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1016( 3) How, then, should we avail ourselves of it so as to gain the fourth kind of knowledge with the least delay concerning things previously unknown?
1016( 5) With what is such an idea concerned?
1016[ 83]( 1) What, then, is memory?
30210We can candidly say to them--"The thing must have happened in some way, as to which the Divine Word is silent; this is our view,--What is yours?"
30210What is the_ reductio ad absurdum_ but an appeal to admitted truths against plausible falsehoods?
30210Why should civilised Englishmen go walking about in Hebrew Old- Clothes?
30210Would he not write a racy article on the absurd phenomenon, and ask why the police tolerated such a nuisance?
30206Has not humanity clearly gained a little in this struggle through unbelief?
30206One hundred and forty- five years since, the Attorney- General, pleading in our highest court, said( 1):"What is the definition of an infidel?
30206What of the effect of Christianity on these powers in the centuries which had preceded?
30206What then is Christianity?
30205Well,said Mr. Bradlaugh, keeping quite cool,"what do you say to the Archbishop of Canterbury?"
30205What is that to your life?
30205How many survivors are there of the friends who filled that dingy old court at Westminster where he argued before a full bench of judges in 1869?
30205I could release him from danger with half a dozen words, and why should I hesitate to say them or he to exact them?
30205Lord Coleridge did not say, but he_ looked_--"Have you no sense of decency?"
30205Lord Coleridge replied in a low, suggestive tone,"Do you think it necessary?"
30205On his right was the door communicating with his bedroom facing him the door opening on the passage, and on his right(?
30205While we were waiting for the jury''s verdict he referred to the article, and guessing my need he said,"Shall I give you the guinea now?"
990( 100) Why did they not hide it?
990( 182) But if we grant all this licence, what can it effect after all?
990( 36) Who, I say, does not see that the number of the years of Saul''s age when he began to reign has been omitted?
990( 61) What is to be done with persons who will only see what pleases them?
990( 62) What is such a proceeding if it is not denying Scripture, and inventing another Bible out of our own heads?
990( 78) Is it not equally clear from Nehemiah vii:5, that the writer merely there copies the list given in Ezra?
990( 81) Can this have happened by mistake?
990( 85) Where is such knowledge to be obtained?
990( 92) No book ever was completely free from faults, yet I would ask, who suspects all books to be everywhere faulty?
990Is it possible to imagine a clerical error to have been committed every, time the word occurs?
992( 176) Who is there who would willingly violate the religious rights of his kindred?
992( 177) What could a man desire more than to support his own brothers and parents, thus fulfilling the duties of religion?
992( 178) Who would not rejoice in being taught by them the interpretation of the laws, and receiving through them the answers of God?
992( 19:79) Perhaps I shall be asked,"But if the holders of sovereign power choose to be wicked, who will be the rightful champion of piety?
992( 20:57) What purpose then is served by the death of such men, what example in proclaimed?
992( 33) Am I responsible for the answers of the gods?
992( 4) For he made answer to Joshua,"Enviest thou for my sake?
992( 60) Was not the deed perpetrated as an example and warning for himself?
992( 71) What is left for the sovereign power to decide on, if this right be denied him?
992( 80) Should the sovereigns still be its interpreters?
992[ 19:4]( 52) Perhaps someone will ask: By what right, then, did the disciples of Christ, being private citizens, preach a new religion?
992should we obey the Divine law or the human law?
991( 17) Moreover, I may ask now, is a man to assent to anything against his reason?
991( 18) What is denial if it be not reason''s refusal to assent?
991( 22) Do they think that faith and religion can not be upheld unless- men purposely keep themselves in ignorance, and turn their backs on reason?
991( 30) Firstly, I ask what shall we do if reason prove recalcitrant?
991( 31) Shall we still be bound to affirm whatever Scripture affirms, and to deny whatever Scripture denies?
991( 33) Jeremiah states this in so many words( xxii:15, 16):"Did not thy father eat, and drink, and do judgment and justice?
991( 34) He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know Me?
991( 36) Wherefore, we must take the passage literally, and Solomon''s words( I Kings viii:27),"But will God dwell on the earth?
991( 44) What?
991( 45) Are not these two texts directly contradictory?
991( 46) Which of the two, then, would our author want to explain metaphorically?
991And, after all, why are they so anxious?
991VIII.?
991What are they afraid of?
989( 102) Are these cruelties His doings?"
989( 36) With these precautions I constructed a method of Scriptural interpretation, and thus equipped proceeded to inquire- what is prophecy?
989( 37) In what sense did God reveal himself to the prophets, and why were these particular men- chosen by him?
989( 38) Was it on account of the sublimity of their thoughts about the Deity and nature, or was it solely on account of their piety?
989( 71) Are we, forsooth, bound to believe that Joshua the Soldier was a learned astronomer?
989( 84) Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?"
989):"Who is there among you that will shut the doors?
98911,"Where is He that put His Holy Spirit within him?"
989Lastly, what is the good gained by knowing the sacred histories and believing them?
989What is the teaching of Holy Writ concerning this natural light of reason and natural law?
989What part of the Scripture narratives is one bound to believe?
989Whether by the natural light of reason we can conceive of God as a law- giver or potentate ordaining laws for men?
989With what objects were ceremonies formerly instituted?
989cxxxix:7,"Wither shall I go from Thy Spirit, or whither shall I flee from Thy presence?"
989iii:1):"What advantage then hath the Jew?
989is it not in that Thou goest with us?
989or what profit is there of circumcision?
989the mercy] of the Lord straitened?
989whither shall I go so as to be beyond Thy power and Thy presence?
989who, save Himself, hath caused the mind of the Lord to will anything,?
989xii:26),"And if Satan cast out devils, his house is divided against itself, how then shall his kingdom stand?
989xl:13:"Who hath disposed the Spirit of the Lord?"
989xv:11) he exclaims,"Who is like unto Thee, 0 Lord, among the gods?"
36268But,asks Cousin,"how could he succeed in this?
36268If it shall be demanded then, when a man begins to have any ideas? 36268 Why do you make the Supreme Being resemble an eastern tyrant?
36268But is it true that the nervous centres only receive and combine the impressions which reach them from the bodies?
36268But ought the humility to be regarded as the virtue of the people?
36268But taking Bishop Butler''s own position, what sort of government is demonstrated by this argument from analogy?
36268But what are the people as a mass?
36268Can the barbarities committed by their intolerance ever be forgotten?
36268Do you disclaim this principle in order to embrace a more rational opinion, that the perceptions are only representations of something external?
36268Do you follow the instinct and propensities of nature in assenting to the veracity of the senses?
36268He says, suppose a child to be educated from his earliest youth in the principles of"fatalism,"what then?
36268INTRODUCTION What is heresy that it should be so heavily punished?
36268It should be remarked that consciousness being a state of condition of the mind, is by no means an infallible guide?
36268Must the ministers of the altar always be armed with the sword of the state?
36268Shall we adhere to some such distinction as I have mentioned?
36268This being so, my lord, what hypothesis shall we follow?
36268To accomplish some particular design upon living beings?
36268Was he Atheist, or was he not?
36268What is their devotion?
36268Why is it that society is so severe on heresy?
36268Why make him punish slight faults with eternal torment?
36268Why oppress the soul with a load of fear, break its springs, and of a worshipper of Jesus make a vile, pusillanimous slave?
36268Why thus put the name of the Divinity at the bottom of the portrait of the devil?
36268Writing on miracles, Voltaire asks:"For what purpose would God perform a miracle?
38813* MUST RELIGION GO?
38813HAS FREETHOUGHT A CONSTRUCTIVE SIDE?
38813HAS FREETHOUGHT A CONSTRUCTIVE SIDE?
38813IS AVARICE TRIUMPHANT?
38813IS AVARICE TRIUMPHANT?
38813IS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT DEGRADING?
38813IS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT DEGRADING?
38813IS DIVORCE WRONG?
38813IS DIVORCE WRONG?
38813IS IT EVER RIGHT FOR HUSBAND OR WIFE TO KILL RIVAL?
38813IS SUICIDE A SIN?
38813IS SUICIDE A SIN?
38813Kraeling on Christ and the Devil � Would he make a World like This?
38813SHOULD INFIDELS SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO SUNDAY SCHOOL?
38813SHOULD INFIDELS SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO SUNDAY SCHOOL?
38813SHOULD THE CHINESE BE EXCLUDED?
38813SHOULD THE CHINESE BE EXCLUDED?
38813Solemnity � Charged with Being Insincere � Irreverence � Old Testament Better than the New �"Why Hurt our Feelings?
38813The"Inspired"Writers � Why did not God furnish Every Nation with a Bible?
38813WHAT IS RELIGION?
38813WHAT IS RELIGION?
38813WHAT WOULD YOU SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BIBLE AS A MORAL GUIDE?
38813WHAT WOULD YOU SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BIBLE AS A MORAL GUIDE?
38813WHICH WAY?
38813WHICH WAY?
38813WHY AM I AN AGNOSTIC?
38813WHY AM I AN AGNOSTIC?
38098By what right does a man, or an organization of men, or a god, claim to hold a brain in bondage?
38098Do we not know that there are no two persons alike in the whole world?
38098From such a God, why should man expect assistance?
38098How many grand thinkers have died with the mailed hand of superstition upon their lips?
38098In order that they may be prepared to investigate the phenomena by which we are surrounded?
38098Is any such thing possible?
38098Is it desirable that all should be exactly alike in their religious convictions?
38098Is it possible that an infinite God created this world simply to be the dwelling- place of slaves and serfs?
38098No two trees, no two leaves, no two anythings that are alike?
38098Of these churches, we will ask this question: How can a man, who conscientiously believes in religious liberty, worship a God who does not?
38098To us this seems a most shocking custom; and yet, after all, is it as bad as to put the souls of our children in the strait- jacket of a creed?
38098Under these circumstances, what wretched object can he have in lengthening out his aimless life?
38098Under these conditions all your Scotts, Henrys, and McKnights have written; and weighed in these scales, what are their commentaries worth?
38098What for?
38098What then can we think of a God who would open the artillery of heaven upon one of his own children for simply expressing his honest thought?
38098Who can imagine the infinite impudence of a Church assuming to think for the human race?
38098Who can tell what the world has lost by this infamous system of suppression?
38098Why are they so delighted to find an allusion to Providence in the message of Lincoln?
38098Why do they care so little for the damnation of men, and so much for the baptism of children?
38098Why do they refuse to worship in the temples of each other?
38098Why do they stand with hat in hand before presidents, kings, emperors, and scientists, begging, like Lazarus, for a few crumbs, of religious comfort?
38098Why do they torture the words of the great into an acknowledgment of the truth of Christianity?
38098Why is it that these Christians not only detest the infidels, but cordially despise each other?
38098Why should he fall upon his knees and implore a phantom-- a phantom that is deaf, and dumb, and blind?
38098Why should he waste his days in fruitless prayer?
38098Why will they adorn their churches with the money of thieves and flatter vice for the sake of subscriptions?
38098Why will they attempt to bribe Science to certify to the writings of God?
38098simply for the purpose of raising orthodox Christians?
36800But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? 36800 And can any rational inquirer be astonished at that? 36800 And if we are to give to every one that asketh, what are our vagrancy laws but a flagrant violation of Christianity? 36800 And the stone was still against the door, and they said, Who shall roll us away the stone? 36800 And while they yet believed not for joy and wondered, he said unto them,Have ye here any meat?"
36800God is_ not_ the God of the_ dead_, but of the_ living_,"What then is the use of Catholic prayers for the souls of those in Purgatory?
36800Have not the Jesuits carried out this advice?
36800He said--"The baptism of John, whence was it?
36800He saith unto them, But whom say_ ye_ that I am?"
36800How could Jesus see from one spot all the kingdoms of the world?
36800If any one smites us on the right cheek, do we not quickly turn and hit him on the left?
36800If this is so, what becomes of the hope which believers in immortality have that in heaven they will be joined again to those they have lost on earth?
36800In the morning he was bound and led before Pilate the governor, who asked him,"Art thou the king of the Jews?"
36800Instead of showing any penitence, he pertly answered,"How is it that ye sought me?
36800Is this an instance of meekness?
36800Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee?
36800So after all, who knows that they found the right babe at last?
36800When Jesus came into the coasts of Cæsarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of Man am?
36800When asked whether it was lawful to render tribute unto Cæsar, he said, looking at a coin,"Whose is this image and superscription?"
36800Who in his senses would think of doing so?
36800Who would stand by and allow others to do it?
36800Ye fools, did not he that made that which is_ without_, make that which it_ within_ also?"
36800and who are my brethren?
36800from heaven, or of men?"
36800or, what shall we drink?
36800or, wherewithal shall we be clothed?"
36800wist ye not that I must be about my Father''s business?"
36271But is this really a fact?
36271But what experience has man of god?
36271Can not god make the evidence of his existence as clear as my own is to me?
36271Has god an organisation?
36271How will he get over the fact that Nature is one vast battle- field on which all life is engaged in warfare?
36271If he can not, what becomes of his power?
36271If yes, what kind of god was man indebted to?
36271Is it not absurd?
36271Must it not have been a howling wilderness fit only for savage beasts and brutal barbarians?
36271Say to yourselves:"if every one were to act as I am doing, would the world be benefited?"
36271Some Theist may say:"Suppose that I grant that I can not prove that god exists, what then?
36271To a god who once drowned the whole of mankind except one family?
36271Was he a petty tyrant, in favor of slavery?
36271Was he a polygamist?
36271Was he brutal and licentious?
36271Was he ignorant of the facts of life?
36271Was he in favor of aggressive wars?
36271Was he revengeful and relentless?
36271Were all the"miserable sinners"--the descendants of the first pair-- indebted to Jahveh for their"corrupt"natures?
36271What beneficence will he detect in the fact that all animals"prey"upon one another?
36271What does experience teach us in respect to a person?
36271What goodness will he see in the design that gives the strong and cunning the advantage over the weak and simple?
36271What, then, is meant by the word Nature?
36271Why is this?
36271and if he will not, what of his goodness?
36271and that man is not exempt from the struggle?
36271xx., 5)?
36271xxiv., 16)?
36271xxv., 44, 45) and injustice of all kinds?
38095And we took all his cities, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain"?
38095And what does a trial for heresy mean?
38095But what shall I say more, for the time would fail me to tell of Sabellianism, of a"Modal Trinity,"and the"Eternal Procession of the Holy Ghost"?
38095Can that tongue be palsied by a presbytery that praises a self- denying and heroic life?
38095Can we hope with the story of Daniel in the lions''den to rival the stupendous miracles of India?
38095Did Caesar take the city of Jericho"and utterly destroy all that was in the city, both men and women, young and old"?
38095Did Julius Caesar send the following report to the Roman senate?
38095Does it still glory in the damnation of infants, and does it still persist in emptying the cradle in order that perdition may be filled?
38095Does it still retain within its stony heart all the malice of its founder?
38095How long will they grovel in the dust before the ignorant legends of the barbaric past?
38095How long, O how long will man remain the cringing slave of a false and cruel creed?
38095How long, O how long will mankind worship a book?
38095How long, O how long will they pursue phantoms in a darkness deeper than death?
38095How long, O how long, will man listen to the threats of God, and shut his eyes to the splendid possibilities of Nature?
38095Is a minister to be silenced because he speaks fairly of a noble and candid adversary?
38095Is it a sin to speak a charitable word over the grave of John Stuart Mill?
38095Is it heretical to pay a just and graceful tribute to departed worth?
38095Is it possible that a god delights in threatening and terrifying men?
38095Is it possible that an infinite Deity is unwilling that a man should investigate the phenomena by which he is surrounded?
38095Is it still starving the soul and famishing the heart?
38095Is it still trembling and shivering, crouching and crawling before its ignorant Confession of Faith?
38095Is it still warming its fleshless hands at the flames that consumed Servetus?
38095Is there anything in our bible as lofty and loving as the prayer of the Buddhist?
38095Must the true Presbyterian violate the sanctity of the tomb, dig open the grave and ask his God to curse the silent dust?
38095What would you then think of the doctrine of"vicarious sacrifice?"
38095Who can estimate the misery that has been caused by this most infamous doctrine of eternal punishment?
38095Why should a Christian be better than his God?
38095Why should man be afraid to think, and why should he fear to express his thoughts?
38095Why should she show mercy to a kind and noble heretic whom her God will burn in eternal fire?
38095Why should the Church pity a man whom her God hates?
38095Why should we convert the heathen of China and kill our own?
38095Why should we send bibles to the east and muskets to the west?
38095Why should we send missionaries across the seas, and soldiers over the plains?
22955Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? 22955 Thinkest thou that I can not now pray to my Father and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
22955[ 18]Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?
22955[ 19]Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God?
22955[ 24]Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth?
22955[ 27]How can ye escape the damnation of hell?
22955[ 35] Is that true? 22955 [ 38] The devils were among the first to recognize Christ''s divinity:"What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God?
22955[ 39]Let us alone, thou Jesus of Nazareth; art thou come to destroy us?
22955[ 8]Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
22955At one time Jesus denied his own perfection, saying:"Why callest thou me good?
22955But suppose there were nothing to substitute for the myth destroyed, should that deter the Truthseeker from continuing his investigation?
22955Difficult or Easy?
22955Do its requests represent the best modern conception of prayer as an inward aspiration rather than as petitionary?
22955Do the followers of Jesus, who claim that he made no mistakes, believe on him?
22955Do they believe that they can also raise people from the dead?
22955He strikes an admirable note when he says,"What is a man profited if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
22955He that loveth his life shall lose it", he again showed terror:"Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say?
22955If Jesus approved of communism was he right or wrong?
22955If those men did not have the power deputed to them, must we not doubt the accuracy of Jesus?
22955Is it better to be poor in spirit than rich and eager in spirit?
22955Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?
22955Is it not vain repetition to recite it again and again?
22955Is there any virtue in thus deceiving the people regarding the possibilities of prayer?
22955Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
22955Jesus recognized his failure to obtain the answer, saying on the cross,"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
22955Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee?
22955May we not view with doubt any of Jesus''teachings that depended upon his mistaken conception of the duration of the world?
22955Must we not deplore this mistake of Jesus and recast our entire opinion of him as a religious teacher?
22955No reader of the following pages should ever say,"What difference does it make?"
22955This instruction should be reversed, should it not?
22955This is bad advice, is it not?
22955What modern ethical teacher will say that evil should not be resisted, or that this advice of Jesus was perfection?
22955What will be the result of this radical change?
22955What would happen if Christians should discover that their leader was not an incomparable guide?
22955Would not that have set a better precedent?
22955how can ye, being evil, speak good things?
30900After we build our homes, make our cities and add improvements, what happens?
30900And is it also afraid of that God''s supposed wrath?
30900And may I answer for you, that he was where Moses was when the light went out?
30900As I watched this fly in its labor, this thought came to me: Is the fly unlike the human being in its desire to live?
30900But if we possess a soul and it is capable of passing through the many and varied stages that life suffers, what becomes of its impressions?
30900But in the final analysis, what does it avail us?
30900Can you imagine the wildness of life in such a jungle of cannibalism?
30900Did you ever stop to consider that the child, when born, does not know that you are its parent?
30900Do those who believe in such a creature ever consider him taking a bath-- and in what?
30900Do you know and realize the suffering that we endure?
30900Does it derive happiness when it is able to labor to make happy its fly Juliet?
30900Does it love?
30900Does it really think to better its species and solve the problem of its kind?
30900Does it want to live because it is ambitious and is trying to excel other flies?
30900Has it, too, all the agony of fear of passing to the"Great Beyond"?
30900Has it, too, an imaginary God in the form of a Big Fly?
30900I ask for what reason has Nature imposed this terrible penalty upon woman?
30900If it is the"soul"that causes the functioning of the body, where is it when such an action takes place?
30900If it is the"soul"that gives us"life,"how is it that we can materially and mechanically destroy it?
30900If the fly''s desire to live is so great, what interest does it have in life?
30900If we live after death, by what means can one person communicate with another?
30900Is it afraid of death and of the mystery of dissolution?
30900Is it any wonder that we grow up to be serfs and slaves?
30900Is the use of a danger signal at a hazardous crossing, for the purpose of preventing disaster, pessimism?
30900Is there a fly family to mourn its death?
30900Is_ all_ of life worth the sorrow, the agony and fear of death?
30900JOSEPH LEWIS_ January 10, 1928_ INTRODUCTION_ Where did we come from?
30900May I ask, where was God, and what did he do, to stop this frightful nightmare of torture committed in"his"name?
30900Or of eating his breakfast-- and of what it consists?
30900What and where are the benefits of its retention?
30900What are we doing here?
30900What is there to repay us for living?
30900What must be the horror, darkness and emptiness of those living substances that are"inferior"to us?
30900What sort of crust in the earth''s formation are we to make?
30900What will be the future living forces?
30900What will be the product of the future living forces that will utilize the materials that our bodies will make?
30900Where is the soul when we are in a state of unconsciousness?
30900Whither are we going?_ These questions have puzzled thinking people since consciousness first dawned in the brain.
30900Why must we be made to suffer such dreadful torment before death, since by eternal decree it is the common lot all must endure?
30900Within the movements and actions of that fly was wrapped up the secret of"Whence did I come, and whither am I going?"
30900X But after this life with all our pains and sorrows, what then?
30900_ Why?_ Would you, reader, were it in your power, formulate such a method of reproduction?
30900_ Why?_ Would you, reader, were it in your power, formulate such a method of reproduction?
34513Ah,said my friend,"as I have never seen either angel or dragon, how can I tell whether it is one or the other?"
34513A Confession of Faith; Forward or Back?
34513After a long trial he was condemned for attacking the Trinity, and beheaded at Berne, 26(?)
34513Also Religion not History,''77; What is Christianity without Christ?
34513Among his writings are Dilettantism in Science,''42; Letters on the Study of Nature,''45- 46; Who''s to Blame?
34513Amongst his writings are An Address to Men of Science, The Gospel according to R. Carlile, What is God?
34513Blasphemy No Crime; Arrows of Freethought; Prisoner for Blasphemy( 1884); Letters to Jesus Christ; What Was Christ?
34513Has Man a Soul, Is there a God?
34513Has contributed largely to the leading Radical journals, and has written numerous works of fiction, of which we must mention Under which Lord?
34513He has also written Jesus as a Jewish Reformer, The Egyptian Religion and Positivism, and Is the Pentateuch by Moses?
34513He has also written many pamphlets, of which we mention New Lives of Abraham, David, and other saints, Who was Jesus Christ?
34513He has also written several pamphlets: Thomas Paine was Junius, 1880: Self Contradictions of the Bible; Is the Bible a Lying Humbug?
34513He has of late been engaged upon the question: Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited?
34513He held a public discussion with J. Brindley at Liverpool, in 1840, on"What is Christianity?"
34513He rejects all supernaturalism, and has written The Bible, What Is It?, Studies in Theology, The Bible Against Itself, etc.
34513He translated into German Cabet''s Voyage en Icarie, and in an important work entitled Qu''est ce que La Religion?
34513Hell, The Dying Creed, Myth and Miracle, Do I Blaspheme?
34513His Man Where, Whence, and Whither?,''67, advocating Darwinian views, made some stir in Scotland.
34513His bold romance, What is to be Done?
34513In 1857 Mr. Bradlaugh commenced a commentary on the Bible, entitled The Bible, What is it?
34513In a succeeding volume What is the Bible?
34513In''10 he published anonymously A Letter Concerning the Two First Chapters of Luke, also entitled Who was the Father of Jesus Christ?
34513In''21 he wrote Elements of Philosophy, followed by What is a Sound Mind?
34513In''40 appears his memoir, What is Property?
34513In''78 he wrote a study on Frederick the Great entitled Un Roi Philosophe, and in''83 Is God Dead?
34513Montaigne took as his motto: Que sçais- je?
34513Mr. Massey has also lectured widely on such subjects as Why Do n''t God Kill the Devil?
34513One day a spy asked Boindin,"Who is this M. de l''Etre with whom you seem so displeased?"
34513One of the founders of French Theophilanthropy; published many writings, the best known of which is entitled What is Theophilanthropy?
34513Owenite author of Is the Bible True?
34513Porzio( Simone), a disciple of Pomponazzi, to whom, when lecturing at Pisa, the students cried"What of the soul?"
34513Poulin( Paul), Belgian follower of Baron Colins and author of What is God?
34513Renard( Georges), French professor of the Academie of Lausanne; author of Man, is he Free?
34513The Bible, Is it the Word of God?
34513We mention What must I do to be Saved?
34513What did Jesus Teach?
34513What is Man?
34513[ What know I?]
34513and Man: Whence and Whither?
34513and What is Blasphemy?
51793How,he asks,"did the Athenian audience, who vehemently attacked the poet for divulging the mysteries, tolerate such a drama?
51793If,he says,"we only do good to them that do good to us, what reward have we?"
51793Where are all those Doctors and Masters whom thou didst well know whilst they lived and flourished in learning? 51793 And if God is not, whence come good things?
51793And still more, how did Æschylus, a pious and serious thinker, venture to bring such a subject on the stage with a moral purpose?"
51793And, indeed, how should liberty anywhere flourish when knowledge is trodden under foot?
51793But did he ever do it?
51793First came the Portuguese Francisco Sanchez( 1552- 1623?
51793Had they had no part in truth and salvation?"
51793How can we have the right to say that no Babylonians had a scientific interest in the data?
51793How did the Hellenes relate to the older polities and cultures which they found there?
51793If Milton lent dignity to Satan in Puritan England, was Euripides to do less for Dionysos in Macedonia?
51793If religion, why not religious speculation, leading to philosophy and science?
51793If the early philosophers"had nothing but theology behind them"( p. 138), why not infer theologies for the old- established deities of Mesopotamia?
51793If the most obvious necessity is to be urged, why not all the less obvious?
51793In conclusion we may ask, How could he be?
51793In the second dialogue figure Rhetulus(= Lutherus) and Cubercus(= Bucerus?
51793Is it not then probable that astronomical knowledge was so ordered by Easterns, and passed on to Hellenes?
51793It is something of a marvel, further, that it spared Rabelais(?
51793It is to be noted that the refrain"Who is the God whom we should worship?"
51793It may more fitly be read[ 459] as an echo of the saying of Herakleitos that"the Wise[= the Logos?]
51793Letronne, Mélanges d''Érudition, 1860(?
51793Of a very different type from Wiclif is the remarkable personality of the Welshman Reginald( or Reynold) Pecock( 1395?-1460?
51793Sometimes the Jew''s case is shrewdly put, as when he asks,[ 956]"Did Jesus come into the world for this purpose, that we should not believe him?"
51793Surely they must have been"known"to some adepts long before: how else came they to be accepted?
51793The same account holds good of the best of the so- called Sophists, as Gorgias the Sicilian(?
51793Then there sounds from the Rig- Veda( x, 121) the wistful question: Who is the God whom we should worship?"
51793There is indeed no more remarkable figure in the Middle Ages than Roger Bacon(?
51793This is said to occur in thousands of cases in Christian countries: why not also among savages?
51793We are left asking, how came an early Ionian Greek to think thus, outgoing the assimilative power of the later age of Aristotle?
51793What, in sooth, would the real words of a raving Bacchante be like?
51793Who has seen him?
51793Whom shall we praise?"
51793Why affirm always that"the"Greeks did whatever great Greeks achieved?
51793Why not?
51793Xenophanes of Kolophon(?
51793[ 1116]"Dost thou desire to taste eternal bliss?
51793how long shall this superstitious sect of Christians and this upstart invention endure?
51793p. 384) that in Akhunaton''s heresy"we see... the highest attitude[?
10684And if only some deserve credence, who, except reason,[ 20] is to decide which?
10684And what about the new species which were constantly being found in the New World and did not exist in the Old?
10684And what is this but agnosticism?
10684Can we be certain that there may not come a great set- back?
10684Do they offer, for this is what we want, an intelligible reconciliation of the discords in the universe?
10684Do you think to please the God you worship by this exhibition of your zeal?
10684Had men so soon forgotten � the style of the divine artist �?
10684How is this doctrine justified?
10684How was it that the generation which saw the last genuine miracles performed could not distinguish them from the impostures which followed?
10684If the story of Noah � s Ark and the Flood is true, how was it that beasts unable to swim or fly inhabit America and the islands of the Ocean?
10684Is it incumbent on the State to respect the conscience of the individual at all costs, or within what limits?
10684Is it not conceivable that something of the same kind may occur again?
10684Is it reasonable, for instance, to pray for rain?
10684Is the fairest of virtues considered a crime in Judea?
10684Might not its expansion[ 42] beyond the Israelites involve ultimately a danger to the Empire?
10684SAMUEL: Saul, did you obey God?
10684SAUL: Well, who does not?
10684Tell me, what is my fault?
10684The question has been asked, which of the two systems is more favourable to the creation of a tolerant social atmosphere?
10684What then would his neighbours make of him?
10684When did they cease?
10684Where did the kangaroos of Australia drop from?
10684Why then does evil exist?
10684Without the work of Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, and their fellow- combatants, would it have been reformed?
10684Would more men be saved if all blindly resigned themselves to the will of their rulers and accepted the religion of their country?
10684Would you think that a Mohammedan was governed by his Koran, who on all occasions departed from the literal sense?
10684that some new force, emerging from the unknown, may surprise the world and cause a similar set- back?
10684� Do you think to convert Mr. Eaton to your religion by embittering his existence?
10684� Men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? � He was then denounced to the Holy Office of the Inquisition by two Dominican monks.
38107Admitting that a god did create the universe, the question then arises, of what did he create it?
38107But what put all this matter in motion?
38107Can the conduct of infinite wisdom, power and love ever change?
38107Can we see the propriety of so constructing the earth, that only an insignificant portion of its surface is capable of producing an intelligent man?
38107Can you believe that such directions were given by any being except an infinite fiend?
38107Did any devil ever force upon a husband, upon a father, so cruel and so heartless an alternative?
38107Did any devil ever make so infamous a threat?
38107Did it ever occur to them that a cancer is as beautiful in its development as is the reddest rose?
38107Does not an improvement in the things created, show a corresponding improvement in the creator?
38107How did he, even to the extent that he has, outgrow his ignorant, abject terror, and throw off the yoke of superstition?
38107If an infinite universe has been made out of an infinite god, how much of the god is left?
38107If evil is necessary to the development of man, in this life, how is it possible for the soul to improve in the perfect joy of paradise?
38107If it was made by an infinite being, what reason have we for saying that he will render it nearer perfect than it now is?
38107If neither matter nor force were created, what evidence have we, then, of the existence of a power superior to nature?
38107If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent?
38107If there is no interference, of what practical use can such power be?
38107Is it possible the devil was such an idiot?
38107Is it possible to discover infinite intelligence and love in universal and eternal carnage?
38107Is the infinite capable of any improvement whatever?
38107Is there a Christian in the whole world who would believe such a story if found in any other book?
38107Is there in all the religious literature of the world anything more grossly absurd than this?
38107Now suppose that two atoms should come together, would there be an effect?
38107Of what use have the gods been to man?
38107Should any great credit be given to this deity for not being caught with such chaff?
38107Supposing this to be true, what is to become of those who die in infancy?
38107That what they are pleased to call the adaptation of means to ends, is as apparent in the cancer as in the April rain?
38107Think of the amount of thought it must have required to invent a way by which the life of one man might be given to produce one cancer?
38107Under such circumstances, what can their thoughts be worth?
38107Was ever any imp of any devil guilty of such savagery?
38107What man, who ever thinks, can believe that blood can appease God?
38107What right have we to expect that a perfectly wise, good and powerful being will ever do better than he has done, and is doing?
38107Which of your by taking thought, can add one cubit to his stature?
38107Who can bend the knee to such a monster?
38107Who can pray to such a fiend?
38107Who can worship such a god?
38107Who will be his successor?
38107Why not say, God has intelligence, therefore there must be an intelligence greater than his?
38107Will God have more power?
38107Will he become more merciful?
38107Will his love for his poor creatures increase?
38107Will the religionist pretend that the real end of science is to ascertain how and why God acts?
38107Would countless ages thus be wasted in the production of awkward forms, afterwards abandoned?
52160;Have we still religion?
52160;How do we conceive the world?
52160;How do we order our life?
52160Have you resolved,asks this critic in dialogue,"to make atheists on pretext of combatting them?"
52160How then,asks the querist,"are the heavens moved by certain and fixed laws, unless divine minds, participating in the primal motion, there operate?"
52160If the German people in their need accept the King of Prussia, why should not I accept the personal God?
52160It is the superabundance of wit,declares Nashe,"that makes atheists: will you then hope to beat them down with fusty brown- bread dorbellism?"
52160Where is the wonder?
52160Why,he asks,"should the soul be her own judge?"
52160(?
521601615, p. 697; David''s Evidence, by William Burton, Preacher of Reading, 1592(?
52160B. Remsburg''s Abraham Lincoln: Was he a Christian?
52160Besides, is he to perform one that Rome may enjoy a right of seignory over the Duchy of Parma?"
52160But who for a moment supposes him to have had any such belief?
52160But, as Paley admitted with reference to Gibbon("Who can refute a sneer?
52160Catholic priests had been executed by the score: why not a pair of Unitarians?
52160For what one principle of morality is there which the heathen moralists had not asserted or maintained?
52160He is already[ when?]
52160He takes his motto from Pliny:"Quid non miraculo est, cum primum in notitiam venit?"
52160In France the genial German revolutionist and exile Ewerbeck published, under the titles of Qu''est ce que la Religion?
52160In his short essay What is Freethinking?
52160It asked the questions:"Are we still Christians?
52160It is probable that the entire undertaking of Macbeth( 1605?)
52160It may be sometimes-- it is certainly not always-- true that Paine"can not distinguish between legendary or[?
52160Of the Religio Laici the critic asks:"Now in all this, is there any religion at all?"
52160Once a listener of furtive aspect asked Boindin who might be this Monsieur de l''Être who behaved so ill, and with whom they were so displeased?
52160Ought we to wish the character false for the sake of a hollow compliment to Christianity?"
52160Pastor A. Kalthoff''s Was wissen wir von Jesus?
52160Privately printed-- at Glasgow?
52160Published( by Naigeon?)
52160Query Hamond?
52160Sed in qua nam Religione verè et piè Deum coli vetusti Philosophi existimarunt?
52160See Who Killed Sir Edmund Godfrey Berry?
52160Since the foregoing note appeared in the first edition I have met with the essay of Mr. R. Copley Christie,"Was Giordano Bruno Really Burned?"
52160The harsh reproof to Godwin for his contemptuous allusion to Christ before a well- trained child proves that he is not a skeptic[?
52160The remark:"If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it?"
52160This may be true, though, hardly any evidence is offered on the latter head; but when M. Faguet writes,"Est- il chrétien?
52160What is to take their place?...
52160Where should a man go on crutches?
52160[ 1032] Perhaps not the least effective part of the book is the chapter which asks:"Are men more perfect since the coming of Jesus Christ?
52160[ 1055] The old statesman indicates his own sympathies by adding:"Why has a bad name been made of the title of deist?
52160[ 1438] Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?
52160[ 1575] Introduction( by Mignet?)
52160[ 954] First published in 1762[ or 1764?
52160[ 980]"Par Panage"(= Toussaint?).
52160[ Burigny(?).]
52160and Qu''est ce que la Bible?
52160and later of the Tempest( 1610?)
52160he exclaimed; adding:"Do you know where I should go?
14120Do all people receive that satisfaction?
14120He does it, perhaps to try themBut, if he knows all things, what occasion is there for him to try any?
141201788?)
14120A great triumph truly for religion to make men baptise or fast?
14120After this he asks, who will pretend to dictate to such a Being?
14120Alas?
14120Another question has been raised"whether a society of atheists can exist?"
14120Are all things in the universe infinite?
14120Are these men privy counsellors of the Divinity, or on what do they found their romantic hopes?
14120At least after all the observations about a table, it may be modestly asked, whether there is not some difference between a table and the world?
14120But do not the present appearances of his want of wisdom or goodness justify us in concluding, that he will always want them?
14120But if he is perfectly good, why will he let them suffer at all?
14120But if nothing visible can to us account for the operations of nature, why must we have recourse to what is invisible?
14120But if pain is, as he says, in this world necessary for happiness, why will it not still be necessary hereafter?
14120But if the opinions of men of great genius are to have weight, what is to be said of modern men of genius?
14120But if this God is jealous of his glory, his titles and prerogative, why does he permit such numbers of men to offend him?
14120But let it be asked, is it not absurd to reason with a man about that of which that same man asserts we have no idea at all?
14120But surely, with all this infinity it may be asked, why may not there have been an infinity of causes?
14120But who made the eye?
14120Does experience shew us more of a man than that he came from a man and a woman?
14120Grant that we do not know, whether man has been eternal, or from a time, is it therefore because we do not know, that we must say he came from God?
14120How unquestionable?
14120If he is omnipotent, why need he vex himself about the vain design any one may form against him?
14120If it is asked me,"why am I honest and honourable?"
14120If the course of nature does not give sufficient proof, why does not the hand divine shew itself by an extraordinary interposition of power?
14120If the justice of God is not the same with human justice, why lastly do any men pretend to announce it, comprehend and explain it to others?"
14120If they are so often manifestly deficient in this world, what can assure us that they will abound more in the next?
14120In other words"whether honesty sufficient for the purposes of civil society can be insured by other motives than the belief of a Deity?"
14120Is not that alone an argument of there being no such thing?
14120Is not the reparation of vegitable life the spring equally wonderful now as its first production?
14120Is not this to be turned upon Theists?
14120My countenance brightened up and I replied,"You are then, my friend, convinced?"
14120Or grant that God made the eye, which can only see in the light, must he necessarily see in the dark?
14120Or why may not visible things account for them, although this person or another can not tell which?
14120Shall then such a tremendous Being with such a care for the creatures he has made, suffer his own existence to be a perpetual doubt?
14120Take a view of human existence, and who can even allow, that there is more happiness than misery in the world?
14120The Theist exclaims in triumph,"He that made the eye, must he not see?"
14120To conclude he asks,"how it is possible to teach children caution, but by feeling pain?"
14120What can be said to this?
14120What more has Helvetius said than that?
14120Where is that other ecclesiastic who will allow the same?
14120Where is the absurdity of that?
14120Why an infinite maker of a finite work?
14120Why are any found daring enough to refuse the incense which his pride expects?
14120Why necessary to account at all for them?
14120Why then all his own reasoning?
14120Why then any other God than Necessity?
14120Why then attribute infinity to the cause?
14120why did he present him with a gift of which he must have foreseen the abuse?
36882(_ Issued by the Secular Society, Limited._) JESUS CHRIST: Man, God, or Myth?
36882182 XVI.--CHRISTIANITY AND MORALITY 193 XVII.--RELIGION AND PERSECUTION 204 XVIII.--WHAT IS TO FOLLOW RELIGION?
36882A conspiracy may overthrow a tyrant, but what can it avail against a firmly established belief?
36882ARE CHRISTIANS INFERIOR TO FREETHINKERS?
36882After all, what reason is there for anyone assuming that the survival of man beyond the grave is even probably true?
36882And here one might reasonably ask, why, if there is a directive mind at work, are there variations at all?
36882And would he be of much use if he were otherwise??
36882And would he be of much use if he were otherwise??
36882And, on the other hand, how many people have given up the belief in miracles as a result of a careful study of the evidence against them?
36882Are we in any better position if we turn from the individual to the race?
36882But suppose a man''s inclinations do not run in the desired direction?
36882But what amount or kind of evidence was required to establish the belief?
36882But what kind of coercion can a purely naturalistic system of morals exert?
36882But what part is there in the general education of the child in modern society that would lead to that end?
36882But why?
36882But would it prove any more than that?
36882CHAPTER PAGE I.--OUTGROWING THE GODS 9 II.--LIFE AND MIND 18 III.--WHAT IS FREETHOUGHT?
36882CONTENTS: PART I.--AN EXAMINATION OF THEISM.--Chapter I.--What is God?
36882Chapter III.--Have we a Religious Sense?
36882Chapter XI.--What is Atheism?
36882DETERMINISM OR FREE- WILL?
36882DOES MAN DESIRE GOD?
36882DOES MAN SURVIVE DEATH?
36882Does he bear the blow with greater fortitude?
36882Does the religious parent grieve less?
36882Had Spencer first of all set himself to answer the question,"What is it that the Freethinker sets himself to remove?"
36882Has he made a due allowance for possible error, and for the possibility of others seeing the matter from another and a different point of view?
36882Has he taken the trouble to acquaint himself with the facts upon which the expressed opinion is professedly based?
36882He says-- I quote from Froude''s translation:-- What other conclusion could they arrive at when they saw the confusion around them?
36882How many men and women in the past decade gladly offered and not infrequently lost their lives in the cause of freedom, or justice, or science?
36882How, then, can it be that which determines which of the three possible( and actual) cases shall be realized?...
36882How, then, can the credit of that result be ascribed to Natural Selection?
36882IS SUICIDE A SIN?
36882If I may be allowed to repeat what I have said elsewhere on this subject, one may well ask:-- What is it that the genuine educationalist aims at?
36882Is his grief of shorter duration?
36882Is the Belief Reasonable?
36882Is the soldier of to- day a better soldier, or the sailor a better sailor than those who lived three thousand years ago?
36882Or what evidence did our ancestors require to prove to them that old women flew through the air on broomsticks, or bewitched cows, or raised storms?
36882Suppose all this to be proven or granted, what has been established?
36882THEISM OR ATHEISM?
36882Tell us, then, Zeus, have you ever really taken pains to distinguish between good men and bad?
36882The curious thing is that when one enquires"what religion is it that has exerted this beneficent influence?"
36882The essential question is not, What is to follow religion?
36882The possibility of deriving the idea of God from scientific and philosophic thought being ruled out, what remains?
36882The reply of the Freethinker to the question of"What is to follow religion?"
36882To take an individual and ask,"Why should he act so as to promote the general welfare?"
36882WHAT IS FREETHOUGHT?
36882WHAT IS TO FOLLOW RELIGION?
36882WHAT WILL YOU PUT IN ITS PLACE?
36882WHO WAS THE FATHER OF JESUS?
36882Was it evidence to which anyone to- day would pay the slightest regard?
36882Well, but suppose we say that man is capable of indefinite growth, what do we mean?
36882What amount or what kind of evidence did the early Christians require to prove the miracles of Christianity?
36882What is a supernaturalist compelled to do in this case?
36882What is to be done with him?
36882What now is meant by there being no limit to human growth?
36882What other is he expected to be?
36882What sort of person would be the father who would announce divine punishment or reward in order to obtain the love and respect of his children?
36882What then?
36882What would be the effect of the transformation?
36882What, after all, is there in the fact of natural death that should breed irresolution, rob us of courage, or fill us with fear?
36882What, for example, does anyone mean by man as the goal towards which everything has tended since the beginning?
36882What, then, is the explanation of the apparent paradox?
36882What, then, of the process as a whole?
36882Where, then, is the reason in asking that this miracle shall be re- performed in order to convince certain people that it has already occurred?
36882Who does not feel the absurdity of the opinion that the lavish care for a sick child by a mother is given because of a belief in God and immortality?
36882Why do people believe in God?
36882Will anyone contend that the child has even a passing understanding of subjects over which all adults are more or less mystified?
36882With a Chapter on"Was Jesus a Socialist?"
36882Would it do any more than prove that they believed the food had been so expanded or multiplied that it was enough for them all?
36882Would it prove that these five thousand were not the victims of some act of deception or of some delusion?
36882Would that produce conviction?
36882or even the question,"What is the actual control exerted by religion?"
30204But why,I asked,"have you brought me hither, and how did you obtain my guarantee of safety?"
30204What,asks Talmage,"is the matter with Joshua?
30204Where am I?
30204Against the existence of_ what_ God?
30204And how is it to be overcome?
30204And how many Theists are there who think of God in the presence of Nature, who see God''s smile in the sunshine, or hear his wrath in the storm?
30204And in our own history have not our greatest achievers of noble things been very indifferent to theological dogmas?
30204And was not the earth certainly flat, as millions of flats believed it to be?
30204And whence the First Napoleon?
30204And who are these enemies?
30204And why, if it was right to thank God for saving Thomas Cooper, would it be wrong to curse him for smashing all the rest?
30204Are intellectual causes dominant or subordinate?
30204Are you something better than a vegetable highly cultivated, or than your brothers of the lower animals?
30204But if the Lord overlooks the great ones of the earth, why is he not impartial?
30204But what has happened since?
30204But who gave us our evil passions?
30204But who is responsible for the moral chaos and the existence of evil?
30204But why did he not continue the quotation?
30204But why should we wrangle?
30204But why?
30204Did not the Bible say that General Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and how could this have happened unless it moved round the earth?
30204Does he know any Atheists, and has he found them one half as dreary as Scotch Calvinists?
30204Does he think that the brains of an Atheist are addled?
30204Does his lordship remember Byron''s epitaph on his Newfoundland dog, and the very uncomplimentary distinction drawn therein between dogs and men?
30204Does not your lordship remember, too, Hamlet''s pursuing the dust of Cæsar to the ignominious bunghole?
30204Does this make him a barren sceptic?
30204Hamlet goes on to say,"And yet, what to me is this_ quintessence of dust?_"How now, your lordship?
30204Hamlet goes on to say,"And yet, what to me is this_ quintessence of dust?_"How now, your lordship?
30204Has he fallen in an apoplectic fit?
30204Have you a mind?
30204How can a man of Dean Stanley''s eminence and ability write such dishonest trash?
30204How then did we come by them?
30204How then do you know that you yourself exist?
30204If Jesus was the Christ, the Messiah, the Deliverer, why is the world still so full of sin and misery?
30204If he were questioned as to his principles, he would probably reply like Artemus Ward--"Princerpuls?
30204If the sun and moon keep watch over General Joshua''s grave, what are we to do?
30204If to say_ Christ_ is absurd, and to say the_ Devil_ blasphemy, what alternative is left?
30204Is it not plain that Christians in all ages have believed in the power and subtlety of the Devil as God''s sleepless antagonist?
30204Is it the Devil then?
30204Is not this a relic of astrology?
30204Must we charitably, though with a touch of sarcasm, repeat Lamb''s words of Coleridge--"Never mind; it''s only his fun?"
30204Now the question arises: Who made the chaos and who is responsible for the evil?
30204Once, while lying on his mattress- grave, he said with a sigh:"If I could even get out on crutches, do you know whither I would go?
30204Or rather does it not suggest the three- card trick?
30204Paine has been accused of drunkenness; but by whom?
30204Still, I can not doubt that the most[?
30204Surely not Assyria, Egypt, Greece, or Carthage?
30204That hell should receive another shock is very proper, but why is there to be an earthquake at the same time?
30204There be Gods many and Lords many; which of the long theological list is to be selected as_ the_ God?
30204WHO ARE THE BLASPHEMERS?
30204WHO ARE THE BLASPHEMERS?
30204Was he of more importance than any of the others?
30204Was it all a dream?
30204Was it because Garfield was a President instead of a King, the elected leader of free men instead of the hereditary ruler of political slaves?
30204Was it through a mere process of spontaneous generation that they sprang up to alter by their genius and overwhelming will the destinies of the world?
30204We will assume its truth; but the important question then arises-- What kind of persons are those who dispense with the rites of religion?
30204What are the distinctions of rank and wealth?
30204What are their names?
30204What can we think of his reticence on such a subject?
30204What differentiates you from the lower animals?
30204What does the general consent of mankind prove in regard to beliefs like Theism?
30204What else could be expected from a Scotchman who has mounted to the spiritual Primacy of England?
30204What has it done, he asks, to abolish drunkenness and gambling?
30204What has the place in which a book is written to do with its value?
30204What is the meaning of_ providential?_ God does all or nothing.
30204What is the name of this abominable print?"
30204What is the use of thinking if I may not express my thought?
30204What more can he ask without declaring himself a weakling or a fool?
30204What more does he need?
30204What more does he require?
30204What nation has declined because of a relapse from religious belief?
30204What right have you to associate Infidelity with fraud and lust?
30204What though tempests beat and billows roar?
30204What would have happened if the Ark had been buried with Jehovah safely fastened in?
30204What, God''s own language inferior to that of the Dean of Westminster?
30204When the patient was thoroughly restored the following conversation ensued:-- Jesus.--Are you well now, my Father?
30204Whence Charlemagne?
30204Whence came Alexander the Great?
30204Whence came Homer, Shakespeare, Bacon?
30204Whence came Plato and all the bright lights of divine philosophy, of divinity, of poetry?
30204Whence came all the great historians?
30204Where are the Atheists who say there is no God?
30204Where is the pith that filled these arms when I fought for my chosen people?
30204Where the fiery vigor that filled my veins when I courted your mother?
30204Who are the blasphemers?
30204Who can say?
30204Who gave you a will?
30204Who gave you a will?
30204Who has the audacity to say that the God who will not aid a mother in the death- chamber shelters the Queen upon her throne?
30204Who then is responsible for the fate of those who perish?
30204Why all this pother if he really exists?
30204Why can not Englishmen enjoy their Sunday''s leisure like the French?
30204Why did God permit the Nihilists to assassinate the late Czar of Russia?
30204Why did n''t you preach a different Gospel while you were about it?
30204Why did the Lord protect him, and not his fellow- travellers?
30204Why do things outside you obey your will?
30204Why should God care for princes more than for peasants, for queens more than for washerwomen?
30204Why should God help a few of his children and neglect all the others?
30204Why this paltering with us in a double sense?
30204Why was he so indifferent in this case?
30204Why was the last plot allowed to succeed?
30204Why, was not Jesus Christ a man, a most literal fact,"gross as a mountain, open, palpable?"
30204Will the infant mind of man, when it reaches maturity, be thus related to God''s?
30204Will the law of human growth and divine decay stop here?
30204Will this new movement die away like so many others?
30204Would his godship have mouldered to dust?
30204Yes, we reply, but when will come the redemption?
30204_ Where else should one go with crutches?_"Such exquisite and mordant irony is strange indeed in a defender of the holy and blessed Trinity.
30204and if you have not, what is it that enables you to think and reason, and fear, and hope?
30204and, if so, what is it that differentiates your superiority?
30204and, if so, what is it?
30204is just as sensible a question as Who gave you a nose?
30208Did you get any?
30208Do you think it divinely inspired?
30208How much?
30208What did you do with that dollar I gave you last week?
30208What did you do with that?
30208What did you do with the meat?
30208What did you do with this money?
30208What else did you find upon the dead man?
30208What for?
30208Why?
30208A minister asks me,"Did you read the bible?"
30208A tyrant father will have liars for his children; do you know that?
30208After all, can you get, beyond, above or below appearances?
30208And the church says"Do n''t?"
30208And then was asked the question:"Will a free people tax themselves to pay a nation''s debt?"
30208And what does that mean?
30208And what more did these men say?
30208And what more did they say?
30208And what more?
30208And why did they do this?
30208Are the clergy, as a class, better, kinder and more generous to their families-- to their fellow- men-- than doctors, lawyers, merchants and farmers?
30208Are the theologians welcomers of new truths?
30208Are they investigators?
30208Are they noted for their candor?
30208Are you not more than glad that in 1776 was announced the sublime principle that political power resides with the people?
30208Are you really familiar with chemistry, and can you account for the loves and hatreds of the atoms?
30208But what was the voice of one man against the terrible cry of ignorant, infatuated, superstitious and malevolent millions?
30208Can the believing father in heaven be happy with his unbelieving children in hell?
30208Can the loving wife in heaven be happy with her unbelieving husband in hell?"
30208Can you account for molecular action?
30208Can you explain it better than you can the production of thought?
30208Can you have a thought that was not suggested to you by what you call matter?
30208Can you think even of anything without a material basis?
30208Did he leave them in a beautiful home, surrounded by civilization, in the repose of law, in the security of a great and powerful republic?
30208Did the church abolish slavery?
30208Do they pull forward, or do they hold back?
30208Do they treat an opponent with common fairness?
30208Do you know I dislike this man unspeakably?
30208Do you know another thing?
30208Do you know what force is?
30208Do you understand this?
30208Does a belief in ghosts and unreasonable things necessarily make people honest?
30208Does all this do any good?
30208Does not the credit system in morals breed extravagance in sin?
30208Does the banker loan money to a man because he is a Methodist or Baptist?
30208Does the merchant give credit to a man because he belongs to a church?
30208For what purpose do you get up?
30208Has the church raised its voice against war?
30208Have the churches the confidence of mankind?
30208Have you the slightest conception of what it really is?
30208Honor bright, is not that the better and grander story?
30208How could he disprove it?
30208How could he show that he did not cause the storm?
30208How did they come to say this?
30208How would you feel then?
30208How?
30208I ask you to- night, do the theories and doctrines of the theologians satisfy the heart or brain of the Nineteenth Century?
30208I asked:"What are they?"
30208If I have no right to think, why have I a brain?
30208If that course had been pursued, would the human ears, in your judgment, ever have been enriched with the divine symphonies of Beethoven?
30208If we can convert the heathen, why not convert those nearest home?
30208In mercy?
30208Is it a source of joy to think that perdition is the destination of nearly all of the children of men?
30208Is it possible for you to conceive of the creation of an atom?
30208Is it possible to imagine the annihilation of a single atom?
30208Is it the non- producing thief, sitting on a throne, surrounded by vermin?
30208Is it worth while to quarrel about original sin-- when there is so much copy?
30208Is science indebted to the church for a solitary fact?
30208Is there any reason that our farmers should not be prosperous and happy men?
30208Is there not something in matter that forever eludes?
30208Men began to inquire by what right a crowned robber made them work for him?
30208No prospective fathers or mothers- in- law; no prying and gossiping neighbors; nobody to say,"Young man, how do you expect to support her?"
30208Now, admitting that I live in Turkey, and have no chance to get any office unless I am on the side of the Koran, what should I say?
30208Now, if the world is round, how are the people on the other side going to see Christ when he comes?
30208Of what use are all the improvements in farming?
30208Of what use is all the improved machinery unless it tends to give the farmer a little more leisure?
30208Others asked by what right does a robed hypocrite rule my thought?
30208Our country is filled with the idle and unemployed, and the great question asking for an answer is: What shall be done with these men?
30208Seven long years of war-- fighting for what?
30208Should I make a clean breast and say, that upon my honor I do not believe it?
30208Should I not give the real transcript of my mind?
30208Should I tell you my real thought?
30208Standing here amid the sacred memories of the first, on the golden threshold of the second, I ask, Will the second century be as grand as the first?
30208That our fathers then made up their minds nevermore to be colonists and subjects, but that they would be free and independent citizens of America?
30208The priest said, and the king said, where is this spirit of investigation to stop?
30208Then who shall say what shall be done with what is produced except the producer?
30208There is another question still:--Will all the wounds of war be healed?
30208There they were, of every sort, and color, and kind, and how was it that they came together?
30208They said:"We saved the Nation''s life, and what is life without honor?"
30208To feed the cattle?
30208To save his life?
30208Was that honest?
30208What can we do without them?
30208What church is an asylum for a persecuted truth?
30208What did the soldier leave when he went?
30208What do I mean by liberty?
30208What else were they fighting for?
30208What else were they fighting for?
30208What for?
30208What great reform has been inaugurated by the church?
30208What has made the difference?
30208What has made this country?
30208What is harvesting now, compared with what it was in the old time?
30208What is matter?
30208What kind of children do you expect to have with a beggar and a coward for their mother?
30208What more did they do?
30208What more?
30208What ought I to answer?
30208What right has he to assassinate the joy of life?
30208What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day?
30208What shall these men do?
30208What should I do?
30208What should I reply?
30208What was the old idea?
30208What would have become of the people five hundred years ago if they had followed strictly the advice of the doctors?
30208What would the people have been, if at any age of the world they had followed implicitly the direction of the church?
30208What would we be without labor?
30208What would we have been if we had remained colonists and subjects?
30208What would we have been to- day?
30208When a man loses confidence in Moses, must the people lose confidence in him?
30208When you rise at four and work till dark what is life worth?
30208Where did he get it?
30208Where did that doctrine of eternal punishment for men and women and children come from?
30208Why is it that we have all degrees of intelligence, from orthodoxy to genius, if it was intended that all should think and feel alike?
30208Why not be honest with these children?
30208Why not convert those we can get at?
30208Why not convert those who have the immense advantage of the example of the average pioneer?
30208Why not feed them more the night before?
30208Why should we enslave ourselves?
30208Why should we forge fetters for our own hands?
30208Why should we sacrifice a real world that we have, for one we know not of?
30208Why?
30208Will a certificate of good standing in any church be taken as collateral security for one dollar?
30208Will you take the word of a church member, or his note, or his oath, simply because he is a church member?
30208You ask my opinion about anything; I examine it honestly, and when my mind is made up, what should I tell you?
30208had you not better ascertain what matter really is?
30207I see; but if he treats them all that way, do n''t you think it is rather natural that they should go and hunt up another god to admire?
30207You are?
30207* Is it owing to the superior blessings of the Mormon faith that its followers are more thrifty, and that paupers are few or unknown among them?
30207--not,"Am I benefited by her ecclesiastical bondage and credulity?
302074 Jesus saith unto her,_ Woman, what have I to do with thee?_--John ii, 3- 4.
302075- 8: 5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where_ are_ the men which came in to thee this night?
30207And does dod love you?
30207And does you love dod?"
30207And how can they think it is evidence of goodness to believe it?
30207And how does the durability of that bone strike you?
30207And then suppose she has n''t any husband?
30207And why tolerate them coming from it?
30207And, by the way, if you had happened to live in one of those cities, what opinion do you think you would have had of Jehovah?
30207Are you willing to think they are the word of God?
30207As he stood by the font he asked the bishop,"Where are the souls of my heathen ancestors?"
30207Aside from its being dishonest, is it safe?
30207But if she does not complain that the water is bitter, and if her"Amen"is perfectly satisfactory all round, and she be pronounced innocent, what then?
30207But seriously, if it is necessary to believe such stories as that in order to go to heaven, do n''t you think the admission fee is a trifle high?
30207But suppose that faith in a myth is destroyed and another mysticism be not set up in its place, what then?
30207But the angels will ask, What good deeds has he sent before him?"
30207But what else did he tell you in that talk?"
30207But what on earth was man created for?
30207But what shall we say of our president-- Ingersoll?
30207But why are his commands not followed to- day?
30207DID HE TALK?
30207DID HE TALK?
30207Did it ever occur to you that those absurd tales have as much claim to be called the"word of God"as any of the rest of it?
30207Did n''t those ten women belong to David?
30207Did the Lord"reveal"to Moses that he should drink the rest of that holy water and dirt?
30207Did you ever know a pious man do a real mean thing-- that succeeded-- who did not claim that Providence had a finger in it?
30207Do n''t you know that God made those dear little flies, and that he loves them?"
30207Do n''t you think it was kind of him to feed them?
30207Do you believe it?
30207Do you believe it?
30207Do you believe that God told Moses that?
30207Do you believe there is a God who is a thief, a murderer, and a defiler of innocent girls?
30207Do you know anything about it?"
30207Do you know it was settled by vote which manuscripts God did and which he did not write?
30207Do you know who compiled the Bible?
30207Do you think a man who could offer such an indignity to a sorrowing mother has a perfect character, is an ideal God?
30207Do you think it was godlike?
30207Do you think that is a safe doctrine to teach to the criminal classes?
30207Do you think that was kind?
30207Do you think that water would be bitter to the priest?
30207Do you think that, even if he were to cure the child then, he would have done a noble thing?
30207Do you think the world has any farther use for the man who can gravely tell those stories about Samson, for instance, as truth-- as the word of God?
30207Do you think they do honor to the most attenuated intellect?
30207Do you think you would?
30207Do you want your children taught to believe in the purity and honor of such men?
30207Do you want your children taught to worship a God who sanctioned, commanded, and gloried( and usually participated) in their worst crimes?
30207Does it give me unlimited power over her?"
30207Does it not put a premium on crime?
30207Even if Eve did eat that apple, why should_ we_ insist upon having the colic?
30207For the time we will grant this, and respectfully inquire-- what does it prove?
30207For what is a Christian to- day without his hell?
30207Had n''t he a perfect right to shut them up and feed them if he wanted to?
30207Have any of you ever met a saint at the bar?
30207His friend ran to the window and exclaimed,"Are ye kilt, Mike?"
30207His sworn preconceptions warping his discernment, adherence to his sect or party engenders intolerance to the honest convictions of other inquirer?
30207How can people say they believe such nonsense?
30207How many did Moody touch in this city during his revival days?
30207How much longer is one form of society and life to content itself with the morality made for another?
30207How would that work in a court of justice?
30207I am sometimes asked,"What do you propose to give in place of this comforting faith?
30207If he were going to take the trouble to say anything, would it not seem more natural that he should say something important?
30207If religion decided and produced the civilization of a people, what sort of civilization would exist to- day among the Jews?
30207If she fails in that, what wonder that with broken hope comes broken virtue or despair?
30207If she knows and does the will of God so much better than man, why did he not reveal himself to her and place his earthly kingdom in her hands?
30207If she knows more about it, if she understands it all better than men, why does she not occupy the pulpit?
30207If there is a hereafter, could there be a better preparation for it than that?
30207Is he prepared to say that Mohammedanism is superior to Christianity because its followers outdo the Christians in honesty?
30207Is it a debt of gratitude?
30207Is it evidence of a perfect character to accompany a service with an insult?
30207Is she cruel or only sensible?
30207Is the husband in any way reproved for his brutality?
30207Is there trouble in the cabinet?"
30207Now what did David do that for?
30207Now, if God did kill that man for touching the ark to save it from falling, what do you think of him-- as a God?
30207Odd idea, is n''t it?
30207Perhaps he had eaten too much pie and felt cross; and what else were those women for but to be made stand around on such occasions?
30207Pretty slim hold on heaven for most women, is n''t it?
30207SHALL PROGRESS STOP?
30207SHALL PROGRESS STOP?
30207See?"
30207She said,"Is it not horrible, the ignorance and superstition of these poor people?
30207She was standing by the window killing flies, and her mother called her and said,"My child, do n''t you know that is very wicked?
30207Suppose he had not touched it and it had fallen?
30207The questions--''Shall women be allowed to enter colleges?''
30207They do not ask,"Would_ I_ like to see woman do thus or thus?"
30207Well is that all he said?"
30207Were n''t they his property?
30207What Christian will admit that it is the religion of the Chinese that makes them the most orderly, law- abiding, mob- avoiding people on the globe?
30207What did he know about women anyway?
30207What do you think of a religion that upholds such morals and such justice as that just quoted?
30207What do you think of women supporting the Bible in the face of that as the will of God?
30207What has not woman lost by that silly fable which made her responsible for transgression?
30207What is his intellect for?
30207What is your creed?"
30207What sort of a soul would it be that could have a heaven apart from those it loved?
30207What then?
30207What would you think of a person who coolly thanked a judge who had knowingly allowed the wrong man to be hung?
30207When he dies, people will ask, What property has he left behind him?
30207Which of them can bear the test?
30207Which one of those boys do you think would be the best company for her in the next world?
30207Which will you accept?
30207Which?
30207Who ever heard of a minister being surprised that God did not reveal any of the forms of belief through a woman?
30207Why are not the words, sister, mother, daughter, wife, only names for degradation And dishonor?
30207Why does she not hold the official positions in the Churches?
30207Why has she not received even recognition in our system of religion?
30207Why is his mind one vast interrogation point?
30207Why not accept the miracle of the loaves and fishes on evidence, as readily as the victories of Napoleon?
30207Why not be honest and say it is because they like to live?
30207Why not believe in the Bible as well as in other history?
30207Why not, if you believe in a God at all, give him credit for placing you where he wanted you?
30207Why not, on the testimony of witnesses, believe that Christ turned water into wine, as readily as that a man was hung?
30207Why should any book bind us to sentiments that we would not tolerate if they came from any other source?
30207Why should not Eve have grasped with eagerness the fruit of the tree of knowledge?
30207Why try to bind the human mind by the silly theory that a God requires man to crush out or subject the intellect he has given him?
30207Why will they listen to such nonsense?
30207Why?
30207Will he not learn to cry,''Peace,''to me, when there is no peace?
30207With such a champion, what cause could fail?
30207With such a leader, what should not be achieved?
30207With these before him will a Christian suppose that morals are dependent upon our Bible?
30207Would he have impressed you as a loving Father?
30207Would you like him as a family physician?
30207Would you worship him if he had?
30207You are the jury, what is the verdict?
30207and''Shall they be admitted into the professions?''
30207but,"Have I a right to keep in ignorance, have I a right to degrade, any human intellect?"
30207but,"Have_ I_ a right to dictate the limit of her efforts or her energy?"
30207but,''Is it true?''"
30209Doth Job fear God for nought?
30209Hullo, Balaam, what''s this?
30209I beg pardon,said he,"for troubling you so, but do you mind knocking off another ten, and making thirty of it?"
30209Now,said they,"there is nothing at all, besides this manna, before our eyes- Who shall give us flesh to eat?"
30209Oh,said they,"is that all you can do?"
30209Then,continues our narrative,"said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us?
30209War did you larn dat?
30209Well,said the Lord,"have you observed my servant Job?
30209What meanest thou, O sleeper?
30209What,quoth he,"have we here?
30209Why,said he,"art thou wroth?
30209Wo n''t you?
30209And how could they resolve to build a"city,"when they had never seen one, and had no knowledge of what it was like?
30209And how were the tents carried?
30209And may we not say, that if asses did not see angels first, wise men would never see them after?
30209And they called unto Lot, and said unto him,"Where are the men which came in unto thee this night?
30209And what was the mark?
30209And who can wonder that he did so?
30209And why, if he wanted to kill him, did he not succeed in doing it?
30209Besides, the Jews had arms in the desert, and how could they have possessed them there unless they obtained them in Egypt?
30209But how, in that case, could a distinctive mark be any protection?
30209But suppose Noah to have succeeded in his arduous enterprise, the question still remains, how did he keep his wonderful zoological collection alive?
30209But the doctors differ, and who shall decide?
30209But why did they disperse?
30209Could a nation of hereditary cowards become stubborn warriors in the short space of a month?
30209Could anything more conclusively prove the mythical character of the narrative?
30209Could the force of folly farther go?
30209Did God destroy their verbal memory?
30209Did ever another general receive such extraordinary instructions from his commander- in- chief?
30209Did he affect the organs of articulation, so that the sounds of the primeval language could not be reproduced?
30209Did he paralyse a part of their brain, so that, although they remembered the words, they could not speak them?
30209Did they really think they would ever succeed in building so high?
30209Did they suppose that_ all_ of them could abuse the two strangers?
30209Does any instructed man believe in the possibility of such multiplication?
30209Does this not bear out great Bacon''s remark that"in all superstition, wise men follow fools"?
30209Gravitation would defeat the cohesion of morter Why did not God leave them alone?
30209Had he forgotten the law of gravitation and the principles of architecture?
30209Had he not told them"that he fled from the presence of the Lord?"
30209Hamlet.--Or like a whale?
30209Hast thou eaten of that tree, eh?"
30209He had slain his brother, and his father and mother were the only people in the world besides himself and perhaps his sisters(?
30209He therefore first raised an objection as to his own insignificance--"Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh?"
30209How can Christians explain it?
30209How can the Christian dare to justify such awful cruelty?
30209How can this difference be accounted for?
30209How could God look with delight upon an offering which the offerer himself did not regard with unalloyed satisfaction?
30209How could Noah, in those days of difficult locomotion, have journeyed in search of these across broad rivers, and over continents and oceans?
30209How could he encourage by his applause a man whose heart was poisoned by the mean and miserable passion of envy?"
30209How could making a name, for the information of nobody but themselves, prevent their dispersion?
30209How could she have so clearly anticipated his sad fate?
30209How could they and their new- born children have started off in such a summary manner?
30209How could they possibly have provided themselves with so much food on so short a notice?
30209How could two midwives possibly attend to all the confinements among such a population?
30209How did Cain manage to go"out from the presence of the Lord,"who is everywhere?
30209How did Noah contrive to bring these beasts, birds, and insects all together in one spot?
30209How did Noah provide for_ their_ due preservation?
30209How did the Jews manage to quit Egypt in one night?
30209How did the huge multitude of people march?
30209How did the sheep and cattle march?
30209How did they provide themselves with tents?
30209How do we know that it was an_ apple_ and not some other fruit?
30209How else could he have given us an authentic version of the long colloquies that were carried on in heaven?
30209How high did these primitive builders think heaven was?
30209How is it, too, that no other ancient people has preserved any record of this marvellous occurrence?
30209How was it possible for them to keep pace with their human fellow- travellers?
30209How was their language"confounded?"
30209How was this miracle wrought?
30209How were all the animals, with their food, got into the ark?
30209How were the flocks and herds driven out in such haste?
30209How were the two million sheep and two hundred thousand oxen provisioned during this journey?
30209How where the inmates of this floating menagerie, supposing them got in, supplied with fresh air?
30209How, in a period of two hundred and fifteen years, did the seventy males of Jacob''s house multiply into a nation of over two millions?
30209I do n''t wish to be importunate, but will you knock off another ten?"
30209If a dumb animal were nowadays to address a man with"How d''ye do?"
30209If they went out of Egypt"armed,"why did they cry out"sore afraid"when Pharaoh pursued them?
30209If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?
30209If, however, the tempter_ was_ the Devil, what chance had the poor woman against his seductive wiles?
30209Is it credible that all these animals were collected together from such a wide area, and driven out of Egypt in one night?
30209Is it likely that_ every_ male in the city, past the age of puberty, should burn with unnatural lust at one and the same time?
30209Is it not as credible, and quite as moral, as the Bible story of Jehovah''s lengthening out the day to prolong a massacre?
30209Is there a single philologist living who believes this?
30209Kalisch points out that"the great scantiness of food?
30209Many more women must have been at the point of confinement How could these have been hurried off at all?
30209Meanwhile, what had become of poor Jonah?
30209Meanwhile, where was the Devil posted?
30209Must we suppose, with Kalisch, that their bondage in Egypt had crushed all valor and manhood out of their breasts?
30209Starting from this conclusion, what should we expect to find in our geological researches?
30209Suppose there are fifty righteous men in Sodom, wo n''t you, just for their sake, spare the place?"
30209The angel of the Lord said to Balaam, while he remained flat on his face,"Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times?
30209Their simple ignorance is intelligible, but how can we explain the ignorance of God?
30209Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us?
30209Then the ass rejoined,"Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day?
30209Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this?
30209Was I ever wo nt to do so unto thee?"
30209Was ever a more ludicrous story palmed off on a credulous world?
30209Was he, who made the heaven and the earth, ignorant of the distance between them?
30209Was it God, was it Satan, or was it both?
30209Were the Greeks any bigger liars than the Jews?
30209Were the linch- pins too tight or the wheels too heavy?
30209Were these carefully got ready in expectation?
30209Were they dead carcasses, or were they live cattle miraculously created in the interim?
30209Were they not, as we said at the outset, a queer lot?
30209What beasts, then, were these tortured with boils?
30209What became of Lot and his daughters?
30209What became of all the fish?
30209What became of all the vegetation?
30209What could poor Eve think?
30209What d''ye mean?"
30209What did the Jews themselves live on?
30209What did the drove live upon during the journey from Barneses to Succoth, and from Succoth to Etham, and from Etham to the Red Sea?
30209What had they done to be treated thus?
30209What is thine occupation?
30209What provision was made for the_ carnivorous_ animals, for lions, tigers, vultures, kites, and hawks?
30209What should we think of a legislator who proposed that the descendants of all thieves should be imprisoned, and the descendants of all murderers hung?
30209What then must we think of the rest?
30209What then was left for the locusts to eat?
30209What was to be done?
30209What were they about, to let him do all this with such consummate ease?
30209When did the new creation of fish take place?
30209Whence and how did Noah procure the food for his huge menagerie?
30209Whence did all this water come?
30209Whence did the Jews obtain their arms?
30209Where did all the water come from?
30209Where had Satan been, and what had he been doing?
30209Where was the land of Nod situated?
30209Where, in the whole history of religion, shall we find a viler sample of divine injustice?
30209Whereupon the Lord said coaxingly,"Doest thou well to be angry?"
30209Which of these two spoke the truth?
30209While God was engaged in the work of creation, why did he not make two human couples, instead of one?
30209Who was she?
30209Who will explain this astounding neglect?
30209Who would have thought him capable of such disinterested conduct?
30209Why could he not do the same on this occasion?
30209Why did he fear that everybody would try to kill him?
30209Why did he not profit by the lesson of the Flood?
30209Why did he take so much unnecessary trouble?
30209Why did he want to kill his own messenger?
30209Why did the Lord resolve to take all this trouble?
30209Why did the Lord spare these four persons?
30209Why did_ all_ the men of Sodom, both old and young, flock to Lot''s house?
30209Why do n''t the clergy try to discover them?
30209Why do not the clergy pray without cease for that one object?
30209Why does not God convert the Devil?
30209Why is this?
30209Why is this?
30209Why may we not believe this?
30209Why should Eve give her second boy so sinister a name?
30209Why then did they not avail themselves of such a fine opportunity to escape?
30209Why was Cain so solicitous about his safety?
30209Why was Cain''s offering slighted?
30209Why was not Cain begotten in the same way?
30209Why were the Jews so appalled by less than a third of their own number?
30209Why were they not allowed to remain in Egypt until they grew better, or why was not some other nation selected to inherit Canaan?
30209Why, oh why, we repeat, does not God convert the Devil, and thus put a stop for ever to the damnation of mankind?
30209Will some theologian kindly explain this mystery?
30209Will you knock off another ten?"
30209Yes, but what of the consequences?
30209a man or a fish?
30209and can you regard the book which contains it as God''s Word?
30209and of what people art thou?
30209and whence comest thou?
30209and why is thy countenance fallen?
30209dead or alive?
30209did you ever meet with a more extraordinary story than this of the Ten Plagues?
30209what is thy country?
40770A God who delights in the tears of his unhappy creatures, who sets for them the ambush, and then punishes them for having fallen into it?
40770A God who himself ordains robbery, persecution, and carnage?
40770A mild and humane religion can never belong to a partial and cruel God?
40770After such principles, is not the whole earth to become a prey to Christian rapacity?
40770Among the orthodox courtiers, who surround Christian thrones, do we see intrigues, calumny, or perfidy?
40770And are the virtues less because professed by heathens?
40770And further, how can the Christian love beings who continually offend his God?
40770And have we not a right to refuse their testimonies?
40770And how can goodness be an attribute of a God, who has created most of the human race only to damn them eternally?
40770And if so, what are they?
40770And is not hatred eternalized where implacable revenge is exercised?
40770Are not they calculated to discourage man, and throw him into despair?
40770Are the men, redeemed by the blood of even a Deity, more honest than others?
40770Are the witnesses who transmitted, or the Apostles who saw them, extremely deserving of credit?
40770Are they strong?
40770Are they weak?
40770Are those miracles confirmed by the testimony of cotemporary historians?
40770Are we acquainted with his character and temperament?
40770At this remote period, how can we be certain that Moses conversed with God, and received from him the law which he communicated to the Hebrews?
40770Beings who would continually betray himself into offence?
40770But are we not at liberty to doubt the truth of this assertion?
40770But have not many wise men among the heathens discovered, without the assistance of the Jewish revelation, one supreme God, superior to all others?
40770But in another view, does not it imply mistrust of the wisdom of God to prescribe rules for his conduct?
40770But what is it to have morals, in; the language of Christians?
40770But what is the foundation of this confidence?
40770But when has he spoken?
40770But who are these masters?
40770But who shall decide whether the laws, most advantageous to society, are conformed to the will of this God?
40770But will the revelation, upon which Judaism and Christianity are founded, bear the test of this criterion?
40770But, be this as it may, is it true that Christianity admits but one God, the same which was revealed by Moses?
40770But, if this be the case, why did the apostles preach to them the gospel?
40770But, on the other side, is not reason proscribed by the Christian religion?
40770By what fatality have writings revealed by God himself still need of commentaries?
40770Can it be supposed that such a Being, without equal and without rival, should be jealous of his glory?
40770Can man love a God above all things, who is represented as wrathful, capricious, unjust, and implacable?
40770Can man love, above all things, an object the most dreadful that human imagination could ever conceive?
40770Can not Christians see, that, in endeavouring to honour and exalt their God, they only degrade and debase him?
40770Can reason subscribe to the ridiculous obligation of abstaining from certain aliments and meats which is imposed by some sects of Christians?
40770Can such an object excite in the human heart a sentiment of love?
40770Can the abject and isolated mind of these mercenary pedagogues be capable of instructing their pupils in that of which themselves are ignorant?
40770Can the prayers of man add glory to a Being beyond comparison superior to all others?
40770Can we draw from them any just conceptions of its attributes?
40770Could it be expected that the Jews would believe the report of the apostles, rather than their own eyes?
40770Do not they themselves, in certain cases, have recourse to reason?
40770Do they exhibit any precise ideas of the God, whose oracles they announce?
40770Do they not appeal to reason, when they endeavour to prove the existence of their God?
40770Do we not see Christians adore a threefold divinity, under the name of the Trinity?
40770Does he not paint himself as false, unjust, deceitful, and Cruel; as setting snares for mankind; seducing, hardening, and leading them astray?
40770Does it not continually exclaim against a profane reason, which it accuses of insufficiency, and often regards as rebellious to heaven?
40770Does it not imply a doubt of his immutability, to believe he can be prevailed on by his creatures to alter his designs?
40770Does it render empires flourishing and powerful?
40770Does it render mankind better?
40770Does it, better than any other, make us acquainted with the nature and essence of God?
40770Does not every man, who is desirous to live, perceive that vice, intemperance, and voluptuousness must shorten the period of life?
40770For why should a man mingle with the affairs of a world, which his religion informs him is only a place of passage?
40770From their instructions for eighteen hundred years past, what advantages have nations derived?
40770Has it any superior qualities, by which it merits the preference?
40770Has this religion influenced the manners of sovereigns, who derive their divine power from it?
40770Have not Popes arrogated the right of disposing of distant empires to their favourite Monarchs in Europe?
40770Have these infallible men found it possible to agree among themselves, on the most essential points of a religion, revealed by God himself?
40770Have we not room to accuse the Saviour of the world with want of benevolence, in shewing himself only to his disciples and favourites?
40770How can a God, who enjoys a supreme felicity, be offended with the actions of his creatures?
40770How can a benevolent God bestow on his creatures a fatal liberty by the abuse of which they may incur his anger, and their own destruction?
40770How can a man, in his senses, see, in the Immanuel announced by Isaiah, the Messiah, whose name is Jesus?
40770How can an only God become triple without injuring his unity?
40770How can he love sinners?
40770How can that Being, who is himself the author of life and nature, suffer death?
40770How can we delight in the God under whose rod we tremble?
40770How can we know, without the aid of reason, that God hath spoken?
40770How can we love that which we dread?
40770How discover, in an obscure and crucified Jew, a leader who shall govern Israel?
40770How does it happen that such extraordinary events have been noticed only by a handful of Christians?
40770How prove the validity of its pretensions?
40770How shall we be made sure that they have not been the dupes of some illusion, or an overheated imagination?
40770How then can we discover what confidence is due to the testimony which these organs of heaven give in favour of their own mission?
40770How then shall we decide in its favour?
40770If he is almighty, how can he be flattered with the submissions, adorations, and formalities with which Christians prostrate themselves before him?
40770If he knows all things, what need is there of continually informing him what are the dispositions and desires of his subjects?
40770If justice, humanity, generosity, temperance, and patience be not virtues, to what can the name be given?
40770If literally practised, would they not prove ruinous to society?
40770If nothing be due from God to his creatures, how can any thing be due from them to him?
40770If so, why do they eternally dispute about them?
40770If this revelation be, as is supposed, an emanation from God himself, who can confide in him?
40770If we know that the Apostles sometimes wandered from the truth, how shall we believe them at others?
40770In this case what need was there of having spoken?
40770In this case, how does it happen that Christians continue to sin, as if they had never been redeemed and delivered from sin?
40770Indeed, how can it be otherwise, when they confound the cause of God with that of their own vanity?
40770Is it but to reveal such mysteries as these that the Godhead has taken pains to instruct mankind?
40770Is it certain that the books which are attributed to Moses, and report so many miraculous circumstances, are perfectly authentic?
40770Is it even practicable for mankind to love their neighbours as themselves?
40770Is it not astonishing, that what was intended as a guide for mankind, should be wholly above their comprehending?
40770Is it not cruel, that what is of most importance to them should be least known?
40770Is it not rather a proof of his ferocity, cruelty, and implacable vengeance?
40770Is it possible to obey this precept?
40770Is it so with the Bible?
40770Is it, then by subterfuges, subtilties, and falsehoods, that we are to render service to God?
40770Is not such conduct as ridiculous as it is unreasonable?
40770Is not such conduct calculated to multiply our friends?
40770Is not the forgiveness of injuries connected with this principle?
40770Is not the pardoning of our enemies a greatness of soul, which gives us an advantage over those who offend us?
40770Is not the use of reason forbidden, in the examination of the marvellous dogmas with which we are presented by this religion?
40770Is not this God represented as a mass of extraordinary qualities, which form an inexplicable enigma?
40770Is the Godhead described when it is said that it is a spirit, an immaterial being, which resembles nothing presented to us by our senses?
40770May not reason be permitted to hope, that she shall one day re- assume the power so long usurped from her by error, illusion, and deceit?
40770May not we, also, oppose to the miracles of Moses, and Christ, those performed by Mahomet in presence of all Mecca and Arabia assembled?
40770May we not, however, ask them how far this renunciation of reason ought to be carried?
40770Moreover, was not Fate, to which all the other gods of the heathens were subordinate, an only God, to whose sovereign law all nature was subject?
40770Must it not be a great temerity and sin for a Christian to serve in war?
40770Must not a true Christian, to whose imitation the example of the saints and heroes of the Old Testament are proposed, become ferocious and sanguinary?
40770Now, it is said, that the death of man is the effect of the sin of Adam; and if, by baptism, sin be effaced, why is man still subject to death?
40770On what, then, is Revelation itself founded?
40770Ought a God to reveal himself to mankind for the sole purpose of not being comprehended?
40770Ought he not to imagine that the surest means of pleasing his God, is to imitate his ferocity and cruelty?
40770Ought not all these things to excite a doubt of the infallibility of the Evangelists, and the reality of their divine inspirations?
40770Ought not they to have perceived, that this conduct was calculated only to produce hypocrites and hidden enemies, of open rebellions?
40770These interpreters of the divine will were then men; and are not men liable to be deceived themselves, and prone to deceive others?
40770To justify his own, will he not appeal to the perfidious cruelty of Phineas, Jabel, and Judith?
40770Was he phlegmatic or enthusiastic, honest or knavish, ambitious or disinterested, a practiser of truths or of falsehood?
40770Was it necessary that a God should speak, to shew that they have need of mutual aid and mutual love?
40770Was it not religious and supernatural ideas which caused sovereigns to be looked upon as gods?
40770Were they the only persons who perceived them?
40770Were those witnesses disinterested?
40770Were those witnesses very deserving men?
40770What advantage are mankind to derive from all this?
40770What assistance can it receive from a religion by which it is continually contradicted and degraded?
40770What do I say?
40770What good results to society from these practices, all of which may be observed by a man who has not the shadow of virtue?
40770What indulgence can the Christian, who believes this fable, shew to his fellow- creature?
40770What indulgence have mankind a right to expect from a God, who spared not even his own son?
