The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-24
BRADY ON
INGERS0LIl.
Says He Was the Greatest
Blasphemer OF the Age.
SCATHING LANGUAG AGE.
The Preacher Hurls the Most Bitter Words
At the Dead Agnostic and Says That
He Knew Neither God the Devil
No Hell..-Plain Words to
His Hearers.


tened feelings that speak of that elo-
quent by erring tongue, of that bright
but aberrant brain, of that true yet
traitorous heart.
1t was my fate to meet Ingersoll on
many a hard-fought field during this
20 years. / met him and his influence
in New York, Jersey City, Newark and
in Boston. l knew him as the greatest
human enemy of the church and he
knew me as one of his most uncompro-
missing antagonists.
When in Boston 1 sent him a chal-
lenge to meet me in public debate
This he declined on the plea that he
had better paying business, and so far
as this world is concerned, no doubt he
had. If there is one man above an
other 1t is easy to overthrow on the
public arena it is the man, who is so
far gone that he permits himself to
say the Bible is myth and God a Gre
alton of superstitious brain.
Poor Ingersoll allowed his heart to
lead him that far. And now that he
has gone / will use no unkind words
in the presence of death into whose
shadows we SO soon shall enter. But
this need not prevent me, for the profit
of any who may be his victim, from ex-
posing the extreme folly of those most
glaring errors which he propagated. If
1 were aware they would die with him,
not one word would l have to say, but
weed seed by whomsoever sown, is of
all seeds most likely to bear a harvest
unless when sprouting it gets scorch-
ing.
I see he appeared in Worcester the
atre last season to lecture on the devil
That means that there were enough
people in the city to pay $500 for his
coming. That means there are people
not a few in Worcester who like to en-
/ courage blasphemy and infdelity. In
stead of going for poor Ingersoll, l
shall therefore go for you while there
| is hope.
| And, first, l have to say to you that
the greatest fool that walks the earth
tonight is the fellow who walks beneath
J Gods shining stars and glowing sun
/ and over Gods FURNISHED earth, saying,
There is no God"
The poor idiot that goes down to Bos-
ton and walks UP Commonwealth ave
nue. and down Washington street and
up Columbus avenue, gazing at the
blocks of buildings and yet saying
there is no builder, is sane compared
with you. You may have some kind of
conyoluted paste, but you can't have
brains in the front of your head, else
you could never say such thing as
There is no Cod
You are light above the ears, and
/ y.
next thing ! say to you, if you say
! anything like that, you are not only
a fool, but a traitor Benedict Arnold
was saint compared with you Bene-
dict only sought to sell out the coun-
try to the British, but you want to sell
us all out to the devil
Why, you are rascal Of the most
tiendish type; you are just good for
nothing, but Singing the stone of sin
filled with the dynamite of damnation
Some strikers down in Brooklyn tried
to blow UP the piers Of the elevated
troad last week, but you atheistic scoun-
drels want to blow up the pillars of
the republic. This country has no use
j for scamps like you
If all the fellows like you were col
lected from one end Of the republic to
the other and corraled in a camp and
the best things in million Of you taken
out and rolled together, there would not
be enough of good mud to make one
decent man.
Fools and traitors are the worst
names l can call you. e there were
any worse names in the English Ian
guage would use them, but there are
none when applied in this relation
The devil himself is no such fool, as
to go about whining there is no God
He knows better than that He was
honest enough to tell our first parents
that IL they ate the forbidden fruit
they should be as gods, knowing good
land evil
But here you poor old atheists have
got so far beyond and beneath the
devil that you go about trying to make
people believe there is no God. When
/ meet people like you I sometimes
wonder whether double trepanning
would not help you.
Now that the man who lead you so
far astray is dead, stop! Turn and go
right in the opposite direction. You
will soon get out of the wilderness of
doubt and defeat, If you will come
honestly and earnestly and pray to God
and pray, 20 God, make thyself known
to me; show me myself; lead me in
thy ways pardon my sins; purify my
heart ennoble nv will and make me
understand myself thy work and thee.
through the merit Of thy son, my
Savior"
If you will come thus sincerely pray
ing for light and love in obedience and
faith. you will have satisfactory ex-
Ierience ere yonder westering sun RIGGS
cree again in the east:
Previous to the sermon on Christ in
the light of Clark university" DR.. Bra
dy made this explanation: There is an
immense truth in what scientists call
evolution. This truth is the method
Of production that spreads through ell
space Of time. The first life germs in
the soil evolve vegetables. The animals,
other animals and man. other men.
Man, too, has had his historic evolu-
tons.
As a world we are what we are b.
evolutionary processes, and as a church
we are what we are by evolutionary
! meth IDS. Bat there are symptoms Of
O disposition among men to enthrone
evolution as if it were king, whereae
evolution is only the kings method.
The text was taken from Collossians
ii;S-10, Beware, lest any man spoil YOU,
that is take heed lest and man make
spoil ofyou through philosophy and vain
deceit after the tradition Of men, after
the rudiments Of the world and not
after Christ For IN him dwelleth all
the fulness Of the godhead bodily and We