Daily globe., 1879-06-09
INGERsOE4,s EUL0GE.


j, T.. ChaGso-Payne Outdonei In the lFaal-. Ra-
S tnculism or theInfidelity Enunciateda. q
The Rev. j. +, Ohaffee ptea,hed 70 large
congregation at the First Methodist church
last evening taking as q subject "Robert In
gersoll's Eulogy at the Funeral Of his
Brother; or, Consultations of Infdelity IN the
Presence Of Death,'' basing his remarks on
Deuteronomy XXXII-XXXI: For their
rock IS not, as our rock, even our enemies
themselves being judges. In commencing
bis discourse, the reverend speaker said that
it would be almost criminal, as Christians, to
pass unnoticed the eloquent but strange
eulogy of Robert Ingersoll over the body of
his dead brother. The world had just seen
one brother who confessed no God, standing
at the grave of brother who had died with
out confessed hope in a redeemer.i An M
fidel at the grave of an infdel advertising
the consultations of infdelity.
Mr.. Ingersoll had a great deal to say
about the mistakes of Moses, which the
speaker would not enlarge on to any great
extent. In this connection, the Rev. ]. d.
Vincent had said that the mistakes of Moses
might after investigation, turn ont to be the
ignorance of IngersoA. Scores OF mon
equally as erudite as Ingersou had examined
the book of Moses, and after careful study
had come to, the conclusion that there was
no insuperable difficulties to be encountered
in arriving at an understanding OF the
meaning. aas.
After adyerting to the difficulty e1perinced
by infdility in repudiating the idea OF God
and immortality, the speaker read from
newspaper clipping containing Mr: niger
SOILS eulogy at the funeral of his brother:
The speaker first alluded to that portion OF
the eulogy which likened life to narrow
race between two eternities. In speaking OF
the eternity of the past, the speaker drew
fine picture of the earth as it may have been
before man was created, arguing from thence
that as man had not always existed he must
have been designed by a superior power
than himself, stating that in6delity has as
much effect to account for as the Christian,
the difference being that the infidel repu-
dated the cause.
The speaker then spoke of the declaration
in the eulogy that life was narrow vale, and
happiness the only good. He did not say
that it was good, nor that it was one OF the
goods in this life, but he asseverates that 1t
is the only good. He also said that, between
these two Wales, we cried aloud and echo was
the only wall, and how could happiness be
attainable with such belief as this? The
speaker said that in crying aloud the Chris
tian looked forward to an infinite God and
Savior. Ingerson had also said that reason
was the only God and justice the only wor-
shipper, while the speaker said he could
appreciate the poetic principle involved in
the idea of justice being worshipper
The reverend speaker then referred, to that
part of Mr.. Ingersoll's eulogy bearing on
the future, and after speaking of the troubled
doubts that seemed to assail infidelity at the
i grave, he referred to the Christian s hope o1
a city with gates of pearl and streets of gold
1t was city with light and warmth, and the
idea of gloom or doubt never entered its
/ portals. A fine sinnile was here drawn OF
the Christians ideal of heaven. Unbelie1
had said that reason was the only torch, te
which the Christian appealed for his ides
and hope of heaven, for either God or reason
had placed it there, and if God had but
created it, reason had, as either God hac
made man, or man God. The remarks o
the speaker were here interrupted by tn
storm, and in conclusion he adverted to tn
star of faith and the futtering wing Of th'
unseen angel as the universal consolation o
those who died believing in the savinE
power of God as taught by Christianity.