40770What kind of being shall we contemplate, when we add to this the ineffable attributes ascribed to him in the Christian theology?
40770What must be thought of these divine writings, which every sect understands so differently?
40770What must we think of a revelation which, far from teaching us any thing, is calculated to darken and puzzle the clearest ideas?
40770What proofs does the Christian religion give us of the mission of Jesus Christ?
40770What real good can result to society from the melancholy and ferocious virtues which Christians consider indispensible?
40770What shall we say of the false and forged prophecies, applied to Christ in the gospel?
40770What shall we say of the morality, which commands the human heart to detach itself from objects which reason commands it to love?
40770What then are the proofs which are to establish the superiority of the Christian religion over all others?
40770What was the temperament of this Moses?
40770What, then, are the motives of the Christian, for pretending to such a belief?
40770When we do good to our enemies does it not give us a superiority over them?
40770When we refuse the blessings offered us by nature, do we not despise the benefactions of the One Supreme?
40770When will nations renounce chimerical hopes, to contemplate their true interests?
40770Wherever it reigns, do we not see the people debased, destitute of energy, and ignorant of true morality?
40770Who does not see, in these sublime precepts, the language of enthusiasm and hyperbole?
40770Why assign to him qualities which destroy each other?
40770Why quarrel and cut each others throats, because they are differently interpreted by different persons?
40770Why recount fables concerning him?
40770Why then do they dispute incessantly concerning him?
40770Why was he transported thither, and what did he learn by his journey?
40770Will they never shake off the yokes of those hypocritical tyrants, who are interested only in the errors of mankind?
40770Will they teach then to love the public good, to serve their country, to know the duties of the man and citizen?
40770and do its revealed truths occasion no disputes among divines?
40770and why do they demand additional lights from on high, before they can be believed or understood?
40770the virtues of Greece and Rome, so amiable, and so heroic, were they not true virtues?
40770who is said to be cruel enough to damn his creatures eternally?
46737And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me?
46737And he came unto his father, and said, My father; and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son? 46737 And he[ Jesus] said unto them, Have ye never read what David did when he was ahungered, he, and they that were with him?
46737And the Lord said, Who shall persuade Ahab that he may go up and fall at Ramoth- gilead? 46737 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee?
46737For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
46737IS NOT THIS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF JASHER?
46737If you discard the Bible, what,asks the Christian,"will you give us as a moral guide?"
46737Is not this the carpenter''s son?
46737Is not this the carpenter?
46737Nineveh is laid waste: who shall bemoan her?
46737So Gad came to David and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? 46737 Then Abimelech called unto Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us?"
46737What reason ye in your hearts?
46737Where are the hands which once for this foul creed,''Mid flame and torture, made an Atheist bleed? 46737 Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?"
46737Wilt thou[ God] be altogether unto me as a liar?
4673710 Was David to suffer three or seven years of famine?
467371016 1 Kings Jeremiah,, 600 2 Kings,,,,,, 1 Chronicles Ezra,, 456 2 Chronicles,,,,,, Ezra,,,,,, Nehemiah Nehemiah,, 433 Esther Mordecai(?)
4673711 What did David pay for the threshing floor?
4673712 How many overseers did Solomon have while building the Temple?
4673713 What was the height of the pillars before the house?
4673714 What was the capacity of the molten sea?
467371451 Exodus,,,,,, Leviticus,,,,,, Numbers,,,,,, Deuteronomy,,,,,, Joshua Joshua,, 1426 Judges Samuel,, 1049 Ruth,,(?)
4673715 How many overseers did Solomon have over his other works?
4673716 How many stalls did Solomon have for his horses?
4673717 How much gold did they bring Solomon from Ophir?
4673718 Who was the first to die, Jeroboam or Abijah?
4673719 Who was the mother of Abijah?
467372 Who gave David the shewbread to eat when he was a fugitive from Saul?
4673720 Was Asa the son or the grandson of Maachah?
4673721 How long did Omri reign?
4673722 When did Baasha die?
4673723 When did Jehoram king of Israel and Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign?
4673724 When did Ahaziah begin to reign?
4673725 How old was Ahaziah when he began to reign?
4673726 How long did Jotham reign?
4673727 Who was Josiah''s successor?
4673728 How old was Jehoiachin when he began to reign?
4673729 When did Evil- Merodach release Jehoiachin from prison?
467373 What relation did the High Priests Abimelech and Abiathar bear to each other?
4673730 What relation did Zedekiah, the last of the Jewish kings, bear to Jehoiachin, his predecessor?
467374 What sons were born to David in Jerusalem?
467375 What was the name of David''s tenth son( twelfth according to Chronicles)?
467376 How many horsemen did David take from Hadadezer?
467377 Was it forty thousand horsemen or forty thousand footmen that David slew of the Syrians?
467378 Who moved David to number the people, the Lord or Satan?
467379 How many warriors had Israel and Judah?
46737Above all, why did they choose four gospels instead of one?
46737And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die; and what profit shall this birthright do me?
46737And Samuel said unto Jesse, are here all thy children?
46737And Samuel said, How can I go?
46737And as Jehu entered in at the gate she said, Had Zimri peace who slew his master?
46737And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side?
46737And he said, Art thou my very son, Esau?
46737And he said, Who art thou, Lord?
46737And if unfit for the perusal of a matured woman, shall innocent childhood be polluted by these vile, indecent tales?
46737And is it less absurd to claim that all the laws of the Jews from Moses to Ezra were instituted by Moses?
46737And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee that thou hast smitten me these three times?
46737And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith?
46737And the Lord said unto him[ Moses], What is that in thine hand?
46737And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day?
46737And what, more than almost any other cause, is filling our asylums with these unfortunate people?
46737And why?
46737Are these stories true or false?
46737As Jesus was going to Jerusalem, how many blind men sat by the wayside?
46737As Methuselah was not one of the eight persons that went into the ark, where was he during the Flood?
46737At what time during the day was he crucified?
46737At what time in the morning did they visit the tomb?
46737Aye, but what made them insane?
46737Back came the frank reply,"No; can you?"
46737Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns.... And why take ye thought for raiment?
46737Blessed for what?
46737But what is baptism?
46737But where are these quotations to be found?
46737But which account?
46737Certain words were inscribed on the cross; what were these words?
46737Christ forgave the woman taken in adultery, while his favorite female companion was a reformed(?)
46737Concerning the work of these councils, William Penn writes as follows:"I say how do they know that these men discerned true from spurious?
46737Day after day his wife at home, with anxious heart, peers through the window and sighs,"Why do n''t he come?"
46737Did David name his son for the God of the Jews, or for the God of the heathen?
46737Did Esau marry two wives, according to the first account, or three, according to the second?
46737Did a merciful God inspire this prayer?
46737Did both thieves revile him on the cross?
46737Did he die before or after Ahaziah died?
46737Did it occur before or after Ahaziah''s death occurred?
46737Do all accept it?
46737Do not I fill heaven and earth?
46737Do these learned divines themselves believe it?
46737Does he possess the form and attributes of man, or is he, as Christians affirm, without body, parts, or passions?
46737Does human experience count for nothing?
46737Dr. W. B. Sprague with the interrogation,"Can you answer this?"
46737Eat it?
46737For what are these men employed?
46737From whence do these writings come?
46737God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods( Psalms lxxxii, 1?).
46737Has the Bible been given to all the world?
46737How did they treat it?
46737How do we account for this?
46737How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread?"
46737How many alterations were made?
46737If a Christian writer were to attempt to demonstrate this now, where would he go for his authority?
46737If able men wrote them, may they not have been impostors?
46737If good men wrote them, may they not have been mistaken?
46737If so, who was this Luke?
46737In What Form Does God Exist?
46737Is God Omnipotent?
46737Is God Omnipresent?
46737Is He Immutable?
46737Is He Omniscient?
46737Is He Visible and Comprehensible?
46737Is There One God Only?
46737Is he immutable, or is he a changeable being?
46737Is he omnipotent, or is he limited in power?
46737Is he omnipresent, or has he a local habitation merely?
46737Is he omniscient, or is his knowledge circumscribed?
46737Is he the only God, or is he one of many gods?
46737Is he visible and comprehensible, or is he invisible and unknowable?
46737Is it a medley of misquotations, or a mosaic of plagiarisms?
46737Is it, in any sense, when so employed, an indefinite period?
46737Is not this written in the book of Jasher?
46737Is the Bible the work of such a Being?
46737Is this confirmed by science?
46737Is this true?
46737Is your God wanting in candor?
46737Let me cite one of the laws of the Bible relative to the treatment of slaves-- a law which demons would blush to indorse, but which a merciful(?)
46737Moses Stuart of Massachusetts wrote:"What, now, have we here?
46737Must we go to the ignorant past for our morality?
46737Now when did Jehoshaphat die?
46737Now, is an evening and a morning a period of some thousands of years?
46737Shall a woman be permitted to read in her chamber what she would tremble to hear at her domestic board?
46737Shall she con over and revolve what she would rather die than utter?"
46737Suppose they had; could God secure justice for them only by treachery and fraud?
46737That a famine may cease, David sacrifices the sons of Saul:"Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you?
46737The ease with which a belief in the divine character of a book obtains, even in an enlightened age, is illustrated by the inspired(?)
46737The following is an example:"And he asked him, What is thy name?
46737The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming?
46737Then they said unto him[ Jonah], What shall we do unto thee that the sea may be calm unto us?
46737Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat?
46737True, but where did your Northern theologians stand?
46737WHEN DID JEHOSHAPHAT DIE?
46737Waiving the questions of authenticity and correct translation, who wrote this?
46737Was Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite, or was she the daughter of his uncle Ishmael?
46737Was I ever wo nt to do so unto thee?
46737Was St. John the Apostle and Evangelist the writer of the Revelation?"
46737Was he silenced from preaching?
46737Was his first wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri, or Adah, the daughter of Elon?
46737Was it lawful for the Jews to put Jesus to death?
46737Was it one man or two men possessed with devils who came out of the tombs?
46737Was this brutal minister punished?
46737Was this right?
46737Were they good men, or were they bad men?
46737Were they learned and astute men, or were they weak and credulous men?
46737What did Jesus''neighbors say of him?
46737What did his parents do with him?
46737What did they do with it?
46737What did they give him to drink?
46737What evidence do they adduce to justify this demand?
46737What is Morality?
46737What is become of this plan of creation, with its exclusiveness?
46737What is morality?
46737What is the evidence from this silence?
46737What is the nature and character of this divine author?
46737What is the reputation of their authors for intelligence and veracity?
46737What is this but a tacit acknowledgment that the faith they wish us to exercise is wanting in themselves?
46737What is your duty?
46737What one will you select?
46737What says the scientist?
46737What was Jesus''prediction regarding Peter''s denial?
46737What was the color of the robe placed on Jesus during his trial?
46737What was the scripture when he wrote?
46737What were the names of the twelve apostles?
46737What women visited the sepulchre on the morning of the resurrection?
46737When Did Jehoshaphat Die?
46737When Jesus sent out his Apostles, did he command them to provide themselves with staves?
46737When did Jehoshaphat''s death occur?
46737When did he write his book?
46737When was Jasher written?
46737When was Jesus born?
46737When were they written?
46737Where did Jesus first appear to his disciples?
46737Where did he live?
46737Where did they obtain these books?
46737Where is she?
46737Where was Jesus born, in a house, or in a manger?
46737Which is the word of God?
46737Who and what is this God of the Bible?
46737Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods?
46737Who was Abraham?
46737Who was Christ?
46737Who was David?
46737Who was Jacob?
46737Who was Jehovah?
46737Who was Moses?
46737Who was Paul?
46737Who was Theophilus?
46737Who wrote them?
46737Who?
46737Whom did Jesus call from the receipt of custom?
46737Whom did they see at the tomb?
46737Why did the Fathers choose these particular books?
46737Why do they believe it?
46737Why sleepest thou, O Lord?
46737Why tarry the wheels of his chariot?"
46737Will I[ God] drink the blood of goats?
46737Will I[ God] eat the flesh of bulls?
46737Will he read the fact relative to Lot and his two daughters?
46737Will that wing of the Prohibition army which accepts the Bible as its guide inscribe these texts upon its banner?
46737With the widespread influence of a book inculcating such lessons in dishonesty, what must be the inevitable result?
46737Would an omnipotent and a just God use falsehood and deceit?
46737Would it not be absurd to claim that all the laws of England from Alfred to Victoria were the work of one mind, Alfred?
46737Your God is dead; your heaven a hope bewrayed; Your hell a by- word, and your creed a trade; Your vengeance-- what?
46737and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the Lord?...
46737or the pangs Of the sad ignorant victim underneath The pious knife?"
46737or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies?"
46737or, What shall we drink?
46737or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?...
46737was he even reprimanded by the church?
30202Did he suffer much, poor fellow? 30202 Did the beef stick in yer stomach?"
30202Does she?
30202How did yer like the figgy duff?
30202What is it?
30202Why should people get drenched in Fleet- street while the Buckinghamshire farmers want rain? 30202 Why,"said the sailor,"did n''t you infernal Jews crucify him?"
30202* WHO KILLED CHRIST?
30202--"_Popule meus, quid feci tibi?_"According to Luther, fair and foul winds were caused by good and evil spirits.
30202A featherless biped?
30202A possessed person was taken into a monastery, and the devil in him said to the monks,"O my people, what have I done?"
30202Admitting the age of the phrase, some will ask, Is it respectable?
30202After all, might n''t it have been better if he had been spared instead of me?
30202And does not life become sweeter when we see no cruel intelligence behind the catastrophes of nature?
30202And had Pilate any alternative to sentencing him to the legal punishment of his crime?
30202And how can men be"sinners"?
30202And how is it our telescopes can not detect it?
30202And how would the account stand then?
30202And if he be lost-- but to save my soul, that is all your desire; Do you think that I care for my soul if my boy be gone to the fire?
30202And if"devil"and"dodger"are respectable in their single state, how do they become vulgar when they are married?
30202And is not"dodger"clear as well as expressive?
30202And is what is left-- if_ anything_ is left-- an adequate price for the abnegation of manhood?
30202And was not the earth certainly flat, as millions of flats believed it to be?
30202And what is the result?
30202And what man of letters in England-- a country abounding in"the oxen of the gods,"strong, slow, and stupid-- is free from his influence?
30202And what shall we say of the final lines of the whole poem?
30202And what site is there for Heaven out in the cold blackness of space?
30202And why allow investigation if another man''s errors may involve your perdition?
30202And why are they men?
30202And why are they sinners?
30202And why does he say it?
30202And why is he wroth with them?
30202And why is it likely that Paul, of all men, escaped the contagion of fraud, which has always disgraced the Christian Church?
30202And why not?
30202And why should not the question be raised?
30202Are we wrong in preferring to laugh?
30202Are you ready?
30202Besides, your clergy pray for a change in the weather when they find it necessary; and to whom do they pray but God?
30202Between the best and vilest how much difference is there in the eye of infinite wisdom?
30202But does it_ not_ matter whether he go alone or drag down others with him to perdition?
30202But does the proof exist?
30202But has not wit ever been the keenest weapon of the great emancipators of the human mind?
30202But how can anyone be sure that Spurgeon was absolutely right?
30202But how can they sin against God?
30202But how is that to be done?
30202But if the temples of one faith may be so transformed, why may not those of another?
30202But is any one in danger of doing so?
30202But is it not just possible that Spurgeon has gone to hell?
30202But is it not perfectly obvious from the Gospel story that Pilate tried to save Jesus?
30202But is it quite as thick as the heads of the fools who believe it?
30202But is it really worth while for Samson to grind chaff for the Philistines?
30202But is not the hell of Mr. Spurgeon the hell of the New Testament?
30202But is there not antagonism between Evolution and any kind of Theism yet formulated?
30202But is this really vulgar?
30202But should it not also be read in the light of Christian history?
30202But suppose we take this view of the case: does it therefore follow that they acted without justification?
30202But the omniscient Mr. Gosse was born( or_ was_ he born?)
30202But what does it mean?
30202But what if they are mistaken?
30202But what is a_ man_?
30202But who can believe it?
30202But who ever said that it did?
30202But who, it may be asked, is on good terms with him?
30202But why did Jesus imitate the lunatics?
30202But why should a great man waste his energies in propagating such a barren truism?
30202But why should it do anything of the kind?
30202But, on the other hand, if all religions but one are certainly wrong, what is the chance of a single one being certainly right?
30202But_ are_ the spooks real?
30202But_ both_ of them_ can not_ be authentic, and the problem is, which is the very coat that Jesus wore?
30202Can the clergy show a single live specimen?
30202Can the geologist or the chemist discern any difference between the consecrated and the unconsecrated division in a cemetery?
30202Can the third person of the Trinity have sunk into such an abject state as to dodge in and out of buildings, according as he is wanted or not?
30202Can the"universal spirit"dwell exclusively in certain places?
30202Can they deceive him?
30202Can they injure him?
30202Can they limit his happiness?
30202Can they rob him?
30202Could any man in his senses expect them for less money?
30202Could he have been deceived?
30202Could such a slender chance of profit in the next life compensate for slavery in this life?
30202DID JESUS ASCEND?
30202DID JESUS ASCEND?
30202Did he attempt any defence?
30202Did he call any witnesses?
30202Did he mean"Send him to God for judgment?"
30202Did he mean,"The fellow is n''t fit for earth, so send him to heaven?"
30202Did not Jacob take Rachel and Leah together, and walk out with them, one on each arm?
30202Did not the Bible say that General Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and how could this have happened unless it moved round the earth?
30202Did not the obstinate prisoner plead guilty to what was really a charge of sedition?
30202Did the Lord answer the prayer according to its insensity?
30202Did you not perceive the flutter of their black wings?
30202Did you not see them?
30202Did you not smell their sulphurous taint?
30202Do the corpses lie any more peacefully, or decompose any more slowly, for the words pronounced over the mould that covers them?
30202Do we not still speak of the_ fire_ of life, of inspiration, of love, of heroism?
30202Do we not still speak of the_ sunshine_ of prosperity, and of basking in the_ rays_ of fortune?
30202Does he mean to imply that other religions set their faces against"fruit"?
30202Does it not vary with time, place, and circumstance?
30202Does not Jesus speak of everlasting fire?
30202Does not every scientist, and every philosopher, know that the orb of his fate was predetermined?
30202Does not the Christian''s slight percentage of safety fade into something quite inappreciable in the light of this question?
30202Euclid used it in his immortal Geometry; for what else is the_ reductio ad absurdum_ which he sometimes employs?
30202Even if one is entirely right, how do we know it is the Baptists?
30202Faith never saved men here, and why should it save them hereafter?
30202For what is God?
30202Hated, yes; but what did the hatred avail?
30202Have honest openness and strict veracity been_ ever_ regarded as essential virtues in the propagation of the gospel?
30202Have we not a clearer idea of Hamlet and Othello than of half our closest acquaintances?
30202He has deliberately chosen the path to hell, and does it matter whether he travel slowly or swiftly to his destination?
30202He has legs to walk with, a brain to devise, and hands to execute his will What more does he need?
30202How can an inferior apostle be_ sure_ of the kingdom of heaven?
30202How can it apply to"the soul"?
30202How could he_ sell_ his master when the commodity was common?
30202How could his soul enter heaven at the very same moment?
30202How is this reconcileable with the notion that Spurgeon''s soul"entered heaven at 11.5"on Sunday evening, the thirty- first of January, 1892?
30202How should we treat people who believed that centaurs could be seen now?
30202How then do I account for the vulgarities of the Salvation Army?
30202How will his little ones get on without a father?
30202How would this be worse than the groan of any other lost soul?
30202I repeat that they were men of serious aims, and indeed how could they have been otherwise?
30202I should call on that Infinite Love that has served us so well?
30202IS SPURGEON IN HEAVEN?
30202IS SPURGEON IN HEAVEN?
30202If Jesus did not mean what he said, why did he take the trouble to speak?
30202If so, where?
30202Is heaven in the atmosphere?
30202Is it consistent with such a character?"
30202Is it honest to give him hell for not winning the game?
30202Is it just to damn him for holding a bad hand?
30202Is it not better, Christian friend, to defy Moloch instead of worshipping him?
30202Is it not still better to regard this deity as the creation of fanciful ignorance?
30202Is it out in the ether?
30202Is it worth travelling so far to enter the Bible heaven, and sing hymns with the menagerie of the Apocalypse?
30202Is not existence a terror if Providence may swoop upon us with inevitable talons and irresistible beak?
30202Is not this time practically infinite?
30202Is the earth affected by priestly mutterings?
30202Is there any difference that the nose, or any other sensitive organ, can detect between a consecrated church and an unconsecrated chapel?
30202Is there any standard of respectability?
30202Is_ she_ with God?
30202It claims credit for everything; but what has it achieved?
30202It was not Anthony Collins, therefore; but what does that matter?
30202Man is always endeavoring to improve it, but what assistance comes from above?
30202Might he not justly exclaim"I am holier than thou"?
30202Must all the faith be on_ our_ side?
30202My friendly though severe critic, Dr. Coit, who recently discoursed at South- place Institute( or is it Chapel?)
30202Nay, is not Science the mighty child of common sense-- the fruit of Reason from the lusty embrace of Nature?
30202Not a sparrow falls to the ground without his knowledge, and do you think he fails to regulate the clouds?
30202Now what is the Lord to do when they go on in this way on opposite sides?
30202On another occasion he roughly said to Mary,"Woman, what have I to do with thee?"
30202Paul or his opponent?
30202Perhaps so; but_ which_ is speaking in the seventh verse?
30202Shelley pricked this bubble of speculation in the following passage: What is that Power?
30202Shelley''s great cry,"Can man be free if woman be a slave?"
30202Should they not practise a little of what they preach?
30202So familiar did the Devil become that Luther, hearing him walk overhead at night, would say"Oh, is it you?"
30202Surely this fact, which has thousands if not millions of parallels, should abate the impudence of religionists who ask"Who made the world?"
30202Tell us, oh tell us, which of these mouldy old rags did once grace thy holy shoulders?
30202That Heaven is gone, and where is Our Father?
30202That he will come, then, may be taken for granted; and what better opportunity could be desired than the present?
30202That is the theory, but how does it work out in practice?
30202The Freethinker takes nothing on trust, if he can help it; he dissects, analyses, and proves everything, Does this make him a barren sceptic?
30202The clergy live by faith, yet how could they do so if there were not others to support them?
30202The ear may detect a certain rhythm, but where are the set lengths of orthodox versification?
30202The hairs of your head are numbered, and do you think he can not count the rain- drops?
30202Then the game would have lasted his lifetime, and what does it matter if you are found out when you are dead?
30202To whom does he say it?
30202WHERE IS HELL?
30202WHERE IS HELL?
30202WHO ARE THE BLASPHEMERS?
30202WHO ARE THE BLASPHEMERS?
30202WHO KILLED CHRIST?
30202Was he not contumacious?
30202Was it not declared that Charles Bradlaugh would have become a Christian if he had lived long enough?
30202Was not Jesus, in their judgment, guilty of blasphemy, and was not that a deadly crime under the Mosaic law?
30202Was not the same asserted of John Stuart Mill?
30202Was there a sceptic in the train who partially neutralised its effect?
30202Was this due to the fact that Hargraves''prayer was not sufficiently above proof?
30202Well, why not?
30202Were not the Jews, then, bound to kill him if they could?
30202Were not the Jews, then, carrying out the plain commandment of Jehovah?
30202What are they but his own fancies, brooded on till they become facts of memory, and seem to possess an objective existence?
30202What can we conjecture of any other life except from our experience of this?
30202What certainty can they have in the matter?
30202What could be more proper than the transformation of Pagan temples into Christian churches?
30202What does that mean?
30202What father would permit in his family the gross disparities we see in human life?
30202What has God to do with the weather?"
30202What has happened to Providence since the Bible days?
30202What human father would not be ashamed to treat his children with such infamous partiality?
30202What if a man, yea a fancied saint, may be damned without knowing it?
30202What is Faith?
30202What is a miracle?
30202What is the Christian scheme in a nutshell?
30202What is the God of our own theology, as Matthew Arnold puts it, but a magnified man?
30202What is the omitted word?
30202What is the use of thinking if I may not express my thought?
30202What is this principle of persecution, and how is it generated and developed in the human mind?
30202What is_ damned_ then?
30202What more admirable than devoting to the worship of Christ the edifice which had echoed to the tread of the priests of Jupiter?
30202What more can he ask without declaring himself a weakling or a fool?
30202What more does he require?
30202What sense is there in his being paid to indicate the best- known man in Jerusalem?
30202What sensible man believes that the Holy Ghost, if such a being exist, is at the beck and call of every Catholic or Protestant bishop?
30202What then are_ sinners_?
30202What though tempests beat and billows roar?
30202What will his wife do?
30202What wonder is it that Mr. Gosse became intoxicated in turn, and soared in a rapture of panegyric over a Shelley of his own construction?
30202What would man be without fire?
30202When they meet what does it matter which was made for the other?
30202Where is the goodness?
30202Where is the wisdom of this?
30202Who are the blasphemers?
30202Who can conceive an easier method of avoiding the consequences of wickedness?
30202Who killed Christ?
30202Who knows?"
30202Why investigate if you may be damned for your conclusions?
30202Why seek to limit the duration of hell by some hocus- pocus of interpretation?
30202Why should God"damn"men?
30202Why should he argue when argument may mislead?
30202Why should he not come?
30202Why should he not come?
30202Why should he stumble at trifles when he has surmounted the first great obstacle to credulity?
30202Why then do you worship a Moloch who laughs at the writhings of his victims and drinks their tears like wine?
30202Why then does Professor Huxley press the"possibility"of miracles against his Freethinking friends?
30202Why then does the business hold out?
30202Why then, you may ask, did I not quit this inhospitable hotel, and put up at another establishment?
30202Would he not be a perfect barbarian?
30202Would he not be responsible for the curse of that being''s existence?
30202Would it be right in me, or anyone who knew him, to aid or sanction such a fraud?''
30202Would it not impair his sleep, and fill his dreams with terror?
30202Would not every one admit some ability in the unhereditary recipient of fifteen thousand a year?
30202Would not that"lost soul"have the right to curse his maker?
30202Would not this be extremely unjust, nay dreadfully cruel?
30202Would you have done this deed?
30202Yes, but who will vouch for Mohammed?
30202he answers merrily with a"what cheer?"
30202Æschylus, Lucretius, Dante, Milton; how does the Bible excel these in that respect?
38812''A delegate: Who is to be judge of that? 38812 ''What have we to do with those things?
38812Oh, but,they say,"is it moral?"
38812Who wrote that?
38812***** ARE Men''s characters fully determined at the age of thirty?
38812***** WHAT do I think of the lynchings in Georgia?
38812***** WHY SHOULD THE INDIAN SUMMER of a life be lost-- the long, serene, and tender days when earth and sky are friends?
38812After all, is Nature, taken together, any better than the Bible?
38812After all, why should we believe the unreasonable?
38812Afterward, the astronomer with his telescope looked, and asked the priests: Where is the world of which you speak?
38812And how can we, in the next resolution, say those laws ought all to be repealed?
38812And so I want to say to- night, because I want to be consistent, Richard Wagner was not a German, and his music is not German; and why?
38812And the question, and the only question, as to whether they are amenable to the law, in my mind, is, Were they honest?
38812And then was asked the question:"Will a free, people tax themselves to pay a Nation''s debt?"
38812And what has been our history?
38812And what is the great thing that the stage does?
38812And what makes the nightingale sing until the air is faint with melody?
38812And why did they begin to think?
38812And why should the French mother teach her son, that it will be his duty sometime to kill the child of the German mother?"
38812And will there, sometime, be another world?
38812And yet, after all, what would this world be without death?
38812And, then, why does not justice always triumph?
38812Are certain physical conditions necessary to the production of what we call virtuous actions?
38812Are the effects of climate upon man necessary effects?
38812Are the white people insane?
38812Are we ready to say that the Federal courts shall be denied jurisdiction in any case arising about the mails?
38812Before whom shall we try the robber?
38812Between the Christian and the Agnostic there is the difference of assertion and question-- between"There is a God"and"Is there a God?"
38812But what good has the killing done?
38812Can a man think one way and believe another?
38812Can all men be honest?
38812Can all men be kind?
38812Can man choose without reference to any quality in the thing chosen?
38812Can not the reward and the threat be in the nature of things?
38812Can they not rest in consequences perceived by the intellect?
38812Can we not truthfully say that absolute candor is the beginning of wisdom?
38812Can you not attack any superstition in the world in perfectly pure language?
38812Can you not attack anything you please in perfectly pure language?
38812Clarke: What are you talking about, anyway?
38812Could he use what we call the faculties of the mind?
38812Could not infinite wisdom and goodness just as easily command crime as to permit it?
38812Could we not dispense with the gourd, the worm and the east wind?
38812Did Jehovah furnish anybody with a list of books he had inspired?
38812Did any writer of any part of the Pentateuch make the claim?
38812Did anyone ever hear him say that he believed in the ascension of Jesus Christ?
38812Did it ever occur to any Liberal that he wished to express any thought honestly, truly, and legally that he considered immoral?
38812Did the authors of Joshua, Judges, Kings or Chronicles pretend that they had obtained their facts from Jehovah?
38812Did the writer of Genesis claim that he was inspired?
38812Do not most people mistake for freedom the right to examine their own chains?
38812Do you not love your enemies?
38812Does a man who denies the truth of this childish absurdity weaken the foundation of virtue?
38812Does any man with sense enough to eat and breathe believe this idiotic lie?
38812Does anybody know that he ever said that he had inspired anybody?
38812Does anybody testify that Lincoln believed in the miraculous birth of Jesus Christ, that the Holy Ghost was the father or that Christ was or is God?
38812Does he discourage truth- telling by denouncing lies?
38812Does he guard his copyright with the fires of hell?
38812Does he say what he thinks?
38812Does it act without cause?
38812Does it exist independently of the brain?
38812Does the author of Job or of the Psalms pretend to have received assistance from God?
38812Does the mind think apart from the brain, and then express its thought through the instrumentality of the brain?
38812Elizur Wright said to himself, why should we take chains from bodies and enslave minds-- why fight to free the cage and leave the bird a prisoner?
38812Every cradle asks us"Whence?"
38812From princes and lords and dukes?
38812HOW far should a husband or wife go in defending the sanctity of home?
38812Has anybody said that he was heard to say that he so believed?
38812Has anybody testified that Lincoln believed that Christ was raised from the dead?
38812Has mercy fled to beasts?
38812Has the Government a right to say what shall go into the mails?
38812Has the United States no power to protect a citizen?
38812He being the only existence, what knowledge could he gain by experience?
38812How can any man be wicked enough to doubt its truth?
38812How can the existence or non- existence of a deity change my obligation to keep my hands out of the fire?
38812How can the fact of inspiration be established?
38812How can they love and worship this monster who murders, his children?
38812How could flesh, bones and blood be changed to salt?
38812How could he know that he existed?
38812How could he use force?
38812How could water that rose over the mountains remain local?
38812How do we know that he betrayed the woman?
38812How do we know that it was not the husband''s fault?
38812How does it happen that_ we_ have any interest in what is known as immoral literature?
38812How does she know whose fault it was?
38812How is it possible to prove that the Holy Ghost was the father of Christ?
38812I have asked,"Why should God help us to whip Spain?"
38812I have often heard him repeat the words of Epicurus:"Why should I fear death?
38812IS IT EVER RIGHT FOR HUSBAND OR WIFE TO KILL RIVAL?
38812If an innocent man is convicted of larceny, should we repeal all the laws on the subject?
38812If happiness is the only good in heaven, why should it not be considered the only good here?
38812If it is immoral for a woman to marry a man without loving him, is it moral for her to live as the wife of a man whom she has ceased to love?
38812If it should be demonstrated that the book of Joshua is all false, what harm could follow?
38812If morality depends upon conditions, should it not be the task of the great and good to discover such conditions?
38812If reason is not the standard, what is?
38812If the mind depends upon certain organs for the expression of its thought, does it have thought independently of those organs?
38812If the poor beast could speak what would he say?
38812If there be a God can we please him by believing that he acted like a fiend?
38812If this be true, how can the superior be virtuous?
38812If you kill a man for one wrong, why not for another?
38812In a half- insulted tone, he replied,"Of course I have, why do you ask me such a question?"
38812In the first place, how can she be sure of the facts?
38812In which of these states was she responsible?
38812Is every thought a necessity?
38812Is he guided by reason?
38812Is he responsible for what he does as a consequence of his surroundings?
38812Is he the friend of the right?--the champion of the truth?
38812Is it better to believe without thinking than to think without believing?
38812Is it impossible for morality to exist where the brain and heart are in partnership?
38812Is it improper in a secular government to endeavor to prevent the spread of obscene literature?
38812Is it merely a looker- on?
38812Is it not possible that a certain genius is required to be what is called"good"?
38812Is it not possible that each brain is a field where all the senses sow the seeds of thought?
38812Is it not reasonable to say that they would act in some way?
38812Is it not strange that Christians speak of their God as an assassin?
38812Is it not wonderful that the passengers on that train really enjoy themselves?
38812Is it possible for anything to be produced without what we call cause, and, if the cause was sufficient, was it not necessarily produced?
38812Is it possible for man to escape them?
38812Is it possible that Freethought can be charged with being obscene?
38812Is it possible that God will not protect his friends?
38812Is it possible that Jehovah is proud of having written this book?
38812Is it possible that, if the charge is made, it can be substantiated?
38812Is it really any worse to order the strong to slay the weak, than to stand by and refuse to protect the weak?
38812Is it really important to believe that the book of Esther is inspired?
38812Is it right for the husband to kill the paramour of his wife?
38812Is it right for the wife to kill the paramour of her husband?
38812Is it something with which intelligence has nothing to do?
38812Is it time now that we should throw into the scale, against all these splendid purposes, an effort to repeal some postal laws against obscenity?
38812Is it to obey without question, or is it to act in accordance with perceived obligation?
38812Is it wise for congregations to ask their ministers to believe this story?
38812Is it wise for ministers to ask their congregations to believe this story?
38812Is she bound by the words, by the ceremony, after the real marriage is dead?
38812Is she so bound that the man she hates has the right to be the father of her babes?
38812Is the mind dependent upon causes?
38812Is the soul responsible for the defects of the brain?
38812Is the spiritual man honest, kind, candid?--or dishonest, cruel and hypocritical?
38812Is the theatre moral?
38812Is there a sensible man in the wide world who really believes in the flood?
38812Is there any harm in that?
38812Is there any mind without brain?
38812Is there no foundation for morality except punishment threatened or reward promised by a superior to an inferior?
38812Is this fine quality of the mind destroyed by the development of the brain?
38812Leland: What is the question?
38812Like morality, is it only found in the company of ignorance and superstition?
38812Lot turned to salt for?
38812May it not be possible so to understand the brain that we can stop producing criminals?
38812Must the ignorant child carry out the command of the wise father-- the rude peasant rush to death at the request of the prince?
38812Must this splendid quality called spirituality be retained through the loss of candor?
38812Must we be foolish to be virtuous?
38812Must we waste one day in seven; must we make ourselves unhappy or melancholy one- seventh of the time?
38812Now, if A falls in love with the wife of B, and she returns his love, has B the right to kill him?
38812Now, if there can be no real marriage without mutual love, does the marriage outlast the love?
38812Now, is anybody in favor of modifying that sentiment?
38812Now, is it possible that a God in his right mind would waste all that force?
38812Now, is there the slightest evidence to show that Lincoln believed in the inspiration of the Old and New Testaments?
38812Now, then, what is religion?
38812Now, what is a Christian?
38812Now, what is the testimony that you present that Lincoln was a Christian?
38812Now, why not be honest about it?
38812Of what possible use is it to know just how long an animal can live without water-- at what time he becomes insane from thirst, or blind or deaf?
38812One day I heard it, and I said,"What music is that?"
38812Or if A falls in love with the husband of B, and he returns her love, has B the right to kill her?
38812Ought this man to be killed?
38812Ourselves we do not know-- how then Can we find out our fellow- men?
38812Should a man be true to himself?
38812Should he ask himself whether Jehovah in his efforts to induce the Egyptian King to free the Hebrews acted like a sensible God?
38812Should he ask himself whether a good God would kill the babes of the people on account of the sins of the king?
38812Should he be blamed for this?
38812Should he take into consideration the fact that like stories have been told and believed by savages for thousands of years?
38812Should they be blamed for not acting like Christ?
38812So I congratulate you all that you were born in a great nation, born rich; and why do I say rich?
38812So, if a young man is engaged and finds that he has made a mistake, is it honorable for him to keep his contract?
38812Suppose Spain had whipped us; would the Christians then say that God did it?
38812Suppose somebody robs the mails?
38812The gamekeeper was first at the target, and the lord cried out:"Did I miss it?"
38812The less a man knows, the more positive, a?
38812The question arises, Is the world growing less generous, less heroic, less chivalric?
38812The question arises: Can an infinite being want anything?
38812The question is: Are they true?
38812The question was presented: Shall the Republic be slave or free?
38812Then why did not God help the Cubans long before?
38812There are many other witnesses upon this question whose testimony can be found in a book entitled"Abraham Lincoln, was he a Christian?"
38812There is another question still:--Will all the wounds of war be healed?
38812They did, but are we ready now to decide in a moment what courts shall have jurisdiction?
38812They said:"We saved the Nation''s life, and what is life without honor?"
38812This leads me to another question: What is marriage?
38812Under such circumstances, may we not safely infer that, in a little while, if the statistics were properly taken, a law of average would appear?
38812Was that their intention?
38812Was their effort to benefit mankind?
38812Were her thoughts and actions as free in one as in the other?
38812Were the angels perfected through misfortune?
38812What can we say of death?
38812What can we say of the dead?
38812What can we say?
38812What could a man do who speaks a poor language, a language of a few words that you could almost count on your fingers?
38812What could he do?
38812What difference does it make whether the story of Ruth is fact or fiction; history or poetry?
38812What do we want?
38812What excuse have they for having existence and for having lived on the bread earned by honest men?
38812What good was achieved?
38812What have the great conquerors to show in this great exhibition?
38812What is beauty?
38812What is it to be spiritual?
38812What is it?
38812What is morality?
38812What is reverence?
38812What is the meaning of this?
38812What is the opinion of society?--What is the result?
38812What makes the river run?
38812What makes the star shine?
38812What makes the sun rise?
38812What makes the tree grow?
38812What man with a head fertile enough to raise one hair can believe a story like this?
38812What more can we ask?
38812What more do we need?
38812What shall we get from popes and cardinals?
38812What shall we get from the Caesars and the Napoleons?
38812What shall we get from the nobility?
38812What useful lesson taught?
38812What will that committee do with him then?
38812What words can solve the mystery of life, the mystery of death?
38812What words will do that life the justice that we know and feel?
38812What would Daniel Webster have been, by God, if he had settled in Pinkneyville?"
38812What would Shakespeare have been, if he had been born in Labrador?
38812What would have become of Grant?
38812What would have become of Lincoln, a lawyer in a country town?
38812What would you think of a man who built a railroad, knowing that every passenger was to be killed-- knowing that there was no escape?
38812What would you think of such a man?
38812When a truth- loving man reads about the plagues of Egypt, should he reason as he reads?
38812When was it established?
38812Where would have been the heroes whose brows we have crowned with laurel had there been no Civil war?
38812Where, then, is the evidence that he was a Christian?
38812Whether he would torture, mangle and kill innocent cattle to get even with a monarch?
38812Who are the friends of the human race?
38812Who cares whether Hamlet or Lear lived?
38812Who cares whether Imogen and Perdita were real women or the creation of Shakespeare''s imagination?
38812Why is not innocence a perfect shield?
38812Why not just say we will stand by freedom of thought and its expression?
38812Why not say so?
38812Why not say that we are in favor of amending any law that is wrong?
38812Why should I fear that which can not exist when I do?"
38812Why should monarchy be in love with republicanism, with democracy?
38812Why should the facts be kept from the people?
38812Why should theologians say that those books were inspired?
38812Why should we expect mercy from a God who drowned millions of men, women and babes?
38812Why should we fear that which will come to all that is?
38812Why should we suspect the motives of this man who has given his life for the good of others?
38812Why?
38812Will it rise again upon some other stage?
38812Will the curtain fall at last?
38812Will this great drama have an end?
38812Would it annihilate the disgrace or the memory of the shame?
38812Would it bring back her love?
38812Would it lessen the husband''s loss?
38812Would it not be far nobler for him to tell her the truth?
38812Would it reunite the family?
38812Would not this story be just as beautiful with the storm and fish left out?
38812Would the killing do any good?
38812You might as well pile all the Alps on one unfortunate ant, and then say,"Why do n''t you play?
38812and every coffin"Whither?"
38803Have you thought there could be but a single supreme? 38803 If I''m design''d yon lordling''s slave, By nature''s law design''d, Why was an independent wish E''er planted in my mind?
38803Is he intemperate, does he abuse the children and beat you?
38803Is there, for honest poverty, That hangs his head, and a''that? 38803 O dear Juliet, why art thou yet so fair?
38803That sacred hour can I forget? 38803 They talk religion in their mouth; They talk o''mercy, grace, an''truth, For what?
38803What book is it?
38803What was I, or my generation, That I should get sic exaltation? 38803 Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?"
38803Would you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars? 38803 AS he kinder, more forgiving, more self- sacrificing than Buddha? 38803 Again I ask: Is the New Testament true? 38803 And he saith unto them:Whose is the image and the superscription?"
38803And is this all?
38803And stainless_ Imogen_--who cried:"What is it to be false?"
38803Are the motives high and noble, or low and infamous?
38803Are we to win the happiness of heaven by deserting the ones we love?
38803Burns wrote short poems, and why?
38803But after all, is our God superior to the gods of the heathen?
38803But how can a miracle be established?
38803But in what way can the absurdity of the"real presence"be answered, except by banter, by raillery, by ridicule, by persiflage?
38803Can I forget the hallow''d grove Where, by the winding Ayr, we met, To live one day of parting love?
38803Can the authors of Job and the Psalms be compared with Shakespeare?
38803Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws among friends?"
38803Can we believe in the multiplication of the widow''s oil by Elisha, that an army was smitten with blindness, or that an axe floated in the water?
38803Can we believe that Christ raised the dead?
38803Can we believe that Elijah brought flames from heaven, or that he went at last to Paradise in a chariot of fire?
38803Can we believe that the gods of Egypt worked miracles?
38803Can we do this without being inspired ourselves?
38803Can we get any good from Jonah and his gourd?
38803Can we live without taking thought for the morrow?
38803Can we now believe that water was changed into wine?
38803Can we now say that Christ was the greatest of philosophers?
38803Could a devil have done worse?
38803Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome?
38803Did Christ love his, when he denounced them as whited sepulchers, hypocrites and vipers?
38803Did Christ think that the money belonged to Cæsar because his image and superscription were stamped upon it?
38803Did God use men as instruments?
38803Did all the ministers of Scotland add as much to the sum of human knowledge as David Hume?
38803Did all the ministers of Scotland add as much to the sum of human knowledge as David Hume?
38803Did all the priests of France do as great a work for the civilization of the world as Diderot and Voltaire?
38803Did all the priests of France do as great a work for the civilization of the world as Voltaire or Diderot?
38803Did all the priests of Rome increase the mental wealth of man as much as Bruno?
38803Did all the priests of Rome increase the mental wealth of man as much as Bruno?
38803Did any human being ever love his enemies?
38803Did he cause them to write his thoughts?
38803Did he desert his father and mother?
38803Did he express grander truths than Cicero?
38803Did he know at the time that Joseph would use the information thus given to rob and enslave the people of Egypt?
38803Did he take possession of their minds and destroy their wills?
38803Did the author of Genesis know as much about nature as Humboldt, or Darwin, or Haeckel?
38803Did the penny belong to Cæsar or to the man who had earned it?
38803Did these curses, these threats, come from the heart of love or from the mouth of savagery?
38803Did they change water into blood, and sticks into serpents?
38803Did we get from any of these books a hint of any science?
38803Did we get our ideas of government, of religious freedom, of the liberty of thought, from the Old Testament?
38803Did you ever see as little a nubbin with as much shuck?"
38803Do you fancy I will grant you a lease for so long a time?
38803Do you know what it is?
38803Do you understand it?
38803Does God take care of anybody?
38803Does any intelligent man believe in the existence of devils?
38803Does any natural man now believe that Christ cast out devils?
38803Does anybody now believe that an angel went into the pool and troubled the waters?
38803Does anybody now think that the poor wretch who got in first was healed?
38803Does it appear from this conversation that Christ understood the real nature and use of money?
38803Does it civilize us to read about the beheading of the seventy sons of Ahab, the putting out of the eyes of Zedekiah and the murder of his sons?
38803Does not every chapter shock the heart of a good man?
38803Does the Old Testament satisfy this standard?
38803Had Cæsar the right to demand it because it was adorned with his image?
38803Hamlet having killed Polonius is asked:"Where''s Polonius?"
38803Has Exodus been a help or a hindrance to the human race?
38803Has man in his ignorance and fear ever imagined a greater monster?
38803Have the barbarians of any land, in any time, worshiped a more heartless god?
38803Have these absurdities and cruelties-- these childish, savage superstitions-- helped to civilize the world?
38803Have they taught us how to cultivate the earth, to build houses, to weave cloth, to prepare food?
38803Have they taught us to paint pictures, to chisel statues, to build bridges, or ships, or anything of beauty or of use?
38803Have we not the right to judge for ourselves?
38803Have you ever read the account of the stage- driver''s funeral?
38803He describes the ideal American citizen-- the one who"_ Says indifferently and alike''How are you, friend?''
38803He is one of"Those that look carelessly in the faces of Presidents and Governors, as to say''Who are you?''"
38803He said, speaking to his mother:"Woman, what have I to do with, thee?"
38803He was the poet of friendship:"Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min''?
38803Hear''st thou the groans that rend his breast?
38803Hear''st thou the groans that rend his breast?"
38803His cruelty, or scorn?
38803How are such people to be answered?
38803How are we bound by their opinion?
38803How are we to separate the mistakes of man from the thoughts of God?
38803How can an inspired man prove that he is inspired?
38803How can he know himself that he is inspired?
38803How can one man establish the inspiration of another?
38803How can these miracles be established?
38803How can they be brought to a sense of their absurdity?
38803How can we account for these pretended miracles?
38803How can we know that the Devil tried to bribe Christ?
38803How could it have entered his mind to have put a warning, a threat and a blessing, upon his grave?
38803How could you prove the resurrection of Lazarus?
38803How could you substantiate, today, the ascension of Jesus Christ?
38803How did the writer get his information?
38803How do I know but what you''ll give further orders to- morrow?"
38803How does a country become great?
38803How had they offended King Darius, the believer in Jehovah?
38803How is it possible for a human being to know that he is inspired by an infinite being?
38803How is it possible now to establish the fact that the fires of a furnace refused to burn three men?
38803How is it possible to substantiate these miracles?
38803I''the dark, to be his paramour?"
38803I, wha deserve sic just damnation, For broken laws, Five thousand years''fore my creation, Thro''Adam''s cause?
38803IS CHRIST OUR EXAMPLE?
38803If Christ rose from the dead, why did he not appear to his enemies?
38803If earthquake there must be, why did it not occur in some uninhabited desert, on some wide waste of sea?
38803If he really ascended, why did he not do so in public, in the presence of his persecutors?
38803If our colors are struck and the fighting done?
38803If the existence of God is admitted, how are we to prove that he inspired the writers of the books of the Bible?
38803If thy right hand offend thee, cut it off._ Why?
38803In France who are and were the friends of freedom-- the Catholic priests, or Renan?
38803In what respect was he the superior of Zoroaster?
38803In what way could you prove that the river Jordan was divided upon being struck by the coat of a prophet?
38803Is Jeremiah, or Habakkuk equal to Dickens or Thackeray?
38803Is Protestantism willing to rest its claims upon the"great man"argument?
38803Is a home to be ruined here for the sake of a mansion there?
38803Is death the end?
38803Is it a book to be read by children?
38803Is it a fact that the Devil carried Christ to the top of the temple and tried to induce him to leap to the ground?
38803Is it a fact that the Devil tried to bribe Christ?
38803Is it for good or evil?
38803Is it just and reasonable?
38803Is it merciful?
38803Is it moral?
38803Is it necessary that Heaven should borrow its light from the glare of Hell?
38803Is it not strange that at the trial of Christ no one was found to say a word in his favor?
38803Is it not wonderful that no fragment of any scene-- no line-- no word-- has been found?
38803Is it philosophical?
38803Is it possible that Bacon left the wondrous children of his brain on the door- step of Shakespeare, and kept the deformed ones at home?
38803Is it possible that Christ offered the bribe of eternal joy to those who would desert their fathers, their mothers, their wives and children?
38803Is it possible that he fathered the failures and deserted the perfect?
38803Is it possible that he who said,"Resist not evil,"came to bring a sword?
38803Is it possible that it was right, just and merciful to kill fifty thousand men because they had looked into a box?
38803Is it possible that our God was intelligent and good?
38803Is it possible that this description was written by one who witnessed this miracle?
38803Is it possible to extract from these extravagant sayings the smallest grain of common sense?
38803Is rhyme a necessary part of poetry?
38803Is the Bible any nearer right in its ideas of justice, of mercy, of morality or of religion than in its conception of the sciences?
38803Is the Bible civilized?
38803Is the story of the ark, its capture and return of importance to us?
38803Is there a chapter worth reading?
38803Is there a tomb holding the ashes of a saint from which emerges one ray of light?
38803Is there a word calculated to develop the heart or brain?
38803Is there an elevated thought-- any great principle-- anything poetic-- any word that bursts into blossom?
38803Is there an intellectual man in the world who will not agree with this?
38803Is there any absurdity beyond this?
38803Is there any philosophy, any good sense, in that commandment?
38803Is there any philosophy, any wisdom in this?
38803Is there any wisdom in putting out your eyes or cutting off your hands?
38803Is there anything except a dreary and detailed statement of things that never happened?
38803Is there anything in Exodus calculated to make men generous, loving and noble?
38803Is there anything in First and Second Kings that suggests the idea of inspiration?
38803Is there anything in Leviticus of importance?
38803Is there anything in the literature of the world more perfectly idiotic?
38803Is there anything in the wide universe more wonderful than this?
38803Is there anything in these"inspired"books that has been of benefit to man?
38803Is there anything more intense than these words of Cleopatra?
38803Is there anything of use in Joel, in Amos, in Obadiah?
38803Is there anything to be learned from Hosea and his wife?
38803Is there anything worth reading in the first and second books of Samuel?
38803Is there in the whole world an intelligent man or woman who believes this impossible falsehood?
38803Is there in the"sacred volume"a word, a line, that has added to the wealth, the intelligence and the happiness of mankind?
38803Is there one of the books of the Old Testament as entertaining as"Robinson Crusoe,""The Travels of Gulliver,"or"Peter Wilkins and his Flying Wife"?
38803Is there one ray of light from any supernatural source?
38803Is there one word in First and Second Kings calculated to make men better?
38803Is there the grave of a priest in France on which a lover of liberty would now drop a flower or a tear?
38803Is there the least sense in that belief?
38803Is this possible?
38803Is what is called the Mosaic Code as wise or as merciful as the code of any civilized nation?
38803It may be well enough at the beginning to inquire, What is a poet?
38803It may be well enough here to ask the question: What is greatness?
38803Let me ask the ministers one question: How can you be wicked enough to defend this book?
38803Looking up from the page, the President said:"Chase, did you ever read this book?"
38803Of what use the cruel code, the frightful punishments, the curses, the falsehoods and the miracles of this ignorant and infamous book?
38803Of what use to us are the wars of Saul and David, the stories of Goliath and the Witch of Endor?
38803Or of the widow''s son?
38803Or why has man the will and pow''r To make his fellow mourn?"
38803Ought a prophet of God to hew a captured king in pieces?
38803Our frigate takes fire, The other asks if we demand quarter?
38803Seest thou thy lover lowly laid?
38803Seest thou thy lover lowly laid?
38803She exclaims:"Who was it that thus cried?
38803Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o''auld lang syne?"
38803Should we hand back the slave to his master, when the master was using his slave to destroy the Union?
38803So the words of Cleopatra, when Charmain speaks:"Peace, peace: Dost thou not see my baby at my breast That sucks the nurse asleep?"
38803Take any miracle recorded in the Bible, and how could it be established now?
38803Take from Exodus the laws common to all nations, and is there anything of value left?
38803That he who said,"Love your enemies,"came to destroy the peace of the world?
38803The Pharisees said unto Christ:"Is it lawful to pay tribute unto Cæsar?"
38803The optimist was compelled to ask,"What was my God doing?
38803The question is not: Who furnished the stone, or who owned the quarry, but who chiseled the statue?
38803The question is, Were the authors of these four gospels inspired?
38803The respectable prudes and pedagogues sound the alarm, and cry, or rather screech:"Is this a book for a young person?"
38803The young man dismounted and made himself known, and the old monk cried:"Where hast thou been?
38803They said, if God will inflict such frightful torments upon us here, simply for allowing a few heretics to live, what will he do with the heretics?
38803This is called sublime, but what does it mean?
38803This situation and its consequences he pointed out to absolute perfection in these words:"Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws?
38803Under the same circumstances, what would a devil have done?
38803V. WAS JEHOVAH A GOD OF LOVE?
38803WHAT IS IT ALL WORTH?
38803WHAT IS POETRY?
38803WHICH WAY?
38803WHICH WAY?
38803WHO wrote the New Testament?
38803WHY SHOULD WE PLACE CHRIST AT THE TOP AND SUMMIT OF THE HUMAN RACE?
38803WILL some Christian scholar tell us the value of Genesis?
38803Was Jehovah god or devil?
38803Was he a greater philosopher, a deeper thinker, than Epicurus?
38803Was he gentler than Lao- tsze, more universal than Confucius?
38803Was he grander in death-- a sublimer martyr than Bruno?
38803Was he more patient, more charitable, than Epictetus?
38803Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than Socrates?
38803Was his brain equal to Kepler''s or Newton''s?
38803Was his mind subtler than Spinoza''s?
38803Was it because the inhabitants were ignorant, cruel and superstitious?
38803Was there ever a sweeter song than"Bonnie Doon"?
38803Was there in the eighteenth century, a man wearing the vestments of the church, the equal of Voltaire?
38803Were his ideas of human rights and duties superior to those of Zeno?
38803Were its laws inspired?
38803Were the men who through many centuries made the selections inspired?
38803Were the writers of Kings and Chronicles as great historians, as great writers, as Gibbon and Draper?
38803Were these writers only partly controlled, so that their mistakes, their ignorance and their prejudices were mingled with the wisdom of God?
38803Were they ever performed?
38803Were they-- ignorant, credulous, stupid and malicious-- as well qualified to judge of"inspiration"as the students of our time?
38803What bishop pitied the victims of the rack?
38803What cardinal, what bishop, what priest in France raised his voice for the rights of men?
38803What care we for the withering of Jereboam''s hand, the prophecy of Jehu, or the story of Elijah and the ravens?
38803What could be done with this horror?
38803What did he mock?
38803What does Lady Macbeth then say?
38803What ecclesiastic, what nobleman, took the side of the oppressed-- of the peasant?
38803What had the wives and little children done?
38803What is inspiration?
38803What is poetry?
38803What is this dust-- this womb?
38803What priest pleaded for the liberty of the citizen?
38803What then is left in this inspired book of Genesis?
38803What would the world be if infidels had never been?
38803What would the world be if infidels had never been?
38803What would they have done if their hearts had not been softened by the glad tidings of great joy-- peace on earth and good will to men?
38803What, then, can we say of Christ?
38803When Macbeth has reaped the harvest, the seeds of which were sown by his murderous hand, he exclaims,--and what could be more pitiful?
38803Where are the witnesses?
38803Where did Christ think heaven was?
38803Where is thy blissful place of rest?
38803Where is thy place of blissful rest?
38803Which way does the great stream tend?
38803Who denounced the frightful criminal code-- the torture of suspected persons?
38803Who enabled Joseph to interpret the dream of Pharaoh?
38803Who failed to protect the innocent wives and children?
38803Who has accomplished the most in this direction-- the church, or the unbelievers?
38803Who has made Germany famous-- her priests, or her scientists?
38803Who produced the famine?
38803Who protected Daniel?
38803Who were they?
38803Who wrote the account?
38803Who, upon the whole earth, has the slightest knowledge upon this subject?
38803Why did he cover the world with men, women and children knowing that he would destroy them?
38803Why did he fail to speak?
38803Why did he go dumbly to his death, leaving the world to misery and to doubt?
38803Why did he leave his words to ignorance, hypocrisy and chance?
38803Why did he not break the chains of slaves?
38803Why did he not call on Caiaphas, the high priest?
38803Why did he not explain the Trinity?
38803Why did he not make another triumphal entry into Jerusalem?
38803Why did he not plainly say:"I am the Son of God,"or,"I am God"?
38803Why did he not say something positive, definite and satisfactory about another world?
38803Why did he not say that the Old Testament was or was not the inspired word of God?
38803Why did he not tell the mode of baptism that was pleasing to him?
38803Why did he not tell us something of the rights of man, of the liberty of hand and brain?
38803Why did he not try to reform them?
38803Why did he not turn the tear- stained hope of heaven into the glad knowledge of another life?
38803Why did he not write a creed?
38803Why did he not write the New Testament himself?
38803Why did you bring the daggers from the place?"
38803Why hast thou forsaken me?"
38803Why is it that Scotland, when the roll of nations is called, can stand up and proudly answer"here"?
38803Why is it that millions and millions of men and women love this man?
38803Why should Jehovah have killed Uzzah for putting forth his hand to steady the ark, and forgiven David for murdering Uriah and stealing his wife?
38803Why should the worshipers of God hate the lovers of men?
38803Why should they do anything for us if we will do nothing for them?
38803Why should this, the greatest of miracles, be done in secret, in a corner?
38803Why should we attribute the best to man and the worst to God?
38803Why should we place Jehovah above all the gods?
38803Why was Jerusalem a holy city?
38803Why would he create people, knowing that they could not be reformed?
38803Will the forthgoer be lost, and forever?
38803Would a civilized God daub his altars with the blood of oxen, lambs and doves?
38803Would a good God appeal to prejudice, the armor, fortress, sword and shield of ignorance?
38803Would a good God appeal to reason or ignorance, to justice or selfishness, to liberty or the lash?
38803Would a good God frighten or enlighten his children?
38803Would he delight in the smell of burning flesh?
38803Would he make all his priests butchers?
38803Would you hear of an old- time sea- fight?
38803must all then amount to but this?
38803the bishops, or Gambetta?--Dupanloup, or Victor Hugo?
38803to credulity, the ring in the priest- led nose of stupidity?
38803to fear, the capital stock of imposture, the lever of hypocrisy?
38803where?"
36269* Are you married? 36269 * Do you say that you are independent of all circumstances, that you can control them, that you have a free will?
36269* Is this true, and if true, when? 36269 * So far well, but how if thy neighbor will not hear thy doctrine when thou preacheth the"glad tidings of great joy"to him?
36269** And was he glorified? 36269 ** Aye, but when?
36269And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? 36269 And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met?
36269Give us this day our daily bread,Will the prayer get it without work?
36269He came unto his own and his own received him not,** Why should the Jews be more God''s own than the Gentiles?
36269Quel est donc ce Dieu qui fait mourir Dieu pour apaiser Dieu?
36269Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation? 36269 **Who was Jesus Christ?"
36269*** Why should men be taught to make to themselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness?
36269A man or a myth?
36269Again, if you tell me that the child had not a soul, then, I ask, why not?
36269And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd?
36269And if it can not help itself, why not, if it is superior to the body?
36269And if the soul is primarily naturally depraved, why is God so unjust as to give a naturally depraved soul to any body?
36269And on what is the eternity of bliss to depend?
36269And the Lord said unto Satan, From whence comest thou?
36269And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth?
36269And what answer cometh from heaven to this the bread winner''s petition?
36269And what do you know about the soul?
36269And who can wonder?
36269And why not?
36269And why"which art in Heaven?"
36269Are slaves that weep salt teardrops on their steel shackles comforted in their weeping?
36269Are the brightness and steel of the knife separate?
36269Are you equally certain of the existence of mind, as an existence independent and separate from matter?
36269Are you poor in spirit, and are you smitten; in such case what did Jesus teach?
36269As it was a drawn one, where was the scabbard?
36269At the moment of the birth?
36269At which stage, if at any, did the soul come into the child?
36269Attributes are but the distinguishing characteristics of modes, and how can that be infinite which is only the quality of finity?
36269But did this designer create the matter in which the design appeared?
36269But even if Adam did sin, and even he and Eve, his wife, were the first parents of the whole human family, what have we to do with their sin?
36269But has"God"senses?
36269But what did Jesus teach?
36269But what did infinite and eternal complete happiness desire?
36269But what does Jesus teach?
36269But what faith had Isaac?
36269But what is it that thinks?
36269But what is to be understood by cause?
36269But what real difficulty is there?
36269But where was Jonah during this noise?
36269Can God be moved against a man to destroy him without a cause?
36269Can human credulity go further, or human ingenuity invent any argument more absurd?"
36269Can the reader wonder that these facts are held to impeach the orthodox faith?
36269Can working- men, by combination, permanently raise the rate of wages?
36269Can you have intelligence destitute of perception, memory, and reason?
36269Can you have intelligence without thought?
36269Can you have intelligence, yet no perception, no memory, no reason, no judgment?
36269Christianity from its thousand pulpits teaches,"Ask and it shall be given to you,""who if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?"
36269Could the immaterial mind have been connected with it at this time?
36269Craven in spirit, with an empty purse and hungry mouth-- what next?
36269Did Adam sin?
36269Did paganism furnish the groundwork for the patriarch''s dream?
36269Did the sacrifice of Jesus serve as atonement for the whole world, and, if yes, for all sin, or for Adam''s sin only?
36269Do Theists ever lie or murder?
36269Do all these different and differing structures and colors trace their origin to one pair?
36269Do the words,"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
36269Do they know what they mean?
36269Do you allege that it was impossible to forge books so large as the gospels?
36269Do you know where Heaven is, if not, why say"which art in Heaven?"
36269Do you mean that it has eternally existed-- has never been created?
36269Do you mean, dear reader, that it is impossible Abraham could have lived 135 years, and yet be only 75 years of age?
36269Do you think God will possibly lead you into temptation?
36269Do you want to see how God helps the poor?
36269Does David repent?
36269Does Jesus atone for Adam''s sin?
36269Does any thought of the murdered Uriah rack old David''s brain, or has a tardy repentance effaced the bloody stain from the pages of his memory?
36269Does he express his determination to protect the righteous Job?
36269Does he make a confession of his crime- stained life, and beg his son to be a better king, a truer man, a more honest citizen, a wiser father?
36269Does he talk of cherubs, angels, and heavenly choirs?
36269Does he use his power to rebuke the evil tempter?
36269Does his love of country efface his many misdoings?
36269Does his patriotism outshine his many vices?
36269Does it come in the moment the child begins to form, or is it the moment the child is born into the world?
36269Does my soul feel hungry and compel my body to steal?
36269Does the Lord now drive the Devil from his presence?
36269Early in 1858, when Mr. Edward Truelove was suddenly arrested for publishing the pamphlet,"Is Tyrannicide Justifiable?"
36269Esau''s words were,"Behold I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright be to me?"
36269Faith that Jacob was Esau?
36269For Jesus himself-- can man believe in him?
36269For, if the argument can not make out that the being it discovers is everywhere present, how can it ever make out that he is everywhere powerful?
36269HAS MAN A SOUL?
36269Had this Jewish monarch any redeeming traits in his character?
36269Has it a separate and distinct existence from the body?
36269Has it been waiting from all eternity to occupy each body the moment of birth?
36269Has man a soul?
36269Has man a soul?
36269Hast thou not made an hedge about him, and about all that he hath on every side?
36269Have you a wife you love?
36269Have you ever found it apart from matter?
36269Have you found that the mind has a separate and distinct existence?
36269His history being a fable, is the hero a reality?
36269How can God''s name be hallowed even if you know it?
36269How can this poverty be removed and prevented?
36269How did Jesus die?
36269How do you know it had not?
36269How does this King, of this unknown Salem, never heard of before or after, come to be priest of the Most High God?
36269How is God''s will done in heaven?
36269How is it that if the soul is immaterial, having nothing in common with matter, that it is only manifest by material means?
36269How is it that my spirit is now by myself, and by my mortal body, denying its own existence?
36269How is it that the Dyaks have got this soul and yet live knowing nothing whatever about it?
36269How is it that the soul can not speak the moment the child is born-- can not even think?
36269How is that?
36269I ask you whether it was pre- existing, or at what stage it came?
36269IS THERE A GOD?
36269If God be infinite goodness, can evil exist at all?
36269If it would have had a soul, then have avertebrated animals souls also?
36269If man''s soul is not subject to material conditions, why do I find knavish souls?--Why slavish souls?--tyrannous souls?
36269If not, how do you know that the soul is to exist for ever; when it only comes into existence with the child?
36269If so, have fishes souls?
36269If so, when and where?
36269If susceptible to material conditions, what do you mean by its being immortal and immaterial?
36269If the All- wise had intended the tree to be avoided, would he have made its allurements so overpowering to the senses?
36269If the atonement is for the whole world, does it extend to unbelievers as well as to believers in the efficacy?
36269If the brain had stopped in its first month''s course of formation, would the child have had a soul?
36269If the soul began at some time to exist, where is the evidence that it will not also at some time cease to exist?
36269If the sum of all bodily function-- life, be not an entity, how can the product of the action of one portion of the body-- brain, be an entity?
36269If you tell me it would not have had a soul, then I ask, How do you know it?
36269In his argument for the fourth proposition, Mr. Gillespie-- having by his previous proposition demonstrated(?)
36269In the"Bon Sens"of Cure Meslier, it is asked,"Qu''est ce que Dieu?"
36269In what manner does the soul come into the child?
36269Is God infinite, then he is in earth also, why limit him to Heaven?
36269Is God the creator of all?
36269Is it I?
36269Is it a baby''s soul, and does it grow with the child?
36269Is it an attribute of the body?
36269Is it apart from the body?
36269Is it good to be content with poverty?
36269Is it impossible to suppose a necessary being of heat, one of light, and one of electricity, all occupying the same indefinite expansion?
36269Is it my soul?
36269Is it spirit?
36269Is it that the soul being immortal-- being destined to exist for ever, has existed from all eternity?
36269Is it the body?
36269Is it the immaterial and immortal soul amused and pleased with my bundle of keys?
36269Is it the soul which is learning to appreciate the sound of the jingling keys, and pleased with them?
36269Is it wonderful that some of these misery- stricken ones die before they have time to starve?
36269Is it"me,"and yet distinct from me?
36269Is mind an entity or result?
36269Is my immortal soul hindered and controlled by the state of my body''s general health?
36269Is my mortal soul acting the hypocrite, or is it ignorant of its own existence, and can not help itself to better knowledge?
36269Is not brightness the quality attaching to a certain modification of existence-- steel?
36269Is not intelligence a quality attaching to a certain modification of existence-- man?
36269Is poverty of spirit a virtue at all?
36269Is poverty of spirit the chief among virtues, that Jesus gives it the prime place in his teaching?
36269Is that so?
36269Is that the theory?
36269Is the angel of the Lord a substance susceptible of ignition and incandescence?
36269Is the idiot saved who can not believe?
36269Is the infant saved that can not believe?
36269Is the plaster roof more powerful than my immortal soul?
36269Is there any expression of wrath or indignation against his tempter?
36269Is there any proof of the existence of the same individual soul apart from all material conditions?
36269Is there anything beyond"God"for"God"to sensate?
36269Is there anything?
36269Is there no new form of prayer that labor might be taught to utter, no other power to which his petition might be addressed?
36269Is there one existence or more?
36269Is this immortal soul affected by the bodily conditions?
36269Is this so?
36269Is this your objection?
36269Isaac still hesitated, fancying that he recognized the voice to be the voice of Jacob, and again questioned him, saying,"Art thou my very son Esau?"
36269It it came into existence with the body''s birth, why not cease with the body''s death?
36269It will be vain to talk of the Deity being present by his energy?
36269Jacob was a shrewd Jew, who would have laughed to scorn the preaching,"Take no thought, saying, what shall we eat?
36269Jesus teaches that the poor, the hungry and the wretched shall be blessed?
36269Jesus, who was very meek and gentle, answered her in the somewhat uncourteous and unmeaning phrase,"Woman, what have I to do with thee?
36269Knaves have said it-- but why?
36269Let workmen, instead of praying to God in their distress, ask one another why are wages low?
36269Manly self- reliant resistance of wrong, and practice of right?
36269Many volumes might be written to answer the inquiries-- Where did the angel stand, and on what?
36269May not that which has recently begun to be, soon cease to be?
36269Mr. Gillespie''s last proposition is that the being( God) whose existence he has so satisfactorily(?)
36269Must I be damned?
36269Nay, Abraham even deceived his own son, who asked him where was the lamb for the burnt offering?
36269Now, should a birth have taken place at any of the eight stages, would the child thus prematurely born have had a soul?
36269Of some person, judging according to that person''s senses?
36269Of what metal was the sword, and where was it made?
36269On a truthful course of life?
36269On the cross, the Jesus of the four gospels, who was God, cried out,"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
36269Or are they( the various races) indigenous to their nature, soils, and climates?
36269Or do you allege that God specially creates souls for each little child at the moment it is born or conceived?
36269Or was the tenement too small even for so etherial a lodger?
36269Our question at the commencement was,"Who was Jesus Christ?"
36269Peter, the favored disciple, it is declared was a rascal, and why not his successors?
36269Sarah-- then by her own admission an old woman, stricken in years-- laughed when she heard this, and the Lord said,"Wherefore did Sarah laugh?"
36269Satan''s answer is,"Doth Job fear God for naught?
36269Sins?
36269So say the priesthood now; but where is the evidence of his virtue?
36269Some of the most weighty and vital facts(?)
36269Supposing Adam to have at once disobeyed this injunction, would it have been sin?
36269Supposing for a moment this to be correct, I ask what even then will be the state of the argument?
36269Supposing the development of the child had been then stopped, had it a soul at that time?
36269The Jesus of the third gospel never went into Egypt at all in his childhood; perhaps there were two Jesus Christs?
36269The faculty of whom?
36269The orthodox say that the soul is made by God; and what do you know about God?
36269The question is again before us: How are men to be prevented from starving?
36269The question, then, really is this: Have the different races of men all found their common parent in Noah, about 4,300 years ago?
36269The reason of law declared the maniac not a free agent, and the verdict follows, of course_ Not guilty?_ Did Adam sin?
36269The reason of law declared the maniac not a free agent, and the verdict follows, of course_ Not guilty?_ Did Adam sin?
36269Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry?"
36269Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us?
36269Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this?
36269Then you will admit that your stream runs from a polluted fountain?
36269There are few who now pretend that the whole_ creation(?
36269There can not be perfect intelligence without will, but has God will?
36269They are not starved, but is this sort of asphyxiation much better?
36269This question, Were Adam and Eve our first parents?
36269To Adam and Eve, or rather to Noah and his family?
36269To try the actual value of this argument, it is not unfair to ask, Do Theists ever steal?
36269WERE ADAM AND EVE OUR FIRST PARENTS?
36269WHAT DID JESUS TEACH?
36269WHO WAS JESUS CHRIST?
36269WHY DO MEN STARVE?
36269Warned by the past, ought we not to- day to give battle to that curse of all old countries-- poverty?
36269Was Jesus the son of God?
36269Was he a good citizen?
36269Was he a good king?
36269Was he a kind and constant husband?
36269Was he grateful to those who aided him in his hour of need?
36269Was not Esau a merciful, generous man?
36269Was not Jacob a mean, prevaricating knave, a crafty, abject cheat?
36269Weakness and ignorance have said it-- but why?
36269Were Adam and Eve our first parents?
36269What are 270,000 men when looked at prayerfully?
36269What can be understood by"first cause?"
36269What causes produce a rise and fall in wages?
36269What debts have you to God?
36269What did Jesus teach?
36269What did Jesus teach?
36269What do those mean who say that man is made up of two parts-- matter and mind?
36269What do you mean by passive and inert matter?
36269What do you mean by soul?
36269What does Christian Theism teach?
36269What does Jesus teach on this?
36269What does it present to the mind?
36269What does that mean, except that they know nothing whatever about it?
36269What does the dying David say?
36269What does the dying David say?
36269What effect is there which the forces of existence are incapable of producing?
36269What fact is there so certain that I may base all my reasonings upon it?
36269What ground have you for alleging that the soul did not exist in the child?
36269What if it had broken and the dreamer underneath it?
36269What is God''s kingdom, and will your praying bring it quicker?
36269What is God''s name?
36269What is God''s reply to this audacious assertion?
36269What is his direction on prayer?
36269What is in a name?
36269What is life?
36269What is sin?
36269What is spirit?
36269What is the soul?
36269What is the soul?
36269What is there which enables you to convert it into a separate and distinct existence?
36269What is this but the original of our own Christian God, the father, the[------](_ Jeue_) pater of the Old Testament?
36269What is this doctrine of spirituality?
36269What more of the Kingdom of Heaven?
36269What, then, becomes of the omnipresence of the Deity, according to those who are content to rest satisfied from the reasoning of experience?...
36269When did the soul come into the body?
36269When does it come into the child?
36269When does it go out of man?
36269When does the soul come into man?
36269When shall they that mourn be comforted?
36269Whence could I infer that the same being consisted of two parts, and that the inward part continues to live and think, and flies away from the body?
36269Whence is it this soul comes?
36269Where are the descendants of the Romans, the Vandals, or the Greeks in Africa?
36269Where are there any Materialists who accept Dr. Beecher''s limitation of matter?
36269Where is Heaven?
36269Where is the soul?
36269Where was Salem?
36269Which is the theory put forward?
36269Who knoweth?
36269Who offered them the help of himself and band?
36269Who offered to make war on his own countrymen?
36269Who was Christ?
36269Who was Fin ma coul?
36269Who was Jesus Christ?
36269Who was Jesus Christ?
36269Who was Odin?
36269Who was Saint Patrick, who excelled the reptiles from Ireland?
36269Why are wages low?
36269Why do you come to the conclusion that intelligence is not an attribute-- why?
36269Why do you come to the conclusion that the forces of the universe are incapable of producing every effect of which I take cognizance?
36269Why does it happen that Christian London, with its magnificent houses for God, has so many squalid holes for the poor?
36269Why is it more difficult to suppose this than to suppose one being of infinity, and, in addition to this infinity, a material universe?
36269Why pray then for bread to God, who says,"Blessed be ye that hunger.... woe unto you that are full?"
36269Why should not the laborer combine also?
36269Why should the fatted calf be killed for the prodigal son?
36269Will any sane man argue that there was sufficient lapse of time in three centuries for the development of Caucasian and Negro man from one family?
36269Will work get it without the prayer?
36269Will you again turn back to the love of Jesus as the redeeming feature of the whole?
36269Will you urge that this only applies to the Romish Church?
36269With a savory meat prepared by Rebekah, he came into his father''s presence, and Isaac said,"Who art thou, my son?"
36269Yes?
36269Yet without perception where is intelligence?
36269You say the soul is immaterial; do you mean that it is susceptible to material conditions or do you not?
36269You, who tell me of the vast forces of the universe, what do you mean by telling me that that is motionless?
36269a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and escheweth evil?
36269an existence or a condition?
36269and I ask you what ground you have for assuming that the soul did not begin to form with the formation of the brain?
36269and did he create the descendant of Abraham with greater right and privilege than all other men?
36269and did the angel wear a sword belt?
36269and how is it that it is incased and inclosed in my material frame?
36269and if you know it not, how can you hallow it?
36269and of what people art thou?
36269and whence comest thou?
36269are high wages beneficial to the laborer?
36269can we raise our own wages?
36269empty mockery, God hath not justly dealt by me: Have I not begged and prayed in vain; What boots it now to pray again?"
36269express an"agony"caused by a consciousness of"desertion?"
36269having raised them, can we keep them fixed at the sum desired?
36269how can wages be raised?
36269if so, under what circumstances?
36269or is the soul originally naturally depraved?
36269or what shall we drink?
36269or wherewithal shall we be clothed?....
36269or, does it possess its full power the moment the child is born?
36269or, what shall we drink?
36269or, wherewithal shall we be clothed?"
36269what he calls a substratum for the before demonstrated(?)
36269what is thy country?
36269why hast thou forsaken me?"
30203A movement headed by Clarkson and Wilberforce,says Mr. Henson,"could be no other than Christian,"But why?
30203Are there not impressions borne in upon the soul of man as he stands a spectator of the universe which religion alone attempts to formulate? 30203 Ha,"they exclaimed,"what do you Freethinkers say now?"
30203How shall I write,I said,"who am not meet One word of that sweet speaking to repeat?"
30203Is it according to the will of God?
30203Oh yes,says the giddy fly,"it looks so nice, positively inviting?"
30203Well, what do we learn from Scripture?
30203What shall I write?
30203What,asks Professor Stokes,"is man''s condition between death and the resurrection?"
30203Which,he asks,"comes nearest to the truth about love-- poor Lombroso''s talk about pistil and stamen, or one of Shakespeare''s sonnets?"
30203Why,asked a Unitarian of a Positivist,"why is not Christ in your Positivist calendar?"
30203Will you walk into my parlor?
30203_ Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? 30203 ''He was mad,''they say; but what drove him mad? 30203 ''Tis a pity truly that the old fiddle should be broken at last; but then for how many years has it not been discoursing most excellent music? 30203 * ARE ATHEISTS CRUEL? 30203 * ARE ATHEISTS WICKED? 30203 * DID BRADLAUGH BACKSLIDE? 30203 A leading London newspaper, the_ Daily Chronicle_, has recently opened it columns to a discussion of the question,Is Christianity Played Out?"
30203ARE ATHEISTS CRUEL?
30203ARE ATHEISTS WICKED?
30203After all, does not this objection come with an ill grace from a Christian Theist?
30203Among the eminent sons of science who is greater than he?
30203And am I not just and reasonable in declining to take the decision out of their hands?
30203And are you quite sure you did not dream the whole business?"
30203And how did Mrs. Besant dispose of these charges?
30203And if not, do you think it kind or just to speak of him in this manner?
30203And if the root is no explanation of the flower, what will happen if you are careless about the root and the soil in which it is planted?
30203And is it conceivable that the soldiers would take money to say they had slept at their posts?
30203And is it not weakest in the first and second childishness of youth and old age?
30203And is_ this_ the supreme virtue of a great poet?
30203And on what ground?
30203And what is dogma?
30203And what is it?
30203And what is the"remark"which Mr. Bradlaugh"uttered"( what etymology!)?
30203And what right, we ask, has a Christian minister to rail at duelling?
30203And what, he asks, does thought depend on?
30203And where is the evidence?
30203And who is responsible for the rest?
30203And why did the abolition movement in England wait until new ideas had leavened the public mind?
30203And why from_ the French_?
30203And why not?
30203And why should not a Christian reverence the greatness of Marlowe?
30203And why was Bruno allowed a week''s grace before his execution, except to give him the opportunity of recanting?
30203And why_ solidarity_?
30203And yet, after all, is there not something indecent in their talking about a"living wage"for the workers?
30203Are Atheists conspicuous in the Divorce Court?
30203Are not such scoundrels a thousand times worse than a passionate boy like George Mason?
30203Are there not diseases of the brain that affect thought in a definite manner?
30203Are they not parasites upon the said workers?
30203Are we to conclude that an Atheist''s talking shows mistrust, and a Christian''s talking shows confidence?
30203Are you not aware that the most risible imp could hardly laugh at_ all_ the contents of the Bible?
30203As James Thomson said,"Do you dread that the Satyr will be preferred to Hyperion, when both stand imaged in clear light before us?"
30203At last he asked a gaoler"What hour is it?"
30203But did the Church think so when it imprisoned Galileo and made him swear that the earth did_ not_ go round the sun?
30203But do they?
30203But does nature act independently of God?
30203But has not Christian Rome witnessed many a viler spectacle?
30203But how am I to put Mr. Williams to the credit of Christianity, and Captain Gurney to the credit of something else?
30203But how does this fit in with the teaching of Christ?
30203But how far is this creditable to Mr. Brooke''s intelligence?
30203But how is it we have not got them already?
30203But how many Christians have been converted to Freethought?
30203But how"coming"?
30203But is it worth playing at all?
30203But is our purpose a sound one?
30203But is this any more than a verbal distinction?
30203But suppose the question had been one of"a living wage"for the sky- pilots; would not a minimum figure have been speedily decided?
30203But what are the facts?
30203But what does Mr. Hughes mean by his"Christ- like purity"?
30203But what has science to do with the origin of matter?
30203But what if it does?
30203But what is it that_ will_ rise from the dead, and get joined with some sort of inconceivable body?
30203But what is the speciality of a literary man on this particular subject?
30203But what was his crime?
30203But where is the signature?
30203But who caused the Terror?
30203But who does_ not_ laugh at cock- and- bull stories like that of Jonah and the whale?
30203But who doubts that, during a thousand years, a humane and even a noble heart often beat under a priest''s cassock?
30203But who ever said it was?
30203But who wrote the text?
30203But why did Jacob weep?
30203But why not?
30203But will it ever have them?
30203But, in that case, what becomes of the"literal"method of reading the"moral precepts"of Christ?
30203But, in that case, why was Bruno burnt alive at the stake?
30203But, on the other hand, who invented and who applied such instruments of cruelty as racks, wheels, and thumbscrews?
30203But_ do_ they?
30203By what superhuman power do they make up the deficiency?
30203Can Dr. Hitchens produce two names among his"converts"of the same weight, or a half, a quarter, or a tithe of it?
30203Can anyone imagine the seven- devilled Mary Magdalene conversing in this way?
30203Can we ever be united on a question of personality?
30203DID BRADLAUGH BACKSLIDE?
30203Did Jesus teach in order that men might become insane?
30203Did he not teach David''s fingers to fight?
30203Did he say so to you, and where and when?
30203Do men sell their honor for what they can never enjoy, and count their lives as a mere trifle in the bargain?
30203Do the clergy think the Lord is growing deaf with old age?
30203Do you really believe that an Atheist has a special proclivity to murder?
30203Do you want to know what this positive suffering is?
30203Does a gardener act in that way?
30203Does he accept the New Testament miracles?
30203Does he embrace the Incarnation and Resurrection?
30203Does he mean to say that the author of the Mosaic Law was not the same God who speaks to us in the New Testament?
30203Does he really imagine that the true character of any body of men and women is likely to be written out by a hostile partisan?
30203Does he think there can be a Christianity_ without_"theology"?
30203During all the centuries from Ignatius to Bossuet, what eminent Christian ever denounced Slavery as wicked?
30203Even if they are right, he falls back upon his old exclamation,"What does it matter?"
30203Exaggeration there must be in passion and imagination; it is the defect of their quality; but what are we without them?
30203For instance, how does he know that the star of the Nativity was"a strange white star"?
30203For their sakes, and not for our own satisfaction, we shall criticise her little volume on_ Death-- and After?_ just issued as No.
30203Genesis is a little confused, indeed; and what scripture is not?
30203George Griffiths committed a murder because he was a Christian?
30203Had it been purely Christian, would it not have triumphed long before?
30203Has Mr. Watkinson never read the answer to these questions?
30203Has Sir G. G. Stokes never read St. Paul?
