The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-03-25
So Says Col. Robert G. Inger'
soil to Immense Con-
courses of People.
The Colonel Tackles the Sub
iect OF Orthodox Theology
With Great Relish.
He Reiterates a Number of Spicy
Ane cdotes, Which Tickle the
Audience to the Top.

different places In me west
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
has always been quite a conflict re-
tween the people who lived tor this
world and those who lived for the
next, quite a conflict between natural
ISIS and those who believe In the
supernatural between those who be-
lieye in man, and those who have
great confidence in ghosts. And the
believers ia the ghosts have always
endeavored to frighten the others
from their real opinions. According
to ministers, nothing is so dangerous
as TO give your honest thoughts. Ae-
cording to their idea there dweIls IN
the infinite blue somewhere a being
who created us, and whose brows are
instantly corrugated with anger when
he hears one of his children making
the best guess he can. They have an
idea that this being is lying in wait,
anxious to clutch the soul of the IN
vestigator. anxious to get hold OF
thinker In order that he may give
him to eternal pain. | am often asked.
suppose after all that you are mlStaS-
ga in YOUR doctrine what are YOU
going to do at the day of judgment!
Well. if | find [ have been wrong, L
intend to admit it. That is all. L
shall be compelled to say 10 Jehovah,
YOU are not as good as L thought; L
hope you will pardon me for having
fiattered YOU In my imagination.
There is an old story that illustrates
nv views upon this subject. There
WAS once a man who contended that
the place where he lived was the eu-
tire world; that there was no more
land except that occupied by him and
the little nation to which he belonged.
Some people said that over the sea
there is another country, and that
country, has a very great and power
full king. You must not deny the
existence of that king. IF ne ever
gets his hands on you it will 60 HARD
with YOU. But the fellow had given
the best opinion be had and stuck to 1T
that there was no land on the othel
side. One day be got asleep IN hi
boat, and there came up vloien
storm. He was blown far out int
the sea. He could not return. HI
storm still kept on. and the first thlni
he knew he saw a strange land
Well. said he, | have been mistaken
His boat was blown ashore. He ga
out. trembling, weak and frightened
A moment afterwards he saw an IL
mense man walking towards him, an
he said there is the king. He said
mi bit lust as well have it all over,
will be killed no doubt, but L don
want to live in suspense. So b
mustered up all the courage he ha
and walked up to him, and says
him, your majesty, ! live SO and 81
! used to deny there was any sue
place as this, and when men sal
there was such king as you L use
to laugh at them. Now | suppo:
YOU are going to kill me. / CANINE
helm it. The man looked at hin
Well, says he, what are you going
do with me now am here? III
king replied nothing, if you behaN
Yourself. am of the opinion thu
if there is another world, no matt
what you may believe here, when yc
get there, if you behave yourself, yC
will be all right.
Now every religion, you kno'
must have its ministers. In the olde
time they called them medicine me
soothsayers, augers and they mig
call them that now, because th'
hore me whenever [ hear ther
Prophets. parsons, clergymen, tn,
GRO all of the same school, all OF q
same seed, all children of the sar
mistakes. And yet these minlste
here in the nineteenth century take
unon themselves to say that none OF
side of the church have right to
nress their thoughts. They tell
that they have been called, that tn
didn't 90 into the ministry as 9th
men 90 to blacksmithing, or to pr
ticine law or medicine, but when u
wants a person he carefully loo
over the field and with great clrcu
saection selects the man he wan
That every other profession is lett
be filled by accident, by the choice
chance ; that philosophers, scienti'
inventors, painters. sculptors' po'
are simply left to freak OF natu
Init when God wants person he P
them in a sieve and carefully selt
the grains of wheat for that PurPS1
For NV part 1 don't believe it. !
selections made don't Justify the ST
ment. imagine that they go at t
business very much as other people