The New York herald., 1878-02-11
SABBATH LECTURES.
COLONEL INaERsoLL AT cHIcKERINo HALL ON
GHOSTS

COLONEL INaERsoLL AT CHIcKERINo HALL ON
GHOSTS
Chickerng Hall two.thirds full last evening
whom Colonel Ingcrso began his lecture "Gbosts,
repetition of that delivered In Albany las, month.
Tho speaker said he did not believe a would
abuse his wifo and family simply because he had
lost confidence In Moses He had no quar-.
rel with the Clergy, but Their solemnity
amused him. The supernatural theory which
most prevalent to-day that great being mado
this world and implanted n certain laws, and whom
got into great difficulty miracle wrought
TO got it out and It It's way olce more. Any
thing that increased tho real Of ttis world
was right; anything that did not wrong The
influence OF ghosts was the beginning OF all
religion. To these aristocrats OF the air the
poor barbarians sacrificed what they loved
best, their own children. They said there must be
some good being. because good things happen. harm
from the devil, and he alone they worsh ipped.
Superstition would keep from doing artificial
crime, but not from doing real crime. Whom
believed the supernatural they believed
in witchcraft, and Luther whom ho broke
away IRON tho Catholic Church took a step
towurd inldelity, because It was In the
direction OF private judgment, ard that was In the
direction OF Dndcty. He wanted TO establish what
Jefferson Davis didthc right OF secession. Protcs-
tants had TO say that the Catholic Church could
not work miracles, SO they claimed miracles ended
with the Apostles. But the miracles Of the Catholic
Church were just Us well attested those Of
the Apostles. The world iull Of devils at that
time A Massachu usetts woman was burned at tho
stake for possoss sing The power Of changing horse
into a fox Even SO great a man as Sir Matthew Hale
that all sacred and prolane history estab
lishcd the fact that wchcraft existed Sir Thomas
said that II witchcrait gwen up you would
have 10 give up the Scriptures; aud III my juogment
he was right. Even though the infinite God said a
Thing, II you could not understand II you could do
nothing with IT,. III you put IN letters OF the
skies that twice two make five you cannot believe Il
your soul In France, In l472, they actually
victed and executed II upon the public square.
More Than Two hundred years aitcrward
nos Of ana b.v,ns M pss were .r'sa % upo1 o the
convicted, but the pigs, on account Of their extreme
youth, were let on n our own country last ycar the
Governor oi Minnesota appointed day OF prayer TO
see power would either kni of the grass
hoppers drive them into some other State. Tim.
othy Dwight, Prcsijent OF YaIc College, once
preached u against vaccination, because IL
impudence to try TO cure smallpox when God
had sent II. Smallpox was considered the heaviest
gun the artillery OF heaven. Peruvian bark, rot
prayer, would cure the ague. True history could
never he written until men ceased 10 believe In the
supernatural. The murderer not struck down
the act but little boy out rowing on Sunday could
excite the OF the Almighty SO that HIS engcance
could only be satisfied by the sight OF tho dead body
In tho mothers arms. These ghosts gave US queer
IDEAS about Language. There had been Hood once,
end some fellows thought they'd build tower nigh
enough TO reach ncavon, so that when tho
again they couit light out God hoard OF II and
down look at IT, To sop their work Ho c0nfoundod
their language. The man At the top could not
'holloa' TO tho follow below and the contract was
given up These ghosts were false In their
ASTRONOMY and geology beside He thanked the
Of religious toleration In tins country. lie
thanked "poor Thomas Paine" because hc tried to
make the country lrcer lie thanked the authors Of
the Declaration Of Independence who said "ai power
from the people, because that drove the ghosts
from politics. Investigation began about nty years
had done good work and there was some hope loft
ior the people