The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-04-11
Bob Ingerson Flayed by Sam Jones.


whore Sam Jones has so many friends
and admirers, to know that he and
Col. Robert Ingersoll have pretty
close to one another in ST. Louis.
Sam is conducting big revival in
that city, and Bob struck the town
last Sunday night on lecturing tour.
Sam was interviewed on what he
thought OF Bob and Bob was asked
what he thought Of Sam. Sam got the
best of the talking.
Among other things, Sam said the
following, in reply to the questions put
by G lobe-Democrat reporter:
"What do you think OF Ingcrsoll and
Of the influence of his lectures?" asked
a reporter OF Rev. Sam Jones as he
sat in his room at the Southern Hotel,
evidently only partially recovered
frem the exertions OF preaching to
5000 people the preceding evening.
Mr.. Jones thought for moment
and then said: ''The question is
very broad one and cannot be answer
ed in two or three words. Personally,
Mr.. Ingersoll is no doubt genial
gentleman. Physically he Is fat, in
tellectually he is bright, morally there
may be worse men, but theologically
he is bad egg"
You have seen the picture of Mr..
Ingersoll nursing his grandchildP"
"Yes, and l could not help feeling
sorry for the grsndchild.
apart from his personality, what
do you think is the moral influence of
mr.. Ingersol's lecturos?"
THAT is very easily answered. A
visit OF Mr.. Ingersoll to any communi-
ty Is calamitous to all whom he
reaches, and the worst OF 1t is, he gen.
orally reaches the very class Of peo-
+, pie upon whom his teschings have the
most baneful effect. No God, no
Bible. no heaven, ho hell. catches the
masses Of uon-church-goers. and turns
them over to utter recklessness. Tho
lecturer forgets that we're all reared
/ in christian homes, and brought up
under the cultivating influences which
he himself enjoyed. They were not
trained up in the virtues as he was by
his godly father and mother. What
ever virtue Mr.. 1ngersoll possesses is
a gift or garce OF Christianity. Many
parade his charity, his llberality and
his love OF home. He never got these
elements as gift of infidelity. They
are but the expression of Christian
elements that live in his character in
spite of his infidelity, and when he
throws his teaching of no God, no
Bible. no heaven and no hell into the
hearts and lives of others who have
not been blessed by the help which
Christianity gives to US, he turns the
whole human life into utter rot. y
"How do you account for Mr.. In
gersoll's power to attract large audi
encesP" was question which the
above criticism naturally suggested.
His power to attract lies in his
ability to SHOCK" replied Mr.. Jones.
with more force and earnestness than
he had hitherto displayed, He is the
DEVILS dynamo. and when man
stands upon the damp soil of sinful
life, old Bob can turn current on
him that will almost make him leap
out of his hide. Men loved to be
shocked. have often thought OF Col.
Ingersoll in his disclaimer Of Chris
tian virtues and his disblief in God
and the Bible, as putting him pretty
much in the attitude OF the drummer's >
little girl of whom a commercial
traveller once told me. He said he
found his little girl, on one Of his visits
home, sitting on the floor playing with
her kitten. While loving and cares
sing it she said. kitty you are sweet
little kitty; love you and / know who
yolr mommer is. Old pussy is your
mommer. She's good old cat, add l
love her, too. But, kitty, don't know
who your pepper is, cause I never
saw him. I'spects your pepper is
travelling man. We all know from
Mr.. lngersoll's doctrine who his
mother is, morally speaking. Earth is
his mother. expect his father is a
travelling man. Certainly nobody has
ever seen him in these parts. They
all say that Col. Ingersoll is jolly
fellow. / don't know him personally,
but don't doubt that he is"
How about Mr.. lngersolrs argu-
mentp"
'.Hc hasn' any. He is an orator ol
the first water. / know no man alive
to-day who can put English together
, like he can. His words put into SEN
tences look like streams of pearls; but
! they are merely bracelets and neck
| laces for swine. His philosophy ant
a. hnt1d enllanaQ