The Bible and Infidelity

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Excerpt from The Bible and Infidelity: A Lecture Delivered in the Opera House, Harrisburg, on the Popular Objections to the Bible and Christianity, Particularly Those of Col. R. G. IngersollLadies and gentlemen: Two weeks ago to-night a man stood on this platlorm, and, under the disguise of a plea for liberty, ridiculed the Bible, and the Christian religion, which it inculcates. Those who heard him will testify that he had a very mean opinion of clergymen, both of their intellectual capacity as teachers, and their motives and aims in the exercise of their official functions. The enemies of revealed religion commonly assume this temper and tone. They irisolently depreciate the learning and integrity of the clergy, the teachers and officers of the Christian hosts - knowing full well, that if they impair confidence in their wisdom and integrity, success will be easier in sapping the faith of the pimples. Being one of that profession whom the apostles of un belief assume to be narrow, ignorant, and selfish, possibly I ought to apologize to my audience for daring to come before you, in advocacy of such an antiquated and obsolete thing as the Christian religion. For pre suming to speak a word in defense of the oft-refuted, but still living, Bible. Permit me, then, for the evening, to put aside all official claim to be heard on this theme, and to stand before you simply as a Christian believer, with the right to think and speak. I may claim this right only for the reason so logically and elegantly expressed, from this platform, by that great Luminary of wisdom, Colonel Robert Ingersoll, that I have. Such a thing as a thinker. Under the shadow of this fact, though an unfortunate clergyman, hear me for my cause. As a thinker on the great themes of origin and destiny, Ibelieve, and therefore speak. Not to detain you by way of introduction, I have but one preliminary suggestion to make, and this I make with all candor and seriousness, trusting in your intelligence and fairness for the right answer.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.