The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-08-21

the celestials, and was expelled from
heaven. Orthodoxy teaches that he
is omnipotent. At the side of every
child, as it steps over the line of in
nocent childhood and becomes ac-
countable, he tempts the child to sin.
And he always succeeds. He has
never failed but once. In the case of
Jesus Christ he did not succeed.
And why did he fail7 Orthodoxy
teaches that he failed, because Christ
was God, in the second person, equal
to God the or Gator. This enabled
Christ as God the Son, to resist the
temptations of his satanic majesty.
This absurd pagan idea of the
devil, and the trinity, is called Chris
tianity. And Col. Ingersoll willingly
lends helping hand, and calls it by
the same name. Though he does not
believe word of it, yet he sanctions
it as Christianity, when, it is fact in
connection with other items of heath
enism, and is not respectable coun-
terfeit. 1t does not come as near the
truth as piece of iron washed with
gold reading fifty dollars. The fact
is,-no matter how it looks, nor what
it reads it is bogus, and nothing else.
And no sensible man, like the Colonel
has any moral right to circulate it as
the genuine issue.
When the common orthodox system
is compared with the Christianity of
the Bible. there is scarcely an item
of doctrine that resembles the Bible
teaching, on various points. 1t was
paganized by the Roman church; she
and her Protestant daughters with the
helping hand of the infdels are cir
culating the base bogus, as the genu-
inc in this age. This, we affirm, is
wrong in the G olonel and his party.
Things should be called and circu.
lated with their names.
We do not blame Colonel Ingersoll
for his honest unbelief. Because he
has popular ally, in what is called
Evangelical. He is to be condemned
for not obtaining the truth of what
Christianity teaches. Jesus taught
that God is "our Father" The uni
versal Fatherhood of God, and the
brotherhood of humanity was grand
cardinal principle in his teachings.
And it constitutes the firm founda-
tion of Christianity.
Jesus inquired of the self-righteous
"What man of you, if his son ask for
bread will ye give him a stone? Or
if he ask for fish, will ye give him
a serpent?
"If ye,then being evil, know how to
give good gifts to your children, how
much more shall your Father in
heaven give good things to them that
ask him. Therefore, all things what
soever ye would that men should do
to you, do you even SO to them, for
this is the law and the prophets"
Matt. vii, 9-12.
Does this read much like the Or.
thodox creeds that contain the
doom-endless punishment? and the
doctrine of innate total depravity9
This is a fundamental doctrine of or
thodoxy, that an unconverted heart is
totally depraved and is fit subject
for endless woe. This is called
Christianity by the so-called ortho-
dox, and the Colonel is helping them
to palm off this bogus as the teach
ing of Jesus Christ.
The Colonel knows that he has not
been converted to the orthodox theol-
ogy, and he knows that he is not
totally depraved. That is, he has
not enough of that depravity as to
give stone for bread to hungry
dog. Or sentence of endless suf-
fering, to the worst human being.
Yet he calls this system Christia nifty
when it has no resemblance to the
teachings of Jesus Christ.
We might notice many more items
of doctrine that the editor of the
Christian Advocate and Colonel In
gersoll call Christianity, but enough
to show that one is as deep in error
as the other in knowing not the
truth.
HIco Texas.