Show PEOPLES PEOPLE'S PEOPLES PEOPLE'S 1 CORNER Questions Hudsons Hudson's Ingersoll Quotation E Editor The Telegram Jn Tt 1 The Telegram of ot October 25 23 under the title of Sentinel Irving Hudson quotes R. R C. C I Ingersoll assaYing as assaying assaying saying the following at his brothers brother's open grave God if it there be a Go God have ave mercy on my soul if I 1 have a a. soul Having heard this statement attributed to Ingersoll many times Umes I would JIke to have e havethe havethe the information as to where I could verify verity this alleg alleged d utterance by the famous agnostic I havo have read Ingersoll's oration at athis athis his brothers brother's funeral many times and there is 13 nothing like the above utterance in this neither do I find anything like it in any Q pf f his published works Can Jt It t be possible that Mr Hudson Hudson Hudson Hud Hud- son has deliberately misquoted the theman theman theman man Personally I am satisfied Mr Hudson ha has newer never read that which he pretends to quote from nor noX any of his wor works s otherwise he could not be so biased I am satisfied Ingersoll never made such a remark at any funeral nor nor at the time of his own death nor did he ever harbor a doubt as asto asto to tho the correctness of ot Ms Iris position o on revealed religion As s Ingersoll's works are accessible In Jn most libraries libraries libra libra- ries there is no excuse Cor or not knowing knowin his real views And he was never known to have addressed the unknown and unknowable in the form of ol prayer during luring his lifetime He did say however I do not know whether there is a God or oX not If U there is He pays no at at attention to the affairs of t man but I Ido Ido Ido do know the Christian religion is not nt of divine origin As to a a. future life he says If It we live a again aln or it If there is a a. hereafter hereafter here here- after it is 5 a a. tad tact in nature and no matter what our religious views are It cannot ave h-ave any possible effect on our nir future suture life as no man can be held justly responsible for tor the opinions one holds for the reason that belief is not a child chUd or jI servant ant of ot the will wm Does Mr Hudson wish to give the impression that those holding agnostic ag ag- ag- ag nostic views are not much better than fools I wonder how the following following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing would measure measure up intellectually intellectually intel Intel- with the average believer or even with with- Mr Hudson himself Jefferson Humbolt Voltaire Emerson Emerson Emerson Em Em- erson W Whitman Luther Burbank Edison and also the tho tamed famed orator himself Henry Ienn Ward Beecher considered Ins Ingersoll one of the most remarkable remark remark- able persons of the eighteenth cen century tury H H. O. O LARSEN Prin Princeton ton Avenue City V |