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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1880—SIXTEEN PAGES. - ‘BELIGIOUS, Several Criticisms on Inger soll’s Lecture Last Sunday. "se Alleged Ignorant Treat- the ‘ment of the New Tes- tament. ©. The Question of Gospel An- thenticity Reviewed by an Agnostic. | jn Open Letter to Col, Robert G. ‘© Jngersoll- by Col. doel Tiffany. ‘greck, Not Hebrew, the Lan- guage of Palestine 1,800 Years Ago. General Notes, Personals, Sun- day Reveries, Services To-Day. ic FOR GOOD OR ILL? Only aword! . ‘Yetit bore on its holy breath A message that God had given ‘To kindly warn from the ways of Death— And a soul was led to Heaven. Only a word! ” Spoken in scorn by lips that smiled, But a haunting doubt’s back shade ‘Was cast in the trusting heart of a child, And a life-long darkness made. vi Only 8 word! © Yet there lay in its heart, enshrined ~ “Tike the germ of a tiny seed, ~ A thought that fell in an earnest mind, ‘And grew toa noble deed. . 2 Only a word} + “Ro more widely the ocean parts >. Land from land with its ebb and flow, ; © {han one false word severed kindly hearts. * "That loved, in the long ago. 2 Only a word! ‘The whispered “ Amen” of a prayer, route storing Geptusot aoe! sdespaty, mn ig of a soul's "To tho Father's heart of love. Fie Only a word! Ob, choose it wisely, weigh it well; ~ Send it forth with love and faith; Itmay be; the message one word can telly ‘Will rescue a soul from death. PETER’S PENCE. A HIST FROM THE POPE THAT THE DIS- BURSEMENTS FROM THE VATICAN ARE HEAVY. New York Sun, Following is a translation of a letter from the Pope to Cardinal McCloskey and all other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. Cardinal Nina is the ‘Papal Secretary of State. Father Farley, Secretary to Cardinal McCloskey, said yes~ terday that the letter refers to the contribu- tions forwarded tothe Pope from all over the Roman Catholic world, and called Peter’s pence, 1t is intended asa reminder to the faithful that the Pope’s expenses are very heavy and his purse none too long. While the seuding of such a letter is not an annual occurrence, it cannot be said, Father Farley explained, that a like communication has not been sent. to. America before by the Pope. He has hinted to the faithful these consid- eratisas more than once. Father Farley did not think that the letter would be readin the day, yetitmight No one isignorant that in the’ present cir- rumstances of the Apostolic See it would be Impossible for the Boman Pontiff adequately to meet the exigencies of his supreme olfice in vase the off of the faithful throughout the globe should cease oreven decrease. It is Bkewise universally known that in the more @eaithy States of Europe the Catholic Church ard her institutions are at present so ed Uat the Bishops and the faithful are forced to Wivert thelr offerings from the Holy See in order ts attend to the needs of their country, for \'hich reason the Apostolic Sce perceives with t Hendy Duatenie onthe one side its expenses {xe daily mcreasing.on the otherthe alms of {he faithful are decreasing. : Ideem it searcely necessary to sum up here ‘ke chief burdens which are to be borne in this * ad age by the head of the Church. ‘The Roman Pontiff must give support to their Eminences the Cardinals and to very many ‘prelates residing in this city. He must main- tain those who are employed in the Sacred Con- tions and other ecclesiastical offices, also luncios or Apostolic Delegates at the vari- ous Courts of Europe and elsewhere. He must, Mnoreover, support the most of the Bishops of this nahappy nation of Italy, who, in consequence of the Governmental confiscations, are in destitution. He has also to su} that large number of emplorés of the Pontifical Government who, for their loyalty to theirlegiti- Pa sovereign, were deprived of their posi- ions. 2 Add the expenses necessary for the preserva- ton of ‘those monuments of science and art in- ‘trusted to the care of the Reman Pontiff—espe- cially those in the Vatican—and for repairing the cas and other churches of the city. Add the great and daily subsidies which bis Holiness 4s obliged to dispense to the many monasteries, diocesan seminaries, and other institutions of Gurietian piety in Italy, all of which are desti- ., Finally, all are aware what efforts and wiles ‘are being employed in this city to effect the transferring of the education of the young from Sey nea, See ane Gaal of estabifs! and sup| lic Schools, that the tender minds of the children may not be perverted by the errors of the unbe- Uevers and the heterodox who tiock hither from allsides to propagate their false doctrines, and ‘wextirpate, if possible, the Catholic faith from ‘the hearts of the Roman people. All these objects are so weighty that it is easily to be understood with what anxiety the Supreme Pontiff observes that the means with Which he could avert these evils are growing less. Provision was’ made in the second plenary decree of the Council at Baltimore: ‘ We desire that in every church in these States a collection ‘shall be taken up in aid of the Confraternity of Bt. Peter on the Sunday within the octave of the festival of St. Peter and St. Paul, or at any other convenient time. + ‘This shall be done until the Supreme Pontiff shall either have been restored ‘this rights, or relieved by Divine Providence or some other method.” Such being the case, I that these same Bishops, actuated by their filial devotion toward the See of Peter, will ever Strive to urge on the faithful to assist the Vicar of Christ in hisindigence. Ihave thought proper ‘to bring these th! to the attention of your : Grace and of the other metropolitans of ‘that great Republic, and through them to each of the suffragan Bishops. Meanwhile, thanking your Eminence and the other Bishops of your prov- ince for the zeal with which you have always come to the assistance of the Holy See in its uniary troubles and embarrassments. I pray tobless you. L. Carprvau Niwa, -LOCAL METHODISM. WHAT WILL DB. THOMAS DO? ‘ To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. . Cuicaco, Sept. 23.—It is somewhere stated that, once upon atime, an honest rustic did “capture Pegasus and hitch him. to a cart, and ‘itis also related that, after long and patient effort to make the flying horse pull, that dis- appointed rustic did pronounce the: strange creature a total equine failure, and sent him adrift as valueless. All ‘this is said to have happened a long time ago; but history re- Deatsitself, and to-day we find the Methodist Episcopal Church in the dilema which once puzzled the bucolic tiller of the soil before Teaping-machines were invented. That Church has a Pegasus on its hands;- and who shall blame it for being at a loss to know how to dispose of him ? Z ‘| Itis difficult to see how the affairs of this : ‘World would be managed if alf.horses had ‘Wings; and for hauling heavy loads ‘any sen- sible man would prefer a good Norman to MaudS. As a rule, -preachers-must doa -Bteat deal of dray-horse duty, and if the Church has found that Dr. Thomas does not ‘work well in the shafts, if is not strange.she te at a loss to know how to dispose of im 5 ¢ needs make war upon Seti eee om Re iri er laborers to work in her way, with Dr ‘Thomas for working in his way. , PavAs I He cannot help being what hi z ie. is 9 than Paul could help ing blind when thay White, Nght Lae around hin ¢ Church has a great and good we Se, is doing, and must do itin her ae ee 2 ota mission isindividual, and he should § alone in his responsibility to God and the world for his manner of