Show sabbath day topics HE REV EDWARD 11 INGER csoll JL boll of the puritan etan congregational church brooklyn on the tile sunday following the disaster made it the text of a rattier rather remarkable sermon on thee the elint universe shenew alie new york sun suit does not believe air ingersol 1 knows any tiny more about the shades beyond cave save what lie geis gets from tho tile books than do bof poop leand rattier rather saucily calls him to account 11 nothing is more surprising the tile sun san avers than the am of knowledge which some clergymen apcar to possess in regard to the thoughts and feelings of people who are dead their information concerning the sentiments of the departed is is as accurate and specific as it is 13 in respect to the details of the existence which will be enjoy enjoyed edby by the elect in heaven in these matters it is is I 1 impossible to show iv that the clergymen are wrong as they know just as much about the tile subject as anybody for the dead cannot come back to tell us anything about what they flunk think or where t they 11 ey are in his life discourse on sunday lie tile rei rev dr ingersoll Inger eoll intimated that many of the persons who lost their lives at last week were r 8 ther glad to go than otherwise no t unwelcome call was it he sal said d to those who w ho died prepared for a heavenly habitation for they knew that it if their earthly bouse house was diF dissolved solved they had bad a house not made with hands eternal in the tile heavens sudden destruction 1 yea yes but sudden and eternal life for those who loved him isow now there may be some persons who in mornen moments ts of exceptional exaltation or who upon a sick bed toward the end of a long illness really welcome death and look with perfect confidence to a life hereafter in in a brighter world than this but we believe it to be an utterly false assumption that even the more pious pious among tho the victims of the recent calamity in kentucky confronted death with satisfaction eatie faction as is is intimated int mated in in the tile passage we have quoted from froin the ser verinon tiffon of this brooklyn minister A great deal of nonsense is uttered in in pulpits about the willingness of chrit christians fians to die its it ie true that when they roalie realize that death is at hand they may face the inevitable with more res resignation ignatio or forti fort tude than those who nho have not an equal confidence in in immortality but if they are strong aud and healthy and happy and so constituted as to appreciate pre preci clate ate the fact that the earth is a part of gods universe universe no less than If hearm eaven then death lannot cannot be welcome to them in any true sense the christian leader is is edtill on the trail of joseph cook the second de witt talmage on a small scale who lias has succeeded in making himself a very large character lo 10 a diminutive C cirale of boston the leader fea iff bays says joseph cook lately said borne some disparaging pa raging things of universalism and some things more disparaging of unitarianism he ile set ins ilia heavy foot down anthe on alie latter with peculiar energy and c satisfaction remarking unitarianism Unit in Bost boston otil has boon a local giant after one hundred years of unparalleled opportunity it is is a local cripple much more wag assaid said bythe by the monday lecturer in fit tho tits eane paine vein his life declared was to so exhibit tile sects to the orient whence they are at length nir missionaries as to let it be known that these phases of christianity have already been tried here in the occident and found wanting in all this mr cook was not handsome his ufa motive was not above I 1 Z 4 41 I 1 i kh 44 I 1 5 suspicion what he be did was eggel but it ws wise not high minded it savors of politics I 1 ile ie means to foreclose our opportunity in the tile orient and make his ills evil prediction fulfill itself A larg r and finer type of man would have recognized with cordial approval the presence of the tile missionary spirit in the ho and an if it if he lie could not pi edict great results from their efforts would have given I 1 them at least a few grainson grains grain sot of credit unlike hia his hebrew namesake this joseph knon a not how to return good for evil I 1 somebody has jilin been mahln if the I 1 0 discovery that bt st patrick was as R B near a presbyterian aj anything else in modern christendom and it lias has jonap roused of the ira ire of a cumber rumber sf of the catholic clergy to a considerable extent A presbyterian paper in do ferbo of the a assertion pays says if they will read history dismas siona I 1 ona ely they will find that ur dr liar obas claim can be triumphantly maintained neatly nearly all the dogmas which today to day the papal c church hurch from the presbyterian have been promulgated since st patricks patrick Is times the tile worship of the virgin mary of the saints the tile infallibility of the pope of horns rome tion and the rest were evidently unknown to st patrick trick the staple of his preaching wai wal just that heard today from presbyterian and other protestant pulpits there is not riot a word about purgatory or extreme unction or auricular confession or any other dogma now by the papal church so es estial to salvation indeed the good saints teachings sound bund very much like the rian confession of faith 11 |