leading the
way to freedom, honor and glory." What use has the colonel for such
language? From whence did it come? Is he sitting upon the bones of Moses
and making grimaces at the old prophet while he is adopting his sentences?
Infidels blaspheme the name of Moses, and abuse his hyperboles and his
facts as well, and, at the same time, go to his quiver to get their very
best arrows.

"At the close of the Revolution no one stood higher in America than Thomas
Paine."--_Ingersoll._

"At that time the seeds sown by the great infidels were beginning to bear
fruit in France."--_Ingersoll._

_Well, well._ To what "mount" have we come at last? Paine sailed to France
in 1787. "He was elected to represent the Department of Calais in the
National Convention, and took his seat in that radical assembly in 1792."
At this time Col. Ingersoll's church had everything its own way in France.
There was no God to respect or devil to fear. "Free thought" ruled--its
reign was a reign of night. The goddess of reason was the "twin sister of
the Spanish Inquisition." The soldiers were in power, and great hearts
were made to bleed. Three hundred and sixty-six men in the National
Convention voted for the death of the king. Three hundred and fifty-five
voted against his execution. It is true that Tom Paine was one of the
three hundred and fifty-five. A year after the king's execution Tom was
put into prison, and remained there nearly two years. When he was released
he wrote the second part of the Age of Reason, and in 1802 he came back to
America. What he did for American liberty was done while he was a Quaker,
and before he wrote his detestable works against the Bible. Let some bold
infidel produce just one noble public act that Paine did for our country
after he avowed himself an infidel. _Will it be done?_

The leaders of the French revolution were the disciples of Rousseau,
Voltaire and Diderot. They were atheists, or infidels. Tom Paine was one
of their number, participated in their deliberations, helped to get up the
constitution they enacted. What they did is what the infidels of the
United States wish to have done. They wiped out Christianity by vote, and
forbade the utterance of the name of God to their children. They abolished
the Lord's day, and made the week to consist of _ten_ instead of seven
days. They took the bells from the churches and cast them into cannons.
Chaumette, a leader in the convention, came before the president "lead