The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-01-31
TreERsoJ T .rPTr1oTs


Bob Ingersol recently lectured at
Denver, which performance the Repab-
hcan Of that city criiicises sharply, and
lets the dayii ght OF truth through much
of the slash and sophlssrY which Robert
is in the habit OF giving to mas audiences.
1t says:
"In his Lecture last night Iogersoli
said nothing that he had not said thou
sand times before. His trick say ings
now drop parrot like from his tongue.
II he were preacher, and could say
out one llttle sermon, how poor parson
We would think biml
He advances no new ideas There is
nothing original in his logic A man
with ordinary brains could make the
same points he does; and men with or
dinary brains have made them million
times, though perhaps never so witlily
as he makes them.
lngersO0 makes mere money by as
sailing Christianity than ninety niue out
| of hundred preachers do By upholding
| it. He talks TO make weak people laugh
and to MI his pockets with shekels-
principally to get the shekels
| What does he give for the money he
| gets? What sick rooms does he visit TO
4 NACCA anu bllknt-n W u0L otC tuC I'LL
selfish and self denying acts which en-
noble his life? Echo answers, What
| He SCOTS at the idea that a man can
honestly believe himself to be called to
preach the word OF God: Why, then
does he believe himself to be Gale TO
dispute the word OF Gods He pIetends
to do it in all honesty; he believes thai
the world Is deceived. and with an ego
tism which Is unsurpassed in all history
he starts out like an un-QuiotIc Quixott
to battle with the God the godly man
4 worships-
He sueers at the preachers for asking
pay for doing what they believe to DC
good, while he himself, with an incon
tinent inconsistency that is refreshing
demands still greater pay for doing tina
which is not good. Where is the min
lister who will refuse to lei man heal
him preach unless the man shall pay {
dollar for his seat? Ingersoli IS = jug
gier with words and phrases, laugh
maker, money seeking icoaoeiast; to al
Goodness he is hat Dennis kearney i
t0GOnest labor: soPhist who calls bftn
self logieian; man with no other ain
in his blasphemy than to make the vul
par giggle and give up their money.
There is no logic in Kim; he Will per
vert fact TO make mirth, and Iun coun-
ter to hims If to make point. In ont
bre ath ne says he doesn't care whethe
the Bible Is inspired, or whether il isn't
it is bad either way. In the next, b.
says that if the Bible is inspired, as i
ought to be TO be the word of God, l
should be the noblest work the work
! has-whIch he claims it is not. H
thus dire ctly-and he makes II plane
by Observation-Disclosures the conclusial
that because the Bible is not inspired L
is not worth paying any attention to.
He pTetends to believe that all chris
tians follow the same road II heaven, a
it is marked out by the guide boards O
the Bible; and yet he hardly takes tim
TO fill his lungs before he adds that u
, book, no siar-nor the ocean-cOnyG'
the same idea to all men.
If IngersOli knows anything abou
human nature, be knows that even tn
believers IN God and in the Immortalit.
of the soul differ in the manner Of thei
belief, though they may be of the sam
: creed.
=
T IngerscIl may move Sta--route Jurie
with his eloquence, but his jesting
phistry Will not tear down tie rocks q
Christianity. He doesn't care If IL
number of Christians is increasing. Tn
argument of numbers he dIsmisse
lightly. Because he believes that Chris
tianitY is a delusion he is satisfie
. that the millions who oppose him al
} wrong.
Why, then, in the name of CONNIE
sense, does he stultify himself by d.
noucing monarchies and swinging hi
I | arms for q government based upon tn
a wishes of the governeds The masses {
the governed are so idiotic as to dis,
gree with him in his theology. Al
such fellows fit to trust with votes
! | Would not a wise king, who knew
great deal more than all his subjects pI
together, he better able than they to sa
how they should be governeds Whe
l IngeTsoll sneers at the absurdity of tt
force of the majority IN Christianity
also tears down the strongest supper
OF his argument for popular COVER
2 ment; for if the majority is wrong
2 one instance, why should it not be
: | another?