The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-31

reveal the one purpose it truly por-
trays. We put aside the incidents that
attract our admiration, and find what
is written in the story. We put aside
what the world may think he intended
to write, or should have written, and
read what is written. We say in jus
tice that it is written as he wanted it
written, and as we read and learn we
ask ourselves the question: Has he
written well for time and for eternity?
Would it please us all to write as he
has written
What was the purpose of the life
now ended? What was it that made
Ingersoll an object of interest?
Not his home life nor his military
experiences, nor yet his business ac-
tivity or success. 1t is doubtful If
many know or care about his political
aspirations or his association with the
affairs of civil government. The fact
that he has been an honest man in his
dealings with tradesmen, or given gen.
erously to those in need attracted but
little attention during his life, and is
used only at this the time of passing,
because a time honored and worthy
custom says: Speak nothing but good
of the dead.
His life has been conspicuous, and
he will be remembered, not for the
good he has done, but for his antagon-
ism to the religion of Jesus Christ and
his never-ceasing effort to destroy that
which has given hope and comfort to
the weary at heart and distressed in
soul for centuries. This is what In
gersoll has written"
The speaker went on to say that
while he agreed with Mr.. Ingersoil in
many things-in hatred of hypocrisy
bigotry, superstition, falsehood and re-
ligious fanaticism-he deplored the fact
that the agnostic had deemed it fair
and just to condemn the truth of the
religion of Jesus because all men had
not been true and all systems found
loving, rational and reasonable.
Continuing, he said: IF Mr.. Inger-
soil had advocated the reformation of
those doctrines of churchdom' that d.
vide men, IL he had found in the
Christ, not the church, the fundamen-
tai principle of right living; if he had
begun with what he knew of virtue
and honor and morality and have
traced them to their source, he would
have found the author of the truth for
humanity Jesus. and would have
known the truth that makes men
free"
Mr. Tilburn further said that the
uecedStu WAS all elleIIly ~ TIE gGiuICii
either through lack of knowledge or
because Of dishonest, unfair motive.
He presented the most formidable
weapons used by the enemy as "a
plausible manner, rose-tinted senti-
ment, brilliancy in diction and mag
nificent rhetoric, coupled with specious
theories and bold assertion: all of
which was calculated to confound the
ignorant, delight the simple minded,
please the prejudiced and carry the in
fidel and the irreligious by storm.
ITO those who know the truth of the
religion of the Nazarene,' said he,
Mr. Ingersolls stock in trade was &C.
cepted tor what it was worth; the
tools of the trade of one who strove to
amuse the public. Like the wardrobe
of the actress or the paint of the
clown. Men who know the truth can
| not be turned aside by the balmy
] breezes of sentiment or the whirlwind
| of vituperation, and assertion has new
err been accepted as argument by the
| logical mind.
| Mr.. Ingersoll has dealt principally
| in assertion in his attacks upon the
church. He has said that Christianity
is the enemy of liberty, but where, a.
what time or in what country, he die