Show 4NGEBSOLL M THE PREACHERS Rob Creates a Sensation a the Hoboken Theatre The-atre S fcONFOUHDS HIS ENEMIES HE TOOK FOR HIS TEXT HIE HOLY BIBLE fJ r Dctcctixos Wore at Haml to Promptly Prompt-ly Prevent Any Itlaspuumoug Utterances Ut-terances lint Hone Caine Grovrs Bitter HoTierer as the LectureS S S Progresses Kindness in the Heart of it Priest Who Ivnorra 3lueli of Gqa and Little ol Human future I New York Feb 2iThe attempts SS made to prevent Colonel Robert Inger Boll from delivering his lectures on ithe Holy Bible at the Hoboken 45 ftheatre tonight proved a failure As the result of a protest Issued bye by-e pastors of three of the most prominent pro-minent churches in that place SMajor Fagan yesterday issued orders ihat the theatre be closed today thereby practically debarring Colonel EngersoJI from appearing The mayors Decree occasioned a great deal of com fnent last night with the result that the matter was reconsidered today Before noon Corporation Attorney SUlnturn and Mayor Fagan called upon S the Rev H T Beatty the minister Twho Is at the head Of the reform move Tment in Hoboken and stated that it S was the opinion of the corporation attorney at-torney that no steps could be taken < tJy the authorities to stop the lecture Shortly after noon a consultation was held In Chief of Police Donovans office of-fice at which In addition to the chief fcnayor and Mr Clark manager for Colonel Ingersoll and Mr Davis the manager of the theatre were present The two managers were informed of 5 the decision ot the corporation attorney attor-ney and they departed with the as Burance that the lecture might takeS take-S Jplace i To vrevent any disturbance the rj > art of the audience and also tG Mop any blasphemous utterances on the S 5 > art of the lecturer several detectives c were sent to the theatreS theatre-S Beyond frequent bursts of applause r the audience was most orderly and that I tha-t speaker confined himself almost en JClrely to his text with an occasional comical allusion to the clergymen of I CHkJboken and the statute of New Jersey Jer-sey law to which the reformers had ibeen clinging He began frjs well r Known lecture without any reference to the attempt to stop him until he S aad reached a point in the ttiscourse S for which evidently he had been Kraltlnj where he alludes to the igno ance and savagery in the bible lie + Broke away from his text long enough S lo say There was enacted a statute in the state of New Jersey a hundred or so years ago when its inhabitants were Gavagee which says that nobody shall S ever discuss the Bible except on one S Bide Since then the inhabitants haveS have-S grown more civilized They have 4 S grown to have a knowledge of fair play they have been civilized to vt degree de-gree where they can realize the abS ab-S fcurdity and to realize that the statute sleeps in the dimness of the past It S bas been invoked by a number of nar vowmlnded persons who should have Jived three hundred years ago I dont blame them their heads are that 0 shape and they are not to blame He said his audience could make up their minds in secret about what he had to say for he believed there was 50 statute ajralnst that That the Bfble was inspired he had some doubt but he added ulf the legislature of ew Jersey says the Bible is inspired S It is and that settles it S Colonel Inffereoll grew more bitter as 2 the lecture progressed and declared that there never was any kindness In the heart ot a priest and he believed that there were persons In Hoboken today who would gladly bring fagots and build a fire around one of their enemies He said that no criminal lawyer in the state of New Jersey would allow a minister on the jury that iras to try a client of his It was sur rising he said further on how much S theee parsons knew of God and how little they knew or human nature |