Show INGERSOLL ON CHURCHES lal sundy in theatre chicago robet G ingersoll le livered an oration on whal I do to bo saved in tho course af his remarks he threw the full glare of his cat bing skepticism on the various christian churches speaking of the roman catholic church he said she had persecuted to the extent of her power and always would in spain she was rampant in the united states she crawled but the object in both countries was entirely the game and that was the destruction of in lual liberty rome bad pronounced celibacy better than that passion of love that bad enado everything of beauty in this world no girl should be allowed to take the vail and renounce the beauty of the world until she was at denst 25 years of age wait until the knows what the the colonel declared him self opposed to allowing those ilider like priests to weave webs to catch tho flies of youth and there should be a law appointing commissioners to visit auch places twice a year and release every person who desires to be released I dont believe he said in keeping penitentiaries aries for god no doubt they are honest about it but that is not the question the lecturer read and commented on creeds and others especially the trinity and kept the audience aud ienco roaring A roon ament as great as the pyramids w auld be made by tho bones of those slain by the roman catholic church catholicism is contrary ta human liberty catholicism leaches man to trample his reason under foot and for tha treas n it is wron he then took up the church for review that church if it had a few less ceremonies would catholic ii it had A few less nothing the episcopal church in this country is always boasting of its rich english relations A few years ago a gentleman by the name of seabury was sent over to england to get gome apostolic uc cession we have anny in tho house it was necessary for the english bishope to have parliamentary permission and thi was refused o the visitor had to turn to scotland if the scotch had refused we would never have had a true church in the new world but now we have the unbroken succession Buc cession of the heads and hands from st paul to the last bishop the orator acknowledged that in this country the episcopal church had daae some good in countenancing innocent amusements as dancing and card playing and for all these things he felt to thank it of methodism ingersoll said it was based on tho idea that the people were going in floods over a niagara into hell something should b said about it aud loudly they were right if auch a exists mr wesley believed he talked with the devil and that miracles were wrought for him such as his horse being cured from lameness wesley and whitefield fell out about predestination wesley claiming abat god put plato at for every man probably no church in tho world had done as much preaching for as little money good honest people only nn they used to separate men and women a little barbarous they now found that a mau could praise as well between two women be knew AS between men the next church the run in judgment is the worst of all go far as creed is concerned thi church was founded by john calvin the murderer it thrives best in a poor toil the speaker road recently a dialogue between john knox and john calvin imagine a dialogue between pestilence and famine this church mide a fiend I hare said and I any it again I dont wish to be a charity angel I hae no ambition to become winged pauper of ilia skeea in gerroll was recently recen lly given a tract by new convert who wanted to convert him when asked if ho could be happy in heaven wib hs mother in hell the young convert said that bod knew the beat place for his mother id just like to ho ft mother with about five boy like tha tand good stick heaven is where are those we love and those who love us for ono I wish to go nowhere unless I can be accompanied by those who haye me hore I have no time to speak of the but as jeremy taylor aid they as much deserve to iba rooted out as the worst pest and nuisance nf the earth nor af pf the quakers the leist of all there are all varieties of for instance eople who think they die in order to go up there bun dreda and hundreds of all founded upon this creed that I have read differing ai n lagree lo gree another body reduced to a aikele ton has been taken from the hudson biyer tunnel work on the extension of the fluff colorado santa fe road begins in a few days the combined anthracite col in brits will suspend production from oct the chicago gloriea in the anticipation ot speaker defeat for con greaB alra is in new york o begin tha theatrical leason lea son w he lead of a new company baner the french defeated bibby chaco piou n a greco atoman M |