filling that diis- : ion. I had hoped, and once ~proposed, that he be settled in the First Church ‘as a ‘imis- sionary, sent by the Conference to the stran- gers and others who congregate in the centre of the'city and’ spend Sabbath evening in f eatres for want of some counter attraction; ut there seems to be no hope: of this be! done, The Church declines to enter this Feu and it remainsfor ‘individuals to organize and meet old Satan on this his chosen. ground. vis have many and just complaints of: Sun- ny theatres, but the opposition to them is on a_general basis of negation.” Peoplé are forbidden to go to the theatre on Sunda evening, butit is not made pliin to the mul itude that there isa_better place and one equallyconvenient in which -to spend the time. “The many strangers stopping at hotels do not find it casy to hunt np .a church; the many young men who room in. the. central portion of the city ought to be provided with. a place easy of access, and, if possible, free, in which they may find food for-their higher spiritual wants on the evening of Sunday. There is no other missionary field calling more loudly to the Christian world than the centre of Chicago on Sunday evening, ‘The work done by Prof. Swing in the fore- noon is incalculable for good, and it needs the supplement of 2n evening service. No man could so well’ fill: that’ place as Dr. Thomas, and it is one to which he could be transplanted ‘without annoyance to the Church of which he is so prominent a. mem- ber. A rude quarrel with her wonld break his heart. ‘She is the old mother he must al- ways venerate, but he cannot live in harmony with his brethren, and should be: placed so that he can do the Master’s work without creating conflict with other laborers in other parts of the vineyard. 2: JASE GREY SWISSHELS . GREEK VS. HEBREW. ANOTHER REPLY TO COL. INGERSOLL. 4+, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. . Orrawa, Ul. Sept. 23.—According to your report Mr. Ingersoll, in a talk delivered last Sunday, says: “‘The Disciples of Christ knew only Hebrew,” and proceeds in a confident way to argue that the Gospels could not have been written in Greek by their’ reputed au- thars, : How Mr. Ingersoll knows that they knew only Hebrew is not stated; but every scholar knows that Hebrew. had ceased to be spoken in Palestine long before the time. of Christ. ‘The Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. XL, p.597, says: .“Long before the time of Christ He- brew was the exclusive property of scholars, and its further history is that of a merely lit- erary language.” Again, the same authority, Vol. IL, p. 307, says: ‘Tuo substitution of Aramaic [called Chaldee in the same article] for Hebrew in the vernacu- lar of Palestine was completed before the time of Christ. and it is this dialect [not the language of the Old Testament] which is designated in the New Testament as Hebrew. This Chaldee or Aramaic language had no literature, as we learn from this same article, until a date ‘subsequent to the time of the Apostles. It had ‘the same relation to the Greek—which was, from the time of Alexan- er, the business and literary language of all Western Asia—that the negro French of Louisiana .sustain to the French and En- glish of the city. - It was an unwritten patois, necessary to men in general intercourse, but not understood by many,-and in no sense a literary language. It was like Saxon in England under the reign of the Norman Kings of the thirteenthand fourteenth cent- uries. The Saxon had no literature to men- tion. Anyone seeking to'reach readers was obliged to. write in Latin or French. Sir John Mandeville, for example, wrote his marvelous adventures, first in Latin, for general circulation, then in French, and afterwards translated. them into English. Every intelligent Jew in the time of Christ understood both Aramaic vernacular and the business. Greek. When Paul asks the privi- lege of addressing. the mob in the temple (Acts, xxi., 37), the Chief. Captain asks him: *Canst: thou speak Greek?” supposing, of course, that he would use that language. Paul, however, preferred to use.the Aramaic or Chaideic vernaculer, - pee ‘That the Apostles, with a-message to the whole world, should use'Greek to convey it, qwasa matter of course. Even had the Aramaic been a literary language, it could have ad- dressed itself, in the Gospel, only to @ limit- ed, prejudiced few. A hundred years or more before the Gos- pels were written, Cicero says, in his oration for the poet Archias, that “ Greek is read throughout the known world; Latin 1s con-* fined to its own boundaries, narrow at best.” This was so true that it hardly needs re- r. Ingersoll ignorant of these facts? so, he need not have been. Did he know these facts, and still, a suit his own Par poses, presuine upon ie ignorance 0! his audience? bit 2 Y¥.S. D. THE NEW TESTAMENT. COL. INGERSOLL’s IGNORANT TREATMENT OF IT. ! Prof. Samuel Ives Ourtis. ‘The story is told of a certain scholar, who made a great flourish of a so-called rare dis- covery, but was brought to confusion by critic, who said, after exposing him, that he was reminded of a caution often uttered by his grandmother: “Children should not play with sharp-edged tools or they will cut their fingers.” Now, when Col. Ingersoll, who appearsto be innocent of Greek, dab- bles in New Testament criticism he -is con- stantly cutting his fingers, although he does not seem to be aware of it. One may well be ashamed to attempt any reply to such a lecture as the one entitled, “What Shall We Do to Be Saved ?”—a lect- ure which is fullof disgraceful blunders; and yet, if Mr. Ingersoll should become the apostle of Communism, our best statesmen would probably think it wise to combat principles which, uttered with adroitness, would be very popular, although evi- dently fallacious to every student of polit- ical economy. ‘The editor of Tue TripunE, therefore, has done well to summon the clergy to answer Col. Ingersoll’s statements concerning Matthew. ‘The assertion that the New “Testament was not written for hundreds. of years after the apostles were dust” is so wild as to need no refutation, and would be laughed to scorn by the most radical critics in Germany. Intel- ligent skeptics would never think of making, such a claim. ‘The statement that “in the original manu- scripts . . . the epistles are. addressed to nobody ?-might seem a little more plausible to one unacquainted with the facts. But all of Paul’s epistles are addressed _to some spe- cific church or person. A man who cares for the truth would be likely to hide his’ head: for shame after making such an en- tirely false affirmation. Col. -Ingersoll’s assertions about, interpola tions In the original text of the New Testa- ment are unreliable with one exception. It is true that many scholars are:inclined to reject Mark, xvi., 9-20, as not from the same author as that which precedes. Still, critics who are ‘not considered orthodox; such as Schieiermacher, De Wette, Schwarz, Strauss, and ‘Hilgenfeld, defend “its authenticity. Even those who affirm that these verses were not written by Mark claim for them a very early origin, since they are found in the Syriac version, ‘and are quoted by Irenzus (d. 202). It is of course very convenient for the op- ponents of future punishment to assume that all the passages regarding retribution in another .world are interpolations, but: the doctrine rests upon .