30203Has he never heard of John Calvin and Martin Luther?
30203Has he never read the Thirty- nine Articles of his own Church?
30203Has it ever occurred to you that if Christ died, he died on a particular day; and that if he rose from the dead, he rose on a particular morning?
30203Has it ever occurred to you to inquire how it is that the Bible is so easy to ridicule?
30203Has it never struck you as strange, also, that the risen Christ never appeared to anyone but his disciples?
30203Has it not seen hundreds of noble men burnt alive in the name of Christ?
30203Has your lordship never heard of a Christian murderer?
30203Have they a secret suspicion that praying for a change of weather is as useful as whistling for the wind?
30203Have they not been in full operation for a lifetime?
30203Have they not, also, had ever so many centuries of dominance?
30203Have we not as much right to our own thoughts as they had to theirs?
30203Have you ever heard of the text,"Physician heal thyself"?
30203Have you ever reflected that what is laughed at is generally ridiculous?
30203How did he discover that the Magi, or priests of the Zoroastrian religion, were really Buddhists and came from India?
30203How is it that Milton beats the Mahatmas?
30203How is it they had to wait for realisation until the advent of an age permeated with the spirit of scepticism and secular humanity?
30203How is it your"Christian conceptions"took such a surprising time to be understood?
30203How is this consistent with his saying,"call no man master"?
30203How much attention, Mr. Blomfield asks, am I to give to this world and how much to another?
30203How then can there be anything supernatural, supersensible, or"spiritual,", in their combination?
30203How, I ask, did those Jewish priests know that Jesus had said"After three days I will rise again"?
30203If I treat the Creation Story and the Deluge as legend and mythology, and smile at the feats of Samson, shall I therefore commit a burglary?
30203If Secular principles tend to make parents hate their own children, why should their evil influence be confined to artisans?
30203If he and his apostles did not believe in the"hereafter,"what_ did_ they believe in?
30203If he be still living, have you taken the trouble to obtain_ his_ version of the matter?
30203If man is purely material, and the law of causation is universal, where, he asks,"is the place for virtue, for praise, for blame?"
30203If they can not, why should we pay them a heavenly water- rate?
30203In the long run, it is knowledge and idea?
30203Is a great name a substitute for argument?
30203Is all this consistent with the doctrine of human equality?
30203Is authority as good as evidence?
30203Is he only responsible for_ some_ of the things that happen?
30203Is it almost said when you have said it?
30203Is it conceivable that the priests were so foolish as the story depicts them?
30203Is it in our principles, in our objects, or in our policy?
30203Is it logical to select all you admire in Christian countries and attribute it to Christianity?
30203Is it not Christian reputations that are smirched in that Inquisition?
30203Is it not a fact that Jesus Christ himself could not select his apostles without including a villain?
30203Is it not a fact that their profession of Christianity is usually in proportion to the depth of their rascality?
30203Is it not a special insult to the multitude of poor, struggling women, whose earnings are taxed to support the classes who lord it over them?
30203Is it not disgraceful that, at this time of day, there should be any need to discuss a"living wage"for the workers in a_ Christian_ civilisation?
30203Is it not enough, and more than enough, to perpetuate a system which is firmly founded, to begin with, on the education of little children?
30203Is it not entirely suspended in healthy sleep?
30203Is it not evident that Religion works, like everything else, upon common materials?
30203Is it not generally found, in the case of great business collapses, that the responsible persons are Christians?
30203Is it not high time for Jesus to run the job himself?
30203Is it not the horticulture of Fleet- street sentimentalists?
30203Is it not true, also, that the greatest swindlers of this age have been extremely pious?
30203Is not one in twelve a large percentage?
30203Is not that a domestic question for the Christians to settle among themselves?
30203Is not the Bible God"the Lord of Hosts"and"a man of war"?
30203Is not the writer too young to have had"much experience"?
30203Is not this lavish generosity to a pair of royal and well- provided lovers an insult to the working people of England?
30203Is not thought excited by stimulants, and deadened or even annihilated by narcotics?
30203Is not thought most vigorous when the brain is mature?
30203Is there a reference here to the twelfth verse of the nineteenth chapter of Matthew?
30203Is there no medium?
30203Is there not"a sort of a smack, a smell to"of them in your godly constitution?
30203It is a"converted infidel"case, in the report of a recent sermon-- the last of a series on"Is Christianity Played Out?"
30203It is dangerous to deny any"great truth,"but how many does evangelicalism possess?
30203It is easy to ask"Is there a future life?"
30203Le Gallienne''s reply to this objection is clear, sufficient, and well expressed:--"But how so?
30203May it not be, therefore, that the difference between Agnosticism and Atheism is one of temperament?
30203May it not have been red, yellow, blue, or green-- especially green?
30203May it not have been, at least with respect to the cerebrum, quite infinitesimal?
30203Might we not even reflect that he was graduating for a strait- waistcoat?
30203Mrs. Bonner adds that her demerits are beside the point, which is,"Did Mr. Bradlaugh weaken in his Atheism?"
30203Must the passions be kings or slaves, in prison or on the throne?
30203No doubt he believes this statement, but is it true?
30203No doubt the seat was rather incommodious, but why should a ghost sit at all?
30203No one equals the Yankee at"tall talk,"and what Yankee equals Talmage in this species of composition?
30203Now what is belief?
30203Now what were the crimes of the three other members, who were completely and absolutely expelled?
30203Now what_ is_ this humanitarian Christianity of Christ?
30203Of what use then was the bribe?
30203Or does he mean that the"sects"comprise all persons who have more theology than himself?
30203Or has the spirit of this sceptical age invaded the clerical ranks so thoroughly as to make them ashamed of their printed doctrines?
30203Or is the stomach of a ghost capable of digesting such victuals?
30203Other writers then joined in the fray, and the result was the famous"Is Christianity Played Out?"
30203Our theory is that the Whitechapel murderer is------"Whom?"
30203Shall I hate my own boy because I disbelieve that Jesus Christ was born without a father?
30203Shall I keep him without food and clothes because I see no proof of a special providence?
30203Should he not rejoice in the next bloody cockpit of featherless bipeds?
30203Should the jury decide according to the eminence of the pleader''s friends, or according to his facts and the force of his reasoning?
30203Should we not look at him with curiosity and amusement?
30203Sir G. G. Stokes begins by promising to confine himself to the question,"What is it that personal identity depends upon and consists in?"
30203So are all principles in intricate cases; why else have Christian divines written so many tons of casuistry?
30203Some of those Inquisition records he translates, apparently fancying he is making a revelation, though?
30203Soon after the_ Daily Chronicle_ correspondence on"Is Christianity Played Out?"
30203Still more ridiculous, if possible, is the Christian cry,"Where are your Freethought hospitals, almshouses, and orphanages?"
30203Still more, why do you congratulate the survivors?
30203Supposing all this to be true, what does it prove?
30203The man, we repeat, was an open, nay a militant Atheist; and again we ask, What do the clergy make of this phenomenon?
30203The only dispute was-- which were the heretics, and who should die?
30203The point was this, Did the writing-- the_ last_ writing-- of Mr. Bradlaugh show the slightest change in his Atheism?
30203The question is, How did he come to let these faculties play upon ghosts and gods?
30203The question is, What is its explanation?
30203The single query"Why should they trouble themselves?"
30203The very publicans demand compensation, and could the sky- pilots do less?
30203The villain of the"Promise of May"is certainly an Agnostic, but are not the villains of many other plays Christians?
30203The whole mystery of life, he says, may be found in a curve: as thus, Why is n''t it straight?
30203Then what becomes of your"purely_ Christian_ conception,"when"infidel France"outshines"Christian England"?
30203Then why do you lament over them?
30203They both speak to me as Christians; is it for me to say that the one is a Christian and the other is not?
30203They solemnly inform us that Esau was a trickster, as though Jacob''s qualities were catching?
30203They_ would_ be free, and who should say them nay?
30203To say as Dr. Schmidt does that"Christian ideas filled the air"is easy enough, but where is the proof?
30203To talk of a risen Christ was to invite the question"Where is he?"
30203Turning to these Councils, then, what do we find?
30203Very likely; but who could lose what he never possessed?
30203Was it because the Northern and Western nations were cowardly and selfish?
30203Was not the strength of Freethinkers, from Jeremy Bentham downwards, given to the abolition movement?
30203We are not aware that men have souls, but if they have, why should any soul be_ lost_?
30203We are not aware that there is a God, but if there is, why should he_ let_ any soul be lost?
30203We may imagine a ghost going through a keyhole, but is it possible to imagine broiled fish and honeycomb going through the same aperture?
30203We should be sorry to charge such a holy body of men with duplicity, but is there not"a sort of a smack, a smell to?"
30203Well, and who made them lords over us?
30203Well, as the old lady said, who would have thought it?
30203Well, if this be the case, what is the use of Mr. Nix?
30203Well, what of that?
30203Were not Joshua and Jehu, the two greatest tigers in history, his chosen generals?
30203Were not the Freethinkers all on one side, while the Christians were divided?
30203Were not the slave- owners also Christians?
30203Were not the"Liberator"victims fleeced and ruined by professed Christians?
30203What Atheist fails to reverence the greatness of Milton?
30203What are all the lying stories about Infidel Death- Beds but conversions of corpses?
30203What are these to the men who built up the glory of ancient Rome?
30203What becomes of it when violation takes the place of seduction, and a woman bears a child to a man she loathes and hates?
30203What becomes of the"sacred mystery of motherhood"when a poor servant girl brings her child into the world unaided, and casts it into the Thames?
30203What connection does he discover between Secularism and selfishness?
30203What did Christ mean by promising that when he came into his kingdom his disciples should sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel?
30203What did Paul mean by ordering unlimited obedience to"the powers that be"?
30203What did he and Peter mean by telling slaves to obey their owners?
30203What difference is there between this and the passage in Mark?
30203What do the clergy make of this phenomenon?
30203What do you make of Messrs Hobbs and Wright?
30203What do you think of Jabez Balfour?
30203What does all this mean?
30203What does it prove?
30203What does the New Testament say?
30203What does this show?
30203What evidence has the ordinary Christian, and has he ever reflected on his creed for five minutes in the whole course of his life?
30203What has she ever done?
30203What have you to say about Mr. Hastings, Captain Verney, and Mr. De Cobain, who were all convicted of bad crimes and expelled from Parliament?
30203What is it to"almost say"a thing?
30203What is the greatest novel in the English language?
30203What is the reason of this strange inconsistency?
30203What is the use of God''s interference if he does not make people wiser and better?
30203What is the use of Mr. Hughes?
30203What is their city to the magnificent city of old, among whose ruins they walk like pigmies amid the relics of giants?
30203What is there in Atheism to make men hate each other?
30203What on earth, too, does he mean by Bruno''s"great obscurity"when he returned to Italy and fell into the jaws of the Inquisition?
30203What other reason, indeed, could have inspired his selection?
30203What possible effect could that have on the sensible part of the jury?
30203What reader of the Gospes does not remember the exquisite English in which our translators have rendered the lament over Jerusalem?
30203What real weakness is there in the Atheist''s seeking for sympathy and concurrence?
30203What terror had death to Charles Bradlaugh?
30203What terror had death to Mrs. Besant while she was an Atheist?
30203What the clergy said about them was true, or why did n''t they get up and contradict?
30203What then are we to conclude?
30203What wonder, then, that the people fixed their gaze upon it on that ominous fourteenth of July, and attacked it as the very citadel of tyranny?
30203What''s in a name?
30203What, then, is the explanation?
30203What_ is_ the evidence then?
30203What_ is_ the something else?
30203What_ is_ the spirit of Christianity?
30203When they state an opinion in the pompous language of revelation, are they less fallible than the rest of us?
30203Where are the evidences of Atheistic cruelty?
30203Where are the statistics to justify your assertion?
30203Who asserts that Atheists are absolutely free from the passions and frailties of human nature?
30203Who brought forth cries of agony from honest men and women that rang to the tingling stars?
30203Who built dungeons and filled them?
30203Who burnt Bruno?
30203Who burnt heretics?
30203Who can doubt it?
30203Who invented separate tortures for every part of the sensitive frame of man?
30203Who is the Princess May?
30203Who laughs at the horrid massacres of the Old Testament?
30203Who laughs at the saying,"Blessed are the peacemakers"?
30203Who really tries to carry out the Christianity of Christ?
30203Who roasted or drowned millions of"witches"?
30203Who spat filth over the graves of Paine and Voltaire?
30203Why are they so fond of the ladies?
30203Why did God write it so that thousands of gentlemen get a fine living by explaining it-- in all sorts of different ways?
30203Why did he lay down slavery laws without hinting that they were provisional?
30203Why do they choose to speak through a woman like Madame Blavatsky, or a popular lecturess like Mrs. Besant?
30203Why do they neglect our Spencers and Huxleys?
30203Why has it not been used?
30203Why indeed do not the petitioners refute the apostles of the"New Criticism,"instead of appealing to the_ authority_ of Convocation?
30203Why indeed should they?
30203Why not three to- day and seven to- morrow?
30203Why not try to establish a just harmony between them?
30203Why should a man write impurely for writing much?
30203Why should he control the obscure Mr. Reedman?
30203Why should he go all the way to Birmingham instead of doing his first business in London?
30203Why should he turn up at the house of Mr. Gray?
30203Why should it be so hard then for a railway servant, a museum attendant, an art- gallery curator, or a librarian to work on Sunday?
30203Why should it hesitate, then, to tell untruths about_ little_ ones?
30203Why then all this chatter about Christ?
30203Why then did it obtain so long in Christendom?
30203Why then did they not marry?
30203Why then does he talk about them so consumedly?
30203Why then should he be averse to international butchery in Europe?
30203Why then should we talk of"liberal theology"?
30203Why then, in the ease of private correspondence, did he not hint that Slavery was only tolerated for the time and would eventually cease?
30203Why was it not made plainer?
30203Why, then, did God write it so that you could_ easily_ be facetious about it?
30203Why, then, did he not leave it alone?
30203Why, then, do you pretend that George Mason committed a murder because he or his father was an Atheist?
30203Why_ always_ four?
30203Will Count Tolstoi take the final step?
30203Will Shakespeare''s_ Hamlet_ poison my mind because I think it finer than the gospels?
30203Will he tell us if anything could amaze us_ without_ being unparalleled?
30203Will not a man of genius become an imbecile if his brain softens?
30203Will not a philosopher rave like a drunken fishfag if he suffers from brain inflammation?
30203Would bribing the soldiers protect them against Christ?
30203Would he not strike us as a silly fanatic?
30203Would it not be well to give them a trial?
30203Would not a man who violated the most sacred laws of friendship and hospitality be quite capable of telling a lie?
30203Would not this have attracted general attention?
30203Would they not have abandoned their projects against him, and sought his forgiveness?
30203Yea, and echo answers, Why?
30203_ Why_ is this?
30203and where are the traces of the"long and ardent thought"?
30203for who has ever_ seen_ any man read the Bible through?
30203have you not one man''s share of those qualities yourself?
30203is it not?
38801All right; why wo n''t you burn me?
38801And suppose God was about to pass judgment upon you, what would you say?
38801And yet you worship a God who will, as you declare, punish me forever?
38801And you are perfectly happy?
38801Did you get any?
38801Do you think it divinely inspired?
38801He said unto him, which? 38801 How much?"
38801Maybe you will chew something?
38801Now, when we are only going to hell, you are not quite happy; but when we are in hell, and you in heaven, then you will be perfectly happy? 38801 Then the reason you do not persecute me for my thought is that you believe it would be infamous in you?"
38801Well, then, you are not perfectly happy?
38801What did you do with that dollar I gave you last week?
38801What did you do with that?
38801What did you do with the meat?
38801What did you do with this money?
38801What do you propose in place of this?
38801What else did you find upon the dead man?
38801What for?
38801When you get to heaven, then you will be perfectly happy?
38801Why?
38801Will you smoke a cigar?
38801Would not you be happier if they were all going to heaven?
38801A minister asks me,"Did you read the Bible?"
38801A tyrant father will have liars for his children; do you know that?
38801According to his creed?
38801Admitting that a god did create the universe, the question then arises, of what did he create it?
38801After all, can you get beyond, above or below appearances?
38801And he said unto him,''Why callest thou me good?
38801And the child said to the Almighty:"Which?"
38801And we took all his cities, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain"?
38801And what does a trial for heresy mean?
38801And why?
38801Are the Christian nations patterns of charity and forbearance?
38801Are the clergy, as a class, better, kinder and more generous to their families-- to their fellow- men-- than doctors, lawyers, merchants and farmers?
38801Are the theologians welcomers of new truths?
38801Are they investigators?
38801Are they noted for their candor?
38801Are you really familiar with chemistry, and can you account for the loves and hatreds of the atoms?
38801But what put all this matter in motion?
38801But what shall I say more, for the time would fail me to tell of Sabellianism, of a"Modal Trinity,"and the"Eternal Procession of the Holy Ghost"?
38801But what was the voice of one man against the terrible cry of ignorant, infatuated, superstitious and malevolent millions?
38801But"What must we do to be saved from the eternal wrath of the God who made us all?"
38801By what right does a man, or an organization of men, or a god, claim to hold a brain in bondage?
38801Can that tongue be palsied by a presbytery that praises a self- denying and heroic life?
38801Can the believing father in heaven be happy with his unbelieving children in hell?
38801Can the conduct of infinite wisdom, power and love ever change?
38801Can the loving wife in heaven be happy with her unbelieving husband in hell?"
38801Can we hope with the story of Daniel in the lions''den to rival the stupendous miracles of India?
38801Can we see the propriety of so constructing the earth, that only an insignificant portion of its surface is capable of producing an intelligent man?
38801Can you account for molecular action?
38801Can you believe that such directions were given by any being except an infinite fiend?
38801Can you explain it better than you can the production of thought?
38801Can you have a thought that was not suggested to you by what you call matter?
38801Can you think even of anything without a material basis?
38801Did CÃ ¦ sar take the city of Jericho"and utterly destroy all that was in the city, both men and women, young and old"?
38801Did Julius CÃ ¦ sar send the following report to the Roman senate?
38801Did any devil ever force upon a husband, upon a father, so cruel and so heartless an alternative?
38801Did any devil ever make so infamous a threat?
38801Did he believe in the Old Testament?
38801Did he believe that Christ was God?
38801Did it ever occur to them that a cancer is as beautiful in its development as is the reddest rose?
38801Did the church abolish slavery?
38801Did they know anything about the next?
38801Did you ever know a wealthy disciple to unload on account of that verse?
38801Do they pull forward, or do they hold back?
38801Do they treat an opponent with common fairness?
38801Do we not know that there are no two persons alike in the whole world?
38801Do you believe in the five points?
38801Do you know I dislike this man unspeakably?
38801Do you know another thing?
38801Do you know what force is?
38801Do you tell me that God can be unpitying to the pitiful, that he can be unforgiving to the forgiving?
38801Do you tell me that there is any God who will push the lifeboat from the shore of eternal life, when that man wishes to step in?
38801Do you understand this?
38801Does a belief in ghosts and unreasonable things necessarily make people honest?
38801Does all this do any good?
38801Does it still glory in the damnation of infants, and does it still persist in emptying the cradle in order that perdition may be filled?
38801Does it still retain within its stony heart all the malice of its founder?
38801Does not an improvement in the things created, show a corresponding improvement in the creator?
38801Does not the credit system in morals breed extravagance in sin?
38801Does the banker loan money to a man because he is a Methodist or Baptist?
38801Does the merchant give credit to a man because he belongs to a church?
38801For more than a thousand years the church had, to a great extent, the control of the civilized world, and what has been the result?
38801For the man who, in the darkness, said:"My God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
38801For thousands of years the world has been asking that question:"What must we do to be saved?"
38801For what purpose do you get up?
38801From such a God, why should man expect assistance?
38801Has the church raised its voice against war?
38801Have the churches the confidence of mankind?
38801Have you ever been baptized-- sprinkled?
38801Have you the slightest conception of what it really is?
38801He did not ask him,"Do you believe in the Bible?
38801He saith unto him,''which?''"
38801Honor bright, is not that the better and grander story?
38801How could he disprove it?
38801How could he show that he did not cause the storm?
38801How dare we drown the thunders of Sinai by calling the ayes and noes in a petty legislature?
38801How did he, even to the extent that he has, outgrow his ignorant, abject terror, and throw off the yoke of superstition?
38801How long will they grovel in the dust before the ignorant legends of the barbaric past?
38801How long, O how long will man remain the cringing slave of a false and cruel creed?
38801How long, O how long will mankind worship a book?
38801How long, O how long will they pursue phantoms in a darkness deeper than death?
38801How long, O how long, will man listen to the threats of God, and shut his eyes to the splendid possibilities of Nature?
38801How long?
38801How many grand thinkers have died with the mailed hand of superstition upon their lips?
38801How will I do it?
38801How would you feel then?
38801I am told that I must love my enemies; and will it do for this God who tells me to love my enemies to damn his?
38801I ask you to- night, do the theories and doctrines of the theologians satisfy the heart or brain of the nineteenth century?
38801I asked"What are they?"
38801I can imagine no sweeter way to end one''s life WHAT MUST WE DO TO BE SAVED?
38801If God did not intend I should think, why did he give me a thinker?
38801If I have no right to think, why have I a brain?
38801If I have not a right to express my thoughts, who has?
38801If I rob Mr. Smith and God forgives me, how does that help Smith?
38801If an infinite universe has been made out of an infinite god, how much of the god is left?
38801If evil is necessary to the development of man, in this life, how is it possible for the soul to improve in the perfect joy of Paradise?
38801If it was made by an infinite being, what reason have we for saying that he will render it nearer perfect than it now is?
38801If neither matter nor force were created, what evidence have we, then, of the existence of a power superior to nature?
38801If reason can determine what is merciful, what is just, the duties of man to man, what more do we want either in time or eternity?
38801If that course had been pursued, would the human ears, in your judgment, ever have been enriched with the divine symphonies of Beethoven?
38801If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent?
38801If there is no interference, of what practical use can such power be?
38801If we can convert the heathen, why not convert those nearest home?
38801In mercy?
38801In order that they may be prepared to investigate the phenomena by which we are surrounded?
38801In some countries?
38801In the miracles?
38801In the next place, not one word about belief, in Mark, until I come to that verse, and where is that said to have been spoken?
38801Is a minister to be silenced because he speaks fairly of a noble and candid adversary?
38801Is any such thing possible?
38801Is it a sin to speak a charitable word over the grave of John Stuart Mill?
38801Is it a small thing to reave the heavens of an insatiate monster and write upon the eternal dome, glittering with stars, the grand word-- Freedom?
38801Is it a source of joy to think that perdition is the destination of nearly all of the children of men?
38801Is it desirable that all should be exactly alike in their religious convictions?
38801Is it heretical to pay a just and graceful tribute to departed worth?
38801Is it not strange that he gave no orders to have his words preserved-- words upon which hung the salvation of a world?
38801Is it not wonderful that not one word was written by Christ?
38801Is it nothing to civilize mankind?
38801Is it nothing to dignify man and exalt the intellect?
38801Is it nothing to fill the world with light, with discovery, with science?
38801Is it nothing to free the mind?
38801Is it nothing to make men wipe the dust from their swollen knees, the tears from their blanched and furrowed cheeks?
38801Is it philosophical to say that they who do right carry a cross?
38801Is it possible for you to conceive of the creation of an atom?
38801Is it possible that a god delights in threatening and terrifying men?
38801Is it possible that an infinite Deity is unwilling that a man should investigate the phenomena by which he is surrounded?
38801Is it possible that an infinite God created this world simply to be the dwelling- place of slaves and serfs?
38801Is it possible that he left out some important thing simply to mislead?
38801Is it possible that we have been given reason simply that we may through faith ignore its deductions, and avoid its conclusions?
38801Is it possible the devil was such an idiot?
38801Is it possible to discover infinite intelligence and love in universal and eternal carnage?
38801Is it possible to imagine the annihilation of a single atom?
38801Is it really essential to conjugate the Greek verbs before you can make up your mind as to the probability of dead people getting out of their graves?
38801Is it still starving the soul and famishing the heart?
38801Is it still trembling and shivering, crouching and crawling before its ignorant Confession of Faith?
38801Is it still warming its fleshless hands at the flames that consumed Servetus?
38801Is it worth while to quarrel about original sin-- when there is so much copy?
38801Is science indebted to the church for a solitary fact?
38801Is the infinite capable of any improvement whatever?
38801Is there a Christian in the whole world who would believe such a story if found in any other book?
38801Is there any reason that our farmers should not be prosperous and happy men?
38801Is there anything in our Bible as lofty and loving as the prayer of the Buddhist?
38801Is there in all the religious literature of the world anything more grossly absurd than this?
38801Is there not something in matter that forever eludes?
38801Men began to inquire by what right a crowned robber made them work for him?
38801Must one be versed in Latin before he is entitled to express his opinion as to the genuineness of a pretended revelation from God?
38801Must the true Presbyterian violate the sanctity of the tomb, dig open the grave and ask his God to curse the silent dust?
38801No prospective fathers or mothers- in- law; no prying and gossiping neighbors; nobody to say,"Young man, how do you expect to support her?"
38801No two, trees, no two leaves, no two anythings that are alike?
38801Now, admitting that I live in Turkey, and have no chance to get any office unless I am on the side of the Koran, what should I say?
38801Now, if the world is round, how are the people on the other side going to see Christ when he comes?
38801Now, suppose that two atoms should come together, would there be an effect?
38801Of these churches, we will ask this question: How can a man, who conscientiously believes in religious liberty, worship a God who does not?
38801Of what use are all the improvements in farming?
38801Of what use have the gods been to man?
38801Of what use is all the improved machinery unless it tends to give the farmer a little more leisure?
38801One man said to another:"Will you take a glass of wine?"
38801Or immersed?"
38801Others asked by what right does a robed hypocrite rule my thought?
38801Ought the sailor to throw away his compass and depend entirely upon the fog?
38801Our country is filled with the idle and unemployed, and the great question asking for an answer is: What shall be done with these men?
38801Said I,"Do you think a great many people are going to hell?"
38801Said I,"Suppose your mother were in hell, would you be happy in heaven then?"
38801Saved from crime?
38801Saved from poverty?
38801Should I make a clean breast and say, that upon my honor I do not believe it?
38801Should I not give the real transcript of my mind?
38801Should I tell you my real thought?
38801Should any great credit be given to this deity for not being caught with such chaff?
38801So I find in the nineteenth chapter:"And behold, one came and said unto him:''Good master, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?''
38801So they had this young man ask:"What lack I yet?
38801Supposing this to be true, what is to become of those who die in infancy?
38801THEN they say to me:"What do you propose?
38801That what they are pleased to call the adaptation of means to ends, is as apparent in the cancer as in the April rain?
38801The next question then is: Can I commit a sin against God by thinking?
38801The priest said, and the king said, where is this spirit of investigation to stop?
38801The question is: Bad as I am, have I the right to think?
38801Think of the amount of thought it must have required to invent a way by which the life of one man might be given to produce one cancer?
38801This of itself shows conclusively that the missionaries have had no effect Why should we convert the heathen of China and kill our own?
38801To feed the cattle?
38801To save his life?
38801To the manner in which he was baptized?
38801To us this seems a most shocking custom; and yet, after all, is it as bad as to put the souls of our children in the strait- jacket of a creed?
38801To what church did he belong?
38801Tyranny?
38801Under such circumstances, what can their thoughts be worth?
38801Under these circumstances, what wretched object can he have in lengthening out his aimless life?
38801Under these conditions all your Scotts, Hen- rys, and McKnights have written; and weighed in these scales, what are their commentaries worth?
38801WHAT DO YOU PROPOSE?
38801WHAT MUST WE DO TO BE SAVED?
38801Was ever any imp of any devil guilty of such savagery?
38801What can we do without them?
38801What church is an asylum for a persecuted truth?
38801What did he believe?
38801What do I mean by liberty?
38801What else do they believe?
38801What for?
38801What for?
38801What great reform has been inaugurated by the church?
38801What has made the difference?
38801What is harvesting now, compared with what it was in the old time?
38801What is matter?
38801What kind of children do you expect to have with a beggar and a coward for their mother?
38801What man, who ever thinks, can believe that blood can appease God?
38801What other reason have I got?
38801What ought I to answer?
38801What right has an infinite God to add to the sum of human agony?
38801What right has he to assassinate the joy of life?
38801What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day?
38801What right has the church to add conditions of salvation?
38801What right have we to expect that a perfectly wise, good and powerful being will ever do better than he has done, and is doing?
38801What shall these men do?
38801What should I do?
38801What should I reply?
38801What then can we think of a God who would open the artillery of heaven upon one of his own children for simply expressing his honest thought?
38801What would have become of the people five hundred years ago if they had followed strictly the advice of the doctors?
38801What would the people have been, if at any age of the world they had followed implicitly the direction of the church?
38801What would you do then?"
38801What would you then think of the doctrine of"vicarious sacrifice"?
38801When a man loses confidence in Moses, must the people lose confidence in him?
38801When you rise at four and work till dark what is life worth?
38801Where did he get it?
38801Where did that doctrine of eternal punishment for men and women and children come from?
38801Whether they belonged to any church or not; whether they believed the Bible or not?
38801Which of you, by taking thought, can add one cubit to his stature?
38801Who can bend the knee to such a monster?
38801Who can estimate the misery that has been caused by this most infamous doctrine of eternal punishment?
38801Who can imagine the infinite impudence of a church assuming to think for the human race?
38801Who can pray to such a fiend?
38801Who can tell what the world has lost by this infamous system of suppression?
38801Who can worship such a god?
38801Who does know?
38801Who on earth at this day would pretend to settle any scientific question by a text from the Bible?
38801Who was he?
38801Who was this thief?
38801Who will be his successor?
38801Who wrote the New Testament?
38801Why are they so delighted to find an allusion to Providence in the message of Lincoln?
38801Why did he not tell Luke that?
38801Why did he not tell Mark that?
38801Why did he not tell Matthew that?
38801Why did he say that?
38801Why do they care so little for the damnation of men, and so much for the baptism of children?
38801Why do they refuse to worship in the temples of each other?
38801Why do they stand with hat in hand before presidents, kings, emperors, and scientists, begging, like Lazarus, for a few crumbs of religious comfort?
38801Why do they torture the words of the great into an acknowledgment of the truth of Christianity?
38801Why investigate when you know?
38801Why is it that these Christians not only detest the infidels, but cordially despise each other?
38801Why is it that we have all degrees of intelligence, from orthodoxy to genius, if it was intended that all should think and feel alike?
38801Why not be honest with these children?
38801Why not convert those we can get at?
38801Why not convert those who have the immense advantage of the example of the average pioneer?
38801Why not feed them more the night before?
38801Why not leave him in the unconscious dust?
38801Why not say, God has intelligence, therefore there must be an intelligence greater than his?
38801Why not?
38801Why pursue that which you have?
38801Why send missionaries to other lands while every penitentiary in ours is filled with criminals?
38801Why should God make failures?
38801Why should a Christian be better than his God?
38801Why should he fall upon his knees and implore a phantom-- a phantom that is deaf, and dumb, and blind?
38801Why should he not correct his mistakes, instead of damning them?
38801Why should he waste his days in fruitless prayer?
38801Why should he waste material?
38801Why should man be afraid to think, and why should he fear to express his thoughts?
38801Why should man endeavor to thwart the designs of God?
38801Why should she show mercy to a kind and noble heretic whom her God will burn in eternal fire?
38801Why should the church pity a man whom her God hates?
38801Why should there be three fathers, and only one Son?
38801Why should we enslave ourselves?
38801Why should we forge fetters for our own hands?
38801Why should we sacrifice a real world that we have, for one we know not of?
38801Why should we send Bibles to the east and muskets to the west?
38801Why should we send missionaries across the seas, and soldiers over the plains?
38801Why should we suppose that Christ failed to tell the young man all that was necessary for him to do?
38801Why should we throw away the laws given to Moses by God himself and have the audacity to make some of our own?
38801Why then was the promise made to him that he should meet Christ in Paradise?
38801Why was nothing written?
38801Why will they adorn their churches with the money of thieves and flatter vice for the sake of subscriptions?
38801Why will they attempt to bribe Science to certify to the writings of God?
38801Why, he said to this man that asked him,"What shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
38801Why?
38801Why?
38801Why?
38801Will God have more power?
38801Will a certificate of good standing in any church be taken as collateral security for one dollar?
38801Will he become more merciful?
38801Will his love for his poor creatures increase?
38801Will some minister tell us why he thinks that Christ kept back the"scheme"?
38801Will the religionist pretend that the real end of science is to ascertain how and why God acts?
38801Will you take the word of a church member, or his note, or his oath, simply because he is a church member?
38801Would countless ages thus be wasted in the production of awkward forms, afterwards abandoned?
38801You ask my opinion about anything; I examine it honestly, and when my mind is made up, what should I tell you?
38801You have torn this down, what do you propose to give us in place of it?"
38801You will not be as decent when you get to be an angel as you are now, will you?"
38801had you not better ascertain what matter really is?
38801simply for the purpose of raising orthodox Christians?
38099''Have we not eaten and drank in thy presence? 38099 INSPIRED"MARRIAGE Is there an orthodox clergyman in the world, who will now declare that he believes the institution of polygamy to be right?
38099--Do you believe that he would have even suspected that the creator of the universe was talking?
38099After all, is it not possible to live honest and courageous lives without believing these fables?
38099After the Canaanites were driven out, could he not have employed the hornets to drive out the wild beasts?
38099Again, I ask what and who was this serpent?
38099And how could the confusion of tongues prevent its construction?
38099And what right has a man to charge an infinite being with wickedness and folly?
38099And what would be our feelings if the savage king sent for his sorcerers and had them perform the same feat?
38099And why did he, after the menagerie had passed by, pathetically exclaim,"But for Adam there was not found an helpmeet for him?"
38099And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
38099And why, after he had eaten, was he thrust out?
38099And you deserted them?
38099Are all the investigators in perdition?
38099Are we better, purer, and more intelligent than God was four thousand years ago?
38099Are we bound to believe it without knowing what the meaning is?
38099But what shall we say of God?
38099But where is the new Eden?
38099Can absurdities go farther than this?
38099Can any believer in the bible give any reasonable account of this process of creation?
38099Can any one imagine what objection God would have to the building of such a tower?
38099Can any reason be given for not allowing man to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge?
38099Can anybody believe that, under such circumstances, the danger from wild beasts could be very great?
38099Can it be necessary to believe a story like this?
38099Can it be possible that he knew anything about the stars beyond the mere fact that he saw them shining above him?
38099Can there be Methodist mathematics, Catholic astronomy, Presbyterian geology, Baptist biology, or Episcopal botany?
38099Can there be goodness in this?
38099Can we believe in this, the Nineteenth Century, that these infamous passages were inspired by God?
38099Can we believe that God made lashes upon the naked back, a legal tender for labor performed?
38099Can we believe that any such command was ever given by a merciful and intelligent God?
38099Can we believe that such laws and ceremonies were made and instituted by a merciful and intelligent God?
38099Can we believe that the inspired writer had any idea of the size of the sun?
38099Can we believe that the real God, if there is one, ever ordered a man to be killed simply for making hair oil, or ointment?
38099Can we believe that the stick was changed into a real living serpent, or did it assume simply the appearance of a serpent?
38099Can we believe this story?
38099Can we conceive of the Almighty granting letters of marque and reprisal to hornets?
38099Can you imagine anything more absurd than an infinite intelligence in infinite nothing wasting an eternity?
38099Could he not compete with Baal?
38099Could he not see them from where he lived or from where he was?
38099Could the most revengeful fiend, the most malicious vagrant in the gloom of hell, sink to a lower moral depth than this?
38099Did God create hornets for that especial purpose, implanting an instinct to attack a Canaanite, but not a Hebrew?
38099Did God destroy the memory of mankind at that time, and if so, how?
38099Did God object to education then, and does that account for the hostile attitude still assumed by theologians towards all scientific truth?
38099Did God put it in the cloud simply to keep his agreement in his memory?
38099Did God simply by his creative fiat cause a rib slowly to expand, grow and divide into nerve, ligament, cartilage and flesh?
38099Did God teach it to him, or did he happen to overhear God, when he was teaching Adam and Eve?
38099Did Satan remain in the body of the serpent, and in some mysterious manner share his punishment?
38099Did he at once proceed to make a woman?
38099Did he come in the daytime, or in the night?
38099Did he know anything about Saturn, his rings and his eight moons?
38099Did he know of the next, that is thirty- seven billion miles distant?
38099Did he know of the one hundred and four planets belonging to our solar system, all children of the sun?
38099Did he know that it would require about seventy- two years for light to reach us from this star?
38099Did he know that light travels one hundred and eighty- five thousand miles a second?
38099Did he know that some stars are so far away in the infinite abysses that five millions of years are required for their light to reach this globe?
38099Did he know that the volume of the Earth is less than one- millionth of that of the sun?
38099Did he pull out the linch- pins, or did he just take them off by main force?
38099Did he rest on that day?
38099Did he walk or fly?
38099Did the giraffe, hippopotamus, antelope and orang- outang journey from Africa in search of the ark?
38099Did the kangaroo swim or jump from Australia to Asia?
38099Did the polar bear leave his field of ice and journey toward the tropics?
38099Did the rainbow originate in this way?
38099Did the"fall"produce a change in the climate?
38099Did this God have to resort to force to make converts?
38099Did you believe in eternal punishment?
38099Did you believe in the rib story?
38099Did you believe that?
38099Did you believe the rib story?
38099Did you belong to any church?
38099Did you belong to any church?
38099Did you ever run away with any money?
38099Did you have a wife and children of your own?
38099Did you pay your debts?
38099Did you run away with any money?
38099Did you take anything else with you?
38099Do the angels all discuss questions on the same side?
38099Do they really wish me to make more converts?
38099Do we not know that every word was suggested in some way by the experience of men?
38099Do you account for the snake- worship in Mexico, Africa and India in the same way?
38099Do you also believe that God told Pharaoh,"If you do not let these people go, I will fill all your houses and cover your country with flies?"
38099Do you believe God makes such threats as this?
38099Do you believe God would make this threat?
38099Do you believe that God was the author of this infamous law?
38099Do you believe that he baited the dungeon of servitude with wife and child?
38099Do you believe that the loving father of us all, turned the dimpled arms of babes into manacles of iron?
38099Do you believe the rib story yet?
38099Do you believe this?
38099Do you believe this?
38099Do you doubt his power, his wisdom or his justice?
38099Do you mean the Adam and Eve business?
38099Does God delight in causing pain?
38099Does anybody believe this?
38099Does it tend to the elevation of the human race to speak of"God"as a butcher, tanner and tailor?
38099Does such a threat sound God- like?
38099Does the bible teach man to enslave his brother?
38099Does this sound reasonable?
38099Has he done anything in the way of creation since Saturday evening of the first week?
38099Hast thou not preached in our streets?
38099Have you heard of them since?
38099How can any man accept as a revelation from God that which is unreasonable to him?
38099How could God make known his will to any being destitute of reason?
38099How could eight persons have distributed this food, even if the ark had been large enough to hold it?
38099How could language be confounded?
38099How deep did the water get?
38099How did God convey the information to the serpents, that he wished them to go to the desert of Sinai and bite some Jews?
38099How did he do it?
38099How did he know where the ark was?
38099How did it happen that they needed coats of skins, when they had been perfectly comfortable in a nude condition?
38099How did the animals get back to their respective countries?
38099How did the serpent learn the same language?
38099How did these waters happen to run up hill?
38099How did they get there?
38099How did they get there?
38099How did they know the way to go?
38099How did you treat your family?
38099How do we know that there were three million at the end of two hundred and fifteen years?
38099How is it possible to sanctify a space of time?
38099How large a country was that?
38099How long did it rain?
38099How long was he in the ark?
38099How many people were in the promised land already?
38099How many trees can live under miles of water for a year?
38099How much did it rain a day?
38099How much?
38099How was man created simply from dust?
38099How was the ark kept clean?
38099How was the woman created from a rib?
38099How were some portions of the ark heated for animals from the tropics, and others kept cool for the polar bears?
38099How were the animals from the tropics kept warm?
38099How were the animals kept from freezing?
38099How were the animals preserved after leaving the ark?
38099How were the animals watered?
38099How were the tender plants and herbs preserved?
38099How were these flocks supported?
38099How were they supported until the world was again clothed with grass?
38099How were those animals taken care of that subsisted on others?
38099How would the hornets know a Canaanite?
38099I ask again, how were Adam and Eve created?
38099I ask the christian world to- day, was it right for the heathen to sell their children?
38099If he wished miraculously to increase the population, why did he not wait until the people were free?
38099If he wished to do away with the idolatry of the Canaanites, why did he not appear to them?
38099If he wished to keep man and this tree apart, why did he put them together?
38099If it does, is it not blasphemous to say that it is inspired of God?
38099If it is a revelation, what does it reveal?
38099If it is all an allegory, what truth is sought to be conveyed?
38099If the bible is not obscene, what book is?
38099If the flood was simply a partial flood, why were birds taken into the ark?
38099If there is any difference between days, ought not that to be considered best in which the most useful labor has been performed?
38099If they are right, then how long was the seventh day?
38099If this is so, why should the law have been given?
38099If this is so, why should the serpent have been cursed?
38099If this is true, why did he"come down to see the city and the tower?"
38099If this was the order of God, what, under the same circumstances, would have been the command of a devil?
38099If we think that God is kinder than he really is, will our poor souls be burned for that?
38099In that eternity what was this God doing?
38099In what way would God put it in the mind of a hornet to attack a Canaanite?
38099Is a god who will burn a soul forever in another world, better than a christian who burns the body for a few hours in this?
38099Is it necessary to believe that God is a kind of prestigiator-- a sleight- of- hand per- former, a magician or sorcerer?
38099Is it not a strange coincidence that there should be contradictory accounts mingled in both the Babylonian and Jewish stories?
38099Is it not altogether more probable that some ignorant Hebrew would write the vulgar words?
38099Is it not far better and wiser to take the good and throw the bad away?
38099Is it not humiliating to know that our ancestors believed these things?
38099Is it not strange that a Chinaman should find out by his own exertions more about the material universe than Moses could when assisted by its Creator?
38099Is it not wonderful that while God told his people what animals were fit for food, he failed to give a list of plants that man might eat?
38099Is it on account of that transaction in the garden of Eden, that all the descendents of Adam and Eve known as Jews and Christians hate serpents?
38099Is it possible for any sane and intelligent man to believe this story?
38099Is it possible for us to believe that an infinite being would resort to such expedients in order to drive the Canaanites from their country?
38099Is it possible not to hate and despise him?
38099Is it possible that God would make a successful rival?
38099Is it possible that a God capable of doing the miracles recounted in the Old Testament could not, in some way, have disposed of the wild beasts?
38099Is it possible that a being of infinite purity-- the author of modesty, would smirch the pages of his book with stories lewd, licentious and obscene?
38099Is it possible that any one now believes that the whole world would be of one speech had the language not been confounded at Babel?
38099Is it possible that he could not see whether the waters had gone?
38099Is it possible that of all these, the bible only is the work of God?
38099Is it possible that seventy people could increase to that extent in two hundred and fifteen years?
38099Is it possible that the Infinite could not overwhelm with waves this atom called the Earth?
38099Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men?
38099Is it possible to conceive of a more perfectly childish way of ascertaining whether the earth was dry?
38099Is it possible to imagine what was really done?
38099Is it possible to love a God who would make such laws?
38099Is it really necessary to believe this account in order to be happy here, or hereafter?
38099Is it true that man was once perfectly pure and innocent, and that he became degenerate by disobedience?
38099Is it true that when we kill a snake we also destroy an evil spirit, or is there but one devil, and did he perish at the death of the first serpent?
38099Is not such a course dishonorable to both?
38099Is not such a course far more reasonable than to insist that all these things are true and must stand though every science shall fall to mental dust?
38099Is rest holier than labor?
38099Is there a christian woman, civilized, intelligent, and free, who believes in the institution of polygamy?
38099Is there any saving grace in hypocrisy?
38099Is there any theologian who will contend that man was created directly from the earth?
38099Is there no intellectual liberty in heaven?
38099Is there one who will now say that, under such circumstances, the wife ought to have been killed?
38099Is there one who will publicly declare that, in his judgment, that institution ever was right?
38099Is there wisdom in this?
38099Is there, in all the history of war, a more infamous thing than this?
38099Is there, in the civilized world, today, a clergyman who believes in the divinity of slavery?
38099Is this belief necessary unto salvation?
38099Must a man be born a second time before this account seems reasonable?
38099Must we believe that God called some of his children the money of others?
38099Must we regard the auction block as an altar?
38099Must we, in order to be good, gentle and loving in our lives, believe that the creation of woman was a second thought?
38099Now, I ask, whether it was unreasonable for the Jews to suggest that a little meat would be very gratefully received?
38099Now, after concluding to make"an helpmeet"for Adam, what did the Lord God do?
38099On which of the six days was he created?
38099Robert Collyer suggests"nourish a bank of violets?"
38099Should we imagine that he was divinely inspired because he gave to the Jews what the Egyptians had given him?
38099That Jehovah really endeavored to induce Adam to take one of the lower animals as an helpmeet for him?
38099That all his bones were formed as they now are, and all the relations of nerve, ligament, brain and motion as they are to- day?
38099The Euphrates still journeys to the gulf, but where are Pison, Gihon and the mighty Heddekel?
38099The Recording Secretary, or whoever does the cross- examining, says to a soul: Where are you from?
38099The christians tell me that God is the author of these vile and stupid things?
38099The hail experiment having accomplished nothing, do you believe that God murdered the first- born of animals and men?
38099The next question is, how many beasts, fowls and creeping things did Noah take into the ark?
38099The question, then arises, whether within the last six thousand years there have been such upheavals and displacements?
38099Then why did he say anything upon these subjects?
38099Thereupon, Moses returned unto the Lord and said"Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people?
38099Unless the Lord God was looking for an helpmeet for Adam, why did he cause the animals to pass before him?
38099Upon what food did he subsist before his conversation with Eve?
38099Was he envious of the success of the Egyptian magicians?
38099Was he so ignorant of the structure of the human mind as to believe all honest doubt a crime?
38099Was it not possible for him to make such a convincing display of his power as to silence forever the voice of unbelief?
38099Was it right for God not only to uphold, but to command the infamous traffic in human flesh?
38099Was that, too, a geologic period covering thousands of ages?
38099Was the Lord God compelled to take a part of the man because he had used up all the original"nothing"out of which the universe was made?
38099Was the slave- pen a temple?
38099Was there a time when the institution of polygamy was the highest expression of human virtue?
38099Was there ever a time in the history of the world when it was right to treat woman simply as property?
38099Was there in the garden a tree of life, the eating of which would have rendered Adam and Eve immortal?
38099Was this the work of the most merciful God, the father of us all?
38099We are told that God made man; and the question naturally arises, how was this done?
38099We know how it was ventilated; but what was done with the filth?
38099We know that after that he lived upon dust, but what did he eat before?
38099We should have said to him,"What do you propose to give us in place of that angel?
38099We would have asked that man whether he knew more than all the great minds of his country, whether he was so much wiser than his fathers?
38099Well, what else?
38099Were blood hounds apostles?
38099Were the stealers and whippers of babes and women the justified children of God?
38099Were these parts, so worn away, perpetually renewed, or was the nature of things so changed that they could not wear away?
38099What became of the birds that devoured other birds?
38099What became of the birds that fed on worms and insects?
38099What became of the soil washed, scattered, dissolved, and covered with the_ debris_ of a world?
38099What did he do after he got rested?
38099What did he do?
38099What did he do?
38099What did the writer mean by the word firmament?
38099What did they drink?
38099What did they eat while in the ark?
38099What did they eat?
38099What had the beasts, and the creeping things, and the birds done to excite the anger of God?
38099What had these animals to eat while on the journey?
38099What had these children done?
38099What has religion to do with facts?
38099What kind of a man were you?
38099What kind of tree was that?
38099What objection could God have had to the immortality of man?
38099What particular ones would naturally come together if nobody understood the language of any other person?
38099What right has a god to fill a world with fiends?
38099What right would this God have to complain of a crucifixion suffered in accordance with his own command?
38099What was the form of the serpent when he entered the garden, and in what way did he move from place to place?
38099What was your business?
38099What would be thought of a physician now, who would give a prescription like that?
38099Where are these four rivers now?
38099Where are you from?
38099Where can words be found bitter enough to describe a god who would kill wives and babes because husbands and fathers had failed to keep his law?
38099Where could he have obtained his flax?
38099Where did he come down from?
38099Where did he get his words?
38099Where did the Lord God get those skins?
38099Where did the bees get honey, and the ants seeds?
38099Where did the serpent come from?
38099Where did the tenants of the ark get food?
38099Where did the water come from?
38099Where did these serpents come from?
38099Where did they get it?
38099Where did this serpent come from?
38099Where were meadows and pastures for them?
38099Where were these people going?
38099Where were those people going?
38099Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?
38099Who is the blasphemer; the man who denies the existence of God, or he who covers the robes of the Infinite with innocent blood?
38099Who made him?
38099Who selected these?
38099Who, and what was this serpent?
38099Why did God tell Moses, while in the desert, to make curtains of fine linen?
38099Why did God wait until the cool of the day before looking after his children?
38099Why did he fill the world with his own children, knowing that he would have to destroy them?
38099Why did he leave his children to find out the hurtful and the poisonous by experiment, knowing that experiment, in millions of cases, must be death?
38099Why did he make animals that he knew he would destroy?
38099Why did he not defend his children?
38099Why did he not give them the tables of the law?
38099Why did he not put Adam and Eve on their guard about this serpent?
38099Why did he not tell him that a nation founded upon slavery could not stand?
38099Why did he only make known his will to a few wandering savages in the desert of Sinai?
38099Why did he put it in the midst of the garden?
38099Why did he repent having made them?
38099Why did he say"And every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth?"
38099Why did he tell him to make things of gold, and silver, and precious stones, when they could not have been in possession of these things?
38099Why did not the Lord God take him by the tail and snap his head off?
38099Why did"the Lord come down to see the city and the tower?"
38099Why is a miracle any more necessary to account for yesterday than for to- day or for to- morrow?
38099Why is it that thou hast sent me?
38099Why over_ running_ water?
38099Why should God be so jealous of the wooden idols of the heathen?
38099Why should God curse the serpent for what had really been done by the devil?
38099Why should God hate to see a man happy?
38099Why should God miraculously increase the number of slaves?
38099Why should God object to that fruit being eaten by man?
38099Why should a God care about such things?
38099Why should a believer in God hate an atheist?
38099Why should a mother be declared unclean?
38099Why should a son who has examined a subject, throw away his reason and adopt the views of his mother?
38099Why should a woman ask pardon of God for having been a mother?
38099Why should an infinite God care whether mankind made ointments and perfumes like his or not?
38099Why should barbarian Jews who went down to death and dust three thousand years ago, control the living world?
38099Why should christians try to deprive God of the glory of having wrought the most stupendous of miracles?
38099Why should giving birth to a daughter be regarded twice as criminal as giving birth to a son?
38099Why should he destroy them?
38099Why should he insist on having buttons sewed in certain rows, and fringes of a certain color?
38099Why should he make experiments that he knows must fail?
38099Why should it excite his wrath to see a family in the woods, by some babbling stream, talking, laughing and loving?
38099Why should men be imprisoned simply for imitating God?
38099Why should men in the name of religion try to harmonize the contradictions that exist between Nature and a book?
38099Why should philosophers be denounced for placing more reliance upon what they know than upon what they have been told?
38099Why should that be considered a crime in Exodus, which is commanded as a duty in Genesis?
38099Why should that day be filled with gloom instead of joy?
38099Why should the Creator of all things threaten to kill a priest who approached his altar without having washed his hands and feet?
38099Why should the babes in the cradle be destroyed on account of the crime of Pharaoh?
38099Why should the bird be killed in an_ earthen_ vessel?
38099Why should the cattle be destroyed because man had enslaved his brother?
38099Why should the innocent maiden and the loving mother worship the heartless Jewish God?
38099Why should they, with pure and stainless lips, read the vile record of inspired lust?
38099Why should we be damned for laughing at Samson and his foxes, while others, holding the Nebular Hypothesis in utter contempt, go straight to heaven?
38099Why should we imprison Mormons, and worship God?
38099Why should we in this age of the world be dominated by the dead?
38099Why should we look sad, and think about death, and hear about hell?
38099Why should we object to the Darwinian doctrine of descent after this?
38099Why should we, looking at some ancient daub of angel, saint or virgin, say its painter must have been assisted by a god?
38099Why then should we not place greater confidence in Nature than in a book?
38099Why was he not kept out of the garden?
38099Why was he not on hand in the morning?
38099Why was the experiment made?
38099Why was the garden of Eden planted?
38099Why were Adam and Eve exposed to the seductive arts of the serpent?
38099Why were not the maidens also killed?
38099Why were they spared?
38099Why would the confounding of the language make them separate?
38099Why would they not stay together until they could understand each other?
38099Why, in this instance, did they separate?
38099Why, then, should a sectarian college exist?
38099Will anybody now contend that man was a direct and independent creation, and sustains and bears no relation to the animals below him?
38099Will men become clean in speech by believing that God is unclean?
38099Will men make better husbands, fathers, neighbors, and citizens, simply by giving credence to these childish and impossible things?
38099Will some christian give us an explanation of this matter?
38099Will some gentleman skilled in theology give us an explanation?
38099Will some kind clergymen tell us upon what kind of food Adam subsisted during these immense periods?
38099Will some minister when he answers the"Mistakes of Moses"tell us where these rivers are or were?
38099Will some minister, some graduate of Andover, tell us what this means?
38099Will some theologian explain this?
38099Will some theologian have the kindness to answer these questions?
38099Will some theologian, versed in the machinery of the miraculous, tell us in what way God confounded the language of mankind?
38099Will the agony of the damned increase or decrease the happiness of God?
38099Will the penitent thief, winged and crowned, laugh at the honest folks in hell?
38099Will there be, in the universe, an eternal_ auto da fe?_ XXIX.
38099Will they be kind enough to tell us what the fountains of the great deep are?
38099Would a partial, local flood have fulfilled these threats?
38099Would it not be far better to admit that the bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age?
38099Would it not be far better to treat this atheist, at least, as well as he treats us?
38099Would it not be safer to charge Moses with vulgarity, instead of God?
38099Would the charm be broken if the vessel was of wood?
38099Would we not regard such a performance as beneath the dignity even of a president?
38099Would you expect to find that book in favor of liberty?
38099You may say that it was a miracle; but what need was there of working a miracle?
38099and if he did say anything, why did he not give the facts?
38099that God approved not only of human slavery, but instructed his chosen people to buy the women, children and babes of the heathen round about them?
38099that the assistance of God was necessary to produce these books?
38809How is it that you support Garfield when he is a Christian?
38809Well,said the fellow,"do n''t you think he could have put in another day here to devilish good advantage?"
38809Well,you would say,"why do n''t you do it?"
38809What things?
38809Why,he said,"Mr. Mulidore, what did you do with that coffin?
38809Why?
38809Why?
38809A thousand theories were born of want; a thousand theories were born of the fertile brain of trouble; and these people said,"After all, what is money?
38809Ah, but, says this same gentleman, what gives our money-- our silver-- its value?
38809And I want you to think one moment, just one moment: What was this country when the first Republican President was elected?
38809And how did they fix the ratio?
38809And how much currency and specie would that leave for us in the United States?
38809And if the Government can create money, how much should it create, and if it should create it who will get it?
38809And is McKinley a tried man?
38809And the owner of the hat said,"What for?"
38809And the question is, which section in this country can you trust to collect and disburse that revenue?
38809And thereupon the poor debtor says,"How is that going to help me?"
38809And what did our President say?
38809And what did they say?
38809And what do we become?
38809And what do we owe?
38809And what does that mean?
38809And what else would happen?
38809And what else?
38809And what else?
38809And what else?
38809And what else?
38809And what else?
38809And what had these persons done?
38809And what has been the result?
38809And what has made us such a great and splendid and progressive and sensible people?
38809And what more did these men say?
38809And what more did they say?
38809And what more?
38809And what next did this convention do?
38809And what shall I say more of the regiment before me?
38809And what shall I say to you, survivors of the death- filled days?
38809And what was the next?
38809And who owns a great picture or a great statue?
38809And why did they do it?
38809And why did they do this?
38809And why do these gentlemen ask for the trade of the world?
38809And why not?
38809And why ought we to be in favor of silver?
38809And why should I hate the rich?
38809And why should it stop at exactly one dollar and twenty- nine cents?
38809And why should we array class against class?
38809And why should we depreciate one of our own products by saying that we will not take it as money?
38809And why should we hate the successful?
38809And why the greatest?
38809And why was that?
38809And why?
38809And why?
38809Any use of your talking about being a sovereign partner?
38809Are they in favor of being protected?
38809Are we not getting rich?
38809Are you a Democrat?
38809Are you not more than glad that in 1776 was announced the sublime principle that political power resides with the people?
38809Are you sorry that these assassins were defeated in 1868?
38809As a specimen of bluntness and clearness, take the following extracts: How shall the Government make these notes at all times as good as specie?
38809But let me ask, for my own information, if they corner gold what will prevent their cornering silver?
38809But now the question was, to whom did the newly acquired property belong?
38809But suppose the Governor will not call for assistance, what then?
38809But suppose the Legislature will not do it, what then?
38809But the question now, as we look back, is, was this country worth saving?
38809But to come back to my question, what have we done since 1860?
38809But what did you say a little while ago?
38809But what have we got to do?
38809But what of those who fell?
38809But, after all, do you know that money is the most social thing in this world?
38809By giving it to the South or North; to the Democracy or to the Republican party?
38809Can any human being think of any reason?
38809Can it be left in any way to the Supreme Court, or shall the Executive decide it himself?
38809Can our Government obtain information only through the official sources?
38809Can we forget everything except the heroic sacrifices of the men who saved this Government?
38809Can we say to the South,"Let us be brothers"?
38809Can we trust them?
38809Can we?
38809Can you trust it to Alabama or to New York?
38809Can you trust it to the South or can you trust it to the great and splendid North?
38809Can you trust it to the gentlemen of Mississippi or to the gentlemen of Massachusetts?
38809Can you trust the gentlemen who invented the tissue ballot?
38809Can you trust them?
38809Could we have safely trusted that party in 1868?
38809Could we have safely trusted the Democratic party in 1860?
38809Democrats, do n''t you wish we had treated you that way during the war?
38809Did General Hancock believe in State Sovereignty when he was at Gettysburg?
38809Did he leave them in a beautiful home, surrounded by civilization, in the repose of law, in the security of a great and powerful republic?
38809Did his heart beat quicker?
38809Did our forefathers ever interfere with religion?
38809Did the blood rush to his cheek?
38809Did they allow any of them to fight in the army?
38809Did they free any of the negroes?
38809Did they issue summons, and have a trial?
38809Did they let any of these negroes fight?
38809Did they make them citizens?
38809Did they permit any of them to vote?
38809Did you ever hear anybody talk about a War Republican?
38809Did you ever think about it?
38809Did you ever think of the deft and cunning hands, of the wonderfully accurate brains, that can make a thing like that?
38809Did you say we could resume?
38809Do n''t you wish you had lived then, my friend Democrat?
38809Do n''t you wish you had prosecuted the war as our fathers prosecuted the Revolution?
38809Do the men that fought at Gettysburg still believe in State Sovereignty?
38809Do they think the South loves him?
38809Do you believe that there was, on the average, any more drunkenness in this country before the tax was put on than there is now?
38809Do you know how much good we did?
38809Do you know that the words cheap money are a contradiction in terms?
38809Do you know, if they had wanted it we could not have given it to them?
38809Do you want to trust such men?
38809Do you wish to put the ballot- box in the keeping of the shot- gun, of the White- Liners, of the Ku Klux?
38809Does he want to be a failure?
38809Does it believe in sunrise, or does it keep its back to the sacred east of eternal progress?
38809Does it wish to make the world grander and better and freer?
38809Does that require patriotism?
38809Elect Bryan, come to the silver standard, and what would happen?
38809Every lot in this city that was worth five thousand and that is now worth two thousand-- do you know what is the matter with that lot?
38809Every man that had committed murder-- that had taken up arms against America, or voted the Democratic or Tory ticket?
38809Gold will go out of circulation, and what next would happen?
38809Has it a high ideal?
38809Has its value been changed?
38809Has the Senate alone the right to determine it?
38809Has the South changed?
38809Has the United States the right to protect commerce between the States?
38809Have we any excuse for being thieves?
38809Have we any excuse for failing to pay the debt?
38809Have we developed the mind?
38809Have we endeavored to civilize the heart?
38809Have we endeavored to develop the brain?
38809Have we in other directions kept pace with our physical development?
38809Have we kept up in other ways?
38809He was found guilty, and the judge asked him,"What have you to say that sentence of death shall not be pronounced on you?"
38809Honor bright-- honor bright, is there any freedom of speech in the South?
38809Honor bright?
38809How are we going to do it?
38809How can money be too good?
38809How did they come to say this?
38809How did they do it?
38809How do you get your money?
38809How does he stand upon the great questions affecting American prosperity?
38809How is this to be done?
38809How many Democrats wrote letters during the war declaring that the North never could conquer the South?
38809How many wrote letters to the soldiers in the army telling them to shed no more fraternal blood in that suicidal and unchristian war?
38809How much are they worth?
38809How much do you suppose the raw material lying in the earth was worth that was changed into that locomotive?
38809How much do you suppose this Nation is worth to- day?
38809How much is a ton of iron worth in the ground?
38809How much is the Republic worth?
38809How much?
38809How much?
38809How was this done?
38809How would you have it?
38809How, Mr. Bryanite, how do you account for that?
38809How?
38809I ask you to- night, is not every solitary man here in favor of free speech?
38809I do not care where he was born; I simply ask, Is he a man?
38809I met him one morning, and he looked very sad, and I said to him,"Uncle, what is the matter?"
38809I say, can you trust the ballot- box to the Democratic party?
38809I want the taxes taken from tobacco and whiskey; and why?
38809I want to preserve free speech, and, as an honest man, I look about me and I say,"How can I best preserve it?"
38809If everything is to be left to the blind and heartless working of the laws of supply and demand, why have governments?
38809If gold and silver are not the measure of value, what is?
38809If the Government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes from you and me for?
38809If the laborer is better off in other countries, why does not the American laborer emigrate to Europe?
38809If we depend upon the foreign manufacturers will they not form trusts?
38809If you can make money by law, why should any nation be poor?
38809In which part of this country are the lips of thought free-- in the South or in the North?
38809In which part of this country can a man find justice in the courts; in the North or in the South?
38809In which part of this country do you find law supreme?
38809Is he willing to give to others what he claims for himself?
38809Is it a legal tender?
38809Is it possible for the mind to conceive anything more absurd than that the Government can create money?
38809Is it the non- producing thief, sitting on a throne, surrounded by vermin?
38809Is not this a vile abolition document?
38809Is not this perfectly splendid?
38809Is that not enough to make a Democrat sick?
38809Is that the doctrine and the idea of the Northern Democratic party?
38809Is that the spirit in which a nation like this should be governed?
38809Is there a man here who in his heart regrets that the Democrats failed in 1868?
38809Is there a solitary Democrat here who dares say he is not in favor of free speech?
38809Is there any Congress to pass the necessary act to pay them if there was?
38809Is there any sentiment here that would respond to a call for twenty, fifty, or a hundred thousand men?
38809Is there any sentiment in the North that would uphold the Executive in calling for volunteers?
38809Is there any use of talking about being equal partners any longer?
38809Is there no time when the soldiers of progress can rest?
38809Is there one man present who, to- day, regrets that the Vallandigham Democracy of 1864 was spurned and beaten by the American people?
38809Is there one man present who, to- day, regrets the utter defeat of that mixture of slavery, malice and meanness, called the Democratic party, in 1864?
38809It is a legal tender; now pound it into a cube, and how much is it worth?
38809It is not possible that our fathers ever interfered with the writ of_ habeas corpus_, is it?
38809It knocks at the door for admission, and what is the question asked by this administration?
38809It takes no more ink and no more paper-- why not make one thousand dollar bills?
38809Jackson was a Democrat?
38809Let me tell you?
38809Mr. Bryan says,"Vote for cheap money to pay your debts,"and thereupon the creditor says,"What is to become of me?"
38809Mr. Greenbacker, suppose the Government issued a billion dollars to- morrow, how would you get any of it?
38809Mulidore, are you a Christian?''
38809Must it be left to Congress?
38809Must it wait until the Legislature calls for assistance to help it stop robbing and plundering citizens of the United States?
38809Must our Government wait until the Government asks the proofs, while the State tramples upon the rights of the citizens?
38809Must we wage this war for the right forever?
38809Not"Have you the land, have you the wealth, have you the men and women?"
38809Now, honor bright, which section of this Union can you trust the ballot- box with?
38809Now, if the Government can make money itself, why should it collect taxes from the poor?
38809Now, my friends, what is there about this great Republican party?
38809Now, my friends, what was the Democratic party doing when the Republican party was doing these splendid things?
38809Now, some people say to me,"How long are you going to preach the doctrine of hate?"
38809Now, the question is: Can Congress make fifty cents''worth of silver worth one dollar?
38809Now, then, was there any necessity, during this war, to follow the example of our fathers?
38809Now, then, which section of this country will be the more apt to carry these ideas into execution?
38809Now, what did our fathers do?
38809Now, what do we want to do?
38809Now, what is a banker?
38809Now, why?
38809Now, will you let us be your friends?"
38809Of what use is it to allow the jury to bring in a verdict of"not guilty,"if the defendant is to be hung by a mob?
38809Oh, I forgot to ask the question,"If the Government can make money why should it collect taxes?"
38809One billion five hundred million dollars, and what is the condition of the country?
38809Or are you going to have it so poor that it will not be worth cornering?
38809Preacher, when I come to that day of judgment they will say,''What is your name?''
38809Seven long years of war-- fighting for what?
38809Shall I recount their sufferings?
38809Shall Mr. Bryan be the next President or shall McKinley occupy that chair?
38809Shall the men that said, This is not a Nation, have charge of the Nation?
38809Shall the men who saved the old flag hold it?
38809Shall the men who saved the ship of State sail it, or shall the rebels walk her quarter- deck, give the orders and sink it?
38809Shall the procession stop?
38809Shall we wait for the other fellows to catch up?
38809Some people have said,"How is it that you support Garfield, when he was a minister?"
38809Standing here amid the sacred memories of the first, on the golden threshold of the second, I ask, Will the second century be as grand as the first?
38809Suppose that the State does not do it; what then I say?
38809Suppose that we had done that during the last war?
38809Suppose the Governors and every man trample upon your rights, is the Nation then to let you be trampled upon?
38809Take all the men of wealth from Scotland-- who would know it?
38809That is not the worst of it, either; for after he got these negroes into the army he made a speech to them, and what did he say in that speech?
38809That is what it did, and what else?
38809That our fathers then made up their minds nevermore to be colonists and subjects, but that they would be free and independent citizens of America?
38809The fact that it is a legal tender?
38809The first is, Shall the people that saved this country rule it?
38809The man who bought it?
38809The moral side of this question?
38809The next question is, Shall we pay our debts?
38809The next question is, who shall have possession of this country-- the men that saved it,--or the men that sought to destroy it?
38809The next question is, will we protect the Union men in the South?
38809The next question is: Suppose the Government should issue a thousand millions of fiat money, how would it regulate the value thereof?
38809The present question is, whom shall we trust?
38809The question is, Shall that tramp and that dog gain possession of the White House?
38809The question is, Shall the men who endeavored to destroy this country rule it?
38809The question is, can you and I forget the past?
38809The question is,"How?"
38809The question was put to us in 1861:"Shall the majority rule?"
38809Then there is another question, and that is whether the Government has a right to protect itself?
38809Then who shall say what shall be done with what is produced except the producer?
38809There is another thing: Why is this city filled with palaces, covered with wealth?
38809There is another thing; do you want a Government of law or of brute force?
38809There they were, of every sort, and color and kind, and how was it that they came together?
38809They carried transparencies that said,"Is there money enough in the land to pay this nigger debt?
38809They did not interfere with the freedom of the press, did they?
38809They made the ratio 15 to 1, and who did it?
38809They said, why did we not appeal to law?
38809To a man who begs of you a breakfast you can not say,"Why do n''t you get a farm?"
38809To whom are we indebted for this wonderful change?
38809To whom shall we give the reins of power?
38809Upon whom would he rely?
38809Was he filled with enthusiasm?
38809Was it a Grand Jury?
38809Was it a Justice of the Peace?
38809Was it his sovereignty that made it valuable?
38809Was it not low- lived and contemptible?
38809Was that honest?
38809Was the blood shed in vain?
38809Was the country worth saving?
38809Well, can not we make dollars out of silver?
38809Well, if it is, what''s the use of wasting it making one dollar bills?
38809Well, we grew magnanimous, and let Dodds out of Fort Lafayette; and where do you suppose Dodds is now?
38809Well, what is a dollar?
38809Well, why do n''t you take it?
38809Were the lives given for naught?
38809What are the hopes, the emotions and the loves in its heart?
38809What are the ideas in its brain?
38809What are you now?
38809What became of the other sixty- six cents?
38809What can we do?
38809What class of people does the State have in its power?
38809What did our fathers do with them?
38809What did that mean?
38809What did the soldier leave when he went?
38809What did they do?
38809What did those wretches do?
38809What do the Democrats know on the subject of the tariff?
38809What do the Democrats want to do?
38809What do the people know about the wants of the nation?
38809What do they buy-- what does England sell?
38809What do they do?
38809What do they want in Mexico?
38809What do you propose to do?
38809What do you suppose Dodds is doing?
38809What do you want of their markets?
38809What does a simple soldier know about the wants of the city of New York?
38809What does he know about the wants of this great and splendid country?
38809What does he say to the Southern people, to the colored people?
38809What does that Government propose to give in exchange for that right?
38809What does the American purchase?
38809What does the General Government propose to give me in exchange for my allegiance?
38809What effect will that have?
38809What else do you want?
38809What else is in this platform?
38809What else were they fighting for?
38809What else were they fighting for?
38809What else would happen?
38809What else?
38809What else?
38809What else?
38809What for?
38809What for?
38809What gives it the value of a dollar?
38809What had they done?
38809What has it done?
38809What has it endeavored to do?
38809What has made this country?
38809What have the"enemies of silver"done since that time?
38809What is General Hancock for, besides the presidency?
38809What is a capitalist?
38809What is a dollar?
38809What is a reasonable price for labor?
38809What is he?
38809What is his plan?
38809What is it?
38809What is money?
38809What is the difference whether a man is in the penitentiary, or whether he is in the despotism of some European state?
38809What is the next question?
38809What is the next thing in this platform?
38809What is the use of stopping there?
38809What is the use of wasting all that silver?
38809What is this party?
38809What is to hinder?
38809What is your policy?
38809What kind of slavery?
38809What matters it where a man was born?
38809What more did they do?
38809What more did they do?
38809What more did they do?
38809What more did they do?
38809What more did they do?
38809What more had slavery done?
38809What more?
38809What more?
38809What more?
38809What more?
38809What next do they charge against us?
38809What next in this platform?
38809What next?
38809What next?
38809What part of this country believes in free speech-- the South or the North?
38809What party is most deserving of our confidence?
38809What party will best preserve the rights of the people?
38809What right has a newspaper in Indiana to talk against the cause for which your son is laying down his life on the field of battle?
38809What right has any man protected by the American flag to do all in his power to put it in the hands of the enemies of his country?
38809What right has any man to make it take thousands of men more to crush a rebellion?
38809What section of this country, what party, will give us honest money-- honor bright-- honor bright?
38809What shall we do?
38809What should the President do?
38809What then shall we say of the man that follows China, that follows India in the silver standard?
38809What to the followers of Sherman and Sheridan?
38809What was the Committee of Safety?
38809What was the first idea in its mind?
38809What was the next step?
38809What was the old idea?
38809What was to be done?
38809What will Congress do then?
38809What will you say of that Government if it says to him,"You must look to your State for protection"?
38809What would we be without labor?
38809What would we have been if we had remained colonists and subjects?
38809What would we have been to- day?
38809What would we have offered to the sailors under Farragut on condition that they would pass Forts St. Phillip and Jackson?
38809What would we have offered to the soldiers under Grant in the Wilderness?
38809What would we have said at the time?
38809What would you think of a man that wanted the date out of the note?
38809What, gentlemen, are your ideas?
38809What, if the North could have spoken, would it have said to the heroes of Gettysburg on the third day?
38809What, then, has labor added to the twelve thousand dollar locomotive?
38809When this great party came together in Chicago what was the first thing the convention did?
38809When we set out to put down the Rebellion the Democratic party started up all at once and said,"You are not going to interfere with slavery, are you?"
38809Where did this doctrine of a tariff for revenue only come from?
38809Where from?
38809Where is crime punished?
38809Where is innocence protected, in the North or in the South?
38809Where is there such a thing as a Republican mob to prevent the expression of an honest thought?
38809Where?
38809Which party can be trusted?
38809Which party said,"No, we must pay the promise made in war"?
38809Which party will be the more apt to achieve these grand and splendid things?
38809Which section can you trust?
38809Which section of our country can you trust the inestimable gem of free speech with?
38809Which section of this country will you trust?
38809Which will be the more apt to pay the debt?
38809Which will be the more apt to protect the colored and white loyalist at the South?
38809Who are the bondholders?
38809Who has a right to call for the protection of the United States?
38809Who has changed?
38809Who is Mr. Bryan?
38809Who is Samuel J. Tilden?
38809Who objects to a soldier going?
38809Who wants free trade?
38809Who were joyful when your brothers and your sons and your fathers lay dead on a field of battle that the country had lost?
38809Who, I say, will be injured by sending soldiers into the Southern States?
38809Whoever heard of a man playing poker that wanted to quit when he was a loser?
38809Whom for?
38809Whom were they to thus arrest and secure?
38809Whom will we trust to take care of free speech?
38809Whom would he call about him?
38809Why allow fiat money to fade out when a simple act of Congress can make it as good as gold?
38809Why did not this great statesman tell us of some"gradual and safe process"?
38809Why did we call them War Democrats?
38809Why do n''t you do it?
38809Why do n''t you make things and sell them in Central Africa, in China and Japan?
38809Why do not the Democrats and others want the Chinese to come here?
38809Why do they ask for free trade?
38809Why do you coin gold?
38809Why does a man invent?
38809Why does it not make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us?
38809Why envy a man that carries a hundred canes?
38809Why envy a man who has no earthly needs?
38809Why envy a man who has that which he can not use?
38809Why have you a right to take a rebel''s horse?
38809Why impose upon industry in that manner?
38809Why is it that New England, a rock- clad land, blossoms like a rose?
38809Why is it that New York is the Empire State of the great Union?
38809Why is it that the Democrats and others object to penitentiary labor?
38809Why is it that the Mexican dollar is worth only fifty cents?
38809Why is labor higher here than in Europe?
38809Why not buy the silver from him in the open market and let the Government make the million dollars?
38809Why not make a hundred million dollar bills and all be billionaires?
38809Why not make it 1 to 1?
38809Why not make it equal with gold and be done with it?
38809Why not pass a law that every man shall take every other man''s note?
38809Why should I make my heart a den of writhing, hissing snakes of envy?
38809Why should the sun borrow a candle?
38809Why should we envy the rich?
38809Why should we envy the rich?
38809Why should we envy the rich?
38809Why should we envy the rich?
38809Why should we envy the successful?
38809Why should we hate them?
38809Why should we put a million dollars in his pocket?
38809Why?
38809Why?
38809Why?
38809Why?
38809Why?
38809Why?
38809Why?
38809Why?
38809Why?
38809Why?
38809Why?
38809Why?
38809Why?
38809Why?
38809Why?
38809Will an honest man do it?
38809Will he rely on"a human intelligence at the helm,"or on"the central reservoir,"or on some"gradual and safe process"?
38809Will the Nation hear only the cry of the oppressor, or will it heed the cry of the oppressed?
38809Will the bugles of the great army of civilization never sound even a halt?
38809Wipe their names from the pages of history, and who would miss them?
38809Would he like to be rich?
38809Would he like to have a million?
38809Would n''t a Democrat have had a hard scramble for victuals if we had carried out that idea?
38809Would our fathers have been brutal enough, if he had not been killed, to put him back into slavery?
38809Would that farmer pay his debt with five hundred bushels and consider himself an honest man?
38809Yes, we have, and what are you Democrats going to do about it?
38809You might as well say,"Why do n''t you start a line of steamships?"
38809[ A Voice--"How about Longstreet?"]
38809[ A voice--"Who was the man?"]
38809[ A voice:"How about free schools?"]
38809[ A voice:"Who was that?"]
38809and also the balance of that question:"Shall the minority submit?"
38809but"Are you Democratic or Republican?"
38809i, p. 22, Do you hear that, Democrat?
38804Saying, where is he that is born king of the Jews? 38804 When Jesus saw him he and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him:''Wilt thou be made whole??''
38804When Jesus saw him he and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him:''Wilt thou be made whole??'' 38804 A cardinal looking at the picture said to the artist:Whoever saw angels with sandals?"
38804After all, why should we worship our ignorance, why should we kneel to the Unknown, why should we prostrate ourselves before a guess?
38804Again I ask: By whose permission did they enter into the man?
38804Again I ask: Was it necessary for the devils to get the permission of Christ before they could enter swine?
38804Among savages do we not find that their vices and cruelties are the fruits of their superstitions?
38804And do n''t you know that they would allow thousands and millions to die for want of breath, if they could not pay for air?
38804And he answered:"Who is my mother, and who are my brethren?"
38804And let me ask, to- night: Is the world forever to remain as it was when Lear made his prayer?
38804And then I asked myself: What is force?
38804And what do you do with him?
38804And what is the result?
38804And when I think of what has been suffered-- of the centuries of agony and tears, I ask: Is it possible for man to forgive God?
38804And why do I say this?
38804And why?
38804Angelo answered with another question:"Whoever saw an angel barefooted?"
38804Another question: Did the Pharisees believe in the existence of devils, or had they the personification idea?
38804Are Christians more temperate, nearer virtuous, nearer honest than savages?
38804Are not the facts in the mental world just as stubborn-- just as necessarily produced-- as the facts in the material world?
38804Are people devoured by personifications or myths?
38804Are the failures under obligation to their creator?
38804Are the heavens a real place?
38804Are the rich always to be divided from the poor,--not only in fact, but in feeling?
38804Are there always to be millions whose lips are white with famine?
38804Are these devils immortal or do they multiply and die?
38804Are these personifications entities?
38804Are they a personification?
38804Art thou come hither to torment us before the time?"
38804Art thou come to destroy us?
38804But how is it with us?
38804But let me ask the clergy a few questions: How did your Devil, who was at one time an angel of light, come to sin?
38804But they say,"If you give up these superstitions, what have you left?"
38804But where is this heaven, and where is this hell?
38804Can a personification of evil crawl on its belly?
38804Can a personification of evil eat dust?
38804Can any farmer, mechanic, or scientist find in the New Testament one useful fact?
38804Can anything be sacred to us that we do not know to be true?
38804Can both accounts be true?
38804Can evidence of this be found in the history of mankind?
38804Can he eat it?
38804Can infinite wisdom and power make any excuse for the creation of failures?
38804Can it be destroyed-- annihilated?
38804Can it be our duty to love anybody?
38804Can personifications have desires?
38804Can the dead be raised?
38804Can the world be civilized to that degree that consequences will be taken into consideration by all?
38804Can we add to our knowledge by ceremony?
38804Can we affect the nature and qualities of substance by prayer?
38804Can we believe the accounts of the battles?
38804Can we change winds by sacrifice?
38804Can we conceive of a devil base enough to prefer his enemies to his friends?
38804Can we cure disease by supplication?
38804Can we hasten or delay the tides by worship?
38804Can we infer the goodness of God from the facts we know?
38804Can we love the unknown, the inconceivable?
38804Can we prevent this Missouri of ignorance and vice from emptying into the Mississippi of civilization?
38804Can we receive virtue or honor as alms?
38804Can we rely on the historical parts of the Bible?
38804Can we say that he cared for the children of men?
38804Can we say that his mercy endureth forever?
38804Can we say that in the heart of this God there blossomed the flower of pity?
38804Can we think of a being without form, without body, without parts, without passions?
38804Christ asked the father:"How long is it ago since this came unto him?"
38804Cosmas said the earth was flat; if it was round how could men on the other side at the day of judgment see the coming of the Lord?
38804Could he have avoided being good?
38804Could he know that the visitor was an angel?
38804Could it have done this had it only been a personification of evil?
38804Could personifications of evil enter a herd of swine, or could personifications of evil make a bargain with Christ?
38804Could such a promise be regarded as evidence?
38804Could these countries have been worse without religion?
38804Could they have been worse had they had any other religion than Christianity?
38804Could this God have avoided being God?
38804Did Christ believe in the existence of the Devil?
38804Did Christ or any of his apostles add to the sum of useful knowledge?
38804Did Christ wish to be convicted?
38804Did a personification of evil prevent the dumb man from talking?
38804Did anybody offer him the kingdoms of the world?
38804Did he allow his enemies to torture and burn his friends?
38804Did he allow tyrants to shed the blood of patriots?
38804Did he desire to be betrayed?
38804Did he mean that he cured diseases?
38804Did infinite goodness create the beasts of prey with the intention that they should devour the weak and helpless?
38804Did infinite goodness create the countless worthless living things that breed within and feed upon the flesh of higher forms?
38804Did infinite goodness fashion the wings of the eagles so that their fleeing prey could be overtaken?
38804Did infinite wisdom intentionally produce the microscopic beasts that feed upon the optic nerve?
38804Did it accomplish this result through the Inquisition-- by the use of the thumb- screw, the rack and the fagot?
38804Did it do this by torturing heretics-- by extinguishing their eyes-- by flaying them alive?
38804Did it in some way paralyze his organs of speech?
38804Did the angel put medicine in the water-- just enough to cure one?
38804Did the earth exist before the sun?
38804Did the wild beasts live and did the angels minister unto Christ?
38804Did the writer of the account try to convey to the reader the thought that Christ was tempted by the Devil?
38804Did they add to the intellectual wealth of the world?
38804Did they discover or show us how to produce anything for food?
38804Did they do that without Christ''s consent, and is it a fact that Christ protects swine and neglects human beings?
38804Did they explain any of the phenomena of nature?
38804Did they find the medicinal virtue that dwells in any weed or flower?
38804Did they give us even a hint as to any useful thing?
38804Did they increase the sum of knowledge?
38804Did they produce anything to satisfy the hunger of man?
38804Did they really exist?
38804Did they say anything in favor of investigation-- of study-- of thought?
38804Did they say one word in favor of any science, of any art?
38804Did they show us how to improve our condition in this world?
38804Did they slip back into their graves and commit suicide?
38804Did they teach the gospel of self- reliance, of industry-- of honest effort?
38804Did they teach us the mysteries of the metals and how to purify the ores in furnace flames?
38804Did they tell us anything about chemistry-- how to combine and separate substances-- how to subtract the hurtful-- how to produce the useful?
38804Did this God allow the cruel and vile to destroy the brave and virtuous?
38804Did you ever read that wonderful poem about the sewing woman?
38804Do n''t you know that if people could bottle the air, they would?
