Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-29

Regarded Not as e Dsep Thinker. but .
MAKER Of Telling Phrase.

master VI ornate pooticai Imagery and
| telling phrase. His methods were the
methods OF the Bar and the platform.
Ills task was to convince the Jury or
| the audience before him. lie had To
strike the iron hot AZ the first blow.
and follow this up blow after blow as
| electrically potent. Hence, his speeches
| ana his lectures were Fucccfslun 81
| flashes rather than continuous con-
/ Migration And IL iH Tor this very rea-
aOn-gUtting down from metaphor to
| plain pruac--thnt he a. one Of the most
notable of men. You drtnch cplrram
or sarcasm from ~ contents without
injurlng ltH Integrity.
"oRATtoN ON THE GODS"
Nothing can express better the attl.
tudc Of the great free thinker than his
famous phrase from one Of the earliest
NJ his lectures, the "Ornuun on tho
Gods"
Give me tho storm and tcmp'it Of
thought and action, rather than tho
dead calm of Ignorance and faith! Ban.
iHh me from Eden when you VIII, but
first BET me eat OF the fruit VI the tree
O. lnoNiolgcl"
In another OF these early lectures.
that on the "Arraignmrnt uf tho
Church" he made use Of this Ingenious
CuuCelt.
- believer ~ n sonrlcss bird IN
cage. a free thinker u an eagle parting
the clouds with tlrclcsH wing.
I'VE live on an atom called earth,
and what we know OF the Infinite ~
almost Infinitely limited. but. little nA
We know all have an equal right To
give their honest thought. Life ~ a
shadowy. strange and winding road on
which we travel FOR a little way-u few
short steps-just from the cradle, with
ita lullaby OF love, 10 the low and
quiet waysidc inn, where all at last
must sleep. ana where the only salu-
tatlon ia-Good night
In an Grafton over the grave OF an In
FAINT he gave vent 10 the same profess
sion uf ngnustlclam.
Every cradle nskc us. 'whence7' and
every coffin. whittier. The poor bar
harlan, weeping above his dead, can
answer these questions Just ua well AS
the ROBBED priest N the most authentic
creed. The fearful ignorance OF the
one ia as conHollnE as the learned and
unmeaning words OF the other No
man. standing where the horizon ~
NE has touched a grave, has any right
10 prophecy a future filled with pain
ana tears
"'rhr Idea of immortality. that like u
sea has ebbed and flowed In the hui
man heart. with ~ countless waves ~
hope and fear beating against the
shores and rocks ~ time and fate, was
not born ~ any book. nor Of amy CrDoi,
nor Of anv religion. II was born OF hui
man affection. and ~ will continue TO
cbb and HOW beneath the mists and
clouds ~ doubt and darkness uH long
ns love kisses the lips " death. II liz
the rainbow shining upon the
tears Of grief"
AN INTENSE PATRIOT.
An Intense patriot some Of tho finest
and trucst o. his rhetorical Efforts were
dictated by his love Of country.
What can be better In It's way than
the spontaneous and unexpected out
break into genuine poetlcnl feeling
which concludes this paragraphs
81 have been In other countries and
said 10 myself, After all my country ~
the best And when ! came back to
the sea and saw the old fng lying Il
seemed ns though the air from pure
Joy and burst into blossom"
one OF the most widely copied OF all
Colonel Ingersol's speeches was that
entitled "a Vision OF War" which he
delivered at the Soldiers reunion at
Indianapolis. September "A. 1876:
"The past rises before us. We hear
the roar and shrek OF the bursting
shell. Tho broken letters fan. These
heroes died. We look. Instead OF slaves
We see men and women ana children.
The wand Of progress touches the nuc-
tlon block. the slave pen, the whipping
post. and we see homes ana iircsidea
ana schoolhousca and books. ana where
all was want and crime ana cruelty and
fear We see the faces OF the free,
These heroes are dead. They died Tor
liberty they died FOR Us, They are at
rest. They sleep In the land they made
free, under the llg they rendered stain
less. under the solemn pines. the Hld
hcmlocks. the fearful willows and the
embracing vines. They sleep beneath
the shadows of tho clouds, careless
alike Of sunshine or OF storm, each In
the winduwless palace Of Rest Earth
may run red with other wara-they are
at peace. In the midst % battle, In the
roar OF conflict they found the serenity
u death. have one continent Tor sol
diers living and dead-Chcers for tho
living tears for the dead
Next To his passion Tor his country
was the passion Tor his home. He
grows idyllio whenever he touches upon
home lifc.
IN loves fair realm" he says, "hus-
band and wife arc king and queen,
sceptrod and crowned alike and seated
on the Helfaame throne"
In answer 60 Cardinal Manning, who
had spoken NJ celibacy as higher
state than matrlmony, Colonel Ingersoll
said!-
THE goodness. the sympathy the
self-denial OF the nun, OF tho monk, all
come from the mother Instinct. the
father Instinct. AN We're produced by
human affection, by the love VI man for
woman, OF woman for man. Love In a
TRANSPORTATION. II ennubles. purines,
ana glurihes. In true marriage Two
hearts burst into flower Two lives
unite. They melt In music. Every mo-
mcnt II a melody Love is a revelation,
"A creation From love the world bor-
rows Its beauty and the heavens their
glory.