The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-09-10
conducted to regions foreign to their ex-
pectations. The speaker maligned us by
calling us doubling Christians"
"Modest doubt is called

Calling us uOuUtSaG
"Molest doubt is called
The beacon of the wise.
-Shaks.
Rut he wished us to understand that
he hasn't any doubt ofthe truth OF MS
infi,lcl doctrine, and he made us know
that his doubts Of Christianity are not
even modest ones.
.There lives more faith in honest douots'
Relieve me. than in half the creeds. =
-Tennyson.
Throughout he spurned our ability to
think and ins,,lted our intelligence. He
gave expression to many declarations,
and expected us to accept of them as II
they were divine.
"He shaped his weapons with edge
severe,
Soppins a solemn creed with solemn
sneer." Byron.
He virtually called us fools to our fac,s
and said that, if we were So silly as
have any kind Of a religious faith.
were totally devoid of reason and ths-,-
fore unqualified to become infide-s.
Thus, shut out of Ingersoll's heaven. we
can better rejoice in religion
''By native innocence,
Divinely pure and simple from all, IT,"
Rowe.
We suffer no loss by this exclusion,
for
"Rcl,gion does not censure or exclude
Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pur-
sued.' -Cowper.
We would be fools indeed to drop the
reality and grab at the shadow like
Aesop's deluded dog. We shall hang on
to the Christian faith in spite of all the
glitter and reflection of infidel thought.
A sample of the finest orators eloquence
is here quoted: Il hate to see anyone
sacrifice the joys of this life on the altar
of the next,'-iust as if religion detracts
anything from the joy Of this life. This
was certainly no appeal to the higher
emotions Ofman.
The eliminating remark in point of
eloquence, with the finest orator Of to-
day" was delivered by him in these
words: "There is no such thing as bias
phemy against God,' which Of itself is
the worst possible conception of bias
phemy A doctrine that justifies this
will hover over and protect the whole
family of evils and encourage every
known species of sin and wickedness.
What better than brute is person
who has no regard for his Creator? "He
is no society for man nor beast." Such
radical infidelity is as detestable as out
right atheism. It is even worse when
a reasoning mind becomes so corrupt
that, while it doesn't absolutely deny
the existence ola Creator, it hurls such
elequence at the giver of it. "Cpon this
rock stand" says the infidel ostrich,
and as long as have my treason" and
have no doubts" as long as all author
ity is vested in me ("man") and am
Colonel Ostrich, Pm not going to duck
my head until have it to do, and then
it is perfectly reasonable to suppose that
that will be the end of me. I'm Colonel
Ostrich. "Upon this rock (doctrine) l
standv'
Now the whole difference between the
two doctrines, infidelity, as propounded
by Ingersoll, and Christianity is this:
Christianity teaches the immortality OF
the soul and the death of the body, re-
cognizing all there is of reason in infide-
lily, viz: that all matter is indestruct-
ible except by the hand that created it.
Infdelity, on the other hand, teaches the
immortality of the body lin material
state) and the death of the soul. 1t is
wonder to the writer that infidelity, con-
sidering that it is the outgrowth Of philo-
sophy, doesn't embrace as much, at least,
as religion does, and recognize the in
destructibility of the soul. Christianity
doesn't even teach suicide OF the body,
while. infidelity does teach suicide of the
soul.
'God never made his work for man to
mend" Dryden.
"Hope" will say with us:
1--WE will think less of man and more
OF God" -Bailie.
HnIsDALE, Gallatin Co., Mont.
CHARITY.