e in doing to other people in these matters as I would like
them to do to me. _General Garfield is an honest man every way;
intellectual every way._ He is a poor man; he is rich in honor, in
integrity he is wealthy, and in brains he is a millionaire. * * *
He is a great, good, broad, kind, tender man, and he will do, if
elected President, what he believes to be right."
SUM OF POSSIBILITIES.
1. It is possible for an honest man to be the best educated man in the
nation, and at the same time be a Christian.
2. It is possible for the millionaire in brains to be the best educated
man in the nation, and at the same time be a Christian.
3. It is possible for a man to be a Christian, and not be a bigot.
4. It is possible for a man to be a Christian, and an advocate of the
great luminous principle that every man must give to every other man
every right that he claims for himself.
5. It is possible for a man to be a Christian and be a liberal man.
6. It is possible for a man to be honest every way, and be a Christian.
7. It is possible for a man to be a Christian, and be every way an
intellectual man.
8. It is possible for a man to be a Christian, and be rich in honor.
9. It is possible for a man to be a Christian, and be wealthy in
integrity.
10. It is possible for a man to be a Christian, and be a great man.
11. It is possible for a man to be a Christian, and be a good man.
12. It is possible for a man to be a Christian, and be a broad, kind,
tender man.
13. It is possible for a man to be a Christian, and have wider and more
splendid views than any other man.
And Colonel Ingersoll says he knows all this to be so. Now what shall we
think of the utterances of lesser lights in infidelity since we have the
living fact before us that Christianity is in perfect harmony with the
very highest education; with the widest and most splendid views; with
honesty every way; with greatness; with goodness; with integrity; with
honor; with kindness and tenderness; with the great luminous principle
that a man must give to every other man every right that he claims for
himself? And it is also in perfect harmony with a great and _liberal
heart_.
We have hope that Colonel Ingersoll will yet find his way into the
temple of truth, which reveals the glory and grandeur of the perfect
harmony that exists between Christianity and all that is truly great and
good--since he has pronounced the wor
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