@ large number of pas- sages which ‘are found in all the oldest manuscripts. Ineed not say that Col. in- gersoll makes an assertion without the slightest foundation in fact when he claims that Christ’s answer to the young man who asked, What lack Iyet? ‘Go sell that thou hast and give to the poor,” is an. ‘inter- polation . effected. through the Church’s greed of gain.?? These are few. 5] of the false statements in which'the lecture abounds. Is Mr. Ingersoll as.ignorant as he seems; or is he dishonest. and reckless? Awaiting further developments, I prefer, to, call him ignorant. He is like the blind Jeading the blind of whom Christ Turning now to Mr. Ingersoll’s résumé. of ‘Matthew's teaching, we find that the orator’s half truths are as: misleading as falsehoods. He tells his audience that he has read then every.word in Matthew on the subject of salvation, and “there is not one-word about belie anything. . . . If it.was neces- sary to believe anything to’ go to Heaven, Matthew should have told us.” This is a vel superficial’ statement. We have no evidence that Christ clearly preached sal- yation through Himself until after His ressurrection, and then He seems ‘to have spoken to His disciples. Such preaching would have been entirely premature, as neither they nor the people Regula have beg Prepared. to mnderstand it, for even ‘the twelve Apostles were looking for a temporal deliverance of the Jewish nation through Hin. | There can, however, be no ditleulty in finding the doctrine of salvation through faith. in Christ in tihew. He clearly teaches that there are two a classes Of men. In the Sermon ‘on Mount Christ Says; Onan can serve two masters; for either he will. hate: the one and love the other, or else he will hold ‘to the one and despise the other. “Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.”. A, Christ strikes a heavy blow at all indifferentism when. -he affirms: ‘He that is not with Me is against Me; and | he that gathereth not with Me scattereth.” He repeatedly asserts that there will be a separation between the righteous. and the wicked. This He sets forth most impressive- Jy in several parables which Ie Himself ex- plains. In the parable of the tares He says that “the good seed are the children of the lom, but the the tares are the children of the wicked one... ... As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of Man shall send forth Tis angles, and they shall gather out of His Kingdom all things that offend, and them-which do iniquity, and shall cast them into a furnace of tire.” Wé have the same separation between two class- ¢s of men in the parables of the net, the fool-- ish virgins, ete., and in that solemn. deserij tion of the time when all nations shal! be peti eg ered before the Son of Man, ‘and He shall separate them one from another as the shep- herd divideth his sheep from the goats.” But Col. Ingersoll affirms’ that this very passage along with many others shows, ac- cording to Matthew, that men will be saved by their-good works without faith. Itis evident, however, when we examine Christ's ideal of a righteousness which saves, that it is utterly unattainable. He entirely rules out the Hiebteousness of the largest and most respectable body of the Jewish nation, and says: “Except your righteousness shail ex- ceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye _shaii in no‘case enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.” Now, whether this refers to a degree or kind of righteousness, such a test excludes a large proportion of the human race from Heaven who would fall far below these Jewish moralists. It is clear from Christ’s Sermon on the Mount that no merely untoward obedience ‘to the. law. is sufficient. He says: ‘‘ Whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery already with her in his heart.” He condemns the Pharisees because they ‘out, wardly appear to be righteous,” while they are “full of iniquity.” His conception of obedience to the ‘law is not of an outward conformity to the ten command- ments, for when. a certain lawyer. asked which is the greatest commandment in the Jaw lie replied: “* Thou shalt fove the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. ‘his is the first and great commandment; and ‘the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy- neighbor as thyself, On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” But what man. has ever, kept these command- ments? And if not; how then can we be saved ? G Indeed this is a question that the disciples put to Christ, according -to- Matthew, in view of the impossibility of fulfilling His require- ments: “ Who then can be saved?” Christ answers, ‘* With men this is impossible; but with God all things are’ possible,” i.-e., ac- cording to Meyer, Christ refers the disciples from human lielplesness in obtaining salva- tion to the almighty power of converting and saying grace. ‘That human righteousness is not sufficient, for salvation is clearly set forth in the parable of the man who had not ona wedding garment ; Matthew plainly teaches -the necessity of conversion. He represents Christ as saying in so many words: ‘‘Exceptye be converted, and become as_ little children, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven,” and as exhorting His hearerg:...‘Enter ye at the straight gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go.in thereat.” At naturally follows that Matthew should teach ‘that Jesus is the Savior of sinners. Hence we read in the communication which the angel made to Joseph, he was to “eal His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins.” This is remarkable in view of th fact that the Jews were look; ing for a temporal dejiverer in the Messiah, and that the Gospel according to Matthew seems to have been more especially designed for the Jews. Moreover, we find Christ for- giving sins. Itis relafed that one sick of the palsy was brought to Christ, and that He, seeing their faith; “said-‘to the sick: of ‘the palsy: ”."'Son, be of good cheer; thy sins are forgiven thee.” he scribes .of course thought Him fale, of blasphemy. Jesus then, reading their thongiits, that they might know that the Son of Man had power on earth to forgive.sins, commanded the sick of the palsy: “Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thy house.” in'the institution of the Last Supper the ground of forgiveness is clearly stated as be- ing in the blood of Christ. He Himself said as He took the cup, gave it to His disciples, and commanded them to drink of it: “This is My blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” Creme®remarks that this is “ the forgiveness of sins on the part of God, with reference to the future judgment.” ‘The new testa- ment, or new covenant, is here mentioned. We know what the old covenant was, It is described in the sixth chapter of Exodus. Peace-offerings were offered. Moses took the book of the covenant and read it before the people. They prontised to keep it. Moses -sprinkled the -blood of the peace-offerini upon them. The author to the Hebrews al- ludes to these two covenants when he says: “For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of an heifer sanctifieth to the purify- ing of the flesh, how: much more shall the blood of Christ, who, through the eternal spirit, offered Himself without spot, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.” It is an interesting fact that Matthew, in hig account of most of the cures wrought by Chiniat represents Him as making faith the condition of His mighty works and of His healing power. We read that in His own country He did not many mighty works be- cause of their unbelief. ‘To the Canaanitish woman He says, ‘‘O woman, great is thy faith; be it unto thee even as thon wilt.” To the woman with the issue of blood He said, “ Daughter, be of good. comfors; thy faith hath made thee whole.” [Literally, hath saved thee.] To the blind men He said, “¢ Believe ye ‘that I am_able_to do this?” They said “unto Him, ‘Yea, Lord.’ Then touched He their eyes, saying, ‘According to your faith be it unto you.’ Are we to sup- pose that Christ would make faith a condi- tion of the salvation of the body and not make it a condition of the salvation of the soul, especially when we find Him regarding. the forgiveness of sins as of the first. importance’ with — the sick of the -palsy, and granting him heal- ing because of thefaith of those who brought. him to Jesus ?_ Any other conclusion is un- reasonable. Indeed, we find Christ pro- nouncing a fearful doom on Ch: n, -Beth- saida, and Capernauin because they repented. not on seeing His mighty works; that is they did not believe in Him, and so did not. repent. But we have amore explicit decla- ration by Matthew when he says of Jesus: “In His name shalt the Gen- tiles. trast”? [literally hope]. But they could not do this without faith. If Matthew hasin mind the name which he uses hun- dreds of times, and far more than any other, then the name in which the Gentiles are to hope is. Jesus, by which He was called cause He should save His people from their sins. But the most explicit passage is where Matthew quotes Christ as saying: ‘ Who- soever, therefore, shall confess Me before men, him will I also confess before My Father which isin Heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father in Heaven.” Cremer in his Biblico-Theological Lexicon say “The confessing of Christ is the outward ex-, pression of personal faith in Him, This is contrasted with {the word translated deny], arneisthai,—to withhold, refuse, or with- draw such a confession. In closing this article I do not deny that Matthew lays special. emphasis upon good works. They are not inconsistent with sal- vation by faith. No. faith can be genuine which does not manifest itself by them. But" Matthew nowhere claims that men are saved by works alone.- The works mentioned. in- the twenty-fifth chapter.of Matthew are simply the fruits of a saving faith. To be sure, We do not find any approach to 2 dis- cussion of the doctrine. That is.reserved for. the Epistle to the Romans, but even in ‘Matthew there are abundant indications that ‘by the deeds of ‘the law there shall no flesh be justified,” and that “Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one believeth.” GOSPEL AUTHENTICITY. . THE QUESTION REVIEWED BY AN AGNOSTIC. ‘Mb the Rditor of The Chicago Tribune. Curcago, Sept. 25.—Your editorial in Tuesday’s issue. on *: What Shall We Do to Be Saved 2” is as fair as‘ any agnostic.could ask, and your anticipation that Mr. Inger~ soll’s lecture must be. replied to by the !ead-. ing ministers of the city is no doubt correct. Will you allow.me the. sppce to anticipate a few of the arguments which will undoubted- ly be offered in their sermons, and thus as- sist, perhaps in a moderate way, those readers who, feeling that “unrest” of which you speak, and: startled somewhat by Mr. Ingersoll’s statements; will desire to follow the ministerial replies?’ 2. | One of the first arguments will be that Mr. Ingersoll makes: statements. which are not true. Now. agnosticism desires to make no converts on a false presentation of facts, and, therefore; speaking-not for Mr. Inger- Soll, but for the “cause ‘which he repre- sents,.--We «Want: to: Say squarely, at beginning, that. he did’ make three mistakes in his facts.':Leti the reader be prepared to hear thesé paraded with a great noise by the clergy, for they no doubt will be, witty a. purpose to throw discredit on all the remainder that Mr. Ingersoll said: His first error was in saying that’ the “ disciples of Jesus spoke only Hebrew.” Three hun- dred years before Jesus was born: Alexander the Great swept ‘through ‘Palestine on his victorious march to-Balylon, leaving the Greek language in his » and. that Jan- guage continuet-to be the spoken tongue. of the Jews for centuries. In the time of Jesus it was already nearly @ dead language, and. was used onlyamong the educated, somewhat as Latin is still used} as the means of communication by the} Roman Catholic clergy. Itis not-surprising to fina, there- fore, that most of the Gogpels, and.all the epistles were :written in Gre said the is were not; turies after Jesus. was « strictly true. ‘The fact is, exactly when they were ora century and a ha dJesi robabl: the latter; so that Mr. ngersoll Probable drew ita little strong. “Apd lastly, he said that a new translation of fhe Bible was now being made. . It is not a neW transtation, but a revision of: the ' present. slation, to cor~ rect mistakes in translatiqn, to eliminate in- terpolations, and to. cor! other errors. It might as well have: been a new transla- tion, however, for the; revisers admit that they have found more than 150,000 errors. . Among them is the famous story of the woman taken in adultery, which is an in- terpolation, and must all cdine out. “Another is the very passage in Mark which Mr. In- gersoll said he believed was an interpolation, the one in the last chapter] in which Jesus is represented as sayin: t all who do not be- Jieve in Him should be damned. In pach, the whole of the latter part of that chapter, from the ninth to'the twentieth verses. inclusive, was interpolated bodily by an unknown hand in’ an unknown age, and is to be left out of the revised edition. It is. ‘greatly to Mr. In- gersoll'’s credit that he could arrive by sim- ple argument at the truth of interpolation presumably without any aid from the re- visers. It will be remembered that twenty- five years ago, we were told that we must belisye, on pain of ‘eternal damna- tion, ij this Book, which did not claim to be infallible, was infallible. For_an ‘infallible work, 150,000 errors are od! If we were not receiving a new trans- tion, it is. very evident that we needed one. On these points we con¢ede that Mr. In- Tsoll was wrong; but, so far as. I know, ere is not another statement made by hint which.can-be successfully controverted by any, scholar, 3 ‘the orthodox ministers will say, no doubt, that there is an unbroken line of evidence running back ty the Apostolic a5e as to the authenticity. of’.the Gospels, This is not true. The Rev. Brooke Foss Wescott, D. D., in his “History of the Canon of the New Testament,” p. 11, says that it is an error to suppose _ that. there is such -an unbroken chain of evidence; that. a few letters of consolation and warming, two or three’ apologies addressed to heathen, a controversy. with a Jew, a vision, and a scanty gleanit of fragments” of lost. works, comprise all Christian literature to the middle of the second century,—that is, to150A.D. The very first Gospel of which we learn anything certain was one in posses- sion of Marcion, 150 A. D., but what one it was isnot known. It. is supposed to have been Luke’s. The first nominal mention which we have of: the. Gospels was Tertul- ven in ai Hest, oe punters wil ta us of how Clement nN, ito,. Eusel and many others all testlfto, the authentic: ity of the Gospels, but ‘that will. prove noth- ing. Clement flourished about 200 ¥ Melito about the same time, Origen about 225 A.D., and the other Christian Fathers still later. They had the same evidence on this subject that we have, and no more,—that is, tradition, hearsay,—and they were no more competent to testify on the subject than we are. Suppose it is 1,880 miles from San Fran- cisco to Japan, and we builda bridge and Jay tracks from the former city 1,600 miles west over