The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-20

Dorcas, the light of blissfal famo gliding her
needle; here Is Lydia, loved Of all. Oh, here is
a good old woman leaning on a staff grandmoth-
er Lois. Who has more worshipers than any
save Christi A woman, Mary. Applause.
For whom did Christ perform His first miracle9
Woman. For whom did Christ raise the dead2
For the sisters Of Bethany. For whom was
Christ most anxious in His dying
hour 4 wrinkled old woman, His moth
er. All! the world of meaniug-Behold thy
mother. How the Bible hates womeni All! no
Bible in a land and woman is q beast of burden,
q vailed slave. Why does woman 60 to that
Bible IN time Of troubled All! she knows it says
weeping may endure for the night, but JOY
comes with the morning. All things work to-
gether for good to them that love God. That
book says, Husband love your wife, Why does
she go to that cruel book}
Look at another picture-the woman with
base character brought into the presence of
Christ. He, with 2 sword of sarcasm, splits
her enemies from scalp to heel, saying; LET
him that is without sin cast the first stone"
Applause. Oh, how the Bible hates womenl
Oh, women, hold up your hands; let me see your
handouts. l see those gold bracelets flashing
they were put there by atherly, brotherlE lover
ly hands. Applause Where is your yoke2
Loosen those warn wrappings. I see your gold
en-, c~arneiian and pearl misunderstanding put
them there. Applause And yet when Inger-
soil says the foolish things against the Bible, 500
IDIOTS clap their hands and say, chats So"
All, ne is false in this, and false in one, false
in all.
He says the story that woman was formed
from a rib of a man is ridiculous. He gnaws on
that rib, and has been doing it for years. If l
had an old hound who day after DAY gnawed on
the same old dry rib as if he depended on it for
happiness, l would drive him away. Mr.. Inger-
soil doesn't know that the word rib, translated,
means mans side. He doesn't know a word of
Hebrew, and yet would translate Genesis. He
doesn't know Greek, Latin, German or English,
and yet would translate Homer, Virgil, Schiller
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Mathew Henry, who says woman was taken from
a mans side because that was near his heart,
and | repudiate the doctrine that she was taken
from his side so she could reach all his pockets.
All, she was taken from his right side that his
good right arm might protect her. That's WHY
a man gets so mad when you talk against his
wife. Get out Of the striking distance when you
talk against a mans wife. Applause. From
his side, at his side-that is her position. Do
you emember the bridal couple killed Oh the
train from Bennington, va There was q col
hsion, the train was burned and bride and groom
persisted. The conductor said the bride could
have escaped; the doctors said the bride need
not have persisted. The husbands body was
pinioned under the timbers, but only her dress
was caught, yet sho died-from his side she
would not go.
Mr.. Ingersoll makes mirth Of the Bible. Don't
think l am opposed to fun. God never made a
man who loved fun more than 1 do. But don't
giggle at God. All, there is a blasphemous side
to fun. On that wrecked train there was a man
who said: Watch me have fun. will pull the
string of this steam brake, and whom the people
see the TRAM stop they will wonder" Don't do
this said his companion, but he pulled the
string, stopped the train at a dangerous curve
and along Numbered the st. Louis express.
Crash came the collision and twenty lives were
lost. The man had his joke. Mr.. Ingersoll stops
the Bible train, the church train, and he thinks
it a great joke, yet sweeping along comes death.
Judgment and eternity.
Did you ever read a book, '"The Triumphanf
Death Beds of Distinguished In6dels2" Laugh
ter. l never did. There is no such book. All
die in stohd Indifference or in horror; there has
never been an exception. They are not like my
friend Alfred Goodman, whose last glad words
were: Il am sweeping through the gates into the
blessed land" Applause. Inidels never go that
way. What does |lnfdelity dO} In the late war
only Christian men and women nursed the
wounded, not an infdel, North or South, did so?
There is not an institution of learning on earth
founded or supported by infdels, save Heidel-
berg, where murder is taught as a fine art.
Christianity has all the others. Inidelity does
nothing but fight Christianity. I throw you q
ream of paper to write the good done bvinfdel-
ity-Uhe paper is too much. Take I quire-that
is too much-a sheet is too muck. Count it on
your fingers; count it on one hnger-that is too
much. Laughter. Oh, infdelity, you misera-
BILE mischief, crawl into the hole Of nothingness.
Gather ell the good infdelity has ever done.
and it is not worth one bead on the body of the
Sister of Charity who went into thar dark alley
tonight, poured the medicine from the broken
bottle, knelt on the bare floor, and commended
IKE departing spirit to a sympathetic God. Inf
deity scrapes no lint for the wounded, has no
bread for the hungry, no grave for the dead.
The Christ staISis and says: II was hungry, and
ye gave me bread; [ was sick, and ye nursed
me; | was in prison. and ye visited me; l was
north, and ye called me home. Inasmuch as re
did this unto tho least of mine, ye did it unto
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