Daily Republican., 1881-01-06
THIRD E.OITION.
THE sRY,Ar sEsrER.
what New. J. n. Caldwell Thinks
OF Ing srssii'e Address.

lngsrso'I, the great jester, mas oOuu
and go'Je. We zee by the Morning
News t'A&t his audience 81 the opera
Hous6,, on Tuesday evening, sonsisted
Of o. Iiy atout six hundred. Whining
ton has done two good things lately
IL has suubbed Bernhsrds aud lsgrr-
| soil. A city OF nearly 5000 inhabi'
ltsrts, with 8 Christian church or plao'
Of worship for nearly every thousand
she hGs done well TO write failure
both on "Bob" and "SAIGh." The
people have shown their good ss2se II
both instances, and thus opsniy de-
elars1 their respect for de, eLcy ard
religion. You give the jester q ttiiDl
sppella ion when you call h.m "Aads'
cious B3b," and he doTb.,ess trel:
much Aatterei by the title, Men 5e'
come az Iaeious sone,inss In the most
Alrooious dseds, and noue can te more
atrocious than tbs. ot roGSiOg 2 human
soul Of i.s trust in Gnd rsv-r Dco lei
lis Maker.
You also speak Of him as man Of
daring wit" So be Is. 3 NY lie
have heard Of men who cauld m2ke
their living BY their vii. Iceess,ll "a
one Of that sort. His wi! ia his stock
IL trade. By II he makes pyopl- isuEh
ai tAs most sacred things, and tdsy
psy him merely to Put them in the
Aumer Tor laughing. Princes ussd IN
employ jeslert-king's fools-tO make
sport i9r them and drive away ennui
ffom their courts The'peoPl. Of this
country are all "Eov-rsigrs," and they
employ this jester in many places for
the sans purpose. But the people Of
Wilmington seem to have little uBe for
! his jssts, aud let him pass on without
repleuishing his purse 70 anything Ike
ple.hor!c dimensions. He must bs
ch agrined At the result. Vel, II Is
better that be should suffer disappoiDt.
ment and failure than that single Eoul
sLould be deceived by his artiul slg-
ouerce and fall iBto fatal er;Cr. A time
will shortly come when all this daring
wit" and audaciou5 jes.ing must be
laid aside. The hour Of death is s
solemu hour 10 all ner. II Mr. Inger-
scll fails in the dying hour 10 feel his
principles (if principles they are) Civ
ing way beneath him, his experience
will be dife 'ent from that Of many il
1dels Who preceded him. II there is
any truth in tAs statements Of those
who witses2ed the dying aSonies OF the
Esrl Of Rochester, OF VJltairs, Of Tom
Paine, and other no;ed infiels who
might be named, they evidently dis.
trusted their principles in that su.
prems moment.
If Nr. Insarsoll's lecture al the
Opera house on Tuesday evening If
csrrectly reported in tie News as far
it gees, there was nothing IN it that d.
serves tle name Of Argument. Leave
out OF it al ,he lsughable parts and the
feBidue ia mere twaddl., such as woul1
MAKE al Intelligent individual blush
to be found listening to. A few state.
meLts Of the lecturer vii! suffice 10
show this.
he Eaya, for instance, that "there ia
bat one blGsphemy, and that is injns.
tice." WAere did be search for this
dshnitiou Of blasphemy? According to
all authority, b.asphemy consists Of
inpious words not acta 1t is some
thing spoken or written d7rogatory to
the character Of God ; an iudgnity Of.
fere1 10 God b. reprC3ch or irrove!ent
uOEdl. It has nothing to do with JUS
ticc or injustice, save Ihat it i9 unjust
0 speak irrsTeIeutIy OF falsely ofGOd.
An lmpious &C: is EacrIIsge, but not
btasPLeny. WHO could olIey great
iadisuity 10 God than this mau who
calls hin ''the irfgite absurdilyi"
His .spjhlslon Of blasphrmy is the
weakest 3or: Il an tXcusB for hia own
blaspham9l5 u..erGnGos.
o the ane nature in Lis definition
Of worship. He says t4ers is but
one worship, and .ha!is justice" This
Is az abuse OF Language. What .dea
dO5s it cOnTeyl 1t Is g msanins,ass
platituds. But falling from the lips OF
man Of "inflit JEST" 1t doubtless
sounded like profound wisdom to the
gapers and lsughers Hho imagiued tha!
they were listening to one Of t4e great
men If the world. Amau may be wit.
ty and even eloquent, snd snIl he ig-
norant of many things about which he
ptetends 10 e1iiEhten otbers. If Mr..
lngersoll IL correctly reported, ard he
believed what he is reported to lsve
said, he displayed in some things, aut
those, the very things about viii ii he
deems himself a u0mDetent teacher, al
amount OF ignorance that was not ex-
pecting to find IL him,
| have rot time and space low to
t,ucl theae points, but(D W Will dis
cu5s !hem atlsngIh in a sermon which |
have been requested to preach from lny
pulpit, in st. Paul's NJ. L. Church, on
Sunday, January 10th, at 1890 q, u.
| invite all who heard and spplau4sd
Mr.. lngers0ll's speech, as we'll aS the
public generally, | cannot promise
them Wit aut lsu enable stories, mat,
ter5 in which | seldom deal, but will
promise them some Solid truth, and
some arguments which | believe Ar. Il
EerE0ll has never attempted 10 answer.
II would not pay him pecuniariy to
deal in the solid and mighty truth per
tanning " God and eternity. I shall
make som9 remarks On his assertions
that Ia is guided by reason's "holy
TORCH" that hgpo2ri'e3 invented tue
crime Of t!asphnGny; that Christ was al
iDfdei, thai Goo, is an "infni'e absurd |
ity, " tHat tbe Apostles we're ignorant Of
Greek and only knew Hebrew, tAs!
Jshu'3 Ho3pel WAS written cen;urie3 al
ter the otuers. | sLall suow, | rhlnl
csncluNvelg, that if Mr. Ingrrsol BE-
l.eVed sons things that he a-aprsed, ls !
is too ignorant about such things to be |
a public teacher, but il la did noG be
lieve them, then he is dishonest, aod
No man can safely trust him. | saaI