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Death ~aits on life. and all things tell,
Tfom mountain side, and vale, and dahs
The old, sud story;
2. C'e, land and sea the voices swell
Me1nenl0 mort
Tet not alone OF Death we hear:
FioFers clothe the grave and deck the bier;
:: And, crowned with glory,
The Sepulchre and Cross appear,
No more 5Renltnto sauT1I
GOSPEL AUTHENTICITY.
4 SECOND LETTER By BRONSON c. KREIKH-
II tAs Editor Of 7he chtoaoo Tribune. /
CHICAGO, Sept a.-Judsing from the appear
,noe Of ,hirty-tive columns In last Monday morn
tue's papers, something has dropped In the re-
urous world recently. SOMEBODY has men-
tnued" something. Aud it is decidedly ANUS
,ac, in reading these thirty-fiye columns, to See
hos much can be said at subject without very
much being said on it. The sermons published
in reply To Mr. Ingersoli, with scarcely an ex-
cepuon, do not meet the case ut all, but they re-
mind one OF an effort Of man to hide the real
object from view by failing the ground ana
rsisiux an immense dust Of words Tho shafts
Of Mr.. lugersoll went home, however 1t Is no
uncommon thing to hear church-memoers ana
others who have never heretofore been mo7ep
hy the appeals Of agnoshcism say.
do not understand what this means.
have always supposed that those things
we're certain and settled Il never
hare for one moment supposed that there was
loy doubt as to these things. The clergy are sup
posed to tell us the truth This Is their pusf-
ness. this theological problem Is It Is their
,tpecialty. They have nothing else to do but
ttudy It. Why havo they told ua nothing ABOUT
thsss things? Have we TO Investigate them our
eelyes. before we can learn what the truth tsY
Th.t Ia vhaf aonostJcfsin asks. It saws that
auS] ~ ,hont +his refrtous
there Is something wrong ABOUT tn.s ns-ous ~
question, that back OF the veil "nlcn uansS ~
front Of the altar things are not what they oughe
to be; and all we ask Is an investigation. =, :.
ne,ote tu's pa1uHatas ~ qoes-.n .a,,e - ~ tta
tnally 1t may oe wei TO 20 over some o. @e
principal points rnaae ty the Clergy IN their re-
,d,saSS, ot Sne Sa srs srncstne ~ ht,
e. 49, se.se s.,-e,ss,o ~
uons which still make use OF the formula Of
words, but it is safe. to say that the doc
trine that man II saved by d belief IS 80
1ar aoanaonea oy INC ereae aenom1nat'ons
that the Cnurch no longer mera1s Heouke, oF
abuse, or laughter, on account OF that peculiar
fden." Every other sermon published said that
Christ, every theological seminary IN the
Christian world Is teaching 1t. and 4U.0U,0U OF
Christians hold it Prof. Swing belongs to the
e,as. faas .,-.1,,, +t,rts +ho+ whan u hoe
ca9, lea1' WHICH eoin9 uns' ""en ~ a
thrown on an error. the Wholc "oslo mas zone
the same thing. He also fnttmates that It mai
ter. not if the autbentsc,,y nj Matthew be de-
,-o,..a -. f,,.,, T., Ch.i.t,onf+- ,,,o,11 +a,oi,
Aoooeo' n19 AaAn IL S"i "i.st'antts "oo1a 4ea41n
unshnken. When skept1ciSm drst at
tacked the story Of the Garden of Eden,
preshyter1ans we're warned not 10 give
..ss ee.'os - as ,.t.. p.oeh.D
aeeo' 1or' Wefe az proseo nsnr Ifeeps-
teftanEsm, whose cornerstone Was the apple
and tho fall Of man, must 60 down. After it
had been i,noved a. myth. the Presbvterian
clergy recsined their hreatn and said It Was not
20 oreat naffcr arter ali and that il need
nut afYect their faith Ia Chrlstianity.
Than an attack was made on the IN
sprntion Of The RibIe. and this time the
c{erov xarnaa rhetr renn,c that the nnInt ,Tas n
yitsi one. and, Il It wcie proved, tbs overthrow
Of christi'snitv rnnst necessariiy ensue: there
lore the nnn9rer1, Hons wore assnred tfat thew
must not Listen H,1t It was proTed. ard w6en
thosa Of tie c1er9y who saw it had recovered
fun their shock and their astonishrncut that
tha Chnrch % did nnt at nnce 1umbie to pteces
tasy said It was not a vital matter, and that its
ioss need nttnf1ct tietr faith in the ereat funda
mental nrincin1es ~ Ehristiarttys Then came
the attack on 1he authenttcIty Of the books OF
Dlia