The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-12
COLCORD ON |NG[RSOLL
The Arch Infidel Attacked
on His Own Ground by
the Minister.

The Rev. Samuel Colcord. in the Acad-
envy of Music, yesterday afternoon, re-
piled to Colonel Robert Ingersoll. The
balcony and all the seats on the ground
floor were filled. The lecturer talked for
an hour and a quarter. He spoke on, rs
Infidelity or Christianity the Greater
Friend Of Human Liberty2" Or Sunday
evening next he viii complete his argu-
ments in REPUTATION of Colonel Ingersoll's
doctrine, speaking in the Academy. The
lecturer said, in part
@If I seem in this address to be not
overprofound, let it be remembered that
/ am angling for fish seldom found in
deep water, although they are often in
hot water. that Is, when they are caught
and boiled. I desire to meet the Colonel
on his ground. or in his own waters,
as it were. In his lecture, his opening
sentence, Liberty is my religion he
so misrepresents the Bible and the Chris
tan religion as to make them appear
the enemies of liberty. He presented
pictures OF persecution, horrors of tor
ture, going bach far into the past when
he Christian church had not been so
fully brought under the gentle and refin-
ing influence of Christian faith, but that
they We're very much like other men of
that age of intolerance. and solemnly
presents to his applauding hearers as the
spirit Of the Christian church.
While listening to his plea for poor,
prosecuted in6delity, it needs only one
look at the Colonel's horid ~rotundity to
convince the beholder that he certainly
enjoys a fair degree of liberty, unaam-
pered by thumbscrew, rack or dungeon,
or ever scant r~ations. Free to express
his infdel beliefs or c~ritieise or misrep-
resent the church. unhindered by man,
woman or child, the porpoise disporting
in his native waters or the wild ass
braying on the desert enjoys not more
liberty than he. What, ladies and gen.
tlemen, have the mistakes of Christian
fanatics of generations ago to do. any
how, with the burning, living questions
of today?"
Mr.. Coicord told the story Of Adami and
Heva as Colonel Ingersoll tells it ana
commenting on il said:-
He would rave a god who would let
him do as he pleased, a god he could
argue with. If you cannot govern your
home by that kind of philosophy, how do
you expect God to govern a university by
it? Well, that Is Colonel ingersolrs idea
of liberty, and that is his idea of a prop
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