Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-26
TALK AS THEY THINK.
The Secular Society Addressed by
Miss Ada Campbell.
PLAIN WORDS In A PLAIN STYLE
Symbol Worn by the Free
Thinker at the Meeting.
ONLY A SMALL CROWD IN ATTENDANCE

The spectacle of a woman preaching
against the gospel of Christ, while at the
same time wearing on her bosom the symbol
of Christianity, the cross, was witnessed by
about 200 people in the Standard Theatsr,
on Grant street, yesterday afternoon.
Miss Ada Campbell, of Australia, was
announced TO speak at the above amusement
resort, on the subject: Truth Versus
Christianity,". and it drew forth a mixed
crowd of people, coming and going at all
hours. In the back row a crowd of young
fellows were having gay time, and when
they were reproved, one of them told the
usher, who is member of the Secular
Society, to 60 to the land of sulphur and
birthstone. Though the LADY was making
an effort to prove that there is no such
place, no chances were taken, and the young
fellow was ordered out
Not long afterward, while the lady was
arguing the evolution OF man from a mock
turtle, monkey or some other handsome
brute, a crowd of boys became noisy IN an
other part OF the theater. As in the other
case, mild reproof only served to call out
the youths reserve force and he questioned
the paternity of him who dared offer re-
buke. No one but the lecturer was allowed
this privilege, and though the boy had de-
clared the mans origin was the poor mans
friend, he was declared out and left the
room.
She Tried to Make 1t Pleasant.
These little pleasantries in the audience
were kept up almost Increasingly, and every
nm in avvh n
pressing invitation to 60 elsewhere in his
search for knowledge. The young lady
she is still on the sunny side of 40, though
the shadow is not large-also made the after
noon one of pleasure for her audience by her
sallies. Though yet unmarried, she roundly
denounced celibacy, and in regard to the
$40 and thousand singing in the inner
court of heaven who had never been defiled
by the touch of woman" she declared they
were howling in misery for the pleasures
they missed while on earth.
Though Miss Campbell did not ask for
female suffrage, she roundly denounced the
Christian religion for not having a ''god-
dess'' connected with it. "It is He the
Father" said the speaker, "He the Son,
aud He the holy Ghost. Now. L think they
might have allowed that last little one to be
she. But according to these religionists.
their God has been batchelor for years and
years and years."
She declared that no glowing Father
would allow people on His earth to starve,
as they are starving in Pittsburg. Hon
esty and virtue are always driven to the
WALL" said she, "and dishonest schemes
profit by their misfortunes. There is no
reason whatever to be honest and virtuous,
because you will lose by it in the end
Adam Didn't Have a Choice.
She declared the idea of the creation ut
terly absurd, and in speaking of the fall,
said: "Adam was not satisfied when he was
put in the Garden of Eden. morally per-
feet man. He wanted company. So the
Lord had all the animals pass before him to
let him choose a helpmeet. There were only
two times that the kangaroo leaped from
Australia to Palestine-at the time above
mentioned and when Noah and his family
went in the ark, leaving the other people in
the swim. But Adam did not like any of
them. So the Lord put him to sleep and
took rib to make Eve. II Adam had been
awake he would have told God to take two