Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-02-22

| remember when was raised, ny
mother being an old-school freso!te
ran, | never did get any nor PIE on
Sunday. Light bread and butter NJ ~.
preserves Nothing but what coulu ps
cooked on Saturday. except IN ca9s
OF necessity. And he describes his
Sabbath. and laid II on the B!Die' anu
ON Christ's teaching. Whence d9d ne
get IL? Whence did 1t Gomez II Is
Puritansm. The Bible Is not respoh-
slble for 1t. II came from me fuIl.n'
| fathers. who came over to TINS country
| for the purpose of getting free ON
| the prosecutions in the other countrl+s'
! and when they got over here the trte-
| dom they gave to the world was the
freedom to believe Just as lhey pt
lleved See the Scarlet Letter, ana
poor Hester Prynne. 1t is not Christ
| teaching. II Is contrary to II. why
on one occasion there were nullnGr
OF inndels following Christ and HIS
| disciples and going through a wheat
field on the Sabbath; Christs dis ipes
! plucked some of the corn or wheat
rubbed 1t out In their hands ana blew
away the chaff so they could eat tne
O. wheat kernels. The inndels sad
] your disciples are violating the law
| OF the Sabbath. II Is not nwful for
them to pluck the grains of corn ON the
Sabbath" Christ said TO them, as
Christian teaching has ever said since,
| wnen 1t has been unenoumbered ana
unrettered by mans wisdom ana big
| otry: "The Sabbath was made for
! man, and not man for the Sabbath
And the Sabbath is made for you to
be happy in and not to be tied with
the chains OF superstition. Liberty to
the captives. in the Sabbath.
Seventeenth mistake.
| 'Who made the W .orld?" said Colonel
| Ingersuli. "Iell them you don't know.
| But you have good grounds for bellet:
A man that looks at nature, with all
its symmetry and beauty, and regular
lily OF season. the rising and settling OF
the sun and stars. the beauty of the
canopy above US. the ga th as II brings
forth It's fruit, at Its proper time, tn
mineral, vegetable and animal king
doms. working together. Napoleon one
night was passing back and forth on
the deck OF his vessel, returning from
Egypt, and the inndel officers. his
staff, were knotted together, discussing
whether there were a God or not. and
they had concluded there was no God
yet they came to Napoleon. as he was
pacing he deck. with his marital cloak
about 1im, In profound meditation,
"Sir" said they, "is there God?'
Walking the deck again, hardly paus'
ing to notice them, when he came to
front them again. looking them in the
face for q moment, lifting his hand to
the heavens, he said. "Gentl.ne
who made all that?" and walked OH.
Ingersoli says. open the door and
let the prisoner free" What did
Christ say? "rhe spirit OF the Lord Is
upon me, because He hath Amounted
Inc to proclaim liberty to the captives,
the opening OF the prison door to them
that are bound. To give beauty for
ashes; the garment of praise for the
spirit OF heavness." He says; IF ye
be my disciples ye shall know the truth
and the truth shall make you free.
Everything that MIR. lngersoll advo-
Gated, of truth, of love, OF liberty an-
of hope, Jesus Christ advocated eight
cen hundred years before lngersoli wa
born. Everything MIR. Ingersoll advo-
Gated of infidelity, CELSIUS and Porhpyry
advocated for fifteen to seventeen hun
dren years before InEersoll was born.
Even his errors and his sophistry have
come from the poisoned swamps Of the
brains of iniidels of other days. IN
only originality manifested by the oily
speaker was IN persuading a thousand
men and women to go to the opera
house on rainy night and give him
q dollar each for listening to him FOR
two hours: but he let the clovcn foot
out when he sent his hawkers through
the audience selling his productions,
which cost two cents apiece, for TWEEN
! ty-av, cents, really making twelve
hundred per cent, and his object being
! simply 90 elevate your sous, instead
of a mercenary motive. Put him now
b.; the side OF Christ, a thousand dol
lars night, and twelve hundred Pc.
/ cent on his literature and now b hold
Christ Without money and wit out
price. The foxes have hol g; the birds
of the air have nests; the Son of MAJ
hath rot where to lay lils mead, When
| He healed the centuriuns servant the
ceuturlan would nave given him ten
thousand dollars. Not cent. When
! lie brought to life the dead son of tn,
| widow Of Main, she would have glveh
Him all that she had. When lie raised
Iara:us from the dead, his sisters
would have poured their treasured
wealth. for they were rich, into His
| lap. hut not n cent Is 1t safe to fol-
low Jngersoll. or better TO follow Jesus
Christ? Is Ingersoll the better guide,
OF is Christ the better guide for your
good"
1t Is written Of Ingerroll, and I de-
| plors II, but that you may know how
he is regarded by the world ] must
mention five things that are believed
OF him and that are written about him,
and that are taken from his own lips;
because 1t is an important matter. He
| has come into our midst assaillng that
| which Is dear to US. and we must know
| who the man Is. In the first place,
| say II IL Wfltltn-l am not etSlIB II
nlyself-it is written that Mr.. Ingersoll
Is the defender of vile, immoral in
decent and poisonous literature. Rev.
H. {. Dixon, pastor of the Hanson
PlaS. Baptist church. Brooklyn, ac-
cused him OF that in a lecture. Mr.,
| Ingersoll wrote to him and told him
| II he didn't take 1t back he would sue
| him Tor $1,000 Mr. Dixon says; sue.
not only believe II, hut | can prove
It," Read the newspaper and you will
| find the proof, one OF the reporters
asked Ingersoll: What became OF
| your suit MIR, Ingerso.l7' He says;
| I put 1t In the hands OF my lawyers,
and my lawyers let It die a natural
| death" Mr.. Dixon made him take
w..ter, and proved II from his own
| lips. Take It and read 1t. 1t is In
| the Mail Telegram and in the Gazette
| of last Thursday.
at would be interesting to hear n
military leader and legislator like
Moses, the man OF God, who. after he
| was so years old command for forty
years an army OF six hundred thousand
men, cmancipating. organizing and CIV
| ing laws to n nation which has main
tanned It's existence for more than
| thirty stormy centuries. give his candid
| opinion concerning the mistakes OF a
Colonel" OF cavalry whose military
career Is said TO have Included one
single engagement In which 'hp was