the Pacific ocean, stopping about 200 miles from Japan. That would not give usan “unbroken line” of railyay commu- nication to Yeddo, for we could not cross the unbridged 200 miles, far ag railway communication were concerned the people at the end of the track would not be any bet- ter off than the people in San Francisco are. And that is exactly the case with the testi- mony of.the Christian Fathers as to the au- thenticity of the Gospels. To retain the bridge'simile, the people at the other end might take'a ship, just as the Fathers could take the ship of tradition, but we°can take tans ship quite as weil and quite as safely as ey can. - Again, the ministers will tell us that we have as good evidence of the authenticity of the Gospels ‘as we have of the classics. Neither is that true, Take the writings of Plato, for example. They claim to have been written by Plato. The Gospel of Matthew does not claim to, have been written by Matthew. The only evidence that it Was so written is the heading “The Gospel according to Matthew,” and that was put on by some ‘one else, after the manuscript was fuund. Moreover, we find writers contemporaneous with the classic writers, or coming immediately after them, quoting from their works, and accredit- ing the quotations to their authors, call them by name, and we find in the works o! thoseauthors the original of thosequotation: thus verifying the authorship... But we fin: no author who Knew Matthew or any other Apostle quoting, from the books accredited to them. 8 evidence is against the author- ship by the Apostles rather than for it. Take, for example, the Gospelof Matthew. Papias (220 A. D.), Ireneus (178 A. D.), Origen (30 A. D.), Epiphanius (368 A.” D.), and even Jerome, so late as $92 A. D., all say that Matthew wrote a Gospel, but they all e in sayi at it was written in Hebrew. The Gospel which we have is in Greek; but if. you ask when it was trans- lated, -by whom it was translated, and whether this in reality is translation, no one can answer. In fact, there was in early, times at least one other Gospel claiming to.be Matthew’s, which was often quoted by the Christian writers. Papias simply stated a rumor that Matthew had ‘written a Gospel. cept hearsay. The other Fathers repeated his rumor, and ambitious personssaw the op: portunity and wrote several Gospels to fill the vacancy, and this one has been accepted. ‘fhe rumor was, however, that Matthew wrote a Gospel. and the Church says this is the Gospel, but it has no proof of it, It does not know but it got the wrong one. So of be-|'John. There is no authority whatever that John wrote the Gospel attributed to him ex- cept tradition, mere hearsay, and that goes back only to about the year 150 A. D.; and one very strong argument. Against its truth is that in the case of some of the most startling events narrated in the first three Gospels, such as the raising of Jarius” daughter, the transfiguration, and the scene at Gethsemane, it appears from their narrations that John was the only one of the four apostolic writers who was presen, and yet to not one of them does he himself refer. Take the first one spoken of. A dead woman is raised to life, a most astounding miracle, enough to fix a man’s attention fora lifetime. Markand Luke narrate it.. Both say explicitly that John alone of the four writers was present, And obn lees not so nineh 28 notice | itl. ta ti et_the. person, therefore, who expects to hear the ministers’ side of the ment not be satisfied with their simple statement that the authenticity of the Gospels is well at- tested. Let him demand the proof of it, and not believe it till he receives the proof. We have been too long satisfied with the testi- mony of musty Fathers,.who knew no more of the subject than we do, and-the Church has been too Jong throwing on us the burden of proof that the books were not written, by the persons claimed as the authors. We might not be able to prove that they were not written by Julius Cesar. It does not devolve on us to prove whom they were not written by, for there would” be_ no end to the discus- sion. “As soon as we had disproved the au- thorship by one man the sphere could bri out another man, and tell us to try our han on ‘him for a fewcentnwes. The Church says the Gospels were written by certain ver- sons; now let it prove it. . ‘There is another point not touched on by Mir. Ingersoll which might well come in here, He says- truly that the He had no evidence ex-. -Instful nature of man. first three Gospels } -make works the price of salvation, and that John alone requires. belief. Whehes came this doctrine of belief ina Savior? All ortho- dox scholars concede that John was written either on the Island of Patmos orin Ephesus, and most likely the latter. No matter as to that, both were under the influence of the Alexandrian schoo! of Greek philosophy, and the writer of the Gospel was tinctur with the Greek philosophy, as his use of the logos”? shows. The_ “logos” was an idea of Philo. : Now, Alexandria and all Egypt had commercial relaons with India by the coasting trade, and of course the religion of India would be more or less familiar to the Alexandrians, The Brahminical, which is the “orthodox” religion of india,—the Buddhist being the “heterodox,”—has a deity own as Chrishna, or Krishna, who 600° years older than Jesus. He wi the son of a woman and a was of Royal descent od, - and on his mother’s side, Some Christian theo- logians, seeing that they cannot connect Je- sus with the Royal line of David by Joseph, since Joseph was not his father, say that Tet sus was descended from David by Mary His mother. When Krishna was born, the at- tendants recognized him as the Son_of G and paid him adoration, A beautiful light shone from the face of his parents and illu- minated the house, and there were other signs of rejoicing. The King of the count was warned that a child had been born which, would in time slay him and take his throne, and he ordered a slaughter of all the babes in the neighborhood. ‘Kristina was saved by the flight of his parents, and itis a curious fuet that while the name of the town from -which they fled was Mathura, the name of one of tha places at which Jo- seph and Mary stopped on their way back from the alleged trip to Egypt was Matarea. This is told in tne ninth verse of the eighth chapter of the “ First Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ,”—a book now considered apochryphal, but which was once considered of some authority in the Chris- tian Church. When Krishna came to man- hood.he cured lepers, raised the dead to life, and performed hundreds of other miracles to prove his mission. He is represented as crushing ‘ihe head of the serpent with his heel, as having his heel bitten, but as finally killing the serpent and throwing it into the bottomless pit. After his death he arose from the grave and_ascended into Heaven,’ where he now is. ‘The Hindus’ faith Is that by believing. in him they secure everlasting happiness; that in him they worship not only the son of God, but God himself, and that persons who do not believe in him or in the Vedas—the Hindu Bible—will be punished in hell. The Hindu religion is reéminently a religion of faith and belief. There is no saying quality in good works with them; salvation comes, solely by faith in Krishna, ust as Calvin said it came solely by faith in Christ. As I have said, all these traditions are 600 years older than Jesus, and the reader, can judge for himself as to. whether they had anything to do with the origin of our beliefs. They are_well known to the Christian clergy, and I