New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-20

tend, his duty remains tho samo In every church
apart for the worship Of Almighty God the Sacrifices
OF prayer and praise should ascend daily and can.
not imagine Christian church closing its doors either
in summer winter. 1t is to me unthlnkabs
crime against Cod and And yet, alas, 1t Is q
sad fact, When two such eminent and representa-
tive Doctors Of Divinity disagree, what shall We lay.
men dol
Doubtless In tho opinion OF tho clergyman last NJ
fcrred to, this is peculiarly the age of unbelief As
proof Of this fact he would show that eloquent
Infdel, Robert c. Ingersoll make THOUSAND dol.
lars any day by standing In the Academy of Music
and saying that there Is God. This what some
students in a certain college in this State recently
thought, and they put their thought before II
their professors The professors reply is good enough
to repeat here You say there are so many infdess
he wrote. Boys, you arc mistaken.
An inndcl is on abnormal growth. Nature feels
funny once in a while and creates freak-the living
skeleton, the fat woman, the twohcaded girl So
there is about ono infidcl to million men, Hs
is freak, and he pays. Men pay to hear Robert
abuse religion as they do to Simmons wind up bis
watch with his toes. Not that watch Is any better
for being wound up with his toes, but II isn't every
SLOUGH that can do It. genuine nfdel is a moral
monstrosity worth seeing.
The most of those noisy fellows amateur nhdels.
They talk Ingersol in fair weather and pray them
selves hoarse every time II thundeE. a wen-de-
yeopcd case of cholera morbus VIII knock their In
fidelity out of them and leave them In cold sweat
like China dog In ice house know them.
Tho most OF them like the boy who runs away
from homo and back 10 sleep with father nights
These men are only playing 1 spy with their con-
sciences, and you can find them every time. They
are no more genuine infdes than ncwsboy Is an
editor They only retail somebody else's ideas
They are striving against their natures as the model
farmer who thought his beans were coming up wrong
end TO. God knows best, and He has not MADE
failure of the Then again, boys, take look
around when you invest another so cents In liberty
and compare the crowd with the kind Of people you
find in almost any. church; Is it the odor o.
sanctty you smell Hardly, boys, hardly. But
YOU can eat peanuts there and choke on the shells,
while you applaud the funny Jokes about the heaven
where you know in your hearts you hope your mother
IS OF hear the humble Nazarene ridculcd, who you
think and always will think, gave @ home to your
weary old father when he left the earth The kind
OF liberty Ingersoll retails is very expensive, and
comes out In blotchcs, so have heard.
Yes boys his arguments arc unans werable and
think the seasons will along, and the churches
will continue to boom, and all nature VIII mos!
exasperatngly and calmly perform her functions, u
Robert is not answered. You know when the first
steamer crossed the Atlantic great philosopher was
delivering most conclusive argument to prove thas
by no possibility could steam vessel cross the ocean
And he proved II, too And no man could answer
either and that provoking steamer came snortlnGs
sizzling and splurging right into the harbor.
Bows, so will Gods children so right on praying
and preaching and dying and going to Heaven IN
spite of argument. They can't help 1t They wees
made so, l suppose"