St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-18
rest in Him, though Satan sift Simon
like wheat.
RoAsTs INGERsoLL.
The Rev. Morrill, Jumps on Pope
ROh a BIT.

Bob a Bit.
At the Calvary Baptist church yester-
day morning. G. L. Morrill, gave pre-
Jude to his sermon, entitled "a Crit
icism of Mr.. Ingersoll," suggested by
some of his statements and his reported
press interview. The following is the
substance of some of the points made,
which were clinched with quotations
from Shakespeare:
"a great man once rode three hours
through the parks of London with Car
lyle, but neither said a word. On TAX
ing leave of our distinguished country
man Carlyle said, You are the most in
telligent American i ever met That
man could not have heard r. e. Inger
soil, for if Shakespeare is his forte ON
nlSclence in religion is his foible, and he
must speak out his hatred of Chris
tianS, churches and the Bible" Insult
uncalled for seemed given in his lecture
to those who believed in Christ'S divin-
ity, when the speaker declared Shake
speare was not heralded by any wander
ing stars or miraculous demonstration.
There are more things in heaven and
earth, MIR. tngersOll, than arc dreamed
of in yonr philosophy. Christ's life,
death and influence are as miraculous
as His birth.
"'Love is not love that alters when it
alteration finds" is the sublimest
declaration ever made by human mind.
AS matter of fact. it does not exist and
never did exist except in the Christian.
Mr.. lngersOll rejects Him who prayed
for His murderers in His dying breath,
Father, forgive them. they know not
what they do Portals speech is only
made possible by Calyary'S pleading.
The NaZarine is He who loves to the end
His quality of mercy is not strained.
"Education is the worlds greatest
need and savior. But ancient civiliZa-
ton Is as corrupt as cultured, and some
of to-day'S worst devils are the best ed
ucated men. knowledge is mighty, but
not almighty. One may know hawk
from handsaw and smile with self
satisfaction and be a villain still.
'Mr. lngerSoll also stated that he that
eats crust has creed. What about
the man who has no creed-has he more
or less bread? But every man has a
creed, belief, and no man is more
anxious TO affirm his creed than MIR.
lngersoll, who, in denying ours. affirms
his own. AS rule the Christian church
to-day is represented by wealth, and oc-
cupies positions of greatest trust and
intelligence. OF two poor men with
feet i'll the gutter, better be the one
whose head by faith is i'll the heavens
than the other, who by unbelief
gets no higher than frog bank, bound
into strange doubts and petty fears. A
hit, a very palpable hit, uight have
been made by the lecturer if he had
traced the resemblance of Shakespeare
to the Bible. Some of his finest pas
sages are only paraphrases of old and
new Testament words. No such book
as the Bible holds the mirror up to
nature, human and divine, yet it is the
truth of eternal justice and retribution
which strikes the key note of the great
plays. Our pleasant vices make instru-
mentS to scourge u.s.
''WhO is credulOus-the man who ac-
cepts the Bible or Shakespeare's plays
when it comes to the time and person
Of the writing? The chronic denier
bows with unquestiOning faith at the
shrine of Shakespeare, involved in so
much obscurity, and when others do
the same to a Book IS much higher as a
man is than mOllusl1, Mr.. lngersoll
cries, Superstition Ignorancen This
is not only passing strange but won
drouS pitlful.'
"Mr. lngersoll also says that the or
thodoX Baptist believes in water in this
world and fire in the next. | presume
ohoS iiS OSiINNNo III LCllliCl. oilCuy
stated, Baptist accepts the word and
the Son of God as final authority. and
believes that in this world, or any other
possible world, the Creator will do light
by his children.
"'Heresy's Uprisai' makes the old
man eloquent, but we only we read
with Hamlet, Words, words, Words
Presbyterianism would not treat Briggs
as Rome did Bruno, if it could. They
believe in Christ'S given liberty, but
also that if man has pulpit and is
paid to preach one thing and teaches an
other, he should he man enough and hon
estsenough to get off the ship that he is
trying to raise the black flag over and
scuttle. Real religion, we are told, has
little to do with any world but this. The
religion which is doing all that is being
done for this world, Mr.. Ingersoll has,
it would seem, very little to Ito with
but to attack. In the light of little
hospital, will he be kind enough to tell
us from whence has come The gospel
of good food, homes, art, music, fellow
ship, education, and above all, liberty
"Mr. IngersolI further says that
young men of intelligence do not care
to enter the ministry. Has he attended
recent seminary commandments? The
unknown is not the basis of our re-
ligion. Mr.. IngersolPs attack against
Gods truth amounts to as much as the
shooting of peas against the rock of
Gibfaitar"