Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-12-19
BOB-LOGIC.
IngersOll at the Acad emy of
Music.

Correspondence oi the Register.
BALTIMORE, December ii, 1873.
The Mistakes OF Moses" was the
theme of lecture delivered at the
Academy OF Music, on Thursday evening
last (to an audience composed OF most
Heterogeneous proclivities, though We
learn that the Israelites were most
largely represented by a person whose
bloody shirt efforts and violence in 1876
IN supporter OF Mr.. Hayes, have brand
ed him as man who has made the most
fatal mistakes" land which he himself
confesses) as to the policy to be pursued
by the executive, OF any orator that ap-
peared upon the hustings. So he sought
to be believed, for ii the old adage holds
true that 1T takes a thief to catch a
thief" it certainly takes the most mis-
taken and disappointed man of the age
to discover the mistakes OF Moses. There
were two large assemblies that evening,
differing most widely in their views,
and if high respectability and integrity
as to numbers is the test, the Moody
meeting at Grace Church had most GER
tainly the majority, for not only was
every seat, taksn, lint every available
inch of room. But "that was free"
saws some one; certainly it was, any
body could come, God never charged
sinner anything to save him. He oil
fers eternal life to any who will receive
Him, without money or price" and 1t
was free because it was God-given; then
the logical sequence must be, that
"damnation" was offered to anyone
that would pay fifty cents i'll
one part OF the house or seventy-tive i'll
another, condemnation or eternal non
entity sold, and everlasting bliss and
happiness given away. But you must
not conclude there were not some at
Col. IngersolPs lecture who despised his
theme, nor did they believe what he
said, but were attracted by curiosity.
The editorial in your paper of the 18th
of November, can not but meet the ap-
proval OF the best elements OF the COM
munity, and your fearlessness i'll so
expressing yourselves, should put you
upon that plane of integrity, that what
is right you are bold to defend. ! read
carefully the lecture as published, and
with your permission, will take excep-
ton to few points OF Col. Bob's way
of seeing things. He commenced by
saving he wished to free the public
mind of this country, and would like to
take the chains and manacles from the
pulpit, and assist in giving liberty to
thought. Mr.. lngersoll is not true III
this, is a greater despot in political
thought than any man III religious
thought, a man is not forced to believe
the teachings OF the Bible, he is free
agent, but in politics let lngersoll he
the Judge advocate, and any one express
an opinion as to mysterys of cause that
people thought most honest, and upon
which leading statesmen differed, and
YOU would hear the sentence ''hc Is
Rebel, to the prison with him." Ii he
believed in liberty OF thought, why did
he not unfetter thought by iavoring
voluntary action as regards liberty of
conscience, instead Of bayOnet rule, 10
All oppressed people as much citizens as
he. THAT the clergy pitch themselves
To creed and church and stuck there.
They always do not, and l answer II
they do, they are as much entitled to
honesty as to their convictions, as MIR.
Ingersoll is TO his long life Republican
political convictions "He could not
believe that miracle was ever per-
formed" He can't help but believe it,
inventive genius is as much miracle to
the eentenarian, as a miracle TO those
of the days Of Moses; would not steam
engine making fifty miles an hour, or
the telegraph quick as thought, have
been as much miracle to these ot two
centuries ago as the miracle OF the fol-
lowers of Moses. That ten times ten
made hundred, inspiration or no in
spiration." 1t is no such thing, ten
times ten don't make an hundred, and
all inspiration can't prove II, or
INGERsoLL's BoB-LoGIC.
Unless YOU confess that ten times one
make ten, and the making OF the hun
dred is simply the logical sequence Of
ten times one-"That under the admin
istration of God himself men grew
worse" Not at all astonishing, not
Gods fault, mans fault. If Mr.. lnger-
soil wants to free the public mind OF
this country" he must permit man TO be
free agent. Amt Ingersoll free agent,
if he was not, Providence rather than he
should grow worse, would strike hun
dead in the midst of his efforts; but God
is mercitul, He can save him yet, ii Bob
will let Him, but if salvation is an insult
TO Bobby, God don't want TO insult him
BY holding him in the bondage" OF
salvation. ''He did not start any public
schools in that day or take them in hand
anyway" What good has the public
schools done him Inpersolli. and as
''for taking him in hand" "He don't
want TO imprison this Tree agent"
upon the highway Of progress, and / am
opposed to It and am going to do what
little / can against it" Let us see If
has. What has made this country and
all civilized countries if it has not been
the dssp-rootsd conviction Of . Supreme
/ Being?F Nhsre would hare bean the
n,ihlic school system he thinks 40 much