The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-28

the condition OF marriage Ladies' the or
haments You wear upon your persons to-
night are but the souvenirs Of your moth
or Donahge. The chains around your
nccks ana me bracelets ciasped upon your
white arms. BY the thrilled hand OF love
have been changed by the wand OF civiH-
zailon from iron TO shining glittering
gold.
But nearly every religion has accoun,-
| Ell for all the devilment in this world py
ne crime OF woman What a gallant
talng that is! And II it IS true. l had
rather live with the woman l love in
"orId tutl OF trouble than to live in heaY-
en- with nobody but men"
Col Ingersoll then compared the BIbli-
cal story of Adam and Eve TO the Brah-
manistlc account of Adami and Heva in
winch BOTH. though disobedient. had been
spared because of their truth and love,
ana asked; Honor bright, is not that
the better and grander story?'' In COM
menting on the beauties OF the Island of
| Ceyion, taken from the Brahmanistic &C
count, ne said; The man who wrote that
must have been a real estate agent"
II women have been slaves what shall
/ say Of children; of the little children in
allies and sub-cellars; the little children
who turn pale when they hear their ia
Their footsteDs; little children who run
away when they only hear their name
called by tie lips of mother; little chill
dren-the children of poverty the children
] v.
ever they are-fiotsam and jetsam upon
the wild, mad sea of ife-my heart goes
out to them, one and all
Il tell you, the children have the game
| rights as we have, and we ought to treat
them as though they were human beings
They should be reared with love, with
kindness, Wi tenderness, and not with
brutality. A lie is born of tyranny upon
the one hand and weakness upon the 9TH
| er, and when you rush a poor little boy
with club in your hand, of course he
lies
When one of your children tells a lie, be
honest with him; tell him that you have
told hundreds of them yourself Tell him
that it is not the best way; that you have
tried it.
when your child commits a wrong, take
| itin your arms let 1t feel your heart beat
against it's heart; let the child know that
you really and truly and sincerely love
it.
DO you know that 1 have seen some
people who ected as though they thought
that when the Saviour said Suffer little
| children to come unto me, for of such Is
1 the kingdom of heaven he had a raw
| hlde under his mantle, and made that re-
mark simply to get the children within.
| striking distance?
u do not believe in the government or
| the lash. If any one of you ever expects
10 whip your children again J. want YOU
| ~ nave Il photograph taken of yourself
| When you are in the act, with your face
! red with vulgar anger, and the face Of
the little child, with eyes swimming in
tears and the litte chin dimpled with
! rear, ike piece of water struck by a
sudden, cold wind. Have the picture
taken. II that little child should die, I
| cannot mink OF a SWeetar way to spend
| an autumn afternoon than to go out 70
| The cemetery, when the naples are clad
| in tender gold. and little scarlet runners
! IRE coming, like poems of regret from
the sad heart of the earth-and sit down
! upon the grave and look at that photo.
! graph, and think of the flesh now dust
| that You beat"
'Sabbaths used to be prisons. Every
| Sunday was a bastile. Every Christian
was kind of turnkey and every child was
a prisoner--a convict. In that dungeon a
| smile was a crime.
When 1 was a boy and used TO 20 to
| church we sat in a row with our feet COM
! ing in about six inches of the floor The
| minister asked us if we knew that we all
deserved to go to hell and we all answer
! ed Yes. Then we We're asked if we would
! be willing TO go to he'll ii it was God s
! will, and every little liar shouted sYes
| After that We started for home sad and
solemn-overpowered with the wisdom dis
| played in the scheme OF the atonement
When we got home, if we had been good
! boyS,and the weather was warm, sometimes
| they would take US out to the grave yard,
| to cheer us up little, and then tell us by
and by we would go 10 that place Where
! congregations ne'er break up and Sab
baths never end That is one thing that
has prejudiced me against paradise
After asking where the idea of he'll came
from and answering that it came from the
man in the dugout, from the poison snakes
and the unclean baboons Col. Ingersoll
said:
TEL me that you can divide this world
int l.
| sheep very much like goats and some
goats very much Ike sheep. Every now
and then In a shipwreck or some great dis
aster, some man does a daring, heroic
I self-sacridcing deed, to which the world
paws the tribute of its admiration and its
tears. Tell me that he must be eternally
damned because he would not be baptized
because he did not believe the Methodist
creed. because he did not believe the Pres
byterian creed! DO YOU think so?
Here is fire and up there in the
/ fourth or fifth story Is a woman with a
fhabe ia her arms, and poor, weak lad
der the only means of rescue. The crowd
calls for a hero. 1t doesn't cali for Bap-
list nor for a Catholic; no sir; it just
wants a hero any man that has got blood
and flame in him. There steps out from
the crowd a little fellow, not very good.
He sometimes swears, sometimes he gets
! drunlSFbu he Is a man, and he goes Ifp
the ladder and a moment afterward, with
the woman and child in his arms COM
ing down the ladder which sways back
ward and forward, great flames surround
ing him, like serpents coiling round his
body: he breathes fire, and when he
reaches the earth and the woman and
child fall from his nerveless arms and
the scene fades from his dying eyes. the
last sound that he hears is the cheer born
of his heroism, and the next words, ac-
cording to the orthodox religion, that he
will hear: Depart We cursed, into ever
lasting fire, prepared for the devil and his
angels"
Col. Ingersoll closed as follows:
There has never been upon the earth
a generation of free men and women. II
is not yet time to write a creed Walt nm
IN the chains are broken-until dungeons
are not regarded as temples Wait Until
solemnity is not mistaken for wisdom--lIn-
I'll mental cowardice ceases to be known
as reverence. Wait until the living are
considered the equals of the dead-until
the cradle takes precedence of the coffin.
Wait until what we know can be spoxen
without regard to what others may he
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