38804Do n''t you know that there would be an American Air- bottling Association?
38804Do personifications of evil talk?
38804Do the accounts in Matthew and Luke agree?
38804Do they go to some other world, are they annihilated, or can they get to heaven by believing on Christ?
38804Do they occupy space?
38804Do they stay in the stomach or brain, in the heart or liver?
38804Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy?"
38804Does Nature care for us more than for leaves, or grass, or flies?
38804Does Nature know that we exist?
38804Does any intelligent man now, whose brain has not been deformed by superstition, believe in the existence of the Devil?
38804Does any one imagine that the author of Genesis knew anything about the sun-- its size?
38804Does any sensible human being now believe this story?
38804Does anyone know that this God exists; that he ever heard or answered any prayer?
38804Does he give them furloughs or tickets- of- leave?
38804Does he walk or does he fly, or has he invented some machine?
38804Does he want his children misled and corrupted so that he can have the pleasure of damning their souls?
38804Does one of our senses certify to their existence?
38804Does the Christian go there at death, or must he wait for the general resurrection?
38804Does the Old Testament teach the existence of a real, living Devil?
38804Does the word God correspond with any image in the mind?
38804Does the word God stand for what we know or for what we do not know?
38804Does this God exist?
38804During these centuries what have the orthodox churches accomplished, for the good of man?
38804From the interpolations, legends, accretions, mistakes and falsehoods in the New Testament is it possible to free the actual man?
38804From what country did they come?
38804Give up the Devil, and what can you do with the Book of Job?
38804HOW CAN MANKIND BE REFORMED WITHOUT RELIGION?
38804HOW CAN WE LESSEN CRIME?
38804HOW CAN WE REFORM THE WORLD?
38804Has Christianity done good?
38804Has an allegory an appetite, or is a poem a cannibal?
38804Has any disaster been averted-- any blessing obtained?
38804Has he ingenuity enough to frame an excuse for the creation of the Devil?
38804Has it made men nobler, more merciful, nearer honest?
38804Has it taught men to cultivate the earth?
38804Has man obtained any help from heaven?
38804Has the Bible made the people of Georgia kind and merciful?
38804Has this God good sense?
38804Have these beings been seen or touched?
38804Have these cringings and crawlings-- these cruelties and absurdities-- this faith and foolishness pleased the gods?
38804Have they form and shape?
38804Have we a true copy of the Bible that was in the temple at Jerusalem-- the one sent to Vespasian?
38804Have we a true copy of the Septuagint?
38804How can the orthodox Christian explain these things?
38804How can we account for a world where life feeds on life?
38804How can we account for cancers, for microbes, for diphtheria and the thousand diseases that prey on infancy?
38804How can we account for devils?
38804How can we account for the wild beasts that devour human beings, for the fanged serpents whose bite is death?
38804How can we prove that he is merciful, that he cares for the children of men?
38804How can you reform him?
38804How could Joseph know that he had been visited by an angel in a dream?
38804How did he fall?
38804How do Christians prove the existence of their God?
38804How do I know?
38804How do they prove that Christ rose from the dead?
38804How does lie move from place to place?
38804How is Truth to be Found?
38804How is it established that Christ was the son of God?
38804How is it possible to prove that the Holy Ghost was the father of Christ?
38804How is it possible to prove the existence of the Trinity?
38804How long has man been upon the earth?
38804How then can we account for the cyclone, the flood, the drought, the glittering bolt that kills?
38804How then did the Egyptians represent the stars in the position they occupied twelve hundred years before the flood?
38804How was it possible for Mary to know anything about the Holy Ghost?
38804How was it produced?
38804How was that made?
38804How will you account for the lying spirits that Jehovah sent to mislead Ahab?
38804I became acquainted with Epicurus, who taught the religion of usefulness, of temperance, of courage and wisdom, and who said:"Why should I fear death?
38804I do not forget health and harvest, home and love-- but what of pestilence and famine?
38804I have barely alluded to a few-- where is improvement to stop?
38804IF THE DEVIL SHOULD DIE WOULD GOD MAKE ANOTHER?
38804IF this God exists, how do we know that he is- I good?
38804If God created man-- if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic?
38804If God exists, how do we know that he is good, that he cares for us?
38804If God governs the world, why is innocence not a perfect shield?
38804If God governs the world, why should we credit him for the good and not charge him with the evil?
38804If a good and infinitely powerful God governs this world, how can we account for cyclones, earthquakes, pestilence and famine?
38804If all the accounts in the New Testament of casting out devils are false, what part of the Blessed Book is true?
38804If he has no passions why is he spoken of as jealous, revengeful, angry, pleased and loving?
38804If he was tempted, who tempted him?
38804If that be true, can it be said that he was divine?
38804If the Bible is inspired, is it true?
38804If the Serpent did not in fact exist, how do we know that Adam and Eve existed?
38804If the devils were only personifications of evil, what were the angels?
38804If there were no famine, no pestilence, no cyclone, no earthquake, would we think that God is not good?
38804If these adders, these vipers, were coiled in his bosom, was he the son of God?
38804If these calamities did not happen, would we suspect that God cared nothing for human beings?
38804If these were simply personifications of evil, how did they know that Jesus was the Son of God, and how can a personification of evil be tormented?
38804If they are subject to death what becomes of them after death?
38804If this is true I ask why the infant dies?
38804In judging of the rich, two things should be considered: How did they get it, and what are they doing with it?
38804In other words, is the story true, or is it poetry, or metaphor, or mistake, or falsehood?
38804In view of these facts, what, after all, is religion?
38804Is all that is said about God allegory, and poetic, or mythical?
38804Is death a door that leads to light?
38804Is he made better?
38804Is he responsible for all the chiefs, kings, emperors, and queens?
38804Is he responsible for all the wars that have been waged, for all the innocent blood that has been shed?
38804Is it being used for the benefit of mankind?
38804Is it ever to remain as it is now?
38804Is it honest to offer a reward for belief?
38804Is it known that he governs the world; that he interferes in the affairs of men; that he protects the good or punishes the wicked?
38804Is it not marvelous that Mark and Luke and John forgot to mention this most heartless of massacres?
38804Is it not wonderful that Mark, Luke and John never heard of these saints?
38804Is it not wonderful that the enemies of Herod did not charge him with this horror?
38804Is it possible that they creep into the bodies of men and swine?
38804Is it possible to conceive of the destruction of the smallest atom of substance?
38804Is it possible to say that the Devil in Job was only a personification of evil?
38804Is it possible to think of an infinite being?
38804Is man immortal?
38804Is not that exactly what the man of twenty or thirty millions, or of five millions, does to- day?
38804Is not the whole story absurdly idiotic?
38804Is not this unthinkable God a guess, an inference?
38804Is not what we call mind just as natural as what we call body?
38804Is that all that civilization can do?
38804Is that the best that we are ever to know?
38804Is that the last word that civilization has to say?
38804Is the whole account, after all, an ignorant dream?
38804Is the withered palm to be always extended, imploring from the stony heart of respectable charity, alms?
38804Is there a God?
38804Is there a being of infinite intelligence, power and goodness, who governs the world?
38804Is there a sensible man in the world who believes that David collected seven thousand million dollars worth of gold or silver?
38804Is there any allegory, or poetry, or myth in this story?
38804Is there any being anywhere among the stars who pities the suffering children of men?
38804Is there any doubt about the belief of the man who wrote this account?
38804Is there any evidence that gods and devils exist?
38804Is there any intelligence back of Nature?
38804Is there such a thing as a dumb and deaf devil?
38804Is this God responsible for religious persecution, for the Inquisition, for the thumb- screw and rack, and for all the instruments of torture?
38804Is this story true?
38804Is this true?
38804Is this true?
38804Is this true?
38804It is said that when they saw Jesus they cried out:"What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God?
38804It might be asked: Why did God wish to be tempted by the Devil?
38804Make all his poor relations hate him?
38804Make friends?
38804Ministers ask: Is it possible for God to forgive man?
38804Must a poor woman support herself, or her child, or her children, by that kind of labor, and with such pay-- and do we call ourselves civilized?
38804Must every man who sits down to a decent dinner always think of the starving?
38804Must every one sitting by the fireside think of some poor mother, with a child strained to her breast, shivering in the storm?
38804Must the world forever remain the victim of ignorant passion?
38804Must we believe in the star and the wise men?
38804Must we believe that Herod murdered the babes of Bethlehem?
38804Now, can we say that these people were possessed with personifications of evil, and that these personifications of evil were cast out?
38804Now, the questions are, Whether religion was founded on any known fact?
38804Now, what did Christ mean by devils?
38804Now, where did the idea that a Devil exists come from?
38804Now, why should this Devil, in another world, torment sinners, who are his friends, to please God, his enemy?
38804Of what Use are the Orthodox Ministers?
38804Of what science has the church been the friend and champion?
38804Of what use has Christianity been to man?
38804Ought the superior races to thank God that they are not the inferior?
38804Purchase flattery and lies?
38804Shall we thank Nature?
38804Shall we thank the church''s God?
38804Shall we thank the church?
38804Shall we thank the orthodox churches?
38804Shall we thank them for the hell of the future?
38804Shall we thank them for the hell they made here?
38804Shall we thank these gods?
38804Should the inferior man thank God?
38804Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?
38804Should the slave thank God?
38804Should we thank the church?
38804Some may ask,"Are you trying to take our religion away?"
38804Suppose that an infinite God exists, what can we do for him?
38804Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth?
38804Take our own dear, merciful Puritan Fathers?
38804That by our laws children were sold from the arms of mothers, wives sold from their husbands?
38804That the pulpit was in partnership with the auction block-- that the bloodhound''s bark was only an echo from many of the churches?
38804That we were absolutely compelled by law to hand back that human being to the lash and chain?
38804The Testament teaches that the bodies of the dead are to be raised?
38804The next question is: Does the New Testament teach the existence of the Devil?
38804The question naturally arises: How did they enter into the body of the man?
38804The question now is: Does the Old Testament teach the existence of the Devil?
38804The real question is, can we prevent the ignorant, the poor, the vicious, from filling the world with their children?
38804Then came the question: Is there a God?
38804They said to him:"What is that to us?
38804To whom did these saints appear?
38804Under these conditions what can thought be worth?
38804WHAT IS A MIRACLE?
38804WHAT IS RELIGION?
38804WHAT IS RELIGION?
38804WHAT IS SUPERSTITION?
38804WHAT has our religion done?
38804WHOM shall we thank?
38804Was God ambitious to obtain a victory over Satan?
38804Was Jesus tempted?
38804Was he God before he was born?
38804Was he pure?
38804Was he wise and good without his wish or will?
38804Was it his intention to be put to death?
38804Was it honestly acquired?
38804Was the Holy Ghost only the personification of a father?
38804Was the angel who told Joseph that Herod was dead a personification of news?
38804Was the angel who told Joseph who the father of Christ was, a personification?
38804Was the body of Mary the dwelling place of God?
38804Was the devil in this case a personification of evil?
38804Was the water of Bethesda troubled by an angel?
38804Was the water troubled by an angel?
38804Was there goodness, was there wisdom in this?
38804Was this Devil a real being?
38804Was this Devil who tempted David a personification of evil, or was Jehovah a personification of the devilish?
38804Was this Spirit who claimed to be the father of Christ a real being, or was he a personification?
38804Was this devil with whom Michael contended a personification of evil, or a poem, or a myth?
38804Were all the angels described in the Old Testament imaginary shadows-- bodiless personifications?
38804Were beak and claw, tooth and fang, invented and produced by infinite mercy?
38804Were the angels who rolled away the stone and sat clothed in shining garments in the empty sepulcher of Christ a couple of personifications?
38804Were these angels real angels, or were they personifications of good, of comfort?
38804Were they all created at the same time or did they spring from a single pair?
38804Were they shadows, impersonations, allegories?
38804What Good has the Church Accomplished?
38804What are the Orthodox Clergy Doing for the Good of Mankind?
38804What became of them and their star?
38804What became of them?
38804What became of this Bible?
38804What became of this translation known as the Septuagint?
38804What can be more frightful than a world at- war?
38804What can he do with the surplus?
38804What did Christianity do for them?
38804What did Jehovah do on the second day?
38804What did he create them for?
38804What did he mean by this?
38804What did the church do?
38804What do we think of a man, who will not, when he has the power, protect his friends?
38804What do you do with the criminal?
38804What does he do for a livelihood?
38804What does he eat?
38804What does he say?
38804What ecclesiastical council has added to the intellectual wealth of the world?
38804What effect did religion have on slavery?
38804What effect upon Libby, Saulsbury and Andersonville?
38804What evidence have we that Christ was God?
38804What evidence have we that he exists?
38804What evidence is this?
38804What fact did they find?
38804What for?
38804What good has the church done?
38804What harm are they doing?
38804What harm does superstition do?
38804What harm in believing in fables, in legends?
38804What has been the effect of Christianity in Italy, in Spain, in Portugal, in Ireland?
38804What has changed the condition of Great Britain?
38804What has religion done for Hungary or Austria?
38804What has the church done?
38804What has the church done?
38804What has the church done?
38804What has the church done?
38804What has the church done?
38804What has the church done?
38804What has the church done?
38804What has the church done?
38804What has the church done?
38804What has the church done?
38804What has the church done?
38804What has the church done?
38804What has the church done?
38804What has the church done?
38804What has the church done?
38804What have the wordly done?
38804What have the wordly done?
38804What have the worldly done?
38804What have the worldly done?
38804What have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth?
38804What idea of success?
38804What interest had the Devil in defeating himself?
38804What interest had they in the birth of the King of the Jews?
38804What is matter-- substance?
38804What is such a God worth?
38804What is the evidence of John worth?
38804What is the matter with this God?
38804What is the oldest manuscript of the Bible we have in Hebrew?
38804What is the philosophy of the church-- of those who believe in the supernatural?
38804What is the remedy?
38804What is the testimony of one who was asleep worth?
38804What is this power?
38804What kind of saints were they?
38804What motive could then have induced so many to confess?
38804What must have been the spirit of one who said:"I am come to send fire on the earth?
38804What object has he in life?
38804What orthodox church has opened its doors to a persecuted truth?
38804What other reason?
38804What other?
38804What remedy, then, is there?
38804What useful truth did they discover?
38804What valuable fact has been proclaimed from an orthodox pulpit?
38804What was the effect of Christianity in Switzerland, in Holland, in Scotland, in England, in America?
38804What was the result?
38804What were unclean spirits supposed to be?
38804What would we say?
38804What would we think of such a savage?
38804When the church had control, were men made better and happier?
38804When was Christ born?
38804Where are their souls in the meantime?
38804Where did David get this gold?
38804Where did Eve get her language?
38804Where did the Serpent get his?
38804Where did the angel come from?
38804Where did you get the Old Testament?
38804Where do angels live?
38804Where does this Devil live?
38804Where is the evidence that Christ was and is God?
38804Where is the evidence that God is the author of the Song of Solomon?
38804Where is the evidence that a miracle was ever wrought?
38804Where is the evidence that angels and ghosts-- that devils and gods exist?
38804Where is the evidence that any human being has been inspired?
38804Where is the evidence that the book of Ruth was written by an inspired man?
38804Where is the evidence that the places called heaven and hell exist?
38804Where is this heaven?
38804Where one man dies, and some of his atoms pass into the body of another man and he dies, to whom will these atoms belong in the day of resurrection?
38804Where then was this gold, this silver found?
38804Whether any prayer was ever answered?
38804Whether any sacrifice of babe or ox secured the favor of this unseen God?
38804Whether he was the creator of yourself and myself?
38804Whether such a being as God exists?
38804Which of these accounts is true?
38804Who and what is he?
38804Who can answer these questions?
38804Who can imagine an infinite personality?
38804Who has ingenuity enough to explain this?
38804Who is the"man of straw"?
38804Who knows that such a being as the Holy Ghost ever existed?
38804Who knows that they are sacred?
38804Who were these wise men?
38804Who wrote the book?
38804Whom, what, should we thank?
38804Whose fault was it then that they were heathen?
38804Why did Christ a year afterward, tell Judas that he should sit on a throne and judge one of the tribes of Israel?
38804Why did Christ select Judas as one of his disciples, knowing that he would betray him?
38804Why did God create those angels, knowing that they would rebel?
38804Why did he allow millions of his children to be enslaved?
38804Why did he allow millions of mothers to be robbed of their babes?
38804Why did he create him?
38804Why did he create him?
38804Why did he create the criminal, the idiotic, the insane?
38804Why did he create the deformed and helpless?
38804Why did he create the intellectually inferior?
38804Why did he fail to defend himself before Pilate?
38804Why did the God who made them, make enemies?
38804Why does God allow these devils to enjoy themselves at the expense of his ignorant children?
38804Why does he act as he does?
38804Why does he allow them to leave their prison?
38804Why does injustice triumph?
38804Why has he allowed injustice to triumph?
38804Why has he allowed the volcanoes to destroy, the earthquakes to devour, and the tempest to wreck and rend?
38804Why has he permitted the innocent to be imprisoned and the good to be burned?
38804Why has he withheld his rain and starved millions of the children of men?
38804Why have the reformers failed?
38804Why investigate, why discuss, why think when you know?
38804Why is it that many species of serpents have no fangs?
38804Why not punish a man for having the consumption?
38804Why should Christians insist that a God of infinite wisdom, goodness and power governs the world?
38804Why should God demand praise?
38804Why should I fear that which can not exist when I do?"
38804Why should he demand our praise?
38804Why should men and women have children that they can not take care of, children that are burdens and curses?
38804Why should the Bible speak of this God as a man?--of his walking in the garden in the cool of the evening-- of his talking, hearing and smelling?
38804Why should we pray to him?
38804Why should we pursue the truth?
38804Why should we speak of a being without body as of the masculine gender?
38804Why should we thank Nature?
38804Why then, I ask, should we praise him?
38804Why was God so unpopular?
38804Why were the angels so bad?
38804Why were they so wicked?
38804Why would a decent God allow his worshipers to believe in devils, and by reason of that belief to persecute, torture and burn their fellow- men?
38804Why would a merciful God allow his children to be the victims of devils?
38804Why, then, should we say that God is good?
38804Why?
38804Why?
38804Why?
38804Why?
38804Why?
38804Will he ever become civilized enough not to take advantage of the necessities of the poor, of the hunger and rags and want of poverty?
38804Will kneelings give us wealth?
38804Will some Christian scholar have the goodness to harmonize these"inspired"accounts?
38804Will some Christian scholar tell us which to believe?
38804Will the employer ever become civilized enough to know that the law of supply and demand should not absolutely apply in the labor market of the world?
38804Would Calvin have been more bloodthirsty if he had believed in the religion of the South Sea Islanders?
38804Would John Knox have been any worse had he deserted Christ and become a follower of Confucius?
38804Would Torquemada have been worse had he been a follower of Zoroaster?
38804Would a decent man, having the power to prevent it, allow his enemies to torture and burn his friends?
38804Would it be for the best interest of that State to have a few landlords and four or five millions of serfs?
38804Would the Puritan have been worse if he had adopted the religion of the North American Indians?
38804Would the lynchers be more ferocious if they worshiped gods of wood and stone?
38804_ First_.--Did an infinite God create the children of men?
38804_ Second_.--Is an infinite God the governor of this world?
38804and why should we be mentally honest and hospitable?
38804and why should we express our honest thoughts?
38804and why should we investigate and reason?
38804any of the facts that affect the life of man?
38804to build homes?
38804to build ships, to navigate the seas?
38804to conquer pain, or to lengthen life?
38804to weave cloth to cure or prevent disease?
38804why hast thou forsaken me?"
45414''Do you believe that prayer will bring me a yaller Jersey cow?'' 45414 And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye?
45414And so people''s''lahs''after death go to another world and work as in this?
45414And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?
45414And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulcher? 45414 Are men restrained by superstition?
45414But does the universe exist in God? 45414 But here in the first place it may be demanded, who or what is it that has put forth this great claim in its behalf?
45414But pray, why? 45414 But why?"
45414Can Infidelity save the world?
45414Can an engineer drive a locomotive and be a locomotive at the same time? 45414 How does the Freethinker come to know so much more than millions of good and great men who for eighteen centuries have believed in Christianity?"
45414How has the church in every age, when in authority, defended itself? 45414 If I will that he tarry till I come what is that to thee?"
45414Is God in the universe or the universe in God? 45414 Is it necessary that heaven should borrow its light from the glare of hell?
45414Is this dogmatism? 45414 Is this the earliest mention of milk punch?
45414Judges 9: 13:''And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?'' 45414 Many will say unto me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name?
45414O, generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things?
45414Suppose Papias is referring to our present gospel of Mark, what testimony have we to the authenticity of Jesus''words as contained in it? 45414 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth?
45414Then the''lah''lives independently of the body?
45414What are we to have in place of the consolation of the gospel?
45414What has Freethought done for the world?
45414What have Infidels given for education, charity, and science?
45414What will you give us in place of religion?
45414What would be the characteristics of a revelation? 45414 When a Man Dies what Becomes of his Soul?"
45414Where?
45414Whose grave is that?
45414Why do you leave his betel- box, haversack, and''dah''on the grave? 45414 Will he kindly tell us the difference in degree of rationality between the position that there is a personal Devil and that there is a God?
45414Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
45414Yes; and if they had no haversack, and no betel- box, and no''dah''how would they get on? 45414 You may ask, And what of all this?
45414''And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up unto the house of the Lord the third day?''
45414''Did he have anything else?''
45414''Did you get any money?''
45414''How much?''
45414''Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name?
45414''What did you do it for?''
45414''What did you do with that?''
45414''What did you do with the money?''
45414''What kind of a man was he?''
45414( a) What has Christianity done for the world?
45414( d)"What will you give us in place of the Bible?"
45414("Has Man a Soul?"
45414), but where is the scripture fulfilled which informs us whence came his resurrection garments?
454140 Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways and hardened our heart?
454144. Who found out that Joseph had had such a dream?
454145. Who were their mothers?
45414After leaving the body what direction does the soul pursue to reach its final destination?
45414And I answered, Who art thou, Lord?
45414And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
45414And I said, Lord, what wilt thou have me do?
45414And I said, Who art thou, Lord?
45414And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?...
45414And Samuel said, How can I go?
45414And he fell to the earth and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
45414And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was a hungered, he and they that were with him?
45414And he said, Who art thou, Lord?
45414And he sighed deeply in his spirit and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign?
45414And he, trembling and astonished, said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?
45414And how could the polar bear and the humming bird of the tropics pass through the different temperatures to reach the garden of Eden?
45414And how were they answered?
45414And if any one had found it how could we know it?
45414And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
45414And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour; and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your king.... Shall I crucify your king?
45414And shall we, rather than have recourse to so natural a solution, allow of a miraculous violation of the most established laws of nature?
45414And so also with witchcraft, polygamy, slavery, and many other wrongs-- must we have something to take their place?
45414And so it is a blessing for God to give the fruit of the wine- press to his children?
45414And the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him, where art thou?"
45414And the Lord called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
45414And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant, Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man?...
45414And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou?
45414And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the Sabbath day that which is not lawful?
45414And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men- children alive?
45414And they asked him,"What then?
45414And we are to emulate him?
45414And what became of this"corruptible body?"
45414And what has this book, the Bible, revealed?
45414And what have we to oppose to such a cloud of witnesses but the absolute impossibility or miraculous nature of the events which they relate?
45414And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, saying, in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
45414Are abject poverty and misery divine blessings?
45414Are lice, tape- worms, bed- bugs, fleas, flies, grasshoppers, and mosquitoes"blessings in disguise?"
45414Are men restrained by what you call religion?
45414Are not both notions of the same origin and equally absurd?
45414Are not both transmitted to us from the dark ages, from the same book, and must not both stand or fall together?
45414Are not the two propositions antithetical?
45414Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing?
45414Are some unconscious of their degradation?
45414Are the brightness and steel of the knife separate?
45414Are the chances all in favor of the believer and all against the skeptic?
45414Are there not numerous stories in the Bible recounting the robberies and murders perpetrated in the name and by the sanction of God?
45414Are you familiar with chemistry?
45414Art thou Elias?
45414As regards traffic, do not livery stable keepers let their horses as freely on Sundays as on week days?
45414Be not over much wicked, neither be foolish; why shouldst thou die before your time?
45414Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh; is there anything too hard for me?...
45414But are these her children who claim Jesus as very God and yet fly directly in the face of his precepts and practice?
45414But he said unto them,... Have ye not read in the law, how that on the Sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?
45414But how could these celestial creators expect to prevent man from gaining knowledge after they had created him with a brain to think?
45414But how did he get possession of them?
45414But how do we know he said so?
45414But is there any personal observation to prove the existence of an eternal God?
45414But is this correct?
45414But the other answering, rebuked him, saying, Dost thou not fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?
45414But we are led to immediately ask, could they have been made in the first place like them?
45414But where do these members of the state and national legislatures get their power from?
45414But where is the proof that we owe our virtue, liberty, and enlightenment to the Bible?
45414But wherein does the male suffer his share in this divine punishment?
45414But why did God permit him to do these cruel things to Job?
45414But will you say that this something, this self- existent, eternal everything, is God?
45414Can God, through the Bible, make precisely the same revelation to two persons?
45414Can a splendid civilization be established on such a basis?
45414Can you account for molecular action?
45414Can you account for the loves and hatreds of the atoms?
45414Can you explain it?
45414Can you have a thought that is not suggested to you by what you call matter?
45414Can you tell of anything without a material basis?
45414Can you tell what matter is?
45414Can you tell what matter really is?
45414Canst thou, by searching, find out God?
45414Did God create him or did he make himself?
45414Did Satan ever try to do anything as hellish as this?
45414Did he Ascend from Either Place?
45414Did he lie when he took Jesus up into an exceeding high mountain, etc., and saith unto him,"All these will I give thee,"etc.?
45414Did not Paul, Peter, Luther, Wesley-- did they not all reject the religion of their mothers?
45414Did not millions of Christians pray for the restoration of President Garfield?
45414Did the Serpent reason like a man?
45414Did the Serpent talk?
45414Did the curse upon woman extend to the females of animals bearing offspring?
45414Did the designer intend that parasites should infest the human body?
45414Did the fish all swim up to the shore and range themselves in a row to be named?
45414Did the waters lie on the mountain tops, and refuse to run down to the valleys, until they were commanded?
45414Divorced from matter, where is life?
45414Do not druggists sell as freely what they possess, whether cigars or whisky, hairbrushes or perfumery?
45414Do not hotels ply their business as freely, always at the tobacco stand and often at the bar?
45414Do not newsboys run as loose with their shouts of"Herald and Gazette?"
45414Do not ye judge them that are within?
45414Do the biblical critics all harmonize?
45414Do the gods forget things as we poor mortals do?
45414Do the natural affairs of this world show a designer?
45414Do they have any except that which is delegated to them by the people?
45414Do they tell him that his conscience is free and the Bible is an open book for him to read and interpret as he can?
45414Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world?
45414Do you know what force is?
45414Do you understand how this dust and these seeds and that light and this moisture produced that bud and that flower and that perfume?
45414Do you understand that any better than you do a dream?
45414Do you understand that any better than you do the production of thought?
45414Do you understand that any better than you do the thoughts of love that you see in the eyes of the one you adore?
45414Do you understand that?
45414Does God doubt?
45414Does he investigate, compare, and test matters by experiment?
45414Does he need a smaller hell to taper off on, before he can give up hell altogether?
45414Does he not have a larger kingdom, a larger following than God?
45414Does he want the itch or measles in place of the small pox?
45414Does life belong to what we call matter, or is it an independent principle infused into matter at some suitable epoch?
45414Does not preaching consist in asking people to reject the religion of their mothers and to come over to the preacher''s religion?
45414Does not that proposition tacitly concede that it is irrational to say there is a God?
45414Does the New Testament revelation stand this test?
45414Does the existence of such people conclusively prove the existence of a good designer?
45414Does the soul develop as the body develops?
45414Does the soul retain its sex?
45414Doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
45414For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
45414For why should he seek to make any progress?
45414Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me; lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord?
45414Had they no rights that a just God was bound to respect?
45414Has he imagination?
45414Has he not as much power now as he had then?
45414Has he not the revealed will of God-- a complete guide to duty here and to destiny hereafter?
45414Has not Christianity ever been a missionary religion?
45414Has not the church always prohibited knowledge?
45414Has she not stood in the way of every great reform?
45414Has the plan of the designer failed?
45414Has the punishment inflicted upon the Devil lessened his power?
45414Has the soul the physical organs indispensible to mental action and consciousness?
45414Hast not thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side?
45414Hast thou never heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, never is weary?
45414Hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom?
45414Have the Bible expounders always seen eye to eye?
45414Have the curses which God has pronounced on the world made it better?
45414Have we advanced one step toward explaining how the Absolute can be the source of the Relative, or how the Infinite can give rise to the Finite?"
45414Have you the slightest conception?
45414Having gratuitously thrown in this gem, we proceed to answer the question,"Where the Devil, did he come from?"
45414Having thus successfully responded to the interrogatory, What is the soul?
45414He said,"My brethren, we will first inquire where the Devil he was walking to?
45414Hear now, O house of Israel; is not my way equal?
45414His own garments had been taken by the soldiery when he died, that the scripture might be fulfilled(?
45414How are we to account for this?
45414How can the Infinite become that which it was not from the first?
45414How could a fat minister with a fat salary, look such a ghost as that in the face?
45414How could any one but Mary say who the father of the child was?
45414How could he speak without having the vocal organs necessary to human speech?
45414How could he walk upon feet thus crippled?
45414How could he walk?
45414How could he with such a small head and not even a spoonful of brains, know so much more than Adam and Eve?
45414How could the writer know where he had gone, if he had once passed away from his sight?
45414How could these plain people have misunderstood him upon a subject with so little chance for misapprehension?
45414How could they cut down forest and cultivate rice for food if they had no''dah''?"
45414How could this be, when"the eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good?"
45414How could we know that some one had learned it even if it were true?
45414How did Paul or any other person know what they thought, if there were no written statements by them?
45414How do we know there is a kind Providence watching over this world?
45414How does that strike you, Messrs. Bible Prohibitionists?
45414How does this come about?
45414How does this come to pass if pain was ordained to work good?
45414How is it that there is nothing in the Old Testament on this subject?
45414How many were there present, and were there still more of them elsewhere?
45414How much more things that pertain to this life?
45414How then did it come about if it was not revealed to man, that we keep in a special manner One Day in Seven?
45414How, then, according to divines, does it attain any potentiality?
45414If God made him then is he not responsible for all that old Nick does?
45414If God so clothe the grass of the field... shall he not much more clothe you?...
45414If I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do our sons cast them out?
45414If Satan had been going up and down the country would he not of necessity have met God again and again?
45414If a living person was placed in an air- tight jar, and the jar sealed hermetically, at death how would the soul make its exit?
45414If he has and is the God of all worlds, why does he not now give back to the widow her son?
45414If he is as terribly demoniacal as orthodox theology describes him,"why in''l do n''t God kill the Devil?"
45414If he were able to effect his purposes why should he construct a vessel with which to visit far off lands?
45414If man possessed the power to speak into existence a steamship, would he contrive, plan and use means to construct it?
45414If not, how can a God manipulate an infinite universe and be infinite''Himself?''
45414If not, of what use would the soul be?
45414If so, how can it be irrational to deny an irrational proposition or absurdity?
45414If the book and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and the brain do not agree?
45414If the soul is located in all parts of the body what becomes of that part of the soul contained in an amputated part of a living body?
45414If the soul leaves the body at death, where does it sojourn while waiting for the resurrection morn?
45414In another place he says,"Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord?"
45414In fact even if it were true, how could any one have ever found it out?
45414In reply I said,"Do you see that man walking on the other side of the street?"
45414In the light of modern theology is not the Devil almost always successful?
45414In this paper an attempt is made to answer two very important questions, namely: What is, and where is the soul?
45414In what part of the body is the soul located?
45414Is This Life the"Be- all and End- all?"
45414Is all this no loss?
45414Is ignorance a gracious boon in mercy sent?
45414Is it legitimate to accept its evidence when we please and reject it when we please?''
45414Is it no loss to hold back when truth oversteps the line of orthodoxy, and when there ought to be free discussion, to shrink before we know not what?
45414Is it not natural that the sincere Christian, having the power, should suppress such opinions?
45414Is it not plain that each of them professes to trace the lineal descent of one and the same man, Joseph?
45414Is it not strange that some one in the Old Testament did not stand by an open grave of father or mother and say,"We shall meet again"?
45414Is it not true that he who invented the plow was a greater man than Moses?
45414Is it nothing to feel that the human beings that surround us are children of the devil and heirs of hell?
45414Is it nothing to lose time and talents, to waste our labor on that which is not bread, and our money upon that which profiteth not?
45414Is it possible for you to conceive of the creation of a single atom?
45414Is it possible to imagine the annihilation of a single atom?
45414Is it the doctrine of the Bible?
45414Is it true that those who believe in the Bible are willing to have it tested by reason, justice, or humanity?
45414Is mind an entity or result?
45414Is mind degraded by this recognition of its dependence[ on matter]?
45414Is not brightness the quality attaching to a certain modification of existence-- steel?
45414Is not intelligence a quality attaching to a certain modification of existence-- man?
45414Is not the end of Jesus''career on earth important, in order to understand his life and character?
45414Is the Devil the father of lies?
45414Is the soul an entity or nonentity?
45414Is the soul an organization independent of the body?
45414Is the soul of a negro of the same color as the soul of a caucasian?
45414Is the soul of an idiot as well developed as the soul of an intelligent person?
45414Is the soul of an infant of the same size and weight as the soul of an adult?
45414Is the soul sensible or insensible to pain?
45414Is there a conscious intelligence at work guiding all the affairs of this world?
45414Is there a display of intelligence and benevolent design in creating man with strength and wisdom to slaughter his prey at will?
45414Is there a supreme intelligence which causes monstrosities, sends epidemics, horrid diseases, plants parasites upon the human body?
45414Is there any place in the record, accounts of the Devil''s stealing, robbing, and murdering?
45414Is there not something in matter that forever eludes you?
45414Is there nothing to be thrown into the opposite scale?
45414Is there, let me ask, anything like agreement among the creeds?
45414Is, then, the Bible a different book to every human being who reads it?
45414Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee?
45414Know ye not that we shall judge angels?
45414Let us ask, is the balance of profit and loss fairly struck?
45414Must not that be false which requires for its support so much imposture, so much barbarity?
45414Not always; but even suppose it were true, did not Jesus reject the religion of his mother?
45414Nothing?
45414Now if the son of God may pray and receive no answer, what can the common rank and file sinner expect?
45414Now the last hour has arrived-- will he die in his obstinacy, when a little hypocrisy would save him from so much agony?
45414Now what does license mean with such people?
45414Of course if he stood up, he could not stand on any one else''s feet than his own, but did he climb out of the sepulcher and go on his way rejoicing?
45414Of what color is the soul?
45414Of what is the soul composed?
45414Of what shape is the soul?
45414On the contrary, would it not come instantly into existence as a complete, perfect whole?
45414Or if they must have some protection for their modesty why were not fig- leaf aprons quite sufficient for that climate?
45414Or is it moral uprightness instead of wisdom that they lack?
45414Or why after seeing he had made him a little too wise, and a trifle too devilish he did not kill him?
45414Or why, if it were necessary to have him, he was not placed under some restraint?
45414Or, is it not rather the loss of all that a free and rational being most values?
45414Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good?
45414Paul''s teachings were adverse to the marital relations:"Art thou loosed from a wife?
45414Por.--Why did n''t you call your adversary a fool?
45414Por.--Why, man, what''s the matter?
45414Quite naturally we ask in the"beginning"of what?
45414Second Samuel 19: 22:"David said, What have we to do with you, ye sons of Jeremiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me?"
45414Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
45414Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?
45414Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?
45414Shall we infer therefrom that ignorance is bliss?
45414Sinner.--Does he always do just what ought to be done?
45414Sinner.--Does he at all times know just what ought to be done?
45414Sinner.--Is God infinite in his wisdom?
45414Sinner.--Why do you pray to him?
45414Some questions to be answered by the man who pounds the Bible and claims to understand the Greek scriptures: 1. Who were the sons of God?
45414Standing up in their graves, dressed in their funeral wardrobe?
45414Suppose we expose the delusion of eternal torments, what does man want in its place?
45414That we are unhappy.--Why should we be more unhappy than the Christian?
45414The magicians turned a river of blood into blood, and killed dead fish, eh?
45414The question is immediately raised:"Were the lice made for man, or man for the lice?"
45414The writer of the book of Kings gives us a"chariot of fire"and"a whirlwind"as the modus operandi of translating Elijah from one world to the other(?
45414The''dogmatism of the Infidel''we hear so much about?
45414Then Jesus, standing alone with the woman, asks,"Woman where are those thine accusers?
45414Then Satan answered the Lord and said, Doth Job fear God for naught?
45414Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing: Is it lawful on the Sabbath days to do good or to do evil?
45414Then where is the benevolence of design in creating the animals to be thus slaughtered?
45414Then where is your universe?
45414Therefore, take no thought, saying, What shall we eat?
45414These truly are open and most gross violations of the law, but against them what murmur has been heard taking the form of prosecution?
45414To Eve?
45414Unless it were corporeal, how could it be effected by the body, be able to suffer, or be nourished within the body?
45414Very well; from what did he create it?
45414WHAT IS CIVILIZATION?
45414Was he not cursed to go on his belly for all time to come?
45414Was he not there right on the spot?
45414Was it French?
45414Was it because the divinely inspired men did not know?
45414Was it duly reported and verified then and there?
45414Was it necessary for the Lord after taking out the rib to go off a distance by himself that he might finish the work undisturbed?
45414Was it not showing respect to him?
45414Was it the Bible that elevated and made them and made their unsurpassed poets, painters, sculptors, and orators?
45414Was not Abraham our father justified by works?...
45414Was not God, the omnipresent, everywhere on earth?
45414Was not Rahab, the harlot, justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had them sent out another way?
45414Was there any particular"design"in that?
45414We should have said to him''What do you propose to give us in place of this angel?
45414Weary, working, burdened one, Wherefore toil you so?
45414Were any of these problems ever solved?
45414Were the patriarchs who took a number of women as wives without a marriage ceremony free- lovers?
45414Were they any relation to the people of Nod?
45414What are the glad tidings?
45414What are the manifestations of spiritual feeling compared with the result of logical reasoning?"
45414What corresponding benefit has resulted from these long and zealous discussions?
45414What could be clearer than this, that the framers of the Constitution intended to exclude all religious questions from the charter of liberty?
45414What did the Bible accomplish for the people of Syria, and Asia Minor, who were first blessed with it?
45414What did they think of the event?
45414What does any one want in place of infant damnation?
45414What first principles have been established by them?
45414What follows then?
45414What general conclusions have been reached?
45414What higher or stronger incentive to right action can be offered?
45414What information does it give man of the nature of this earth, of geology, geography, or of the millions of stars seen and unseen; of agriculture?
45414What is life?
45414What is this but the rhetoric of an enthusiast?
45414What is, and Where is the Soul?
45414What language did he speak?
45414What length of time does it require for the soul to reach its final destination?
45414What mattered it what his opinion of Job might be?
45414What prudent farmer would intentionally sow wheat on land certain to produce a bad crop?
45414What reply, for instance, can reason give to any appeal to it regarding the doctrine of the trinity or of the incarnation?
45414What shall be done with the record?
45414What use can it be to him?"
45414What was the cause of death?
45414What were their occupations?
45414What were they doing all this time?
45414What would the world be without the knowledge of good and evil?
45414When and where are the souls made, or did they always exist?
45414When asked whether he did acknowledge the power of the gods,"Aye,"he answered,"but where are they painted who were drowned after their vows?"
45414When did he tell a deliberate falsehood?
45414When did it ever occur to a sane mind that bed- bugs and mosquitoes and fleas were created with a benevolent design?
45414When does the soul enter the body, before or after birth?
45414When does the soul leave the body, at death or at the resurrection day?
45414When he halted I turned to my questioner and asked,"Where has Mr. Johnson''s gait gone since he stopped walking?"
45414When he has made up his mind, and seeks to enter a church which is full of liberty, what do the officers of the church say to him?
45414When was Jesus Born?
45414When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand?
45414When, where, how, and by whom was this transformation of a hideous serpent into a prince- like man, accomplished?
45414Where and at what distance from the earth is the soul land located?
45414Where and when did the five hundred see the risen Jesus?
45414Where are they now?
45414Where are those who have risen in him gloriously complete?
45414Where did the Devil come from?
45414Where did they come from?
45414Where does the soul come from?
45414Where is he now?
45414Where is the benevolence in peopling the earth with millions of human beings who live lives of poverty and misery?
45414Where is the design in creating such monstrosities as we see among animals?
45414Where is the design in the tornado that sends a fleet with its precious freight of humanity beneath the remorseless waves?
45414Where is the design in the volcano that belches forth its fiery billows and buries in ruins a Pompeii and a Herculaneum?
45414Where is the evidence of benevolent design in earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, drouth, famine, and ten thousand ills which flesh is heir to?
45414Where is the evidence of design in the horrid monsters which once filled the oceans?
45414Where is the moral purpose?
45414Where shall we find such a number of circumstances agreeing to the corroboration of one fact?
45414Where the Devil did he come from?
45414Where will this end?
45414Where, I would like to know, can you find more disagreement than in the Christian church?
45414Wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
45414Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
45414Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper?
45414Wherefore?
45414Wherein is the evidence of design?
45414Whereupon, then, rests the assertion, that if the believer does not gain, he can not lose?
45414Which is the most rational and hope inspiring belief?
45414Which will you accept?"
45414Whither shall I flee from thy presence?
45414Who can say, I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin?
45414Who discovered the fact?
45414Who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?
45414Who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?
45414Who is to dictate to nature what phenomena, or what qualities inhere in what substances; what effects may result from what causes?
45414Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward; and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
45414Who questions the right?
45414Who taught him the use of language?
45414Who told him to get up?
45414Who was Apollo, and what relation did his worship bear to reverencing"the day of the sun?"
45414Who was it that"intended to give moral, and not scientific instruction?"
45414Who was the reporter at that early date?
45414Who were the five hundred?
45414Whom does the crowd await?
45414Why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?...
45414Why did he fail to speak?
45414Why did he form man to place him in the garden to be tempted and ruined when it was in the Creator''s power to prevent his fall?
45414Why did he go dumbly to his death, leaving the world to misery and to doubt?
45414Why did he not create him so good and so strong that it would be impossible for him to do wrong?
45414Why did he not cry, You shall not persecute in my name; you shall not burn and torment those who differ from you in creed?
45414Why did he not explain the doctrine of the trinity?
45414Why did he not plainly say, I am the Son of God?
45414Why did he not save them from being lost?
45414Why did he not say something positive, definite, and satisfactory about another world?
45414Why did he not tell his disciples, and through them the world, that man should not persecute, for opinion''s sake, his fellow man?
45414Why did he not tell the manner of baptism that was pleasing to him?
45414Why did he not turn the tear- stained hope of heaven to the glad knowledge of another life?
45414Why did not the Creator make all of his creatures perfect?
45414Why did not the author of the red man( Adam) tell him that he was going to have a severe temptation?--that he was soon to meet his great adversary?
45414Why did the Creator inflict such a hellish punishment upon Adam and Eve, and let the Serpent off so lightly?
45414Why died not I from the womb?
45414Why do so many misunderstandings arise upon this matter?
45414Why do some animals, like the dugong, have tusks that never cut through the gums?
45414Why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?"
45414Why do ye not rather take wrong?
45414Why does he withhold light from the blind, and why does one who had the power miraculously to feed thousands allow millions to die for want of food?
45414Why has the guinea pig teeth that are shed before it is born?
45414Why is it that he who made all the constellations did not put in his heaven the star of hope?
45414Why is it that religion has always condemned learning, discoveries, inventions, reforms, etc.?
45414Why should God, a being of infinite tenderness, leave the question of immortality in doubt?
45414Why should a God of infinite wisdom create people who would gladly murder their creator?
45414Why should an infinitely good being create an infinitely bad being?
45414Why should he fortify a heathen in his crimes?
45414Why should his opinion be asked?
45414Why should not all these writers have possessed the same information that Luke pretends to have?
45414Why should the fact that they had become more like the gods be a sufficient reason for preventing them from sharing in the immortal life?
45414Why should we not be more happy?
45414Why was he not created so that God himself could govern him?
45414Why was knowledge and wisdom forbidden to man when these above all things else he needed most?
45414Why was the Serpent( the Devil) made so much stronger and wiser than man?
45414Why were these ten innocent persons murdered?
45414Why, if this world is created and controlled by infinite wisdom and benevolence, are not all things beautiful?
45414Why?
45414Why?
45414Will I eat of the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
45414Will he not pray for mercy?
45414Will he not recant?
45414Will not, therefore, the most sincere, earnest, and devoted Christians, in an age of unquestioning faith, be the most active and zealous persecutors?
45414Will they contend that children are inherently an evil?
45414Wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar?
45414Yes, but you admit by this statement that you know now positively nothing of a conscious intelligence ruling the universe, why not say so?
45414Yes; but do not Christians hurt our feelings?
45414an existence or a condition?
45414and how long could they survive if they were even there, and how could they find their way back to their former habitats?
45414and in thy name cast out devils?
45414and in thy name done many wonderful works?
45414and in thy name done many wonderful works?
45414and one of them shall not fall to the ground without your Father?
45414and secondly, who the Devil he wanted to devour?
45414and thirdly, what the Devil he was roaring about?"
45414and will not the zeal to destroy them be in proportion to the love of truth and regard for the welfare of humanity?
45414hath no man condemned thee?
45414or what shall we drink?
45414or wherewithal shall we be clothed?...
45414so it appears that God, the''original prohibitionist,''according to the Woman''s Christian Temperance Union drinks wine, else how could it cheer him?
45414that if necessary he should resort to coercive measures?
45414to save life or to destroy it?
45414why weepest thou?"
43550Have you never read that holy and inspired book, the Koran? 43550 How long did Jehoahaz reign?
43550Select for friend? 43550 Well, John, as you have been studying figures several years, can you now tell us how many are twice two?"
43550What in the name of God, then, do you keep?
43550What shall we believe and do in order to be saved?
43550--"How did you manage to get here, then?"
43550--"What makes you entertain that supposition?"
435501), inasmuch as he turned out to be a murderer?
4355010. Who ever knew a person to abandon a false religion by repentance?
4355011 it is asked,"Who is like unto Jehovah among the Gods?"
4355011. Who ever knew a Roman Catholic to become a Protestant, or a Protestant a Catholic, by repentance?
43550114. Who hardened Pharaoh''s heart?
43550117. Who moved David to number Israel?
43550128. Who was the father of Salah?
4355013), which is in Africa, how did it manage to cross the Red Sea, so as to get into Eden, which is in Asia?
43550141. Who killed the Amalekites?
4355015), when there was no"whosoever"in existence but his father and mother?
4355015. Who that possesses any sense of justice would want to swim through blood to get to the heavenly mansion?
4355016), as David says he is present everywhere, even in hell?
43550164. Who told Jesus the centurion''s servant was sick?
4355017), when he himself had killed the whole human race excepting his father and mother?
4355017), when there was nobody to inhabit it?
43550174. Who asked seats in the kingdom for Zebedee''s children?
43550179. Who answered Christ''s question in the parable of the vineyard?
43550194. Who bore Christ''s cross?
43550198. Who came to Christ''s sepulcher?
435502);"Who is a rock save our God?"
43550202. Who looked into the sepulcher?
43550226. Who was the father of Joseph?
43550227. Who purchased the potter''s field?
435503. Who was this"us?"
4355030), then where did he dwell before the heavens were made?
4355034. Who or what conducted the ark to Ararat when the waters subsided?
4355049. Who can know whether the golden rule is right or wrong?
4355075. Who can tell if baptism is an obligatory ordinance?
435508), we beg leave to ask, what kind of a thing is a"walking voice"?
43550After being interrogated as to their conduct and practical lives, the next question will be,"Where were you born?"
43550Again: why is a mother''s loving, watchful care ever exercised for the protection and welfare of her child?
43550And as sex also implies offspring, we desire to ask, how many children have they had?
43550And can it be right and laudable to thus represent or Image the works of the Creator, and wrong to image the Creator himself?
43550And did he not set a bad example by showing partiality, as there is no reason assigned for preferring Abel''s offering?
43550And have they ever been divorced?
43550And how could"whosoever"know what the mark meant?
43550And how has this promise been fulfilled?
43550And if such a talented and logical mind could find no reason, consistency, or moral principle in the dogmas of orthodoxy, we may readily ask, Who can?
43550And is it not surprising that Christians have never noticed this most important admission?
43550And pray how many cities could exist in a hot and arid desert, where there was not a drop of water that a human being could drink?
43550And then how is it possible for us to know when we are using his name in vain, and when we are not?
43550And then what about those millions of the inhabitants of the globe who never had our Bible?
43550And to whom did he call them?
43550And what does all this prove?
43550And what is the moral condition of five- sixths of the human family now, who never had our Bible?
43550And what is the moral, or lesson, taught by these things?
43550And what is the result?
43550And what is the solemn lesson taught by it?
43550And what would have been the result if he had not been found?
43550And where was the law during all that time?
43550And where was the"all scripture given by inspiration of God"at the end of this revolutionary and demolishing clerical crusade?
43550And whether they are all boys?
43550And who was this"whosoever,"when he himself had killed off the whole human race, excepting his father and mother?
43550And why did he have the moon stopped at midday, when it could not be seen, and was, perhaps, on the opposite side of the globe?
43550And why not?
43550And why?
43550And would it not be unjust to punish Adam and Eve for doing what he himself had implanted in them the desire to do?
43550And would not this virtually make heaven a lunatic asylum, and consequently a very unsuitable and disagreeable place to live in?
43550And, if he came down, who did he leave in his place?
43550And, if he did know it, would it not make him accountable for the murder?
43550Are children punished for the sins of their parents?
43550Are riches desirable?
43550Are such converts worth ten thousand or twenty thousand dollars apiece?
43550Are the actions of men ever to be judged according to the Bible?
43550Are they both on the same planet?
43550Are they destitute of moral perception?
43550As he approaches the door, his father says to him,"John, where have you been to- day?"
43550At what hour was Christ crucified?
43550Ay, who dare believe it, if he would escape the charge of blasphemy?
43550Brother Arminian, is this true Christian doctrine?
43550Brother Arminian, what do you think of this view of the matter?
43550Brother Jew, can you show us the road to salvation, or tell us what to do and believe in order to be saved?
43550Brother Mahomedan, will you please to step forward, and help us solve this difficult problem?
43550Brother Methodist, perhaps you can do something towards settling this vexed and puzzling question,"What must we do and believe in order to be saved?"
43550Brother Persian, the question is, Where is"the scripture given by inspiration of God"?
43550Brothers of the religion of Iran, can you tell us what to do and believe in order to be saved?
43550But could a person be more damned than to believe in such a religion?
43550But how could this"whosoever"know what the mark meant?
43550But is it true that the whole human race was in that state at that period?
43550But who can not see it was not necessary for him to do either to save his reputation and his life, both of which it appears were at stake?
43550But who is to decide when it is properly understood?
43550But why not worship other Gods( that is, beings supposed to represent or resemble God)?
43550But, in a broader sense, there are two hundred answers to the question, Where are we to find"the only scriptures given by inspiration of God"?
43550CHAPTER LII.--WHAT SHALL WE BELIEVE AND DO TO BE SAVED?
43550CHAPTER LXV.--WHAT SHALL WE SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BIBLE?
43550CHAPTER XL.--CAN GOD BE SUBJECT TO ANGER?
43550Can God always be found?
43550Can God be tempted?
43550Can a man work miracles without divine aid?
43550Can a righteous man be rich, or a rich man be saved?
43550Can a woman, according to scripture, ever speak on religious matters?
43550Can any man ascend to heaven?
43550Can any man hear God''s voice?
43550Can any serious evil result from such an act, either to God or his worshipers?
43550Can as much as this be said of the Christian religion?
43550Can it be sustained by either the principles of natural or moral science, or by the facts of history comprised in man''s practical life?
43550Can such a nation be considered to be civilized?
43550Can we live without sinning?
43550Can we suppose he would be very sanguine about winning the gold medal?
43550Can we suppose the Lord would fancy such sights?
43550Can we suppose they ever knew of such a case?
43550Can you aid me?"
43550Can you tell us"what to do and believe in order to be saved"?
43550Christianity, where is thy blush?
43550Could a woman sustain the practical relation of wife to a man she only saw as husband once in three years?
43550Could man bear testimony for Christ?
43550Could superstition descend lower than this?
43550Did Abraham know where he was going?
43550Did Christ bear witness of himself?
43550Did Christ come on a mission of peace?
43550Did Christ have a dwelling- place?
43550Did David sin more than once?
43550Did Eve see before she ate the forbidden fruit?
43550Did God create beings in his own image, and then treat them as if he wished to tantalize them and render them unhappy?
43550Did God give Abraham land?
43550Did John see a book?
43550Did Moses fear Pharaoh?
43550Did Peter go into the sepulcher?
43550Did any of the women enter the sepulcher?
43550Did he not know that"a bad promise is better broken than kept?"
43550Did he pray loud enough to be heard through the sides of the whale?
43550Did not God know that Cain would become a murderer?
43550Did not Jehova know when he accepted Abel''s offering and rejected Cain''s, that he was sowing the seeds of discord that would lead to murder?
43550Did the men at Paul''s conversion hear a voice?
43550Did they see what the Lord did in Egypt?
43550Did those who visited the tomb relate the case to any one?
43550Do not these facts prove that many remnants of the ancient idolatrous religions are still retained in Christian theology?
43550Do you indorse any of the answers already obtained, or agree with any of the churches which have been interrogated upon this subject, or not?
43550Do you mean to say that we have to swim through blood to get to''the house of many mansions''?
43550Do you reply,"They must be considered figurative"?
43550Does God believe in human sacrifices?
43550Does God dwell in light?
43550Does God dwell in temples?
43550Does God ever repent?
43550Does God ever tire?
43550Does God over hate?
43550Does a Hindoo or Mahomedan ever embrace Christianity by repenting?
43550Does he hold the true doctrine, or not?
43550Does it float down the stream with the physical debris?
43550Does it not imply that God was both a butcher and a tanner?
43550Does it occupy more than one planet?
43550Does not this fact suggest a scientific lesson?
43550Does one case prove it to be wrong, and the other right?
43550Does the Bible allow adultery?
43550Does the Bible teach a future life?
43550Does the Bible teach a future resurrection?
43550Does the Lord believe in animal sacrifices of any kind?
43550Does the Lord believe in burnt offerings?
43550Does the Lord believe in riches?
43550Does the Lord ever tempt man?
43550Does wickedness shorten a man''s life?
43550Faith in his own humanity?
43550From what place did Christ ascend?
43550Had Michal any children?
43550Had not Cain just ground for believing that his offering of herbs would be accepted, inasmuch as Jehovah had ordered Adam to use herbs for food?
43550Has any man seen God?
43550Have you ever seen"the scriptures given by inspiration of God"?
43550Hence the important query arises, When were the churches preaching Bible doctrine,_ then or now?_ Who can tell?
43550Hence the important query arises, When were the churches preaching Bible doctrine,_ then or now?_ Who can tell?
43550His faith in what?
43550How about the Greek Christian''s answer to the question?
43550How came Peter and Andrew to follow Jesus?
43550How came the writer to see his tongue?
43550How can it be a moral duty to pray, there being no certainty of an answer?
43550How can that be if Omri reigned twelve years?
43550How can we tell?
43550How could Jonah remain three days in the whale''s stomach without being digested, as fish have astonishing digestive powers?
43550How could fig- leaves be sewed together for clothing before needles were invented?
43550How could they be kept thus for a whole year without breeding pestilence and death?
43550How did Asa and Baasha stand toward each other?
43550How did Christ''s disciples feel when they met him?
43550How did Eve see the tree as stated in Genesis("she saw the tree") before she ate the fruit which caused her eyes to be opened?
43550How did Judas die?
43550How did the writer know that he or they talked in this manner, as he could not have been present in person to hear it?
43550How does it do it?
43550How great was the multitude which Jesus fed with seven loaves and a few fishes?
43550How is his time occupied?
43550How is it to be met and surmounted?
43550How large is his body?
43550How long aid Baasha reign?
43550How long can a man continue to fight after he is dead and buried, as is illustrated in the case of Baasha, King of Israel?
43550How long did Elah reign?
43550How long did Jehu reign over Israel?
43550How long had he lived in heaven with him so as to become familiar with his countenance?
43550How long was Israel in Egypt?
43550How long was it after Christ was transfigured that he took James and John up into the mountain?
43550How long were the two pillars of Solomon''s porch?
43550How long will it take, at such rates, to effect the entire conversion of the world?
43550How many Gods are there?
43550How many baths were contained in the brazen sea?
43550How many blind men did Jesus restore near Jericho?
43550How many did Jashobeam kill?
43550How many died of the plague?
43550How many fighting men in Israel?
43550How many fighting men in Judah?
43550How many horsemen did David capture?
43550How many mothers had Abijah?
43550How many of these stories should we credit?
43550How many stalls for horses had Solomon?
43550How many were there of Jacob''s family?
43550How many years of famine was David to suffer?
43550How much enmity exists between the Hindoo juggler and the serpent that twines around his arm and neck, and crawls through his bosom?
43550How much oil did Solomon give Hiram?
43550How much power did Jesus say faith as big as a grain of mustard- seed can impart?
43550How much would he learn from them about the proper road to travel to reach the city?
43550How often did Christ show himself to the disciples?
43550How old was Abraham when he left Haran?
43550How old was Ahaz when he began to reign?
43550How was Christ dressed for the crucifixion?
43550How was this discovered?
43550How were they led?
43550How will it be obtained?
43550How, then, could they all endure the change of being removed to the vicinity of Mount Ararat?
43550How, then, was it possible to know which were"the scriptures given by inspiration of God"?
43550If Cain did find a wife in the land of Nod, is it not evidence that some ribs had been converted into women before Adam''s time?
43550If God is an organized personality, what should we assume to be his form, size, shape, and color?
43550If man was made in the image of God, why was he cursed for eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge in order to be like God?
43550If not, how can he be present in other worlds?
43550If not, what could have been the objection?
43550If not, why do Christians cite such cases?
43550If serpents and asses could talk in the days of Moses, why not now?
43550If so, what is it?
43550If so, where is a nation now existing that can not, with equal propriety, be said to be civilized?
43550If so, where will it stop?
43550If the Babelites had succeeded in climbing into heaven, what of it?
43550If we are compelled to determine the character of some actions without going to the Bible, why not that of all other moral actions and duties?
43550If"God''s own people"could get along without him, why can not men and women of this intelligent age?
43550In the midst of this rejection, expulsion, and expurgation of Bibles and Bible- books, where can we find"the scripture given by inspiration of God"?
43550In the name of justice and mercy, what sin had the beasts committed that they had to be punished?
43550In what part of the universe are those horses kept?
43550Is God a merciful being?
43550Is God a respecter of persons?
43550Is God in favor of lying and deception?
43550Is God in favor of war?
43550Is God omnipotent?
43550Is God omnipresent?
43550Is God omniscient?
43550Is God the author of evil?
43550Is God unchangeable?
43550Is God''s anger perpetual?
43550Is a pious life a happy life?
43550Is all scripture given by inspiration of God?
43550Is anger commended?
43550Is any thing good?
43550Is circumcision right?
43550Is divorce right or wrong according to the Bible?
43550Is fornication sinful?
43550Is hatred right?
43550Is image- making right?
43550Is it Bible doctrine, or not?
43550Is it correct?
43550Is it desirable to be tempted?
43550Is it ever right to marry a sister?
43550Is it good to eat flesh?
43550Is it not a fact that repentance usually causes a person to cling more tenaciously to the errors and superstitions in which he was educated?
43550Is it not probable they needed it more than the priests did?
43550Is it right to eat all kinds of animals?
43550Is it right to judge?
43550Is it right to kill?
43550Is it right to lie on any occasion?
43550Is it right to marry a brother''s widow?
43550Is it right to observe the sabbath?
43550Is it right to steal and rob?
43550Is it right to swear?
43550Is it right?
43550Is man justified by works?
43550Is man saved by faith?
43550Is man to be rewarded in this life?
43550Is man''s life threescore years and ten?
43550Is public prayer right?
43550Is slavery right?
43550Is that possible?
43550Is the law of Moses superseded?
43550Is the obedience of servants a duty?
43550Is the spirit of God for peace?
43550Is there any remedy for a fool?
43550Is war and fighting right?
43550Is wisdom desirable?
43550It may be asked here, Why is it, then, that both religion and morality prosper in most countries where the Bible has been introduced?
43550James, can you tell us how many are twice two?"
43550Jealous of what?
43550Jesus refers to this natural Bible, or revelation, again when he say''s,"Know ye not of yourselves what is right?"
43550Let us assume that the numerous cases of death- bed repentance published in religious tracts are all true; and what would it prove?
43550Must it not be mortifying to him to have his blunders thus exposed?
43550Must we assume there is a trinity of Gods?
43550Must we conclude that Jehovah had a carnivorous appetite, which caused him to prefer animals to vegetables for sacrifices?
43550Now, the first question which arises here is, Who told the truth in the case,--Jehovah, or"the father of lies"?
43550Now, we ask seriously, Do not the foregoing facts and arguments show that there is no moral or religious necessity for a divine revelation to man?
43550Now, what is this but a premium offered for treachery and cold- blooded murder?
43550Now, where on earth is the tribunal to which we can appeal to find out which of these translations is right?
43550Now, who is to settle the question as to which of these translations is the right one?
43550Of what tribe was Solomon''s artificer, who came from Tyre?
43550Or can one be pleasing to him, and the other offensive?
43550Or is he still a bachelor?
43550Or shall we presume the gate was left open, and that he entered in that way?
43550Shall nation war against nation?
43550Shall we aim at a good reputation?
43550Shall we love our enemies?
43550Shall we resist evil?
43550Shall we use strong drink?
43550Should a man ever laugh?
43550Should marriage be encouraged?
43550Should our works be seen?
43550Should we always obey kings and rulers?
43550Should we ever use wine?
43550Should we fear death?
43550Should we pay a fool in his own coin?
43550Supposing the people prefer a golden calf, as the Jews did under the leadership of Aaron, in the name of reason how can it injure either God or man?
43550THE BAPTIST''S ANSWER Brother Baptist, will you give us your opinion, or answer the question,"What shall we do and believe in order to be saved?"
43550THE question is frequently asked by Bible adherents, What would be the moral condition of society without the Bible?
43550The Holy Zenda Avesta has been circulating for thousands of years; and have you not seen it?
43550The admirers and worshipers of Jesus Christ adore him as a being of absolute perfection,--perfect in intelligence, perfect in wisdom?
43550The first and most important query to which this proposition or assumption gives rise is, Can it be shown to be true?
43550The queries naturally arise here, Where did the raven obtain those articles of food?
43550The question was not, Shall Jehovah succeed, and other Gods fail?
43550The question, then, naturally arises here, Where is the use of erecting standards of faith, when you believe one thing to- day and another to- morrow?
43550The solemn question arises here, then, Who can escape eternal damnation?
43550Their God made the first man with three legs, and amputated one of them to make a"helpmeet for him?"
43550Then why do millions of people devote years to hard mental labor to acquire it?
43550This whole sketch of Mr. Allen''s is very interesting, as it discloses the real causes of infidelity or skepticism in all religion?
43550Thus we are making but little progress toward settling the question, Where is"the scripture given by inspiration of God"?
43550To know whether a thing was right or wrong, they had only to inquire,"Is it taught, or is it forbidden, by the Zenda Avesta?"
43550To whom did Christ appear after his resurrection?
43550To whom did God speak at Christ''s baptism?
43550To whom was the second denial made?
43550To whom was the third denial made?
43550WHY RESORT TO RIDICULE?
43550Was Christ equal to God?
43550Was Christ omnipotent?
43550Was Christ supreme God?
43550Was Christ the savior?
43550Was David really a man after God''s own heart?
43550Was David''s throne to come to an end?
43550Was John the Baptist Ellas?
43550Was Omnipotence afraid they would dispossess him of his throne, and seize the reins of government?
43550Was it a man or God that Jacob wrestled with?
43550Was it any worse than the next two thousand years after it was written?
43550Was it daylight when they came to the tomb?
43550Was it death to eat the forbidden fruit?
43550Was it lawful for the Jews to put Christ to death?
43550Was it necessary for an omnipresent God to come down from heaven to find Adam when he hid among the bushes?
43550Was there ever a more important, more pleasing, or more beautiful revelation made to the world than this of Paul''s?
43550We also beg leave to ask, who took charge of"the house of many mansions"while Jehovah was down among the bushes hunting and hallooing for Adam?
43550We have, then, the Hindoo answer to the question,"What must we do and believe in order to be saved?"
43550We might also ask, Why are"the Lord''s day"and"Sunday"used as synonymous terms?
43550We will illustrate the position of orthodox Christendom: A boy throws up a copper coin, and cries,"Heads, or tails?"
43550We will present some examples:-- 154. Who came to worship Christ when he was born?
43550Well, Moses, can you tell us, as the result of your five years''close study of mathematics, how many are twice two?"
43550Well, Solomon, can you do any thing towards settling the disputed question, how many are twice two?"
43550Well, brother Hindoo, will you be so good as to answer this question,"What shall we do and believe in order to be saved?"
43550Well, brother disciple of the Greek Church,"what shall we do and believe in order to be saved?"
43550Well, brother disciple of the old Egyptian religion, let us hear your answer to the question,"What must we do and believe in order to be saved?"
43550Well, brother of the Presbyterian order, we will now listen to your answer to the great question,"What shall we do and believe in order to be saved?"
43550Well, brother, what light can you throw upon this subject?
43550Well, where and what are they?
43550Were Christ''s disciples allowed to use staves?
43550Were seed- time and harvest to be perpetual?
43550What are the dimensions of his body and the length of his arms and legs?
43550What becomes of the soul in such a case?
43550What can such a book, then, be worth, either in the cause of religion or morality?
43550What did David pay for his threshing- floor?
43550What did Jesus tell his disciples about the ass?
43550What did the parents of Jesus do when he was born?
43550What do they prove?
43550What do you think of the Roman Catholic''s answer?
43550What good, therefore, we would ask, has resulted from this commandment?
43550What harm can it do?
43550What is his complexion-- white, black, or tawny?
43550What is his physical type-- Malay, Mongolian, Anglo- Saxon, or African?
43550What is his position-- lying, sitting, or standing?
43550What is our moral duty relative to trimming the hair on our heads?
43550What is that you say, Mr. Greeley?
43550What is the color of his eyes and hair?
43550What is to be done?
43550What kind of arms does he use?
43550What possible benefit could it derive from laying in a state of insensibility for centuries?
43550What prompts them to this act?
43550What put the thought into the heads of the mariners, that the storm was caused by the misconduct of some person on board?
43550What sense was there in dooming Cain to be a vagabond among men, when there was but one man in the world, and that his father?
43550What sin can we suppose the beasts had committed that they must be doomed to starve, and be covered with sackcloth as an emblem of repentance?
43550What was the drink offered to Christ at the crucifixion?
43550What were the words of the superscription on the cross?
43550What woman interceded for her daughter?
43550What would be thought of the government that should punish the law- maker instead of the law- breaker?
43550What, then, becomes of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and also the Devil?
43550What, then, is its practical value?
43550When Jacob''s father, old and blind, asked him,"Art thou my son Esau?"
43550When did Ahab commence his reign?
43550When did Ahazlah begin to reign over Judah?
43550When did Azzlah, or Uzzlah, begin to reign?
43550When did Baasha fight a battle with Judah?
43550When did Christ ascend?
43550When did Christ drive out the money- changers?
43550When did Christ first appear to his disciples?
43550When did Christ pluck the ears of corn?
43550When did Christ say one of his disciples would betray him?
43550When did Christ tell the truth about Lazarus?
43550When did Herodias ask for the head of John the baptist?
43550When did Jeboram, son of Ahab, begin to reign?
43550When did Judas betray Christ?
43550When did Omri begin to reign?
43550When did Zachariah begin to reign?
43550When did the anointment of Christ take place?
43550When did the earth become dry after the flood?
43550When was man created?
43550Where and to whom did Peter first deny Christ?
43550Where are"the scriptures given by inspiration of God"?
43550Where did Cain find carpenters and masons to build his city, if his father and mother constituted the whole human race?
43550Where did Christ drown the swine with devils?
43550Where did Christ go after being baptized?
43550Where did Christ go after curing Peter''s wife''s mother?
43550Where did Christ heal the leper?
43550Where did Christ part from his disciples?
43550Where did Jesus go after supper?
43550Where did he perform this miracle?
43550Where did the anointment take place?
43550Where did the devils remonstrate against going?
43550Where was Ahazlah killed, and how often?
43550Where was Christ crucified?
43550Where was Christ when he called Peter and Andrew?
43550Where was John while Christ was in Galilee?
43550Where was he during this ten months?
43550Where was the law written?
43550Where was the ointment poured?
43550Where were Peter and Andrew at the time?
43550Where, then, are"the scriptures given by inspiration of God"?
43550Where, then, can we find"all scripture given by inspiration of God"?
43550Where, then, is his moral freedom?
43550Where, then, is the moral force of Christianity, so much talked of by the clergy?
43550Where, then, is the sin of idolatry?
43550Where, then, is the truth of the claim of the Jews that they alone believed in one God, or the unity of the Godhead?
43550Where, then, was his moral purity and perfection, or his angelic holiness?
43550Where, then, were his moral purity and angelic holiness?
43550Which is right?
43550Which is right?
43550Which is right?
43550Which is right?
43550Which is right?
43550Which is right?
43550Which is right?
43550Which is right?
43550Which is right?
43550Which is right?
43550Which is the inspired story of creation?
43550Which is the tempter, God or the devil?
43550Which of all these opinions is right?
43550Which of the thieves reviled him?
43550Which of these four Christian sects teach the true Bible doctrine?
43550Which, then, have the best claim to be considered monotheists?
43550Who believes it?
43550Who can believe it?
43550Who can believe it?
43550Who can read this deed of treachery and cruelty without emotions of horror, and thrilling chilly sensations at the heart?
43550Who can tell?
43550Who can tell?
43550Who can tell?
43550Who can tell?
43550Who can tell?
43550Who can tell?
43550Who can tell?
43550Who can tell?
43550Who can tell?
43550Who ever heard him laugh?
43550Who is to settle this counter- claim?
43550Who put him up to it, seeing there was no tempter in existence but himself?
43550Who saw his lips?
43550Who that has any mercy, justice, or refinement in their nature, can believe that such cruelty and licentiousness was the work of a righteous God?
43550Who would risk a farthing in such an investment, with eighty- nine thousand nine hundred and ninety- nine chances against drawing any thing?
43550Who would wish to live in heaven with such a being?
43550Who would worship such a God?
43550Who, then, can deny that God is the author of evil?
43550Whom did the women see at the tomb?
43550Why are nations, whose minds are cultivated and stored with knowledge, said to be"enlightened"?
43550Why can not suffering and starvation be prevented at the present day by a similar expedient?
43550Why did he refuse them two seats when he had promised them, with the other ten disciples, twelve thrones?
43550Why did not the hair pull out by the roots?
43550Why does she do this?
43550Why have they lost the power of speech?
43550Why is Jesus Christ called"the sun of righteousness"?
43550Why is it that in modern times there has arisen great complaint in all the orthodox churches about the rapid inroads of infidelity into their ranks?
43550Why is this?
43550Why not make the new body of a stone or a stump, or some other material, instead of the old, decayed, decomposed body?
43550Why should Adam hide from God because he was naked, when, if God made him, he must have become accustomed to seeing him in that condition?
43550Why should Ananias and Sapphira be punished with death for a crime that Peter, Abraham, and Isaac were all guilty of several times?
43550Why should God be partial?
43550Why should the soul lay in the ground covered with filth and worms?
43550Why such partiality?
43550Why this partiality?
43550Why was he not placed there before the fall, instead of after, so as to bruise the serpent''s head, or behead him, on his attempting to enter?
43550Why was the sabbath instituted?
43550Why, then, in the name of God, should such curses be heaped upon her devoted head for eating the fruit when she had not been forbidden to do so?
43550Why, then, talk of men being free agents, if a being with infinite power can not be a free agent?
43550Will righteousness make a man happy?
43550Will the earth ever be destroyed?
43550Would it not again relapse into barbarism?
43550Would not this lead to the conclusion he was drunk?
43550Yes:"If the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie for his glory, why am I adjudged a sinner?"
43550[ Do you mean to say, Mr. Allen, that the hundred and fifty millions of the native minds in India are all tinctured with these doctrines?
43550_ Man''s Restoration._--How is this to be effected, brother Calvinist?
43550_ Moral Accountability_.--What is it?
43550and how could it be there, and not be true?''"
43550and how many does he ride at a time?
43550and how was it preserved for so long a period of time?
43550and how will it be found in the day of resurrection?
43550and what peculiar aspect did they present to lead to this conclusion?
43550and what will be the cost?
43550and where is it?
43550and who was she?
43550and xxii.?
43550before you administer that medicine to my child, I want to know what you are going to let it have in place of its pains and aches"?
43550but, Shall Jehovah be awarded the first prize in the contest, and his name stand at the top of the list?
43550exclaimed the traveler:"do merchants go away and leave their goods exposed in that way?"
43550exclaims the Hicksite Quaker,"do you mean to teach the dark and bloody doctrine of the atonement?
43550faith in his love and affection for his son?
43550if not, where is the objection?
43550ix., that"the prophets teach lies"?
43550or did the fish open its mouth for his accommodation?
43550or how can the matter be settled?
43550or why is the Lord now worshiped on the very day anciently set apart for the worship of the sun or solar Deities?
43550stand at the top of the first page of the Bible, if a thousand years mean one day?
43550vii?
43550where is the common sense of Christendom?
43550you do n''t dissent from the views of the Presbyterian Church upon this question, do you?
8140Ah?
8140All right; why wo n''t you burn me?
8140And cried with a loud voice and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the Most High God? 8140 And he asked him, What is thy name?
8140And he said unto her, What form is he of? 8140 And suppose God was about to pass judgment on you, what would you say?"
8140And the king said unto her, Be not afraid; for what sawest thou? 8140 And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice; and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me?
8140And you are perfectly happy?
8140And you deserted them?
8140But what about there being belief in Matthew?
8140But,said the other man,"why do n''t they march?"
8140Did he have anything else?
8140Did they ever get any?
8140Did you belong to any church?
8140Did you ever run off with any money? 8140 Did you get any money?"
8140Did you have a wife and children of your own?
8140Did you read Mr. Courtney''s answer?
8140Did you take anything else along with you?
8140Do you believe in a God?
8140Do you believe the bible?
8140Have you heard of them since?
8140How did the card of Dr. Thomas strike you?
8140How much did you run off with?
8140How much?
8140Ingersoll is very fond of saying''The question is not, is the Bible inspired, but is it true?'' 8140 Is he alive?"
8140Maybe you will chew something?
8140Now, when we are only going to hell, you are not quite happy; but when we are in hell, and you in heaven, then you will be perfectly happy?
8140Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? 8140 Well, boys, do you know that you would go to Hell if you died in your sins?"
8140Well, did you believe that rib story?
8140Well, suppose I do n''t believe it, when I get through?
8140Well, then you are not perfectly happy?
8140What did you do it for?
8140What did you do with that?
8140What did you do with the dollar I gave you last week? 8140 What did you do with the money?"
8140What do you propose to put in place of this?
8140What is your business?
8140What kind of a bank did you have?
8140What kind of a man was he?
8140What rib story-- Do you mean that Adam and Eve business? 8140 What shall we do with the maidens?"
8140What?
8140Which of you, with taking thought, can add to his stature one cubit?
8140Will you smoke a cigar?
8140Would n''t you be happier if they were all going to heaven?
8140You believed it, did you?
8140( A voice:"Will He forgive Democrats?")
8140A voice cried,"Who is there?"
8140According to his creed?
8140Admitting that a god did create the universe, the question then arises, of what did he create it?
8140And Endesthora said:"But where are my brethren?
8140And He said unto him,''why callest thou Me good?
8140And a man endeavoring to raise his fellow- men higher in the scale of civilization-- what will that man appeal to?
8140And does not the priest of every religion, with infinite impudence, consign the disciples of all others to eternal fire?
8140And how did He do it?
8140And how did he get them in there?
8140And how has the church treated the honest doubter?
8140And shall we go to barbarians to get our religion?
8140And shall we go to the barbarians to learn the science of sciences?
8140And so for the man who, in the darkness, said:"My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?"
8140And so you really wonder why any man should be indignant at the idea that God upheld and sanctioned that beastliness called polygamy?
8140And the child said to the Almighty:"Which?"
8140And they ask me: How can you be wicked enough to attack the Christian religion?
8140And was not Voltaire justified in saying that"The English were a people who murdered by law?"
8140And what are you going to do with this?"
8140And what did He say to poor Adam?
8140And what did this God say to him?
8140And what do you suppose was the matter with her?
8140And what is your idea of the sacred Scriptures?
8140And what next did he do?
8140And what religion have I the right to reject?
8140And when is that said to have been spoken?
8140And why do I say so?
8140And why?
8140And why?
8140And why?
8140And will you tell me that it had to be done in order to consecrate a man to the service of the infinite God?
8140And, do you know, that is the business I am in?
8140Are men restrained by superstition?
8140Are men restrained by what you call religion?
8140Are they investigating?
8140Are we to get to Heaven by creed or by deed?
8140Are you an orthodox Christian?
8140Are you familiar with chemistry?
8140Are you going to damn her now?
8140Are you going to damn her then?
8140Are you not all familiar with the natural causes which bring those beautiful arches before our eyes?
8140At what shrine must I bow to find out what is to be done?
8140Because she has listened to some Methodist minister and after all that flood of light failed to believe?
8140But he will be asked,"So you know more than all the great men who have taught and all the respectable men who have believed in that faith?"
8140But some people say:"Would you allow a woman to vote?"
8140But they say to us,"If you throw away the Bible what are we to depend on then?"
8140But were there nations already in this Holy Land?
8140But what is there to be indignant about in that?
8140But what put all this matter in motion?
8140But you must remember that this gentleman who believes in this doctrine is a Presbyterian, and why should a Presbyterian object?
8140But"What shall we do to be saved from the eternal wrath of the God who made us all?"
8140But, Mr. Collyer, do you really think that a book with as many passages in favor of wrong as right, is inspired?
8140Can I injure the conditionless?
8140Can I sin against anything that I can not injure?
8140Can a god who would accept such a sacrifice be worthy of the worship of civilized men?
8140Can any one here imagine the creation out of nothing of one atom?
8140Can any one here imagine the destruction of one atom?
8140Can the believing husband in heaven look down upon the torments of the unbelieving wife in hell and then feel a thrill of joy?
8140Can the conduct of infinite wisdom, power and love ever change?
8140Can we see the propriety of so constructing the earth, that only an insignificant portion of its surface is capable of producing an intelligent man?
8140Can you account for molecular action?
8140Can you account for the loves and the hatreds of the atoms?
8140Can you believe that such directions were given by any except an infinite fiend?
8140Can you conceive of anything the different parts of which have been suggested to you by nature?
8140Can you explain it?
8140Can you find among the women of the new testament any women that can equal the women born of Shakespeare''s brain?
8140Can you have a thought that is not suggested to you by what you call matter?
8140Can you imagine an atom being changed to nothing?
8140Can you imagine nothing being changed to an atom?
8140Can you tell of anything without a material basis?
8140Can you tell what matter is?
8140Can you tell what matter really is?
8140Could you elect a bishop of the Catholic church, or a Methodist bishop, or Episcopal minister, or one of the elders?
8140Did He endeavor to make him a better man?
8140Did He make the slightest effort to improve them?
8140Did He put in the horizon of the future one star of hope?
8140Did He say anything to Adam and Eve about the sacred relation of marriage?
8140Did He say anything to them about learning anything under heaven?
8140Did He say anything to them about loving children?
8140Did He say one word about intellectual liberty?
8140Did He say one word calculated to excite in the breast of Cain the slightest real sorrow for his deed?
8140Did He say one word calculated to make him a better man?
8140Did He say one word of the crime of shedding human blood?
8140Did He tell him anything about where Abel was?
8140Did He tell him to make things of gold, silver and precious stones, when they had n''t them?
8140Did I not tell you that we were now civilizing our gods?
8140Did Jehovah say this?
8140Did all the ministers of Scotland add as much to the sum of human knowledge as David Hume?
8140Did all the priests of France do as great a work for the civilization of this world as Diderot and Voltaire?
8140Did all the priests of Rome increase the mental wealth of man as much as Bruno?
8140Did any devil ever force upon a husband, upon a father, so cruel and so heartless an alternative?
8140Did any devil ever make so infamous a threat?
8140Did any man or woman or child ever have a solitary thought, dream or conception, that was not suggested to them by something they had seen in nature?
8140Did he believe in the Old Testament?
8140Did he believe that Christ was God?
8140Did he help much with their six- hundred thousand men?
8140Did he say one word about reason or about justice?
8140Did it ever occur to them that a cancer is as beautiful in its development as is the reddest rose?
8140Did it never occur to you what a contradiction it is to say that the devil will persecute his own friends?
8140Did not somebody say something against such an infamous proceeding?
8140Did the Church abolish slavery?
8140Did they know anything about any other?
8140Did this God, which you pretend to worship, ever sanction the institution of human slavery?
8140Did you believe that rib story?"
8140Did you ever hear anything like this?
8140Did you ever hear of a man going to hell who died in New York worth a million of dollars, or with an income of twenty- five thousand a year?
8140Did you ever hear of a man going to hell who rode in a carriage?
8140Did you ever hear the story of Jephthah''s daughter?
8140Did you ever know a wealthy disciple to unload on account of that verse?
8140Did you?
8140Do n''t you see that these infamous doctrines petrify the human heart?
8140Do n''t you see that woman has sinned once, and man never?
8140Do n''t you see what an infinitely mean belief that is?
8140Do n''t you see?
8140Do n''t you think that it would do just as well to preach that to the thieving man as to the suffering slave?
8140Do they pull forward or do they hold back?
8140Do they treat an opponent with fairness?
8140Do we not know that there are no two persons alike in the whole world?
8140Do you believe God ever gave such instructions for the consecration of His priests?
8140Do you believe God said that a whip on the naked back was the legal tender for labor performed?
8140Do you believe God told Moses to make curtains of fine linen?
8140Do you believe a real God ever did that?
8140Do you believe all the stories in the Bible?
8140Do you believe in a God that allowed a man to be sold from his children?
8140Do you believe in the five points?
8140Do you believe in the inspiration of the Bible?
8140Do you believe in the stories of the Bible, about Jael, and the sun standing still, and the walls falling at the blowing of horns?
8140Do you believe it would be necessary for that man to read the ten commandments to find out who, in his judgment had a right to take those potatoes?
8140Do you believe that God Almighty ever went into partnership with hornets?
8140Do you believe that God came down on that mountain and told Moses how to cut a coat, and how it should be trimmed?
8140Do you believe that God ever said to a man:"You ca n''t have your wife unless you will be a slave?
8140Do you believe that God ever turned the arms of children into chains of slavery?
8140Do you believe that God ever turned the dimpled cheeks of little children into iron chains to hold a man in slavery?
