The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-07-24

ties there was no particular, remark
able virtue. The wild animals OF the
desert love their Offspring and the
male win die IN defense OF his female
mate. and the man who Is not q kind
and loving father and husband sinks
beneath the level Of the beasts In this
respect. and does not deserve the name
Of either father" or husband"
No Credit Due.
lIr. Ingersoll deserves no particular
credit for this. and the very fact that
some men dwell on this characteristic
of his life. shows that they rather ex-
pected that lnhdellty would have the
opposite effect on his life. which effect
It, as a rule, has had ON other mems
lives. Why not dwell in particular on
the fact that Moody Is q kind and low
ing father and husband? Because ev-
erybody knows that his Christian life
insures that. And am truly glad that
the tenderness and love bestowed upon
Mr.. IngersOll In his early Christian
home, resulted In the frintage OF love
and tenderness In his own home. /
would not detract one iota from the
beauty Of his home life, but give him
oil the credit that Is due him and thank
God for It.
But In justice to the truth. but with
regrets ] must say he was not a model
son. Honor thy father and thy moth
er''-thls he did not do. DR.. TalmaBe
says: at is inBufferably mean that a
man should throw a cloud Of obloquy
over the home OF his childhood" l
stand at the door Of the sepulchre Of
that Christian mother, and cry out for
justice from the infidel lecturer. o, un-
grateful man, you are nothing to the
bosom that nursed you, and the lips
that prayed for you. By the birth
pang that launched him. by the Chris
tlan cradle that rocked him, by the SOL
emn hour In which he was held up in
the old country meeting house while
the minister Of religion said: Robert
baptize thee in the name of the
/ Father. and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost" why did he not, In all of
his howery oratory say something beau
tlful about his mother, his Christian
mother his sainted mother, at whose
side he used TO kneel and say his even
ing prayers?
Amid all the flowers Of his rhetoric
why did he not twist one garland for
her memory? Why did he not tell US
Of the source Of her goodness? How
did religion seem to agree with her? He
led his audiences to believe that his
father was n tyrant and bigot; but
did the religion OF Christ make his
mother cross and sour and GRABBED, or
did II make her kind and loving and
gentle and patient? Where Is her BIZ
Bile? "as It pest to her In her dying
hour? Why no mention Of the beauti-
full characteristics OF this dear old
mother, the best friend he ever had, for
. L., Sol at1 N-t T.,
his mother" Here was an opportunity
for him to grow more eloquent than
even at his brothers. funeral. All, she
was Christian; he could not commend
Christian characteristics. not even in
his mother. Oh, how ] wish that he
had left one Of his beautiful specimens
OF eloQuence to her memory. Before
many days l expect TO stand by the
graves Of my dear father and mother,
who sleep in Jesus" on the summit Of
one of ohio's beautiful hills in the lit
tie village OF Bloomfield, and what
blessed thought It is to me that be-
meath those two green mounds they lie
side by side
Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep.
From which none ever wakes to weep;
a calm and undlsturbed reposa
Unbroken by the last Of foes"
Oh, how 1 wish that Ingersoll's chill
dren could say the same OF himl
What He Taught.
And now what did this agnostic teach
the world? Let me answer In the
words of another who said: HE taught
that there is no known God, no heaven,
no hell. no hereafter: that when you die
that is the end OF you; that at death
you are committed back to the winds
waves and elements like the beasts OF
the field or the reptile that crawls at
your feet, and that we shall never meet
again. Annihilatlon, destruction, dis
Indignation, nothlngness, that Is our
only destiny. He taught that there
never was a miracle; that the Bible is
friend TO cruelty. OF murder, Of poly
gamy, Of obscenity, Of adultery, and OF
all sorts of base crimes. That the
Christian religion is woman's tyrant
and mans qualification; that the BIZ
BILE from lid to lid is fable, an obscen-
lty. cruelty, u sham. lie; that the
martyrs who died for Its truth were
mIserably duped; that the whole church
OF Jesus Christ is properly gazetted as n
fool; that when Thomas Carlyle, the
skeptlc said 1.-THE Bible Is q noble
book" he was dropping into lmbecilIty:
that when Theodore Parker, the infidel
declared In Boston, Never a boy or
girl In all Chrlstendom but was profit
ed by that great book" he was becom-
ing very weak minded; that every
American patriot ought to blush at |
John Adams statement; 1.-THE Bible Is |
the best book Of the world: that the |
lion-hearted Andrew Jackson turned In |
to coward when he said. THAT book,
sire Is the rock upon which our repub- |
lie rests; that Daniel Webster, the |
greatest lawyer of his time, had resign |
ed his logic and his intellectual power |
when he said, my heart assures and |
treasures me, that the gospel of Jesus
Christ must be divine reality; that |
William H. Seward. the dIplomatist OF |
the century, only showed his puerilIty |
when he declared, THE whole hope OF |
human progress is suspended on the |
ever growing influences of the Bible; |
and that your mother sat with a pack |
OF lies on her lap while reading of hea- |
ven, and this book having deceived the |
mighty intellects OF the past, must no
longer be antagonistic to mans lib
erty, woman's honor and the worlds |
happiness.
He said that our God was mot only
ignorant" but Infinitely cruel; IAN |
impossible monster" and he defiantly |
declared 81 hate this God" But worst |
Of NIL from platform in New York |
City he advocated self-destructlon, sui
eide. Oh, how sad that he ever gave |
utterance to this last thought.
All OF his attacks on Christianity |
hive been answered time and again, |
enectually answered. not only by cler-
bymen, but by lawyers statesmen and
scholars. And though he has insulted
my Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, |
though he has blasphemed and mIsrep-