The daily gazette., 1881-01-10
RELIGIOUS MATTERS.
BOB INGERsoLL A THEME FOR SEVER
AL OF YESTERDAYS SERMONS.

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Col Robert G. Ingersoll's recent lee
ture In the Grand Opera House on the
subject, "What Must We Do TO be Saw
edp" was made the theme Of several pull
pit discourses yesterday.
At Grace NJ. K. Church last night Rev.
Geo. w. Miller preached upon the
Ingerollsubject and spoke Of tile efficacy
Of preaching "Chrst and Him crUcIfied.'
This must continue to be the theme OF
pulpit, # IL desigds to be mightier than
perverted learning, in6delity or blasp.
hemy. The great question is not as To
whether Christ shall prevail or the teach
ings of infdelity obtain universal pro-
minence' The fight would have 70 be
waged by the people as well as by the
preachers, and the battle cry will be
"Jesus only"
Alluding directly TO Ingersoll and to
his assertion that he believed in The Cos
pei Of liberty, MIR. Miller said: So do?
bu. where did he get his liberty. Where
did you or get our liberty. IL is an ln-
disputable fact that We were indebted TO
Christ and His religion for our liberty,
for our righteous laws, for freedom OF
speech and press and for all the blessings
we now enjoy. The Puritans founded
the liberty to worship God. From this,
other liberties have sprung, even that
liberty which lets this blatant intidel re-
vile Christ aud the Church without
moles! atom.
''He believes In the "Gospel OF Intel
ligence." SO do l. The Christian religion
fosters intelligence. Almost all Of the
colleges aud Institutions or learning in
.hls country are conducted under Chris
tian Influences and filled by Christian
professors, aud this miserable Teviler
goes and blasphemes the source of all
this good. What smatterings he has OF
ths power comes from his poor old faith
er, who, have no doubt, whom he looks
down upon earth prays 10 COD TO forgive
him for having begotten fool.
: The sermon, besides being directed TO
= refutIng the doctrines Of the inlidel, la
bored 70 show that the Gospel was the
power of God, aud that NY tho influence
{ Of this Gospel the church has tTiumphed
over persecution and opposition until
nov she is as fair as the moon, bright as
the sun, and as terrible as an army with
bAaners.
Mr.. lngersoll says that "of that serene
man have inhlile respect. pay to
him gladly the tribute Of my admiration
and my tears" First Of all he takes
away from Christ his crown, relieves
Him his sceptre, and .hen lie pays the
tribute OF his admiration aud his tears.
This man who stands a confessed blasp-
hemer, and who, In this last campaign,
was Iusensibly drunk, and couldn't deny
II thus pays his respect. "li he had been
living in Christ's day he would have
been his frisnd.p Think OF III The de-
famer friend of Christ. A mAn who Is
boldly charged with having shown the
white feather In one Of tho battles Of the
warl IL Is all bosh! hypocrisyp
Mr.. Miller next alluded 10 the many
Inconsistencies Of the Ingersoll belief
aud closed with an eloquent tribute tC
, the completeness OF the Cbr.stian re-
llgion.
AT WEST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
the pastor Rev. A. n. Keigwin, took hi
test from Romans, lst chapter, 10Th verse
} ''FOI | am not ashamed OF the gospel o
Christ; for 1t Is the power OF God unit.
b salvation to every ono that believeth; Il
! the Jew first, and also to tffe Greek.
REV. F.B. DuVAL,
OF the First Presbyterian church, tool
up number of lngersoll's most promi
nent assertions aud answered them II
detail. Ingersoll had said there can b,
no sin against God, but Mr.. DuVal sal,
sin against holiness Is a SIN agalns
that in which holiness is inherent. IL,
spoke at some length in relutation o
!, lngersolPs assertion that The nations
where the least religion prevails are th,
most prosperous. lie also referred par
ticularly to lngersoll's assault upon tn,
genuine character Of tLs Testament
i Tie said tho revision of the Bible va
; being made simply TO correct clerica
errors in the previous translation, au(
chat probably there would not be Inofl
!, than fifly alterations. As 10 the charg,
that Christ did not bid His deeiples Il
write down what he said or done, III,
told them TO "spread the Gospel" anC
that carried with II every thing necessary
10 be done.
Ia this manner Mr.. DuVsl took uI
many OF Ingersoll's points, and Iefutet
!, them, one by one. He thanked the greai
infidel for setting down tie Presbyterani
AZ one of the worst sect, as he consider
:, ed abuse from such source hiei
. compliment. lie denied That CalyiI
). was q murderer, and said In the case re.
i. ( ferred TO by Ingersoll he had merely
+, been prosecuting witness.
In conclusion he spoke OF the doc
= trines Of Ingersoll as being corrup,ors o
II the morals of youth, and menaces Il
!, law, order and the safety of the commu
K nity, Mayor Almond had said To him
III eur churches were closed for year
ami we had such lectures as Ingersolli
weekly, could not keep the city In or
q der with one thousand policemen"
AT THE NEW JERUSALEM
Church, yesterday morning, Rev. J. b
10 Parmalee touched briefly upon Inger
> soils position, not going mo a detaile'
e argument, as he proposes TO do this IL
the Grand Opera House within few
d weeks. lie devoted himself particularly
Ii 10 Ingers0ll's attack upon the sixteenll
ID chaper of st. Mark, with special refer
- ence to the 10th and 10Th verses, whicl
read as follows:
"And these signs shall follow then
that believe; In my name shall the
= = cast out devils they shall speak wit
=, tongues
: "fhey shall take up serpsBts, and
they drink any deadly thing ii shall nc
hurt them they shall lay hands ON th
sick and they shall recover.
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