they no longer claim to "worship
one God, eternal, just and good," nor to "obey the commands of Jesus,"
"rejecting sacraments, forms, ordinances, parade and show, along with
song and prayer." Perhaps they cast up their accounts, and found that
there could, in the very nature of things, be no worship outside of all
these elements of worship, and then determined to be more honest at
least, and endeavor in the future to people the earth with a
non-worshipping, Godless, Christless, praiseless, prayerless, non-hoping
set of inhabitants, who would give all up in death for the sake of free
thought.

WHAT A MAN MAY BE AND BE A CHRISTIAN IN THE ESTIMATION OF COL.
INGERSOLL.

We find the following in the Colonel's speech, which was delivered at
Rockford, Ill., on Tuesday, October 5, 1880. We publish it in order to
show the utter fallacy of the infidel's claim that Christianity is
necessarily in conflict with education; that Christians are necessarily
bigots, narrow-minded men, dangerous to the liberty of man, woman and
child. Read it, ye fault-finding skeptics and infidels, and save your
claims against the Christian religion if you can. Correllate it with
the hollow utterances of Colonel Ingersoll, which are so often repeated
by him in other addresses directed wholly against Christianity, if you
can. Here it is:

"I have known him (Garfield) for years. I know him as well as I
know any other man, and I tell you he has more brains, more
education, wider and more splendid views than any other man who has
been nominated for the Presidency by any party since I was born.
Some people say to me: 'How can you vote for Garfield when he is a
Christian and was a preacher?' I tell them: 'I have two reasons:
One is, I am not a bigot, and the other is, General Garfield is not
a bigot. He does not agree with me; I do not agree with him on
thousands of things; _but on the great luminous principle that
every man must give to every other man every right that he claims
for himself we do absolutely agree._' [Italics mine.--ED.] I would
despise myself if I would vote against a man in politics simply
because we differed about what is known as religion. I will vote
for a liberal Catholic, a liberal Presbyterian, a liberal
Methodist, a liberal anything ten thousand times quicker than I
would vote for an illiberal free-thinker. I believe in the right. I
believ