The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-05-03
lngersoll's Creed.-A Discovery that
He is Quite Orthordox After All.

Some one sends us little tract containing
eplgrammatic expressions from Col. Robert
u. lngersolFs latest lecture, "What must we
do to be Saved ?" We have read the tract
ana we have read the entire lecture. He is
coming around, maybe. He manages to get
considerable Scripture into his creed, as he
sets it forth. There is lots OF hope, in fact
there is a great deal of certainty for the
Colonel. We subjoin few articles of this
great mans creed, just to show from what
book he got the declaration Of faith:
'Honest industry is as good as pious idle
ness" says the Colonel.
Well, that's all right. That's orthodox.
The Bible says the same thing, aud said it
long before the Colonel though of it.--''Faith
without works IS dead"
Christ believed the temple of God to be
the heart of man. lugersoll.
Yes, that's orthordoN, 90. We s'must
worship hitn in the spirit" ''kf we not
that ye are the temples Of the Hoge Ghost"
LII 90 to Heaven want to take my reason
with me.-[lngersol.
Of course, and SO you will, ''for now you
see through glass darkiy, but there, face to
face now know in part, but then l shall
know even as | am now known.-[l Corinth
ialis, xiii, u.
Fear is a danger with which hypocrisy as
sassinates the souI.-[lngersoll.
That is good Gospel, and :'perfect love
casteth out fear.n
If l owe Smith $40, and God forgives
me, that doesn't pay Smith.-[lDgorsoll.
Correct you are the prayer Of Christianity
is, 'forgive us our debts as we f rgve our
debtors" ''Owe no man anything.'
Reason is the light of the soul, aud if you
haven't the right to follow it, what have you
the right 10 follow ?-[lngersoll.
Yet in the church | had rather speak five
words with my understanding that by my
voice | might teach others also, than 10000
words in an unknoWu tongue. Brethren, be
not children i'll understanding; hoWbeit il
malice be ye children, bur in understanGin.
be nien.--[l Corinthians, xvi, 10, 20.
If you 60 to hell 1t will not pe for prac.ic
| ing the virtues which the sermon oo the
mount procaims irgersoll.
| That's all orthodox. off ye know thes
things, happy are ye If ye do them.'
Tie men who saw the miracles all diet
| long ago. | wasn't acquainted with any 0
| them.-L LlngtrSoll.
Same with tie men who saw Sarvetu
| burned. But the Colonel most firmly be
| iieyAs that SerVetus was burned.
A little miracle now, right here Just Iittl
oue-wOud do more toward the advance
ment of Christianity than ali The preaching c
! the last thirty years. lngersoll.
/ If they hear not Moses and the prophets
neither will they be persuaded though op
rose rom tie dead.-[ Lun6, VII, 81.
If there is a God i'll the universe He wi
not damn an honest man.-[inge1soli.
Afl!se balance is an abomination unto th
Lord; but a jnst weight is HIS delight.
[Proverbo XII, !.
There is only one true wolslip and I'll;
Is the practice of Justice lngersoll.
Render, therefore, unto Caesar the thin (
Which be Caesar S, and unto God tie .hnS
which be God's.-- Luke, Nx, %.
God will rnt damn a good citizeu, q goo
father. Or good frlend.-[ [Lngersoll.
''Certainly not; nor any good man.
A good man shOweth favor and lendeLh; h
wi guide his affairs with discretion. Sulel'
he eaii Az. De moved forever; the rigllteol
shall be held in everlasting remembrance
[Psalms, xxi, 5, &.
Study the religion of The body in pI eferent
to tie religion OF the soul. a healthy bod
viii give a healthy mind, and healthy min
will destroy observation-disclosures
.'IhaJ explains why the Indians have II
superstitions."
People who have. the smallest souls max
the most fuss about saving them.-LIngel
soil.
"Of course, Colonel; they are the harde>
kind TO save
will never ask God to treat me any faire
than treat my tellow-men.-i lngersoll.
"Nell, shat Is perfectly orthodox. 'For
ye forgive men their treSpasses, your Hcave
i\ Father will also forgive you but if We for
give not men their trespasses, neither wi
Your Father forgive your trespasses.' 'Ft
with what judgment yc judge, ye shall b
judged: and with what measure ye mete,
shall be measured out to you "
=. Upon the shndowy shore Of death, the sc
OF trouble casts no 'wave.-[ Ingersoll.
"Gha Colonel must have been singing tlt
good old hymn, 'When | can read my It'll
clear in which occur the lines:
And not a wave Of trouble roll
Ac"OSS my peaceful breast. >