8140Do you believe that God rained hail on innocent cattle, killing them in the highways and in the field?
8140Do you believe that God upheld polygamy?
8140Do you believe that God upheld slavery and polygamy?
8140Do you believe that God upheld slavery?
8140Do you believe that He ordered the killing of babes and the violation of maidens?
8140Do you believe that Robert Collyer would obey such an order?
8140Do you believe that he knew that this world is but a speck in the shining, glittering universe of existence?
8140Do you believe that he would rush to the cradle and drive the knife of theological hatred to the tender heart of a dimpled child?
8140Do you believe that it is right-- that God made one man to work for another and to receive pay in rations?
8140Do you believe the man who wrote that as a history of astronomy really knew that this world was but a speck compared with millions of sparkling orbs?
8140Do you believe the real God-- if there is one-- ever killed a man for making hair- oil?
8140Do you belong to any church?"
8140Do you hear that?
8140Do you know nobody would have had an idea of hell in this world if it had n''t been for volcanoes?
8140Do you know that a God like that would not make a respectable devil?
8140Do you know that language is born of human experience, and is a physical science?
8140Do you know that the sun throws out every second of time as much heat as could be generated by burning eleven thousand millions tons of coal?
8140Do you know what caused it?
8140Do you know what force is?
8140Do you know why all these miracles did n''t affect the Egyptians?
8140Do you not regard such talk as slang?
8140Do you really believe the Old Testament was inspired?
8140Do you suppose God is to crown you with eternal joy and give you a musical instrument for believing something where the evidence is clear?
8140Do you tell me God can afford to damn that kind of a woman?
8140Do you tell me that God can be unpitying to the pitiful, that He can be unforgiving to the forgiving?
8140Do you tell me that any decent god would do that?
8140Do you tell me there is any God who will push the life- boat from the shore of eternal life, when that man wishes to step in?
8140Do you think that God upheld polygamy?
8140Do you think the Old Testament true?
8140Do you think the man who wrote that knew anything about the size of the sun?
8140Do you think the stories in the Bible exaggerated?
8140Do you understand how this dust and these seeds and that light and this moisture produced that bud and that flower and that perfume?
8140Do you understand that any better than you do a dream?
8140Do you understand that any better than you do the production of thought?
8140Do you understand that any better than you do the thoughts of love that you see in the eyes of the one you adore?
8140Do you understand that?
8140Do you understand?"
8140Do you worship such an infinite monster?
8140Does anybody believe it now?
8140Does he not cause rain?
8140Does he not delay frost?
8140Does he not snatch the ones that we love from the grasp of death precisely the same as ours?
8140Does it teach a man to resist oppression?
8140Does it teach a man to tear from the throne of tyranny the crowned thing and robber called a king?
8140Does it treat woman as she ought to be treated, or is it barbarian?
8140Does n''t the credit system in morals breed extravagance in sin?
8140Does not an improvement in the things created, show the corresponding improvement in the creator?
8140Does the Bible teach man to enslave his brother?
8140Does the Bible teach mercy?
8140Does the Bible uphold polygamy?
8140Does the bible describe a god of mercy?
8140Does the bible give woman her rights?
8140Does the bible teach polygamy?
8140Does the bible teach the existence of devils?
8140Does the bible teach you freedom of religion?
8140Does the religion of one country have any respect for that of another?
8140Does this prove anything?
8140Endesthora simply turned and said:"But what of my dog?"
8140Epictetus said:"What is more delightful than to be so dear to your wife as to be on her account dearer even to yourself?"
8140Every cradle asks us"Whence?"
8140For the Son of Man shall come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He shall reward every man according--"To the church he belongs to?
8140For the mean things you have done when you are in hell?
8140For thousands of years the world has been asking that question"What shall we do to be saved?"
8140God always knew it, and if you ca n''t civilize a nation without a Bible, why did n''t God give every nation just one Bible to start with?
8140Going to a country, how large?
8140Has He?
8140Has it ever produced anything?
8140Has the Church raised its voice against war?
8140Have I read enough to show that what I said is so?
8140Have I the right to inquire?
8140Have I the right to inquire?
8140Have you ever been baptized- sprinkled?
8140Have you the slightest conception?
8140He admits that the Jews were polygamists, but, he says, how was it they finally quit it?
8140He did n''t ask him, Do you believe in the Bible?
8140He is a Presbyterian; and what is that?
8140He is, so they say; He is infinite; absolutely conditionless?
8140He said unto Him,''which?''
8140He shook his head when the undertaker first addressed him, and then said suddenly,"Does Mrs. Miller desire it?"
8140He tells Moses further to take some of the blood and put it on his right thumb, a little on his right ear, and a little on his right big toe?
8140He wants all the recruits he can get; why then should he persecute his friends?
8140He was arrested and his father went to see him and said,"John, how could you commit such a crime?
8140He was perfectly still and unmoved; and one who had been greatly astonished by the story said to him:"Did you hear that story?"
8140Here let me ask why God did not make Noah in the first place?
8140Honor bright, is that not the better and grander story?
8140How are you going to prove a miracle?
8140How can a beggar be charitable?
8140How can you account for John Calvin unless we came up from the lower animals?
8140How can you account for that infamous doctrine of Hell, except with an animal origin?
8140How can you account for the religious creeds of today?
8140How can you account for your conception of a God that would sell women and babes into slavery?
8140How can you blaspheme the name of God by asserting your independence?
8140How can you blaspheme the name of a God by striking fetters from the limbs of men?
8140How clothe, and feed, and educate, and civilize mankind?"
8140How could a book be opposed to woman which has pictured such heroines?
8140How could he disprove it?
8140How could he show that he did not cause a storm at sea?
8140How could the latter be conceived to have the impudence to promise God a world in which he did not have a tax- title to an inch of land?
8140How could you bring my gray hairs in sorrow to the grave?"
8140How deep were these waters?
8140How did Christ come to leave the religion of His mother?
8140How did He endeavor to make His children great, and strong, and good, and free?
8140How did he get it?
8140How did he get them across?
8140How did he, even to the extent that he has, outgrow his ignorant, abject terror, and throw off, the yoke of superstition?
8140How did they weave it?
8140How do I know they had three millions?
8140How do they get most of these ministers?
8140How do you account for this religion?
8140How does he treat those within his control?
8140How has it added to the prosperity of this world?
8140How has it been kept alive so long?
8140How is it now?
8140How is that for dampness?
8140How large was it?
8140How long did it rain?
8140How long were they in this ark?
8140How long?
8140How many Jews were there?
8140How many did they have when they went to Egypt?
8140How many grand thinkers died with the mailed hand of superstition on their lips?
8140How many were they at the end of two hundred and fifteen years?
8140How many would the Jews number at the same ratio in two hundred and fifteen years?
8140How much did it have to rain a day?
8140How shall we do away with crime and poverty?
8140How shall we protect life, liberty, property and reputations?
8140How would a hornet know a Canaanite?
8140How, then, can a dog enter heaven?"
8140I ask you tonight, does not that stone god answer prayer just as well as ours?
8140I asked:"What are they?"
8140I do not care whether it is or not; the question is: Is it true?
8140I suppose Alexander, czar of Russia, was put there by the order of God, was he?
8140INGERSOLL''S LECTURE ON WHICH WAY?
8140INGERSOLL''S NEW DEPARTURE-- His Lecture Entitled"What Shall We do to be Saved?"
8140If God wanted to take those Jews from Egypt to the land of Canaan, why did n''t He do it instantly?
8140If He was going to do a miracle why did n''t He do one worth talking about?
8140If I have not a right to express my thoughts, who has?
8140If I rob Mr. Smith and God forgives me, how does that help Smith?
8140If an infinite universe has been made out of an infinite god, how much of the god is left?
8140If evil is necessary to the development of man, in this life, how is it possible for the soul to improve in the perfect joy of paradise?
8140If he did n''t make it of nothing, what did he make it of?
8140If it is larceny to steal the result of labor, how much more is it larceny to steal the laborer himself?
8140If it was made by an infinite being, what reason have we for saying that he will render it nearer perfect than it now is?
8140If it was partial why did Noah save the birds?
8140If neither matter nor force were created, what evidence have we, then, of the existence of a power superior to nature?
8140If that course had been pursued, would the human ears, in your judgment, ever have been enriched with the divine symphonies of Beethoven?
8140If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent?
8140If the religion of one hundred years ago, compared with the religion of to- day is so low, what will it be in one thousand years?
8140If there is no interference, of what practical use can such power be?
8140If these words are necessary why are they not written now everywhere in the world, on every tree, and every field, and on every blade of grass?
8140In its law?
8140In mercy?
8140In order that they may be prepared to investigate the phenomena by which we are surrounded?
8140In other words, is the universe a monarchy, a despotism, or a democracy?
8140In the miracles?
8140Is God infinite?
8140Is God the source of power, or does all authority spring, in governing, from the consent of the governed?
8140Is any such thing possible?
8140Is it desirable that all should be exactly alike in their religious convictions?
8140Is it honest and fair in him to say I am doing a certain thing because it is popular?
8140Is it honest in that man to assail my motive?
8140Is it inspired in its astrology?
8140Is it necessary unto salvation?
8140Is it not a disgrace to us that all the lies that have been told about him, and will be told about him, are a perpetual disgrace?
8140Is it not wonderful that when they did all these miracles nobody paid any attention to them?
8140Is it possible God ever said:"If a prophet deceive when he hath spoken a thing, I, the Lord, hath deceived that prophet?"
8140Is it possible for man to conceive of anything more perfectly infamous?
8140Is it possible for you to conceive of the creation of a single atom?
8140Is it possible that God inspired the hornets-- that he granted letters of marque and reprisal to hornets?
8140Is it possible that God told them not to eat any fruit until after the fourth year of planting the trees?
8140Is it possible that God worked miracles to convince Pharaoh that slavery was wrong?
8140Is it possible that an infinite God created this world simply to be the dwelling- place of slaves and serfs?
8140Is it possible that any one believes that that is the reason why we have the variety of languages in the world?
8140Is it possible that one of the authors of the new testament was inspired when he said that man was not created for woman, but woman for man?
8140Is it possible that somebody else can be good for me, and that this doctrine of the atonement is the only anchor for the human soul?
8140Is it possible that that little fairy will finally believe that she could be happy in Heaven with her baby in Hell?
8140Is it possible that the only people who are fit to go to heaven are the only people not fit to rule mankind?
8140Is it possible that the real God ever gave such infamous, blood- thirsty laws?
8140Is it possible that we can make more money denouncing the God of slavery than we can praising the God that took liberty from man?
8140Is it possible that we can make more money tearing up churches than in building them up?
8140Is it possible the devil was such an idiot?
8140Is it possible to discover infinite intelligence and love in universal and eternal carnage?
8140Is it possible to imagine the annihilation of a single atom?
8140Is it possible, my goodness, that that flower will finally believe in the five points of Calvinism or in the eternal damnation of man?
8140Is it possible?
8140Is it the doctrine of the bible?
8140Is n''t it strange?
8140Is not Cicero greater than Jehovah?
8140Is science indebted to the Church for a single fact?
8140Is that possible?
8140Is that true?
8140Is the Bible inspired?
8140Is the Bible true?
8140Is there a Christian in the whole world who would believe such a story if found in any other book?
8140Is there a burial service mentioned in it in which a word of hope is spoken at the grave of the dead?
8140Is there a man here who believes in that infamy?
8140Is there a sadder story in all history than that?
8140Is there a woman here who believes in the institution of polygamy?
8140Is there any such thing as Methodist mathematics, Presbyterian botany, Catholic astronomy or Baptist biology?
8140Is there anything as beautiful as this in the new testament:"Shall I tell you where nature is more blest and fair?
8140Is there anything in our religion so warm or so beautiful as that?
8140Is there in ail the religious literature of the world any thing more grossly absurd than this?
8140Is there in the history of the world a sadder story than this?
8140Is there not something in matter that forever excludes you?
8140Is this bible humane?
8140It is far more important that you love your children than that you love Jesus Christ.--And why?
8140It is true I have devoured a few men, but for what other purpose were men made?"
8140Kill the old men?
8140Kill the women?
8140Ladies and Gentlemen: For thousands of years men have been asking the questions:"How shall we civilize the world?
8140Must inspiration claim infallibility?
8140Must we believe all these stories in order to get to Heaven when we die?
8140Must we judge of a man''s character by the number of stories he believes?
8140Next, at the marriage of Cana, when He said to the woman,"What have I to do with thee?"
8140No prospective fathers or mothers- in- law; no prying and gossiping neighbors; nobody to say,"Young man, how do you expect to support her?"
8140No two trees, no two leaves, no two anythings that are alike?
8140Now can anybody believe that that is the origin of the rainbow?
8140Now does this bible teach political freedom, or does it teach political tyranny?
8140Now how will I do it?
8140Now is it possible for people to believe this?
8140Now suppose that two atoms should come together, would there be an effect?
8140Now what does the new testament teach?
8140Now, can you believe that?
8140Now, how do you judge of a man?
8140Now, if God wanted to get up a flood big enough to drown sin, why did He not get up a flood big enough to drown the snake?
8140Now, if men have been slaves, if they have crawled in the dust before one another, what shall I say of women?
8140Now, what does the Bible teach?
8140Of these churches we will ask this question:"How can a man who conscientiously believes in religious liberty worship a God who does not?"
8140Of what use have the gods been to man?
8140Omnipotence is simply all powerful, and what good would strength do with nothing?
8140One man said to another:"Will you take a glass of wine?"
8140Or does not each religion claim to be the only one?
8140Or will he appeal to reason, the torch of the mind?
8140Or will you be so good then that you wo n''t care how you used to be?
8140Our fathers denounced materialism and accounted for all phenomena how?
8140Q. I suppose you fully appreciate the religious characteristics of the Song of Solomon?
8140Said I:"Suppose your mother were in hell, would you be happy in heaven then?"
8140Saved from crime?
8140Saved from poverty?
8140Says I:"Do you think a great many people are going to hell?"
8140Says I:"When you get to heaven, then you would be perfectly happy?"
8140Says he:"Do n''t you think He could put in another day to advantage right around here?"
8140Seven other years he did every good deed, and again mounted the steps to heaven, and the voice said:"Who is there?"
8140Shall we reason, or shall we simply believe?
8140She arose and asked,"Who says that?"
8140She marries and loves, and holds in her arms a beautiful child?
8140She said,"What did I tell you?"
8140Should any great credit be given to this deity for not being caught with such chaff?
8140Should not the merciful God practice what he preaches?
8140So they had this young man ask:"What lack I yet?"
8140So they would go into the room and the doctor would feel his pulse and ask him:"Did you drink two pitchers of water?"
8140So you think God corrected some of the worst abuses of polygamy, but preserved the institution itself?
8140Some gentleman said,"How about Delaware?"
8140Suppose then that Smith should say to Brown,"You''re a liar,"and Brown should reply to Smith,"And you''re a liar,"what would you think?
8140Suppose we all said that, where would be the progress of the world?
8140Suppose we wanted now to break certain cannibals of eating missionaries-- wanted to stop them from eating them raw?
8140Supposing the blood got on the left toe?
8140Supposing this to be true, what is to become of those who die in infancy?
8140Swing?"
8140That what they are pleased to call the adaptation of means to ends, is as apparent in the cancer as in the April rain?
8140That''s all that amounted to anything; and, when they sinned, did this great God take them in the arms of His love and endeavor to reform them?
8140The Christian religion was submitted to a popular vote in Jerusalem, and what was the result?
8140The best test of a man is, how does he use power?
8140The business we will attend to now is, how are, we to civilize the world?
8140The churches point to their decayed saints and their crumbled popes and say,"Do you know more than all the ministers that ever lived?"
8140The grand test question was:"Boys, if it was God''s will that you should go to Hell, would you be willing to go?"
8140The great, the rich, the powerful?
8140The next question then is: Can I commit a sin against God by thinking?
8140The question is"Bad as I am, have I a right to think?"
8140The question with them is not,"What will we do in some other world?"
8140The real question is this: Are we to be governed by a supernatural being, or are we to govern ourselves?
8140The real question is, in the light of science, in the light of the brain and heart of the nineteenth century, is this book true?
8140The voice cried,"Who is there?"
8140Then another thing, why did He want to drown the animals?
8140Then they say to me:"What do you propose?
8140Then what does he teach it to little children for?
8140Then what happened?
8140Then what would it be your duty to do-- kill her?
8140Then where were these Jews?
8140Then why torment him if it will not do him good?
8140Then, after all, you do not pretend that the Scriptures are really inspired?
8140There is none good but one, and that is God, but if thou will enter into eternal life, keep the commandments,''and he said unto Him,''Which?''"
8140These are the men who are in heaven; and who else?
8140They gave us paper, and what is printing without paper?
8140They seem to say:"Aha, what did I tell you?"
8140Think of the amount of thought it must have required to invent a way by which the life of one man might be given to produce one cancer?
8140This sacred book, this foundation of human liberty, of morality, does it teach concubinage and polygamy?
8140This world; where did it come from?
8140To save his life?
8140To the manner in which he was baptized?
8140To what church did he belong?
8140Tyranny?
8140Under such circumstances, what can their thoughts be worth?
8140Under these circumstances what wretched object can he have in lengthening out his aimless life?
8140Under these conditions, all your Scotts, Henrys and McKnights have written; and weighed in these scales what are their commentaries worth?
8140Was ever any imp of any devil guilty of such savagery?
8140Was that really a snake, or was it the appearance of a snake?
8140Was that true?
8140Was there no room on the two tables of stone to put two more commandments?
8140Well, what is it inspired in?
8140Well, what is this book inspired about?
8140Well, what of it?
8140Well, what was he created for?
8140Well, what was it made of?
8140Were they inspired to go there, or did he drive them up?
8140What I ask you tonight is: What has the church done to civilize mankind?
8140What changed it?
8140What church has been the asylum for a persecuted truth?
8140What crime had they committed?
8140What did he believe?
8140What did our God do?
8140What do you propose to give us instead of that angel?
8140What do you say to the last verse in the Bible, where a curse is threatened to any man who takes from or adds to the book?
8140What do you think of a God that would receive that sacrifice?
8140What do you think of a man that would sacrifice his own daughter?
8140What do you think would be the fate of agriculture depending on the"glare of volcanoes in the moon?"
8140What does this same book say of the rights of little children?
8140What else do they believe?
8140What else?
8140What for?
8140What for?
8140What had He ever taught him before on that subject?
8140What had they done?
8140What harm has it not done?
8140What has any form of superstition or religion to do with a fact or with any science?
8140What has religion to do with facts?
8140What has that to do with it?
8140What has the church done for us?
8140What is a"servant?"
8140What is blasphemy?
8140What is blasphemy?
8140What is it?
8140What is it?
8140What is matter?
8140What is more beautiful than the old story from Sufi?
8140What is philosophy?
8140What is religion?
8140What is strategy?
8140What is that plan?
8140What is that solace?
8140What is the little darling to do?
8140What is the next argument they will bring forward?
8140What is the next thing I have said?
8140What is there to be indignant about in that?"
8140What is this blasphemy?
8140What is your idea of the Bible?
8140What is your opinion about the Old Testament?
8140What is your opinion of the Bible?
8140What is your opinion of the Old Testament?
8140What kind of a man were you?"
8140What kind of a man were you?"
8140What kind of children does a man expect to have with a beggar for their mother?
8140What man, who ever thinks, can believe that blood can appease God?
8140What more does He say?
8140What must be the social condition of a gentleman in heaven who will admit that he never would have been there if he had not got scared?
8140What must be the social position of an angel who will always admit that if another had not pitied him he ought to have been damned?
8140What nation has not?
8140What oracle can I consult?
8140What other reason have I got?
8140What priest shall I ask?
8140What race has not?
8140What reform has been inaugurated by the Church?
8140What right has a man to assassinate the joy of life?
8140What right has an infinite God to add to the sum of human agony?
8140What right have we to expect that a perfectly wise, good and powerful being will ever do better than he has done, and is doing?
8140What sacred volume shall I search?
8140What sort of a law must it be that would be satisfied with the suffering of innocence?
8140What then can we think of God who would open the artillery of heaven upon one of his own children for simply expressing his honest thought?
8140What then shall be done?
8140What use were these commandments?
8140What waste places has it not made?
8140What will he do?
8140What will you have remorse for?
8140What would an infinite God care on which side he cut the breast, what color the fringe was, or how the buttons were placed?
8140What would the devil have done under the same circumstances?
8140What would the world be now if infidels had never been?
8140What would the world have been had infidels never existed?
8140What would you do then?"
8140What would you say if she let a basketful of rattlesnakes upon you?
8140What would you think of a neighbor, who had just killed his babes giving you his views on domestic economy?
8140What, then, were new?
8140When are you going to damn her?
8140When the man is called up by the recording secretary, or whoever does the cross- examining, he says to his soul"Where are you from?"
8140Where are Argune and Beinis and Traubation?"
8140Where are the naturalists like Tyndall, philosophers like Mills and Spencer, and women like George Eliot and Harriet Martineau?
8140Where are the orthodox great men?
8140Where are they?
8140Where are you from?"
8140Where did he get it?
8140Where did that doctrine of Hell come from?
8140Where did they get their flax in the desert?
8140Where did we get this religion?
8140Where does the inspiration come from?
8140Where in the ranks of orthodoxy are historians like Draper and Buckle?
8140Where were these people going?
8140Which of those ten commandments were new, and which of those ten commandments were old?
8140Who are in heaven?
8140Who are the heroines?
8140Who can appreciate the infinite impudence of one man assuming to think for others?
8140Who can appreciate the mercy of so making the world that all animals devour animals?
8140Who can bend the knee to such a monster?
8140Who can pray to such a fiend?
8140Who can tell what the world has lost by this infamous system of suppression?
8140Who can worship such a god?
8140Who commenced it?
8140Who does know?
8140Who goes to hell?
8140Who is in heaven?
8140Who ran this ark-- who took care of it?
8140Who saw it, and who would know a devil if he did see him?
8140Who was he?
8140Who was she?
8140Who was this thief?
8140Who will be his successor?
8140Who wrote the New Testament?
8140Who''s afraid of punishment which is so far away?
8140Whom does the doctrine of hell stop?
8140Why He said to this man who asked him"What shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
8140Why are they so delighted to find an allusion to providence in the message of Lincoln?
8140Why did God allow hundreds of thousands and billions of billions to go down to hell just for the lack of a Bible?
8140Why did He say that?
8140Why did he not speak about the infamy of slavery?
8140Why did he not tell Pharaoh that any nation founded on slavery could not stand?
8140Why did he put the birds in there-- the eagles, the vultures, the condors-- if it was only a partial flood?
8140Why did n''t He tell Luke that?
8140Why did n''t He tell Mark that?
8140Why did n''t He tell Matthew that?
8140Why do n''t we go back to that period to get the telegraph?
8140Why do they care so little for the damnation of men, and so much for the baptism of children?
8140Why do they refuse to worship in the temples of each other?
8140Why do they stand with hat in hand before presidents, kings, emperors and scientists, begging like Lazarus for a few crumbs of religious comfort?
8140Why do they torture the words of the great into an acknowledgment of the truth of Christianity?
8140Why is it that Christian men are no better than any other men?
8140Why is it that ministers as a class are no better than doctors, or lawyers, or merchants, or mechanics, or locomotive engineers?
8140Why is it that the Christian countries are no better than any other countries?
8140Why is it that these Christians do not only detest the infidels, but so cordially despise each other?
8140Why is it the churches have failed to civilize this world?
8140Why is there a law against murder?
8140Why not leave him in the unconscious dust?
8140Why not out of His omniscience, or His omnipresence?
8140Why not say, God has intelligence, therefore there must be an intelligence greater than his?
8140Why not stand by his book?
8140Why not?
8140Why should he inflict punishment on cattle for something their owners had done?
8140Why should he say"Pray for those that despise and persecute you,"but if they refuse to believe his doctrine he will burn them forever?
8140Why should he say,"Forgive your enemies,"if he will not himself forgive?
8140Why should man endeavor to thwart the designs of God?
8140Why should there be three Fathers, and only one Son?
8140Why should we be the slaves of phantoms-- phantoms that we create ourselves?
8140Why should we enslave ourselves?
8140Why should we fear that which will come to all that is?
8140Why should we forge fetters for our own hands?
8140Why should we sacrifice a real world that we have for one we know not of?
8140Why was it that so many animals were killed?
8140Why was nothing written?
8140Why will they adorn their churches with the money of thieves, and flatter vice for the sake of subscription?
8140Why will they attempt to bribe science to certify to the writings of God?
8140Why, did you ever hear anything like that?"
8140Why, if this doctrine be true why do you send missionaries to other lands and ask those people to disgrace their parents?
8140Why?
8140Why?
8140Why?
8140Why?
8140Why?
8140Why?
8140Why?
8140Why?
8140Why?
8140Why?
8140Why?
8140Why?
8140Will god have more power?
8140Will he appeal to charity, which is justice in blossom?
8140Will he appeal to credulity-- the ring in the nose by which priests lead stupidity?
8140Will he appeal to justice?
8140Will he appeal to liberty and love?
8140Will he appeal to prejudice-- the fortress, the armor, the sword and shield of ignorance?
8140Will he appeal to the cowardly man?
8140Will he appeal to the lowest or to the highest that is in man?
8140Will he appeal to the selfishness and all the slimy serpents that crawl in the den of savagery?
8140Will he become more merciful?
8140Will he play upon his fears-- fear, the capital stock of imposture, the lever and fulcrum of hypocrisy?
8140Will his love for his poor creatures increase?
8140Will one church have any sympathy with another?
8140Will the religionist pretend that the real end of science is to ascertain how and why God acts?
8140Will you have any remorse for the mean things you have done when you are in heaven?
8140Will you tell me that any God ever commanded such infamy?
8140Would I have a right to torture it because I made it?
8140Would countless ages thus be wasted in the production of awkward forms, afterward abandoned?
8140Would it not be noted if a man had two funerals?
8140Would you stop him at the foot of the mast to find out his opinion on the five points of Calvinism?
8140Yes, we know all that, but is the Old Testament inspired?
8140Yes, we will admit that, but is the Bible inspired?
8140Yes; out of what?
8140You have torn this down; what do you propose to give in the place of it?"
8140You know what is called the rebellion in England in 1688?
8140You recollect that trial of the seven bishops?
8140You wo n''t be as decent when you get to be an angel as you are now, will you?
8140and every coffin"Whither?"
8140but what will life be?
8140is it possible?
8140so that every mouth is a slaughter- house, and every stomach a tomb?
38807And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me to bring me up?
38807And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou son of the most high God? 38807 And he asked him, What is thy name?
38807And he said unto her, What form is he of? 38807 And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou?
38807And when the woman saw Samuel she cried with a loud voice: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? 38807 But is employment always to be had?"
38807But,says this gentleman,"Where do we get the idea of good and bad?"
38807But,says this reverend doctor,"Whence comes this conception of space?"
38807Can he that is himself or any one else say there is no possible relation between one and the other?
38807Did you belong to the church?
38807Did you love your wife and children?
38807Did you take care of your wife and children?
38807Did you try and make them happy?
38807Did you try and make your neighbors happy?
38807Love the whole world?
38807Love your country?
38807Never made anybody unhappy?
38807Now,said Cosmas,"if the world is round, how could the people on the other side see the Lord when he comes?"
38807Pay your debts?
38807Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? 38807 Well, who is to judge?"
38807What am I going to do with you?
38807What were you hung for?
38807Yes?
38807and the love of God--how does he know there is any love in God?
38807heed not the cries and tears of earth?
38807* Col. Ingersoll filled McVickor''s Theatre again yesterday afternoon, when he answered the question"What Must We Do to Be Saved?"
38807--_Judges xi._ Is there in the history of the world a sadder thing than this?
38807A man goes to the day of judgment, and they cross- examine him, and they say to him:"Did you believe the Bible?"
38807According to this account, what was the sun, or rather the earth, stopped for?
38807After all, is it not of more importance to speak the absolute truth?
38807After all, of what use is it to search for a creator?
38807Again he asks:"If one is not responsible for his thought, why is any one blamed for thinking as he does?"
38807Again: This reverend Doctor says:"Shall we say that all the love of the unseen world"--how does he know there is any love in the unseen world?
38807All the sweet humanities of life were trodden beneath the brutal foot of creed; and what did God do?
38807Allow me to use the language of the reverend gentleman:"Is there no remedy to correct such irregularities?"
38807Am I bound in conscience and in good sense to accept it?
38807Am I not accountable for the result of the mind given me, whether I yield to the debauch, or rise to the dignity of self- control?
38807And Satan replied to him and said:"Why should he not be an excellent man-- you have given him everything he wants?
38807And do you think any God would be satisfied with compulsory worship?
38807And has not honest poverty the right to hold dishonest wealth in contempt, and will it not do it, whether it belongs to the same church or not?
38807And if a man honestly decides that death is best-- best for him and others-- and acts upon the decision, why should he be blamed?
38807And if, knowing this, you changed the stone into a man, would you not be a fiend?
38807And right here it may be well enough to inquire: What is blasphemy?
38807And so you really wonder why any man should be indignant at the idea that God upheld and sanctioned that beastliness called polygamy?
38807And what can we think of a God who would accept such a sacrifice?
38807And what did God do?
38807And what is the crime or practice known as watering stock?
38807And what is your idea of the sacred Scriptures?
38807And what will churches do then?
38807And why has man ever believed that his fellow- man was responsible for his thought?
38807And why is it that they say it is not orthodox Christianity?
38807And why should a man be proud of brain?
38807And why?
38807And would you make your world so as to provide for earthquakes and cyclones?
38807And, to carry this idea clearly out, why should we be proud of anything?
38807Another thing: Do you believe in the eternity of punishment?
38807Any evidence that he hushed the storm any more than there is that the storm comes from the cave of à � olus?
38807Any more evidence than that Venus rose from the foam of the ocean?
38807Are Christian families so weak intellectually that they can not bear to hear the other side?
38807Are not many of the contradictions in the Bible owing to mistranslations?
38807Are the pillory and the whipping- post to be used to prevent an excess of thought in the county of New Castle?
38807Are the principles taught by us superior to those of Confucius?
38807Are the savages the agents of the good God?
38807Are they the servants of the Infinite?
38807Are we satisfied?
38807Are we satisfied?
38807Are you an orthodox Christian?
38807Are you tender and charitable to me if you enter my house, my castle, and debauch my children from the faith that they have been taught?
38807Be honest, would you provide for religious persecution?
38807Billions of prayers have been uttered; has one been answered?
38807But how is it possible to blaspheme a day?
38807But what right have we to expect anything good of a man who believes in the eternal damnation of infants?
38807But what was his grandfather?
38807But why should any man deem it his duty or feel it a pleasure to say harsh and cruel things of the dead?
38807But, Mr. Collyer, do you really think that a book with as many passages in favor of wrong as right, is inspired?
38807But, after all, why should we expect charity in a church that believes in the dogma of eternal pain?
38807Can Christianity afford to speak of war?
38807Can God do nothing except to pronounce the sentence of eternal pain?
38807Can any man tell what he is going to think to- morrow?
38807Can any one conceive of anything more infamous?
38807Can any one find in the literature of this world more frightful words ascribed even to a demon?
38807Can anything be more debasing to the intellect of man than a belief in the astronomy of the Bible?
38807Can anything be more pitiful-- more terrible?
38807Can he cease to do evil in the eternal penitentiary?
38807Can he say this and say it honestly?
38807Can it be said that God intended that thousands should die of famine and that he, to accomplish his purpose, withheld the rain?
38807Can it be said that people have cared for the wounded and dying only because they were orthodox?
38807Can it be said that the church has been the friend of geology, or of any true philosophy?
38807Can it be shown that any infidel has ever raised his voice against education?
38807Can liberty go further than that?
38807Can such a God be worthy of the worship of man?
38807Can such an institution, with any propriety, be called a seat of learning?
38807Can there be any impudence beyond this?
38807Can there be found in the literature of free thought one line against the enlightenment of the human race?
38807Can there be such a thing as mercy in eternal punishment?
38807Can we say that he intended that thousands of innocent men should die in dungeons and on scaffolds?
38807Can you conceive of force floating about attached to nothing?
38807Can you conceive of force without matter?
38807Can you imagine such a thing as matter without force?
38807Can you possibly conceive of this?
38807Colonel, have you noticed the criticisms made on your lectures by the_ Cincinnati Gazette_ and the_ Catholic Telegraph_?
38807Could not an Egyptian, at that time have used the same arguments that Mr. Peters uses now, to prove that the religion of Egypt was divine?
38807Could you help believing that story of Jonah?
38807Could you help thinking as you did on this subject?
38807DOES THE BIBLE DESCRIBE A GOD OF MERCY?
38807DOES THE BIBLE SANCTION POLYGAMY AND CONCUBINAGE?
38807DOES THE BIBLE TEACH MAN TO ENSLAVE HIS BROTHER?
38807DOES THE BIBLE TEACH THE EXISTENCE OF THAT IMPOSSIBLE CRIME CALLED WITCHCRAFT?
38807DOES THE BIBLE UPHOLD AND JUSTIFY POLITICAL TYRANNY?
38807Did Dr. Plumb ever read Confucius?
38807Did he ever hear of Auguste Comte, the great Frenchman?
38807Did he ever hear of Descartes, of Laplace, of Spinoza?
38807Did he ever read Epicurus, one of the greatest of the Greeks?
38807Did he ever read Lao- tsze?
38807Did that fact prove that the Egyptian religion was of divine origin?
38807Did the Doctor ever read Zeno?
38807Did the compassionate God create the cancer so that it might feed on the quiverering flesh of this victim?
38807Did we have it before the war?
38807Did you notice what the_ Catholic Telegraph_ said about your lecture being ungrammatical?
38807Do n''t you think there are many worthy poor in this city who need material help?"
38807Do you believe all the stories in the Bible?
38807Do you believe in a personal devil?
38807Do you believe in the inspiration of the Bible?
38807Do you believe in the stories of the Bible, about Jael, and the sun standing still, and the walls falling at the blowing of horns?
38807Do you believe that God upheld polygamy?
38807Do you believe that God upheld slavery and polygamy?
38807Do you believe that any suicides have been caused or encouraged by your declaration three years ago that suicide sometimes was justifiable?
38807Do you believe that he ordered the killing of babes and the violation of maidens?
38807Do you believe that such a law will prevent the frequency of suicides?
38807Do you believe that the bodies of men and women become tenements for little imps and goblins and demons?
38807Do you believe that the devil used to lead men and women astray?
38807Do you believe the stories about devils that you find in the Old and New Testaments?
38807Do you consider that nationality plays a part in these tragedies?
38807Do you ever meet Christian people who try to convert you?
38807Do you find in lecturing through the country that your ideas are generally received with favor?
38807Do you mean to say that all the great living scientists regard the Cosmogony of Moses as a myth?
38807Do you not regard such talk as"slang"?
38807Do you really believe the Old Testament was inspired?
38807Do you think any book inspired?
38807Do you think that God upheld polygamy?
38807Do you think that is thought?
38807Do you think that what you have written about suicide has caused people to take their lives?
38807Do you think the Old Testament true?
38807Do you think the stories in the Bible exaggerated?
38807Do you, then, advise suicide?
38807Does God enjoy his agony?
38807Does Mr. Hamlin believe in the existence of the devil?
38807Does a god desire the homage of a coward?
38807Does he know that any such place exists?
38807Does he know where heaven is?
38807Does he not know that even to- day the church slanders and maligns the foremost men?
38807Does he not know that nearly every man who took a forward step was denounced by the church as a heretic and infidel?
38807Does he not know that the church has in all ages persecuted the astronomers, the geologists, the logicians?
38807Does he not perceive that had the savages passed the same kind of laws that now exist in Delaware, they could have prevented any change in belief?
38807Does he really long for the adoration of a hypocrite?
38807Does he think that the Presbyterians of Delaware are not only the best now, but that they will forever be the best that God can make?
38807Does he wish for reputation?
38807Does it not say it?
38807Does it satisfy the craving hearts of the nineteenth century?
38807Does n''t it?
38807Does not reason take hold?
38807Does not will power take hold?
38807Does that fact absolutely prove that Zeus was the creator of heaven and earth?
38807Does that prove that Vishnu was a God?
38807Does the Bible uphold polygamy?
38807Does the Doctor think that Christ could not see through the disguise?
38807Does the Doctor think that the material progress of the world was caused by this passage:"Take no thought for the morrow"?
38807Does the gentleman contend there had to be a revelation of God for us to conceive of a place where there is nothing?
38807Does the gentleman imagine that true men and pure women can not differ with him?
38807Does the reverend gentleman really believe that a man can steal without fear, without remorse?
38807Does the reverend gentleman still think that it was the disguise of the devil that tempted Christ?
38807Does the reverend gentleman think that Mr. Newgate made or could make himself comfortable in that way?
38807Does this Judge think that Delaware is incapable of any improvement in a religious point of view?
38807For seven years he did every act of kindness; again he came, and the voice said:"Who is there?"
38807For the invention and use of instruments of torture?
38807God was satisfied when his enemy was?
38807Has free thought ever endeavored to hide or distort, a fact?
38807Has he ever heard of Tyndall, of Huxley?
38807Has he no right to defend himself?
38807Has he read anything from Buddha?
38807Has he read the dialogues between Arjuna and Krishna?
38807Has he the right to render himself unconscious?
38807Has it not always appealed to the senses-- to demonstration?
38807Has not most of modern literature been produced in spite of the Bible?
38807Has orthodoxy produced anything as generously beautiful as this?
38807Has the county ever been troubled that way?
38807Has the hand of help ever been reached from heaven?
38807Has the orthodox religion produced a prayer like this?
38807Has there been no advancement?
38807Has this Judge ever had symptoms of any such disease?
38807Have they ever touched the heart of the Infinite?
38807Have you any idea what reason he had for attacking you?
38807Have you ever met him?
38807Have you ever read the story of Jephthah?
38807Have you noticed what an excellent man he is?"
38807Have you read Chief Justice Comegys''compliments to you before the Delaware grand jury?
38807Have you read a report of it, and what have you to say?
38807Have you read an article in the_ Western Watchman_, entitled"Suicide of Judge Normile"?
38807Have you read the article in the Morning Advertiser entitled"Workers Starving"?
38807Have you seen in the papers that many who have killed themselves have had on their persons some article of yours on suicide?
38807Have you seen that Henry Bergh has introduced in the New York Legislature a bill providing for whipping as a punishment for wife- beating?
38807Have your opinions been in any way modified since your first announcement of them?
38807He says:"Where did you come from?"
38807How about Spain and Portugal?
38807How are you to know whether he thought a solitary thing that he said, or not?
38807How can a Christian comfort the mother of a girl who has died without believing in Christ?
38807How can a man in the flowing tide and noon of life destroy himself?
38807How can any woman believe that this is the will of a most merciful God?
38807How can any woman look other than with contempt upon such passages?
38807How can he achieve what we call glory?
38807How can he have what we call reputation?
38807How can the Infinite be glorified?
38807How could they publicly acknowledge the divinity of Christ?
38807How could they talk back?
38807How could we prove such a thing if it happened now?
38807How dare he call the work of such a being"poor"?
38807How did he dare to pit his little brain against the word of God?
38807How did he get it?
38807How did you get the first one?
38807How do you account for chemistry?
38807How do you account for the difference between the Christian and other modern civilizations?
38807How do you account for the presence of the latter?
38807How do you know but atoms have love and hatred?
38807How do you know that a vine bursting into flower does not feel a thrill?
38807How do you know that the vegetable does not enjoy growing, and that crystallization itself is not an expression of delight?
38807How does Dr. Thomas know that he is not indebted to me for this year''s crops?
38807How does he know that he is vindictive and sharp and shrewd and persevering?
38807How does he know?
38807How does the Doctor know that the devil has an organizing, imperial intellect?
38807How is it possible for men of ordinary intellect, not only to endorse such ignorant falsehoods, but to malign those who do not?
38807How is it possible for us to ascertain whether he is simply the mouthpiece of some other?
38807How is it possible to blaspheme a day?
38807How many errors do you suppose there are?
38807How shall I characterize the spirit that could prompt the writing of such a sentence?
38807How will this action of Delaware, in your opinion, affect the other States?
38807How would it be possible to prove that the dead were raised?
38807How would you convey moral instruction from youth up, and what kind of instruction would you give?
38807Human beings, his children, were tracked through swamps by bloodhounds; and what did God do?
38807I ask you, is it all that is demanded by the brain and heart of the nineteenth century?
38807I believe that thoughtful people require some additional testimony in order to settle the question,"Does death end all?"
38807I might ask: How do you account for the civilization of Egypt?
38807I once delivered a lecture entitled"What must we do to be Saved?"
38807I should judge, Colonel, that you are prejudiced against the State of Delaware?
38807I understand, Colonel Ingersoll, that you have been indicted in the State of Delaware for the crime of blasphemy?
38807IS AVARICE TRIUMPHANT?
38807IS AVARICE TRIUMPHANT?
38807IS SUICIDE A SIN?
38807IS SUICIDE A SIN?
38807IS it possible to conceive of a more jealous, revengeful, changeable, unjust, unreasonable, cruel being than the Jehovah of the Hebrews?
38807If Dr. Plumb wanted to answer me, why did he not take my argument instead of my motive?
38807If God determines all births and deaths, of what use is medicine and why should doctors defy with pills and powders, the decrees of God?
38807If God is a being of infinite wisdom and kindness, why does he make failures?
38807If I could turn a piece of wood into a human being, and I knew that he would murder a man, who is the real murderer?
38807If all I have said is nothing, if it is all idle and foolish, why do they take up the time of their fellow- men replying to me?
38807If devils are only personifications of evil, how is it that these personifications of evil could hold arguments with Jesus Christ?
38807If he allows injustice to prevail here, why will he not allow the same thing in the world to come?
38807If he can be of no use to others-- if he is of no use to himself-- if he is a burden to others-- a curse to himself-- why should he remain?
38807If he does, will he Have the goodness to say who created the devil?
38807If he is going to put an end to him why did he start him?
38807If so, what is your opinion of it?
38807If suicide is sometimes justifiable, is not killing of born idiots and infants hopelessly handicapped at birth equally so?
38807If the devil has an"imperial intellect,"why does he attempt the impossible?
38807If there is any being with power to prevent it, why is crime permitted?
38807If this is so, why not give the money back?
38807If we were at the judgment seat to- night, and the Supreme Being, in our hearing, should ask a man:"Have you been a good man?"
38807If you can absolutely control your thought, can you stop thinking?
38807If you return benefits for injuries what do you propose for benefits?
38807If you say six periods, instead of six days, what becomes of your Sabbath?
38807If you think you can, what are you going to think to- morrow?
38807If you, Mr. Kraeling, had the power to make a world, would you make an exact copy of this?
38807If, then, this eternal being allows the good to suffer pain here, what right have we to say that he will not allow them to suffer forever?
38807In order to be a moral nation must we be controlled by king or emperor?
38807In other words, why should anybody be assisted, if assistance encourages carelessness, or idleness, or negligence?
38807In other words, why should the son of God attempt to get glory out of the fact that he had in his veins the blood of a barbarian king?
38807In short, has he ever heard of a man who took a step in advance of his time?
38807In the first place, what have I said?
38807In the nature of things, how could he have evidence?
38807In this connection we might ask how God can be moral or good unless he believes in some Being superior to himself?
38807In this connection we might ask how God can be moral or good unless he believes in some Being superior to himself?
38807In this he was mistaken; and in the darkness of death, overwhelmed, he cried out:"Why hast thou forsaken me?"
38807Is God thrilled by the music of his moans-- the melody of his shrieks?
38807Is a man dishonest because he is a man and maintains the rights of men?
38807Is a suicide necessarily a coward?
38807Is a suicide necessarily insane?
38807Is he a personal enemy of yours?
38807Is he acquainted with John W. Draper, one of the leading minds of the world?
38807Is he perfectly sure that an infinite God would be foolish enough to make people who needed a redeemer?
38807Is he willing to abdicate?
38807Is he willing to admit that his rights are not equal to the rights of others?
38807Is he willing to admit that we have drifted so far from orthodox religion that the way to make money is to denounce Christianity?
38807Is he, for the sake of what he calls morality, willing to become a serf, a servant or a slave?
38807Is human liberty a mistake?
38807Is it a consolation to us now?
38807Is it because he was just?
38807Is it because he was merciful?
38807Is it because there is being written upon every orthodox brain a certificate of intellectual inferiority?
38807Is it because they feel the sceptre slowly slipping from their hands?
38807Is it even a consolation when those we love die?
38807Is it in fault, is it responsible, for the picture?
38807Is it mercy to punish a man with eternal fire simply because there is not testimony enough to satisfy his mind?
38807Is it mercy to reward a man forever in consideration of believing a certain thing, of the truth of which there is, to his mind, ample testimony?
38807Is it not a fact that America is to- day the best market in the world for books, for music, and for art?
38807Is it not barely possible that something may be done in another world?
38807Is it not blasphemous for a Boston minister to denounce the work of the Infinite and say to God that he made a"poor"world?
38807Is it not manlier to tell the fact than to endeavor to convey comfort through falsehood?
38807Is it not more reasonable to be proud of wealth which you have accumulated than of brain which nature gave you?
38807Is it not perfectly plain from this story that charity was in the world before Christianity was established?
38807Is it not true that where the church has cared for one orphan it has created hundreds?
38807Is it not unworthy of so eloquent and intelligent a man to preach before you here to- night that thought must always be free?
38807Is it possible for abject obedience to go beyond this?
38807Is it possible for the Christian religion to put a smile upon the face of death?
38807Is it possible that God can not write a book good enough and great enough and grand enough not to excite the laughter of his children?
38807Is it possible that a citizen of the great Republic attacks the liberty of his fellow- citizens?
38807Is it possible that a god wishes the worship of a slave?
38807Is it possible that force could exist without matter or spirit?
38807Is it possible that free institutions tend to the demoralization of men?
38807Is it possible that he is compelled to have his literary reputation supported by the State of Delaware?
38807Is it possible that he requires the worship of one who dare not think?
38807Is it possible that infinite wisdom can do no more than is done for a majority of souls in this world?
38807Is it possible that matter could exist alone, if by matter you mean something without force?
38807Is it possible that the religion of this nineteenth century has for its basis such childish absurdities?
38807Is it possible that"high character is impracticable"in this Republic?
38807Is it possible to contemplate his character without hatred?
38807Is it possible to read the words said to have been spoken by this Deity, without a shudder?
38807Is it proper for him to take refuge in sleep?
38807Is it the duty of this man to allow them to wrap his body in a garment of flame?
38807Is it the result of impotent rage?
38807Is it the soul in which the blossom of charity has never shed its perfume that makes life so desirable?
38807Is it the soul without pity that makes life worth living?
38807Is it the will of God that he die by torture?
38807Is it true that the churches, as a general thing, make strong efforts, as I have seen it stated, to prevent people from going to hear you?
38807Is it true that"intellectual achievement pays no dividends"?
38807Is not this written in the book of Jasher?
38807Is that a fair bargain?
38807Is that the charity that you speak of?
38807Is that the idea we now have of love?
38807Is the Bible inspired?
38807Is the Bible true?
38807Is the man that takes poison rather than be tortured to death by savages or"Christians"a coward?
38807Is the man who leaps into the sea rather than be burned a coward?
38807Is the man who takes morphine rather than be eaten to death by a cancer a coward?
38807Is there a Christian in the world who would not think vastly more of the Bible if all these infamous things were eliminated from it?
38807Is there a sensible man in the world who believes this wretched piece of ignorance?
38807Is there an orthodox minister in this town now who will stand up and say that an honest atheist can be saved?
38807Is there any evidence that he raised the dead?
38807Is there any evidence that this Being trod the sea?
38807Is there any limitation beyond that?
38807Is there any orthodox Christian creed without the devil in it?
38807Is there any proper occasion on which to crow?
38807Is there anything higher than human love?
38807Is there anything in Christianity that will account for such persecutions-- for the Inquisition?
38807Is there anything more spiritual than that-- anything higher?
38807Is there anything more spiritual?
38807Is there authority in the world of art?
38807Is there nothing left for God to do for a poor, ignorant, criminal human soul after it leaves this world?
38807Is there room for discussion?
38807Is there to be no advancement?
38807Is this a festival for God?
38807Is this man under obligation to keep his life because God gave it, until the savages by torture take it?
38807Is this passage applicable only to me?
38807Is this the experience of the author of"Brutality and Avarice Triumphant"?
38807Is this the work of the good God?
38807Is this true of all?
38807It certainly has not been the advocate of free thought; and what is freedom worth if the mind is to be enslaved?
38807It is bad enough; so bad that I do not believe it was ever created by a beneficent deity; but what little good there is in it, why not have it?
38807It may be said that year after year we get to understand it better, but if it is not understood when given, why is it called a"revelation"?
38807John Hall and by Mr. Warner Van Norden, Treasurer of the"Church Extension Committee"?
38807Knowing that all the consequences believed in by orthodox Christians would follow from that fall?
38807Kraeling on Christ and the Devil-- Would he make a World like This?
38807Letting the question as to hell hereafter rest for the present, how do you account for the hell here-- namely, the existence of pain?
38807Little children die upon the withered breasts of mothers; and what does God do?
38807Man has in all ages endeavored to answer the great questions Whence?
38807Mr. Guard, of"some little dog barking at a railway train"?
38807Mr. Hamlin have the goodness to answer this?
38807Mr. O''Donaghue advise people to commit crimes in order that they may enjoy this life?
38807Mr. O''Donaghue mean to say that if there is no future life it is wise to steal in this?
38807Mr. O''Donaghue''s God allow a thief to live without fear, without remorse, to enjoy life immensely and to reach a mellow old age?
38807Mr. O''Donaghue?
38807Mr. Peters asks-- and probably honestly thinks that the questions are pertinent to the issues involved--"What has infidelity done for the world?
38807Mr. Peters asks:"What name is there among the world''s emancipators after which you can not write the name''Christian?''"
38807Mr. Peters, in his enthusiasm, asks this question:"Who raised our great institutions of learning?
38807Must inspiration claim infallibility?
38807No accountability?
38807No, Could you help believing the Bible?
38807Now stop-- turn right into your own minds-- is that thought?
38807Now, I want to know what, according to the orthodox church, is done with that man?
38807Now, are the angels referred to in the New Testament simply personifications of good, and are there no such personal existences?
38807Now, did Christ mean that these dumb devils did not exist?
38807Now, if he knew that billions upon billions would refuse to take the remedy, and consequently would suffer eternal pain, why create them?
38807Now, is it possible that a spirit existed during an eternity without any force and without any matter?
38807Now, is not that a fair logical analysis of what he has said?
38807Now, the question is, do I attack a man of straw?
38807Now, then, what is Christianity?
38807Now, to him, it makes no difference whether I am sincere or insincere; the question is, Can my argument be answered?
38807Now, to- day, right now, what is the church doing?
38807Now, what is spirit?
38807Now, where did this personification of evil come from?
38807On the whole is the world made better or worse by suicides?
38807Or is their case so weak that the slightest evidence overthrows it?
38807Seventh--"And what death has infidelity ever cheered?"
38807Should suicide be forbidden by law?
38807Since the days of Zoroaster has there been any rule for human conduct given superior to this?
38807So you think God corrected some of the worst abuses of polygamy, but preserved the institution itself?
38807So, when a man has committed some awful crime, why should he stay and ruin his family and friends?
38807Solemnity-- Charged with Being Insincere-- Irreverence-- Old Testament Better than the New--"Why Hurt our Feelings?"
38807Spirit without force, a spirit without any matter-- what would that spirit do?
38807State with what words you can comfort those who have, by their own fault, or by the fault of others, found this life not worth living?
38807Suppose I could take a stone and in one moment change it into a sentient, hoping, loving human being, would I have the right to torture it?
38807Suppose that Voltaire and Thomas Paine, and Volney and Hume and Hobbes had cried out when dying"My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
38807Suppose the Supreme Being then should say:"Were you ever baptized?"
38807Suppose you could prove that the maker of the multiplication table held mathematics in contempt; what of it?
38807Suppose you have an authority in music?
38807Take away the senses, how would you think then?
38807That he was to create Adam and Eve and put them in the Garden of Eden, and did he not know that this devil would tempt this Adam and Eve?
38807That in consequence of that he himself would have to be born into this world as a Judean peasant?
38807That in consequence of that he would have to drown all their descendants except eight?
38807That in consequence of that they would fall?
38807That they were only"personifications of evil"?
38807The Lord was walking up and down, and happening to meet Satan, said to him:"Are you acquainted with my servant Job?
38807The Parsee sect of Persia say: A Persian saint ascended the three stairs that lead to heaven''s gate, and knocked; a voice said:"Who is there?"
38807The boys asked,"What for?"
38807The first question, then, is: Has a man under any circumstances the right to kill himself?
38807The great question is not, who died right, but who lived right?
38807The man having died, what does the church say now?
38807The ministers say, I believe, Colonel, that worldliness is the greatest foe to the church, and admit that it is on the increase?
38807The question is, Has the will any power over the thought?
38807The question is, who is right?
38807The real question is not, who is afraid to die?
38807Then I ask Mr. Hamlin this question: Why did God create a successful rival?
38807Then after all you do not pretend that the Scriptures are really inspired?
38807Then why do you put him above mercy?
38807There is rain and there is infidelity; can any one say there is no possible relation between the two?
38807They remained in the dungeons built by theology, by malice, and hatred; and what did God do?
38807This being the very essence of wrong, how can the suffering of innocence justify the guilty?
38807This you may say is the doctrine of the Old Testament-- what is the doctrine of the New?
38807Thousands of men were taken from their homes, fagots were piled around their bodies; they were consumed to ashes, and what did God do?
38807Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done-- I suppose you will throw in the saddle and bridle?"
38807Thy will be done,"--"I suppose you will throw in the saddle and bridle?"
38807WAS THE WORLD CREATED IN SIX DAYS?
38807WHAT IS THE ASTRONOMY OF THE BIBLE?
38807Was either of them inconsistent or illogical?
38807Was it a Catholic persecution that drove the Puritan fathers from England?
38807Was it an actual existence?
38807Was it not a Protestant persecution that drove the Ark and Dove to America?
38807Was it not a waste of raw material to make him?
38807Was it not the storm of Episcopal persecution that filled the sails of the Mayflower?
38807Was it possible for the devil with a mask to fool God, his creator?
38807Was this in favor of science and learning?
38807We find sex in the meanest weeds-- how can you say they have no loves?
38807We think we have liberty of speech, as we understand it, and yet who would undertake to say that our society could live with liberty of speech?
38807Well, can matter exist without force?
38807Well, what do you think of the attempted argument of the_ Gazette_ against your lecture on Moses?
38807Were it not for"worldly"people how would the preachers get along?
38807Were they capable of self- government then?
38807What are we to think of the rule of life laid down by these men?
38807What are you going to think next year?
38807What can men do with it?
38807What can the future have for him?
38807What can we think of a father who would sacrifice his daughter to a demon God?
38807What colleges, hospitals, and schools has it founded?
38807What did God do?
38807What do I think of what the Doctor says about the_ Telegram_ for having published my Christmas sermon?
38807What do you consider the chief cause of suicide?
38807What do you get out of Shakespeare?
38807What do you say to the last verse in the Bible, where a curse is threatened to any man who takes from or adds to the book?
38807What do you think as a freethinker of the Sunday question in Cincinnati?
38807What do you think of Mr. Warner Van Norden''s sentiments as expressed to the reporter?
38807What do you think of that statement?
38807What do you think of the law which prohibits self- destruction?
38807What do you think of the point that no one is able to judge of these things unless he is a Hebrew scholar?
38807What do you think of them?
38807What doctrine is there in Christianity to wipe away her tears?
38807What does God do?
38807What does he care, even, for the religious weeklies, or the presidents of religious colleges?
38807What does the reverend gentleman mean by"_ such a foot to trample our enemies_"?
38807What evidence has Dr. Thomas that the cries and tears of man have ever touched the heart of God?
38807What evidence has he that Christ was God?
38807What excuse has infinite wisdom for peopling the world with savages?
38807What excuse then is left?
38807What good will it do him to know that his course has been approved of by the Methodist Episcopal Church?
38807What harm would that do justice or mercy?
38807What has been my offence?
38807What has it done for the elevation of public morals?"
38807What have I done?
38807What have I said?
38807What have I to say to the Doctor''s personal abuse?
38807What is Calvinism?
38807What is blasphemy?
38807What is it doing, I ask you honestly?
38807What is morality?
38807What is morality?
38807What is the Christian conception?
38807What is the answer to this?
38807What is the best thing to do under the circumstances?
38807What is the best thing to do under the circumstances?
38807What is the doctrine of the New?
38807What is the modern conception of the universe?
38807What is thought?
38807What is worldliness?
38807What is your belief about virtue, morality and religion?
38807What is your idea of the Bible?
38807What is your idea of the chief end of man?
38807What is your opinion about the Old Testament?
38807What is your opinion of the Bible anyhow?
38807What is your opinion of the Bible?
38807What is your opinion of the Old Testament?
38807What is your opinion with regard to that subject?
38807What kind of law must it be that is satisfied with the agony of innocence?
38807What message had he who came from heaven''s throne for the oppressed of earth?
38807What one of us would not put manacles and fetters upon his thoughts, if he only could?
38807What pleasure can it give God to see a man devoured by a cancer; to see the quivering flesh slowly eaten; to see the nerves throbbing with pain?
38807What right had he to create men, knowing that they were to be damned?
38807What right had the first Presbyterian to be a Presbyterian?
38807What right had they to change?
38807What right has Dr. Buckley to disagree with Cardinal Gibbons, and what right has Cardinal Gibbons to disagree with Dr. Buckley?
38807What right has a God to make a failure?
38807What right has he to state what is orthodox?
38807What right has he to tell what is orthodox Christianity?
38807What science?
38807What shall we say of the"Index Expurgatorius"?
38807What then shall be done?
38807What was in your judgment the motive of Judge Comegys?
38807What was the condition of France a century ago?
38807What words of comfort have you for such fathers and for such mothers?
38807What words of sympathy, what words of cheer, for those who labored and toiled without reward?
38807What would any man of ordinary intelligence do in a case like this?
38807What would keep it together?
38807What would keep the finest possible conceivable atom together unless there was force?
38807What would such a spirit turn its particular attention to?
38807What would the_ Watchman_ have said if these men had been the personal enemies of the managers of that paper?
38807What would this God have done if he had lacked wisdom, or power, or goodness?
38807What would we think of a schoolmaster who killed the most of his pupils the first day?
38807What would you think of a farmer who would prepare his land and wait to have it planted by meteoric stones?
38807What would you think of a law compelling a man to admire Shakespeare, or calling it blasphemy to laugh at Hamlet?
38807When God created the devil, did he not know at that time that he was to make this world?
38807When I meet one I tell him,"There is no hell,"and he says:"What do you want to hurt our feelings for?"
38807When a man is of no use to himself or to others, when his days and nights are filled with pain and sorrow, why should he remain to endure them longer?
38807When did the man lose the right of self- defence?
38807When he is of no benefit, when he is a burden to those he loves, why should he remain?
38807When in the history of the world has thought ever been fettered?
38807When is the suicide of the sane justifiable?
38807When life is of no value to him, when he can be of no real assistance to others, why should a man continue?
38807Where did he get his right to be a Presbyterian?
38807Where did he get his right to decide which creed is the correct one?
38807Where did the heat come from?
38807Where the best would die in the darkness of dungeons?
38807Where the best would make scaffolds sacred with their blood?
38807Who bids the earthquake devour and the volcano to overwhelm?
38807Who burned and destroyed men and women and children charged with impossible crimes?
38807Who cut out the tongues of Quakers?
38807Who did this?
38807Who drove Roger Williams from Massachusetts?
38807Who is a worshiper?
38807Who made this law?
38807Who makes the faith?
38807Who sends plague, pestilence and famine?
38807Who sold white Quaker children into slavery?
38807Who was it that chained to the stake that splendid girl by the sands of the sea for not saying"God save the king"?
38807Who was the villain, who was the criminal, who deserved the scaffold-- who but free speech?
38807Who went to Scotland and persecuted the Presbyterians?
38807Who would believe the evidence?
38807Who would build the churches?
38807Who would fill the contribution boxes and plates, and who( most serious of all questions) would pay the salaries?
38807Whom would you punish for the murder of Desdemona-- is it Iago, or Othello?
38807Why did he not point out my weakness instead of telling the consequences that would follow from my action?
38807Why do you call Christ good?
38807Why do you call Christ good?
38807Why do you put him before justice?
38807Why does Dr. Plumb call this world a"poor"world?
38807Why has any life been a failure here?
38807Why is it better for him to kill another man, who wishes to live?
38807Why is it that Germany, said to be the most educated of civilized nations, leads the world in suicides?
38807Why is not a statute necessary to uphold the reputation of Raphael or of Michael Angelo?
38807Why not enjoy the sunshine of this world, and all there is of good in it?
38807Why not go to heaven now-- that is, to- day?
38807Why not have joy here?
38807Why not?
38807Why pierce the brow of death with the thorns of hatred?
38807Why say"toleration"?
38807Why should a man sentenced to imprisonment for life hesitate to still his heart?
38807Why should a soul without pity pray?
38807Why should an almost infinite force be expended simply for the purpose of destroying a handful of men?
38807Why should any one ask God to be merciful to the poor if he is not merciful himself?
38807Why should he add to the injury?
38807Why should he be proud of disposition or of good acts?
38807Why should he call an opponent coarse and blasphemous, simply because he does not happen to believe as he does?
38807Why should he change dust into a sentient being, knowing that that being was to be the heir of endless agony?
38807Why should he live, filling his days and nights, and the days and nights of others, with grief and pain, with agony and tears?
38807Why should he wish the flattery of the average Presbyterian?
38807Why should not poverty have rights?
38807Why should one standing on the shore attempt to rescue him?
38807Why should one thank God, who lived and died a slave?
38807Why should the agony of time interfere with their happiness, when the agonies of eternity will not and can not affect their joy?
38807Why should the devil, who is an enemy of God, help punish God''s enemies?
38807Why should the man, sitting amid the wreck of all he had, the loved ones dead, friends lost, seek to lengthen, to preserve his life?
38807Why should the poor wretch stay and suffer?
38807Why should they despise the mentally weak-- the diseased in brain?
38807Why stop the train, why send for the directors, why hold a consultation and finally say, we must settle with that dog or stop running these cars?
38807Why this waste of force?
38807Why?
38807Why?
38807Why?
38807Why?
38807Wild storms sweep over the earth and the shipwrecked go down in the billows; and what does God do?
38807Will Mr. Campbell have the goodness to tell me why God made the devil?
38807Will any God be satisfied with that?
38807Will anyone, the most ardent admirer of Colonel Ingersoll, tell me what he has built up?
38807Will he have the kindness to give just one?
38807Will it cheer him to know that, even if he is to be saved, countless millions are to be lost?
38807Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power?
38807Women lifted their hands to God and implored him to protect their children, their daughters; and what did God do?
38807Would I have the right to give it pain?
38807Would it give God pleasure to see him burn?
38807Would not the rich there predominate and the poor be just as much out of place?
38807Would this state of affairs be remedied if, instead of churches, we had societies of ethical culture?
38807Would you create the seeds of disease and scatter them in the air and water?
38807Would you do it?
38807Would you fill the woods with wild beasts?
38807Would you have it so that millions and millions of babes would be sold from the breasts of mothers?
38807Would you include a man like Henry Ward Beecher in that statement?
38807Would you make a few volcanoes to overwhelm your children?
38807Would you make a man and woman, put them in a garden, knowing that they would be deceived, knowing that they would fall?
38807Would you make a world in which innocence would not be a shield?
38807Would you make a world in which the wrong would triumph?
38807Would you make a world where hypocrisy and cunning and fraud should represent God, and where meanness would suck the blood of honest credulity?
38807Would you make a world where the best would be loaded with chains?
38807Would you make different races of men?
38807Would you make them ignorant, savage, and fill their minds with all the phantoms of horror?
38807Would you make them of different colors, and would you so make them that they would persecute and enslave each other?
38807Would you provide for earthquakes that would swallow them?
38807Would you provide for plague and pestilence?
38807Would you provide for the settlement of all difficulties by war?
38807Would you see to it that the rack was not forgotten, and that the fagot was not overlooked or unlighted?
38807Would you so arrange matters as to produce cancers?
38807Would you so arrange matters that millions and millions should toil through many generations, paid only by the lash on the back?
38807Would you so make your world that life should feed on life, that the quivering flesh should be torn by tooth and beak and claw?
38807Would you?
38807Would you?
38807Yes, we all admit that, but is the Bible inspired?
38807Yes, we know all that, but is the Old Testament inspired?
38807Yet seven other years of kindness, and the man again knocked; and the voice cried and said:"Who is there?"
38807You have stated your objections to the churches, what would you have to take their place?
38807You say that the aristocracy of intellect is quite as cruel as the aristocracy of wealth-- what do you mean by that?
38807Zeno, who denounced human slavery many years before Christ was born?
38807_ Answer._"Ingersoll is very fond of saying''The question is not, is the Bible inspired, but is it true?''
38807_ Answer._"What is there to be indignant about in that?"
38807_ But what is there to be indignant_ about in that?"
38807_ Psalms, lxviii._ Is it possible that a God takes delight in seeing dogs lap the blood of his children?
38807and Whither?
38807and if he does, can he be pardoned-- can he be released?
38807what would the clergymen of this city then have said?
38807xxxii._ Is this the language of an infinitely kind and tender parent to his weak, his wandering and suffering children?
388112 Does one have to be born again to appreciate the beauty and solemnity of such a performance? 38811 And is mine one?"
38811Oh,said the wolf,"Are you chained?
38811Provoked him to anger._Is that true?
38811Would you go if you were invited?
38811You have?
38811_ Can the mind conceive of more horrid blasphemy?_Is not that true?
38811_ Can the mind conceive of more horrid blasphemy?_Is not that true?
38811_ Or the Word of God_--What is that?
38811''s dearest brother James, the Duke of York.. And what else?
38811* Is it true that when a captain with fifty men went after Elijah, this prophet caused fire to come down from heaven and consume them all?
38811About how many sins could an average goat carry?
38811After the passage of such a law by the United States is it not indecent for us to send missionaries to China?
38811Again, what is the difference between a State that has no law on the subject, and a State that has passed an unconstitutional law?
38811All at once there arose a man called Martin Luther, and what did the dear old Catholics think?
38811And are they the"merciful"who when some man endeavors to answer their argument, put him in the penitentiary?
38811And do you know that we ought to feel under the greatest obligation to men who have fought the prevailing notions of their day?
38811And has a man that right?
38811And how are you going to keep from having more?
38811And how would the ministers feel if somebody should invent a clergyman of wood that would to all intents and purposes answer the purpose?
38811And if he could know, how could he convince others?
38811And if the writers of the Bible were in reality inspired, ought not that book to be the greatest of books?
38811And is it possible that a work written by an infinite Being has to be protected by a legislature?
38811And is not this difference founded on the difference in credulity?
38811And is such citizenship within the protecting power of Congress?
38811And suppose he does not believe in any bible whatever?
38811And suppose the highest tribunal of the State holds that the question is of a"social"character-- what then?
38811And that this God at the same time he gave the Ten Commandments ordered the Jews to break the most of them?
38811And what does that mean?
38811And what else says the defendant?
38811And what else?
38811And what has been the result?
38811And what is it that for the moment destroys the sense of right and wrong?
38811And what is it to reap that field?
38811And when children were sold from the breasts of mothers, why was he deaf to the mother''s cry?
38811And when he heard the lash upon the naked back of the slave, why did he not also hear the prayer of the slave?
38811And wherever such laws have been enforced, have the people been friends?
38811And why were the Jews themselves without a Bible until the days of Ezra the scribe?
38811And why?
38811And why?
38811Any harm in saying that?
38811Are all these doubts born of a malignant and depraved heart?
38811Are diseases of the brain-- are deformities of the soul, of the mind, also transmitted?
38811Are his words a shield that he uses to protect himself from suspicion?
38811Are majorities always right?
38811Are not, then, all the immunities and privileges and rights under the protecting power of Congress?
38811Are the brains of criminals exactly like the brains of honest men?
38811Are the majority the pioneers of progress, or does the pioneer, as a rule, walk alone?
38811Are the monk and nun superior to the father and mother?
38811Are there several kinds of knowing?
38811Are they holy?
38811Are vices as carefully transmitted by nature as virtues?
38811Are we any better friends to- day than we were in 1789?
38811Are we any nearer thinking alike to- day than we were then?
38811Are we certain that all people can tell the truth?
38811Are we certain that it does not require genius to be good?
38811Are we going back to superstition?
38811Are we going to take authority for truth?
38811Are we not all children of the same Mother?
38811Are we not all compelled to think, whether we wish to or not?
38811Are we not satisfied now that back of every act and thought and dream and fancy is an efficient cause?
38811Are we to have a God who will re- enact the Mosaic code and punish hundreds of offences with death?
38811Are we to have the God who issued a commandment against all art-- who was the enemy of investigation and of free speech?
38811Are we to retrace our steps?
38811Are you deprived of your liberty?
38811Are"the law of supply and demand,"invention and science, monopoly and competition, capital and legislation always to be the enemies of those who toil?
38811As a matter of fact, is there not now a cause which did not to the same extent exist then?
38811As a matter of fact, miracles could only satisfy people who demanded no evidence; else how could they have believed the miracle?
38811As he lived, he died-- hopeful and serene-- and now, standing in imagination by his grave, we ask: Will the night be eternal?
38811Besides, if all should obey this injunction,"Sell what thou hast and give to the poor,"who would buy?
38811But how is it possible to fix the wages of every man?
38811But let me ask, What is it to be spiritual?
38811But the real question is: Can religion restrain people from committing natural crimes?
38811But what can the United States say?
38811But who is to make known the will of this supreme God?
38811By what standard would he judge?
38811By what testimony can we substantiate the authenticity of the prophets, or of the prophecies, or of the fulfillments?
38811Can God, then, through the Bible, make the same revelation to two persons?
38811Can any man have the egotism to say that he has found it all out?
38811Can anything be done for the reformation of the criminal?
38811Can anything be more absurd?
38811Can anything be plainer-- anything be more forcibly stated?
38811Can anything more brutally hellish be conceived?
38811Can he believe without evidence?
38811Can he get employment?
38811Can he preserve his manhood only by making a false statement?
38811Can his lips be closed by the power of the state?
38811Can it be true that God was afraid to trust himself with the Jews for fear he would consume them?
38811Can it imagine a beginningless being, infinitely powerful and intelligent?
38811Can man become intelligent enough to be generous, to be just; or does the same law or fact control him that controls the animal and vegetable world?
38811Can one who does not believe in this God, conscientiously take such oath, or make such affirmation?
38811Can the Federal arm be palsied by the action or non- action of a State?
38811Can the fatherless and motherless exist?
38811Can the offender be proceeded against in the criminal courts?
38811Can there be anything more consoling than to feel, to know, that Jehovah is not God-- that the message of the Old Testament is not from the infinite?
38811Can these forces of nature be controlled for the benefit of her suffering children?
38811Can this be unpleasant except in an uncivilized community-- a community in which an uncivilized church has authority?
38811Can we blame the Hebrews for getting tired of their God?
38811Can we conceive of nothing as a force, or as a cause?
38811Can we not safely take another step, and say that the criminal is a victim, as the diseased and insane and deformed are victims?
38811Can we now say that the Bible is inspired in its morality?
38811Can you help thinking as you do?
38811Can you imagine an infinitely good God sending a man to hell because he did not believe the bear story?
38811Could a man meet such a goat now without laughing?
38811Could it now, by any possibility, make a man a good father, a good husband, a good citizen?
38811Could the States, in spite of the 13th Amendment, deprive free men of life or property without due process of law?
38811Could they be classified by a naturalist?
38811Could you pour contempt on Shakespeare by saying that his mother was a woman,--by saying that he was once a poor, crying, little, helpless child?
38811Did John Calvin give evidence of his spirituality by burning Servetus?
38811Did a man actually go to heaven in a chariot of fire drawn by horses of fire, or was he carried to Paradise by a whirlwind?
38811Did anybody ever dream of passing a law to protect Shakespeare from being laughed at?
38811Did anybody ever hear of a policeman being dismissed because a new church had been organized?
38811Did anybody ever think of such a thing?
38811Did anybody ever want any legislative enactment to keep people from holding Robert Burns in contempt?
38811Did he know he would drown them when he made them?
38811Did he know they ought to be drowned when they were made?
38811Did he mix his ignorance with the divine information, his prejudices and hatreds with the love and justice of the Deity?
38811Did he not, if the Bible is true, drown the people?
38811Did it please him for man to kill his neighbor, for brother to murder his brother, and for the father to butcher his sou?
38811Did not Congress have that power under the 13th Amendment?
38811Did not Congress, under that amendment, have the power to protect the lives, liberty and property of free men?
38811Did not Congress, under the 13th Amendment, have power to destroy slavery and involuntary servitude?
38811Did that law apply to States, or to individuals?
38811Did the nations thus restrained by religion, prosper?
38811Did the one inspired set down only the thoughts of a supernatural being?
38811Did the prosecution have the courage to attack his reputation?
38811Did the word Protestant"carry an unpleasant significance"?
38811Did they succeed?
38811Did you ever know of a more despicable fraud practiced by one brother on another than Jacob practiced on Esau?
38811Do I think that the marriage of the sickly and diseased ought to be prevented by law?
38811Do not these passages show that these laws were made long after the Jews had left the desert, and that they were not given from Sinai?
38811Do they live upon some kind of food?
38811Do they occupy space?
38811Do they run or float or fly?
38811Do we need to protect him from ridicule by a statute?
38811Do you believe that?
38811Do you know that all the mechanics that ever lived-- take the best ones-- cannot make two clocks that will run exactly alike one hour, one minute?
38811Do you not see what the effect will be?
38811Does an officer, by acting contrary to State law, become so like a State that the word State, used in the Constitution, includes him?
38811Does any intellectual man who has examined the question believe that depraved demons live in the bodies of men?
38811Does any theologian hate the man he can answer?
38811Does citizenship mean anything except certain"rights, privileges and immunities"?
38811Does each man in some degree bear burdens imposed by ancestors?
38811Does he blot out, or dim, one star in the heaven of hope?
38811Does he help the poor?
38811Does he like to lock somebody up in the penitentiary because he has the power of the moment?
38811Does he need assistance from New Jersey?
38811Does he pay his debts?
38811Does he tell the truth?
38811Does he want to crush his fellow citizens?
38811Does he wish to convince his neighbors that the evil thought and impulse were never in his mind?
38811Does he wish to use it as a despot, or as a philanthropist-- like a devil, or like a man?
38811Does it involve moral responsibility?
38811Does it make any difference whether you believe it or not?
38811Does it, or does it not?
38811Does that cast any scorn or contempt upon him?
38811Does the Agnostic take any consolation from the world?
38811Does the Bible describe God as having drowned the whole world with the exception of eight people?
38811Does the Principal of King''s College know any more as to the truth of the Old Testament than the man who modestly calls for evidence?
38811Does the Supreme Court wish to be understood, that until the 14th Amendment was adopted the States had the right to rob and kill free men?
38811Does the great law demand that every worker live on the least possible amount of bread?
38811First of all, is it probable?
38811For what sum of money, for what amount of wealth, would the world have the science of astronomy expunged from the brain of man?
38811Gentlemen, does not that show the need of more missionaries?
38811HAS FREETHOUGHT A CONSTRUCTIVE SIDE?
38811HAS FREETHOUGHT A CONSTRUCTIVE SIDE?
38811Had they the public weal at heart, or were they simply endeavoring to be revenged upon this defendant?
38811Has a man the right to examine, to investigate, the religion of his own country-- the religion of his father and mother?
38811Has he got a heart that melts when he hears grief''s story?
38811Has he the confidence of the Infinite?
38811Has he the right to be sincere?
38811Has he the right to say it, if he believes it?
38811Has he the right to show that Martin Luther said he did not believe there was one solitary word of gospel in the Epistle to the Romans?
38811Has he the right to show that some of these books were not written till nearly two hundred years afterward?
38811Has he the right to show that the book of Revelation got into the canon by one vote, and one only?
38811Has he the right to show that there were twenty- eight books called"The Books of the Hebrew''s"?
38811Has he the right to show that they passed in convention upon what books they would put in and what they would not?
38811Has he the right to show that?
38811Has not a mistake been made?
38811Has the Catholic Church thrown away the differences between it and the Protestants?
38811Has the Principal of King''s College any knowledge that he keeps from the rest of the world?
38811Has the father no real love for the children?
38811Has virtue had as many martyrs as vice?"
38811Have all citizens of the United States equal rights, without regard to race or color?
38811Have all citizens the same right to travel on the highways of the country?
38811Have criminals the same ambitions, the same standards of happiness or of well- being?
38811Have the angels no regret, no remorse, no conscience?
38811Have the laborers the same right to consult and combine?
38811Have these scientific assassins discovered anything of value?
38811Have they all the same right to ride upon the railways created by State authority?
38811Have we not advanced far enough intellectually to deny the existence of chance?
38811Have you a right to think about it at all?
38811Have you any suggestions to make in regard to remodeling the libel laws?
38811Have you not the right to read, to observe, to investigate-- and when you have so read and so investigated, have you not the right to reap that field?
38811Have you produced a new argument?
38811Having this control, why did he not see to it that he was recognized in the Constitution of the United States?
38811He goes so far as to say, that:"_ He was found staring foolishly at his own little toes._"And why not?
38811He is the American who is forever asking,"Why?"
38811Honestly-- what do you think they would say?
38811How are we to settle the unequal contest between men and machines?
38811How are you going to judge him?
38811How came the miracles to be believed?
38811How can a man obtain any knowledge of the unseen world?
38811How can a slave owe labor?
38811How can a slave owe service?
38811How can man make friends with God by cutting the throats of bullocks and goats?
38811How can the Deist satisfactorily account for the sufferings of women and children?
38811How can the fact of inspiration be established?
38811How can these miracles be verified?
38811How can we account for an article like that?
38811How can we know that any human being was divinely inspired?
38811How could a slave make a contract?
38811How could even the inspired man know that he was inspired?
38811How could such a being be intelligent?
38811How could such a being be powerful?
38811How could such a law have been constitutional?
38811How could such impostors have escaped exposure?
38811How could the inspired man know that the communication was received from God?
38811How could the master have a legal claim against a slave?
38811How could these priests get wine?
38811How did the Bible get lost?5 Where was the precious Pentateuch from Moses to Josiah?
38811How did these absconding slaves make cherubs of gold?
38811How did they coin the shekel of the sanctuary?
38811How did they come to crucify him?
38811How did they happen to have it, and how did you happen to be deprived of it?
38811How did they make wreathed chains and spoons, basins and tongs?
38811How did they overlay boards with gold?
38811How do we know that it is possible for all people to be honest?
38811How do you know what such men are mentioned for?
38811How does he use power?
38811How else?
38811How has the Catholic Church imposed upon millions of people?
38811How has the church in every age, when in authority, defended itself?
38811How is it a virtue to deny the miracles of Mohammed and to believe those attributed to Christ?
38811How is it possible to know whether the reputed authors of the books of the Old Testament were the real ones?
38811How is it that the rich control the departments of government?
38811How is"the contrary to appear"?
38811How long will they be controlled by friends who seek favors, and by reformers who want office?
38811How was it possible for the Jews to get along without the directions as to fat and caul and kidney contained in Leviticus?
38811How would Jeremy Taylor have treated an Episcopalian like Heber Newton?
38811How, in the desert of Sinai, did the Jews obtain curtains of fine linen?
38811I ask: How did Mohammed deceive the people of Mecca?
38811I do not say whether this is true or not, but has a man the right to say it if he believes it?
38811I have given you my definition of blasphemy, and now the question arises, what is worship?
38811I now ask, has that subject-- that is to say, Liberty,--been submitted to the general legislative power of Congress?
38811I touched him and said,"Did you ever see anything so beautiful?"
38811If Congress was not clothed with such power by the 13th Amendment, what was the object of that amendment?
38811If God be infinitely good and wise and powerful, is it possible he is afraid of anything?
38811If God in reality should appear to a human being, how could this human being know who had appeared?
38811If Hermann, the magician, and Humboldt, the philosopher, could have appeared before savages, which would have been regarded as a god?
38811If a community is thoroughly civilized, why should it be an unpleasant thing for a man to express his belief in respectful language?
38811If a difference exists in brain, will that in part account for the difference in character?
38811If a nation is Christian, will all the citizens go to heaven?
38811If a sick man should come down the street and sit upon your doorstep, what would you do with him?
38811If excluded from one inn, he may be from all; if from one car, why not from all?
38811If he is to be regarded as perfect, although not divine, when did he reach perfection?
38811If he wished other nations to be informed, and revealed himself to but one, why did he not choose a people that mingled with others?
38811If it is not, will they all be damned?
38811If it is true, is it blasphemous?
38811If it was of such vast importance for man to know that there is a God, why did not God make himself known?
38811If one denies the existence of devils, does he, for that reason, cease to believe in Jesus Christ?
38811If others claim the right, where did they get it?
38811If stories like this can be circulated about a living man, what may we not expect concerning the dead who have opposed the church?
38811If the Catholic Church was still in partnership with God, what excuse could have been made for the Reformation?
38811If the Mosaic account does not convince a man that it is true, is he a wretch because he is candid enough to tell the truth?
38811If the argument is against him, it might be unpleasant; but why should simple numbers be the foundation of unpleasantness?
38811If the book and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and the brain do not agree?
38811If the majority have the facts,--if they have the argument,--why should they fear the mistakes of the minority?
38811If the minority had never spoken, what to- day would have been the condition of this world?
38811If there be one true religion, how is it possible to ascertain which of all the religions the true one is?
38811If this be true, then your knowledge of the subject is also irrelevant?
38811If this statute is constitutional, why has it been allowed to sleep for all these years?
38811If to deny the existence of these supposed beings is to be an infidel, how can the word infidel"carry an unpleasant significance"?
38811If we can not believe those whom we know, why should we believe witnesses who have been dead thousands of years, and about whom we know nothing?
38811If what the defendant has said is blasphemy under this statute then the question arises, is the statute in accordance with the constitution?
38811If you have the right to work with your hands and to gather the harvest for yourself and your children, have you not a right to cultivate your brain?
38811If, on the other hand, the communication is absurd or wicked, will that conclusively show that the man was not inspired?
38811If, then, all the people in each State, were, by virtue of the 13th Amendment, free, what right had a majority to enslave a minority?
38811If, then, even the inspired man can not certainly know that he is inspired, how is it possible for him to demonstrate his inspiration to others?
38811In examining a philosophy, a system, the ministers asked:"Does it agree with the sacred book?"
38811In order to be really spiritual, must a man sacrifice this world for the sake of another?
38811In other words, is our reason to be the final standard?
38811In other words, what is the difference between no law and a void law?
38811In other words, why may not the mob do quickly that which the State does slowly?
38811In other words: Is the principal bound by the acts of his agent, that act not being within the scope of his authority?
38811In this Manifesto was this argument:"What kind of office must that be in a government which requires neither experience nor ability to execute?
38811In this sense, what is an unbeliever?
38811In what obscure and shadowy recesses of the brain are passions born?
38811In what way will he justify religious persecution-- the flame and sword of religious hatred?
