Year: 1879

our boatman, we land, and enter the cars. In
half an hour or so, we are again mingling
with the crowd on Third street, but refresh
ed by the enterprise and life manifested in
our White Bear suburb.


THE HE'LL DOCTRINE.
Which Makes God a Monster Instead of a


Just Being.


bob Ingersou in Chicago last Sunday.l


Well the old mantle dear old minister
used to try and show us how long we
would be in hell if We would only locate
there. Laughter. But to finish the
other. The grand test question was:


"Boys, If it was Gods will that you should
60 to hell, would you be willing to go?''
[Laughter.]


And every little liar said:


eyes, sir.'


Then in order to tell us how long we
would stay there he used to say:


"Suppose once


IN A BILLION AGES


a bird should come from far distant cline
and carry off in it's bill one little grain of
sand, the time would finally come when the
last grain of sand would be carried away.
Do you understand"


eyes, sir.''


"Boys, by that time it would not be sun
up in hell.' [Laughter.]


Where did that doctrine of hell come
from? will tell you, from that fellow in
the dug-out. Where did he get it? It was a
souvener from the wild beasts. Yes, I tell
you he got it from the wild beasts, from the
glittering eye of the serpent, from the
oo1L1Na, TWISTING SNAKES


with their fangs mouths; and it came from
the bark, growl and howl of wild beasts; it
was born of laugh of the hyena and got it
from the dep-aved chatter of malicious apes.
And despise it with every drop of my blood
and defy it. [Applause.] If there is any
| God in this universe who will damn his chill
| dren for an expression of an honest thought
I wish to go to hell. Applause would
the company of a God that would thus damn
his children. Applause.] Oh! it is an in
famous doctrine to teach that to little chill
dren, to put shadow in the heart of child
to fill the insane asylums with that misera-
BILE, infamous lie. I see now and then a little
girl-a dear little darling, with face like the
light, and eyes of joy, human blossom,
and think, sis it possible that that little
| girl will ever grow up to be a Presbyterian?''
! Loud laughter. Is it possible, my good
ness, that that flower will finally believe in
the five points of Calvinism or in the eternal
damnation of man?" Is it possible that that
little fairy will finally believe that she could
be happy in heaven with her baby in hell?
Think of it. Think of it. And that is the
Christian religion. Applause.


We cry out against the Indian mother
that throws her child into the Ganges to be
devourcd by the alligator or crocodile, but
that is joy in comparison with the Chris
tian mothers hope, that she may be in sal
vation while her brave boy is in hell. TAP
plause.


tell you


| WANT TO KICK THE DOCTRINE


about HE'LL want to kick it out every time
go by it. Laughter I want to get
Americans in this country placed SO they
will be ashamed to preach it. want to get
the congregations SO they won't listen to it..
! Applause. We cannot divide the world
off into saints and sinners in that way.
There is little girl, fair as flower, and
she grows up until she is IL, 13 or II years
old. Are you going to damn her in her 18th,
10th or 18th year, when the arrow from
Cupid's bow touches her heart and she is
gorihed-are you going to damn her now?
She marries and loves, and holds in her
arms beautiful child. Are you going to
damn her now? When are you going to
damn her? Because she has listened to
some Methodist minister and after all that
food of light failed to believe? Are you
going to damn her then? tell you God
cannot afford to damn such woman [Ap-
plause.


| A woman in the State of Indiana forty or
fifty years ago who carded the wool and made
rolls and spun them, and made the cloth
and cut out the clothes for the children, and
nursed them, and sat up with them nights
and gave them medicine, and held them in
her arms and wept over them cried for Joy
and wept for fear, and finally raised ten or
eleven good men and women with the ruddy
glow of health upon their cheeks, and she
would have died for any one of them any
moment of her life, and finally she, bowed
with age and bent with care and labor, dies,
and at the moment the magical touch of
death is upon her face, she looks as if she
never had a care, and her children burying
her cover her face with tears. Applause
Do you tell me GOD can afford to damn that
woman. Applause.] One such act of in
| justice would turn heaven itself into hell.
| Applause. If there ls any God, sitting
above him in infinite serenity, we have
THE FIGURE OF JUSTICE.


Even God must do justice; even God
must worship justice; and any form of su-
perstition that destroys justice is infamous.
Applause. Just think of teaching that
doctrine to little children A little child
would 60 out into the garden, and there
would be little tree laden with blossoms,
and the little fellow would lean against it,
and there would be bird on one of the
boughs, singing and swinging, and thinking
about four little speckled eyes warmed by
the breast of its mate, singing and swinging,
and the music in happy waves ripping out
of the tiny throat, and the flowers blossom
ing, the air filed with perfume, and the
great white clouds floating in the sky, and
the little boy would lean up against that tree
and think about hell and the worm that
never dies. Oh! the idea that there can be
any day too good for child to be happy in!
Don't Keep Him IN the Cold.
Window Reporter.
DR.. Stewart is finally in charge of the
surveyor generals Office, and Gen. Baker is
just at present out of Office, but as the mem
ory of man is unable to recall a time when
he has been officially "out' for any number