St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-04
.PRAISING PAGAN BOB.
IAN Ex-Clergyman Who Was
Persuaded to Leave New
Jersey.
Blasphemy Was Alleged and
He Now Seeks Fresh
Pastures.
Sad Ending of a Brothers
Search for One of the
Family.
WIFI
Proctor Knott's Protege Will
Have an Extensive Car
Plant.

"And the people who sat in darkness
saw great light" Such is fitting
prelude to the advent in st. Paul of ex-
Rev. c. B. Reynolds. Flame-colored
hand-bilis announced his arrival.
Dodgers were distributed from door to
door bearing such:mottoes as ''Truth Has
No Respect for Prejudice, "Our Prin-
ciples-Do Justice, Love, Mercy, and
Secure Your Own Happiness by Pro
noting That of Others" They also
announced that Mr.. Reynolds would de-
liver course of lectures, free of charge,
on the subjects, 'Life's Duties: or
| What Liberalism Teaches why [
Left the Pulpit" 1.-The Bible. Whence
1t Came and What 1t Really Teaches"
1t might have been expected that these
scarlet-hued dodgers and startling sub
jects would have drawn larger
crowd to the Wacouta street
chapel than that which material
lied yesterday afternoon. There were
certainly not hundred people
present. and they were evidently in
sympathy with the speaker, so that it
was very one-sided affair. The eX-
reverend gentleman is short, rather
handsome man. with large, Square-cut
| nose, bright eyes with a tendency i'll
the aq ueo-crystalline direction, gray
and he wore black fruck coat bearing
a badge of some secret society OIL the
left breast. He is a good speaker. and in
pathetic passages his voice assumes
broken tone, as if he were on the verge
OF tears, while his sarcasm and wit are
of a dry irresistible nature. His argu-
mentS are those of Tom Payne. inger
soil and Volney, and G SO besprinkled
with running fire of ridicule which
tickled his audience that an answer
would require considerable study.
Before commencing his discourse,
1.-THE popular exponent of liberalism"
OPENED a YELLOW GRIP
! and taking from it number of books
and pamphlets, arranged them in piles
along the front of the platform. He
| Now. ladies and gentlemeu," he re-
marked, there is the 'lron-Clad Age q
| paper which goes the shortest way to
reach anything; you can all understand
| lit calls spade a spade. And here
| is the old standby, the Boston InYesti-
| gator, founded by Abner Neeland, who
was sent to jail for blaSphemy, not hay
ing good friend in Col. Robert G. In
gersoll. Take this and read it; if you
find anything you don't like,
don't show how grand you are by
tearing it up! Here is pamphlet
called the Bible Enquirer. which will
teach you more about the Bible than all
the parsons in st. Paul know. 1t shows
! that the Bible contains no authority for
the observance of Sunday as q holy day.in
fact will give $40 to any one who will
show a single text in tho Bible IN sup
port of Sabbath observance. Every one
| who observes Sunday is worshiper
of the pope of Rome. This little book
also contains a whole page of those
texts that young ladies turn the light
out before they read. The speaker told
the story of his arrest in Boonton. n.
| j., for bla pheming, as follows: 81
put up my tent and opened the doors.
Anybody could come in or. stay out as.
they liked. l told them the story OF the
| creation, how God created man and
woman out Of the dust Of the earth, but
| somehow the woman demateriaiiZed
| and Ire had to create another, which
| He made out of the mans rib. This
seemed a funny idea, as she must have
| what they had me arrested for and a
| big burly Irish marshal marched me
! Off to the lookup. Fully 800 Sun
day school children followed me
singing some of their beautiful hymns.
There was one in PARTICULAR forgetit
ALL but the chorus runs something like:
''Cut his heart out, Stone him, Hang
him. Club him. Kick him." They
! also threw stones at me. one of
WHICH HIT TIE MARSHAL.
and this made him mad. They love me
down there i'll New Jersey. They
wanted me TO stay there two years.
They would have given me nice
zebra-striped suit of clothes and
myself in one of those elegant big stone
mansions. Oh. yes. they love me. You
know Christianity is love. But the
greatest lawyer IN the world, Robert G.
Ingersoll Tcheers] demurred, and when
! he demurs the courts have tendency
| to sustain the demurrer" rsE
He then told a story about Salvation
Army meeting. A captain dressed i'll a
blood colored shirt with ''Come to
Jesus" on the front and Nov is the
| Time" on the back in gold letters, after
| looking around among the girls for
some time came up to him and asked,
''Are you saved? Do you love
Jesus?" Mir. Reynolds answered
lieve in the yicarious atonement?"
mo. sir" was the reply, I'VE don't
have no curious tones around here:
| nothin' but Jesus Christ and Him cru CT
| fled. Let us pray!'' This was told to
il ustrate the theory that prejudice, ig-
norance and piety are synonymous. and
seemed to strike the audience as re-
markedly powerful argument. Il be-
| lieye," and Il don't know" are syn
onymous. therefore when a man be-
llieyes he doesn't know. As an illusira-
ton, the speaker took up copy of the
Bible, saying that he bought it in Port
land, and ''balieved" its cover was
leather-he didn't know, but he bought
it for leather from the Bible society
He then extracted pen-knife from his
pocket and Clipped piece of the cover
off. "Look at the threads" he eX-
claimed. Nov know that this is not
leather. This Bible is fraud on the
| outside. What is it on the inside?:"
Great applause
1.-The world at large does not want to
| know our side of the religious question. -
continued the speaker. "They are like
a certain crowd who had a man arrested
and brought before judge who could
find no charges preferred against him,
and no cause of guilt in him. When he
told the people so, they cried out: Cru
city Him. So it is with the Christians
of to-day. Take the Protestants, for in
stance-they know nothing of the Cath
olic religion, and condemn Catholics
FOR SPRINKLING THEMSELVES
with holy water on entering church,
whereas, if they only knew it, in the
| eyes of q Catholic the church is the
house of God, and sprinkling water is a
symbol of purifying themselves before
entering the dread presence" With
the other ceremonies made use of at
| high mass, Mr.. REYNOLDS demonstrated