Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1882 — COL. INGERSOLL, [ARTICLE]

COL. INGERSOLL,

The Burlington Hawkeye pavs its respects to Colonel Bob Ingersoll as follows: Some one sends us a little tract containing epigramatic expressions from Bolonel Robert G. Ingersoll’s latest lucture: “What Must I do to be Saved?” We have read the tract and we nave read the entire lecture. If this is truly Ingersoll’s creed tne colonel isn’t so far out of the way. He is coming around may be after all, We subjoin a few articles of this great man’s creed, just to show from what book he got his declaration of faith: “Honest industry is as good as pious idleness," says the colonel “Well, that’s all right. Thai’s orthodox. The bible says the same thing, and said it long before the colonel thought of it. “Faith without works is dead.” Christ believed tne temple of God to be the heart of man Ingersell. Yes, that’s orthodox, too. We“worship him in spirit.” "Ye are the temple of the Holy Ghost.” “If Igo to heaven, I take my reason with me.”—lngersoll. Of course, and so yu'u will; in many places the bible says as much. Fear is a danger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul. Ingersoll. That is good Gospel, “for perfect love casterh out fear,” If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that does notpuy Smith, —lngersoll. Correct again. St. Paul says; “Owe no man anything but love.” If you go to hell, it will be for not practicing the virtues proclaimed in the Sermon on the Mount.—lngersoll, That’s all orthodox. “If you know these things happy are ye if ye do them.” The men who saw the miracle all died long ago. I was not acquainted with any of them.—lngersoll. Same way with the men who saw Servitus burned. But the colonel believes that Servitus was burned. A little miracle now, right hers—just a little one—would do more toward the advancement of Chrstianity than all the last thirty years,- -Inger*, •oil. “If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead," People who have the smallest souls make the most fuss about saving them.—lngersoll. Of course, colonel, they are the hardest kind to saye, .