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

Ingersoll, fully surcharged with human
sympathy, in this eloquent outburst, forgot
his intidehty, 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 testimony this,
TO the actual insincerity of
atieistic belief when the avenues of the
human soul are left unguarded, and ma
lures 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 "there
is divinity that shapes our ends, rough
hew them how we may"
We here give a 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 a wife In this
trial has sat by her husbands side. There is a
painting IN the Louvre, a painting OF desolation,
or despair and love. It represents the Night of
Crucifzion. The world is wrapped in shadow.
The stars are 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 lurid enough, and the ar
rows of SANDER never few thick enough TO drive
q noble woman from her husbands side. ZAP
plause. And 50 it is in all OF the human sphere
the hottest word is woman
This outburst deeply touched the
audience, however much it may OF
may not have affected the jury, and
many an eye unused TO weeping, was wet
with tears.
This atheistic infdel, 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. II
the sad drama of human life, the advocate
IS here citing the bald part of gross in
incerity to produce an effect. So it is al
evidence that deep down in the human
soul there is q felt reality of influences
more than human, influences all Iii
vine.
| Bob Ingersoll, in his infdel moments
IN his ethics of Unbeief, claims thai
morality is not indebted to Christianity fol-
its Ell ovation and purity, and that pure NOR
/ ality is high above and beyond Christiani
| ty. Thus the High Priest of infdelity, the
atheisiic philosopher of sublimated NOR
! ality, airs his inconsistencies IN q court OF
justice, in his attempts to save the star
route thieves from due punishment, anG
lays his lofty code Of ethics on Tho altar
OF rascality.
In his legal advocacy, ht
upsets MS infdel theology. Sc
much for this modern prophet of atheism
Ingersoll, like Tom Paine, destroys tht
| good he might do by the misuse OF his FINE
mental endowments. Tom Paine espoused
the cause Of the colonies in the days of the
Revolution, and in pamphlet entitled
Common Sense" achieved wide reputa
lion In the advocacy OF an independent
national sovereignty. Subsequently, he
clouded a fine reputation, as Bob ngersol
is doing, by his infdel speculations
and, especially by his coarse and bias
phemous work, entitled the ''Age o.
Reason" This led to the preparation o.
the following epitaphic pasquinade, which
might also be warning to Bob Ingersoll
| whose cross Inconsistencies and uneounf
ethics destroy all true respect for him:
"Kere lies Tom Paine, who wrote IL liberty
| defense,
But IN lis Gage Of Reason,'' lost his CONNER
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