New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-17
i LECTURE BY ROBERT C. INGERS0LL

HE REPLIES TO SOME or Mr.. TALMADCEs SERMONS.
The Academy of Music, from the stage to
the highest gallery, crowded last night with people,
sitting and standing, hear Robert g. ngersols lee
ture upon d" flanagan Theology" Tie speaker came
upon the stage little after O'Clock, aud, beginning his
lecture without being introduced. continued to speak for
nearly three Points from his Lecture fol
lows;
The Church has been perpetual beggar but thanks 10
Voltalre and Hume and Others. beggr longer
on horseback, aud / hlcd with JOY t.
announce that the walking il not very good either
In the United States many ministers have hac the good
ness to take their text and among others the Rev
Mr. Talmage, Of Brooklyn, has done won't speak
az his reputation for thnt has nothing 10 do with the
questions at issue believe that MI Talmage If honest
N his belief and what he says about me- or else in
uectua pride would not allow him to say the things lie
noes Laughterl lie has made many strong deciara-
lions about me and issue what be calls arguments
against me.
Now tonight will speak about his charges. and a.
O'Clock next Sunday afternoon viii give matinee in
this place and viii then talk about his sOcalod arEu-
menis. lie has called me blasphemer Nv blasphemy
il to express nv honest thought, TO contradict priest
and 20 follow where the light Of reason
leads IApplause.l BlaspheIny Is what the
old calls the new what the last years leaf Of this
years bud applsusel 1t il also geographical its
ture II Is not baspheme to believe IN Christ In New
York but IL IL in COnstantlnople The missionary who
drdes the stued-snake deity OF the Central Africa
blasplemer Everything has been blasphemOus. / say
that he il the true basphemer and ndel who IL afraid
IN sneak his honest convictions and sacrifices his
hood upon the altar Of TEMPORARY success He alone is
good ulan WHO helps to make his fellow men happy.
The Bible says that the earth made m ~ DAYS
which Mr. Talmage calls six good whlles ana that II
wa green with yeriurc before the sun Was created
NJ almage saws then that sunlight is not necessary 10
vegetation but that there plenty or ught from me
crysfahzatOn OF rocks. from the aurora Bonal5 and
rom blazing volcanoes In other worlds lie forgot to
mon I'll
Ere must have slipped hs memory. what splen-
did things 20 raise a crop OF corn by Ihlnk
OF PresDt terrain divine II the ias1 quarter OF the nlt
te-nth century taking such stuff lie next that
am OF the circulation OF obscene ana immoral
/ have simply said that the laws should De
80 modified that books which called "nhdel books
should be suppressed, and that a man VINO speaks
hIs honest thought should have the freedoiu Of the
mails said ana say that IL IA impossible 10 con
ceive OF the dcplh Of degradation To which a
man must have fallen who viii print and
circulate Obscene book. The diHereIce
betVeeu ob-curity, aud what Mr.. Talmage calls nndc
NV broad a. the Mississippi one Is an angel OF
hight and the other Is crawling. shiny lizard ZAP
CT his pulpit and said deliberately what
he To be untrue Tie said II out OF hatred ana De
cause could not answer my argumeltB lie says tat
charse Bible with upholdng slavery and puly gAmy
/ do. II you want 10 know how Christianity.
has upheld slavery read the lie Frederick Douglass
WLy dd infinitely ncrcful God SIT upon his throne IN
idleness aud let man sell babes from their mothers
breasts for the Bibes' UNFOLDING poiygamy, the
Rev Mr. Newman OF this city Lad al argument "ith
Mormon bishop thai subject and nov thst argu-
printed aud circulated . campaign documen !.
b. the Monnonz. Another charge he makes Il that
defeated ior Governor oi lllnOls because wac an
iunae aud That an a inn1e because was defeated
for Governors q very circular argument.
and Told q committee, Who asked me about IT, what my
convictions were aud was defeated. preserved my
manh0od and lost Office would rather lose the beet
hsd climbed the hsishts by being siimy hypecrite-
tApplaGssJ