38811Is a State liable-- or is the Government liable-- for the act of any officer, that act not being authorized by law?
38811Is a man to be blamed for not agreeing with his fellow- citizen?
38811Is a man to be sent to the penitentiary for that?
38811Is a person accountable for the constitution of his mind, for the formation of his brain?
38811Is any government, or can any government, be capable of intelligently performing these countless duties?
38811Is any human being responsible for the weight that evidence has upon him?
38811Is any statute needed to keep Euclid from being laughed at in this neighborhood?
38811Is anything, or can anything, be produced that is not necessarily produced?
38811Is he convinced?
38811Is he not paid a thousand times through their caresses, their sympathy, their love?
38811Is hell hungry for those who deny that water gushed from a"hollow place"in a dry bone?
38811Is hell the only place where souls regret the evil they have done?
38811Is it a sin to ask these questions?
38811Is it a sin to be counted?
38811Is it a sin to deny this, and to deny the inspiration of a book that teaches it?
38811Is it a small thing to lift from the shoulders of industry the burdens of superstition?
38811Is it any harm to speak of it?
38811Is it blasphemous to deny that God commanded his children to murder each other?
38811Is it blasphemous to say that he was benevolent, merciful and just?
38811Is it blasphemy to ask that question?
38811Is it blasphemy to deny that a God of infinite love gave such commandments?
38811Is it blasphemy to quote from the"Sacred Scriptures"?
38811Is it blasphemy to say that Solomon was not a virtuous man, or that David was an adulterer?
38811Is it blasphemy to say that you do not like a hypocrite, a murderer, or a thief, because his name is in the Bible?
38811Is it blasphemy to tell the truth and to say exactly what David was?
38811Is it evidence of a new heart to believe that one man turned over a house so large that over three thousand people were on the roof?
38811Is it his duty to close his lips?
38811Is it his fate to work one day, that he may get enough food to be able to work another?
38811Is it likely that a being of infinite wisdom would deliberately do what he knew he must undo?
38811Is it necessary to believe in eternal torment to understand the meaning of the word spiritual?
38811Is it necessary to believe that?
38811Is it necessary to hate those who disagree with you, and to calumniate those whose argument you can not answer, in order to be spiritual?
38811Is it not a little late in the day to object to people because they sacrifice meat and other eatables to their god?
38811Is it not an invasion of citizenship to invade the immunities or privileges or rights belonging to a citizen?
38811Is it not possible to imagine that a great and tender soul living in Palestine nearly twenty centuries ago was misunderstood?
38811Is it not true that the citizen is apt to imitate his nation?
38811Is it not true that the criminal is a natural product, and that society unconsciously produces these children of vice?
38811Is it not within the range of the probable that legend and rumor and ignorance and zeal have deformed his life and belittled his character?
38811Is it not within the realm of the possible that his words have been inaccurately reported?
38811Is it not wonderful that the creator of all worlds, infinite in power and wisdom, could not hold his own against the gods of wood and stone?
38811Is it possible for all men to be generous or candid or courageous?
38811Is it possible for the human mind to conceive of an infinite personality?
38811Is it possible that Christians will break the peace?
38811Is it possible that God commanded them to be done?
38811Is it possible that a book can not be written by a God so that it will not excite the laughter of the human race?
38811Is it possible that a few Chinese can bring our"holy religion"into disgust and contempt?
38811Is it possible that a good and wise God, knowing that he was going to drown them, made millions of people?
38811Is it possible that the average man assaults the criminal in a spirit of self- defence?
38811Is it possible that these things really happened?
38811Is it possible that they will violate the law?
38811Is it possible that thoughts or desires or passions are the children of chance, born of nothing?
38811Is it possible that we must go to the same causes for these effects?
38811Is it possible that women, who have been the Caryatides of the church, who have borne its insults and its burdens, are to be its destroyers?
38811Is it possible to conceive of a despotism beyond this?
38811Is it possible to flatter the Infinite with a constitutional amendment?
38811Is it possible to get any morality out of this history?
38811Is it possible to imagine an infinite intelligence dwelling for an eternity in infinite nothing?
38811Is it possible to put in ordinary English a more perfect absurdity?
38811Is it probable that Christians will congregate together and make a mob, simply because a man has given an opinion against their religion?
38811Is it the God of the Old Testament, who was a believer in slavery and who justified polygamy?
38811Is it the God who commanded the husband to stone his wife to death because she differed with him on the subject of religion?
38811Is it the duty of the General Government to protect its citizens?
38811Is it the duty of the minority to keep silent?
38811Is it to be expected that they will unfrock themselves?
38811Is it very wicked to deny that the universe was created of nothing by an infinite being who existed from all eternity?
38811Is it within the power of man to determine the influence that testimony shall have upon his mind?
38811Is man involved in the"general scheme of things"?
38811Is man under any obligation to his fellows?
38811Is not that an absurd and foolish statute?
38811Is not the difference one of belief instead of knowledge?
38811Is not the tendency to harden and degrade not only those who inflict and those who witness, but the entire community as well?
38811Is not this statement perfectly absurd?
38811Is progress to stop?
38811Is such a denial calculated to pour contempt and scorn upon the God of the orthodox?
38811Is that of any importance?
38811Is that the Christian religion?
38811Is that the Christian religion?
38811Is that the doctrine?
38811Is that the law?
38811Is that to be his only hope-- that and death?
38811Is the god dead?
38811Is the human body at present the residence of evil spirits, or have these imps of darkness perished from the world?
38811Is the human race worthy to be worshiped by itself-- that is to say, should the individual worship himself?
38811Is the man spiritual who endeavors by thought and deed to ennoble the human race?
38811Is the result of such weighing necessary?
38811Is the weight of evidence a question of choice?
38811Is then, the Bible a different book to every human being who reads it?
38811Is there a Christian missionary who could help laughing if in any heathen country he had seen the following command of God carried out?
38811Is there any blasphemy about that?
38811Is there any difference between the knowledge of the Christian and of the Agnostic?
38811Is there any evidence-- has there been any-- to show that the defendant was not absolutely candid in the expression of his opinions?
38811Is there any obligation resting on any human being to believe this account?
38811Is there any other knowledge than a scientific knowledge?
38811Is there any remedy for this?
38811Is there any remedy?
38811Is there anything blasphemous in that?
38811Is there anything in heredity?
38811Is there anything in this that is blasphemous?
38811Is there as much division now in the religious world as then?
38811Is there enough in the Bible to save a soul with this story left out?
38811Is there no joy in seeing their minds unfold, their affections develop?
38811Is there no pity, no mercy?
38811Is there not a connection between all events, and is not every act related to all other acts?
38811Is there not work enough for them at home?
38811Is there nothing in this to excite the admiration, the adoration, of a modern reformer?
38811Is there one particle of evidence tending, to show that he is not a perfectly honest and sincere man?
38811Is there such a thing as honestly weighing testimony?
38811Is there such a thing as scientific ignorance?
38811Is there to be no change?
38811Is this a Nation?
38811Is this a difference in knowledge, or a difference in belief-- that is to say, a difference in credulity?
38811Is this blasphemy?
38811Is this knowledge?
38811Is this law constitutional, or is it simply an old statute that fell asleep, that was forgotten, that people simply failed to repeal?
38811Is this statute in harmony with, the part of the constitution of 1844 which says:"The liberty of speech shall not be abridged"?
38811Is this true?
38811It may be well enough to ask: What is it to be really spiritual?
38811Let another read him who knows nothing of the drama, nothing of the impersonations of passion, and what does he get?
38811Let this be admitted, and what does it prove?
38811Must a man be honest?
38811Must the discoverer of new truths make of his mind a tomb?
38811Must the inventor allow his inventions to die in the brain?
38811Must we admit that Elijah was fed by ravens; that they brought him bread and flesh every morning and evening?
38811Must we judge from the communication?
38811Now, gentlemen, what is blasphemy?
38811Now, how should we treat a new thought?
38811Now, if the legislation of Congress must be"corrective,"then I ask, corrective of what?
38811Now, is it not a fact that the Old Testament does uphold polygamy?
38811Now, is there any blasphemy in saying that the Bible is true?
38811Now, then, to come to the point, to answer the interrogatory often flung at us from the pulpit, What institutions have Infidels built?
38811Now, what has a man the right to say about that?
38811ONE HUNDRED years after Christ had died suppose some one had asked a Christian, What hospitals have you built?
38811Of what shape are they?
38811On the way the wolf happened to notice that some hair was worn off the dog''s neck, and he said,"How did the hair become worn?"
38811Ought I to clap my hand over my mouth and start for another State, and the minute I got over the line say,"It is not true, It is not true"?
38811Ought a man to be despised and persecuted for denying that God ordered the priests to make women drink dirt and water to test their virtue?
38811Ought an honest man to be sent to the penitentiary for simply telling the truth?
38811Ought not the work of a God to be vastly superior to that of a man?
38811SHOULD INFIDELS SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO SUNDAY SCHOOL?
38811SHOULD INFIDELS SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO SUNDAY SCHOOL?
38811SHOULD THE CHINESE BE EXCLUDED?
38811SHOULD THE CHINESE BE EXCLUDED?
38811Second, Is the Bible true?
38811Shall the nation take life?
38811Shall we now go back to barbarism?
38811She is asked:"Love you the man that wronged you?"
38811Should God allow such wretches to manage his fire?
38811Should it be an unpleasant thing for a man to say plainly what he believes?
38811Should you express that thought?
38811Suppose God is acknowledged in the Constitution, and somebody denies the existence of this God-- what are you to do with him?
38811Suppose a man believes that, and practices it, does it make any difference whether he believes in the flood or not?
38811Suppose a man writes a libelous article, leaves the country, and then the article is published; is there no remedy?
38811Suppose a person denied equal privileges upon the railway on account of race and color, brings suit and is defeated?
38811Suppose the defendant in this case were guilty of something like that?
38811THOUSANDS of Christians have asked: How was it possible for Christ and his apostles to deceive the people of Jerusalem?
38811The defendant also says, that:"_ God was sick when cutting his teeth._"And what of that?
38811The defenders of orthodox creeds should have the courage to candidly answer at least two questions: First, Is the Bible inspired?
38811The first question for you, gentlemen, to decide in this case is: Is this statute constitutional?
38811The great question is, How shall this right of self- defence be exercised?
38811The other day I was asked these questions:"Has there been as much heroism displayed for the right as for the wrong?
38811The question arises: Is a State responsible for the action of its agent when acting contrary to law?
38811The question is, Has it the right to punish?--has it the right to degrade?--or should it endeavor to reform the convict?
38811The question is, Who has the right on his side?
38811The question is: Can miracles be established except by miracles?
38811The question is: Is Christianity declining?
38811The question is: When will people see the defects in their own theology as clearly as they perceive the same defects in every other?
38811The wolf said,"Do you think this man would treat me as he does you?"
38811Then what has happened?
38811Then what have they cursed?
38811Then what would the Turks do?
38811Then what would the Turks say?
38811They may have settled some disputes as to the action of some organ, but have they added to the useful knowledge of the race?
38811They would put the Morristown missionary in jail, and he would send home word, and then what would the people of Morristown say?
38811Think of men and women without love, without desires, without passions?
38811To individuals or to States?
38811To what extent do antecedents and surroundings affect the moral sense?
38811To whom was this clause directed?
38811Under these circumstances, what avenue is opened to the ex- convict?
38811Under what circumstances, then, can Congress be called upon to act by way of"corrective"legislation, as to these particular clauses?
38811WHAT WOULD YOU SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BIBLE AS A MORAL GUIDE?
38811WHAT WOULD YOU SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BIBLE AS A MORAL GUIDE?
38811WHY AM I AN AGNOSTIC?
38811WHY AM I AN AGNOSTIC?
38811Was Luther a misfortune to the human race?
38811Was he a good man?
38811Was he simply an instrument, or did his personality color the message received and given?
38811Was it at any time in the history of the world an unpleasant thing to be called a Protestant?
38811Was it reasonable for God to give the Jews manna, and nothing else, year after year?
38811Was it"perhaps right that it should"?
38811Was not the world exactly as God made it?
38811Was that amendment a mere opinion, or a prophecy, or the expression of a hope?
38811Was the Episcopal religion always in the majority?
38811Was there at that time moral, mental and financial growth?
38811Was there ever in the history of man so detestible an administration of public affairs?
38811Well what is it?
38811Well, the great question about that is, is it true?
38811Well, what about the souls in heaven?
38811Well, what is the Christian religion?
38811Were all these found in the desert of Sinai?
38811Were most of them as guilty of blasphemy as is the defendant in this case?
38811Were the Jews the only people who needed a revelation?
38811Were the selfish hermits, who deserted their wives and children for the miserable purpose of saving their own little souls, spiritual?
38811Were the unbelievers in the pagan world better or worse than their neighbors?
38811Were these sins contagious?
38811Were they actuated by good and noble motives?
38811Were they spiritual people who insisted that Infinite Love could punish his poor, ignorant children forever?
38811Were they willing to disgrace the State, in order that they might punish him?
38811Were those who put their fellow- men in dungeons, or burned them at the state* on account of a difference of opinion, all spiritual people?
38811What God is it proposed to put in the Constitution?
38811What action can the State take?
38811What are seas and stars compared with human hearts?
38811What are seas and stars in the presence of a heroism that holds pain and death as naught?
38811What are the restraining influences of religion?
38811What are the restraining influences of religion?
38811What are"the fundamental rights, privileges and immunities"which belong to a free man?
38811What asylums have you founded?
38811What can Congress do?
38811What can the evidence of the first class be worth?
38811What can we say of the persecuted and enslaved?
38811What constructive work has been done by the church?
38811What court, what tribunal of last resort, is to define this God, and who is to make known his will?
38811What did he make them for?
38811What does he get from him?
38811What does it mean?
38811What does it mean?
38811What else did the savage suppose?
38811What for?
38811What harm can come from an honest interchange of thought?
38811What have we destroyed?
38811What have we to say of Russia-- of Siberia?
38811What if God did cry?
38811What is blasphemy?
38811What is holy, what is sacred?
38811What is it to be spiritual?
38811What is lost?
38811What is meant by inspiration?
38811What is morality?
38811What is prayer?
38811What is real blasphemy?
38811What is real religion?
38811What is the authority of the Christian?
38811What is the condition of this man?
38811What is the effect of the example set by a nation?
38811What is the positive side?
38811What is the quarry compared with the statue?
38811What is the use of telling a falsehood about it?
38811What is the"question of religion"to which he referred?
38811What is their religion?
38811What is there in either case to correct?
38811What is to be the result?
38811What knowledge has the Christian of another world?
38811What must we think of a man impudent enough to break in pieces tables of stone upon which God had written with his finger?
38811What of it?
38811What of the kings and nobles who live on the stolen labor of others?
38811What of the priest and cardinal and pope who wrest, even from the hand of poverty, the single coin thrice earned?
38811What reason do you suppose was given?
38811What right had a majority to make any distinctions between free men?
38811What right had a majority to take from a minority any privilege, or any immunity, to which they were entitled as free men?
38811What right had the majority to make that unequal which the Constitution made equal?
38811What right had the other State to pass a law that passengers should be kept separate, on account of race or color?
38811What right has he?
38811What rights are within the protecting power of Congress?
38811What shall be done with the slayers of their fellow- men-- with murderers?
38811What shall be done with these men and women?
38811What then is left?
38811What then is under the protecting power of Congress?
38811What then is, or can be called, a moral guide?
38811What was the office or purpose of that Constitution?
38811What was the spirit of our Government at that time?
38811What was there to be intelligent about?
38811What were the reasons given?
38811What were their opinions?
38811What will conscience trouble the people in hell about?
38811What would Calvin have thought of a Presbyterian like Professor Briggs?
38811What would I do?
38811What would I not give for a picture of Shakespeare as a babe,--a picture that was a likeness,--rocked by his mother?
38811What would John Wesley have thought of a Methodist like Dr. Cadman?
38811What would Lyman Beecher have thought of a man like Dr. Abbott?
38811What would we now think of a God who made his will known to the South Sea Islanders for the benefit of the civilized world?
38811What would we say of an admirer of Humboldt who should claim that the great German could cast out devils?
38811What would we think now of a man who, in writing the life of Charles Darwin, should attribute to him supernatural powers?
38811When asked to give your opinion upon any subject, can it be said that your ignorance of that subject is irrelevant?
38811When some poor mother is found wandering in the street with a babe at her breast, does he quote Scripture, or hunt for his pocket- book?
38811Where and what are the sources of vice and virtue?
38811Where are the Wesleys and Whitfields?
38811Where are the old evangelists, the revivalists who swayed the hearts of their hearers with words of flame?
38811Where are they?
38811Where did a church or a nation get that right?
38811Where did they get the blue cloth and their purple?
38811Where did they get the fine flour and the oil?
38811Where did they get the numberless instruments and tools necessary to accomplish all these things?
38811Where did they get the skins of badgers, and how did they dye them red?
38811Where did they get the sockets of brass?
38811Where is the man with intelligence enough to take into consideration the circumstances of each individual case?
38811Where then, is the blasphemy in saying so?
38811Where would we have been if authority had always triumphed?
38811Where would we have been if such statutes had always been carried out?
38811Whether a man built an ark or not-- does that make the slightest difference?
38811Who are the men who are leading the race upward and shedding light in the intellectual world?
38811Who at that time had the slightest conception of the immediate future?
38811Who can account for the success of falsehood?
38811Who can comprehend the stupidity at the bottom of this truth?
38811Who could have guessed the names of the heroes to be repeated by countless lips before the echoes of that shot should have died away?
38811Who had the impudence to publish it?
38811Who had the impudence to say that lepers had been cleansed, and that the dead had been raised?
38811Who is a worshiper?
38811Who is honestly entitled to this seat?
38811Who is to blame?
38811Who knows the author of Kings and Chronicles?
38811Who knows whether such a man as Moses existed or not?
38811Who made up this story?
38811Who must see to it that this declaration is carried out?
38811Who obtained this indictment?
38811Who then was great enough to see the end?
38811Who were they?
38811Why did God allow, and why does he still allow, a vast majority of his children to remain in ignorance of his will?
38811Why did he compel his priests to be butchers, cutters and stabbers?
38811Why did he make your brain so that you could not by any possibility be a Methodist?
38811Why did he make yours so that you could not be a Catholic?
38811Why did he not answer the prayers of the imprisoned, of the helpless?
38811Why did he not do so?
38811Why did his God sit idly on his throne and allow his enemies to wet their swords in the blood of his friends?
38811Why did not the Supreme Court tell us what may be done when"the contrary appears"?
38811Why has it been allowed to slumber?
38811Why is it that men will suffer and risk so much for the sake of stealing?
38811Why is not the Positive stage the point reached by the Agnostic?
38811Why kick him?
38811Why not?
38811Why not?
38811Why not?
38811Why should God delight in the shedding of blood?
38811Why should God in this desert prohibit priests from drinking wine, and from eating moist grapes?
38811Why should God kill the people for what David did?
38811Why should God object to a man wearing a garment made of woolen and linen?
38811Why should a man allow human love to stand between his soul and the will of God-- between his soul and eternal joy?
38811Why should a man risk an eternity of perfect happiness for the sake of enjoying himself a few days with his wife and children?
38811Why should a man, because he has done a bad action, go and kill a sheep?
38811Why should burning flesh be a sweet savor in the nostrils of God?
38811Why should he allow his children to be stuffed with these foolish and impossible falsehoods?
38811Why should he become an eternal outcast for the sake of having a home and fireside here?
38811Why should he carry them to a land uninhabited?
38811Why should he give his lambs to the care and keeping of the wolves and hyenas of superstition?
38811Why should he want his altar sprinkled with blood, and the horns of his altar tipped with blood, and his priests covered with blood?
38811Why should man waste prayers upon such a God?
38811Why should not a man be as free to say that he does not believe as to say that he does believe?
38811Why should not each human being have the right, so far as thought and its expression are concerned, of all the world?
38811Why should not the laborers combine for the purpose of controlling the executive, legislative, and judicial departments?
38811Why should not the true believer tear every blossom of pity, of charity, from his heart, rather than put in peril his immortal soul?
38811Why should the lips of men feel the ripple of laughter if there is a bare possibility that the creed of Christendom is true?
38811Why should the rich control?
38811Why should the same God kill a man for eating the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat?
38811Why should these gentlemen object to a god with big, fiery eyeballs, when their own Deity has eyes like a flame of fire?
38811Why should they take the bread out of their own mouths?
38811Why should we believe that God insisted upon the sacrifice of human beings?
38811Why should we endeavor to beautify a world that is so soon to perish?"
38811Why should we fear our fellow- men?
38811Why should we object to their worshiping God as they please?
38811Why should we send missionaries to China if we can not convert the heathen when they come here?
38811Why should you object to these people on account of their religion?
38811Why then should a free and sensible believer in Science, in the naturalness of the universe, send his child to a Catholic school?
38811Why then should an intelligent man allow his child to be taught the geology and astronomy of the Bible?
38811Why then should there be four inspired accounts?
38811Why was nature not so made that it would give light enough?
38811Why was not a written, or what is still better, a printed revelation given to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden?
38811Why will they accept degradation and punishment and infamy as their portion?
38811Why, then, were not the books furnished?
38811Why, whoever did, since the poor man, or the poor God, was crucified?
38811Why?
38811Why?
38811Why?
38811Why?
38811Why?
38811Why?
38811Why?
38811Will extravagance keep pace with ingenuity?
38811Will honest men stop taking off their hats to successful fraud?
38811Will it be a crime to deny the existence of this constitutional God?
38811Will the Principal of King''s College say that having no knowledge is the reason he knows?
38811Will the machine finally go into partnership with the laborer?
38811Will the workers always be ignorant enough and stupid enough to give their earnings for the useless?
38811Will the workers become intelligent enough and strong enough to be the owners of the machines?
38811Will the wrath of God abide forever upon a man for doubting the story that Samson killed a thousand men with a new jawbone?
38811Will there be a supreme tribunal composed of priests?
38811Will these giants, these Titans, shorten or lengthen the hours of labor?
38811Will they always build temples for ghosts and phantoms, and live in huts and dens themselves?
38811Will they always prefer famine in the city to a feast in the fields?
38811Will they become wise enough to know that they can not obtain their own liberty by destroying that of others?
38811Will they ever feel and know that they have no right to bring children into this world that they can not support?
38811Will they ever find how powerful they are?
38811Will they ever recognize the fact that labor, above all things, is honorable-- that it is the foundation of virtue?
38811Will they forever allow parasites with crowns, and vampires with mitres, to live upon their blood?
38811Will they give leisure to the industrious, or will they make the rich richer, and the poor poorer?
38811Will they have no conscience?
38811Will they remain the slaves of the beggars they support?
38811Will they succeed?
38811Will they support millions of soldiers to kill the sons of other workingmen?
38811Will they understand that beggars can not be generous, and that every healthy man must earn the right to live?
38811Will they use their intelligence for themselves, or for others?
38811Will they, at the command of priests, forever extinguish the spark that sheds a little light in every brain?
38811With that view in his mind, he said to himself,"Why should we waste our energies in producing food for destruction?
38811Would a Catholic send his children to a school to be taught that Catholicism is superstition and that Science is the only savior of mankind?
38811Would a white man, under such circumstances, feel that he was in a condition of involuntary servitude?
38811Would he feel that he was treated like an underling, like a menial, like a serf?
38811Would he feel that he was under the protection of the laws, shielded like other men by the Constitution?
38811Would not an infinitely wise and good being-- where belief is a condition to salvation-- supply the evidence?
38811Would not this be the inauguration of religious persecution?
38811You can hardly imagine that there was a time when the same kind of men that made this law said to another man:"You say this world is round?"
38811You may ask, and what of all this?
38811You may not agree with these men-- and what does that prove?
38811You say:"Take a chair; are you thirsty, are you hungry, will you not break bread with me?"
38811You will get your revenge on him through all eternity-- is not that enough?
38811a child that made beehives of lions, incendiaries of foxes, and had a wife that wept seven days to get the answer to his riddle?
38811is it within the experience of mankind?
38811xix, 21, 22 Can it be that an infinite intelligence takes delight in scaring savages, and that he is happy only when somebody trembles?
38802''Have we not eaten and drank in thy presence? 38802 And did you do all this for my glory?"
38802Did you believe the Bible, the miracles-- that I was God, that I was born of a virgin and kept money in the mouth of a fish?
38802Did you believe the Bible, the miracles? 38802 Did you endeavor to convert your fellow- men?"
38802Did you ever hear anything so wonderful?
38802Did you seek to convert your fellow- men?
38802Do unto others as ye would that they should do unto you?
38802INSPIREDMARRIAGE Is there an orthodox clergyman in the world, who will now declare that he believes the institution of polygamy to be right?
38802Love God with all thy heart?
38802Love thy neighbor as thyself?
38802Return good for evil?
38802Then, why do you not change it?
38802Well, what is it?
38802Were you a Christian?
38802Were you a Christian?
38802What did you do?
38802What do you mean by that?
38802What is your name?
38802Which is the one prayer which in greatness, goodness, and beauty is worth all that is between heaven and earth and between this earth and the stars? 38802 --Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man?"
38802--Do you believe that he would have even suspected that the creator of the universe was talking?
38802A gentleman was telling some wonderful things and the listeners, with one exception, were saying, as he proceeded with his tale,"Is it possible?"
38802About how long is it before this kingdom is to be established?
38802After all, how many men did Christ convince with his miracles?
38802After all, is it not possible to live honest and courageous lives without believing these fables?
38802After the Canaanites were driven out, could he not have employed the hornets to drive out the wild beasts?
38802Again I ask, where did he go?
38802Again he heard the question:"Who is there?"
38802Again he mounted the three steps, again knocked at the doors of Paradise, and again the voice asked:"Who is there?"
38802Again, I ask what and who was this serpent?
38802All of it?
38802And for what?
38802And here let me ask, why was not the ascension in public?
38802And here let me ask: Why should there have been more than one correct account of what really happened?
38802And how are you to get to this heaven?
38802And how can we be made in the image of something that has neither body, parts, nor passions?
38802And how could the confusion of tongues prevent its construction?
38802And how long do you suppose the church fought that?
38802And if Joseph was not his father, why did they not give the genealogy of Pontius Pilate or of Herod?
38802And if a god has made us, knowing that we are totally depraved, why should we go to the same being to be"born again?"
38802And if he is infinite how can they comprehend him?
38802And let me ask, why was not the miracle substantiated by some of the multitude?
38802And what am I to go by?
38802And what does that prove?
38802And what is the next thing?
38802And what right has a man to charge an infinite being with wickedness and folly?
38802And what shall we say of Greece?
38802And what would be our feelings if the savage king sent for his sorcerers and had them perform the same feat?
38802And when we get to the New Testament, what do we find?
38802And why did he, after the menagerie had passed by, pathetically exclaim,"But for Adam there was not found an helpmeet for him"?
38802And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
38802And why, after he had eaten, was he thrust out?
38802And why?
38802And why?
38802And yet we are told, in this creed, that"_ we believe in the ultimate prevalence of the Kingdom of Christ over all the earth._"What makes you?
38802And yet what is this Old Testament that was written by an infinitely good God?
38802And you deserted them?
38802Another listener said to him"Did you hear that?"
38802Another man''s oracle?
38802Are all the investigators in perdition?
38802Are the charitable clothed?
38802Are the honest fed?
38802Are the virtuous shielded?
38802Are we better, purer, and more intelligent than God was four thousand years ago?
38802Are we bound to believe it without knowing what the meaning is?
38802Are we indebted to polygamy for our modern homes?
38802Are we to be saved because we are good, or because another was virtuous?
38802But what shall we say of God?
38802But what was the result?
38802But where is the new Eden?
38802By whom?
38802Can God then, through the Bible, make the same revelation to two persons?
38802Can absurdities go farther than this?
38802Can any believer in the Bible give any reasonable account of this process of creation?
38802Can any one conceive of music without human love?
38802Can any one imagine what objection God would have to the building of such a tower?
38802Can any reason be given for not allowing man to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge?
38802Can anybody believe that, under such circumstances, the danger from wild beasts could be very great?
38802Can anything be more infamous?
38802Can epilepsy certify to divinity?
38802Can it be necessary to believe a story like this?
38802Can it be possible that he knew anything about the stars beyond the mere fact that he saw them shining above him?
38802Can not God forgive me for being honest?
38802Can there be Methodist mathematics, Catholic astronomy, Presbyterian geology, Baptist biology, or Episcopal botany?
38802Can there be goodness in this?
38802Can we assist him?
38802Can we believe in this, the Nineteenth Century, that these infamous passages were inspired by God?
38802Can we believe that God made lashes upon the naked back, a legal tender for labor performed?
38802Can we believe that any such command was ever given by a merciful and intelligent God?
38802Can we believe that such laws and ceremonies were made and instituted by a merciful and intelligent God?
38802Can we believe that the inspired writer had any idea of the size of the sun?
38802Can we believe that the real God, if there is one, ever ordered a man to be killed simply for making hair oil, or ointment?
38802Can we believe that the stick was changed into a real living serpent, or did it assume simply the appearance of a serpent?
38802Can we believe this story?
38802Can we conceive of the Almighty granting letters of marque and reprisal to hornets?
38802Can we demand of all the same result?
38802Can you imagine anything more absurd than an infinite intelligence in infinite nothing wasting an eternity?
38802Could he not compete with Baal?
38802Could he not see them from where he lived or from where he was?
38802Could the missionary maintain an action of replevin, and if so, what would the cannibal do for a body?
38802Could the most revengeful fiend, the most malicious vagrant in the gloom of hell, sink to a lower moral depth than this?
38802Could there be any progress, even in heaven, without intellectual liberty?
38802Could they, by giving the genealogy of Joseph, show that he was of the blood of David if Joseph was in no way related to Christ?
38802Did God create hornets for that especial purpose, implanting an instinct to attack a Canaanite, but not a Hebrew?
38802Did God destroy the memory of mankind at that time, and if so, how?
38802Did God object to education then, and does that account for the hostile attitude still assumed by theologians toward all scientific truth?
38802Did God put it in the cloud simply to keep his agreement in his memory?
38802Did God simply by his creative fiat cause a rib slowly to expand, grow and divide into nerve, ligament, cartilage and flesh?
38802Did God teach it to him, or did he happen to overhear God, when he was teaching Adam and Eve?
38802Did Satan remain in the body of the serpent, and in some mysterious manner share his punishment?
38802Did fits pretend to be the owner of the whole earth?
38802Did he at once proceed to make a woman?
38802Did he come in the daytime, or in the night?
38802Did he come simply to tell us that we should not revenge ourselves upon our enemies?
38802Did he come to give a rule of action?
38802Did he come to tell us of another world?
38802Did he know anything about Saturn, his rings and his eight moons?
38802Did he know of the next, that is thirty- seven billion miles distant?
38802Did he know of the one hundred and four planets belonging to our solar system, all children of the sun?
38802Did he know that it would require about seventy- two years for light to reach us from this star?
38802Did he know that light travels one hundred and eighty- five thousand miles a second?
38802Did he know that some stars are so far away in the infinite abysses that five millions of years are required for their light to reach this globe?
38802Did he know that the volume of the earth is less than one- millionth of that of the sun?
38802Did he not know exactly just what he was making?
38802Did he not know that when he made us?
38802Did he pull out the linch- pins, or did he just take them off by main force?
38802Did he rest on that day?
38802Did he walk or fly?
38802Did it ever occur to you that he fell a victim to his own tyranny, and was destroyed by his own hand?
38802Did the giraffe, hippopotamus, antelope and orang- outang journey from Africa in search of the ark?
38802Did the kangaroo swim or jump from Australia to Asia?
38802Did the polar bear leave his field of ice and journey toward the tropics?
38802Did the rainbow originate in this way?
38802Did the"fall"produce a change in the climate?
38802Did this God have to resort to force to make converts?
38802Did wisdom perish with the dead?
38802Did you believe in eternal punishment?
38802Did you believe in the rib story?
38802Did you believe that?
38802Did you believe the rib story?
38802Did you belong to any church?
38802Did you belong to any church?
38802Did you ever run away with any money?
38802Did you have a wife and children of your own?
38802Did you meet there the friends you had lost?
38802Did you pay your debts?
38802Did you run away with any money?
38802Did you take anything else with you?
38802Do away with human love and what are we?
38802Do the angels all discuss questions on the same side?
38802Do the good succeed?
38802Do they really wish me to make more converts?
38802Do we not know that every word was suggested in some way by the experience of men?
38802Do you account for the snake- worship in Mexico, Africa and India in the same way?
38802Do you also believe that God told Pharaoh,"It you do not let these people go, I will fill all your houses and cover your country with flies?"
38802Do you believe God makes such threats as this?
38802Do you believe God would make this threat?
38802Do you believe that God was the author of this infamous law?
38802Do you believe that any man was ever crucified who was the master of death?
38802Do you believe that he baited the dungeon of servitude with wife and child?
38802Do you believe that the loving father of us all, turned the dimpled arms of babes into manacles of iron?
38802Do you believe the rib story yet?
38802Do you believe this?
38802Do you believe this?
38802Do you doubt his power, his wisdom or his justice?
38802Do you judge from the manner in which you are getting along now?
38802Do you mean the Adam and Eve business?
38802Do you suppose they are going to die without a struggle?
38802Do you think any one would wish to crucify him?
38802Does God delight in causing pain?
38802Does any Christian believe that if the real God were to write a book now, he would uphold the crimes commanded in the Old Testament?
38802Does any intelligent man now believe that God made man of dust, and woman of a rib, and put them in a garden, and put a tree in the midst of it?
38802Does anybody believe that, who has the courage to think for himself?
38802Does anybody believe this?
38802Does anybody now believe in the story of the serpent?
38802Does belief depend upon evidence?
38802Does he need human sympathy?
38802Does it tend to the elevation of the human race to speak of"God"as a butcher, tanner and tailor?
38802Does such a threat sound God- like?
38802Does the Bible teach man to enslave his brother?
38802Does this sound reasonable?
38802HE came, they tell us, to make a revelation, and what did he reveal?
38802Has Jehovah improved?
38802Has he done anything in the way of creation since Saturday evening of the first week?
38802Has infinite mercy become more merciful?
38802Has infinite wisdom intellectually advanced?
38802Has the promise and hope of forgiveness ever prevented the commission of a sin?
38802Hast thou not preached in our streets?''
38802Have you heard of them since?
38802He knocked and a voice said:"Who is there?"
38802He said,"Who is reading this?"
38802Here is a man, for instance, that weighs 200 pounds and gets sick and dies weighing 120; how much will he weigh in the morning of the resurrection?
38802How can any book be a standard, when the standard itself must be measured by human reason?
38802How can any man accept as a revelation from God that which is unreasonable to him?
38802How can it be established that some evil spirits could talk while others were dumb, and that the dumb ones were the hardest to control?
38802How can we get along without the revelation that no one understands?
38802How can we now prove that a certain person more than eighteen hundred years ago was possessed by seven devils?
38802How could God make known his will to any being destitute of reason?
38802How could any man now, in any court, by any known rule of evidence, substantiate one of the miracles of Christ?
38802How could eight persons have distributed this food, even if the ark had been large enough to hold it?
38802How could language be confounded?
38802How could we prove, for instance, the miracle of the loaves and fishes?
38802How deep did the water get?
38802How did God convey the information to the serpents, that he wished them to go to the desert of Sinai and bite some Jews?
38802How did he do it?
38802How did he know where the ark was?
38802How did it happen that so many miracles convinced so few?
38802How did it happen that they needed coats of skins, when they had been perfectly comfortable in a nude condition?
38802How did the animals get back to their respective countries?
38802How did the serpent learn the same language?
38802How did these waters happen to run up hill?
38802How did they get there?
38802How did they get there?
38802How did they know the way to go?
38802How did you like it?
38802How did you treat your family?
38802How do they answer all this?
38802How do they know about this Infinite Being?
38802How do we know that there were three million at the end of two hundred and fifteen years?
38802How do you account for Russia?
38802How do you account for Siberia?
38802How do you account for it?
38802How do you account for the existence of martyrs?
38802How do you account for the fact that babes were sold from the arms of mothers-- arms that had been reached toward God in supplication?
38802How do you account for the fact that people have been swallowed by earthquakes, overwhelmned by volcanoes, and swept from the earth by storms?
38802How do you account for the fact that the world has been filled with pain, and grief, and tears?
38802How do you account for the fact that this God allows people to be burned simply for loving him?
38802How do you account for the fact that whole races of men toiled beneath the master''s lash for ages without recompense and without reward?
38802How high did he go?
38802How is it possible to sanctify a space of time?
38802How large a country was that?
38802How long did it rain?
38802How long is it since you converted a Chinaman?
38802How long since you have had an intelligent convert in India?
38802How long was he in the ark?
38802How many are you converting a year, really, truthfully?
38802How many millions of Christians are in the uniform of forgiveness, armed with the muskets of love?
38802How many millions of Christians are now armed and equipped to destroy their fellow- Christians?
38802How many people are being born a year?
38802How many people were in the promised land already?
38802How many trees can live under miles of water for a year?
38802How many walked beneath the standard of the master of Nature?
38802How much did it rain a day?
38802How much?
38802How was it ever possible to prove a thing like that?
38802How was it possible for Lucretius to get along without the Bible?--how did the great and glorious of that empire?
38802How was man created simply from dust?
38802How was the ark kept clean?
38802How was the woman created from a rib?
38802How were some portions of the ark heated for animals from the tropics, and others kept cool for the polar bears?
38802How were the animals from the tropics kept warm?
38802How were the animals kept from freezing?
38802How were the animals preserved after leaving the ark?
38802How were the animals watered?
38802How were the tender plants and herbs preserved?
38802How were these flocks supported?
38802How were they supported until the world was again clothed with grass?
38802How were those animals taken care of that subsisted on others?
38802How would the hornets know a Canaanite?
38802How would you keep Sunday then?
38802How?
38802I again ask the old question, Of what did he make it?
38802I am the one you endeavored to kill, but Death is my slave"?
38802I ask again, how were Adam and Eve created?
38802I ask the Christian world to- day, was it right for the heathen to sell their children?
38802I said,"Do you think the people who were drowned believed in special providence?"
38802I would say,"Where were you when you got the notice to come back?
38802IF we abandon myth and miracle, if we discard the supernatural and the scheme of redemption, how are we to civilize the world?
38802If Christ was in fact God, why did he not plainly say there is another life?
38802If Christ wished to convince his fellow- men by miracles, why did he not do something that could not by any means have been a counterfeit?
38802If he takes a book as a standard, does he so take it because it is to him reasonable?
38802If he wanted to raise the dead, why did he not raise some man of importance, some one known to all?
38802If he wished miraculously to increase the population, why did he not wait until the people were free?
38802If he wished to do away with the idolatry of the Canaanites, why did he not appear to them?
38802If he wished to keep man and this tree apart, why did he put them together?
38802If it does, is it not blasphemous to say that it is inspired of God?
38802If it is a revelation, what does it reveal?
38802If it is all an allegory, what truth is sought to be conveyed?
38802If it was the fact, if the dead Christ rose from the grave, why did he not appear to his enemies?
38802If miracles were necessary to convince men eighteen centuries ago, are they not necessary now?
38802If the Bible is not obscene, what book is?
38802If the book and my brain are both the work of the same Infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and the brain do not agree?
38802If the devil had written upon the subject of slavery, which side would he have taken?
38802If the devil told a man to kill his wife, would you be shocked?
38802If the devil upheld polygamy, would you be surprised?
38802If the devil wanted to kill men for differing with him would you be astonished?
38802If the flood was simply a partial flood, why were birds taken into the ark?
38802If the words are not inspired, what is?
38802If there is any difference between days, ought not that to be considered best in which the most useful labor has been performed?
38802If there is no devil, who was the original tempter in the garden of Eden?
38802If there is no hell, from what are we saved; to what purpose is the atonement?
38802If they are right, then how long was the seventh day?
38802If this is so, why should the law have been given?
38802If this is so, why should the serpent have been cursed?
38802If this is true, why did he"come down to see the city and the tower?"
38802If this was the order of God, what, under the same circumstances, would have been the command of a devil?
38802If we think that God is kinder than he really is, will our poor souls be burned for that?
38802If you have it, why seek it?
38802If you knew the devil had written a work on human slavery, in your judgment, would he uphold slavery, or denounce it?
38802In that eternity what was this God doing?
38802In the New Testament we find that in giving the genealogy of Christ it says,"who was the son of Joseph?"
38802In the light shed upon this question by the telescope, I again ask, where was he going?
38802In what way did he overcome the intense cold?
38802In what way is the human reason to be ignored?
38802In what way would God put it in the mind of a hornet to attack a Canaanite?
38802In what?
38802Instead of healing a withered arm, why did he not find some man whose arm had been cut off, and make another grow?
38802Instead of turning them out, why did he not keep him from getting in?
38802Is Christ to be praised for resisting such a temptation?
38802Is a god who will burn a soul forever in another world, better than a Christian who burns the body for a few hours in this?
38802Is a man to be eternally rewarded for believing according to evidence, without evidence, or against evidence?
38802Is credulity the mother of virtue?
38802Is falsehood a reforming power?
38802Is he in trouble?
38802Is he in want?
38802Is he unhappy?
38802Is innocence always acquitted?
38802Is it conceivable that fits wanted Christ to fall down and worship them?
38802Is it easy to account for famine, for pestilence and plague if there be above us all a Ruler infinitely good, powerful and wise?
38802Is it necessary to believe that God is a kind of prestigiator-- a sleight- of- hand performer, a magician or sorcerer?
38802Is it not a little curious that no priest of one religion has ever been able to astonish a priest of another religion by telling a miracle?
38802Is it not a little curious that the priests of one religion never believe the priests of another?
38802Is it not a little strange that the believers in sacred books regard all except their own as having been made by hypocrites and fools?
38802Is it not a strange coincidence that there should be contradictory accounts mingled in both the Babylonian and Jewish stories?
38802Is it not altogether more probable that some ignorant Hebrew would write the vulgar words?
38802Is it not far better and wiser to take the good and throw the bad away?
38802Is it not humiliating to know that our ancestors believed these things?
38802Is it not strange that a Chinaman should find out by his own exertions more about the material universe than Moses could when assisted by its Creator?
38802Is it not wonderful that while God told his people what animals were fit for food, he failed to give a list of plants that man might eat?
38802Is it not, after all, barely possible that a man acting like Christ can be saved?
38802Is it on account of that transaction in the Garden of Eden, that all the descendants of Adam and Eve known as Jews and Christians hate serpents?
38802Is it possible for any sane and intelligent man to believe this story?
38802Is it possible for this God to prevent it?
38802Is it possible for us to believe that an infinite being would resort to such expedients in order to drive the Canaanites from their country?
38802Is it possible not to hate and despise him?
38802Is it possible that God is intolerant?
38802Is it possible that God would make a successful rival?
38802Is it possible that Matthew saw this, the most miraculous of miracles, and yet forgot to put it in his life of Christ?
38802Is it possible that a God capable of doing the miracles recounted in the Old Testament could not, in some way, have disposed of the wild beasts?
38802Is it possible that a being of infinite purity-- the author of modesty, would smirch the pages of his book with stories lewd, licentious and obscene?
38802Is it possible that any one now believes that the whole world would be of one speech had the language not been confounded at Babel?
38802Is it possible that fits can talk?
38802Is it possible that fits carried Christ himself to the pinnacle of a temple?
38802Is it possible that he could not see whether the waters had gone?
38802Is it possible that of all these, the Bible only is the work of God?
38802Is it possible that seventy people could increase to that extent in two hundred and fifteen years?
38802Is it possible that the Infinite could not overwhelm with waves this atom called the earth?
38802Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men?
38802Is it possible that the sacrifice of a perfect being was acceptable to God?
38802Is it possible to conceive of a more perfectly childish way of ascertaining whether the earth was dry?
38802Is it possible to imagine what was really done?
38802Is it possible to love a God who would make such laws?
38802Is it really necessary to believe this account in order to be happy here, or hereafter?
38802Is it the church?
38802Is it true that man was once perfectly pure and innocent, and that he became degenerate by disobedience?
38802Is it true that when we kill a snake we also destroy an evil spirit, or is there but one devil, and did he perish at the death of the first serpent?
38802Is justice always done?
38802Is not such a course dishonorable to both?
38802Is not such a course far more reasonable than to insist that all these things are true and must stand though every science shall fall to mental dust?
38802Is orthodox Christianity on the increase?
38802Is rest holier than labor?
38802Is that because we are depraved?
38802Is the freedom of the future to exist only in perdition?
38802Is then the Bible a different book to every human being who reads it?
38802Is there a Christian woman, civilized, intelligent, and free, who believes in the institution of polygamy?
38802Is there a land without a grave, and where good- bye is never heard?"
38802Is there a solitary Christian nation that will trust any other?
38802Is there a standard of a standard?
38802Is there a world without death, without pain, without a tear?
38802Is there an honest man who does not regret that God commanded a husband to stone his wife for suggesting the worship of some other God?
38802Is there any saving grace in hypocrisy?
38802Is there any saving grace in the impossible and absurd?
38802Is there any sense in that?
38802Is there any theologian who will contend that man was created directly from the earth?
38802Is there anything in the New Testament as beautiful as this?--"Shall I tell thee where nature is most blest and fair?
38802Is there anything in the New Testament more beautiful than the story of the Sufi?
38802Is there anything in the literature of the world more nearly perfect than this thought?
38802Is there anything that can be more perfectly absurd than that a space of time can be holy?
38802Is there no intellectual liberty in heaven?
38802Is there one who will now say that, under such circumstances, the wife ought to have been killed?
38802Is there one who will publicly declare that, in his judgment, that institution ever was right?
38802Is there wisdom in this?
38802Is there, in all the history of war, a more infamous thing than this?
38802Is there, in the civilized world, to- day, a clergyman who believes in the divinity of slavery?
38802Is this belief necessary unto salvation?
38802Is this established by the history of nations?
38802It will be the same to- morrow, will it not?
38802Let another read him who knows nothing of the drama, nothing of the impersonations of passion, and what does he get?
38802Lover-- husband-- wife-- mother-- father-- child-- home!--?
38802Must I be false to my understanding?
38802Must a man be born a second time before this account seems reasonable?
38802Must not the reason be convinced?
38802Must the civilized accept the religion of savages?
38802Must we believe anything that can not in any way be substantiated?
38802Must we believe that God called some of his children the money of others?
38802Must we regard the auction block as an altar?
38802Must we, in order to be good, gentle and loving in our lives, believe that the creation of woman was a second thought?
38802Now, I ask, whether it was unreasonable for the Jews to suggest that a little meat would be very gratefully received?
38802Now, after concluding to make"an helpmeet"for Adam, what did the Lord God do?
38802Of art, or joy?
38802Of what did he make it?
38802On which of the six days was he created?
38802Ought a god to take any credit to himself for making depraved people?
38802People ask me, if I take away the Bible what are we going to do?
38802Robert Collyer suggests,"nourish a bank of violets"?
38802Science passed its hand above it and beneath it, and where was the old heaven and where was the hell?
38802Shall I take another man''s word-- not what he thinks, but what he says some God has said to him?
38802Should we imagine that he was divinely inspired because he gave to the Jews what the Egyptians had given him?
38802Suppose a man came into this city and should meet a funeral procession, and say,"Who is dead?"
38802Suppose nothing had been in the Old Testament except laws in favor of these crimes, would it still be insisted that it was inspired?
38802Suppose nothing had been in the Old Testament upholding these crimes, would the modern Christian suspect that it was not inspired on that account?
38802Suppose the compasses were not constant to the pole-- no two compasses exactly alike-- would you expect all ships to reach the same harbor?
38802Suppose we invent something that can go one thousand miles an hour?
38802That Jehovah really endeavored to induce Adam to take one of the lower animals as an helpmeet for him?
38802That all his bones were formed as they now are, and all the relations of nerve, ligament, brain and motion as they are to- day?
38802The Christians tell me that God is the author of these vile and stupid things?
38802The Euphrates still journeys to the gulf, but where are Pison, Gihon and the mighty Heddekel?
38802The Recording Secretary, or whoever does the cross- examining, says to a soul: Where are you from?
38802The hail experiment having accomplished nothing, do you believe that God murdered the first- born of animals and men?
38802The next question is, how many beasts, fowls and creeping things did Noah take into the ark?
38802The question, then arises, whether within the last six thousand years there have been such upheavals and displacements?
38802The religion of Jesus Christ, as preached by his church, causes war, bloodshed, hatred, and all uncharitableness; and why?
38802Then what became of the body that died?
38802Then which day would you keep?
38802Then why did he say anything upon these subjects?
38802Then why does not God give me the evidence?
38802There were plenty of other loaves and other fishes in the world?
38802Thereupon, Moses returned unto the Lord and said,"Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people?
38802They said to the priests:"Where is your New Jerusalem?"
38802This God, waiting around Eden-- knowing all the while what would happen-- having made them on purpose so that it would happen, then does what?
38802This is what happens--"What is your name?"
38802Unless the Lord God was looking for an helpmeet for Adam, why did he cause the animals to pass before him?
38802Until then, I will remain and suffer where I am?"
38802Upon what food did he subsist before his conversation with Eve?
38802WILL any one claim that the passages upholding slavery have liberated mankind?
38802WILL the unknown, the mysteries of life and itiations of the mind, forever furnish food for superstition?
38802Was God at that time governing the world?
38802Was he endeavoring to spread his gospel?
38802Was he envious of the success of the Egyptian magicians?
38802Was he so ignorant of the structure of the human mind as to believe all honest doubt a crime?
38802Was it not possible for him to make such a convincing display of his power as to silence forever the voice of unbelief?
38802Was it right for God not only to uphold, but to command the infamous traffic in human flesh?
38802Was religious liberty born of that infamous verse in which the husband is commanded to kill his wife for worshiping an unknown God?
38802Was that, too, a geologic period covering thousands of ages?
38802Was the Lord God compelled to take a part of the man because he had used up all the original"nothing"out of which the universe was made?
38802Was the fish"spiritual?"
38802Was the slave- pen a temple?
38802Was there a time when the institution of polygamy was the highest expression of human virtue?
38802Was there ever a time in the history of the world when it was right to treat woman simply as property?
38802Was there in the garden a tree of life, the eating of which would have rendered Adam and Eve immortal?
38802Was there not room outside of the garden to put his tree, if he did not want people to eat his apples?
38802Was this the work of the most merciful God, the father of us all?
38802We are told that God made man; and the question naturally arises, how was this done?
38802We know how it was ventilated; but what was done with the filth?
38802We know that after that he lived upon dust, but what did he eat before?
38802We should have said to him,"What do you propose to give us in place of that angel?
38802We would have asked that man whether he knew more than all the great minds of his country, whether he was so much wiser than his fathers?
38802Well, what else?
38802Well, why?
38802Were blood hounds apostles?
38802Were the stealers and whippers of babes and women the justified children of God?
38802Were these parts, so worn away, perpetually renewed, or was the nature of things so changed that they could not wear away?
38802Were they better than other nations?
38802What are the Christian nations doing to- day in Europe?
38802What are they to do?
38802What are we going to do if we have no Bible to quarrel about What are we to do without hell?
38802What are we going to do with our enemies?
38802What are we going to do with the people we love but do n''t like?
38802What are we to do without the Bible?
38802What are you doing in the missionary world?
38802What argument did he make in favor of immortality?
38802What became of the Jews who had a Bible?
38802What became of the birds that devoured other birds?
38802What became of the birds that fed on worms and insects?
38802What became of the soil washed, scattered, dissolved, and covered with the_ debris_ of a world?
38802What became of them?
38802What becomes of those who hear and do not believe?
38802What can the orthodox minister say to relieve the bursting heart of that woman?
38802What consolation has the orthodox religion for the widow of the unbeliever, the widow of a good, brave, kind man?
38802What consolation have they?
38802What could heaven be without human love?
38802What did God make him for?
38802What did he do after he got rested?
38802What did he do with his body?
38802What did he do?
38802What did he do?
38802What did he use for the purpose?
38802What did the writer mean by the word firmament?
38802What did they drink?
38802What did they eat while in the ark?
38802What did they eat?
38802What do they teach to- day?
38802What does he get from him?
38802What does that prove?
38802What does that prove?
38802What effect has this religion had upon the nations of the earth?
38802What else can they do?
38802What facts did he furnish?
38802What for?
38802What for?
38802What for?
38802What for?
38802What good is it to believe in something that you know you do not understand, and that you never can understand?
38802What had he been doing?
38802What had the God been doing for the eternity he had been living?
38802What had the beasts, and the creeping things, and the birds done to excite the anger of God?
38802What had these animals to eat while on the journey?
38802What had these children done?
38802What has become of the millions who have died since, without having heard of the atonement?
38802What has religion to do with facts?
38802What have the nations been fighting about?
38802What is the man to do?
38802What is the next thing I find in this creed?
38802What is the next thing in this great creed?
38802What is the use of sending them to hell by enlightening them?
38802What kind of a country is it?
38802What kind of a man were you?
38802What kind of opening there for a young man?
38802What kind of tree was that?
38802What objection could God have had to the immortality of man?
38802What part of the Bible?
38802What particular ones would naturally come together if nobody understood the language of any other person?
38802What right has a god to fill a world with fiends?
38802What right would this God have to complain of a crucifixion suffered in accordance with his own command?
38802What should I obey?
38802What star of hope did he put above the darkness of this world?
38802What was the Thirty Years''War in Europe for?
38802What was the form of the serpent when he entered the garden, and in what way did he move from place to place?
38802What was the next blow that this church received?
38802What was the war in Holland for?
38802What was your business?
38802What would be thought of a physician now, who would give a prescription like that?
38802What would become of National Thanksgiving?
38802What would we be in another world, and what would we be here?
38802What would you say to me if I stood by and saw a ruffian beat out the brains of a child, when I had full and perfect power to prevent it?
38802When does that mean?
38802Where are these four rivers now?
38802Where are they?
38802Where are you from?
38802Where can words be found bitter enough to describe a god who would kill wives and babes because husbands and fathers had failed to keep his law?
38802Where could he have obtained his flax?
38802Where did he come down from?
38802Where did he get his words?
38802Where did the Lord God get those skins?
38802Where did the bees get honey, and the ants seeds?
38802Where did the serpent come from?
38802Where did the tenants of the ark get food?
38802Where did the water come from?
38802Where did these serpents come from?
38802Where did they get it?
38802Where did this serpent come from?
38802Where was he going?
38802Where was he going?
38802Where were meadows and pastures for them?
38802Where were these people going?
38802Where were those people going?
38802Which had the greater and the grander government?
38802Which of those nations produced the greatest poets, the greatest soldiers, the greatest orators, the greatest statesmen, the greatest sculptors?
38802Which way did he go?
38802Who are the men in Europe crying against war?
38802Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?
38802Who is the blasphemer; the man who denies the existence of God, or he who covers the robes of the Infinite with innocent blood?
38802Who made him?
38802Who made the devil?
38802Who protects the insane?
38802Who saw this miracle?
38802Who selected these?
38802Who wishes to have the nations disarmed?
38802Who, and what was this serpent?
38802Why allow the earth to be peopled with depraved and monstrous beings, each one of whom must be re- made, re- formed, and born again?
38802Why are the wife- beaters protected, and why are the wives and children left defenceless if the hand of God is over us all?
38802Why call back to life people so insignificant that the public did not know of their death?
38802Why did Adam and Eve disobey?
38802Why did God tell Moses, while in the desert, to make curtains of fine linen?
38802Why did God wait until the cool of the day before looking after his children?
38802Why did he do his miracles in the obscurity of the village, in the darkness of the hovel?
38802Why did he fill the world with his own children, knowing that he would have to destroy them?
38802Why did he go dumbly to his death and leave the world in darkness and in doubt?
38802Why did he leave his children to find out the hurtful and the poisonous by experiment, knowing that experiment, in millions of cases, must be death?
38802Why did he make animals that he knew he would destroy?
38802Why did he not again enter the temple and end the old dispute with demonstration?
38802Why did he not call upon Caiaphas, the high priest?
38802Why did he not confront the Roman soldiers who had taken money to falsely swear that his body had been stolen by his friends?
38802Why did he not defend his children?
38802Why did he not give them the tables of the law?
38802Why did he not make another triumphal entry into Jerusalem?
38802Why did he not put Adam and Eve on their guard about this serpent?
38802Why did he not tell Adam and Eve about this serpent?
38802Why did he not tell him that a nation founded upon slavery could not stand?
38802Why did he not tell us something about it?
38802Why did he not turn the tear- stained hope of immortality into the glad knowledge of another life?
38802Why did he not visit Pontius Pilate?
38802Why did he not watch the devil, instead of watching Adam and Eve?
38802Why did he only make known his will to a few wandering savages in the desert of Sinai?
38802Why did he put it in the midst of the garden?
38802Why did he repent having made them?
38802Why did he say"And every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth"?
38802Why did he tell him to make things of gold, and silver, and precious stones, when they could not have been in possession of these things?
38802Why did not the Lord God take him by the tail and snap his head off?
38802Why did they give a supposed genealogy?
38802Why did"the Lord come down to see the city and the tower"?
38802Why do all these religions die hard?
38802Why do they not send missionaries there with copies of the Old Testament?
38802Why do we make so many mistakes?
38802Why does Providence permit insanity?
38802Why does he desire worship?
38802Why does not the Congregational Church tell us?
38802Why does special providence allow all the crimes?
38802Why is a miracle any more necessary to account for yesterday than for to- day or for to- morrow?
38802Why is it that England persecutes Ireland even to this day?
38802Why is it that thou hast sent me?
38802Why not purify the fountain of all human life?
38802Why over_ running_ water?
38802Why should Christians try to deprive God of the glory of having wrought the most stupendous of miracles?
38802Why should God allow an inspired book to be interpolated?
38802Why should God be so jealous of the wooden idols of the heathen?
38802Why should God curse the serpent for what had really been done by the devil?
38802Why should God hate to see a man happy?
38802Why should God miraculously increase the number of slaves?
38802Why should God object to that fruit being eaten by man?
38802Why should a Christian hesitate to kill a man that his God is waiting to damn?
38802Why should a Christian not destroy an infidel who is trying to assassinate his soul?
38802Why should a Christian pity an unbeliever-- one who has rejected the Bible-- when he knows that God will be pitiless forever?
38802Why should a God care about such things?
38802Why should a believer in God hate an atheist?
38802Why should a book take its place, unless the reason has been convinced that the book is the proper standard?
38802Why should a mother be declared unclean?
38802Why should a son who has examined a subject, throw away his reason and adopt the views of his mother?
38802Why should a woman ask pardon of God for having been a mother?
38802Why should an infinite God care whether mankind made ointments and perfumes like his or not?
38802Why should barbarian Jews who went down to death and dust three thousand years ago, control the living world?
38802Why should giving birth to a daughter be regarded twice as criminal as giving birth to a son?
38802Why should he destroy them?
38802Why should he insist on having buttons sewed in certain rows, and fringes of a certain color?
38802Why should he make experiments that he knows must fail?
38802Why should he make those whom he knew would be criminals?
38802Why should it excite his wrath to see a family in the woods, by some babbling stream, talking, laughing and loving?
38802Why should men be imprisoned simply for imitating God?
38802Why should men in the name of religion try to harmonize the contradictions that exist between Nature and a book?
38802Why should philosophers be denounced for placing more reliance upon what they know than upon what they have been told?
38802Why should that be considered a crime in Exodus, which is commanded as a duty in Genesis?
38802Why should that day be filled with gloom instead of joy?
38802Why should the Creator of all things threaten to kill a priest who approached his altar without having washed his hands and feet?
38802Why should the babes in the cradle be destroyed on account of the crime of Pharaoh?
38802Why should the bird be killed in an_ earthen_ vessel?
38802Why should the cattle be destroyed because man had enslaved his brother?
38802Why should the innocent maiden and the loving mother worship the heartless Jewish God?
38802Why should they, with pure and stainless lips, read the vile record of inspired lust?
38802Why should this be a period of probation?
38802Why should we be damned for laughing at Samson and his foxes, while others, holding the Nebular Hypothesis in utter contempt, go straight to heaven?
38802Why should we imprison Mormons, and worship God?
38802Why should we in this age of the world be dominated by the dead?
38802Why should we look sad, and think about death, and hear about hell?
38802Why should we object to the Darwinian doctrine of descent after this?
38802Why should we, looking at some ancient daub of angel, saint or virgin, say its painter must have been assisted by a god?
38802Why then should we not place greater confidence in Nature than in a book?
38802Why was he not kept out of the garden?
38802Why was he not on hand in the morning?
38802Why was it that England persecuted Scotland?
38802Why was the Garden of Eden planted?
38802Why was the experiment made?
38802Why were Adam and Eve exposed to the seductive arts of the serpent?
38802Why were four gospels necessary?
38802Why were not the maidens also killed?
38802Why were they spared?
38802Why were we not given better brains?
38802Why would the confounding of the language make them separate?
38802Why would they not stay together until they could understand each other?
38802Why, in this instance, did they separate?
38802Why, then, should a sectarian college exist?
38802Why?
38802Why?
38802Why?
38802Why?
38802Why?
38802Why?
38802Why?
38802Will I be sorry that I did not say I was a Christian when I was not?
38802Will I be sorry when I come to die that I did not live a hypocrite?
38802Will anybody now contend that man was a direct and independent creation, and sustains and bears no relation to the animals below him?
38802Will darkness forever be the womb and mother of the supernatural?
38802Will he accept the agony of innocence for the punishment of guilt?
38802Will he release Barabbas and crucify Christ?
38802Will men become clean in speech by believing that God is unclean?
38802Will men make better husbands, fathers, neighbors, and citizens, simply by giving credence to these childish and impossible things?
38802Will some Christian give us an explanation of this matter?
38802Will some gentleman skilled in theology give us an explanation?
38802Will some kind clergymen tell us upon what kind of food Adam subsisted during these immense periods?
38802Will some minister when he answers the"Mistakes of Moses"tell us where these rivers are or were?
38802Will some minister, some graduate of Andover, tell us what this means?
38802Will some theologian explain this?
38802Will some theologian have the kindness to answer these questions?
38802Will some theologian, versed in the machinery of the miraculous, tell us in what way God confounded the language of mankind?
38802Will the agony of the damned increase or decrease the happiness of God?
38802Will the fact that I was honest put a thorn in the pillow of death?
38802Will the penitent thief, winged and crowned, laugh at the honest folks in hell?
38802Will there be, in the universe, an eternal_ auto da fe?_ XXIX.
38802Will they be kind enough to tell us what the fountains of the great deep are?
38802Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands as unto the Lord?"
38802Would a partial, local flood have fulfilled these threats?
38802Would it not be far better to admit that the Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age?
38802Would it not be far better to treat this atheist, at least, as well as he treats us?
38802Would it not be safer to charge Moses with vulgarity, instead of God?
38802Would it not have been a greater wonder if Christ had_ created_ instead of multiplied the loaves and fishes?
38802Would it not have been better to change Noah and his people, so that after that a second birth would not have been necessary?
38802Would it not have been much better to have made another Adam and Eve?
38802Would the charm be broken if the vessel was of wood?
38802Would we not regard such a performance as beneath the dignity even of a President?
38802Would you expect to find that book in favor of liberty?
38802Would you regard it as any evidence that he ever wrote it, if it upheld slavery?
38802You may ask, and what of all this?
38802You may say that it was a miracle; but what need was there of working a miracle?
38802and if he did say anything, why did he not give the facts?
38802and when he had concluded, there was a kind of chorus of"Is it possible?"
38802and"Can it be?"
38802and, if so, is not the reason of each man the final arbiter of that man?
38802no enemies?"
38802that God approved not only of human slavery, but instructed his chosen people to buy the women, children and babes of the heathen round about them?
38802that the assistance of God was necessary to produce these books?
38802upon Herod?
38805Did he call on God or Jesus Christ, asking either of them to forgive his sins, or did he curse them or either of them?
38805My God, my God, why hast thou for-saken me?"
38805To whatpurpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me?
38805What is it?
38805When ye come to appear before me, who hath re-quired this at your hand?"
38805Where did he get it? 38805 ''_ Why did you not publish that? 38805 --of his brother ministers? 38805 158 Can he do anything of that nature? 38805 174 The Christian now asks of the atheist: Where is your asylum, where is your hospital, where is your university? 38805 217 Are stories like this calculated to make soldiers merciful? 38805 280 Is such a vision a prophecy? 38805 352 Why was not the mind of each man so made that every religious truth necessary to his salvation was an axiom? 38805 405 Would not a man who had been raised from the dead naturally be an object of considerable interest, especially to his friends and acquaintances? 38805 482 Did the State of New York feel indebted to a drunken beast, and confer upon Thomas Paine an estate of several hundred acres? 38805 85 Do you think that laymen have the same right as ministers to examine the Scriptures? 38805 About how long did God continue to pay particular attention to his children in this world? 38805 After some solicitation on my part he agreed to do so? 38805 After these sinners have died, and been sent to hell, will the Christians in heaven then pity them? 38805 Again I ask, in what respect? 38805 Allow me to ask again, do you believe? 38805 And if he does not believe it, and ad- mits that he does not believe it, then his honesty will not save him? 38805 And suppose that the islander should honestly reject the true religion? 38805 And suppose, further, that the man honestly believed that the efficacy of the sacrifice depended largely on the size of the toad? 38805 And the Lord saidunto him: Wherewith?
38805And what is better calculated to increase the happiness of mankind than to know that the doctrine of eternal pain is infinitely and absurdly false?
38805And why does one who had the power miraculously to feed thousands, allow millions to die for want of food?
38805Are all parts of the inspired books equally true?
38805Are any miracles performed now?
38805Are people to be saved or lost on the reputation of Eusebius?
38805Are we absolutely certain that he ever lived?
38805Are we absolutely sure who wrote them?
38805Are we certain that some of the books that were thrown out were not inspired?
38805Are we indebted for his kindness to the flesh that clothed his spirit?
38805Are we not commanded to love our enemies?
38805Are we under obligation to render good for evil, and to"pray for those who despitefully use us"?
38805Are you satisfied that Christ was abso- lutely God?
38805Are you still of that opinion?
38805Are you willing to accept the challenge; or have you ever read that chapter?
38805As soon as I offered to deposit the gold and give bonds besides to cover costs, did you not publish a falsehood?
38805Aside from the miracles, is there any evidence to show the supernatural origin or character of Jesus Christ?
38805At the time God made these people, did he know that he would have to drown them all?
38805At the time God told Adam and Eve not to eat, why did he not tell them of the existence of Satan?
38805But how can he answer these scientists?
38805But suppose they are good men,-- what then?
38805But why should God be so particular about our believing the stories in his book?
38805But why should I expect kindness from a Chris- tian?
38805But why should Mr. Tal- mage say that?
38805But why, if the flood was local, should he have taken any of the fowls of the air into his ark?
38805By hating infidels and maligning Christians?
38805Can I control these impressions?
38805Can a man be saved now by living exactly in accordance with the Sermon on the Mount?
38805Can a man control his belief?
38805Can a minister be expected to treat with fairness a man whom his God intends to damn?
38805Can any one believe this to be a true account of the personal appearance of Mr. Paine in 1802?
38805Can he even cause a"vehement east wind"?
38805Can it be that to give an honest opinion causes one to die in terror and de- spair?
38805Can such a God be good?
38805Can we rely upon the Catholic Church now?
38805Certainly, birds could have avoided a local flood?
38805Could Christ have prevented the Jews from crucifying him?
38805Could Christ now furnish evidence enough to convince every human being of the truth of the Bible?
38805Could any additional evidence have been furnished?
38805Did Abraham show any gratitude?
38805Did Christ only have pity when he was part human?
38805Did Christ write anything himself, in the New Testament?
38805Did God always know that a Bible was necessary to civilize a country?
38805Did God ever make any other special efforts to convert the people, or to reform the world?
38805Did God hear about this?
38805Did God keep his promise?
38805Did God succeed in civilizing the Jews after he had"removed"the Canaanites?
38805Did God use the prophets simply as instruments?
38805Did I understand you to say that Christ was actually God?
38805Did Jehovah change the canes of the Egyptian magicians into snakes?
38805Did Luke?
38805Did Mark?
38805Did Matthew say anything on the sub- ject of"regeneration"?
38805Did Thomas Paine Recant?
38805Did any of your ancestors ever receive a letter like that?
38805Did any of your ancestors ever receive a letter like that?
38805Did any of your ancestors ever receive a letter like that?
38805Did he create his own"omnipotence"?
38805Did he drown them all?
38805Did he establish any church?
38805Did he ever quite succeed in civilizing them?
38805Did he excuse murderers then, and does he damn thinkers now?
38805Did he get out of hailstones?
38805Did he know exactly how they would use that freedom?
38805Did he know exactly what they would do when he chose them?
38805Did he know just as much before he was born as after?
38805Did he know that billions would use it wrong?
38805Did he know that hundreds and millions and billions would suffer eternal pain?
38805Did he know when Judas went to the chief priest and made the bargain for the delivery of Christ?
38805Did he know when he made them that they would all be failures?
38805Did he make a woman at the same time that he made a man?
38805Did he make the world out of nothing?
38805Did he ordain any ministers, or did he have any re- vivals?
38805Did he put his thoughts in their minds, and use their 337 hands to make a record?
38805Did he refer to the gospel set forth by Mark?
38805Did he tell any of his disciples to write any of his words?
38805Did he then succeed in civilizing them?
38805Did he turn them out of the garden because of their sin?
38805Did he want Garfield assassinated?
38805Did not Christ say that we ought to"bless those who curse us,"and that we should"love our enemies"?
38805Did not the first disciples advocate theories that their parents denied?
38805Did reading the Bible make them bad people?
38805Did the Catholics decide for us which are the true gospels and which are the true epistles?
38805Did they die for a lie?
38805Did they get the idea of persecution from the Bible?
38805Did they not, by reading the same book, come to the conclusion that it was their solemn duty to extirpate heresy and heretics?
38805Did they try to circumvent God?
38805Did this God establish any schools or institutions of learning?
38805Did this convince Pharaoh?
38805Did you not ask me to deposit the money that you might prove the"absurd story"to be an"ower true tale"and obtain the money?
38805Did you not in your paper of the twenty- seventh of September in effect deny that you had offered to prove this"absurd story"?
38805Did you not offer to prove that Paine died in fear and agony, frightened by the clanking chains of devils?
38805Do all men get the same ideas from the Bible?
38805Do all men give the same force to the same evidence?
38805Do any two people in the whole world speak the same language, now?
38805Do good Christians pity sinners in this world?
38805Do they divide profits?
38805Do we know anything of the character of Eusebius?
38805Do we know that Polycarp ever met St. John?
38805Do we know that they picked out the right ones?
38805Do we know where the Garden of Eden was, and have we ever found any place where a"river parted and became into four heads"?
38805Do we know whether any of the dis- ciples wrote anything?
38805Do we know who wrote the gospels?
38805Do we not know absolutely that man is greatly influenced by his surroundings?
38805Do you admit that I have the right to reason about it and to investigate it?
38805Do you admit that Matthew says nothing on the subject?
38805Do you believe all the miracles?
38805Do you believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ?
38805Do you believe that he can help you?
38805Do you believe the story of Jonah to be a true account of a literal fact?
38805Do you consider it just in God to create a man who can not believe the Bible, and then damn him because he does not?
38805Do you consider it necessary to be"regenerated"--to be"born again"--in order to be saved?
38805Do you consider it our duty to love our neighbor?
38805Do you consider it possible for a law to be jusdy satisfied by the punishment of an innocent person?
38805Do you consider such treatment of ani- mals consistent with divine mercy?
38805Do you consider that the inventor of a steel plow cast a slur upon his father who scratched the ground with a wooden one?
38805Do you fear the final triumph of infi- delity?
38805Do you have to employ Christ to mollify a being of infinite mercy?
38805Do you mean that he performs no miracles at the present day?
38805Do you mean to say that there would have been no death in the world, either of animals, insects, or persons?
38805Do you not consider the treatment of the Canaanites to have been cruel and ferocious?
38805Do you not think that a confusion of tongues would bring men together instead of separa- ting them?
38805Do you really believe that Elijah went to heaven in a chariot of fire, drawn by horses of fire?
38805Do you really believe that the infinite God killed some animals, took their skins from them, cut out and sewed up clothes for Adam and Eve?
38805Do you really regard poverty as a crime?
38805Do you remember the pains I took to clean you?
38805Do you see anything"prophetic"in the fate of the Jewish people themselves?
38805Do you still insist that the Old Testa- ment upholds polygamy?
38805Do you suppose it was really brim- stone?
38805Do you suppose that we will care nothing in the next world for those we loved in this?
38805Do you take the ground that there never has been a human being who could predict the future?
38805Do you think that Christ knew the Jews would crucify him?
38805Do you think that Christ wrought 413 many of his miracles because he was good, charitable, and filled with pity?
38805Do you think that God made the Jewish people wanderers, so that they might be perpetual witnesses to the truth of the Scriptures?
38805Do you think that God really endeav- ored to civilize the Jews?
38805Do you think that God, if there be one, when he saves or damns a man, will take into con- sideration all the circumstances of the man''s life?
38805Do you think that Jonah was really in the whale''s stomach?
38805Do you think that Lot''s wife was changed into salt?
38805Do you think that Luke was mistaken?
38805Do you think that Matthew, Mark and Luke knew anything about the necessity of"regen-"eration"?
38805Do you think that Paine was a drunken beast when the following letter was received by him?
38805Do you think that Samson''s strength depended on the length of his hair?
38805Do you think that it is necessary for us to believe all the miracles of the Old Testament in order to be saved?
38805Do you think that light emitted by rocks would be sufficient to produce trees?
38805Do you think that the spirit in which Mr. Talmage reviews your lectures is in accordance with the teachings of Christianity?
38805Do you think that there are any cruel- ties on God''s part recorded in the Bible?
38805Do you think that when he chose Judas he knew that he would betray him?
38805Do you think they did, and are doing great harm?
38805Do you think this brimstone came from the clouds?
38805Do you understand that God made coats of skins, and clothed Adam and Eve when he turned them out of the garden?
38805Do you wish, as Mr. Talmage says, to de- stroy the Bible-- to have all the copies burned to ashes?
38805Does God believe in the right of private judgment?
38805Does Mr. Talmage believe in the doctrine of"tran-"substantiation"?
38805Does Mr. Talmage believe that it is the duty of a man to fight for a government in which he has no rights?
38805Does Mr. Talmage think that it is absolutely neces- sary to believe_ all_ the story?
38805Does an argument depend for its force upon the pecuniary condition of the person making it?
38805Does he always do just what ought to be done?
38805Does he at all times know just what ought to be done?
38805Does he not know, that a fact can not by any possi- bility be affected by opinion?
38805Does he seek to enhance his glory by receiving the adulation of cringing slaves?
38805Does it show that a heart is entirely without mercy, simply because a man denies the justice of eternal pain?
38805Does it show that a man has been entirely given over to the devil, because he refuses to believe that God ordered a father to sacri- fice his son?
38805Does not such a statement devour itself?
38805Does the existence of such people conclusively prove the existence of a good Designer?
38805Does the fact that Buddha taught the same tend to show that he was of divine origin?
38805Does the fact that he died for that belief prove its truth?
38805Does the following sound as though spoken by a God of mercy:"I will make mine arrows drunk"with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh"?
38805Does the good Christian defame unanswering and unresisting dust?
38805Does the real Christian malign the memory of the dead?
38805Does the real Christian violate the sanctity of death?
38805Does the right to read a book include the right to give your opinion as to the truth of what the book contains?
38805For what reason did he place temptation in the way of his children?
38805God''s bodikins, man, much better: use every man after his desert, and who should''scape whipping?
38805Had all of his moral precepts been taught before he lived?
38805Had he no time to give a commandment against slavery?
38805Had he no"omnipotence"left?
38805Had these people any option as to whether they would be made or not?
38805Has any one ever seen any of these cherubim?
38805Has he as much power now as he had when on earth?
38805Has he correctly stated your position?
38805Has he not as much power now as he had then?
38805Has the honesty of his belief anything to do with his future condition?
38805Have I the right to decide for myself whether or not the book is inspired?
38805Have I the right to read the Bible?
38805Have I the right to say that God did not write the Koran?
38805Have all honest men who have exam- ined the Bible believed it to be inspired?
38805Have we any testimony, except human testimony, to substantiate any miracle?
38805Have you any evidence that he was in a drunken condition when he died?
38805Have you any other reasons for be- lieving it to be inspired?
38805Have you in your writings been actuated by the fear of such a consequence?
38805Have you no confidence in any pro- phecies?
38805Have you not the same witnesses in favor of their authenticity, that you have in favor of the gospels?
38805Have you read the sermon of Mr. Talmage, in which he exposes your mis- representations?
38805Have you the right to be guided by your reason?
38805Have you the same right to follow your reason after reading the Bible?
38805How am I to get out of this sinful state?
38805How could a devil have done worse?
38805How could it be worse, when assassins are among the best people in it?
38805How could there have been any progress in this world, if children had not gone beyond their parents?
38805How deep was the water?
38805How did God destroy the people?
38805How did it happen that Christ did not visit his mother after his resurrection?
38805How did it happen that the Canaanites were never convinced that the Jews were assisted by Jehovah?
38805How did the Catholic Church select the true books?
38805How did the Christian religion commence?
38805How did they happen to be there?
38805How did vegetation grow without sun- light?
38805How do I know that you believe the Bible?
38805How do you account for that?
38805How do you account for that?
38805How do you account for the fact that God did not make himself known except to Abra- ham and his descendants?
38805How do you account for the fact that the heathen were not surprised at the stopping of the sun and moon?
38805How do you account for the present condition of woman in what is known as"the civilized"world,"unless the Bible has bettered her condition?
38805How do you answer this?
38805How do you explain the story of Elisha and the children,--where the two she- bears destroyed forty- two children on account of their impudence?
38805How do you know he was converted?
38805How do you know?
38805How do you know?
38805How do you know?
38805How do you under- stand this matter, and has Mr. Talmage stated the facts?
38805How does he prove that he is a Christian?
38805How does he regard the great and glorious of the earth, who have not been the victims of his particular superstition?
38805How does it happen that the two gene- alogies given do not agree?
38805How is it that not one word is said about the death of Mary-- not one word about the death of Joseph?
38805How is it that the Jews had no confi- dence in these miracles?
38805How is it?
38805How long did it take God to make the universe?
38805How long did they remain in slavery?
38805How long is a"good- while"?
38805How many of the Christian witnesses against him, in his judgment, told the truth?
38805How much did it rain each day?
38805How should infidels be treated?
38805How should we regard the wonderful stories of the Old Testament?
38805How was it answered?
38805How was it possible, under the old dis- pensation, to please a being of infinite kindness?
38805How were the people prevented from succeeding?
38805How would their being"broken up"increase the depth of the water?
38805How, then, do you account for the fact that, before the forbidden fruit was eaten, an evil serpent was in the world?
38805How?
38805I ask again, was this cruel?
38805I ask the questions asked by Jefferson:"Is he"honest; is he capable?"
38805I ask you again whether these splendid utterances came from the lips of a drunken beast?
38805I want to ask you a few questions about the second sermon of Mr. Talmage; have you read it, and what do you think of it?
38805If Christ had not been betrayed and 399 crucified, is it true that his own mother would be in perdition to- day?
38805If Christ knew that Judas would betray him, why did he choose him?
38805If God gave laws from Sinai what right have we to repeal them?
38805If God''s witnesses were honest, anybody could believe, and what be- comes of faith, one of the greatest virtues?
38805If I do not believe the Bible, whose fault is it?
38805If I have the right to read the Bible, have I the right to try to understand it?
38805If Mr. Talmage had been born in Turkey, is it not probable that he would now be a whirling Dervish?
38805If Paine had died a millionaire, would you have accepted his religious opinions?
38805If Paine had drank nothing but cold water would you have repudiated the five cardinal points of Calvin- ism?
38805If Paine recanted why should he be denied"a little earth for charity"?
38805If a man honestly thinks that the Bible is not inspired, what should he say?
38805If he concludes that some of them are inspired, and believes them, will he then be damned for that belief?
38805If he could have saved his life and did not, was he not guilty of suicide?
38805If he recanted, he died substantially in your belief, for what reason then do you denounce his death as cowardly?
38805If he wanted to kill anybody, why did he not kill David?
38805If he was and is the God of all worlds, why does he not now give back to the widow her son?
38805If he was false in his testimony as to liberty, what is his affidavit worth as to the value of Christianity?
38805If he was so terribly against that crime, why did he forget to 69 mention it?
38805If it had not been, then, for the con- fusion of languages, spelling books, grammars and dictionaries would have been useless?
38805If it was a local flood, why did they put birds of the air into the ark?
38805If it was necessary to believe on Jesus Christ, in order to be saved, how is it that Matthew failed to say so?
38805If not, is Mr. Talmage a Baptist?
38805If so, what?
38805If the Catholic Church at that time had thrown out the book of Revelation, would it now be our duty to believe that book to have been inspired?
38805If the Catholic Church was not infal- lible, is the question still open as to what books are, and what are not, inspired?
38805If the light of which you speak was sufficient, why was the sun made?
38805If the man had eaten of the tree of life, would he have lived forever?
38805If the political theory of Mr. Talmage is carried out, of course the question will arise in a little while, What is a Christian?
38805If they wanted to show that Christ was of the blood of David, why did they not give the gene- alogy of his mother if Joseph was not his father?
38805If they were honest in the vote they gave, and died without changing their opinions, are they now in hell?
38805If upon reading these apocryphal books a man concludes that they are not inspired, will he be damned for that reason?
38805If we are under obligation to love our enemies, is not God under obligation to love his?
38805If we forgive our enemies, ought not God to forgive his?
38805If we forgive those who injure us, ought not God to forgive those who have not injured him?
38805If you take this away from us, what do you propose to give us in its place?
38805In the Psalms, Jehovah derides the idea of sacrifices, and says:"Will I eat of the flesh of"bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
38805In the first place, what is an"infidel"?
38805In the morn- ing at breakfast my mother asked Willet Hicks the following questions:"Was thee with Thomas Paine during his last sickness?"
38805In what language?
38805In what respect?
38805In what way was his death cowardly?
38805In your judgment, why did God destroy the Canaanites?
38805Instead of having an inspired book, why did he not make inspired folks?
38805Instead of having his commandments put on tables of stone, why did he not write them on each human brain?
38805Is Buddhism true?
38805Is Christ any more willing to take to his heart the whole world than his Father is?
38805Is God infinite in wisdom and power?
38805Is God satisfied with the adoration of the frightened?
38805Is God the author of all books?
38805Is God''s ship to go down in storm and darkness?
38805Is Mr. Talmage willing that the question, What is Christianity?
38805Is Saint John the only one who speaks of the necessity of being"born again"?
38805Is all this a consequence of the wrath of God?
38805Is he a Catholic?
38805Is he as charitable and pitiful now, as he was then?
38805Is he still omnipotent, and has he as much"omnipotence"now as he ever had?
38805Is he the product-- the natural product-- of Chris- 150 tianity?
38805Is he willing that I should exercise my judgment in deciding whether the Bible is inspired or not?
38805Is he willing to accept the testimony even of ministers?
38805Is he willing to admit that the testi- mony of a Bible, reader and believer is true?
38805Is it a sure sign of an impure mind, when a man insists that God never waged wars of extermination against his helpless children?
