The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-30
SWEETS TO THE SWEET.

| I1OhAGE l1EANEk, GulIOI VI OllC l)OoSOh ~
pestigdtor, recently died at that place. The
paper was a reflex of the EDITORS brain, and
he was an infidel. As such it was the most
natural thing in the world that ROBERT G.
INGERsoLL should deliver the Grafton. This
time. however, he was brief, but what he
said was as full of his doctrine as though it
had been elongated to the proportions of a
volume One thing that was truly NIGER
soLLIAN was the declaration that he (the
deceased) ''did not ask God to forgive his
enemies, heforgave them himself" 1t was
very good on LEAvER's part to thus relieve
Deity of part of its functions ami attend
to that branch,of the business himself, al
together too good we should say, And then
the idea that the deceased in his lifetime
was so great that to be an enemy of his re-
quired forgiveness from any source is
almost touching. Nobody but INGERsoLL
would have thought of such thing.
Occasionally, in the midst of lot of
meaningless but high sounding phrases, the
Illinois pagan gives vent to something that
savors of reason, but contains nothing
whatever of enlightenment or consolation.
On the occasion referred to, for instance,
after dreary waste OF agnosticism, he ar
rived at little oasis of common sense,
saying: "How little, after all, we know OF
what is i'll or well. How little of this Won
drous stream of cataracts and pools, this
stream of life that rises in world un-
known, and flows to that mysterious sea
whose shore the foot of no one who lives has
ever passed How little of this life we
know-this struggling way of life 'twixt
gloom and gloom, this strip of land by YER
dure clad, between the unknown wastes.
This throbbing moment filed with love
and pain, this dream that lies between the
shadowy shores of sleep and DEATH
We will add, How beautiful is this Ian
guage, and when analysed how little is there
in il which contributes to the information,
happiness, or welfare of mankind! This
struggling way of life 'twiXt gloom and
gloom, - is really fine if not considered in
connection with ordinary reason. To come
from gloom and return to it makes of the
human animal a creation hardly eqal to the
bat for it at least can soar aloft and look
down upon the troubled world; but we,
poor fools of nature, must needs grope
along in life which began in darkness and
leads to darkness, without a scintilla of
pride because of our origin or a CLEAN of
hope for our futurei How very consoling,
how full of repose, how humane, how
INGERsoLLIAN! Filter words for funeral
might be spoken, but not by the champion
of ungodliness and unbelief.
INGERsoLL and those like unto him are
sists of words, words, words. 1t creates a
certain amount of nOtoriety to be an intidel;
there is money in notoriety when properly
used, and the Tlinoisan is making the most
of his opportunities. But the idea of edu-
Gated people listening to and even lingering
over such words, which contain no syllable
of argument. no word of hope, no sentence
of reason-hanging enraptured upon such
verbal froth as that above quoted, and in
cultured, classical and refined Boston Let
it now give the atheist monument as it !
already has JOIN L. SULLIVAN; the latter ,
is more convincing in his line Of argument
than the former, but he is not more desti- J
tHte Of good, sound logic based upon every
5av sense than the other fellow is, and
being equally admired in the burg Of baked
beans they should receive equal treatment.
After being 1attened out as ISGRRsoLL !
was by Father LAMBERT, one would think
that thereafter he would keep out of theol- |
ogy and confne himself to the practice Of
man made law, in which, beyond doubt,
he is bright and shining light Not one
idea that he advanced in that controversy |
but what was dissected by the scalpel of
incisive logic and scattered to the four
winds of heaven. A more complete and
decisive overthrow never occurred in the
broad range of polemics; ..and yet the inf
del sticks to it, doubtless will continue to
do so as long as there is enough New Eng
land nonsense and western ignorance to
him with an occasional audience.