BROTHER GARDINER ON INGERSOLL.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1359, 8 February 1884, Page 2

BROTHER GARDINER ON INGERSOLL.

Elder Penstock arose to inquire if any member to the club had heard whether Bob Ingersoll was to lecture this winter or not. No one seemed to have heard anything about it, and the reverend member requsted that the Secretary be instructed to write to Ingersoll di-ect and ascertain. " What am de object ?" quiried the president. " I propose dat dis club take steps to prove dat dar am a hereafter fur de soul." " You do, eh ? If de pusson who denise such a theory am a fool, de pusson who sots out to prove what seben-eighths of de world already believes, am nex' doah to an idiot. Sot down an' save yer breaf l n " But it am my dooty as a Christian man to controvert Ingersoll's argyments." "It's your dooty as a Chrirtian man to let Bob Ingersoll have all de rope he wants. If you have got de proper faith he can't hurt ye. If your belief won't stan' an attack, den it am too weak to stan' alone. If, arter men and women have belieyed in God an' hereafter an' heaben fur six thousand y'ars, a lawyer wid a snub nose an'

a voice like a dog barbin' in a bar'l, kin come along an' scare 'em into fits, somebody had better go to work work an' plug up de knot holes an' put new rivets in de j'iuts. — Detroit Free Press.