Daily Republican., 1881-01-05
FOURTH EDITION.
In aERBOLL.

% bs savedr"
Contrary 70 general expectation the
audience at the Opera House last night
70 hear Col. Ingsrsoll answer his own
question "What must we do TO be saw
ed!" did not sxssed more than GOO.
The sparseness Of the audience was
attributed TO the opposition made
against the lecturer by the clergy Of
the respective churches in thssity. The
audience however was unbounded In
its enthusiasm the applause a. times be-
ing almoS! deafeniug for q small audi.
enoe.
The spesker begged Of his audience
to lay aside their deuominAti0nal feel
ings and for the time simply remember
that they were bat men aud Womsp,
and slso to Danish all fear from the
mind. He said there was but one wor.
ship and that was justice, and that
there was more fear Of offending q fel.
low being than to fear the anger Of .
God who could not be injured.
Tho lecturer followed with q plea for
intellectual liberSlity, amusingiy illus
trsted with the story OF the Jew who
went into a restaurant hungry, and was
there tempted to est piece Of bacon.
When ho entered the sky was clear,
but when he came out the thunder was
'pesling and the lightning flashing.
My God, he exclaimed, "what a fuss
10 make over little piece Of bacon" "
The speaker said the most religious
countries were Spain, Portugal aud
Europe, while France the nation nearest
iniidel is the most prosperous.
The Colonel then criticised the auth
entity Of the Scriptures. He said
nobody knew who wrste the new Testa-
ment. The disciples who We credited
with writing them only knew Hebrew
but the scriptures were written in
Greek. As a proof that the scriptures
we're not relisble the speaker referred
TO the syudiOIte appointed to revise
thom. You must remember said the
Colonel: Christ never wrote a solitary
word Of the New Teslament-nst one
word. There is an account that He
once stopped and wrote something on
the sand, but that has not been pre-
served. He never told anybody to
write a word. He never said "Mat.
kew, remember this; Mark, don't for.
get TO put that down; Luke, be sure
hat in your Gospel ysu have this;
chm, don't forget" Not one word.
And It has always sesmed 10 me that a
'eing coming from another world with
message of infinite Importance to
mankind should =. least have verified .
hat message by his own signature.
Applause. Way was nothing writ. =
sn' Because they believed the world
'as going to come 10 an end.
And let me say here once for all, that
" the man Christ | have infinite re-
pect. | lApplauss.l Let me say once d
IF all that the place where man has a
led for man is holy ground. [Ap- y
l&use' Let me say once for all TO
lat great and ssrene man | gladly pay "
10 tribute Of my admiration and NV =
ars. He Was reformsr in lis day,
9 was an infdel il His time. lie Nj
as regarded as a blssphemsr, and his y
fe was destroyed by hypocrites who |
ave in all ages dene what they could ne
trample freedom out Of the human Il
md Applause. Had | lived in
at tine ! would have been his friend --
Applause. And should He coms !
ain He Will not lind better friend 4
an will be. Applause. This ia
the man. For the theological ere.
ion have different feeling.
The speaker then proceeded TO dis -
So the subject OF his discourss 4
Rbst Shall We'd to be saved. Es stT
9wed it in a satirical manner show. J
what he conceived to be the dis. -
'pancies in the plan Of salvation a,
own by the respective disciples. He
3 severe in criticisms on the crssds
the respective religions deuomipa.
ns, being most severe ell the Roman
lholic church. In speaking Of tLel
ter he said : "No Eirl should Va nl.
red BY law 10 take the veil and ne
nncs tho bssutieS OF the woyld until ~
Is at least % years Of age. Wait VI
til she knows what she wants. / am
oosed to allowing thess splderlik.
ests 10 weave webs to catch the fli,s
youth. There ought 10 be a law pp.
lting Commissioners to visit suob -
oes at leaS! twice 3 year and release IN
ry person who expresses q desire 10 Z
released.
ie admitted that thers we're thou.-
Is of good Catholics, but Catholicism
contrary to human liberty. 81
hoIlclsm bases salvation upon be. !,
; Catholicism teaches man 10 tram. 81
his reason under foot, aud for tina,
son is wrong. u
he Episcopal church he said, 'if II =
few more ceremonies would bs
holic, If it had few less, nothing, =.
VI the Methodist, he said Thev vi
saving 100000 people a year, and
think they ere converting the y
Id. Bnt there are forty million Is
pie born in year. How long il it
'g to take,
10 thought the Presby terian church