Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-01-17
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l ses BY the Morning News that Col.
r. @. IDgersoll delivered 50 address
over the death OF Mrs. Ida Whiting
Knowles, wife Of the Hon. Howard
Knowles, United States Collector at
Peoria, ILL.,, In which he is quoted No
saying that death 10 "mystery that
has never yet been solved" Now We
have q better opinion OF the Colonel
than TO believe that he thinks that moth
Ing bat "violets" oan spring from her
Nunpolluted fssh," simply because
"vlolets" cannot spring from .'uupol.
luted flesh;" or Roger sherman's .pol-
luted fieeh" had nothing 70 do with the
apple tree, among which Its roots had
sought and found nourishment. All
kinds Of vegetation hourishes best In
polluted, oorruptible matter. 90 that the
Colonel 10 OF his base, for once 81 least,
whom he sAys: "And from her fair and
unpolluted lfissh many violets sprang."
"Unpolluted hssh" cannot give vitality
TO even violets. am sorry that the
Colonel made this serious blunder.
fersilizsr indeed. Pity the Colonel did
not think Of this, - no 10 generally .
thoughtful man In his line.
oub tnDu tAo JUL 1nA IL MS 1AtnNg hO
doubt, this awful God dishonorlng dog.
ma, OF everlasting torment, In an end.
less hell OF agony and torment through
out eternity. But this 10 even more
absurd, and far more revolving, aye,
blasphemous than the Col's prayer. II
this horrible doctrine had not been In
Boured bis entire mental vision In re-
M arH e, - aRA n.
ton 10 0 hope Of future life, his talents
might have been employed in q far
more beneficial direction, than are
those who 30 bitterly oppose him. ItG
the circumstances that make the man
and not the man the circumstances.
This infamous doctrine is responsible
for the bent oftLe Col's mind, hence his
manly effort to crush II out. When be
corrects this he will beco me q Samson
ian soouroe Of strength and power, aud
will ttay more In his death than during
his life. It's In him TO pull down the
entire building. on which this God dts
honorinK dogma has been erected, rs he
has the highest administration Of the
man Jesus.
Let HIM study carefully his missior
into the world. As the eternal purpos,
OF Cod his Father, study It for him
self, aa he would "BlAckstone,
"story," or any OF the great legal auth
ors. Lot him study himself Into thu
inner olrole, where theologians have no
entered; let him get his powerful griE
on the pillars Of truth, and II no dOel
not pull down the doamAtio theories o
all theoloRiRns In crumbling ruini
around him, we shall cease to prophecy
1t may appear IN heToulean task, bu
his work would be that Of the mental
not physical, and he could, like Samp
son, do more even In his death, than b,
has accomplished In his life, In hi
''Admiration of the man Jesus" h
must sec that by this man Jesus, "lif
and imu ortAlity hath been brought t;
light"
And the question OF future life ha
been settled forever. The man Jssus
IGod's man, ''in His own image an,
after His own likeness" with delegate,
power to "rule this world 10 righteous
ness," "And the people with His truth !
10 that the Ool's, "Admiration OF thi
man Jesus" 10 by no means displaced
Only let him study well his mission ii
the world, and all legal Authority vii
dwindle into insie nidcAnos, and immo
tality becomes an object OF assurel
hope, brighter, grander and far NOR
glorious than that OF vlolets, but thA
Of inoorruptible bodies, like unto th
man Jesus, which the Dol. 90 much I'd
mires. Dan he be prevailed upon t
mske ,his new departure? and thus b
twice ArLsed, having his quarrel Just.
eTEwARr CARLISLE.