suppose, as Mr. Ingersoll says, the clergy have told their congregations of them a hundred times. If, however, any one of the laity have missed hearing them, and cares to sat- isfy: himself that the Christian clergy do admit their existence, he can Jook in. McClintock and Strong’s Biblical Cyclopedia, under the word “Krishna.” The eyclopedia is the great standard work of the orthodox world; it ison the shelf of every minister'in Chicago who can_afford it, and it ean be found any day in the Public Library. Of course the Envesrieator must ex| in reading the article to learn that the Hindus area very immoral people. It would not do to admit that any other system of religion so like our own had accomplished good; there- fore, salvation by faith alone, with no merit in works, made the Hindus very bad fellows, while with the Christians it worked just the other way. The reader will understand that, While the clergy are on this subject, it would bean excellent idea for them to ex- plain: how our Chiist is the only ‘true Savior, when the Hindus have one almost exactly like ours, and 600 years older. Bronson C, KEELER, SALVATION. “ AN OPEN LETTER TO COL. INGERSOLL. Curcaco, Sept. 24—Col. Robert G. Inger- soll—Dear Sin: I have read with muet in- terest and without bias’ the report of your lecture upon the subject “ What Must I Do |: to Be Saved?” and I am pleased to find in it somany things about which we can agree. The doctrines of the New Testament, when interpreted by thestandara therein contained, are ‘such as all good men and good women. must approve. And there are none so good that they may not be benefited by the adop- tion and practice of the precepts therein con- tained; and you seem. to entertain the same opinion. rE St isa fundamental doctrine of the New Testament that God sustains the relation of aloving Father to all mankind; that He is no respector of persons; that His love and tenderness extend to all, irrespective of their condition. It. declares that God dispenses His blessings with the same liberality that he gives the sunshine and the rain, causing them to fall upon the evil and the good, and upon the just and the unjust; and if all are not alike blessed it is because of spiritual condi- tion in themselves, In the New Testament, God the Father is’ represented as being the perfection of all the moral attributes, such as truthfulness, puri- ty, justice, fidelity, mercy, and love, And men are called upon to love God supremely because He is the embodiment of all the moral perfections; and they are required to manifest such love by coming into and main- taining such conditions, relations, and ac- tions toward their fellow-men as these per- fect attributes require. And this, 1 believe, is agreeable to your views. ~ ~ In religious philosophy, a fundamental‘ x doctrine of the New Testament is, that there can -be no “oneness” or #at-one-nient”. be- tween man and God, except upon the basis of sameness of character or spiritual condi- tion. Therefore, only the pure in heart can see God. ‘Those only who hunger and thirst atter righteousness will be filled with it. That, condition in the individual, out of which his purposes and actions arise, must be right in the sightof Heaven; and they are likened to trees producing fruit which in character will correspond with the charac- ter of the tree producing it. Thus, a good tree cannot produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit, and by its fruit is the tree to be known. John the Baptist said that Jesus came to lay the ax at the root of the trees; meaning that he came to destroy the evil in man by destroying the conditions in him which pro- duced the evil. ‘Therefore Jesus, in his teachings, aimed at perfection of moral character, as the means by which man was to become qualified for the Kingdom ‘of Heaven. And this perfection consisted in the attainment of such spiritual conditions that moral purposes ‘and actions would be- come @ spontaneity; conditions in which a love of the Divine attributes would be deeper in the soul than the love of self; con- ditions calling self to the sacrifice if it in- terposed between the soul and its fidelity to the Divine requirements, And 1 suppose you accord with these sentiments, The Kingdom of Heaven, respecting which Jesus taught, is created. in the faith- ful soul by. creating therein this state of Divine spontaneity; so that man lit thought, feeling, desire, and action, will obey from the heart all the Divine requirements. “He will be just and kind froma higher and purer motive than mere sympathy. It will to him as his meat and his drink to doa good act, a kind act, a just act, even though it be at cost and’ great self-sacrifice. And, it I understand you, such are your sentiments. We need not argue the fact that man is naturally) selfish and lustful; that he is disposed to seek first his own personal ad- vantage and enjoyment, even where they con- flict with the claims of purity, justice, and right. We know that the vices which afflict the individual and the crimes which curse society have their origin in the selfish and _ Jesus recognized this fact, and labored to induce humanity to seek for achange from this condition to one of loyalty to Heaven. is instructions to His disciples He pointed out, first, what .was needed to be done to qualify humanity for the Heavenly Kingdom; and, second, how to doit. What was needed tobe done: was to change the spiritual. condition of man, that the spon- taneity-of his feelings, desires; and actions would cause him to be in’ harmony with the moral attributes in their highest perfection; or, inthe language of one of His parables, to give the good inan of the house possession and mastery. The way by this work is to be accomplished is through rayer and fasting in the spiritual sense. rayer is the expressiop.of a sense of need, bringing the suppliant into a condition re- ceptive of that which is needed. It is simply an intense and constant aspiration of the soul openi its. inmost in the direc- tion of Infinit Jove that jt may drink of the ‘Infinit’ goodness. It is. the lifting up: of the life and being of the indi- -his cheeks, with a thousand fond memories means of which” -The difficult; vidual in all its freshness and vigor to the spiritual q ire from which we have no fountain of all supply. certain to_safety and to light. Fasting, in the cspititual sense, consists in }_ seus ening Woncan Mokuws, the constant denial of, selfish indulgence, whereby the selfish and Justful nature is PERSONALS. 9 weakened and ultimately destroyed. This denial constitutes sacrifices which the carnal! man is required to make if he would | Mr. Spurgeon’s 1,500th sermon has been come to Christ. Jesus in‘His life and charac- | translated into Japanese... : ter became the living embodiment of these ‘The Rev. E. P. Lewis, of Rochester, ¥. imeans, and therefore He is described as the 1 Rev. te. 1» N. Xo Word made flesh, and dwelling with humani~ mee Kea} pee to the Presbyterian Church. at Fairplay, Il. ne and, judgi = om oak eulogy of Jesus, his view cannot objectionable to you. The Rev. Enos Nuttall, of St George’s "AS 8 con ari andividnal, Jesus called ims tof | Chureh, Kingston, Canada, has been chosen speaking othing. , aa 1 bene I indee. in Bishop of Jamaica, W. L peal of is spiritual status, He ee The Rev. Y. J. Allen, a Methodist mission- individuality He ‘called Himself Lord and | PY nese Govetumen Master, or Teacher. In His spiritual con- The Rev. George C.