Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-14

lngersoll, fully surcharged with human
sympathy, in this eloquent outburst, forgot
his infdelity, in the excited emotions OF
his higher nature, and fully admitted
that the man of Nazareth, whom he had
SO much and SO long derided was
divine. What a testimony this,
to the actual insincerity of
atheistic belief when the avenues of the
human soul are left unguarded, and ma
ture's impulses are given full play, in the
rapt exaltation of impassioned thought
and feeling, the ready acknowledgement is
forced, that there is God, and that 'ethere
is divinity that shapes our ends, rough
hew them how we may"
We here give passage from this elo-
quent harangue, which attests the man
more than the lawyer:
''Yet this prosecution, this government, these
attorneys, representative OF the majesty of the
republic, representing the greatest republic that
ever existed, have asked you not only to violate
the law OF the land, but also the Law OF nature.
They have maligned nature They have laughed
at me. They have trampled on honest human
ties and even made light because wife IN this
trial has sat by her husbands side There is
Oh despair and love. 1t represents the Night of
Crucihxon. The world is wrapped in shadow.
The stars ere hid, and yet In the darkness is seen
a kneeling form. It is Mary Magdalen, with
loving lips and hands pressed against the bleed
ing feet of Christ. The skies were never dark
enough, nor starless enough, the storm was never
| fierce enough, nor wild enough, the quick bolts
| of heaven were never iurid enough, and the ar
rows of SANDER never few thick enough to drive
a noble woman from her husbands side. fAp-
plause. And SO it is In all of the human SPHERE
the hottest word is woman"
This outburst deeply touched the
| audience, however much 1T may or
may not have affected the jury, and
| many an eye unused to weeping, was wet
with tears.
This atheistic infidel, IN all the range of
| the worlds history, could find moth
ing SO adaped to his purpose
| as the scene Of the crucifxion, and the
heart-broken Mary, kissing the bleeding
| feet of Christ" What a sarcasm is here
uttered on his own alleged disbelief. In
| the sad drama of human life, the advocate
| is here citing the bald part of gross in
| sin cerity to produce an effect. So it is an
evidence that deep down IN the human
soul there is a felt reality of influences
more than human, influences all d.
| vine.
| Bob Ingersoll, in his inidel moments,
in his ethics of unbelief, claims that
morality is not indebted to Christianity for
its elevation and purity, and that pure NOR
ality is high above and beyond Chrisiani-
ty. Thus the High Priest Of infdelity, the
atheistic philosopher of a sublimated NOR
atty, airs his inconsistencies in court of
justice, in his attempts to save the star
route thieves from due punishment, and
lays his lofty code of ethics On the altar
of rascality.
IN his legal advocacy, he
| upsets his infdel theology. So
much for this modern prophet of atheism.
Ingersoll, like Tom Paine, destroys the
good he might do by the misuse of his fine
mental endowments. Tom Paine espoused
tho cause Of the colonies in the days of the
Revolution, and in a pamphlet entitled
| Common Sense,' achieved wide reputa-
ton in the advocacy Of an independent
national sovereignty. Subsequently, he
| ciouueu Il Aie repuIA1ion, as DoD ihSersoli
is doing, by his inGdel speculations,
and, especially by his coarse and bias
phemous work, entitled the Age of
Reason" This led TO the preparation of
the following epitaphic pasquinade, which
might also be q warning to Bob Ingersol,
whose gross inconsistencies and unsound
ethics destroy all true respect for him:
! "Here lies Tom Paine, WHO wrote in hhe7ty's
defense,
| But IN his sage OF Reason lost his Common
| Sanse.o