The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-19
PALMER AND INGERsoLL.

We have a large love Of personal
liberty, and believe that every man
should be defended in bis right to think
as he pleases. II he is honestly an
atheist, we'll, SO long as he is honest he
has Just as good right TO be an atheist
as you have to be Christian.
Courtlandt Palmer died peacefully,
serenely, and quietly, but not hope
fully. He had good mans life be-
hind him, but absolutely nothing ahead
OF him except the little urn thai will
hold his ashes when the Crematory fire
has done its work. His resignation
lacked the quality Of triumph, which
sometimes transfgures the experience
of Christians. He won no victory over
death, but surrendered to it as to supe-
Iior strength. Riswa an ideal stoiclsm,
a magnificent defiance of the inevitable,
uncheered by GUNNER Of faith in the
future, g brave but eternal farewell to
earth, home, friends, life-everyt thing.
And when Colonel Ingersoll turned to
the coffin with the pathetic words,
The world is Drawer tor your life; the
world is drawer for your death. We
loved you living, and we love you
now," he fell into an Inconsistency
| which it is almost impossible to avoid.
We love you now? Why, there is no
you" to love, if your creed is true.
You can not love what is not, and that
honorable man Is net, he has disap-
peared, has been snuffed out ike the
fame OF candle. You may delight in
his memory, but you can not love him,
| for there is no him" to love.
We estimate theory in our secular
fashion, according TO the results it will
produce. With great respect, therefore,
| for the atheism of Palmer and Inger-
soil. we should be sorry to have the
people of New York, for instance, con-
verted to it. Christianity, we believe,
produces on the whole greater and
better results, imperfect as lis applica
ton 10 daily life is. Atheism as the
creed of the populace-no, as Robes
pierre once suggested, if there were no
| God you would have TO invent one, CT
you could have no government.
We rather think, then, that we will
be satisfied with the hopes which
| Christianity offers. and not court the
grim courage which makes the best Of
a bad job and faces death with cIenched
teeth.-NeW York Herald.
GOLDEN THOUGHTS FOR EVERY DAY.
MoNDAY-Science has taught men
how to build ships with water-tight
compartments, Sc that if disaster
brushes in one side, the other parts may
be saved from sinking. There are for
tunate people who are built On the same
safe principle. They have wealth or
the ability to win wealth, strong family
ties, and genuine friends. They have
cultivated minds, and varied resources
in artistic and scientific pursuits.
Above all else, they have faith in God
and better life to come; such posses-
sions are like the compartments OF a
modern ship. Few disasters can de-
stroy them ALL and in the loss Of one or
others.-E. p. Roe.
TUESDAY
In human hearts what holder thoughts can
| rise
Than mans presumption on tom orrow's
| dawn?
Where is tomorrow? In another world;
! For numbers this is certain; the reverse
Is sure to none; and yet on this perhaps, "
This "peraoventure." infamous for lies
AS on a rock of adamaut VIC build
| Our noun, ain hopes.
-Edrard Young
WEDNEsDAY-It you live in the ful
sunshine of Christ, and have Him MOI
merely playing upon the surface o.
your mind, but sunk deep down in it
transforming your whole being, ther
some men will, as they look at you, b.
filled with strange longings, and will
say, 'Come, let us walk in the light o.
tbs Lord. ';-Aleragader Aaolaren.
THURspAY-It is IS supreme folly t.