- Lorimer wili Iecture dition He claimed to be the Christ of God, the | on ‘Americans Abroad” at the First Bap- Diving Humanity. H Flay Hs Z Shug state sane tist Church Tuesday evening. e fundamental principlesof Christianity. | The Presbyterian Church of Collinsville, ‘upon Which we ‘seem to be nearly agreed. f | 1, has extended a unanimous call £0 tha propose to review your lecti the Question, What Shall We Do to Be Saved ?* Vv. J, Rv Reasoner, of Elmwood, Hl: . and I shall be glad to have yourattentionand | _ Bishop Cottrill, of Edinburg, Scotland, is in New York for-the purpose of attending the General Episcopal. Convention, which meets next month. 5 Cardinal McCloskey declares that he knows. nothing concerning the rumor that the Rt- Rev. Dr. dyneh, of Charleston, 8. C., is tobe o ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, appointed his coadjutor. . ARcoLA, Ill, Sept. 22.—Col. Robert G. The Rev. E. A. Wafile, of NewBrunswick, Ingersoll has recently taken occasion to in- | N, J., has accepted a chair in the Lewisburg struct mankind anew onan important sub- Ee). Dolverstt a ot she pastorate of the ject, and, ludicrously enough, he falls into |” is pals : aform of weakness witich has received at | _°.,Cotrespondent of the Living Church mentions having recently seen ex-Bisho; his hands a good many most merciless | MeGroskey, of llehigan, in. attendance at une on Sogmatist hurling over the | the American Church, Dresden. “sacred desk” the anathemas of Jehovah | 4 “D ” . could be more absolute in his statement of Daggett of Hartford, foster eine on the purpose of the Eternal as respects the | up for printing in the October number of destiny of man than is this brilliant polemic, | Scribuer's as the news vame of his death. who imagines himself, on occasions of the The Rev. John Patton, D. D., who some utmost solemnity, making jocular remarks | time since resigned his pastorate at Middlo- to the Infinit. The orthodox dogmatist says | Wm, Del.. has nally left that place and will oe Sey trie: thing when. we | ministry. eome ink of, it, if it were true; thelib-| ‘The Presid! 1 Bal 5 eral doginatist, this “citizen of ‘the Re- | Methodist Cont Broken has refrsed te tone public of intellectual liberty,” ac iy Glas Roach a leense''to read), a cording to his own statement, is our @ leaders stewards 0! id about as certain that the Almighty will do | Hamline Chureh ,had joined fn the recom- Inendation, ¢ mothing: of; tie ‘sort, and: X confess again, Ingersoll is just the man to beat the theo- freely, that 1 hope the “intellectual Repub- | jopie 4 i 3 al dust out of the web of religion. lican” is right. But passing altogether the he efforts the bright colors of ores merit of this question, which I can no more | charity, manliness, and fidelity composing: solve than can Col: Ingersoll, it seems to me | the-flowers of true religion become appar~ that Col. Ingersoll’s lecture would place him | ent te the multitudes. We cannot be angry in an uncomfortable dilema, should his or- 6. ae fewish Advance. thodox eneniies compel him to be logical. I 2 Chicago ls about hed lose vet another ot her am not orthodox, and I have great admira- | Rey. Irving A~ Searles, who has been officiate tion for this genial and gifted man; butbe- | ing during the past year, closing with the fore Col. Ingersoll can hope to have the present month, as pastor of the South Side worid sit at his feet he must get down to ‘hristian Church. Mr. Searles recently in- hard-pan,—he must be a little more detinit; | formed his congregation. that he must de- he must tell mankind not so much what he | clineareéngagement. I# has received and disbelieves as what he believes,—not so | accepted a call to the pastorate of the Chris- much what won’t occur, as what will occur, | tian Church in Rock land, Il. Many in that mysterious yonder to which we | triends who have sat undeffis ministrations haste. e here will t his departure. Mr. Searles Tne Trmuxe very justly characterized | will delivef his closing sermons to-day at the this lecture as “a remarkable utterance.” | church, corner Prairie avenue and Thirtieth And perhaps one of the most remarkable | street. ‘The Rev. J. W. Allen, for several things about it—the remarkable thing, in- years ast the pastor of the Christian Church, deed—is that Col. Ingersoll has discovered | in Jacksonville, Ill.,-will succeed Mr. Searles no new way of salvation, The words of Him | as pastor of the South Side Congregation, who “ spoke as one having authority”? stand | and will preach next Sunday, Oct. 3, morn- in Col, Ingersoll’s estimation, by his own } ing and evening. showing, as they have stood for nineteen ee GENERAL NOTES. centuries in the judgment of mankind,—the surest hope of salvation, the safest anchor to —_— The number of native Christians in India is about 600,000, the tempest-tossed sou). That would cer- ‘The annual meeting of the American Mis- tainly be a very cheap form of witticism which should intimate that Jesus Christ sionary Association will be held at Norwich, Conn., Oct. 12-14. your criticism, Respectfully yours, jOKL TIFFANY. - SALVATION BY FAITH. ANOTHER CRITICISM ON THE THEOLOGICAL $9 POLEMIC. would be very much rejoiced, doubtless, to have at this late day so distinguished an in- dorsement as tet of ena great orators but ie fart nevertheless remains that Col. Inger- <1 soll's lecture on“ What Shail We Do to'Be | _‘The Chicago Presbytery will hold its semt- Saved ?” is an indorsement,—honest and free | annual meeting in the Jefferson Park Church as the warm heart from which it comes, I | next Monday at 10:30 a, m. haye no doubt. a % ‘i 2 Col. Ingersoll invites us to the bar of free | The Woman’s Presbyterial Foreign Mis- inquiry. ‘I'accept, and would like to say a | sion Society holds its annual meeting next word from an independent standpoint about } Monday at 10:30. m., in the Jefferson Paris Oa eet de T dite Gol, Tngersoll’s follow- | CUBreD- ‘irst of al ink Col. Ingersoll’s follow- | ~ " ers—perliaps'I should rather say his adinir- | ‘There are in Russia about $5,000 churches, ers—make a ‘mistake wwhich-spossibly, he | exctusive of the great cathedrals in the larga shares. ; yor Sears minds espe cities. The services are conducted by 37,718 in et Sy riests and 11,857 deacons... . fects of the old theological idea—not simply | P*7cS!S S00 — denominational absurdities, but absolute | ‘The Paris Voltatre says that the Catholic errors of the Christian system itself,—and | Church establishment’ of France, costs that have longed for emancipation, for someth: oY tend - better.. Through very mang ming nd So nis been sonal aoa’ on have come these questioning doubts as to is Z : creed, and faith, and practice; and in giving | , Some Baptist missionaries, while laboring these’ doubts definit form, ‘in epitomizing | in Alabama, found two settlements in whic! them, in popularizing them, if I may usesuch | there was not a single ‘school-honse, and the an expression, Col. Ingersoll has made every | People were unable to either read or write. thoughtful-man his debtor; but he has not There are thirty-five foreign missionary created these doubts,—he has simply voiced | societies in the United States, twenty-tive in them. They have come as the product ofthe | the British. Empire, and twenty-five in Eu- better and truer thought of the age in which | rope. ‘The sum annually expended by these yeilve. " it es Wworlby. of comment a societies is about $37,000,000. in most recent utterance of this prince o! i, ’ The last religious census in France shows doubters the words of the lowly Nazarine |’ sat there are 35,381,703 Roman Catholics, 467,581 Calvinists, 80,117 Lutherans, and 33,115. of other Protestantdenominations. The Jews Dumber