The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-07-20
CLARK
The treat Atheist Pays a Reautlfal Trl
butte 10 a Great T~heOlogian.

From the Chicago Journal.
The Rev. Alexander Clark, Of Pitts
burgh, Pa, a journalist and the editor
OF a Methodist organ, whose death was
recently announced, has received most
eulogistic and tender tributes from the
religious press Of the country. He died
in Georgia some two weeks ago while
he was the guest of the governor of
that state, Governor Colquit.As a jour
nalist Mr.. Clark had been somewhat
conspicuous for his zeal in combating
the views Of Colonel Ingersoll. while
treating that gentleman with personal
fairness. He once visited him in his
Peoria home, and in a published letter
spoke in the very highest terms Of the
personal and domestic character of his
illustrious theological opponent. Now
that Mr.. Clark is dead, Colonel Inger-
soil has paid the following tribute first
published below to the m~anliness and
kindness of the deceased:
REV. ALEXANDER CLARK.
Upon the grave of Rev. Alexander
Clark / wish TO place one flower.
Utterly destitute of cold, dogmatic
pride, that often passes for the love of
God; without the arrogance of the
"elect"-simple, free and kind-this
earnest man made me his friend by be-
ing mine. forgot that he was a
christian, and he seemed to forget that
l was not, while each remembered that
the other was a man.
Frank, candid and sincere, he prac-
ticed what he preached, and looked
with the holy eyes of charity upon the
failings and mistakes of men. He
believed in the power of kindness, and
SPAWNED with divine sympathy the hide
GUS gulf that separates the fallen from
the pure.
Giving freely to others the rights
that he claimed for himself, it never
occurred to him that his God hated a
brave and honest unbeliever. He re-
membered that even an infidel has rights
that love respects; that hatred has no
saving power, and that in order to be a
christian it is not necessary to become
less than a man. He knew that no one
can be maligned into Kindness; that
epithets cannot convince; that curses
are not arguments, and that the finger
of scorn never points towards heaven.
With the g~eAerosity of an honest man,
he accorded to all the fullest liberty of
thought, knowing, as he did, that in
the realm of mind a chain is but a
curse. gf1q.9 fEt
For this man / entertained the pro-
foundest respect. In spite Of the taunts
and jeers of his brethren, he publicly
proclaimed thatrhe would treat inidels
with fairness and respect; that he would
endeavor to- convince them by argyll
ment and win them with love. He in
sisted that the God he worshipped loved
the we'll being even even of an atheist.
In this grand position he stood almost
alone Tender, just and loving where
others were harsh, vindictive and cruel,
he challenged the respect and admir-
alton of every honest man. A few more
such clergymen might drive calumny
from the lips of faith and render the
pulpit worthy of respect.
The heartiness and kindness with
which this generous man treated me
can never be excelled. He admitted that
l mad not lost and could not lose a
single right by the expression of my
honest thought. Neither did he
believe that q servant could win the re-
spect of a generous master by persecut-
ing and maligning those whom the
master would willingly forgive.
While this good mar was living, his
brethren blamed him for having treat
ed me with fairness. But, 1 trust, nov
that he has left the shore touched by
the mysterious sea that never yet has
borne oil any wave the image Of a home
ward sail, this crime will be forgiven
him by those who still remain to preach
the love of God.
His %sympathies were not confined
within the prison of a creed, but ran
out and over the walls like vines, hid
ing the cruel rocks and rusted bars with
leaf and flower. He could not echo
with his heart the fiendish sentence of
eternal fire. In spite of book and creed
he read between the lines, the words
of tenderness and love with promises
for all the world. Above, beyond the
dogmas of his church-humane even to
the verge of heresy-causing some to
doubt his love of God because he failed
to hate his unbelieving fellow-men, he
labored for the welfare of mankind, and
to his work gave up his life with all his
heart. ROBERT G.. INeERsoLL.
Washington, D. c., July IL.
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CONT are all relieved by this standard reme-
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