Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1899 — PREACH ON INGERSOLL. [ARTICLE]

PREACH ON INGERSOLL.

Many Divines Make the Dead Infidel the Subject of • erinOns. The life and death of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll has furnished the theme for litany of the sermons preached throughout the length and breadth of the country, and. in fact, ail civilized countries of the globe.. Chicago.—Had he not met in his early years with the cold, formal and repelling restraints that false conceptions of religion had brought into the church he might have become .America's greatest preacher.—Rev. Brown. Agnosticism is simply an expression of the inability of the human intellect to cope with so vast a subject as the infinite being of God. —Dr. Thorp. I believe that those who sometimes attempted to reply to him did harm, too. Argument is not so good a weapon for the Christian as testimony to the power of Christ to save and bless.—Dr. Gray. There are ministers who; are doing as much harm as he ever did; men who try to prove that. Jonah never lived, who try to prove that Job was a fictitious character, men who tear the very Bible to shreds with their so-called higher criticism.—Rev. Harrison. He had false and morbid views of Christianity; his was a caricature of religion.—Dr. J. I’. Thomas. New York.—Crime will continue to eat its way into the breasts of your youths as long as consciences are dulled by such doctrines.—Dr. Parkin. If in that infinite presence he is compelled to ask for mercy we are assured in scripture that there is no failure of infinite willingness to forgive,—Rev. Cheu. He wns a kind-heart-ed, lovable father, the friend of society,an orator, but with all his talents he was a failure. —Rev. Smith. Col. Ingersoll will-be judged according to his light and according to his deeds. Surely he will be better off thirfi the hypocrite, the liar and the knave:—Dr. Bodine. What a "blessing it is that Mr. Ingersoll and his followers could avoid the consequences of their own doctrine by living in an age of Christianity and enjoying that marvelous civilization of which Christianity has been the mother teacher.—Dr. Cadman.