sone ‘50,000, and 90,000 are attached \o chure! ‘% Robbing churches is prosecuted in Canada as afine art, The corner-stone of St. George’s Church in London was ‘tecently broken inte pieces, and the coins and documents ab- Stracted. A liberal reward is offered for the detection of the sacrilegious vand: ‘The last blue-book of the British Wesleyan Conference gives the following statistics: Members, 489,711; on probation, 37,245; min- isters, 2,523; on trial, 328; supernumeraries, S21. ‘The Ecumenical Methodist Congress will be held in London September, 1881. The Second _ Presbyterian: Church of Dubuque, the Rey. D. J. Burrell, pastor, celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary on the 19th and 20th inst. The reunion was very largely attended, and the occasion was one which will long be remembered by the par- ticipants. The International Surday-School Executive Committee, with other. Committees at hone and abroad, have united in recommending that Sunday and Monday, Oct, 17 and 18, be observed as days of earnest prayer forgun- day-schools throughout the world. A Re: gram of exercises for the two days will be widely distributed through the Sundsy- school organizations. Half of'a very old illustrated gospel— doubtless the oldest of its kind—has justbeen found in Calabria. The manuserfpt is in Greek, written in silver letters on purple “theological creation % of His character, but | parchment, and omamented with eighteen fhey none the less belong to it, And how | Scenes from New Testament history and for- does Col. Ingersoll dispose of these in his 7 portralts of prophets. It is believed to mind as attaching tothe man who asserted te frum the close of the fifth or the begin- Shem and to hom be says he aeinaly ays ning of the sixth century.- + the nite of his admiration and his tears ‘he Me Perhaps they were “interpolations”! That Suiteriaed est mienbenn! ise nin eat aves alk ingenious plank of the Colonel’s plat- Jast year of $85), traveling ministers, 78; fo- al preac 4 And it were well were Col. Ingersoll more a es 195 here Diane paenous pation specific upon another point. He seems to | 11 ; Sunday-schools, 372; officers and teach- accept_Christ’s crucifixion as an historical | ers, 1,522; scholars, 25,827; volumes in fact. Suppose he tells us in his next lecture | jibrary, 9,838; whole amount of contribue whet he tuto of Ghrists spaucention ‘The | tions to benevolent objects, 214,506 marks. central religious Gi ways remaining so, | - a Fy A Connecticut wife and daughter left the —as impossible to be displaced as itwould be | Qo ch which the ‘husband and father ab to displace a planet from its orbit,—is the be- lief In the resurreckion of the dead, of which, nse and hired a Ll perpen He re Ohr to pay the rent si Ap Gorey bad 10k Fisen, we could erent. just. ‘Judge has decided that the husband was struck some giant blows at the dogmatism | 00t liable for the rent. It is to be feared {bei and: intolerance of orthodoxy which, if he | Hone of the family have been much benefite never do more, should entitle him to the re- | in their tempers by ehurch-going, nor has the gard of every candid mind: bat he is per-| chutch which sued for ts pew-rent much ceiving more and more clearly, I think, as he | Claim for sympathy upon Christian people. goes on his way, that that inexplicable,| The Lakeside Baptist Association will meet as tonvthe future, What’ ito be | Qot's arid my Annual seruion Dy thS fall? att, beyond? can ever Fev. P. Alison. Doctrinal sermon the ridicule m the human _ heart .G. &. Lorimer, D.D. Si Only a short year fRe, as he stood beside gins ‘ending Miay 1, ‘as ustal. Persons the bier of his dead brother, he felt, as pos- | outside the city who purpose attending the pblgibe ipever elt before, this cael meetings of ate association: ad sto will re Tom 10 gras} nt 1 inment over re Te~ Fasc era na rates | Eanes acer p dar] ry side of lead | to Deacon we avent brother, with the tears of affection wetting | Chicago. e ES — . Eu Spanish paper lately complained bitterly ince has almost the monopoly of miracles and that Spaniards go to the shrine of Lourdes, whereas native saints—Saint should be allowed to stand as the eternal verities of the race in the midst of the dark problem of human life. Col. Ingersoll says that’ “that is holy ound on which man dies for man.” What loes he mean? In what sense did Christ die for man, according to his apprehension ? The Tellgious world, so far as I know, has never held but two theories in respect to Christ’s death. _ One, H piation for sin, as a vicarious sacrifice for man; the other, that He had the courage of conviction and died to seal with His blood the great trughs which that age would not accept, but which, so enobled and so em- balmed, should live on forever the highest and best system of ethics. In one of these senses, if He died at all for man, He must have offered up His life. It would be well if Col. Ingersoll indicate to his friends which it was, and whether he accepts the sacrifice of either. 2 Col. Ingersoll says that for the man Christ he has infinit respect; that to that great and serene man he “ gladly pays the tribute of his admiration and his tears.’ : Then does he be- lieve Him to bean impostor? Christ made claims other than those of a teacher simply. in that scene when stooping He wrote upon the ground, to which Col. Ingersoll gives his own inimitable touch, He certainly as- sumed, though He did not exercise, the right of condemnation.. He said to the wom- an: “Neither do [condemn thee.” Col, In- gersoll is not Jacking in the lordly quality of assumption,—would he have said as much? Christ claimed equality with. God,—sonshi; with the Father. These claims may, indee belong to what Col. Ingersoll terms the that He died as an ex- of the time they had played together lon 2 a0 a8 boys, tagging s+ his heartstrings, | that came the inspiring words: “ Jn the night o! death hope sees a star, and listening Jove | ‘y2mes of Compostella, Our Lad. is ean hear the ru: ving. In ly of Atoch: a a ae tle Ot a wOte Hy | anu the Black Virgin 6f Pilar amply suficed during centuries for their fathers, Gourd however, has a small rival in Saint Bertrand de Commingnues, and the pilgrims to the two shrines came to blows three Sundays ago with so much pious warmth that the author- ities had to interfere and lock up some of the most ardent, ‘ dear love which, returning to earth or going away in the ‘arms of the infinit One, can only bring assurance and joy? -Very many thoughtful,. perhaps some wiser, men than Col. Ingersolf have looked anxtous- ly into ‘this. momentous problem, and have gathered consolation, not so mach from ; sf the life of Christ, nor in the crosson which | ‘The English newspapers speak of an at- He hung, as that He broke the bonds of | tempt made recently to sell at public auction death and came forth from. Joseph’s tomb to | the advowson of the sinecure rectory of tive on forever. Col. Ingersoll says thathe | Wimbush, near Saffon Walden: “The in- “would not’ destroy a single star-of human | come, mostly derived from tithes, for which. hope.” But can he stand beside the thought- | not a vestige of ecclesiastical service is ren- ful souls of all the past and of the present | dered, amounts to £708 43 a year. and see that perfect star of hope only in Him | $5,700 was offered ‘in the auction room, who brought life and immortality to light? | no sale was effected. ‘The auctioneer asked, with Col. Ingersoll’s “intel- | what those about him were afraid of, Dig lectual Republic” is that it leaves us ina i he suppose ‘these things would be done