The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-22

Minnesota and I'd say: Boys, there is /
something wrong about me here
1t would be to me and to you an
unmistakable evidence of my deplor-
able condition, and If l had mol
thoughts, no desire about religion.
Great God! 1 wouldn't sit there and
compliment myself. You are in a.
horrible state and I'd get up and
cry: NO." on my hands and knees.
I'd do anything under Heaven that
might create within you a desire
to know God and forsake your sins
and be right with the Lord!
God holds you responsible for
your Will not your feelings, exer-
cising your will upon Christ through
faith. Some men are honest in their
doubts; some people are honestly
and truthfully seeking the light And
do you know, I'd do anything on
earth to help an honest skeptic,, but
for the man who sneers at religion
and then tries to get others to disbe-
lieve in God because he isn't man
enough to believe-oh, think that's
the work of He'll on the face of the
earth.
Years ago, when l was secretary
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Ingersoll came to Chicago to deliver
three lectures in McVickers theatres.
l sent to Boston to H L. Hastings
pamphlet: will the Old Book Stand?"
| Analysed Him
I, Correctly.
1 put the Rockefellers band in
| front of McVickers to give to every
/ uyanon fbof of
! the theatre a copy of that pamphlet
Hastings went to hear Bob Ingersoll
every night end then came to Far
well Hall to answer him the next day.
Bob stood and he drew one of
those famous word pictures for
which he was justly famed. Two
young fellows afterwards, going out
Que said: Bob cleaned everything
up tonight, tell you; he swept the
decks clean"
EYES," said the other fellow. He
cleaned up everything, but my old
| mothers religion that she taught me
before 1 ever came to Chicago; he
didn't clean that up. I've got that
yeti"
IngersolI went to see Philips
Brooks one time, the greatest Epfs-
copalian Of Boston. They sat there
and talked and a number of Brooks
friends called and they were all re
fused admission. When Bob got
ready to go; he said: 81 couldn't help
but notice how you received me to
the exclusion of your friends"
Brooks said: THAT is all right, Bob,
have an eternity with which to visit
with my friends.
Bob stood and drew one of those
famous word pictures for which he
was Justly world-renowned And al
the conclusion Of it men and women
swayed to their feet. They shrieked
and screamed and their vociferations
Of approval rolled down the streets
like a simon Of the desert. He rose
and said:
"When I think of their God and
their Christians, their Bible, thank
my stars am not Christian, I'd
rather be the humbIest German peas
ant that ever lived, wearing wooden
shoes, sitting by my cottage, kissed
by the rays Of the setting sun as il
, dies out in the west, with my family
about me at, peace with the world
than to be the greatest Christian thai
ever ived!"
Up to their feet they swayed and
screamed again and again = mer
forgot their social decorum, they
!, waved their hats in the air. What
was that? Simply the word picture
/; Let me paint picture. Let me use
the same words and see if you de
: not feel like jumping to your fee
and waving your handkerchiefs OF
hats as a mark of your approva
! and appreciation and thanksgiving tt
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