The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-05

haze to ask why Moses did not Pot
8 lIne. hing into he Ten Commandments
about popular education and tue Diff
fusion of olrfecb hist5ric knowledge.
If he didn'S have room on one SIDE.
why didn'J be turn the tables of stone
Over aud pnt itGn the other side.
But it is not Mr. ingersoll'e want or
knowledge that l wish tn complain OF,
SO much as his want of decepcy. The
man who SAID in his lecture on MYTHS
and Miracles" shat" .here is more spirit
ualityin tns Venus of Mll3 thar there
is i'll ttv wnois Bible " at who COM
pares the obscene freedom Of woman at
the pagan ai'ars 10 the disparsgemant
of her condition. Under the chaste ey-
ample of Christ, now declares in his re-
ply to Gladstone that the Old Tesla
msnt shows that Jehovah, ike mis-
creators. b, Is women Ill contempt"
IN. A. R'y.p GLIB
woman worship a God VINO upheld
polygamy?"
The readiest answer to this appears 70
me to ba that there is 10 reason why
the kind of poor woman he has been
talking about shouldn't worship any
thing that came along, from COW to
Venus. Bat to larRa polygamy upon
the Christian system il TO iguore his
toric eyideLc aud is about So sensible
as to make Buidhs responsible tor
Thuggism.
Never" exelams this vo.ary of
Venus "nevnr will worship any being
who 4d ed To the pangs and agonies OF
ma'erIiLy."
VII, shouldn't think you would,
from what ! have learned OF you.
What you would bs aps to worship Is a
soft pink roly poly deity wao gives YOU
some hing warm and Comfortable. A
! God who evolves character out OF auf-
ferng and endurance wouldn't BIS apt
to meet your administration. He
hurts.
Whist voR want is freedom-and we
are coming Inevitably to the kind of
freedom you are laundering after.
Mr.. Gladstone. with " scholarly
modesty aud gravity, believes mat
Christianity, which is built On ihe
Monotheism of the Old Ttsssment, has
done a great deal for che enfranchise-
ment and elevation OF, woman, and he
mentions the fact that Christ taught
tie absolute 5is,olubilisy vi mar
riage.
In Nj, Ingersoll's reply to this We not
only recognize his love or freedom,
but We get clear view OF the kind OF
freedom he desires.
Way" he asks. should hEs band
and wife be compelled to live with each
other after love is dead"
His Imagination is probably dwelling
fondiy here on those DAYS of Isis vor-
ship when they were not so compelled.
Plagiarism, which iii the Nineteenth
as we'll as in tn, irst century, makes
love a matter of annual desire, and
sees more spirituality in Venus than
in the Bibie, may very walt ask way it
should bava any duties after It's desires
are dead.
But Chrjstia nity which makes love
Itself a duty DOESN'T leave it at the
mercy Of animal impulse.
Don't you know" cries Mr.. I1gsr-
soil that the indissOlubility OF the
MARI -ge contract eads to its VOL alton,
forms an excuse for immortality, eats
out thu very heart Of truth, and gives
to vice that which alone belongs to
lover"
I think Mr.. Gladstone will have to
muTmur No. to this. I do not be-
lieye i5 knows it with that hreedth,
rapiaitF and cOnsummate cocksureness
vIat az Gem nensuraLe with lie occa-
sion.
All he can do is to look on calmly
aud Sc eloq1ence break the neck of
logic.
Proceed Mr. IngsrsolI:
TIE marriage contract is the most
impOrtGnt, the most sacred til ht man
beings can make: 1t will sacrediy
kent by good men and goo Won Z. !"
IN. A. Rev. p. 626
Obviously. if this form reasoning
means anything, lis that rat which is
'the most important I'd sacred"
shOuld not be indlssolu5 c, for when it
Is lpdiss3lubie 1t becomes en- excuse for
| immortality and eats out the heart of
truth, Good men and good women will
ak it inviolable, but bad men and
We men wlln therefore, it should not
be made invlolabte.
! Modern pagGnism, which objects to q
| system which places duty at the foun-
dation of love, and tries to make me
and women 90 & }od that they will keep
this contract, wants new system that
will put marriage at the mercy of ap-
petite and accommodate the bad m an
ald WJmai whose love of liberty,
equality, etc., prevents their keeping
their contracts.
Thi, is where the torch of hum Or
irradiste3 some of the problems of
society.
A. for ths declaration that Mr.. Inger-
soil never, never will ,rship any being
who "added to thess comics of mater
nifty" L have only to say that this is
question of whether an intelligent be-
ing, or n1u-int ellIgent nature, per-
mitfed or N ada the bangs of maternity
and rs Mr.. Enge rsoll does not believe in
I1te'hg ut First Cause. he is COM
p He'd to acc apt q nonbeing.
The moment he gets this into his
head Ia, re vii! be no trouble about his
worship, for it always begins spontsne-
uu:ly where the intelligence ends. His
writings show him to be very Parsee
In his worship of Nature.
The rub comes in bending his Peorian
intellect TO an Intelligent Being who
may have had a benign purpose in pain.
not circnmscribed by the Pearlan COM
prehension. NYM CRINKLE.