38805Is it as great a sin to admit into the Bible books that are uninspired as to reject those that are inspired?
38805Is it because the mind of the infidel is poisoned, that he refuses to believe that an infinite God commanded the murder of mothers, maidens and babes?
38805Is it because their minds are vile, that they refuse to believe that an infinite God established or protected polygamy?
38805Is it calculated to convey the slightest information?
38805Is it evidence of a thoroughly scientific mind to believe that one man turned over a house so large that three thousand people were on its roof?
38805Is it neces- sary for those who profess to love the whole world, to hate the few they come in actual contact with?
38805Is it necessary to believe all the miracles?
38805Is it necessary to understand the Bible in order to be saved?
38805Is it necessary, in order to ascertain the truth of Christianity, to look over the election re- turns?
38805Is it not a little strange that religion should make men so coarse and ill- mannered?
38805Is it not astonishing that so little is in the New Testament concerning the mother of Christ?
38805Is it not better for each one to decide honestly for himself?
38805Is it not infinitely impudent in him to contrast his penny- dip with the sun of inspiration?
38805Is it not possible that something can be done for a human soul in another world as well as in this?
38805Is it not singular that they were never mentioned afterward?
38805Is it not strange that Christ, in his Ser- mon on the Mount, did not speak of"regeneration,"or of the"scheme of salvation"?
38805Is it not strange that none of the disciples of Christ 123 said anything about their parents,--that we know absolutely nothing of them?
38805Is it not true that some of these books were adopted by exceedingly small majorities?
38805Is it not wonderful that God failed to pro- tect these innocent wives and children?
38805Is it not wonderful that all the writers 404 of the four gospels do not give an account of the ascension of Jesus Christ?
38805Is it not wonderful that some of them said that he did ascend, and others that he agreed to stay with his disciples always?
38805Is it not wonderful that such awful con- sequences flowed from so small an act?
38805Is it not wonderful that the Egyptians were not converted by the miracles wrought in their country?
38805Is it not wonderful that they were not convinced of the power of God, by the many mira- cles wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness?
38805Is it possible for any intelligent man now to believe that the history of Jonah is literally true?
38805Is it possible that Christ is less for- giving in heaven than he was in Jerusalem?
38805Is it possible that God can be gratified with the applause of moral cowards?
38805Is it possible that a being of infinite power would exercise it in that way instead of in the interest of kindness and peace?
38805Is it possible that a good God would take pains to deceive his children?
38805Is it possible that the God of Mr. Tal- mage could not have made man a success?
38805Is it possible that the eternal welfare of a human being depends upon believing the testimony of Poly- carp and Irenæus?
38805Is it possible that the other writers never heard of these things?
38805Is it possible that this will was made by a pauper--by a destitute outcast-- by a man who suffered for the ordinary necessaries of life?
38805Is it possible to conceive of anything more fig- leaflessly 297 absurd?
38805Is it possible to see"design"in earth- quakes, in volcanoes, in pestilence, in famine, in ruthless and relentless war?
38805Is it scientific to assert that seven priests blew seven rams''horns loud enough to blow down the walls of a city?
38805Is it scientific to imagine that thrusting a spear through the body of a woman ever stayed a plague?
38805Is it scientific to say that a river cut itself in two and allowed the lower end to run off?
38805Is it scientific to say that an animal saw an angel, and conversed with a man?
38805Is it scientific to say that the muscle of a man de- pended upon the length of his locks?
38805Is it unscientific to deny that water gushed from a hollow place in a dry bone?
38805Is it worse in a man than in an angel, to care nothing for his mother?
38805Is it your candid opinion that a man who does not believe the Bible should keep his belief a secret from his fellow- men?
38805Is not self- denial in a man as praise- worthy as in a God?
38805Is not that passage in Mark generally admitted to be an interpolation?
38805Is not this a supply of liquor for dinner and supper?"
38805Is not this true?
38805Is that all we know about Polycarp?
38805Is that portion of the last chapter of Mark found in the Syriac version of the Bible?
38805Is the Bible scientific?
38805Is the God of Mr. Talmage in partnership with the devil?
38805Is the New Testament now the same as it was in the days of the early fathers?
38805Is the man who shoulders his musket in the defence of human freedom good enough to cast a ballot?
38805Is there any evidence that they showed any particular respect even for the mother of Christ?
38805Is there to be a wreck at last?
38805Is there"design"in this?
38805Is this true?
38805Is this true?
38805Is virtue the same in all worlds?
38805Is"inspiration"a question to be settled by the ballot?
38805It is hardly fair to compare her with the inventor of the steamship?
38805Jehovah got angry again, and said to Moses:"How long will these people provoke me?
38805Mr. Talmage also charges you with"making light of holy things,"and seems to be aston- ished that you should ridicule the anointing oil of Aaron?
38805Mr. Talmage also claims that we are indebted to Christianity for schools, colleges, univer- sities, hospitals and asylums?
38805Mr. Talmage asks you whether, in your judgment, the Bible was a good, or an evil, to your parents?
38805Mr. Talmage asks:"What has been the effect upon your children?
38805Mr. Talmage charges that you have taken the ground that the Bible is a cruel book, and has produced cruel people?
38805Mr. Talmage charges you with being"the champion blasphemer of America"--what do you understand blasphemy to be?
38805Mr. Talmage charges you with having said that the Scriptures are a collection of polluted writings?
38805Mr. Talmage in reply to you?
38805Mr. Talmage says that infidels have done no good?
38805Mr. Talmage thinks that you laugh too much,--that you exhibit too much mirth, and that no one should smile at sacred things?
38805Mr. Talmage wants you to tell where the cruelty of the Bible crops out in the lives of Chris- tians?
38805Must a man believe statements that he has every reason to think are false?
38805Now suppose that in this belief the man had died,--what then?
38805Now, if we are to take the testimony of Irenæus, 267 why not take it?
38805Now, suppose that the father is an infidel, and the mother a Christian, what must the son do?
38805Of course, infidels laugh at these things; but what can you expect of men who have not been"born"again"?
38805Of what use are all the sciences, if you lose your own soul?
38805Of what use to the world was Bishop Mcllvaine, compared with the inventor of needles?
38805Of what use were a hundred such priests compared with the inventor of matches, or even of clothes- pins?
38805On what day did God make vegetation?
38805Once he pitied even thieves; does he now abhor an intellectually honest man?
38805Or, was it a belief in the Bible that made Mr. Talmage deny the truth of their statements?
38805Paine, you have not answered my questions; will you answer them?
38805Perhaps it has, but would it not be well enough to answer it once more?
38805Should Christians pray for the con- version of infidels?
38805Should Christians try to convert them?
38805Should a God be worshiped, and a man be damned, for the same action?
38805Should he have betrayed Christ, or let somebody else do it; or should he have allowed the world to perish, in- cluding his own soul?
38805Should we believe the miracles, whether they are reasonable or not?
38805So you think that, after all, it was not God''s intention that the Jews should become civilized?
38805Some may not have seen the answer?
38805Suppose Judas had understood the divine plan, what ought he to have done?
38805Suppose a man is firmly convinced that Polycarp knew nothing about Saint John, and that Saint John knew nothing about Christ,--what then?
38805Suppose he is convinced that Eusebius is utterly unworthy of credit,--what then?
38805Suppose his father had been a Catholic, and his mother a Protestant,--what then?
38805Suppose his parents had both been infidels-- what then?
38805Suppose it should turn out that some of these miracles depend upon mistranslations of the original Hebrew, should we still believe them?
38805Suppose that Hannah More had never lived?
38805Suppose that doubts force themselves upon my mind?
38805Suppose that the Christian religion had been put to vote in Jerusalem?
38805Suppose that the infidel is a good man, how will you answer him then?
38805Suppose that the same man should read the Koran, and come to the conclusion that it is not an inspired book; what ought he to say?
38805The question is: Is the Bible a cruel book?
38805The second time was at the marriage feast in Cana, when he said to her:"Woman, what have I to do"with thee?"
38805The text from which he preached is:"Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?"
38805The worship of the sun was an exceedingly natural religion, and why should a man or woman be destroyed for kneeling at the fireside of the world?
38805Then hypocrisy will not save him?
38805Then the Old Testament tells us how we lost immortality, not that we are immortal, does it?
38805Then why did Luke say in the same verse of the same chapter that"Jesus increased in"favor with God"?
38805Then you regard belief as the safe way?
38805Then you think that there is no such thing as the crime of blasphemy, and that no such offence can be committed?
38805There are in Russia about eighty millions of people--how many Christians?
38805There are more Buddhists than Christians-- why does he vote against majorities?
38805There are more Methodists than Presbyterians-- why does the gentleman remain a Presbyterian?
38805There was a time when an abolitionist could not be elected to office in any State in this Union; what did that prove?
38805There was a time when no man could have been elected to any office, who in- 300 sisted on the rotundity of the earth; what did that prove?
38805There was a time when no man who denied the existence of witches, wizards, spooks and devils, could hold any position of honor; what did that prove?
38805There was a time when they were not allowed to express their honest thoughts; what does that prove?
38805They had wandered so long in the desert that they finally cried out:"Wherefore have ye brought us"up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?
38805This being so, this miracle is the best attested of all?
38805This being so, why did not God reveal himself to every human being?
38805Twelfth-- If Thomas Paine recanted, why do you pursue him?
38805Was Abraham pursued by the justice of God because of the crime against Hagar, or for the crime against his own wife?
38805Was Christ the God of the universe at the time of his birth?
38805Was God afraid that Adam and Eve might get back into the garden, and eat of the fruit of the tree of life?
38805Was God always patient and kind and merciful toward his children while they were in the wilderness?
38805Was God at that time, in favor of slavery?
38805Was God driven to madness by the conduct of his chosen people?
38805Was God, at that time, merciful?
38805Was Mohammed an im- postor?
38805Was anything more infamous ever recorded in the annals of barbarism?
38805Was he a 479 drunken beast when he wrote the"Crisis"?
38805Was he convinced before that time?
38805Was he in the world before the for- bidden fruit was eaten?
38805Was he the infinite God, creator and controller of the entire universe, before he was born?
38805Was he turned out to prevent his eating?
38805Was he willing that the"unconverted"should cover 308 the fields of victory with their corpses, that this nation might not die?
38805Was he willing, at that time, that sinners should vote to keep our flag in heaven?
38805Was it a belief in the Bible that colored their testimony?
38805Was it beastly to die without a com- plaint, without a murmur-- to pass from life without a fear?
38805Was it beastly to look with composure upon the approach of death?
38805Was it beastly to submit to the inevitable with tranquillity?
38805Was it because in the light of that letter Mary Roscoe, Mary Hinsdale and Grant Thorburn appeared un- worthy of belief?
38805Was it because it proved beyond all cavil that Thomas Paine did not recant?
38805Was it cowardly in him to hold the Thirty- Nine Articles in contempt?
38805Was it cowardly not to be afraid?
38805Was it cowardly not to call on your Lord?
38805Was it cruel, or unjust?
38805Was it kind, was it just, was it noble, was it worthy of a good God?
38805Was it necessary for him to stop the sun and moon and depend entirely upon the efforts of Joshua?
38805Was it necessary to have a devil in heaven?
38805Was it optional with him whether he should make such people or not?
38805Was not God able to write a book that would command the love and admiration of the world?
38805Was such conduct Godlike?
38805Was that a punishment for having had so many wives?
38805Was that before the sun was made?
38805Was that cruel?
38805Was the Catholic Church infallible then?
38805Was the snake who tempted them to eat, evil?
38805Was there any particular"design"in that?
38805Was there not room enough on the tables of stone for just one word on this subject?
38805Was this cruel?
38805Was this fearful destruction an act of mercy?
38805Was this the conduct of a drunken beast?
38805Were animals so treated by the com- mand of a merciful God?
38805Were both these persons inspired by the same God?
38805Were our first parents under the im- mediate protection of an infinite God?
38805Were the Jews guilty of idolatry?
38805Were the men who picked out the in- spired books inspired?
38805Were the people after the flood just as bad as they were before?
38805Were these eight persons totally de- praved?
38805Were they 155 not false,--in his sense of the word,--to their fathers and mothers?
38805Were they the same people that God had promised to take care of?
38805What are the principal reasons that have satisfied you that the Bible is not an inspired book?
38805What are"the fountains of the great deep"?
38805What became of Abraham and his people?
38805What became of all the Canaanites, the Egyptians, the Hindus, the Greeks and Romans and Chinese?
38805What became of the millions and billions who lived in this hemisphere, and of whose existence Jehovah himself seemed perfectly ignorant?
38805What can I be expected to give as a substitute for perdition?
38805What could have been more cruel than the flood?
38805What crime had Thomas Paine committed that he should have feared to die?
38805What did God do then?
38805What did God do with Adam and Eve after he got them done?
38805What did God do with these people after Pharaoh allowed them to go?
38805What did God give us reason for?
38805What did God make man of?
38805What did he make him for?
38805What did he make it out of?
38805What did he say or do of a cowardly character just before, or at about the time of his death?
38805What did he say?
38805What did that prove?
38805What did that prove?
38805What did that prove?
38805What did they do?
38805What do we really know about Polycarp?
38805What do you consider is the strongest argument in favor of the inspiration of the Scrip- tures?
38805What do you consider the strongest argument against the truth of infidelity?
38805What do you mean by that?
38805What do you think of his argument, or of his explanation, rather, of that miracle?
38805What do you think of it?
38805What do you think of the argu- ments presented by Mr. Talmage in favor of the inspiration of the Bible?
38805What do you think of the declaration of Mr. Talmage that the Bible will be read in heaven throughout all the endless ages of eternity?
38805What do you think of the following state- ment by Mr. Talmage:"Oh, I have to tell you that no"man ever died for a lie cheerfully and triumphantly"?
38805What do you think of the story of Daniel-- you no doubt remember it?
38805What do you think of what he has to say?
38805What do you understand by"the"morning and evening"of a"good- while"?
38805What do you wish to have done with the Bible?
38805What does Mr. Talmage think of man- kind?
38805What does a man want in place of a disease?
38805What does he think of some of the best the earth has produced?
38805What does it prove?
38805What does that prove?
38805What effect has the religion of Jesus Christ had upon him?
38805What effect, in his judgment, did the reading of the Bible have upon his enemies?
38805What else did God do in order to in- duce Pharaoh to liberate the Jews?
38805What else did he make?
38805What evidence, according to the Bible, can Mr. Talmage give of his belief?
38805What happened then?
38805What happened to Adam and Eve in the garden?
38805What have you stated upon that subject?
38805What have you to say to the charge that you were mistaken in the number of years that 72 the Hebrews were in Egypt?
38805What is his opinion of the"unconverted"?
38805What is your opinion about that?
38805What is your understanding of this matter?
38805What is"inspiration"?
38805What kind of man was Abram?
38805What makes you think it is inspired?
38805What means did he take to liberate the Jews?
38805What more heartless than to overwhelm a world?
38805What more merciless than to cover a shoreless sea with the corpses of men, women and children?
38805What must we think of your present conduct?
38805What punishment did God inflict upon Adam and Eve for the sin of having eaten the for- bidden fruit?
38805What right has a Christian to ask anybody to love his father, or mother, or wife, or child?
38805What right has he to any opinion upon the subject?
38805What right has he to question the statements of an inspired writer?
38805What then?
38805What was the object of making woman out of man''s side?
38805What was the result?
38805What was this miracle performed for?
38805What was woman made of?
38805What were the affirmations contained in the offer you made?
38805What were the last words of Jesus Christ?
38805What will be the fate of a man who does not believe it, and yet pretends to believe it?
38805What would Russia be, in the opinion of Mr. Tal- mage, but for Christianity?
38805What would he Jiave done had he been remorse- lessly cruel and wicked?
38805What would he have done had he acted from motives of revenge?
38805What would they have done had he been exacting, easily incensed, revengeful, cruel, or blood- thirsty?
38805What, in your judgment, became of the dead who were raised by Christ?
38805When God created each human being, did he know exactly what would be his eternal fate?
38805When he thinks he is right?
38805When the flood came, why did he not drown all?
38805When we take into consideration that it is aided by the momentum of eighteen centuries, is it not wonderful that it is not to- day holding its own?
38805When we were engaged in civil war, did Mr. Tal- mage object to any man''s enlisting in the ranks who was not a Christian?
38805Where did education come from?
38805Where did they get it?
38805Where did"Polycarp get it?
38805Where has he been through all the centuries of slavery and crime?
38805Where is he now?
38805Where is the flaming sword now?
38805Who cares then for the pride of intellect?
38805Who has the right to decide as to the real ideas that God intended to convey?
38805Who made you?
38805Who saw the miracle?
38805Who would not complain under similar cir- cumstances?
38805Whom did he select?
38805Whom do you regard as infidels?
38805Why could we not get along without it?
38805Why did a God of infinite mercy destroy seventy thousand men?
38805Why did he allow him to thwart his plans?
38805Why did he allow himself to be be- trayed, if he knew the plot?
38805Why did he allow the devil to tempt Adam and Eve?
38805Why did he create him?
38805Why did he do this?
38805Why did he fail to reveal himself to the other nations-- nations that, compared with the Jews, were learned, cultivated and powerful?
38805Why did he fill his land with widows and orphans, because King David had taken the cen- sus?
38805Why did he leave innocence and ignorance at the mercy of subtlety and wickedness?
38805Why did he not destroy that 370 snake; or how did he come to make him; what did he make him for?
38805Why did he not give a Bible to the Egyptians, the Hindus, the Greeks and the Romans?
38805Why did he not kill them, and start over again with a perfect pair?
38805Why did he not make them so sharp, intellectually, that they could not be deceived?
38805Why did he not play the role of a Savior instead of that of a 205 detective?
38805Why did he not protect them?
38805Why did he not put them on their guard?
38805Why did he not warn them of this snake?
38805Why did he not, as the leader of this people, his chosen children, feed them better?
38805Why did he permit him to pollute the inno- cence of Eden?
38805Why did he preserve Noah?
38805Why did he produce them?
38805Why did he put"the"tree of the knowledge of good and evil"in the garden?
38805Why did he save for seed that which was"perfectly"and thoroughly corrupt in all its parts and facul-"ties"?
38805Why did his God make a devil?
38805Why did n''t you call your adversary a fool?
38805Why did not Christ tell Zaccheus that he"must be born again;"that he must"believe on the Lord Jesus Christ"?
38805Why did not God punish Saul instead of the people?
38805Why did not these inspired men tell us how to cure some of the diseases that have decimated the world?
38805Why did the bears come?
38805Why did they fail to speak of it?
38805Why did you not publish the entire letter of Bishop Fenwick?
38805Why did you suppress it?
38805Why do you call infidels"fools"?
38805Why do you call upon Jesus Christ to help you?
38805Why do you curse infidels?
38805Why do you pray to him?
38805Why do you think she was changed into salt?
38805Why does a good God permit these things?
38805Why does he allow him now to wrest souls by the million from the redeeming hand of Christ?
38805Why does he not now cure the lame and the halt and the blind?
38805Why does he per- mit him to live?
38805Why does he with- hold light from the eyes of the blind?
38805Why does not God furnish more evidence?
38805Why save such seed?
38805Why should God hate us for being what we are and necessarily must have been?
38805Why should God object to having his book examined?
38805Why should a God of infinite wisdom create people who would gladly murder their Creator?
38805Why should a good God people a world with men capable of burning their fellow- men-- and capable of burning the greatest and 48 best?
38805Why should a ship built by infinite wisdom, by an infinite shipbuilder, carry life- boats?
38805Why should he set up his judgment against the Websters and Jacksons?
38805Why should we have a book for a master?
38805Why was it necessary to save the birds?
38805Why were the miracles recorded in the New Testament performed?
38805Why were they not put upon their guard against the serpent?
38805Why were they thrown out?
38805Why would Paine expect a correct answer about his writings from one who had read very little of them?
38805Why would a God do such an infamous thing?
38805Why, man, what''s the matter?
38805Why, then, did he make them?
38805Why?
38805Why?
38805Why?
38805Why?
38805Will Christians in heaven love their neighbors?
38805Will Mr. Talmage admit that his witness told the truth in this?
38805Will Mr. Talmage be kind enough to explain the stoppage of the moon?
38805Will he give us the names of the painters that existed in Palestine from Mount Sinai to the destruction of the temple?
38805Will he give us the names of the sculptors between those times?
38805Will he have the kindness to perform a miracle?--for instance, produce a"local flood,"make a worm to smite a gourd, or"prepare a fish"?
38805Will he pledge himself in advance to subscribe to such a creed?
38805Will it be necessary at last to forsake his ship and depend upon life- boats?
38805Will somebody be kind enough to show the"design"in this trans- action?
38805Will the reading of these things make children kind to animals?
38805Will you have the fairness to admit it?
38805Would God allow a soul to suffer 426 eternal agony rather than furnish evidence of the truth of his Bible?
38805Would he say,"I can not tell the truth, I must lie,"for the purpose of shedding a halo of glory around"the memory of my mother"?
38805Would he say:"Of"course, my father and mother would a thousand"times rather have their son a hypocritical Christian"than an honest, manly unbeliever"?
38805Would it not have been better to have had his flood at first, before he made anybody, and drowned the snake?
38805Would it not have been far better to leave them unconscious dust?
38805Would it not have been more con- vincing if Christ, after his resurrection, had shown himself to his enemies as well as to his friends?
38805Would it not seem from this, that"regeneration"and a"belief in the"Lord Jesus Christ,"are no part of the gospel?
38805Would not a millionth part of the force necessary to stop the moon, have pierced the enemy''s centre, and rolled up both his flanks?
38805Would not the force employed in stopping the rotary motion of the earth have been sufficient to destroy the enemy?
38805Would not the mission of Christ have been a failure had no one betrayed him?
38805Would such a fish understand any language?
38805Would then a man, by following the course of conduct prescribed by Christ in the Sermon on the Mount, lose his soul?
38805Would there have been no poisonous plants, no poisonous reptiles?
38805Would you regard a revelation now made to the Esquimaux as intended for us; and would it be a revelation of which we would be obliged to take notice?
38805You do not seem to have any great opinion of the chemical, geological, and agricultural views expressed by Mr. Talmage?
38805You have told me that if you did not be- lieve it, you would not tell me?
38805You notice that Mr. Talmage finds nearly all the inventions of modern times mentioned in the Bible?
38805_ Third._ If God is infinitely good, is he not fully as sympathetic as Christ?
38805did he deny that story?
38805not: Was Miss Nightingale a cruel woman?
38805or let me qualify the question, do you wish to believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God?''
38805should be so settled?
38805why hast thou forsaken me?"
8389Did he ever light a fagot? 8389 Do you know, boys, that you all ought to go to hell?"
8389Do you think it is divinely inspired?
8389Give me a dollar?
8389Have you loved your wife and children?
8389Have you taken good care of them and made them happy?
8389Have you tried to do right by your neighbors?
8389Paid all your debts?
8389Well, What is it?
8389Well, why do n''t you change it?
8389What did our forefathers use it for?
8389What did you do with that dollar I gave you last week?
8389What did you do with that fifty cents I gave you last Christmas?
8389What for?
8389What for?
8389What has been my offense? 8389 What kind of muscles?"
8389What,they say,"leave us without any guide- boards?"
8389You do n''t? 8389 A tyrant father will have liars for children; do you know that? 8389 About how long is it before this kingdom is to be established? 8389 According to that book God met the devil and said:Where have you been?"
8389Admitting that the bible is the book of God, is that His only good job?
8389Admitting that the bible is the book of God, is that His only good job?
8389Afraid of what?
8389After a while the pauper without rheumatism died, and then the pauper with the rheumatism began to think in her own mind, who will bring me food?
8389All of it; all of it; and yet what is this old testament that was written by an infinitely good God?
8389And I ask you if I have not the same right to think that any other human has?
8389And can any God damn such a soul?
8389And do you know there has not been a patentable improvement made on that devil for 4,000 years?
8389And do you know, it is a splendid thing for me to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you?
8389And he said to her:"These belong to your father; do you think that he will allow one of his children to starve?
8389And how can we be made in the image of something that has neither body and parts nor passions?
8389And how long do you suppose the church fought that?
8389And if He is infinite, how can they comprehend Him?
8389And if I have no right to think, who has?
8389And if Joseph was not his father, why not give the genealogy of Pontius Pilate or Herod?
8389And if a god has made us, knowing that we would be totally depraved, why should we go to the same being for repairs?
8389And if a man honestly decides that death is best-- best for him and others-- and acts upon the decision, why should he be blamed?
8389And if that story is true, ought we not after all to thank the devil?
8389And then cap the climax by asking:"Were you ever baptized?"
8389And we took all his cities, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain?"
8389And what am I to go by?
8389And what does a trial for heresy mean?
8389And what for?
8389And what is spirit?
8389And what is the next thing?
8389And what kind of a God is it that will allow such men and women to be burned at the stake?
8389And what shall we say of Greece?
8389And what was the golden age born of?
8389And what was the result?
8389And what?
8389And when we get to the new testament, what do we find there?
8389And why did God demand the sacrifice of a sheep?
8389And why?
8389And why?
8389And why?
8389Another man''s oracle?
8389Are the Christian nations patterns of charity and forbearance?
8389Are the people who go to church the only good people?
8389Are the savages the agents of the good God?
8389Are there not a great many bad people who go to church?
8389Are they the servants of the infinite?
8389As a final test:"Boys, would you be willing to go to hell if it was God''s will?"
8389Billions of prayers have been uttered; has one been answered?
8389But we are advancing, and we are beginning to hold all kinds of slavery in utter contempt; do you know that?
8389But what shall I say more?
8389But what shall we do, O God, with the maidens?
8389But what was the result?
8389Can God, then, through the bible, make the same revelation to two men?
8389Can I increase his happiness or decrease his misery?
8389Can a spirit exist without matter or without force?
8389Can any one conceive of music without human love?
8389Can any person read the first chapters of Genesis and believe them unless his logic was assassinated in the cradle?
8389Can anybody?
8389Can anyone believe this to be a true account of the personal appearance of Mr. Paine in 1802?
8389Can anything be more infamous?
8389Can not a soul be infinitely generous?
8389Can that tongue be palsied by a presbytery that praises a self- denying and heroic life?
8389Can the believing father in heaven be happy with his unbelieving children in hell?
8389Can the loving wife in heaven be happy with her unbelieving husband in hell?
8389Can there be such a fiend?
8389Can there ever be any progress in this world to amount to anything until we have liberty?
8389Can we help him, can we add to his glory or happiness?
8389Can we hope, with the story of Daniel in the lion''s den, to rival the stupendous miracles of India?
8389Can you contribute a few dollars to the fund?"
8389Can you imagine matter without force?
8389Can you?
8389Christian hate has not allowed the Jews to earn a[ living?]
8389Col. Ingersoll-- What did the gentleman say?
8389Could a solitary being hear that question without laughing?
8389Could he have done a more noble act than to recognize him who had served him faithfully as a man?
8389Did Caesar take the city of Jericho"and utterly destroy all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old?"
8389Did He not know exactly just what He was making?
8389Did Julius Caesar send the following report to the Roman Senate?
8389Did Thomas Paine die in destitution and want?
8389Did all the ministers of Scotland add as much to the such of human knowledge as David Hume?
8389Did all the priests of France do as great a work for the civilization of the world as Voltaire or Diderot?
8389Did all the priests of Rome increase the mental wealth of man as much as Bruno?
8389Did he ever do that?"
8389Did he ever tear human flesh?
8389Did he leave in this world more goodness, more humanity, than when he was born?
8389Did he leave in this world more liberty?
8389Did he leave this world better than he found it?
8389Did he see Him after He had sat down?
8389Did n''t He know that when He made us?
8389Did n''t they damn into eternal flames the man who discovered the movement of the earth in its orbit?
8389Did n''t they damn into eternal flames the man who discovered the world was round?
8389Did n''t they even try to put down life insurance by saying it was sinful to bet on the time God has given you to live?
8389Did n''t they persecute the astronomers?
8389Did the Congress of the United States thank him for his services because he had lived a drunken and beastly life?
8389Did the State of New York feel indebted to a drunken beast, and confer upon Thomas Paine an estate of several hundred acres?
8389Did the compassionate God create the cancer so that it might feed on the quivering flesh of this victim?
8389Did they wish to save his life?
8389Did you ever hear of any man coming into a town broke and inquire where the deacon of a Presbyterian church lived?
8389Do church members pay their debts any better than any others?
8389Do n''t you see that these infamous doctrines petrify the human heart?
8389Do not the Presbyterians rather trample on the things that are holy to the Roman Catholics, and do they respect their feelings?
8389Do they benefit mankind?
8389Do they treat their families any better?
8389Do we find them among all Christians?
8389Do without the bible?
8389Do you believe God will look for this water- mark on the soul?
8389Do you believe an infinite God gave a recipe for hair- oil?
8389Do you believe any such nonsense from a god?
8389Do you believe that God ever told a widow if her brother- in- law refused to marry her to spit in his face?
8389Do you believe that God-- if there is one-- will ever damn me for thinking Him better than He is?
8389Do you believe that any man was ever crucified who was the master of death?
8389Do you believe there is any duty that man owes to God that will prevent a man marrying the woman he loves?
8389Do you judge from the manner in which you are getting along now?
8389Do you know another thing?
8389Do you know some ministers who denounce me would have been in the Inquisition themselves two hundred years ago?
8389Do you know that it is insufferable egotism in you to suppose that a woman is going to love you always looking as bad as you can?
8389Do you know that the church today occupies about the same ground that unbelievers did one hundred years ago?
8389Do you know that the most orthodox people in this town today, three hundred years ago would have been burned for heresy?
8389Do you know that there is only a little zig- zag strip around the world within which have been produced all men of genius?
8389Do you know we are improving all the time?
8389Do you know where once burned and blazed the bivouac fires of the army of progress, the altars of the church glow today?
8389Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud?
8389Do you really regard poverty as a crime?
8389Do you see such a wonderful difference between a member of a church and the man who does not believe in it?
8389Do you suppose they are going to die without a struggle?
8389Do you tell me that the less brain a man has the better chance he has for heaven?
8389Do you then believe that the bible is a different book to every human being that receives it?
8389Do you think any one would wish to crucify him?
8389Do you think that the people of Chicago would kill him?
8389Do you understand?
8389Does an argument depend for its force upon the pecuniary condition of the person making it?
8389Does an infinite being need to be protected by a State Legislature?
8389Does any human being now believe that God made man of dust and a woman of a rib, and put them in a garden, and put a tree in the middle of it?
8389Does anybody believe in that now that has got the slightest sense?--one who knows enough to chew gum without a string?"
8389Does anybody believe it now?
8389Does anybody believe that, that has ever thought?
8389Does anybody now believe in the snake story?
8389Does belief depend at all upon the evidence?
8389Does he need my strength or my life?
8389Does it still glory in the damnation of infants, and does it still persist in emptying the cradle in order that perdition may be filled?
8389Does it still retain within its stony heart all the malice of its founder?
8389Does it teach a man to resist oppression?
8389Does it treat woman as she ought to be treated, or is it barbarian?
8389Does not such a statement devour itself?
8389Does the bible give woman her rights?
8389Does the bible teach the existence of devils?
8389Else how can you account for all this snake and hyena and jackal in man?
8389Ever put the thumb- screw on anybody?
8389Everbright, how do you do?
8389First, what is the origin of the crime known as blasphemy?
8389For more than a thousand years the church had, to a great extent, the control of the civilized world, and what has been the result?
8389For the mean things you have done when you are in hell?
8389For what reason, then, do you denounce his death as cowardly?
8389Free labor will give us wealth, and has given us wealth, and why?
8389God will say to the Presbyterians,"What shall We do to this man?
8389Had I not better say so?
8389Had I not better say so?
8389Had he ever burned anybody?
8389Had he ever put anybody in the inquisition?
8389Has he no right to defend himself?
8389Has he the right to render himself unconscious?
8389Has not the church opposed every science from the first ray of light until now?
8389He says,"Who is reading this?"
8389He took away his property, but Job did n''t sin; and when God met the devil, he said:"Well, what did I tell you, smarty?"
8389He was wrecked in the sea and drifted to an unknown island, and as he climbed up the shore he saw a man, and said to him,"Have you a government here?"
8389Here are these millions today who say:"We are to be saved by belief, by faith; but what are we to believe?"
8389Here is a man, for instance, that weighs 200 pounds, and gets sick and dies weighing 120; how much will he weigh in the morning of the resurrection?
8389Honesty, hospitality, mercy in the hour of victory, generosity-- do we not find these virtues among some savages?
8389Honor bright, can you conceive of force without matter?
8389Honor bright, is n''t that the better story?
8389Honor bright, what, in your judgment, would have been the effect upon the agricultural world?
8389Honor bright, what, in your judgment, would have been the effect upon the circumnavigation of the globe?
8389Honor bright, what, in your judgment, would have been the effect upon the circumnavigation of the globe?
8389How are you to know that it is God''s word?
8389How can fits that attack a man take up a residence in swine?
8389How can we get along without the revelation that no one understands?
8389How dare we drown the thunders of Sinai by calling the ayes and naes in a petty legislature?
8389How did He get it out?
8389How did Noah get the animals in the ark?
8389How did the bears get there?
8389How did the devil, who had always lived in heaven among the best society, ever happen to become bad?
8389How did the great and glorious of that empire?
8389How did these gentlemen of old know it was God who was talking to them?
8389How did you like it?"
8389How do they answer all this?
8389How do they know about this infinite being?
8389How do we know that the prophecies were not fulfilled before they were written?
8389How do you account for Russia?
8389How do you account for Siberia?
8389How do you account for it?
8389How do you account for the existence of martyrs?
8389How do you account for the fact that babes were sold from the arms of mothers-- arms that had been reached toward God in supplication?
8389How do you account for the fact that innocence is not a perfect shield?
8389How do you account for the fact that justice does n''t always triumph?
8389How do you account for the fact that the world has been filled with pain, and grief, and tears?
8389How do you account for the fact that this God allows people to be burned simply for loving Him?
8389How do you account for the fact that whole races of men toiled beneath the master''s lash for ages without recompense and without reward?
8389How do you know it''s the word of God?
8389How does God laugh?
8389How does he know He was on the right hand?
8389How is it with nations?
8389How is that?
8389How long is it since you converted a Chinaman?
8389How long since you have had a convert in India?
8389How long will they grovel in the dust before the ignorant legends of the barbaric past?
8389How long will they grovel in the dust before the ignorant legends of the barbaric past?
8389How long, O how long will man listen to the threats of God, and shut his ears to the splendid promises of Nature?
8389How long, O how long will mankind worship a book?
8389How long, O how long will they pursue phantoms in a darkness deeper than death?
8389How long, O how long, will mankind worship a book?
8389How long, O how long, will they pursue phantoms in a darkness deeper than death?
8389How many are you converting a year; really, truthfully?
8389How many millions of Christians are in the uniform of everlasting forgiveness, loving their enemies?
8389How many millions of Christians are now armed and equipped to destroy their fellow- Christians?
8389How many people are being born a year?
8389How was it possible for Lucretius to get along without the bible?
8389How would you keep Sunday then?
8389How''d you like to farm it, and depend on volcanic glare to raise a crop?
8389How?
8389How?
8389I admit that orthodoxy could not exist without them, but why did God make them?
8389I again ask the old question: of what did He make it?
8389I ask again whether these splendid utterances came from the lips of a drunken beast?
8389I ask you what effect would that have had upon music?
8389I ask you, honor bright, if that course had been pursued, would the human ears ever have been enriched with the divine symphonies of Beethoven?
8389I ask, again, whether these splendid utterances came from the lips of a drunken beast?
8389I ask:"Does God wish the lip- worship of a slave?
8389I do not say there is no God, but I do ask, what is God doing?
8389I do not say there is not, but I want to know, and I want to know if a man is to be damned for asking the question?
8389I hate dictation-- I want something like liberty; and what do I mean by that?
8389I have been honest about it; do n''t believe it?"
8389I have read this book and what shall I say of it?
8389I have read this book, and what shall I say of it?
8389I said,"Do you think the fellows that were drowned believed in special providence?"
8389I say,"What are they?"
8389I says,"I do n''t know whether you do or not; maybe you are following the advice you gave me; how shall I know whether you believe it or not?"
8389I want you to know that the church carried the black flag, and I ask you what must have been the civilizing influence of such a religion?
8389I would say,"Where were you when you got the notice to come back?
8389If Christ was God, did He not know on His cross what crimes would be done in His name?
8389If Christ was God, why did He not tell His disciples, and through them, the world,"Man shall not persecute his fellow- man?"
8389If Christ was in fact God, why did n''t He plainly say there was another life?
8389If God wo n''t love such men and women, then under what circumstances will he love?
8389If He had not loved us what would He have done?
8389If He wishes to hold a gentleman responsible, why does n''t He address him in his native tongue?
8389If I did not believe in Him how could I call Him anything?
8389If I have lost my right, Mr. Smith, where did you find yours?
8389If Paine had died a millionaire, would Christians have accepted his religious opinions?
8389If Paine had drank nothing but cold water, would Christians have repudiated the five cardinal points of Calvinism?
8389If Paine recanted, why should he denied"a little earth for charity?"
8389If Sunday alone is the Lord''s day, whose day is Monday, Tuesday, Friday, etc.?
8389If Thomas Paine recanted, why do you pursue him?
8389If a man surrounded by angels could become bad, why can not a man surrounded by devils become good?
8389If earthquake there must be, why did it not occur in some uninhabited desert on some wide waste of sea?
8389If it was the fact, if the dead got out of the grave, why did He not show himself to his enemies?
8389If reason can determine what is merciful, what is just, the duties of man to man, what more do we want either in time or eternity?
8389If that''s the case, then why does n''t He convert us all?
8389If the Lord created it, what did He make it of?
8389If the bible is inspired, does the author of it need the support of the law to command respect?
8389If the devil had written upon the subject of slavery, which side would he have taken?
8389If the devil told a man to kill his wife, would you be astonished?
8389If the devil upheld polygamy would you be surprised?
8389If the devil wanted to kill somebody for differing with him would you be surprised?
8389If the doctrine of the Calvinists is true, what right had any one to ask an unbeliever to fight for his country in the civil war?
8389If the infinite God, if there is one, who made us, wished us to think alike, why did he give a spoonful of brains to one man, and a bushel to another?
8389If the world was created, what was it make of?
8389If there is an infinite God and I have not reason enough to comprehend His universe, whose fault is it?
8389If there is any God that made us, what right had He to make idiots?
8389If there is nothing of the snake, or hyena, or jackal in man, why would he cut his brother''s throat for a difference of belief?
8389If we can convert the heathen, why not convert those nearest home?
8389If you have got it, why seek for it?
8389If you knew the devil had written a little work on human slavery, in your judgment would he uphold slavery or denounce it?
8389If you make your wife a perpetual beggar, what kind of children do you expect to raise with a beggar for their mother?
8389If you see a man in prison with the chains eating into his flesh simply for loving God, you''ve got to ask why does not a just God interfere?
8389If your child tells a lie-- what of it?
8389If"God"determines all births and deaths, of what use is medicine, and why should doctors defy, with pills and powders, the decrees of"God"?
8389In Brooklyn and New York you have the bible, yet do you find that the restraint is a great success?
8389In mercy?
8389In mercy?
8389In what respect would he have differed from God on the subject of slavery, polygamy, wars of extermination, and religious persecution?
8389In what?
8389Ingersoll''s Lecture on Myth and Miracles Ladies and Gentlemen: What, after all, is the object of life?
8389Ingersoll''s Lecture on the Review of His Reviewers Ladies and Gentlemen:"What have I said?"
8389Ingersoll''s Letter, Is Suicide a Sin?
8389Instead of turning them out, why did n''t He keep him from getting in?
8389Is a man to be rewarded eternally for believing without evidence or against evidence?
8389Is a man with a head like a pin under any obligation to thank God?
8389Is a minister to be silenced because he speaks fairly of a noble and candid adversary?
8389Is infinite goodness and mercy to become livid with wrath because a finite being expresses an opinion?
8389Is intellectual development the highway of progress or must we depend on the pit of credulity?
8389Is it a raw material?
8389Is it a sin to speak a charitable word over the grave of John Stuart Mill?
8389Is it a small thing to reave the heavens of an insatiate monster and write upon the eternal dome, glittering with stars, the grand word liberty?
8389Is it blasphemous to describe this God as malicious?
8389Is it blasphemy to believe what we read in the 109th Psalm?
8389Is it blasphemy to describe God as needing assistance from the Legislature?
8389Is it blasphemy to say that He is the author of the pestilence; that He ordered some of His children to consume others with fire and sword?
8389Is it heretical to pay a just and graceful tribute to departed worth?
8389Is it not a little late in the day to object to people because they sacrifice meat and other eatables to their god?
8389Is it nothing to civilize mankind?
8389Is it nothing to fill the world with light, with discovery, with science?
8389Is it nothing to free the mind?
8389Is it nothing to make men wipe the dust from their swollen knees, the tears from their blanched and furrowed cheeks?
8389Is it possible for absurdity to go beyond that?
8389Is it possible for this God to prevent it?
8389Is it possible that He would damn me for being honest, and give me wings if I would play the hypocrite?
8389Is it possible that a God delights in threatening and terrifying men?
8389Is it possible that a few Chinese can bring"our holy religion"into disgust and contempt?
8389Is it possible that an infinite Deity is unwilling that man should investigate the phenomena by which he is surrounded?
8389Is it possible that somebody else can be good for me, and that this doctrine of the atonement is the only anchor for the human soul?
8389Is it possible that the bible is the only restraint, and yet the nations among whom these men lived have been as moral as we?
8389Is it possible that they know each other?
8389Is it possible that this will was made by a pauper, by a destitute outcast, by a man who suffered for the ordinary necessities of life?
8389Is it possible that we have been given reason simply that we may through faith ignore its deductions and avoid its conclusions?
8389Is it possible?)
8389Is it proper for him to take refuge in sleep?
8389Is it really essential to conjugate the Greek verbs before you can make up your mind as to the probability of dead people getting out of their graves?
8389Is it still starving the soul and famishing the heart?
8389Is it still trembling and shivering, crouching and crawling, before its ignorant confession of faith?
8389Is it still warming its fleshless hands at the flames that consumed Servetus?
8389Is it the church?
8389Is it the duty of this man to allow them to wrap his body in a garment of flame?
8389Is it the will of God that he die by torture?
8389Is it well with thee today?
8389Is n''t it perfectly wonderful that the priest of one religion never believes the miracles told by the priest of another?
8389Is n''t it possible for a man who acts like Christ to be saved, whatever be his belief?
8389Is orthodox Christianity on the increase?
8389Is that because we are depraved?
8389Is that right?
8389Is the black man, born in slavery, under any obligation to thank God for his badge of servitude?
8389Is the man that believes any better than the man who does not believe?
8389Is the man that takes poison rather than be tortured to death by savages or"Christians"a coward?
8389Is the man who leaps into the sea rather than be burned a coward?
8389Is the man who takes morphine rather than be eaten to death by a cancer a coward?
8389Is the new testament inspired?
8389Is there a God who says that if man does so and so He will damn him?
8389Is there a city on the globe which lacks more in certain directions than some in Christendom, or even the United States?
8389Is there a solitary Christian nation that will trust any other?
8389Is there a tomb holding the ashes of a saint from which emerges one ray of light?
8389Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story?
8389Is there any God in heaven that hates a patriot?
8389Is there any God that would damn a man for helping to free three millions of people?
8389Is there any duty we owe to God?
8389Is there any sense in that?
8389Is there anything in our bible as lofty and loving as the prayer of the Buddhist?
8389Is there goodness, is there mercy in this?
8389Is there room for discussion?
8389Is there some duty that I owe to the clouds that will prevent me from marrying some good, sweet woman?
8389Is there the grave of a priest in France on which a lover of liberty would now drop a flower or a tear?
8389Is this a festival for"God"?
8389Is this man under obligation to keep his life because God gave it until the savages by torture take it?
8389Is this the work of the good God?
8389It is blasphemy to say that our God sent the famine and dried the mother''s breast from her infant''s withered lips?
8389It may be well enough here to ask the question:"What is greatness?"
8389It will be the same tomorrow, wo n''t it?
8389Let another read him who knows nothing of the drama, who knows nothing of the impersonation of passion; what does he get from him?
8389Let me ask you-- do you believe if that had been done that the human ears ever would have been enriched with the divine symphonies of Beethoven?
8389Long time since I have seen you; how''s your family?
8389Men began to inquire, By what right does a crowned robber make me work for him?
8389Must I be false to my understanding?
8389Must one be versed in Latin before he is entitled to express his opinion as to the genuiness of a pretended revelation from God?
8389Must the true Presbyterian violate the sanctity of the tomb, dig open the grave, and ask his God to curse the silent dust?
8389Must we rely on belief or credulity, or upon manly virtues, courageous investigation, thought, and intellectual development?
8389No prospective fathers or mothers in law; no prying and gossiping neighbors, nobody to say,"Young man, how do you expect to support her?"
8389Now if men have been slaves what shall we say of women?
8389Now just suppose that some voice whispered in your ear, how would you know it was God''s?
8389Now what does this prove?
8389Now which?
8389Now, admitting that I live in Turkey, and have a chance to get an office, what should I say?
8389Now, do you for one moment believe that these words were written by the most merciful God?
8389Now, does this bible teach political freedom; or does it teach political tyranny?
8389Now, honor bright, should I just make a clean breast of it and say"Upon my honor, I do n''t believe it?"
8389Now, honor bright, what ought I to do?
8389Now, if men have been slaves, what about women?
8389Now, if women have been slaves, what do you say about children?
8389Now, is it not a fact that we are happier today than at any period in our history?
8389Now, sir, can you tell me what I am to do?
8389Now, tell me truly, which is the grander story?
8389Now, what does the bible teach?
8389Now, what is the next thing that I wish to call your attention to?
8389Now, what is this religion?
8389Now, what makes the river run?
8389Now, what of the Sabbath-- the Lord''s day?
8389Now, you have read the bible romance of the fall of Adam?
8389Of what did He make it?
8389Or will you be so good then that you wo n''t care how you used to be?
8389Others said, by what right does a robed priest rob me?
8389Ought a god to take any credit to himself for making depraved people?
8389Ought the sailor to throw away his compass and depend entirely upon the fog?
8389Quite well?
8389Rather lukewarm, eh?
8389Said I,"What do you mean by that?"
8389Said the Northerner to the Southerner,"Did you ever see such a night as this; did you ever in your life see such a moon?"
8389Say to him,"A man was raised from the dead this morning,"and he will say,"What are you giving us?"
8389Says I,"Do you believe the bible?"
8389Says I:"What do you mean by rudimentary muscles?"
8389Science passed its hand above it and beneath it, and where was the heaven, and where was the hell?
8389Shall I take another man''s word and not what he thinks, but what God said to him?
8389Should we, therefore, exempt it from taxation for any good it has done?
8389Sin, how did it come into the world?
8389Since the telescope has been pointed at the stars, where was He going?
8389So, when a man has committed some awful crime, why should he stay and ruin his family and friends?
8389Such a religion is demoralizing; and how are you to get there?
8389Suppose a man came into Chicago and he should meet a funeral procession, and he should say,"Who is dead?"
8389Suppose it is 105; have I committed any crime?
8389Suppose we ever invent any thing that can go 1,000 miles an hour?
8389Tell the truth?
8389That depends upon this: Can a man believe as he wants to?
8389The first question, then, is: Has a man under any circumstances the right to kill himself?
8389The minister said,"Boys, do you know what becomes of the wicked?"
8389The next question is: Did Thomas Paine recant?
8389The next thing is: Did Thomas Paine live the life of a drunken beast, and did he die a drunken, cowardly, and beastly death?
8389The optimist was compelled to ask,"What was my God doing?
8389The question arises, Can any relation exist between finite man and infinite being?
8389The question, then, is: Shall we rely upon superstition or upon growth?
8389The religion of Jesus Christ, as preached by His church, causes war, bloodshed, hatred, and all uncharitableness; and why?
8389Then do n''t you think, said he, He could have put in another day''s work to great advantage right here?
8389Then is it right for you to say"That fellow will steal-- that fellow is a dangerous man-- he is a robber?"
8389Then when He brought His flood why did He rescue eight people if their descendants were to be so totally depraved and wicked?
8389Then which day will you keep?
8389Then why did they have to take any birds in the ark?
8389Then why does not the God give me the evidence?
8389They said:"You do n''t?
8389They say they brought the arts and sciences out of the dark ages; why, they made the dark ages and what did they preserve?
8389They say to one, do you know more than all the theologians dead?
8389They say:"A muscle that has gone into bankruptcy--""Was it a large muscle?"
8389This God waiting around there, knowing all the while what would happen, made them on purpose so it would happen; and then what does he do?
8389This trinity doctrine was announced several hundred years after Christ was born: Do you believe such a doctrine will make a man good or honest?
8389To contradict a priest?
8389To save his life?
8389To see the nerves throbbing with pain?
8389To see the quivering flesh slowly eaten?
8389To whom will these atoms belong on the morning of the resurrection?
8389Tyrannical do I call them?
8389Was God a tory?
8389Was God governing the world when the prisoners were confined in the Bastille?
8389Was he a drunken beast when he wrote the"Crisis?"
8389Was he elected a member of the French convention because he was a drunken beast?
8389Was he too nervous to hear her speak?
8389Was it the act of a drunken beast to put his own life in jeopardy by voting against the death of the King?
8389Was n''t there room outside of the garden to put His tree, if He did n''t want people to eat His apple?
8389Was that fits, too?
8389Was there always something ailing him?
8389Was this the conduct of a drunken beast?
8389We care nothing for the rich, except what will they do with their money?
8389Well, brother, can you do something for us financially, today?
8389Well, ca n''t man help himself?
8389Well, what changes these religions?
8389Well, what of it?
8389Well, what was the next?
8389Well, why?
8389Were they to be cursed by God and man because the former had reaped the harvest of his own sowing?
8389What are the Christian nations doing today in Europe?
8389What are the natural virtues of man?
8389What are they to do?
8389What are they?
8389What are we going to do if we have no bible to quarrel about?
8389What are we going to do with our enemies?
8389What are we going to do with the people we love but do n''t like?
8389What are we to do without hell?
8389What are we to do without the bible?
8389What are you doing in the missionary World?
8389What became of them?
8389What bishop pitied the victim of the rack?
8389What can I do for him?
8389What can I do?
8389What can the future have for him?
8389What can the orthodox ministers say to relieve the bursting heart of that woman?
8389What can we do?
8389What can we say of a God who gives this false light of nature which, if its lessons are followed, results in hell?
8389What cardinal, what bishop, what priest raised his voice for the rights of men?
8389What consolation has religion for the widow of the unbeliever, the widow of a good, brave, kind man who lies dead?
8389What consolation have they?
8389What could be done with this horror?
8389What crime had Thomas Paine committed that he should have feared to die?
8389What did Adam do?
8389What did He do?
8389What did He make him for?
8389What did He make it of?
8389What did He think about?
8389What did He use for the purpose?
8389What did he mock?
8389What do I get out of him?
8389What do these horrid persecutions prove, except the barbarity of Christians?
8389What do they teach today?
8389What do you suppose Mr. Talmage would say that meant?
8389What ecclesiastic, what nobleman, took the side of the oppressed-- of the peasant?
8389What effect had this religion upon the nations of the earth?
8389What else can they do?
8389What else?
8389What for?
8389What for?
8389What for?
8389What for?
8389What good is it to believe something that you do n''t understand-- that you never can understand?
8389What had He been doing?
8389What had the God been doing for the eternity He had been living?
8389What harm would it do to have an opera here tonight?
8389What have the nations been fighting about?
8389What is blasphemy?
8389What is he to do?
8389What is inspiration?
8389What is it worth compared with the love of a splendid woman?
8389What is it?
8389What is morality?
8389What is omnipotence?
8389What is that God worth that allows such things in the world He governs?
8389What is the best thing to do under the circumstances?
8389What is the child to do?
8389What is the doctrine now?
8389What is the highest possible aim?
8389What is the man to do?
8389What is the next blow that that this church received?
8389What is the next thing I find in this creed?
8389What is the next thing here?
8389What is the next thing in this great creed?
8389What is the next?
8389What is the use of more than one correct account of anything?
8389What kind of a God is it that will allow men and women to be put in dungeons and chains simply because they loved Him and prayed to Him?
8389What kind of a law is it that would demand punishment of the innocent?
8389What kind of children do you expect to have with a beggar and a coward for their mother?
8389What kind of country is it?
8389What kind of opening there for a young man?
8389What makes the tree grow?
8389What makes you?
8389What man who ever thinks, can believe that blood can appease God?
8389What more could he wished?
8389What more did he do?
8389What nations?
8389What next?
8389What part of the bible?
8389What pleasure can it give"God"to see a man devoured by a cancer?
8389What priest pleaded for the liberty of the citizen?
8389What proof have we that it is God''s word?
8389What right has he to assassinate the joy of life?
8389What right has he to murder the sunshine of the day?
8389What should I do?
8389What should I obey?
8389What was he afraid of?
8389What was the Thirty Years''War in Europe for?
8389What was the war in Holland for?
8389What were all these preachers doing at that time?
8389What will you have remorse for?
8389What would any man of ordinary intelligence do in a case like this?
8389What would he be afraid of?
8389What would heaven be without love?
8389What would keep it together unless there was force?
8389What would that spirit do?
8389What would the Christian world say of me if I should have a few children torn to pieces if they should make that remark in my face?
8389What would the church people think if the theatrical people should attempt to suppress the churches?
8389What would the devil have done under the same circumstances?
8389What would the devil have done under the same circumstances?
8389What would the devil have done under the same circumstances?
8389What would the world be if infidels had never been?
8389What would they have done if their hearts had not been softened by the glad tidings of great joy, peace on earth and good will to men?
8389What would we be in another world, and what would we be here without it?
8389What would we have been if the people in any age of the world had done just as the doctors told them?
8389What would we have done if, at any age of the world, we had followed implicitly the direction of the church?
8389What would we say of that man?
8389What would you make it of?
8389What would you say to me if I stood by and saw a ruffian beat out the brains of a child, when I had full and perfect power to prevent it?
8389What would you then think of the doctrine of vicarious sacrifice?"
8389What would you think of a school- master who would kill half his pupils the first day?
8389What wrong would there be to see one of those grand plays on Sunday?
8389When I get through with it, suppose I think in my heart and in my brain,"I do n''t believe a word of it;"and you ask me,"What do you think of it?"
8389When I was a little boy, children went to bed when they were not sleepy, and always got up when they were?
8389When did the man lose the right of self- defense?
8389When does that mean?
8389When he is of no benefit, when he is a burden to those he loves, why should he remain?
8389When life is of no value to him, when he can be of no real assistance to others, why should a man continue?
8389When lightning leaped from the lurid cloud, he thought,"What have I been doing?"
8389When the Hebrews threw down sticks before Pharaoh, and they became snakes, did he believe?
8389When you see innocent men chained to the stake and the flames licking their flesh, it is natural to ask, why does God permit this?
8389Where are they?
8389Where did he get it?
8389Where did it come from?
8389Where did that doctrine of eternal punishment for the children of men come from?
8389Where did the big fish go?
8389Where did the serpent come from?
8389Where do we get our ministers?
8389Where was He going?
8389Where was He going?
8389Where was that doctrine of hell born?
8389Where was the God that permitted slavery for two hundred years in these United States?
8389Which does the world pay respect to?
8389Which had the greater and the grander government?
8389Which of those nations produced the greatest poets, the greatest soldiers, the greatest orators, the greatest statesmen, the greatest sculptors?
8389Which passages, O Christian, would you pick out now as having probably been written by the devil?
8389Which way did He go?
8389Who are the men in Europe crying out against war?
8389Who are the real blasphemers?
8389Who are the witnesses to the truth of the narratives of the Jews''bible?
8389Who bids the earthquake devour and the volcano to overwhelm?
8389Who by?
8389Who can establish the existence of an infinite being?
8389Who can estimate the misery that has been caused by this most infamous doctrine of eternal punishment?
8389Who denounced the frightful criminal code the torture of suspected persons?
8389Who made the devil?
8389Who on earth at this day would pretend to settle any scientific question by a text from the Bible?
8389Who on earth at this day would pretend to settle any scientific question by a text from the bible?
8389Who saw this miracle?
8389Who sends plague, pestilence and famine?
8389Who will be His successor?
8389Who wishes to have the nations disarmed?
8389Whose fault is it that an infinite God does not advertise?
8389Why are we asked to believe those ancient gentlemen?
8389Why did God pay so much attention to blasphemers, and so little to slaveholders and robbers?
8389Why did God people the earth with so many idiots?
8389Why did He ever allow a nation to be Without a bible?
8389Why did He go dumbly to his death, and leave the world in darkness and in doubt?
8389Why did He leave His words to accident, to ignorance, to malice, and to chance?
8389Why did He not again enter the temple and dispute with the doctors?
8389Why did He not again visit Pontius Pilate?
8389Why did He not call upon Caiaphas, the high priest?
8389Why did He not make another triumphal entry into Jerusalem?
8389Why did He not turn the tear- stained hope of immortality to the glad knowledge of another life?
8389Why did He save eight of the same kind of people to take a fresh start?
8389Why did he go dumbly to His death, leaving the world to misery and to doubt?
8389Why did n''t He explain the doctrine of the Trinity?
8389Why did n''t He give a few leaves to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden?
8389Why did n''t He have His flood first and drown the devil, before He made man and woman?
8389Why did n''t He have His flood first, and then drown the devil?
8389Why did n''t He kill Adam and Eve and make another pair who did n''t like apples?
8389Why did n''t He make a fresh lot, kill His snake, and give His children a fair show?
8389Why did n''t He post His disciples?
8389Why did n''t He say something positive, definite, satisfactory, about another world?
8389Why did n''t He say the old testament is true?
8389Why did n''t He say,"I am God?"
8389Why did n''t He settle all disputes about the trinity and about baptism?
8389Why did n''t He stop right there?
8389Why did n''t He tell Adam and Eve about this fellow?
8389Why did n''t He tell us something about it?
8389Why did n''t He tell what manner of baptism was pleasing to Him?
8389Why did n''t He turn the tear- stained hope of immortality into the glad knowledge of another life?
8389Why did n''t He write His testament himself?
8389Why did n''t He write to me in English?
8389Why did n''t He?
8389Why did n''t he watch the devil instead of watching Adam and Eve?
8389Why did they disobey?
8389Why do n''t they send missionaries there with copies of the old testament?
8389Why do they not come up and admit what they know the book means?
8389Why do we make so many mistakes?
8389Why do you shock these people?
8389Why does He not govern Russia as well as He does Massachusetts?
8389Why does Talmage try to explain a miracle?
8389Why does he not get him a plaster of paris virgin and some beads and holy water?
8389Why does he not then rule one as well as another?
8389Why does n''t the Congregational Church tell us?
8389Why does the protestant shut his eyes when he prays?
8389Why have I a brain?
8389Why is Sunday the Lord''s day?
8389Why is it God''s word?
8389Why is it better for him to kill another man, who wishes to live?
8389Why is it that England persecutes Ireland even unto this day?
8389Why is it that we have advanced in the arts?
8389Why is it that we have all degrees of humanity, from the idiot to the genius, if it was intended that all should think alike?
8389Why is not the theological world honest?
8389Why is this?
8389Why not be honest with these children?
8389Why not convert those we can get at?
8389Why not convert those who have the immense advantage of the example of the average pioneer?
8389Why not?
8389Why not?
8389Why not?
8389Why pursue that which you have?
8389Why should God be so particular about my believing his book?
8389Why should He make those whom He knew would be criminals?
8389Why should a Christian be better than his God?
8389Why should a man be afraid to think, and why should he fear to express his thoughts?
8389Why should a man sentenced to imprisonment for life hesitate to still his heart?
8389Why should he add to the injury?
8389Why should he live, filling his days and nights, and the days and nights of others, with grief and pain, with agony and tears?
8389Why should n''t men be decent enough in the management of the politics of the country for women to mingle with them?
8389Why should she show mercy to a kind and noble heretic whom her God will burn in eternal fire?
8389Why should the church pity a man whom her God hates?
8389Why should the man, sitting amid the wreck of all he had, the loved ones dead, friends lost, seek to lengthen, to preserve his life?
8389Why should the poor wretch stay and suffer?
8389Why should the worshipers of God hate the lovers of men?
8389Why should there have been four original multiplication tables?
8389Why should these gentlemen object to a god with big fiery eyeballs, when their own Deity has eyes like a flame of fire?
8389Why should they despise the mentally weak-- the diseased in brain?
8389Why should this be a period of probation?
8389Why should we be damned for laughing at Samson and his foxes, while others, holding the nebular hypothesis in utter contempt, go straight to heaven?
8389Why should we convert the heathen of China and kill our own?
8389Why should we help religion?
8389Why should we object to their worshiping God as they please?
8389Why should we send bibles to the East and muskets to the West?
8389Why should we send missionaries across the seas, and soldiers over the plains?
8389Why should we send missionaries to China if we can not convert the heathen when they come here?
8389Why should we think Thomas Paine was afraid to die?
8389Why should we throw away the law given to Moses by God Himself, and have the audacity to make some of our own?
8389Why should you object to these people on account of their religion?
8389Why so many sects?
8389Why so much persecution?
8389Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however important they may be we do know nothing and can know nothing?"
8389Why was it that England persecuted Scotland?
8389Why were there four gospels?
8389Why were we not given better brains?
8389Why would Paine expect a correct answer about his writings from one who read very little of them?
8389Why would he build dungeons and burn the flesh of his brother man with red hot irons?
8389Why write His word in such a way that hundreds of thousands make their living explaining it?
8389Why, what had he to be afraid of?
8389Why; he said, did not God give a sure cure for leprosy, unless He wanted to have His chosen people to have that frightful disease?)
8389Why?
8389Why?
8389Why?
8389Why?
8389Why?
8389Why?
8389Why?
8389Why?
8389Why?
8389Why?
8389Why?
8389Why?
8389Why?
8389Will I be sorry I did not say I was a Christian when I was not?
8389Will I be sorry when I come to die that I did not live a hypocrite?
8389Will he not be damned as quick for denying geology as for denying the scheme of salvation?
8389Will he not be damned as quick for denying geology as for denying the scheme of salvation?
8389Will it make him more just?
8389Will not a man be damned as quick for denying the equator as denying the bible?
8389Will not a man be damned as quick for denying the equator as denying the bible?
8389Will the fact that I was honest put a thorn in the pillow of death?
8389Will you have any remorse for the mean things you have done when you are in heaven?
8389Will you have the fairness to admit it?
8389Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly?
8389Would any but a God of mercy and kindness people a world, and then drown them all?
8389Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think?
8389Would it give"God"pleasure to see him burn?
8389Would you regard it as any evidence that he ever wrote it if he upheld slavery?
8389You ask me about any thing; I examine it honestly, and when I get through, what should I tell you-- what I think or what you think?
8389You do away with human love, and what are we without it?
8389You go at your little child, five or six years old, with a stick in your hand-- what is he to do?
8389You know what happened to Adam and his wife for her transgressions?
8389You may say to me,"How far is it across this room?"
8389a sneak?
8389and who made that?
8389and why should the American people malign the memory of that great man?
8389colonel, what''s new?"
8389no enemies?"
8389of the man that dares not reason?
8389or Voltaire, who peacefully and quietly bade his servant farewell?
8389to have a mind of your own?
8389why hast thou forsaken me?"
20447But you believe in eternal damnation, do you not?
20447Did you deliver it?
20447Do you believe in eternal punishment, as set forth in the confession of faith?
20447Has anyone seen a map of the land of Nod?
20447Have you preached on that subject lately?
20447Is the keen logic and broad humanity of Ingersoll converting the brain and heart of Christendom?
20447Well, what was the matter--did you drink, or cheat your employer, or were you idle?
20447What was the trouble?
20447Where are the four rivers that ran murmuring through the groves of Paradise?
20447Where do you come from?
20447Who was Cain''s wife?
20447Who was the snake? 20447 A gentleman passing, stopped for a moment and said to the little girl:What relation is the little boy to you?"
20447About how many have taken part in the recent nominations?
20447About what age were you when you began this investigation which led to your present convictions?
20447Above the grave what can the honest minister say?
20447According to your views, what disposition is made of man after death?
20447After all, has he not pursued the same method with me that he blames me for pursuing in regard to the Bible?
20447Although you are not in favor of taking the Philippines by force, how do you regard the administration in its conduct of the war?
20447And are they not, in spite of their professions to the contrary, enemies to republican liberty?
20447And if she is granted one, is virtue in danger, and shall we lose the high ideal of home life?
20447And in what way has not Spiritualism done good?
20447And is it desirable that this relation should be rendered sacred by a church?
20447And is there a woman so heartless and so immoral that she would force another to bear what she would shudderingly avoid?
20447And the same old question is upon us now: What shall be done with the victims of drink?
20447And what did you think of it?
20447And what do you think of the modern development of metaphysics-- as expressed outside of the emotional and semi- ecclesiastical schools?
20447And what shall I say of Sidney Carton?
20447And why should we take so much pains to free the body, and then enslave the mind?
20447And, after all, is not a noble man, is not a pure woman, the finest revelation we have of God-- if there be one?
20447Are all mediums impostors?
20447Are not parallel railroads an evil?
20447Are not persons allowed to testify in the United States whether they believe in future rewards and punishments or not?
20447Are not religion and morals inseparable?
20447Are not the Catholics the least progressive?
20447Are our workingmen to wear wooden shoes?
20447Are the doctrines of Agnosticism gaining ground, and what, in your opinion, will be the future of the church?
20447Are the fathers and brothers blameless who allow young girls to make coats, cloaks and vests in an atmosphere poisoned by the ignorant and low- bred?
20447Are the millions of Spiritualists deluded?
20447Are there not some human natures so morally weak or diseased that they can not keep from sin without the aid of some sort of religion?
20447Are they in any sense correct?
20447Are they rectifying the error now?
20447Are they sincere-- have they any real basis for their psychological theories?
20447Are we not entering upon the era of our greatest prosperity?
20447Are we really in need of the children born of such parents?
20447Are women becoming freed from the bonds of sectarianism?
20447Are you aware that it has been attempted to show that some money loaned or given him by yourself was really what he purchased the pistol with?
20447Are you getting nearer to or farther away from God, Christianity and the Bible?
20447Are you going to make a formal reply to their sermons?
20447Are you going to take any part in the campaign?
20447Are you in favor of expansion?
20447Are you in favor of the A. P. A.?
20447Are you in favor of the annexation of Canada?
20447Are you in sympathy with the workingmen and their objects?
20447Are you seeking to quit public lecturing on religious questions?
20447Are you still a Republican in political belief?
20447Are you to go on the lecture platform again?
20447Are you willing to give your opinion of the Pope?
20447As Truth can brook no compromises, has it not the same limitations that surround social and domestic hospitality?
20447As a lawyer, will you express an opinion as to the moral and legal responsibility of a victim of alcoholism?
20447Ball and Burchard?
20447Besides, if this woman of whom he speaks was a lady, how did she happen to stay where obscene language was being used?
20447But do n''t you think, Colonel, that the materialistic philosophy, even in the light of your own interpretation, is essentially pessimistic?
20447But do you not think the Greenback movement will help the Democracy to success in 1880?
20447But has the Republican party all the good and the Democratic all the bad?
20447But if it clings to soft money?
20447But if they will not disband?
20447But suppose that the Chinese came to look upon wheat in the same light that other people look upon wheat and its product, bread?
20447But suppose they give the same receptions in the South?
20447But the question arises, What is Christianity?
20447But unless it can be shown that Atheism interferes with the sight, the hearing, or the memory, why should justice shut the door to truth?
20447But what about the Prohibitionists?
20447But what about there being"belief"in Matthew?
20447But what can we say of a marriage where the parties hate each other?
20447But what is the simple assertion of Thomas Carlyle worth?
20447But what would you do if they should make an attempt to arrest you?
20447But who will win?
20447But would n''t it be better for the people if the railroads were managed by the Government as is the Post- Office?
20447But, Colonel, is there no danger of greatly interfering with a woman''s duties as wife and mother?
20447Can any one, by studying geology, find the locality of the great white throne?
20447Can anyone imagine that such a course would add to the joy of Paradise, or even tend to keep one harp in tune?
20447Can anything be more infamous than to endeavor to make a woman, under such circumstances, remain with such a man?
20447Can it be said that a State is"free"that is absolutely governed by the Nation?
20447Can she never sit by her own hearth, with the arms of her children about her neck, and by her side a husband who loves and protects her?
20447Can the good of society require the woman to remain?
20447Can the virtue of others be preserved only by the destruction of her happiness, and by what might be called her perpetual imprisonment?
20447Can these phenomena be considered aside from any connection with, or form of, superstition?
20447Can they do this as long as the Government collects ninety million dollars per annum from that one source?
20447Can you find in the graveyard of nations this epitaph:"Died of a Surplus"?
20447Can you guess as to what the platform in going to contain?
20447Can you offer any explanation of the extraordinary phenomena such as Henry J. Newton has had produced at his own house under his own supervision?
20447Can, or ought, the Liberals and Spiritualists to unite?
20447Christianity certainly fosters charity?
20447Colonel Ingersoll, are you a Socialist?
20447Colonel, are your views of religion based upon the Bible?
20447Colonel, crossing the Atlantic back to America, what do you think of the Greenback movement?
20447Colonel, did you ever kill any game?
20447Colonel, have you read the revised Testament?
20447Colonel, to start with, what do you think of the solid South?
20447Colonel, what do you think about Mr. Cleveland''s Hawaiian policy?
20447Colonel, what do you think of the course the Mayor has pursued toward you in attempting to stop your lecture?
20447Colonel, what is your opinion of Secularism?
20447Did God know how Herod would use his freedom?
20447Did God know what Herod would do?
20447Did God write it?
20447Did he ever mention the quarto in any letter, essay, or in any way?
20447Did he have a copy?
20447Did he know that he would become the villain in the drama of Christ?
20447Did he know that he would cause the children to be slaughtered in his vain efforts to kill the infant Christ?
20447Did he mention the copy in his will?
20447Did the hand that was stretched out to him on the stage of the Academy reach across the chasm which separates orthodoxy from infidelity?
20447Did they write exactly what the Holy Spirit wanted them to write?
20447Did you anticipate a verdict?
20447Did you discuss the matter with him?
20447Did you make this remark as a Christian, or as a lady?
20447Did you read Mr. Courtney''s answer?
20447Did you say these words to illustrate in some faint degree the refining influence upon women of the religion you preach?
20447Do I understand you to imply that there will be a neutral policy, as it were, towards the South?
20447Do liberal books, such as the works of Paine and Infidel scientists sell well?
20447Do many people write to you upon this subject; and what spirit do they manifest?
20447Do n''t you think that some good has been accomplished, some valuable information obtained, by vivisection?
20447Do n''t you think that the pass system is an injustice--that is, that ordinary travelers are taxed for the man who rides on a pass?
20447Do n''t you think the belief of the Agnostic is more satisfactory to the believer than that of the Atheist?
20447Do newspapers to- day exercise as much influence as they did twenty- five years ago?
20447Do not its facts and conclusions prove, if not immortality, at least the continuity of life beyond the grave?
20447Do not the evidences of design in the universe prove a Creator?
20447Do these things really happen?
20447Do they believe that by forcing people to remain together who despise each other they are adding to the purity of the marriage relation?
20447Do they deserve any credit for the course they have taken?
20447Do they forget that people have a choice?
20447Do they not know that all marriage is an outward act, testifying to that which has happened in the heart?
20447Do they not understand something of the human heart, and that true love has always been as pure as the morning star?
20447Do they not, as a rule, give something to deaden pain?
20447Do they sustain any relation except that of hunter and hunted-- that is, of tyrant and victim?
20447Do they, so far as you know, justify his charge?
20447Do you agree with George''s principles?
20447Do you agree with Mr. Carnegie that a college education is of little or no practical value to a man?
20447Do you agree with the Pope in attacking the present governments of Europe and the memories of Mazzini and Saffi?
20447Do you agree with the Pope that:"Sound rules of life must be founded on religion"?
20447Do you apprehend any trouble from the Southern leaders in this closing session of Congress, in attempts to force pernicious legislation?
20447Do you believe Madame Blavatsky does or has done the wonderful things related of her?
20447Do you believe in a God; and, if so, what kind of a God?
20447Do you believe in free text- books in the public schools?
20447Do you believe in socialism?
20447Do you believe in spirit entities, whether manifestible or not?
20447Do you believe in the existence of a Supreme Being?
20447Do you believe in the resurrection of the body?
20447Do you believe that any sane man ever had a vision?
20447Do you believe that the Democratic success was due to the possession of reverse principles?
20447Do you believe that the divorced should be allowed to marry again?
20447Do you believe that the race is growing moral or immoral?
20447Do you believe that the spirit lives as an individual after the body is dead?
20447Do you believe that the world, and all that is in it came by chance?
20447Do you believe that there is such a thing as a miracle, or that there has ever been?
20447Do you believe the people can be made to do without a stimulant?
20447Do you believe the spirits of the dead come back to earth?
20447Do you believe there will ever be a millennium, and if so how will it come about?
20447Do you believe, or disbelieve, in the immortality of the soul?
20447Do you care to say who your choice is for Republican nominee for President in 1888?
20447Do you consider any religion adequate?
20447Do you consider inebriety a disease, or the result of diseased conditions?
20447Do you consider marriage a contract or a sacrament?
20447Do you consider that churches are injurious to the community?
20447Do you consider that society in general has been made better by religious influences?
20447Do you consider the new ballot- law adapted to the needs of our system of elections?
20447Do you consider the religion of Bhagavat Purana of the East as good as the Christian?
20447Do you deny the immortality of the soul?
20447Do you enjoy Shakespeare more in the library than Shakespeare interpreted by actors now on the boards?
20447Do you enjoy lecturing?
20447Do you foresee any danger of centralization in the full enfranchisement of the citizens of Washington?
20447Do you imagine she would condemn Burns or Shelley for that reason?
20447Do you intend making any reply to what she says?
20447Do you know her personally?
20447Do you know that you have been greatly criticized for what you have said on this subject?
20447Do you know the reason she applied the epithet?
20447Do you know this from experience?
20447Do you not believe that such a man as Robert Dale Owen was sincere?
20447Do you not think Arthur has grown and is a greater man than when he was elected?
20447Do you not think that capital is entitled to protection?
20447Do you not think that the Bible has consolation for those who have lost their friends?
20447Do you not think that these men had a fair trial?
20447Do you not think there are some dangerous tendencies in Liberalism?
20447Do you really think that the church is losing ground?
20447Do you really think, Colonel, that the country has just passed through a crisis?
20447Do you regard him as more popular now than ever before?
20447Do you regard it as a religion?
20447Do you regard the Briggs trial as any evidence of the growth of Liberalism in the church itself?
20447Do you say this because your reason is convinced that it is?
20447Do you still believe that suicide is justifiable?
20447Do you sympathize with the Socialists, or do you think that the success of George would promote socialism?
20447Do you take much interest in politics, Colonel Ingersoll?
20447Do you think Cleveland will put any Southern men in his Cabinet?
20447Do you think mankind is drifting away from the supernatural?
20447Do you think resumption will work out all right?
20447Do you think so?
20447Do you think that Cleveland''s course as to appointments has strengthened him with the people?
20447Do you think that Liberals should undertake a reform in the marriage and divorce laws and relations?
20447Do you think that Mr. George would make a good mayor?
20447Do you think that Senator Logan will be able to deliver this State to the Grant movement according to the understood plan?
20447Do you think that bigotry would persecute now for religious opinion''s sake, if it were not for the law and the press?
20447Do you think that eloquence is potent in a convention to set aside the practical work of politics and politicians?
20447Do you think that evolution and revealed religion are compatible-- that is to say, can a man be an evolutionist and a Christian?
20447Do you think that is so, Mr. Ingersoll?
20447Do you think that men are naturally criminals and naturally virtuous?
20447Do you think that the American people are seeking after truth, or do they want to be amused?
20447Do you think that the Knights of Labor will cut any material figure in this election?
20447Do you think that the era of good feeling between the North and the South has set in with the appointment of ex- rebels to the Cabinet?
20447Do you think that the friends of Gresham would support Blaine if he should be nominated?
20447Do you think that the marriage institution is held in less respect by Infidels than by Christians?
20447Do you think that the moral atmosphere will improve with the political atmosphere?
20447Do you think that the nominations have been well received throughout the United States?
20447Do you think that the old parties are about to die?
20447Do you think that the orthodox church gets its ideas of the Sabbath from the teachings of Christ?
20447Do you think that the political features of the incoming administration will differ from the present?
20447Do you think that the vivisectionists do their work without anesthetics?
20447Do you think that there is any danger of war?
20447Do you think the Christian religion has made the world better?
20447Do you think the President should have stated his policy in Boston the other day?
20447Do you think the Republican party should take a decided stand on the temperance issue?
20447Do you think the South will ever equal or surpass the West in point of prosperity?
20447Do you think the election has brought about any particular change in the issues that will be involved in the campaign of 1880?
20447Do you think the investigations of the Republicans of the Danville and Copiah massacres will benefit them?
20447Do you think the law in the next decade will permit the affirmative oath?
20447Do you think the laws governing divorce ought to be changed?
20447Do you think the people lead the newspapers, or do the newspapers lead them?
20447Do you think the use of the word sheol will make any difference to the preachers?
20447Do you think there will be a second coming?
20447Do you think we are going to have war with Spain?
20447Do you think young men need a college education to get along?
20447Do you uphold the Anarchists?
20447Do you wish to say anything as to the reasoning of Justice Harlan on the rights of colored people on railways, in inns and theatres?
20447Do you, in any way, see any reason or foundation for the severe and bitter criticisms made against the Stalwart leaders in connection with this crime?
20447Does Christianity advance or retard civilization?
20447Does exposure do any good?
20447Does he compare any other Infidels with Christians?
20447Does it point with pride to the Mexican fiasco, or does it rely entirely upon the great fishery triumph?
20447Does not a Creator need a Creator as much as the thing we think has been created?
20447Does not a designer need a design as much as a design needs a designer?
20447Does not the Government feed the mob spirit-- the lynch spirit?
20447Does not the mob follow the example set by the Government?
20447Does the protective tariff cheapen the prices of commodities to the laboring man?
20447Does the question of the inspiration of Scriptures affect the beauty and benefits of Christianity here and hereafter?
20447Dr. Abbott, will tend to soften the sentiment of the orthodox churches against the stage?
20447Dr. Banks stand against a circus?
20447Dr. Fulton?
20447Dr. Jewett before the Methodist ministers''meeting?
20447Dr. Parkhurst, of New York, justifiable, and do you think that it had a tendency to help morality?
20447During the recent presidential campaign did any clergymen denounce you for your teachings, that you are aware of?
20447Father Lambert''s"Notes on Ingersoll,"and if so, what have you to say of them or in reply to them?
20447From your knowledge of the religious tendency in the United States, how long will orthodox religion be popular?
20447Had she then good cause for divorce?
20447Had they been in that country, with their present ideas, what would they have said?
20447Has Spiritualism, through its mediums, ever told the world anything useful, or added to the store of the world''s knowledge, or relieved its burdens?
20447Has any church succeeded as well as the Catholic?
20447Has any orthodox minister in the year 1898 given just one paragraph to literature?
20447Has not Spiritualism added to the world''s stock of hope?
20447Has not the Democracy injured itself irretrievably by permitting the free trade element to rule it?
20447Has not the Republican party trouble enough with the spirituous to let the spiritual alone?
20447Has not the married woman the right of self- defence?
20447Has society any interest in forcing women to live with men they hate?
20447Has the Christian religion changed in theory of late years, Colonel Ingersoll?
20447Has the woman whose rights have been outraged no right to build another home?
20447Has there ever been found a line from any play or sonnet in his handwriting?
20447Have n''t you just the faintest glimmer of a hope that in some future state you will meet and be reunited to those who are dear to you in this?
20447Have you any decided opinions on that subject?
20447Have you any objection to being interviewed as to your ideas of Grant, and his position before the people?
20447Have you any objection to stating your real opinion in regard to the matter?
20447Have you any objections to giving your present views of the question?
20447Have you been invited to lecture in Europe?
20447Have you ever been interfered with before in delivering Sunday lectures?
20447Have you ever been misrepresented in interviews?
20447Have you ever had any similar experiences before?
20447Have you found any other work, sacred or profane, which you regard as more reliable?
20447Have you given them reason to believe so?
20447Have you had any experience with spirit photography, spirit physicians, or spirit lawyers?
20447Have you investigated Spiritualism, and what has been your experience?
20447Have you noticed a great change in public sentiment in the last three or four years?
20447Have you read Miss Cleveland''s book?
20447Have you read Nordau''s"Degeneracy"?
20447Have you read the replies of the clergy to your recent lecture in this city on"What Must we do to be Saved?"
20447Have you seen him?
20447Have you seen or known of any Theosophical or esoteric marvels?
20447Have you seen the attacks made upon you by certain ministers of New York, published in the_ Herald_ last Sunday?
20447Have you seen the published report that Dorsey claims to have paid you one hundred thousand dollars for your services in the Star Route Cases?
20447Have you seen the recent clerical strictures upon your doctrines?
20447He did not say: Why have you called me from another world?
20447He left a library, was there a copy of the plays in it?
20447He would ask himself the question:"Is it possible that this is a divine institution?
20447How about Illinois?
20447How about lying, Colonel?
20447How about that"personal and confidential letter"?
20447How are they to be prevented?
20447How are we to do away with crime?
20447How are we to do away with pauperism?
20447How are we to do away with want and misery in every civilized country?
20447How are you getting along with Delaware?
20447How are you on the arbitration treaty?
20447How can any one come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church has been a source of truth, a source of intellectual light?
20447How can anyone believe that the church of John Calvin has been a source of truth?
20447How can the coffin or the grave be purchased?
20447How could the church live a minute unless somebody attended to the affairs of this world?
20447How could there be a disaster with a vast surplus in the treasury?
20447How did Guiteau impress you and what have you remembered, Colonel, of his efforts to reply to your lectures?
20447How did he walk?
20447How did taxation become necessary?
20447How did the card of Dr. Thomas strike you?
20447How do I account for the defeat of Mr. Blaine?
20447How do the clergy generally treat you?
20447How do we do away with larceny?
20447How do you account for Mr. Blaine''s action in allowing his name to go before the convention at Minneapolis in 1892?
20447How do you account for the defeat of Mr. Blaine?
20447How do you account for the results of the recent elections?
20447How do you account for these attacks?
20447How do you answer the argument, or the fact, that the church is constantly increasing, and that there are now four hundred millions of Christians?
20447How do you enjoy staying in Chicago?
20447How do you explain the figure:"His soul, like Mazeppa, was lashed naked to the wild horse of every fear and love and hate"?
20447How do you like the administration of President Hayes?
20447How do you regard the action of Bismarck in returning the Lasker resolutions?
20447How do you regard the opposition of the local clergy and of the Bourbon Democracy to enfranchising the citizens of the District?
20447How do you regard the present political situation?
20447How do you regard the religious question in politics?
20447How do you regard the situation in Ohio?
20447How do you stand on the money question?
20447How do you stand with the clergymen, and what is their opinion of you and of your views?
20447How do you think he will treat the South?
20447How does the literature of to- day compare with that of the first half of the century, in your opinion?
