The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-12-05
WEEKLY BAZOO.
A BASE ISLANDER

1neFc Ii no Cu8r4cCcr mOre OeSPiC'
able, more ghoulish in nature, or more
to be condemned by all men, than the
slanderer. 1t matters not how insig-
nifcant such . creature may be, either
rs to mental gifts or social standing,
his vile and putrid attacks on the
good, and true and pure, are sure to
have q certain amount Of influence
to cause more or less pain and injury.
Lacking the manliness to assail Q
foe, whether it be man or woman
or a system Of political or religious
belief, 10 abs in the dark, strikes
from behind and attacks With a weap-
on which not emily wounds but poissns
And when such . being possesses
brains, is . man glib Of speech and
gifted with the power Of ridicule and
sarcasm, he becomes dsubly danger
GUS, and is q enemy to be dreaded
above all others. Fer, argue as We
may, there is no question but SANDER
has it's effect on character Or creed. No
man can pass through fire or mud
without the smell Of the enc or stain
Of the other upon his clothes. Meth
or can the best fortified creeds in all
the annals Of philosophic or religious
history, laugh at the efforts of the
slanderer to do them harm. They
may, and do, Withstand the work Of
demolition, but they show tho scars
of battle after the victory has been
won.
The NEST terrible foe of christian
belief and the Bible, in this land,
to-day. is Robert G. Ingersoll. To
say that he is not, is to prove ones
self ignorant Of the marvellous iDflu-
ence he YIELDS over thousands Of men
ola ages and conditions and walks of
life. Upon the trains Of every rail-
road in TIE country. his wonderful
speeches are ssld, the reading Of which
skaters many a belief in teachings
once held sacred, and turns the be-
lever into the disbeiiever asd scofer,
Thousands crowd to hear him as he
pours his eloquent TRADES of abuse,
hurls his shafts of sarcasm, pours forth
his matches storm of ridicu.e, upon
the teachings Of the most marvellous
book Of all the libraries Of earth, or
SCOTS 1t the simple faith of the chris
tan in the divinity of that book.
But, this golden tongued orator,
for sach he is, this peerless master Of
speech. is base and cowardly SANDER
er. Facts are to him but as diamonds
to the untutorea savage. He distsins
the pages Of history whereon l. writ
ten the brightest and grandest deeds
of the onward march Of christian de |
velopment in social. moral, political |
financial and intellectual life, and |
seeks to screen from others this bril-
liant record.
Mr.. Ingersoll takes special delight
in assailing the Presbyterian church.
He has declared that "of all the re-
ligions that have been produced by
the egotism, the malice, the ignorsce
and ambition of man, Presbyterianism
is the most hidious."
A baser SANDER never fell from the
lips Of any one, and none know it bet
ter than the man who gave it utter
ance. Presbyterianism stands for the
accepted creed Of more protestant
christian believers than any other form.
ulated system of theology. Not only
this. it stands, for the largest and no
blest form Of charity earth ever Wit.
messed. It starts more moral agencies
and endows more institutions for the
help Of the poor and unfortunte, in one
year, than has ever been done in the
the history of in6delity. Such men
- Ingerssll care nothing
for humanity, have No ear to catch the
vail Of woe, the cry Of suffering; no
heart to feel the divine impulse Of ,