The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-03-03
GEMS FROM VENDING.
Some of the Cleverest Things Uttered by the
Gifted Orator During a Recent Visit.
TRu6falO NeWs1

NEWS
Hon. George r. Vending on Friday even
ing lectured to an audience which, while in
point of intelligence complimented the gen.
tleman, was not numerically strong enough
to be profitable to the charity under whose
auspices he had gratuitously given his time.
Those who attended enjoyed a real intellec-
tual treat beside contributing in a measure
to the support of one of our most worthy
charities. Mr.. Vending has been heard in
Buffalo before on several occasions, speaking
in the Delaware Avenue M. Z. Church and
Asbury NJ. E. Church, and many of those
who heard him before very gladly crowded
to hear him on Friday evening, when the
cry is almost inseparable from his sentiment,
and reproduction in cold type, while it
will convery an idea, would be more fully
rounded, more forcible and expressive could
our readers all have heard it delivered. For
the benefit of those who were absent the
Sunday News makes a few selections, or, as
We thought best to term them,
GEMS FROM VENDING.
/ doubt if any man In age or land ever
wrote as much, and as well, and in as many
fields of thought, as this little black-eyed
Frenchman, Voltaire.
Christianity is the teachings of Christ.
accept from no ecclesiastical council a mar
rover definition than that. An infidel is one
who dlscards these teachings.
They reap what they SOW. They SOW ir-
reverence and reap disrespect. They plant
contempt, water it with jibes, and harvest
disrespect. In the popular imagination it
will be tom" Paine and Bob Ingersoll to
the end of history,
Give me the name of one woman whom
Voltaires writings have led in the path of
right and purity; show me one man that in
fidelity has saved from intemperance and
wee, one broken heart that it has comforted,
one mourner in all the world whose burden
of sorrow it has made lighter, and never
again will raise my voice on the American
platform against the teachings of Voltaire
and his modern disciples.
The most humane and selfsacrihcing men
in America to-day are those same clergymen
whom moderen infidels, under Voltaire's
leadership, would cast out. Poorly paid in
a majority of cases, poorly housed, and with
poor libraries, and with a portion of every
community prejudiced against them. they
are at the front in sunlight and starlight in
every movement designed to alleviate the
sufferlngs of humanity. The mau who is
coward enough to single out God-fearing
minister or priest the object of assault
and ridicule is coward enough to stike a wo-
man.
Politics at the altar made France an infidel
| Nation. Who can respect priest or preach
| er who divides his attention between cleo
| ton returns and the Gospel of Christ? Are
| Is hell or heaven to be won or lost by sup
porting either this or that partisan Office
seeker? Imagine st. Paul a Blaine or a
| Conkling delegate to National Conventionl
| Think of that loving disciple. John, on the
| platform at Democratic mass-meeting
| What facetious man our positive in6del
| is, one of the propagandist sort, our profess
sionsi infidel. Not Arnold, Spencer and
| Tyrdall, not Greg nor Frederick Harrison,
not Carlyle nor Froude. Nc; in the pres
ence of these men, graphing earnestly with
| the problems of the universe, with signs In
their hearts and tears in their straining eyes,
one may stand with uncovered head and in
silent reverence. But let God have mercy
on the clowns who would make us laugh as
| we approach the mysteries of life and duty
| and death.
Infidelity is the arch enemy of the chief
est joys of home life. Inidelity has no poe
try for the home circle, no picture for the
walls of q home, and no words of comfort
for weak old man or an aged woman. II
can never write an epitaph for our baby's
gRye, nor stiu the schhipg OF habys mother