The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-05-20

wife and four little children" TAX,
him right in"
| Here is another man who is cast in
to hell because he had clung to tn,
wife that had enriched him with th'
love and beauty of her youth. THAI
is the Christian scheme. It places lit.
tie girls of sixteen in convent, att1r.
ed in the veil of death and night
And | have often thought as l passed
one of such places and shuddel
thrilled my heart-that the law should
lay hands on these cunning, crafty
priests who catch the souls Of living
girls. Applause. If cannot go te
heaven with my wife and children
will go to hell with them.
In the Gospel of st. Mark we read
In my name they shall cast out
devils" Why don't the preachers get
together and pray for little miracle
just little one? Laughter. And
convert US all in a minute? The old
ones are too old, they are messy, the
witnesses have been dead too long.
and nobody knows their reputation
for truth and veracity in the neigh
borhood where they died.
The lecturer then spoke in CRITICS.
ing manner Of the various church de-
nominations. About $50 years ago.
he said, the methodist Church started
N the world by George Whitfield and
John Wesley. They said if mankind
is going to hell that truth should be
preached from every house-top. Epis-
copalians said. Don't make any fuss
lbout it; God knows what is best for
them." Wesley believed in devils
millions of them. He believed that
God did miracles in his day. He used
70 cure his horse and his headache.
And he absolutely preached sermon
on the cause and cure of earthquakes
He said earthquakes We're caused by
in. and the way to stop them was to
believe in the Lord Jesus Christ
Laughter Yet he was good man
md believed all he preached He and
Whitfield finally divided. Whitfield
lid not believe that God had died for
veryhody Wesley said he did
Whitfield believed in the slave trade
He though the negroes would have
he benefit of the society of the gen
-lempn who stole them Qaughterl,
md in that way they would be brought
% Christ. Laughter.
It's about Whitfield the poet
Whittier wrote the two lines:
e 3ade the slave ship d from coast
Wesley was Il good man, but he did
not believe in liberty. He was oppos-
d to the liberty of the Colonies, and
N favor of the tyranny of George III
Thomas Paine was an infdel, but he
believed in the liberty of man, loud
,ppIause.) | admit that the Methodists
have done more preaching for less pay
tlaughter) than any other people i'll
The world. [ will admit the Method
lists of the North were in favor Of
liberty, and that the Methodists OF
the South were in favor Of slavery
A man was a good Methodist in the
South and raised hounds to catch
human beings, and when he heard
the hounds baying he listened and
could turn the baying into IA passage
IF Scripture: Servants, obey your
masters. (Laughter.)
Now | tind that in the United |
States the Methodists have increased |
in the last four years about 10000 |
year. In order to make that increase
they have had to employ $4,000 |
preachers. Laughter. They have
226,0OO Sunday-school teachers. And |
about $100,O00,000 have been spent |
in tracts, books and magazines, scat
tered like leaves of the forest. About
how long, 0 Methodist Church, will
it take you to save mankind?
Laughter.
Colonel Ingersoll concluded his lee
ture by saying that his Gospel was
the Gospel of Health, Cheerfulness,
Justice, Liberty, Humanity. The new
Gospel will teach that if you want to
change mankind you must change the
that civilization must COM
mence with the father and mother
and must bend over the cradle-must !
walk hand in hand with youth and
maiden from the tottering steps Of in
fancy to the tottering steps of old age |
npplausel not to desert your wife;
that they who do the most work ought |
to have the most to eat; that the few
shall not live on the blood and sweat
of the many. Applause
Justice shall reign supreme in the
world. And when our Gospel is un-
derstood, every ybody will know that he
can not steal from another without |
stealing from himself, that a thing is
right because it pays, and thing is
wrong because it does not pay. Upon
this rock | stand.