The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-08
BRADY CONGRATULATED.
The Scholarly Manner In Which He
Replied to His Critics.

To the Editor of The Spy: It is now
some time since the Rev. DR.. James Boyd
Brady replied to the little Ingersolls,
Wolf, Reynard, Ralph and Prince-and
how completely his facts and logic an
initiated them is shown by the feet that
not one of them has dared to publish
single word in reply. From Dan to
Beersheba silence has reigned supreme
DR.. Brady is certainly to be congratulated
upon the completeness of his victory.
What a scholarly answer 1t was! How
he tore to shreds all their argumentsi
With what consummate skill he waived
aside all their objections! With what
unanswerable replies he met all their
questions How jovfally he held little
Foxey UP to ridicule for his overdone
cunnfng-only those who were fortunate
enough to hear him can understand
How neatly he proved that God can
damn, an erring child through all eternity
for the most insignificant sin, and still
be just and merciful!
No link in the chain of argument for
original sin was wanting, puI 1act Iol-
lowed fact with a logical sequence that
left no loophole through which the little
Ingersolls could crawl.
That he convinced them that God could
send man to hell forever to punish him
for the original sin of Adam, a sin he
never committed, did not know anything
about, and which was never committed
by any one, was evinced by their hlanched
faces as they sneakingly left his pres
ence. as any whipped doggie leaves the
presence of the master who has just
thrashed him.
Yes, his answer was Logical and nom
| the questions Of his critics were such
| evident propositions as to require no de-
monstration. Notice the following:
He told them they must be born
| again" in order that they may know bet
| ter than to ask such questions; that not
having been born again, they were
| spiritually blind and unable to compre-
bend spiritual things, which was the rea-
son they could not understand the spirit
uality of a literal hell of material fire and
birthstone, presided over by material
feyk in his material hand with which he
occasionally tested the material bodies
of his victims to see whether they were
| thoroughly cooked or not.
said they were ours, puppies and poodles;
and, by implication, he told them they
were fools and idiots, when he said they
brains in the back Of their heads.
| Unanswerable? Well: | should say SO!
But If these little Ingersolls. will be so
impudent" and "saucy'' and ambiguous
they must expect unanswerable replies
Some of these dear little creatures sug-
Sent Ingersoli to hell, but Dr.: Brady an
| swered by declaring positively that In
gersoll sent himself to hell OF course he
| did Nobody with the brains of a clam
would deny that. All the little Ingersolls
| are sending themselves to the same place,
| for they all have committed the unpar-
| donable sin by daring to criticise the Rev.
DR.. Brady, questioning the truth of his
statements and doubling the genulneness
| Of his power OF attorney TO act as Judge
Of the quick and the dead.
| God didn't have anything to do with the
| punishment of Col. Ingersoll, and doesn t
have anything to do with the punishment
of anybody ase or course He don't!
| God didn't make hell and it exists with
out his authority or approval. Neither
| did He make the devil, and would kill
| him II He could. OF course He would
But He doesn't consequently He can't,
and isn't responsible in any way for his
| trapping of his victims. The devil and
HIS imps must take all the responsibility
| upon their own shoulders. OF course
| they must! Mind you, this argument for
the irresponsibility of God is NINE not
| DR.. Brady's.
1 But DR.. Brady capped the climax Of his
| mastery argument when he defined "ai-
| onion" the Greek adjective used by Jesus
In describing the last judgment.
| BY the way. all who have not read the
few verses in the twenty-fifth chapter Of
Matthew. describing this great event,
should do so at once, just for the sake OF