during tho burning Of servotuB, their
19ass would .t hHv1 auonohea tho flames around
they would havc turned their bncls to the Bpec-
taclo, royoled In the groans Of tho victim. sol-
emnly divided thcir coat-tailst and warmed thom-
solves at tho blazo lThc audience hera gayo
speaker could roaume his rona1ks.l
Col. 1ngeraoll went on to deal in detail with tue
charges and concentrated his worda with char-
aetoristlcally opfgrammatio force. bringing, the
gayo full blow at orthodoxy. Hercsy, he said,
meant progresB. Orthodoxy meant stagnation.
The dead wero orthodox. They had magnia-
cent orthodox church in every cemetery. There
Thcro wes only ths dlncienee see SetEesn ss;
the dead md tho living orthodox-tho
formcr did not peraeoute. {Arplauso.] HoreBy
was . cradle, orthodoxy coffin. Tho former
Orthodoxy insulted' man by asking him, for sal
Vation's sako, to surrender bis physical powers
aud hand over his brains rs the frat installment
Laughter and ch9ers.] Heresy prenched God
snd % eaoa; ". ooa
GUS OF tho Till, lie Sun sun icalona
Of candle,-the loftiost star jealous Of . parti
clo q dust, aa bid the great, tho INFINITE God,--
tho haughtiest and most elevated OF men
[droat ohceliug.l Horosy should 10 fostered
and engendored, for it meant human charity and
broad liborality. It meant nil that was good, aud
places. and refused to surrendered intellect to
superstition. It WAS above creed knd churches,
and borrowed Its inspirations from the loftiest
sentiments Of tho miud-the gift Of God-aud
from tho sublimest works Of Nature.
The lecturer then read extracts from the
Bibles" Of the Oriental creeds-more nncicnt
than Judaism or than Christianlty-and showed
how much more charity there was in tho Budd-
hits than IN tho Jews, Or the Christians. How
much nobler, SAID he, the principloa Of Confu-
cius than the 1u9th Psalm And yet Christians
sent missionaries to those people to ask them to
embrace malignant, o porsecuting croed, Wo
always sent soldiers to the West and missionaries
to the East; Bibles to the East, and muakets
to tho WeHt-to slaughter the Indian,
the best elomont about whom was that he mover
acalped any other Indian for difference Of be-
lief. Laughter and applauBe.} This was tho
happIest sign. that tho Indian had not been
reached by tho average Christian missionary.
Charity in religion should begin at homo. What
use in converting the 1ldian to Christianity un-
ii! the latter, Which taught that an infant whose
bend Was not wettol bya priest, would be irrey-
ocahly damned, remodelod its belief j? Tap
plau6e.
Tho lecturer closed with q brilliant porora-
tlon, Which copjurod up magnificent Image Of
the prisnatic beauties of heaven. and entirely
ignored the sablo shore and sulphurous baths Of
materfnl and forever-enduring hell
Tho effort produced marked sensation, and
several gentlemen Of Hacerlotal aspect were
soon to leave the audience during the moro fiery
portions Of the diacour6o.