h loyal
heart and with the purest hand he faithful discharged all public
trusts. He was a worshiper of liberty and a friend of the oppressed.
A thousand times I have heard him quote the words: "For justice all
place a temple and all season summer." He believed that happiness was
the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worshiper,
humanity the only religion, and love the priest.

He added to the sum of human joy, and were every one for whom he did
some loving service to bring a blossom to his grave he would sleep
tonight beneath a wilderness of flowers. Life is a narrow vale between
the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look
beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of
our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there
comes no word; but in the night of death hope sees a star and listening
love can hear the rustle of a wing. He who sleeps here, when dying,
mistaking the approach of death for the return of health, whispered
with his latest breath, "I am better now." Let us believe, in spite of
doubts and dogmas and tears and fears that these dear words are true of
all the countless dead. And now, to you who have been chosen from
among the many men he loved to do the last sad office, for the dead, we
give his sacred dust. Speech can not contain our love. There
was--there is--no gentler, stronger, manlier man.

INGERSOLL'S LECTURE ON THE MISTAKES OF MOSES.

Now and then some one asks me why I am endeavoring to interfere with
the religious faith of others, and why I try to take from the world the
consolation naturally arising from a belief in eternal fire. And I
answer, I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free. I
want to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people. I want it so
that we can differ upon all those questions, and yet grasp each other's
hands in genuine friendship. I want in the first place to free the
clergy. I am a great friend of theirs, but they don't seem to have
found it out generally. I want it so that every minister will be not a
parrot, not an owl sitting upon the limb of the tree of knowledge and
hooting the hoots that have been hooted for eighteen hundred years.
But I want it so that each one can be an investigator, a thinker; and I
want to make his congregation grand enough so that they will not only
allow him to think, but will demand that he shall think, and give to