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LAMBERTVILLE. N. J.
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 10, 1897.

Christianity has stood about every
thing in the way Of opposition in the
past. Nero tried 10 destroy it by burning
many Of its professors as candles and
supplying thousands Of others as food for
wild beasts in the arena German skepti.
Cism with its scholarship and French in
fidelity with its flippancy, have attacked
it but neither physical violence nor
learned opposition has stopped its pro-
gress. Wherever it has gone it has hu.
manizcd and elevated men, blessing the
world physically, mentally and spiriiu-
ally. There is little danger Of any inhdel
being more successful in the future than
In the past. Until better religion than
that revealed IN the Bible is presented by
men who hate Christianity, the old relig-
ion will go on its course, nerving men and
women TO self sacrifice for the good OF
their fellows; cheering the sad and sick
and helpless here with hope hereafter /;
and transforming the lives of wicked men
and honoring God and truth.
These remarks are suggested by read
ing report Of Ingersoll's new lecture,
recently delivered in Philadelphia, 10
which he Processes to "reform mankind,
without supernatural aid. y In beginning
his lecture he took occasion MS usual to
get in a fling at the "orlhodox minister "
lie naturally has a soft side for the kind
that don't believe the story of Jonah, and
have no faith in the miraculous but in
his heart he mast have contempt for men
who accept the standards of a church for
the purpose of betrayng them.
The Colonel divided his lecture into
leads as follows: "fbere is no dark
ness but ignorance. In its broadcast
sense that is true but there is no dark
ness so dense as that OF an intellectually
educated man who is ignorant Of moral
and spiritual forces, and therefore ignor.
ant OF God. The other divisions were
GLOW can We reform the world - "An-
other waste ~ GLOW can VIC lessen
crime ~ CLONES for all u 1.-The Labor
question !" educate the children and
the concluding one, I'VE must work and
wait. There was nothing in the clucida.
ton OF these points that was either strik-
ingly new or practical, or that can take
the place OF christian morals aud religion
1t is fair to say that Ingersoll is better at
tearing down than building up. II Chris
tianity were dethroned, its churches turn
ed into places OF amusement and instruc-
ton in the sciences, arts, philosophy, etc. i,
and its ministers forced to stek other en-
ployment, as he advised, the people would
at least need something more solid to
build upon than this orator has been able
to present after many years OF denuncia-
ton OF a system of morals and religion
that has lifted up Christendom immea-
surably beyond that OF other portions oil
the world that have not accepted this sys
tenn, Evidently Col, Ingerson has very
low idea OF morals On be has any at all
when he advises that a man should b,
given divorce only when his wife flag
rantly violates her contract, but woman
should be given divorce whenever she
requests 1t
To what can one attribute such perver-
sion Of vision as would lead man 10 be
blind to the perfectness aud beauty OF the
revelation of the law from Sinai and Offer
as its substitute crazy patch work OF Sc
nile morality and vapid senlimentality.