St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-02-08
allistrlla'in.
pEpIIED TO INGERS0LL.

HOW EIJ"'
,hers of the Massachusetts dele
,ntion in congress, recently address
ID a large Washington audience on
~ .,,bicct Of" Christianity VS.. Inf
uS W. Morse said in part: suppose
Az, hardly necessary for me to tell
II .,v nerson present that | am not a
'"y but | remember to have
S [aord nv father say after he had
Irroarbed the Gospel for more than
% years. that the minister needed
o ,";,9esses, men in active life, public
',en business men, to stand up and
cav cav that the Gospel is true. That is
' o., basis on which | consent to
. ~" to night, tor haven't the ego
ism to suppose that can add any,
tb,ng to the preaching OF the learned
nostor of this church, a man who has
made the Gospel a study for a life
;me. .,,:.
If the BlDIe pei ldlhS ~ any 'h'"S ~
pertains 10 the concerns OF the soul.
concerns which outweigh the con-
Germs of time, as eternity is longer
than time, hence it is a matter OF
GREAT consequence that we come to
Study this great book with a teach
able spirit and with sincere desire
"a know what the truth is. Multi
tudes come to study the book with
,reconceiyed notions OF their own,
with a desire to prove something
they already believe, or to raise trii-
hn5 objections to the book, or they
don't like what they find in the book,
and they say away with 1t. Mr..
I0gersol wants to know who was
CAMS wife, or who was Melcheze-
G,c's father. He wants to know 40
900 senseless questions that are Of
no earthly concern whatever, but ii
he will come to the study Of the book
with the inquiry, what shall | do
that may inherit eternal llIe!' |
will find him an easy answer in the
book-"beieve on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and thou shalt be saved.
There is a question that is peril
nent right here, that is found in the
book-the question is, IF man die
shall he live again." What is the
answer that inhdelity gives to that
question. Listen to Mr.. Ingersoll's
answer; mark you. this is a solemn
occasion when he says this. Hark !
lie is standing by the coffin OF his
brother now. Listen, he says:
Life is a narrow vale between
cold and barrier peaks OF two eter-
mites. We strive in vain to look be-
yond the height. We cry aloud, and
the only answer is the echo of our
waiIing cry. From the voiceless lips
q. the unreplying dead there comes
ao word"
How do you like it! Listen once
more; he is standing by the coffin of
little child now. Hark Listen
10 the consolation he gives these
parents. HeSays;
We cannot say that death is not
good. We don't know whether the
grave is the end of this life or the
i door to another; whether night here
Is not somewhere else a dawn; every
\ cradle asks us whence and every cot
TN asks US whittier"
How do you like it? What is the
answer the learned pastor OF this
church would give on such an occa-
son! | venture that he would get
out this old book which Mr.. Iuger-
soil reviles, and he would read out OF
H. lie that liveth and believeth on
me, through were he dead. yet shall
he Ii e."
Mr. lngerSoll says that there are
500 contradictions in this book;
'oey are all in his poor brain. The
book is all right when it is rightly
understood. He delivered lecture
N Boston not long since on THE
Mistakes OF Moses" wonder what
Noses would think of the mistakes
oi Bob lngersoll. While he was
"a ms way to deliver his last bias.
Pnemous lecture in this city, there
was an average of two churches
'u'lt IN this country and millions of
our countrymen were celebra ting the
'r'h OF Jesus. lngersoll is as pow
y'IeSS to stop the progress OF the
gospel as chipping squirrel sitting
"" the railroad track would be to
stop the Chicago lightning express,
Ut a ooboInk sitting on the fence to
@seP the sun from rising. Now,
VINO art thou that repliest against
UodE And | say, God pity the man
'lat dashes himself against the boss
6 OF Jehovah's buckler.
Mr' ingersoll says that the Bible
~ a bad book and isn't fit to be read
~ 'ne iamlly. See here, did it make
YOUR father a bad man? He was
,e"uing that book when you were
"ay,ng around his doorstep in child
,'I'u' when you went away to
>"ool' when you got married and
'u " family OF your own, and when
y VI came home to see the old folks,
"ow glad the old man was to see
sou, You found that he was still
,,'u'ng the book, and when he got
~ and down to pray the chair creak-
~ ~. under him. He has gone over the
.Vgr' See here, did it make him
., va 1t make your mother a bad
oman! She read that book when