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Show Silenced IngersolL London Mail: A correspondent sends to the Daily Mail the following story of an Incident which happened some twenty years ago in Toronto: Colonel Ingersoll; the celebrated infidel infi-del orator, was delivering a lecture In the theater on a Sunday night. The house, of course, was crammed, and he went on with his clever and humorous speech till he gave utterance to some particularly blasphemous comments, which proved too offensive for his audience. au-dience. In the midst of his brilliant speech a fine voice in the gallery rang out In the well-known hymn, "Hold the Fort, for I Am Coming." Instantly the words were taken up by others until un-til the whole concourse Joined in, and Colonel Ingersoll had to retreat ig-nominiously, ig-nominiously, without being allowed to ijtfor anothfir word. |