20447How does the next campaign look?
20447How does the religious state of California compare with the rest of the Union?
20447How does this happen in a Government where church and state are not united?
20447How good does a father have to be, in order to put his son under obligation to defend his blunders?
20447How has the Democratic party"averted disaster"?
20447How have the recently expressed opinions of our local clergy impressed you?
20447How have you acquired the art of growing old gracefully?
20447How is it possible for the virtues to grow in the damp and darkened basements?
20447How is this?
20447How many clergymen would it take to command, at regular prices, the audiences that attend the presentation of Wagner''s operas?
20447How many in England?
20447How much importance do you attach to the present prohibition movement?
20447How should the dispute be settled?
20447How soon do you think we would have the millennium if every person attended strictly to his own business?
20447How then can she hope to conquer this country?
20447How were you pleased with the Paine meeting here, and its results?
20447How will the Democratic victory affect the colored people in the South?
20447How would an honest Christian minister console the widow and the fatherless children?
20447How would he dare to tell what he claims to be truth in the presence of the living?
20447I agree with the Presbyterian General Assembly, if the creed is true, why should anyone try to amuse himself?
20447I believe it was Confucius who said:"How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?"
20447I said to him:"Is that honest?"
20447I see that Mr. Beecher is coming round to your views on theology?
20447I see that some one has been charging that Judge Gresham is an Infidel?
20447I see that some people are objecting to your taking any part in politics, on account of your religious opinion?
20447I see that you are frequently charged with disrespect toward your parents-- with lack of reverence for the opinions of your father?
20447I see that you say that one of the great issues in the coming campaign will be civil rights; what do you mean by that?
20447I should be glad if you would tell me what you think the differences are between English and American oratory?
20447I understand that there was some trouble in connection with your lecture in Victoria, B. C. What are the facts?
20447I was told that you came to St. Louis on your wedding trip some thirty years ago and went to Shaw''s Garden?
20447I would like to ask him if the Old Testament is in favor of religious toleration?
20447I would like to ask if there is a Christian in the world who would not be overjoyed to find that every one of these passages was an interpolation?
20447I would like to ask you why, in your opinion as a student of history, has the Protestant Church always been so bitterly opposed to the theatre?
20447I would like to have a positive expression of your views as to a future state?
20447I would like to know if that is so?
20447I would like to know something of the history of your religious views?
20447I would rather be deceived than killed, would n''t you?
20447If Blaine had been nominated at Cincinnati in 1876 would he have made a stronger candidate than Hayes did?
20447If English actors are so much better than American, how is it that an American star is supported by the English?
20447If God allows injustice to triumph here, why not there?
20447If I asked for proofs for your theory, what would you furnish?
20447If Mr. Mills has given a true statement with regard to the measure proposed by him, what relation does that measure bear to the President''s message?
20447If Robert Elsmere''s views were commonly adopted what would be the effect?
20447If a community violates that law, why should not the individual?
20447If a man is rich why should he have any pension?
20447If at that time there was nothing in existence but himself, how could he have exerted any force?
20447If free trade will not reduce wages what will?
20447If he allows rascality to succeed in this world, why not in the next?
20447If he allows the innocent to suffer here, why not there?
20447If he can stand it, I can; and why should there be any malice on the subject?
20447If it is called upon for counsel and advice, how can it give advice without knowing the facts and circumstances?
20447If its creed is not true, if its doctrines are mistakes, if its dogmas are monstrous delusions, how can it be said to have been a source of truth?
20447If not, in what particulars does it require amendment?
20447If she has the right to leave, has she the right to get a new house?
20447If she owes no duty to her husband; if it is impossible for her to feel toward him any thrill of affection, what is there of marriage left?
20447If so do you intend to accept the"call"?
20447If so, what do you think of it?
20447If the Democratic party makes anti- imperialism the prominent plank in its platform, what effect will it have on the party''s chance for success?
20447If the Jews did not believe in immortality, how do you account for the allusions made to witches and wizards and things of that nature?
20447If the President feels that he is bound to carry out the civil- service law, ought not the Senate to feel in the same way?
20447If the colored people have to depend upon the State for protection, and the Federal Government can not interfere, why say any more about it?
20447If the dead were not a Christian, what then?
20447If the man is sick, if one of the children dies, how can doctors and medicines be paid for?
20447If the man was in the army a day or a month, and was uninjured, and can make his own living, or has enough, why should he have a pension?
20447If the ordinance exempts scientific, literary and historical lectures, as it is said it does, will not that exempt you?
20447If the woman is not in fault, does society insist that her life should be wrecked?
20447If there is anything whatever in this argument, is it not that the traffic pays a bribe of ninety million dollars a year for its life?
20447If there is no beatitude, or heaven, how do you account for the continual struggle in every natural heart for its own betterment?
20447If there is only punishment in this world, will not some escape punishment?
20447If they are higher here than in foreign countries, the question arises, why are they higher?
20447If they have done good, could they not have done just as much if they had used anesthetics?
20447If they have the right to compel the President to choose from four, why not from three, or two?
20447If this man has a wife and a couple of children how can the family live?
20447If we should agree to- morrow to put God in the Constitution, the question would then be: Which God?
20447If you should write your last sentence on religious topics what would be your closing?
20447If you take away the idea of eternal punishment, how do you propose to restrain men; in what way will you influence conduct for good?
20447If you were to compare individual English and American orators-- recent or living orators in particular-- what would you say?
20447If you were to witness phenomena that seemed inexplicable by natural laws, would you be inclined to favor Spiritualism?
20447If, again, you say the church is a source of authority, why do you say so?
20447In other words, is not this simply a circle of human ignorance?
20447In other words, who has been idle?
20447In the next presidential contest what will be the main issue?
20447In this connection there has been so much said about the art of acting-- what is your idea as to that art?
20447In view of all this, where do you think the presidential candidate will come from?
20447In what estimation do you hold Charles Watts and Samuel Putnam, and what do you think of their labors in the cause of Freethought?
20447In what geologic period was the great white throne formed?
20447In what light do you regard the Chinaman?
20447In what light do you regard the Philippines as an addition to the territory of the United States?
20447In what section of the country do you find the most liberality?
20447In your experience as a lawyer what was the most unique case in which you were ever engaged?
20447In your opinion, what relation do Liberalism and Prohibition bear to each other?
20447Is Agnosticism gaining ground in the United States?
20447Is Chicago as liberal, intellectually, as New York?
20447Is Christianity really gaining a strong hold on the masses?
20447Is England expected to give us another Shakespeare?
20447Is Judge Hoadly to be attacked because he exercises the liberty that he gives to others?
20447Is Spiritualism a religion or a truth?
20447Is a State free that can make no treaty with any other State or country-- that is not permitted to coin money or to declare war?
20447Is he to rely for meat, on poaching, and then is he to be transported to some far colony for the crime of catching a rabbit?
20447Is his influence upon the world good or otherwise?
20447Is it a fact that there are thousands of clergymen in the country whom you would fear to meet in fair debate?
20447Is it because we lack men of genius or because our life is too material that no truly great American plays have been written?
20447Is it consistent to say that a design can not exist without a designer, but that a designer can?
20447Is it desirable to have families raised under such circumstances?
20447Is it ever right to lie?
20447Is it necessary to lose your freedom in order to retain your character, in order to be womanly or manly?
20447Is it not a Republican administration that is at present investigating the alleged evils of trusts?
20447Is it not a fact that you possess the confidence and friendship of some of the most respected leaders of that party?
20447Is it not strange that, with one exception, the most notable operas written since Wagner are by Italian composers instead of German?
20447Is it not the duty of society to protect her from her husband?
20447Is it not the duty of the Senate to see to it that the President does not, with its advice and consent, violate the civil service law?
20447Is it not the fact that punishments have grown less and less severe for many years past?
20447Is it possible for impudence to go further?
20447Is it possible that God has so made the world that the threat of eternal punishment is necessary for the preservation of society?
20447Is it possible that God''s last witness died with Cicero?
20447Is it possible that an infinitely wise and good God would insist on this poor, helpless woman remaining with the wild beast, her husband?
20447Is it possible that he is a kind of vulture that sees only the carrion of another?
20447Is it possible that his companions would object to his being paid for honest work in the penitentiary?
20447Is it possible that human nature stands on such slippery ground?
20447Is it possible that logic stands paralyzed in the presence of paternal absurdity?
20447Is it possible that the superior support the inferior?
20447Is it possible that, after preachers have had the field for eighteen hundred years, the way to make money is to attack the clergy?
20447Is it to the interest of a husband and wife to live together after love has perished and when they hate each other?
20447Is it true that you were once threatened with a criminal prosecution for libel on religion?
20447Is it true, as rumored, that you intend to leave Washington and reside in New York?
20447Is it true?
20447Is it your experience that public men usually ride on passes?
20447Is not Christianity and the belief in God a check upon mankind in general and thus a good thing in itself?
20447Is not a pleasant illusion preferable to a dreary truth-- a future life being in question?
20447Is not the ballot an assurance to the laboring man that he can get fair treatment from his employer?
20447Is not the"lake of fire and brimstone"an obsolete issue?
20447Is not this definition-- a definition given in hatred-- a perfect definition of every monarchy and of nearly every government in the world?
20447Is she entitled to a divorce now?
20447Is such a man seeking the good of his fellow- men?
20447Is that true which succeeds to- day, or next year, or in the next century?
20447Is the Age of Chivalry dead?
20447Is the Republican party dead?
20447Is the consent of the Senate a mere matter of form?
20447Is the noun"United States"singular or plural, as you use English?
20447Is the religious movement of which you are the chief exponent spreading?
20447Is the spirit of patriotism declining in America?
20447Is the woman still bound?
20447Is there a more wonderful character in all the realm of fiction?
20447Is there a probability that Mr. Sherman will be retained in the Cabinet?
20447Is there a woman in the world who would not shrink from this herself?
20447Is there any better Mrs. Malaprop than Mrs. Drew, and better Sir Anthony than John Gilbert?
20447Is there any better or more ennobling belief than Christianity; if so, what is it?
20447Is there any morality in this-- any virtue?
20447Is there any possibility of your coming to England, and, I need hardly add, of your coming to speak?
20447Is there any remedy?
20447Is there any split in the solid South?
20447Is there any such thing as mind- reading or thought- transference?
20447Is there any such thing as telepathy?
20447Is there anything else bearing upon the question at issue or that would make good reading, that I have forgotten, that you would like to say?
20447Is there anything in the charge that the Republican party seeks to change our form of government by gradual centralization?
20447Is there anything new about religion since you were last here?
20447Is there no future for her?
20447Is there no mutuality?
20447Is there no other applicable to this case?
20447Is there no truth in the statement, then?
20447Is this all that man can do with the assistance of God?
20447Is this because priests instinctively know priests?
20447Is this because you regard Washington as the pleasantest and most advantageous city for a residence?
20447Is this intended as a slander against me or the ministers?
20447Is this the best?"
20447Is this trifling experiment of any importance?
20447Is this true?
20447Is what we call civilization a sham?
20447Is your objection based on any religious grounds, or on any prejudice against the ceremony because of its religious origin; or what is your objection?
20447Is your theory, Colonel, the result of investigation of the subject?
20447It is claimed that an amendment to the law, such as is desired, will interfere with the growth of art?
20447It is possible that our civilization to- day rests upon the price of alcohol, and that, should the price be reduced, we would all go down together?
20447It is reported that you are the son of a Presbyterian minister?
20447It is said that in the past four or five years you have changed or modified your views upon the subject of religion; is this so?
20447It is said, Colonel Ingersoll, that you are for Henry George?
20447It seems to me that reason should come first, because if you say the Bible is a source of authority, why do you say it?
20447Judging by your criticism of mankind, Colonel, in your recent lecture, you have not found his condition very satisfactory?
20447Judging from what has been told you of his utterances and actions, what kind of a man would you take him to be?
20447MUST RELIGION GO?
20447Might not the rich do much?
20447Mr. Banks, and what do you think of what he said?
20447Mr. Crafts stated that you were in the habit of swearing in company and before your family?
20447Mr. Ingersoll, do you think that Mr. Blaine wanted the nomination in 1884, when he got it?
20447Mr. Ingersoll, what do you think defeated Blaine for the nomination in 1876?
20447Mr. Lansing?
20447Mr. Sherman expresses the opinion that if he had had the"moral strength"of the Ohio delegation in his support he would have been nominated?
20447Must he be reduced to the diet of the old country?
20447Must he sell his birthright for the sake of being a doorkeeper?
20447Must he stand upon an exact par with the laborers of Belgium and England and Germany, not only, but with the slaves and serfs of other countries?
20447Must she be an outcast forever?
20447Must they be preserved to please God?
20447Must this woman, full of kindness, affection and health, be chained until death releases her?
20447Must we depend on police or statesmen?
20447Must we wait for mobs to inaugurate reform?
20447Not even in the case of a Democratic victory?
20447Now that a lull has come in politics, I thought I would come and see what is going on in the religious world?
20447Now, as to the other part of the question,"Is not a belief in God a check upon mankind in general?"
20447Now, if a State refuses to do anything upon the subject, what is the citizen to do?
20447Now, if the man turns out to be a wild beast, if he destroys the happiness of the wife, why should she remain his victim?
20447Now, is it possible that he gets additional rights by immigration?
20447Now, is there not some better organization of society that will help in this trouble?
20447Now, let me ask, what consolation could a Christian minister have given to his family?
20447Now, the question arises, what is humane about this society?
20447Now, what is morality?
20447Of course men may conspire to quit work, but how is it to be proved?
20447Of his last ride, holding the poor girl by the hand?
20447Of his last walk?
20447Of what possible use is it to know how long a dog or horse can live without food?
20447Of what use can it be to take a dog, tie him down and cut out one of his kidneys to see if he can live with the other?
20447Of what use is it to be false to ourselves?
20447Of what use is it to give a man two or three dollars a month?
20447Perhaps you will tell me your methods as a speaker, for I''m sure it would be interesting to know them?
20447R. Heber Newton?
20447Samuel Jones?
20447Samuel did not pretend that he had been living, or that he was alive, but asked:"Why hast thou disquieted me?"
20447Shall you attend the Albany Freethought Convention?
20447Shall you sue the Opera House management for breach of contract?
20447Should Liberals vote on Liberal issues?
20447Should a woman be compelled to remain the wife of a man who hates and abuses her, and whom she loathes?
20447Should a woman be punished for having married?
20447Should not the museums and art galleries be thrown open to the workingmen free on Sunday?
20447Should the drama teach lessons and discuss social problems, or should it give simply intellectual pleasure and furnish amusement?
20447Should we not have other bills to colonize the Germans, the Swedes, the Irish, and then, may be, another bill to drive the Chinese into the sea?
20447Should we wait and crush by brute force or should we prevent?
20447Since you expounded your justification of suicide, Colonel, I believe you have had some cases of suicide laid at your door?
20447So the first question is, What is a miracle?
20447Somebody asked Confucius about another world, and his reply was:"How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?"
20447Still, I suppose we can count on you as a Republican?
20447Suppose God should answer the prayers and convert me, how would he bring the conversion about?
20447Suppose a man has a bad father; is he bound by the bad father''s opinion, when he is satisfied that the opinion is wrong?
20447Suppose the dog can live a week or a month or a year, what then?
20447Suppose the father changes his opinion; what then?
20447Suppose the father thinks one way, and the mother the other; what are the children to do?
20447Suppose they arrest you what will you do?
20447Suppose we had free trade to- day, what would become of the manufacturing interests to- morrow?
20447Suppose, as a matter of fact, the Devil did get hold of it; what part of the Bible would Mr. Beecher pick out as having been written by the Devil?
20447Supposing this to have been accomplished, what effect is it likely to have on the future of creeds?
20447Surely, there is no need for the Legislature of Pennsylvania to protect an infinite God, and why should the Bible be protected by law?
20447Swing?
20447That is a perfectly reasonable question, is it not, Colonel Ingersoll?
20447That is no explanation, and, after admitting that we do not know and that we can not explain, why should we proceed to explain?
20447The Republicans are making all the mistakes they can, and the only question now is, Can the Democrats make more?
20447The Senate is almost tied; do you think that any Republicans are likely to vote in the interest of the President''s policy at this session?
20447The great objection to your teaching urged by your enemies is that you constantly tear down, and never build up?
20447The great questions are: Will man ever be sufficiently civilized to be honest?
20447The idea expressed is: I was asleep, why did you disturb that repose which should be eternal?
20447The issue is fairly made-- shall American labor be protected, or must the American laborer take his chances with the labor market of the world?
20447The minister asks:"What right have you to hope?
20447The ministers are always talking about worldly people, and yet, were it not for worldly people, who would pay the salary?
20447The other part is how cheaply can we manufacture it?
20447The people shouted:"If all is illusion, what made you run away?"
20447The question arises, What is Christianity?
20447The question is, is it correct?
20447The question ought not to be,"Has this been sworn to?"
20447The real question is, what do they stand for?
20447Then I assume that you and Mr. Beecher have made up?
20447Then you do not deny that you received such an enormous fee?
20447Then you only consider the Greenback movement a temporary thing?
20447Then you would not undertake to say what becomes of man after death?
20447Then your present convictions began to form themselves while you were listening to the teachings of religion as taught by your father?
20447Then, if there is no objection to a third term, what about a fourth?
20447They intended to do what they did, and why should the South not be recognized?
20447Thousands of mistakes are made-- are these mistakes sacred?
20447Tilden?
20447To what extent does it harden the community for the Government to take life?
20447To what stratum does it belong?
20447Under a Federal Constitution guaranteeing civil and religious liberty, are the so- called"Blue Laws"constitutional?
20447Upon this question what does our party say?
20447Was Lincoln an orthodox Christian?
20447Was it extemporaneous?
20447Was it the result of his hatred of the Jews?
20447Was not Mr. Jarvis right in standing by the law?
20447Was the tragedy of the Garden of Eden a success?
20447Was there any ground to expect aid or any different action on Arthur''s part?
20447Well, Colonel, is the world growing better or worse?
20447Well, Colonel, what are you up to?
20447Well, what do you think of the religious revival system generally?
20447Well, what does inspiration mean?
20447Were the abolitionists all believers in the inspiration of the Bible?
20447Were the founders of the party-- the men who gave it heart and brain-- conspicuous for piety?
20447Were you an admirer of Lord Beaconsfield?
20447What God are we to have in the Constitution?
20447What about Bayard and Hancock as candidates?
20447What about Beecher''s sermons on"Evolution"?
20447What about Henry George''s books?
20447What about Indiana?
20447What about Zola''s trial and conviction?
20447What about the other ministers?
20447What advice would you give to a young man who was ambitious to become a successful public speaker or orator?
20447What are Mr. Blaine''s chances for the presidency?
20447What are such lives worth?
20447What are the chances for the Republican party in 1888?
20447What are the consolations of the Church of England?
20447What are the most glaring mistakes of Cleveland''s administration?
20447What are the reasons for and against the adoption of the policy they propose?
20447What are you going to do to be saved?
20447What are your conclusions as to the future of the Democratic party?
20447What are your feelings in reference to idealism on the stage?
20447What are your opinions on the woman''s suffrage question?
20447What are your present views on theology?
20447What are your views as to a third term?
20447What are your views, generally expressed, on the tariff?
20447What assurance has the American laborer that he will not be ultimately swamped by foreign immigration?
20447What attributes should an actor have to be really great?
20447What business is it of theirs who believes or disbelieves in the religion of the day?
20447What causes operated for the Republican success in Iowa?
20447What comfort can the orthodox clergyman give to the widow of an honest unbeliever?
20447What could be more idiotic, absurd, childish, than the duel between Boulanger and Floquet?
20447What could by any possibility be done?
20447What did God mean when he said, If a man strike his servant so he dies, he should not be punished, because his servant was his money?
20447What did you do on your European trip, Colonel?
20447What did you think of the American display?
20447What did you think of the late Joseph Medill?
20447What did you think of them, Colonel?
20447What do recent exhibitions in this city, of scenes from the life of Christ, indicate with regard to the tendencies of modern art?
20447What do they care about the coachman''s soul?
20447What do they care for the souls of cooks?
20447What do they say of natural modesty?
20447What do you base your views upon?
20447What do you believe about the immortality of the soul?
20447What do you believe to be his position in regard to the presidency?
20447What do you mean by this?
20447What do you regard as the greatest of all themes in poetry and song?
20447What do you regard as the result of your lectures?
20447What do you say to that?
20447What do you say?
20447What do you think Cleveland''s chances are in New York?
20447What do you think about prize- fighting anyway?
20447What do you think about the recent election, and what will be its effect upon political matters and the issues and candidates of 1880?
20447What do you think as to the presidential race?
20447What do you think defeated Mr. Blaine at the polls in 1884?
20447What do you think generally of the revival of the bloody shirt?
20447What do you think of Atkinson''s speech?
20447What do you think of Beecher?
20447What do you think of Bellamy?
20447What do you think of Bishop Doane''s advocacy of free rum as a solution of the liquor problem?
20447What do you think of Cleveland''s message?
20447What do you think of England''s Poet Laureate, Alfred Austin?
20447What do you think of General Washington?
20447What do you think of Governor Roosevelt''s decision in the case of Mrs. Place?
20447What do you think of Hall Caine''s recent efforts to bring about a closer union between the stage and pulpit?
20447What do you think of Henry George for mayor?
20447What do you think of Justice Harlan''s dissenting opinion in the Civil Rights case?
20447What do you think of Madame Blavatsky and her school of Theosophists?
20447What do you think of McKinley''s inaugural?
20447What do you think of Mr. Cleveland''s Cabinet?
20447What do you think of Mr. Conkling''s course?
20447What do you think of Mr. Mills''Fourth of July speech on his bill?
20447What do you think of Niagara Falls?
20447What do you think of Pope?
20447What do you think of Senator Sherman''s book-- especially the part about Garfield?
20447What do you think of Wendell Phillips as an orator?
20447What do you think of civil service reform?
20447What do you think of him as an author?
20447What do you think of international marriages, as between titled foreigners and American heiresses?
20447What do you think of newspaper interviewing?
20447What do you think of political parties, Colonel?
20447What do you think of prohibition, and what do you think of its success in this State?
20447What do you think of the Buckner Bill for the colonization of the negroes in Mexico?
20447What do you think of the Chilian insult to the United States flag?
20447What do you think of the Congress of Religions, to be held in Chicago during the World''s Fair?
20447What do you think of the Democratic nominations?
20447What do you think of the Democratic platform?
20447What do you think of the French drama as compared with the English, morally and artistically considered?
20447What do you think of the Mormon question?
20447What do you think of the Pre- Millennial Conference that was held in New York City recently?
20447What do you think of the Theosophists?
20447What do you think of the action of Congress on Fitz John Porter?
20447What do you think of the action of the Presbyterian General Assembly at Detroit, and what effect do you think it will have on religious growth?
20447What do you think of the administration of President Cleveland?
20447What do you think of the efficacy or the propriety of punishing criminals by solitary confinement?
20447What do you think of the income tax as a step toward the accomplishment of what you desire?
20447What do you think of the influence of the press on religion?
20447What do you think of the influence of women in politics?
20447What do you think of the investigation of the Department of Justice now going on?
20447What do you think of the law of 1860?
20447What do you think of the new legislation in the State changing the death penalty to death by electricity?
20447What do you think of the new woman?
20447What do you think of the policy of nominating Blaine in 1888, as has been proposed?
20447What do you think of the political outlook?
20447What do you think of the prohibitory movement on general principles?
20447What do you think of the prospects of Liberalism in this country?
20447What do you think of the recent opinion of the Supreme Court touching the rights of the colored man?
20447What do you think of the result in Ohio?
20447What do you think of the revision of the Westminster creed?
20447What do you think of the sacredness of the Sabbath?
20447What do you think of the service pension movement?
20447What do you think of the signs of the times so far as the campaign has progressed?
20447What do you think of the tendency of newspapers is at present?
20447What do you think of the treatment of the actor by society in his social relations?
20447What do you think of the trial of the Chicago Anarchists and their chances for a new trial?
20447What do you think of the use he has made of the Dred Scott decision?
20447What do you think of this?
20447What do you think of"Spiritualism,"as it is popularly termed?
20447What do you think was the main cause of the Republican sweep?
20447What do you think will be the particular issue of the coming campaign?
20447What do you think, Colonel, of the Cuban question?
20447What does our party say?
20447What does the Republican party propose?
20447What does the word"extended"mean?
20447What does this mean?
20447What effect has the protective tariff on the condition of labor in this country?
20447What effect has the woman''s suffrage movement had on the breadwinners of the country?
20447What effect has unlimited immigration on the wages of women?
20447What effect, if any, would the complete franchise to our citizens have upon real estate and business in Washington?
20447What essentially American idea does he stand for?
20447What figure will Butler cut in the campaign?
20447What gave rise to the report that you had been converted--did you go to church somewhere?
20447What good can it do God to keep people married who hate each other?
20447What good can it do the community to keep such people together?
20447What good can it, by any possibility, do?
20447What had the Knights of Labor to do with a question of religion?
20447What has been the attitude of President Arthur?
20447What has it to do with the Democratic platform?
20447What has the administration done-- what has it accomplished in the field of diplomacy?
20447What has the press generally said with regard to the action of Judge Comegys?
20447What have you to say about his having died with sealed lips?
20447What have you to say about tariff reform?
20447What have you to say about the attack of Dr. Buckley on you, and your lecture?
20447What have you to say about the claim that Mr. Cleveland does not propose free trade?
20447What have you to say concerning the operations of the Society for Psychical Research?
20447What have you to say in regard to the decision of Judge Billings in New Orleans, that strikes which interfere with interstate commerce, are illegal?
20447What have you to say in reply to the letter in to- day''s_ Times_ signed R. H. S.?
20447What have you to say on the Mormon question?
20447What have you to say to that?
20447What have you to say to that?
20447What have you to say to the assertion of Dr. Deems that there were never so many Christians as now?
20447What have you to say with reference to the respective attitudes of the President and Senate?
20447What have you to say?
20447What is Mr. Conkling''s place in the political history of the United States?
20447What is a contract?
20447What is causing the development of this country?
20447What is education worth?
20447What is going to take the place of the pulpit?
20447What is his forte?
20447What is most needed in our public men?
20447What is the best philosophy of summer recreation?
20447What is the explanation of the stories of mental impressions received at long distances?
20447What is the history of the speech delivered here in 1876?
20447What is the reason for so much intemperance?
20447What is the use of wasting money for food?
20447What is true temperance, Colonel Ingersoll?
20447What is worse than death?
20447What is your conception of true intellectual hospitality?
20447What is your estimate of Susan B. Anthony?
20447What is your explanation of the Republican disaster last Tuesday?
20447What is your explanation of the miracles referred to in the Old and New Testaments?
20447What is your idea as to the difference between honest belief, as held by honest religious thinkers, and heterodoxy?
20447What is your idea in regard to it?
20447What is your idea of Christian Science?
20447What is your idea with regard to divorce?
20447What is your opinion as to the action of the President on the Venezuelan matter?
20447What is your opinion as to the effect of praying for the recovery of the President, and have you any confidence that prayers are answered?
20447What is your opinion concerning women as conductors of these revivals?
20447What is your opinion of American writers?
20447What is your opinion of Brewster''s administration?
20447What is your opinion of Colonel Ingersoll?
20447What is your opinion of Count Leo Tolstoy?
20447What is your opinion of General Grant as he stands before the people to- day?
20447What is your opinion of Ignatius Donnelly as a literary man irrespective of his Baconian theory?
20447What is your opinion of Matthew Arnold?
20447What is your opinion of Mr. Beecher?
20447What is your opinion of Mr. Gladstone as a controversialist?
20447What is your opinion of Spiritualism and Spiritualists?
20447What is your opinion of charity organizations?
20447What is your opinion of foreign missions?
20447What is your opinion of making ex- Presidents Senators for life?
20447What is your opinion of the Christian religion and the Christian Church?
20447What is your opinion of the Gerry Whipping Post bill?
20447What is your opinion of the effect of the multiplicity of women''s clubs as regards the intellectual, moral and domestic status of their members?
20447What is your opinion of the incoming administration, and how will it affect the country?
20447What is your opinion of the peculiar institution of American journalism known as interviewing?
20447What is your opinion of the position taken by the United States in the Venezuelan dispute?
20447What is your opinion of the relative merits of the pulpit and the stage, preachers and actors?
20447What is your opinion of the religious tendency of the people of this country?
20447What is your opinion of the result of the election?
20447What is your opinion of the work undertaken by the_ World_ in behalf of the city slave girl?
20447What is your opinion of"Christian charity"and the"fatherhood of God"as an economic polity for abolishing poverty and misery?
20447What is your opinion regarding the Republican nomination for President?
20447What is your opinion?
20447What is your opinion?
20447What is your remedy, Colonel, for the labor troubles of the day?
20447What is your reply to such assertions?
20447What kind of a President will Garfield make?
20447What kind of a person will do the whipping?
20447What language did he speak?"
20447What led you to begin lecturing on your present subject, and what was your first lecture?
20447What matters it that we differ?
20447What moral quality is there in theological pretence?
20447What must be the life of a man who can earn only one dollar or two dollars a day?
20447What must other nations think when they read the two letters and mentally exclaim,"Look upon this and then upon that?"
20447What must the real character of the scientific wretch be who would try an experiment like this?
20447What must they eat?
20447What must they wear?
20447What must"the great and good"Dole think of our great and good President?
20447What on earth has geology to do with the throne of God?
20447What ought to be done, or what is to be the end?
20447What part of the contract remains in force?
20447What part should you take if not that of the weak?
20447What phases will the Southern question assume in the next four years?
20447What place does the theatre hold among the arts?
20447What policy do they advocate?
20447What possible good did it do the world for Christ to go without food for forty days?
20447What punishment is there for physical crime?
20447What punishment, then, is inflicted upon man for his crimes and wrongs committed in this life?
20447What remains to be done now, and who is going to do it?
20447What section of the United States, East, West, North, or South, is the most advanced in liberal religious ideas?
20447What shall we say of a Bible that we dare not read to a Mormon as an argument against legalized lust, or as an argument against illegal lust?
20447What shall we say of the moral force of Christianity, when it utterly fails in the presence of Mormonism?
20447What should be done with the surplus revenue?
20447What should be the attitude of the church toward the stage?
20447What steps could be taken in any State of this Union?
20447What suggestion would you make for the improvement of the newspapers of this country?
20447What was settled?
20447What was the real difficulty between you and Moses, Colonel, a man who has been dead for thousands of years?
20447What was the real state of mind of the author of"Footfalls on the Boundaries of Another World"?
20447What will be the effect of the enthusiastic receptions that are being given to General Grant?
20447What will be the effect on labor of a departure in American policy in the direction of free trade?
20447What will be the fate of the Mills Bill in the Senate?
20447What will be the main issues in the next presidential campaign?
20447What will be the political effect of the Greenback movement?
20447What would be the effect on farms in that neighborhood?
20447What would be the effect on railroads, on freights, on business-- what upon the towns through which they passed?
20447What would be your advice to an intelligent young man just starting out in life?
20447What would have been his fate a few years ago?
20447What would have happened to him in Spain, in Portugal, in Italy-- in any other country that was Catholic-- only a few years ago?
20447What would the city that had been built up by the factories be worth?
20447What would the clergy of Washington think should the miracle of Cana be repeated in their day?
20447What would they have done had the vaults been empty?
20447What would you define public opinion to be?
20447What would you think of me if I should retort, using your language, changing only the sex of the last word?
20447What, in your estimation, is the value of the drama as a factor in our social life at the present time?
20447What, in your judgment, is necessary to be done to insure Republican success this fall?
20447What, in your judgment, is the source of the greatest trouble among men?
20447What, in your judgment, is to be the outcome of the present agitation in religious circles?
20447What, in your opinion, are the best possible means to spread this gospel or religion of Secularism?
20447What, in your opinion, is the condition of labor in this country as compared with that abroad?
20447What, in your opinion, is the condition of the Democratic party at present?
20447What, in your opinion, is the significance of the vote on the Mills Bill recently passed in the House?
20447What, in your opinion, were the causes for Blaine''s defeat?
20447What, in your opinion, were the causes which led to the Democratic defeat?
20447What, in your opinion, will be Browning''s position in the literature of the future?
20447What, on the whole, is your judgment of the book?
20447What, then, are their relations?
20447When I watch them on the avenue I, too, fall to quoting Scripture, and say,"Can these dry bones live?"
20447When Saul visited the Witch of Endor, and she, by some magic spell, called up Samuel, the prophet said:"Why hast thou disquieted me, to call me up?"
20447When we come to civil service, about how many Federal officials were at the St. Louis convention?
20447Where are the four hundred millions found?
20447Where are the most Liberals, and in what section of the country is the best work for Liberalism being done?
20447Where do we get the right to say that the negroes must emigrate?
20447Where do you meet with the bitterest opposition?
20447Where do you think it is necessary the Republican candidate should come from to insure success?
20447Where does Mr. Buckner propose to colonize the white people, and what right has he to propose the colonization of six millions of people?
20447Where is an actress on the English stage the superior of Julia Marlowe in genius, in originality, in naturalness?
20447Where is the great white throne?
20447Where rests the responsibility for the Armenian atrocities?
20447Which did more for his country, George Washington or Abraham Lincoln?
20447Which do you regard as the better, Catholicism or Protestantism?
20447Which in your opinion is the greatest English novel?
20447Which is the more dangerous to American institutions--the National Reform Association( God- in- the- Constitution party) or the Roman Catholic Church?
20447Which would you say are the better orators, speaking generally, the American people or the English people?
20447Who brought about"a critical period of our financial affairs"?
20447Who created the vast debt that American labor must pay?
20447Who do you think ought to be nominated at Chicago?
20447Who do you think will be nominated at Chicago?
20447Who made Herod?
20447Who made this taxation of thousands of millions necessary?
20447Who succeeded there?
20447Who wants it inflicted?
20447Who will be the Republican nominee for President?
20447Who, in your judgment, would be the strongest man the Republicans could put up?
20447Who, in your opinion, is the greatest leader of the"opposition"yclept the Christian religion?
20447Who, in your opinion, is the greatest novelist who has written in the English language?
20447Who, then, is really responsible for the acts of Herod?
20447Whose God?
20447Why are you so utterly opposed to vivisection?
20447Why did he want to pick out my bad things?
20447Why did not Brewster speak?
20447Why did you not take part in the campaign?
20447Why do people read a book like"Robert Elsmere,"and why do they take any interest in it?
20447Why do the theological seminaries find it difficult to get students?
20447Why do you make such a distinction between the rights of man and the rights of women?
20447Why do you not meet these men, and why do you not answer these attacks?
20447Why do you not respond to the occasional clergyman who replies to your lectures?
20447Why give us corn, and Egypt cholera?
20447Why inflict pain?
20447Why is it the Presbyterians are so opposed to music in the world, and yet expect to have so much in heaven?
20447Why not have the courage to say that if there be a God, all I know about him I know by knowing myself and my friends-- by knowing others?
20447Why not name the one, and have done with it?
20447Why not say that the universe has existed from eternity, as well as to say that a Creator has existed from eternity?
20447Why not take the middle ground?
20447Why not work with the great and enlightened majority?
20447Why rush to the extreme for the purpose not only of making yourself useless but hurtful?
20447Why should Christians refuse to persecute in this world, when their God is going to in the next?
20447Why should God treat us any better than he does the rest of his children?
20447Why should I say that he has the assistance of spirits?
20447Why should Sunday be observed otherwise than as a day of recreation?
20447Why should a barbarian boy cast reproach upon his parents?
20447Why should a man say that he loves God better than he does his wife or his children or his brother or his sister or his warm, true friend?
20447Why should a member of Parliament or of Congress swear to maintain the Constitution?
20447Why should an infinite God allow some of his children to enslave others?
20447Why should any one, when convinced that Christianity is a superstition, have or feel a sense of loss?
20447Why should ex- Presidents be taken care of?
20447Why should he allow a child of his to burn another child of his, under the impression that such a sacrifice was pleasing to him?
20447Why should he annihilate his mistakes?
20447Why should he make mistakes that need annihilation?
20447Why should he send pestilence and famine to China, and health and plenty to us?
20447Why should such a State be called free?
20447Why should the Democratic party lay claim to any anti- trust glory?
20447Why should the Republican party be so particular about religious belief?
20447Why should the reputations of the dead, and the feelings of those who live, be placed at the mercy of the ministers?
20447Why should they be compelled to license that which they are not permitted to enjoy?
20447Why should they care for what the animals suffer?
20447Why should we expect an infinite Being to do better in another world than he has done and is doing in this?
20447Why should we follow such an example?
20447Why should we not protect, by the same means, the actor?
20447Why should we postpone our joy to another world?
20447Why should we worship in God what we detest in man?
20447Why should you love the memory of one whom God hates?"
20447Why so?
20447Why was the word sheol introduced in place of hell, and how do you like the substitute?
20447Why was this?
20447Why were the bonds sold?
20447Why were the greenbacks issued?
20447Why, I ask, should God give life to men whom he knows are unworthy of life?
20447Why, then, resort to the duel?
20447Will Dr. Banks in his fifty- two sermons of next year show that his God is not responsible for the crimes of Herod?
20447Will Liberalism ever organize in America?
20447Will Mr. Cleveland, in your opinion, carry out the civil service reform he professes to favor?
20447Will a time ever come when political campaigns will be conducted independently of religious prejudice?
20447Will he listen to or grant any demands made of him by the alleged Independent Republicans of New York, either in his appointments or policies?
20447Will it necessitate the nomination of an Ohio Republican next year?
20447Will the Democratic party have a strong issue in its anti- trust cry?
20447Will the Supreme Court take cognizance of this case and prevent the execution of the judgment?
20447Will the church and the stage ever work together for the betterment of the world, and what is the province of each?
20447Will the instructions given to delegates be final?
20447Will the negro continue to be the balance of power, and if so, will it inure to his benefit?
20447Will the religion of humanity be the religion of the future?
20447Will the time ever come when it can truthfully be said that right is might?
20447Will there be other trials?
20447Will these two considerations cut any figure in the presidential campaign of 1884?
20447Will this add to their happiness?
20447Will this reverse seriously affect Republican chances next year?
20447Will you give your reasons?
20447Will you lecture the coming winter?
20447Will you state your reasons for your belief?
20447Will you take any notice of Mr. Magrath''s challenge?
20447With a solid South do you not think the Democratic nominee will stand a good chance?
20447With all your experiences, the trials, the responsibilities, the disappointments, the heartburnings, Colonel, is life worth living?
20447With the introduction of the Democracy into power, what radical changes will take place in the Government, and what will be the result?
20447Wo n''t you give us, then, Colonel, your analysis of this act, and the motives leading to it?
20447Would he want a divorce?
20447Would it not be better to teach that he who does wrong must suffer the consequences, whether God forgives him or not?
20447Would people be any more moral solely because of a disbelief in orthodox teaching and in the Bible as an inspired book, in your opinion?
20447Would the Catholicism of General Sherman''s family affect his chances for the presidency?
20447Would the Democracy of New York unite on Seymour?
20447Would you again refuse to take the stump for Mr. Blaine if he should be renominated, and if so, why?
20447Would you consent to live in any but a Christian community?
20447Would you have Government clerks and officials appointed to office here given the franchise in the District?
20447Would you have us discard it altogether?
20447Would you mind telling me how it was you came to be a public speaker, a lecturer, an orator?
20447Yet the sacred volume, no matter who wrote it, is a mine of wealth to the student and the philosopher, is it not?
20447You consider Greenbackers inflationists, do you not?
20447You do not deny that a religious belief is a comfort?
20447You do not seem to think that Arthur has a chance?
20447You have studied the Bible attentively, have you not?
20447You knew John Russell Young, Colonel?
20447You seem to agree with all that Justice Harlan has said, and to have the greatest admiration for his opinion?
20447You think, then, that there is no great principle involved?
20447Your objective point is to destroy the doctrine of hell, is it?
20447Your views of the country''s future and prospects must naturally be rose colored?
20447and if so what do you think of them?
20447and should this, if given, include the women clerks?
20447as expressed in_ The Herald_ of last week?
20447but,"Is this true?"
20447of the people to even call themselves Presbyterians, about how long will it take, at this rate, to convert mankind?
38808But you believe in eternal damnation, do you not?
38808Did you deliver it?
38808Do you believe in eternal punishment, as set forth in the confession of faith?
38808Has anyone seen a map of the land of Nod?
38808Have you preached on that subject lately?
38808Is the keen logic and broad humanity of Ingersoll converting the brain and heart of Christendom?
38808Well, what was the matter--did you drink, or cheat your employer, or were you idle?
38808What was the trouble?
38808Where are the four rivers that ran murmuring through the groves of Paradise?
38808Where do you come from?
38808Who was Cain''s wife?
38808Who was the snake? 38808 A gentleman passing, stopped for a moment and said to the little girl:What relation is the little boy to you?"
38808About how many have taken part in the recent nominations?
38808About what age were you when you began this investigation which led to your present convictions?
38808Above the grave what can the honest minister say?
38808According to your views, what disposition is made of man after death?
38808After all, has he not pursued the same method with me that he blames me for pursuing in regard to the Bible?
38808Although you are not in favor of taking the Philippines by force, how do you regard the administration in its conduct of the war?
38808And are they not, in spite of their professions to the contrary, enemies to republican liberty?
38808And if she is granted one, is virtue in danger, and shall we lose the high ideal of home life?
38808And in what way has not Spiritualism done good?
38808And is it desirable that this relation should be rendered sacred by a church?
38808And is there a woman so heartless and so immoral that she would force another to bear what she would shudderingly avoid?
38808And the same old question is upon us now: What shall be done with the victims of drink?
38808And what did you think of it?
38808And what do you think of the modern development of metaphysics-- as expressed outside of the emotional and semi- ecclesiastical schools?
38808And what shall I say of Sidney Carton?
38808And why should we take so much pains to free the body, and then enslave the mind?
38808And, after all, is not a noble man, is not a pure woman, the finest revelation we have of God-- if there be one?
38808Are all mediums impostors?
38808Are not parallel railroads an evil?
38808Are not persons allowed to testify in the United States whether they believe in future rewards and punishments or not?
38808Are not religion and morals inseparable?
38808Are not the Catholics the least progressive?
38808Are our workingmen to wear wooden shoes?
38808Are the doctrines of Agnosticism gaining ground, and what, in your opinion, will be the future of the church?
38808Are the fathers and brothers blameless who allow young girls to make coats, cloaks and vests in an atmosphere poisoned by the ignorant and low- bred?
38808Are the millions of Spiritualists deluded?
38808Are there not some human natures so morally weak or diseased that they can not keep from sin without the aid of some sort of religion?
38808Are they in any sense correct?
38808Are they rectifying the error now?
38808Are they sincere-- have they any real basis for their psychological theories?
38808Are we not entering upon the era of our greatest prosperity?
38808Are we really in need of the children born of such parents?
38808Are women becoming freed from the bonds of sectarianism?
38808Are you aware that it has been attempted to show that some money loaned or given him by yourself was really what he purchased the pistol with?
38808Are you getting nearer to or farther away from God, Christianity and the Bible?
38808Are you going to make a formal reply to their sermons?
38808Are you going to take any part in the campaign?
38808Are you in favor of expansion?
38808Are you in favor of the A. P. A.?
38808Are you in favor of the annexation of Canada?
38808Are you in sympathy with the workingmen and their objects?
38808Are you seeking to quit public lecturing on religious questions?
38808Are you still a Republican in political belief?
38808Are you to go on the lecture platform again?
38808Are you willing to give your opinion of the Pope?
38808As Truth can brook no compromises, has it not the same limitations that surround social and domestic hospitality?
38808As a lawyer, will you express an opinion as to the moral and legal responsibility of a victim of alcoholism?
38808Ball and Burchard?
38808Besides, if this woman of whom he speaks was a lady, how did she happen to stay where obscene language was being used?
38808But do n''t you think, Colonel, that the materialistic philosophy, even in the light of your own interpretation, is essentially pessimistic?
38808But do you not think the Greenback movement will help the Democracy to success in 1880?
38808But has the Republican party all the good and the Democratic all the bad?
38808But if it clings to soft money?
38808But if they will not disband?
38808But suppose that the Chinese came to look upon wheat in the same light that other people look upon wheat and its product, bread?
38808But suppose they give the same receptions in the South?
38808But the question arises, What is Christianity?
38808But unless it can be shown that Atheism interferes with the sight, the hearing, or the memory, why should justice shut the door to truth?
38808But what about the Prohibitionists?
38808But what about there being"belief"in Matthew?
38808But what can we say of a marriage where the parties hate each other?
38808But what is the simple assertion of Thomas Carlyle worth?
38808But what would you do if they should make an attempt to arrest you?
38808But who will win?
38808But would n''t it be better for the people if the railroads were managed by the Government as is the Post- Office?
38808But, Colonel, is there no danger of greatly interfering with a woman''s duties as wife and mother?
38808Can any one, by studying geology, find the locality of the great white throne?
38808Can anyone imagine that such a course would add to the joy of Paradise, or even tend to keep one harp in tune?
38808Can anything be more infamous than to endeavor to make a woman, under such circumstances, remain with such a man?
38808Can it be said that a State is"free"that is absolutely governed by the Nation?
38808Can she never sit by her own hearth, with the arms of her children about her neck, and by her side a husband who loves and protects her?
38808Can the good of society require the woman to remain?
38808Can the virtue of others be preserved only by the destruction of her happiness, and by what might be called her perpetual imprisonment?
38808Can these phenomena be considered aside from any connection with, or form of, superstition?
38808Can they do this as long as the Government collects ninety million dollars per annum from that one source?
38808Can you find in the graveyard of nations this epitaph:"Died of a Surplus"?
38808Can you guess as to what the platform in going to contain?
38808Can you offer any explanation of the extraordinary phenomena such as Henry J. Newton has had produced at his own house under his own supervision?
38808Can, or ought, the Liberals and Spiritualists to unite?
38808Christianity certainly fosters charity?
38808Colonel Ingersoll, are you a Socialist?
38808Colonel, are your views of religion based upon the Bible?
38808Colonel, crossing the Atlantic back to America, what do you think of the Greenback movement?
38808Colonel, did you ever kill any game?
38808Colonel, have you read the revised Testament?
38808Colonel, to start with, what do you think of the solid South?
38808Colonel, what do you think about Mr. Cleveland''s Hawaiian policy?
38808Colonel, what do you think of the course the Mayor has pursued toward you in attempting to stop your lecture?
38808Colonel, what is your opinion of Secularism?
38808Did God know how Herod would use his freedom?
38808Did God know what Herod would do?
38808Did God write it?
38808Did he ever mention the quarto in any letter, essay, or in any way?
38808Did he have a copy?
38808Did he know that he would become the villain in the drama of Christ?
38808Did he know that he would cause the children to be slaughtered in his vain efforts to kill the infant Christ?
38808Did he mention the copy in his will?
38808Did the hand that was stretched out to him on the stage of the Academy reach across the chasm which separates orthodoxy from infidelity?
38808Did they write exactly what the Holy Spirit wanted them to write?
38808Did you anticipate a verdict?
38808Did you discuss the matter with him?
38808Did you make this remark as a Christian, or as a lady?
38808Did you read Mr. Courtney''s answer?
38808Did you say these words to illustrate in some faint degree the refining influence upon women of the religion you preach?
38808Do I understand you to imply that there will be a neutral policy, as it were, towards the South?
38808Do liberal books, such as the works of Paine and Infidel scientists sell well?
38808Do many people write to you upon this subject; and what spirit do they manifest?
38808Do n''t you think that some good has been accomplished, some valuable information obtained, by vivisection?
38808Do n''t you think that the pass system is an injustice--that is, that ordinary travelers are taxed for the man who rides on a pass?
38808Do n''t you think the belief of the Agnostic is more satisfactory to the believer than that of the Atheist?
38808Do newspapers to- day exercise as much influence as they did twenty- five years ago?
38808Do not its facts and conclusions prove, if not immortality, at least the continuity of life beyond the grave?
38808Do not the evidences of design in the universe prove a Creator?
38808Do these things really happen?
38808Do they believe that by forcing people to remain together who despise each other they are adding to the purity of the marriage relation?
38808Do they deserve any credit for the course they have taken?
38808Do they forget that people have a choice?
38808Do they not know that all marriage is an outward act, testifying to that which has happened in the heart?
38808Do they not understand something of the human heart, and that true love has always been as pure as the morning star?
38808Do they not, as a rule, give something to deaden pain?
38808Do they sustain any relation except that of hunter and hunted-- that is, of tyrant and victim?
38808Do they, so far as you know, justify his charge?
38808Do you agree with George''s principles?
38808Do you agree with Mr. Carnegie that a college education is of little or no practical value to a man?
38808Do you agree with the Pope in attacking the present governments of Europe and the memories of Mazzini and Saffi?
38808Do you agree with the Pope that:"Sound rules of life must be founded on religion"?
38808Do you apprehend any trouble from the Southern leaders in this closing session of Congress, in attempts to force pernicious legislation?
38808Do you believe Madame Blavatsky does or has done the wonderful things related of her?
38808Do you believe in a God; and, if so, what kind of a God?
38808Do you believe in free text- books in the public schools?
38808Do you believe in socialism?
38808Do you believe in spirit entities, whether manifestible or not?
38808Do you believe in the existence of a Supreme Being?
38808Do you believe in the resurrection of the body?
38808Do you believe that any sane man ever had a vision?
38808Do you believe that the Democratic success was due to the possession of reverse principles?
38808Do you believe that the divorced should be allowed to marry again?
38808Do you believe that the race is growing moral or immoral?
38808Do you believe that the spirit lives as an individual after the body is dead?
38808Do you believe that the world, and all that is in it came by chance?
38808Do you believe that there is such a thing as a miracle, or that there has ever been?
38808Do you believe the people can be made to do without a stimulant?
38808Do you believe the spirits of the dead come back to earth?
38808Do you believe there will ever be a millennium, and if so how will it come about?
38808Do you believe, or disbelieve, in the immortality of the soul?
38808Do you care to say who your choice is for Republican nominee for President in 1888?
38808Do you consider any religion adequate?
38808Do you consider inebriety a disease, or the result of diseased conditions?
38808Do you consider marriage a contract or a sacrament?
38808Do you consider that churches are injurious to the community?
38808Do you consider that society in general has been made better by religious influences?
38808Do you consider the new ballot- law adapted to the needs of our system of elections?
38808Do you consider the religion of Bhagavat Purana of the East as good as the Christian?
38808Do you deny the immortality of the soul?
38808Do you enjoy Shakespeare more in the library than Shakespeare interpreted by actors now on the boards?
38808Do you enjoy lecturing?
38808Do you foresee any danger of centralization in the full enfranchisement of the citizens of Washington?
38808Do you imagine she would condemn Burns or Shelley for that reason?
38808Do you intend making any reply to what she says?
38808Do you know her personally?
38808Do you know that you have been greatly criticized for what you have said on this subject?
38808Do you know the reason she applied the epithet?
38808Do you know this from experience?
38808Do you not believe that such a man as Robert Dale Owen was sincere?
38808Do you not think Arthur has grown and is a greater man than when he was elected?
38808Do you not think that capital is entitled to protection?
38808Do you not think that the Bible has consolation for those who have lost their friends?
38808Do you not think that these men had a fair trial?
38808Do you not think there are some dangerous tendencies in Liberalism?
38808Do you really think that the church is losing ground?
38808Do you really think, Colonel, that the country has just passed through a crisis?
38808Do you regard him as more popular now than ever before?
38808Do you regard it as a religion?
38808Do you regard the Briggs trial as any evidence of the growth of Liberalism in the church itself?
38808Do you say this because your reason is convinced that it is?
38808Do you still believe that suicide is justifiable?
38808Do you sympathize with the Socialists, or do you think that the success of George would promote socialism?
38808Do you take much interest in politics, Colonel Ingersoll?
38808Do you think Cleveland will put any Southern men in his Cabinet?
38808Do you think mankind is drifting away from the supernatural?
38808Do you think resumption will work out all right?
38808Do you think so?
38808Do you think that Cleveland''s course as to appointments has strengthened him with the people?
38808Do you think that Liberals should undertake a reform in the marriage and divorce laws and relations?
38808Do you think that Mr. George would make a good mayor?
38808Do you think that Senator Logan will be able to deliver this State to the Grant movement according to the understood plan?
38808Do you think that bigotry would persecute now for religious opinion''s sake, if it were not for the law and the press?
38808Do you think that eloquence is potent in a convention to set aside the practical work of politics and politicians?
38808Do you think that evolution and revealed religion are compatible-- that is to say, can a man be an evolutionist and a Christian?
38808Do you think that is so, Mr. Ingersoll?
38808Do you think that men are naturally criminals and naturally virtuous?
38808Do you think that the American people are seeking after truth, or do they want to be amused?
38808Do you think that the Knights of Labor will cut any material figure in this election?
38808Do you think that the era of good feeling between the North and the South has set in with the appointment of ex- rebels to the Cabinet?
38808Do you think that the friends of Gresham would support Blaine if he should be nominated?
38808Do you think that the marriage institution is held in less respect by Infidels than by Christians?
38808Do you think that the moral atmosphere will improve with the political atmosphere?
38808Do you think that the nominations have been well received throughout the United States?
38808Do you think that the old parties are about to die?
38808Do you think that the orthodox church gets its ideas of the Sabbath from the teachings of Christ?
38808Do you think that the political features of the incoming administration will differ from the present?
38808Do you think that the vivisectionists do their work without anesthetics?
38808Do you think that there is any danger of war?
38808Do you think the Christian religion has made the world better?
38808Do you think the President should have stated his policy in Boston the other day?
38808Do you think the Republican party should take a decided stand on the temperance issue?
38808Do you think the South will ever equal or surpass the West in point of prosperity?
38808Do you think the election has brought about any particular change in the issues that will be involved in the campaign of 1880?
38808Do you think the investigations of the Republicans of the Danville and Copiah massacres will benefit them?
38808Do you think the law in the next decade will permit the affirmative oath?
38808Do you think the laws governing divorce ought to be changed?
38808Do you think the people lead the newspapers, or do the newspapers lead them?
38808Do you think the use of the word sheol will make any difference to the preachers?
38808Do you think there will be a second coming?
38808Do you think we are going to have war with Spain?
38808Do you think young men need a college education to get along?
38808Do you uphold the Anarchists?
38808Do you wish to say anything as to the reasoning of Justice Harlan on the rights of colored people on railways, in inns and theatres?
38808Do you, in any way, see any reason or foundation for the severe and bitter criticisms made against the Stalwart leaders in connection with this crime?
38808Does Christianity advance or retard civilization?
38808Does exposure do any good?
38808Does he compare any other Infidels with Christians?
38808Does it point with pride to the Mexican fiasco, or does it rely entirely upon the great fishery triumph?
38808Does not a Creator need a Creator as much as the thing we think has been created?
38808Does not a designer need a design as much as a design needs a designer?
38808Does not the Government feed the mob spirit-- the lynch spirit?
38808Does not the mob follow the example set by the Government?
38808Does the protective tariff cheapen the prices of commodities to the laboring man?
38808Does the question of the inspiration of Scriptures affect the beauty and benefits of Christianity here and hereafter?
38808Dr. Abbott, will tend to soften the sentiment of the orthodox churches against the stage?
38808Dr. Banks stand against a circus?
38808Dr. Fulton?
38808Dr. Jewett before the Methodist ministers''meeting?
38808Dr. Parkhurst, of New York, justifiable, and do you think that it had a tendency to help morality?
38808During the recent presidential campaign did any clergymen denounce you for your teachings, that you are aware of?
38808Father Lambert''s"Notes on Ingersoll,"and if so, what have you to say of them or in reply to them?
38808From your knowledge of the religious tendency in the United States, how long will orthodox religion be popular?
38808Had she then good cause for divorce?
38808Had they been in that country, with their present ideas, what would they have said?
38808Has Spiritualism, through its mediums, ever told the world anything useful, or added to the store of the world''s knowledge, or relieved its burdens?
38808Has any church succeeded as well as the Catholic?
38808Has any orthodox minister in the year 1898 given just one paragraph to literature?
38808Has not Spiritualism added to the world''s stock of hope?
38808Has not the Democracy injured itself irretrievably by permitting the free trade element to rule it?
38808Has not the Republican party trouble enough with the spirituous to let the spiritual alone?
38808Has not the married woman the right of self- defence?
38808Has society any interest in forcing women to live with men they hate?
38808Has the Christian religion changed in theory of late years, Colonel Ingersoll?
38808Has the woman whose rights have been outraged no right to build another home?
38808Has there ever been found a line from any play or sonnet in his handwriting?
38808Have n''t you just the faintest glimmer of a hope that in some future state you will meet and be reunited to those who are dear to you in this?
38808Have you any decided opinions on that subject?
38808Have you any objection to being interviewed as to your ideas of Grant, and his position before the people?
38808Have you any objection to stating your real opinion in regard to the matter?
38808Have you any objections to giving your present views of the question?
38808Have you been invited to lecture in Europe?
38808Have you ever been interfered with before in delivering Sunday lectures?
38808Have you ever been misrepresented in interviews?
38808Have you ever had any similar experiences before?
38808Have you found any other work, sacred or profane, which you regard as more reliable?
38808Have you given them reason to believe so?
38808Have you had any experience with spirit photography, spirit physicians, or spirit lawyers?
38808Have you investigated Spiritualism, and what has been your experience?
38808Have you noticed a great change in public sentiment in the last three or four years?
38808Have you read Miss Cleveland''s book?
38808Have you read Nordau''s"Degeneracy"?
38808Have you read the replies of the clergy to your recent lecture in this city on"What Must we do to be Saved?"
38808Have you seen him?
38808Have you seen or known of any Theosophical or esoteric marvels?
38808Have you seen the attacks made upon you by certain ministers of New York, published in the_ Herald_ last Sunday?
38808Have you seen the published report that Dorsey claims to have paid you one hundred thousand dollars for your services in the Star Route Cases?
38808Have you seen the recent clerical strictures upon your doctrines?
38808He did not say: Why have you called me from another world?
38808He left a library, was there a copy of the plays in it?
38808He would ask himself the question:"Is it possible that this is a divine institution?
38808How about Illinois?
38808How about lying, Colonel?
38808How about that"personal and confidential letter"?
38808How are they to be prevented?
38808How are we to do away with crime?
38808How are we to do away with pauperism?
38808How are we to do away with want and misery in every civilized country?
38808How are you getting along with Delaware?
38808How are you on the arbitration treaty?
38808How can any one come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church has been a source of truth, a source of intellectual light?
38808How can anyone believe that the church of John Calvin has been a source of truth?
38808How can the coffin or the grave be purchased?
38808How could the church live a minute unless somebody attended to the affairs of this world?
38808How could there be a disaster with a vast surplus in the treasury?
38808How did Guiteau impress you and what have you remembered, Colonel, of his efforts to reply to your lectures?
38808How did he walk?
38808How did taxation become necessary?
38808How did the card of Dr. Thomas strike you?
38808How do I account for the defeat of Mr. Blaine?
38808How do the clergy generally treat you?
38808How do we do away with larceny?
38808How do you account for Mr. Blaine''s action in allowing his name to go before the convention at Minneapolis in 1892?
38808How do you account for the defeat of Mr. Blaine?
38808How do you account for the results of the recent elections?
38808How do you account for these attacks?
38808How do you answer the argument, or the fact, that the church is constantly increasing, and that there are now four hundred millions of Christians?
38808How do you enjoy staying in Chicago?
38808How do you explain the figure:"His soul, like Mazeppa, was lashed naked to the wild horse of every fear and love and hate"?
38808How do you like the administration of President Hayes?
38808How do you regard the action of Bismarck in returning the Lasker resolutions?
38808How do you regard the opposition of the local clergy and of the Bourbon Democracy to enfranchising the citizens of the District?
38808How do you regard the present political situation?
38808How do you regard the religious question in politics?
38808How do you regard the situation in Ohio?
38808How do you stand on the money question?
38808How do you stand with the clergymen, and what is their opinion of you and of your views?
38808How do you think he will treat the South?
38808How does the literature of to- day compare with that of the first half of the century, in your opinion?
38808How does the next campaign look?
38808How does the religious state of California compare with the rest of the Union?
38808How does this happen in a Government where church and state are not united?
38808How good does a father have to be, in order to put his son under obligation to defend his blunders?
38808How has the Democratic party"averted disaster"?
38808How have the recently expressed opinions of our local clergy impressed you?
38808How have you acquired the art of growing old gracefully?
38808How is it possible for the virtues to grow in the damp and darkened basements?
38808How is this?
38808How many clergymen would it take to command, at regular prices, the audiences that attend the presentation of Wagner''s operas?
38808How many in England?
38808How much importance do you attach to the present prohibition movement?
38808How should the dispute be settled?
38808How soon do you think we would have the millennium if every person attended strictly to his own business?
38808How then can she hope to conquer this country?
38808How were you pleased with the Paine meeting here, and its results?
38808How will the Democratic victory affect the colored people in the South?
38808How would an honest Christian minister console the widow and the fatherless children?
38808How would he dare to tell what he claims to be truth in the presence of the living?
38808I agree with the Presbyterian General Assembly, if the creed is true, why should anyone try to amuse himself?
38808I believe it was Confucius who said:"How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?"
38808I said to him:"Is that honest?"
38808I see that Mr. Beecher is coming round to your views on theology?
38808I see that some one has been charging that Judge Gresham is an Infidel?
38808I see that some people are objecting to your taking any part in politics, on account of your religious opinion?
38808I see that you are frequently charged with disrespect toward your parents-- with lack of reverence for the opinions of your father?
38808I see that you say that one of the great issues in the coming campaign will be civil rights; what do you mean by that?
38808I should be glad if you would tell me what you think the differences are between English and American oratory?
38808I understand that there was some trouble in connection with your lecture in Victoria, B. C. What are the facts?
38808I was told that you came to St. Louis on your wedding trip some thirty years ago and went to Shaw''s Garden?
38808I would like to ask him if the Old Testament is in favor of religious toleration?
38808I would like to ask if there is a Christian in the world who would not be overjoyed to find that every one of these passages was an interpolation?
38808I would like to ask you why, in your opinion as a student of history, has the Protestant Church always been so bitterly opposed to the theatre?
38808I would like to have a positive expression of your views as to a future state?
38808I would like to know if that is so?
38808I would like to know something of the history of your religious views?
38808I would rather be deceived than killed, would n''t you?
38808If Blaine had been nominated at Cincinnati in 1876 would he have made a stronger candidate than Hayes did?
38808If English actors are so much better than American, how is it that an American star is supported by the English?
38808If God allows injustice to triumph here, why not there?
38808If I asked for proofs for your theory, what would you furnish?
38808If Mr. Mills has given a true statement with regard to the measure proposed by him, what relation does that measure bear to the President''s message?
38808If Robert Elsmere''s views were commonly adopted what would be the effect?
38808If a community violates that law, why should not the individual?
38808If a man is rich why should he have any pension?
38808If at that time there was nothing in existence but himself, how could he have exerted any force?
38808If free trade will not reduce wages what will?
38808If he allows rascality to succeed in this world, why not in the next?
38808If he allows the innocent to suffer here, why not there?
38808If he can stand it, I can; and why should there be any malice on the subject?
38808If it is called upon for counsel and advice, how can it give advice without knowing the facts and circumstances?
38808If its creed is not true, if its doctrines are mistakes, if its dogmas are monstrous delusions, how can it be said to have been a source of truth?
38808If not, in what particulars does it require amendment?
38808If she has the right to leave, has she the right to get a new house?
38808If she owes no duty to her husband; if it is impossible for her to feel toward him any thrill of affection, what is there of marriage left?
38808If so do you intend to accept the"call"?
38808If so, what do you think of it?
38808If the Democratic party makes anti- imperialism the prominent plank in its platform, what effect will it have on the party''s chance for success?
38808If the Jews did not believe in immortality, how do you account for the allusions made to witches and wizards and things of that nature?
38808If the President feels that he is bound to carry out the civil- service law, ought not the Senate to feel in the same way?
38808If the colored people have to depend upon the State for protection, and the Federal Government can not interfere, why say any more about it?
38808If the dead were not a Christian, what then?
38808If the man is sick, if one of the children dies, how can doctors and medicines be paid for?
38808If the man was in the army a day or a month, and was uninjured, and can make his own living, or has enough, why should he have a pension?
38808If the ordinance exempts scientific, literary and historical lectures, as it is said it does, will not that exempt you?
38808If the woman is not in fault, does society insist that her life should be wrecked?
38808If there is anything whatever in this argument, is it not that the traffic pays a bribe of ninety million dollars a year for its life?
38808If there is no beatitude, or heaven, how do you account for the continual struggle in every natural heart for its own betterment?
38808If there is only punishment in this world, will not some escape punishment?
38808If they are higher here than in foreign countries, the question arises, why are they higher?
38808If they have done good, could they not have done just as much if they had used anesthetics?
38808If they have the right to compel the President to choose from four, why not from three, or two?
38808If this man has a wife and a couple of children how can the family live?
38808If we should agree to- morrow to put God in the Constitution, the question would then be: Which God?
38808If you should write your last sentence on religious topics what would be your closing?
38808If you take away the idea of eternal punishment, how do you propose to restrain men; in what way will you influence conduct for good?
38808If you were to compare individual English and American orators-- recent or living orators in particular-- what would you say?
38808If you were to witness phenomena that seemed inexplicable by natural laws, would you be inclined to favor Spiritualism?
38808If, again, you say the church is a source of authority, why do you say so?
38808In other words, is not this simply a circle of human ignorance?
38808In other words, who has been idle?
38808In the next presidential contest what will be the main issue?
38808In this connection there has been so much said about the art of acting-- what is your idea as to that art?
38808In view of all this, where do you think the presidential candidate will come from?
38808In what estimation do you hold Charles Watts and Samuel Putnam, and what do you think of their labors in the cause of Freethought?
38808In what geologic period was the great white throne formed?
38808In what light do you regard the Chinaman?
38808In what light do you regard the Philippines as an addition to the territory of the United States?
38808In what section of the country do you find the most liberality?
38808In your experience as a lawyer what was the most unique case in which you were ever engaged?
38808In your opinion, what relation do Liberalism and Prohibition bear to each other?
38808Is Agnosticism gaining ground in the United States?
38808Is Chicago as liberal, intellectually, as New York?
38808Is Christianity really gaining a strong hold on the masses?
38808Is England expected to give us another Shakespeare?
38808Is Judge Hoadly to be attacked because he exercises the liberty that he gives to others?
38808Is Spiritualism a religion or a truth?
38808Is a State free that can make no treaty with any other State or country-- that is not permitted to coin money or to declare war?
38808Is he to rely for meat, on poaching, and then is he to be transported to some far colony for the crime of catching a rabbit?
38808Is his influence upon the world good or otherwise?
38808Is it a fact that there are thousands of clergymen in the country whom you would fear to meet in fair debate?
38808Is it because we lack men of genius or because our life is too material that no truly great American plays have been written?
38808Is it consistent to say that a design can not exist without a designer, but that a designer can?
38808Is it desirable to have families raised under such circumstances?
38808Is it ever right to lie?
38808Is it necessary to lose your freedom in order to retain your character, in order to be womanly or manly?
38808Is it not a Republican administration that is at present investigating the alleged evils of trusts?
38808Is it not a fact that you possess the confidence and friendship of some of the most respected leaders of that party?
38808Is it not strange that, with one exception, the most notable operas written since Wagner are by Italian composers instead of German?
38808Is it not the duty of society to protect her from her husband?
38808Is it not the duty of the Senate to see to it that the President does not, with its advice and consent, violate the civil service law?
38808Is it not the fact that punishments have grown less and less severe for many years past?
38808Is it possible for impudence to go further?
38808Is it possible that God has so made the world that the threat of eternal punishment is necessary for the preservation of society?
38808Is it possible that God''s last witness died with Cicero?
38808Is it possible that an infinitely wise and good God would insist on this poor, helpless woman remaining with the wild beast, her husband?
38808Is it possible that he is a kind of vulture that sees only the carrion of another?
38808Is it possible that his companions would object to his being paid for honest work in the penitentiary?
38808Is it possible that human nature stands on such slippery ground?
38808Is it possible that logic stands paralyzed in the presence of paternal absurdity?
38808Is it possible that the superior support the inferior?
38808Is it possible that, after preachers have had the field for eighteen hundred years, the way to make money is to attack the clergy?
38808Is it to the interest of a husband and wife to live together after love has perished and when they hate each other?
38808Is it true that you were once threatened with a criminal prosecution for libel on religion?
38808Is it true, as rumored, that you intend to leave Washington and reside in New York?
38808Is it true?
38808Is it your experience that public men usually ride on passes?
38808Is not Christianity and the belief in God a check upon mankind in general and thus a good thing in itself?
38808Is not a pleasant illusion preferable to a dreary truth-- a future life being in question?
38808Is not the ballot an assurance to the laboring man that he can get fair treatment from his employer?
38808Is not the"lake of fire and brimstone"an obsolete issue?
38808Is not this definition-- a definition given in hatred-- a perfect definition of every monarchy and of nearly every government in the world?
38808Is she entitled to a divorce now?
38808Is such a man seeking the good of his fellow- men?
38808Is that true which succeeds to- day, or next year, or in the next century?
38808Is the Age of Chivalry dead?
38808Is the Republican party dead?
38808Is the consent of the Senate a mere matter of form?
38808Is the noun"United States"singular or plural, as you use English?
38808Is the religious movement of which you are the chief exponent spreading?
38808Is the spirit of patriotism declining in America?
38808Is the woman still bound?
38808Is there a more wonderful character in all the realm of fiction?
38808Is there a probability that Mr. Sherman will be retained in the Cabinet?
38808Is there a woman in the world who would not shrink from this herself?
38808Is there any better Mrs. Malaprop than Mrs. Drew, and better Sir Anthony than John Gilbert?
38808Is there any better or more ennobling belief than Christianity; if so, what is it?
38808Is there any morality in this-- any virtue?
38808Is there any possibility of your coming to England, and, I need hardly add, of your coming to speak?
38808Is there any remedy?
38808Is there any split in the solid South?
38808Is there any such thing as mind- reading or thought- transference?
38808Is there any such thing as telepathy?
38808Is there anything else bearing upon the question at issue or that would make good reading, that I have forgotten, that you would like to say?
38808Is there anything in the charge that the Republican party seeks to change our form of government by gradual centralization?
38808Is there anything new about religion since you were last here?
38808Is there no future for her?
38808Is there no mutuality?
38808Is there no other applicable to this case?
38808Is there no truth in the statement, then?
38808Is this all that man can do with the assistance of God?
38808Is this because priests instinctively know priests?
38808Is this because you regard Washington as the pleasantest and most advantageous city for a residence?
38808Is this intended as a slander against me or the ministers?
38808Is this the best?"
38808Is this trifling experiment of any importance?
38808Is this true?
38808Is what we call civilization a sham?
38808Is your objection based on any religious grounds, or on any prejudice against the ceremony because of its religious origin; or what is your objection?
38808Is your theory, Colonel, the result of investigation of the subject?
38808It is claimed that an amendment to the law, such as is desired, will interfere with the growth of art?
38808It is possible that our civilization to- day rests upon the price of alcohol, and that, should the price be reduced, we would all go down together?
38808It is reported that you are the son of a Presbyterian minister?
38808It is said that in the past four or five years you have changed or modified your views upon the subject of religion; is this so?
38808It is said, Colonel Ingersoll, that you are for Henry George?
38808It seems to me that reason should come first, because if you say the Bible is a source of authority, why do you say it?
38808Judging by your criticism of mankind, Colonel, in your recent lecture, you have not found his condition very satisfactory?
38808Judging from what has been told you of his utterances and actions, what kind of a man would you take him to be?
38808MUST RELIGION GO?
38808Might not the rich do much?
38808Mr. Banks, and what do you think of what he said?
38808Mr. Crafts stated that you were in the habit of swearing in company and before your family?
38808Mr. Ingersoll, do you think that Mr. Blaine wanted the nomination in 1884, when he got it?
38808Mr. Ingersoll, what do you think defeated Blaine for the nomination in 1876?
38808Mr. Lansing?
38808Mr. Sherman expresses the opinion that if he had had the"moral strength"of the Ohio delegation in his support he would have been nominated?
38808Must he be reduced to the diet of the old country?
38808Must he sell his birthright for the sake of being a doorkeeper?
38808Must he stand upon an exact par with the laborers of Belgium and England and Germany, not only, but with the slaves and serfs of other countries?
38808Must she be an outcast forever?
38808Must they be preserved to please God?
38808Must this woman, full of kindness, affection and health, be chained until death releases her?
38808Must we depend on police or statesmen?
38808Must we wait for mobs to inaugurate reform?
38808Not even in the case of a Democratic victory?
38808Now that a lull has come in politics, I thought I would come and see what is going on in the religious world?
38808Now, as to the other part of the question,"Is not a belief in God a check upon mankind in general?"
38808Now, if a State refuses to do anything upon the subject, what is the citizen to do?
38808Now, if the man turns out to be a wild beast, if he destroys the happiness of the wife, why should she remain his victim?
38808Now, is it possible that he gets additional rights by immigration?
38808Now, is there not some better organization of society that will help in this trouble?
38808Now, let me ask, what consolation could a Christian minister have given to his family?
38808Now, the question arises, what is humane about this society?
38808Now, what is morality?
38808Of course men may conspire to quit work, but how is it to be proved?
38808Of his last ride, holding the poor girl by the hand?
38808Of his last walk?
38808Of what possible use is it to know how long a dog or horse can live without food?
38808Of what use can it be to take a dog, tie him down and cut out one of his kidneys to see if he can live with the other?
38808Of what use is it to be false to ourselves?
38808Of what use is it to give a man two or three dollars a month?
38808Perhaps you will tell me your methods as a speaker, for I''m sure it would be interesting to know them?
38808R. Heber Newton?
38808Samuel Jones?
38808Samuel did not pretend that he had been living, or that he was alive, but asked:"Why hast thou disquieted me?"
38808Shall you attend the Albany Freethought Convention?
38808Shall you sue the Opera House management for breach of contract?
38808Should Liberals vote on Liberal issues?
38808Should a woman be compelled to remain the wife of a man who hates and abuses her, and whom she loathes?
38808Should a woman be punished for having married?
38808Should not the museums and art galleries be thrown open to the workingmen free on Sunday?
38808Should the drama teach lessons and discuss social problems, or should it give simply intellectual pleasure and furnish amusement?
38808Should we not have other bills to colonize the Germans, the Swedes, the Irish, and then, may be, another bill to drive the Chinese into the sea?
38808Should we wait and crush by brute force or should we prevent?
38808Since you expounded your justification of suicide, Colonel, I believe you have had some cases of suicide laid at your door?
38808So the first question is, What is a miracle?
38808Somebody asked Confucius about another world, and his reply was:"How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?"
38808Still, I suppose we can count on you as a Republican?
38808Suppose God should answer the prayers and convert me, how would he bring the conversion about?
38808Suppose a man has a bad father; is he bound by the bad father''s opinion, when he is satisfied that the opinion is wrong?
38808Suppose the dog can live a week or a month or a year, what then?
38808Suppose the father changes his opinion; what then?
38808Suppose the father thinks one way, and the mother the other; what are the children to do?
38808Suppose they arrest you what will you do?
38808Suppose we had free trade to- day, what would become of the manufacturing interests to- morrow?
38808Suppose, as a matter of fact, the Devil did get hold of it; what part of the Bible would Mr. Beecher pick out as having been written by the Devil?
38808Supposing this to have been accomplished, what effect is it likely to have on the future of creeds?
38808Surely, there is no need for the Legislature of Pennsylvania to protect an infinite God, and why should the Bible be protected by law?
38808Swing?
38808That is a perfectly reasonable question, is it not, Colonel Ingersoll?
38808That is no explanation, and, after admitting that we do not know and that we can not explain, why should we proceed to explain?
38808The Republicans are making all the mistakes they can, and the only question now is, Can the Democrats make more?
38808The Senate is almost tied; do you think that any Republicans are likely to vote in the interest of the President''s policy at this session?
38808The great objection to your teaching urged by your enemies is that you constantly tear down, and never build up?
38808The great questions are: Will man ever be sufficiently civilized to be honest?
38808The idea expressed is: I was asleep, why did you disturb that repose which should be eternal?
38808The issue is fairly made-- shall American labor be protected, or must the American laborer take his chances with the labor market of the world?
38808The minister asks:"What right have you to hope?
38808The ministers are always talking about worldly people, and yet, were it not for worldly people, who would pay the salary?
38808The other part is how cheaply can we manufacture it?
38808The people shouted:"If all is illusion, what made you run away?"
38808The question arises, What is Christianity?
38808The question is, is it correct?
38808The question ought not to be,"Has this been sworn to?"
38808The real question is, what do they stand for?
38808Then I assume that you and Mr. Beecher have made up?
38808Then you do not deny that you received such an enormous fee?
38808Then you only consider the Greenback movement a temporary thing?
38808Then you would not undertake to say what becomes of man after death?
38808Then your present convictions began to form themselves while you were listening to the teachings of religion as taught by your father?
38808Then, if there is no objection to a third term, what about a fourth?
38808They intended to do what they did, and why should the South not be recognized?
38808Thousands of mistakes are made-- are these mistakes sacred?
38808Tilden?
38808To what extent does it harden the community for the Government to take life?
38808To what stratum does it belong?
38808Under a Federal Constitution guaranteeing civil and religious liberty, are the so- called"Blue Laws"constitutional?
38808Upon this question what does our party say?
38808Was Lincoln an orthodox Christian?
38808Was it extemporaneous?
38808Was it the result of his hatred of the Jews?
38808Was not Mr. Jarvis right in standing by the law?
38808Was the tragedy of the Garden of Eden a success?
38808Was there any ground to expect aid or any different action on Arthur''s part?
38808Well, Colonel, is the world growing better or worse?
38808Well, Colonel, what are you up to?
38808Well, what do you think of the religious revival system generally?
38808Well, what does inspiration mean?
38808Were the abolitionists all believers in the inspiration of the Bible?
38808Were the founders of the party-- the men who gave it heart and brain-- conspicuous for piety?
38808Were you an admirer of Lord Beaconsfield?
38808What God are we to have in the Constitution?
38808What about Bayard and Hancock as candidates?
38808What about Beecher''s sermons on"Evolution"?
38808What about Henry George''s books?
38808What about Indiana?
38808What about Zola''s trial and conviction?
38808What about the other ministers?
38808What advice would you give to a young man who was ambitious to become a successful public speaker or orator?
38808What are Mr. Blaine''s chances for the presidency?
38808What are such lives worth?
38808What are the chances for the Republican party in 1888?
38808What are the consolations of the Church of England?
38808What are the most glaring mistakes of Cleveland''s administration?
38808What are the reasons for and against the adoption of the policy they propose?
38808What are you going to do to be saved?
38808What are your conclusions as to the future of the Democratic party?
38808What are your feelings in reference to idealism on the stage?
38808What are your opinions on the woman''s suffrage question?
38808What are your present views on theology?
38808What are your views as to a third term?
38808What are your views, generally expressed, on the tariff?
38808What assurance has the American laborer that he will not be ultimately swamped by foreign immigration?
38808What attributes should an actor have to be really great?
38808What business is it of theirs who believes or disbelieves in the religion of the day?
38808What causes operated for the Republican success in Iowa?
38808What comfort can the orthodox clergyman give to the widow of an honest unbeliever?
38808What could be more idiotic, absurd, childish, than the duel between Boulanger and Floquet?
38808What could by any possibility be done?
38808What did God mean when he said, If a man strike his servant so he dies, he should not be punished, because his servant was his money?
38808What did you do on your European trip, Colonel?
38808What did you think of the American display?
38808What did you think of the late Joseph Medill?
38808What did you think of them, Colonel?
38808What do recent exhibitions in this city, of scenes from the life of Christ, indicate with regard to the tendencies of modern art?
38808What do they care about the coachman''s soul?
38808What do they care for the souls of cooks?
38808What do they say of natural modesty?
38808What do you base your views upon?
38808What do you believe about the immortality of the soul?
38808What do you believe to be his position in regard to the presidency?
38808What do you mean by this?
38808What do you regard as the greatest of all themes in poetry and song?
38808What do you regard as the result of your lectures?
38808What do you say to that?
38808What do you say?
38808What do you think Cleveland''s chances are in New York?
38808What do you think about prize- fighting anyway?
38808What do you think about the recent election, and what will be its effect upon political matters and the issues and candidates of 1880?
38808What do you think as to the presidential race?
38808What do you think defeated Mr. Blaine at the polls in 1884?
38808What do you think generally of the revival of the bloody shirt?
38808What do you think of Atkinson''s speech?
38808What do you think of Beecher?
38808What do you think of Bellamy?
38808What do you think of Bishop Doane''s advocacy of free rum as a solution of the liquor problem?
38808What do you think of Cleveland''s message?
38808What do you think of England''s Poet Laureate, Alfred Austin?
38808What do you think of General Washington?
38808What do you think of Governor Roosevelt''s decision in the case of Mrs. Place?
38808What do you think of Hall Caine''s recent efforts to bring about a closer union between the stage and pulpit?
38808What do you think of Henry George for mayor?
38808What do you think of Justice Harlan''s dissenting opinion in the Civil Rights case?
38808What do you think of Madame Blavatsky and her school of Theosophists?
38808What do you think of McKinley''s inaugural?
38808What do you think of Mr. Cleveland''s Cabinet?
38808What do you think of Mr. Conkling''s course?
38808What do you think of Mr. Mills''Fourth of July speech on his bill?
38808What do you think of Niagara Falls?
38808What do you think of Pope?
38808What do you think of Senator Sherman''s book-- especially the part about Garfield?
38808What do you think of Wendell Phillips as an orator?
38808What do you think of civil service reform?
38808What do you think of him as an author?
38808What do you think of international marriages, as between titled foreigners and American heiresses?
38808What do you think of newspaper interviewing?
38808What do you think of political parties, Colonel?
38808What do you think of prohibition, and what do you think of its success in this State?
38808What do you think of the Buckner Bill for the colonization of the negroes in Mexico?
38808What do you think of the Chilian insult to the United States flag?
38808What do you think of the Congress of Religions, to be held in Chicago during the World''s Fair?
38808What do you think of the Democratic nominations?
38808What do you think of the Democratic platform?
38808What do you think of the French drama as compared with the English, morally and artistically considered?
38808What do you think of the Mormon question?
38808What do you think of the Pre- Millennial Conference that was held in New York City recently?
38808What do you think of the Theosophists?
38808What do you think of the action of Congress on Fitz John Porter?
38808What do you think of the action of the Presbyterian General Assembly at Detroit, and what effect do you think it will have on religious growth?
38808What do you think of the administration of President Cleveland?
38808What do you think of the efficacy or the propriety of punishing criminals by solitary confinement?
38808What do you think of the income tax as a step toward the accomplishment of what you desire?
38808What do you think of the influence of the press on religion?
38808What do you think of the influence of women in politics?
38808What do you think of the investigation of the Department of Justice now going on?
38808What do you think of the law of 1860?
38808What do you think of the new legislation in the State changing the death penalty to death by electricity?
38808What do you think of the new woman?
38808What do you think of the policy of nominating Blaine in 1888, as has been proposed?
38808What do you think of the political outlook?
38808What do you think of the prohibitory movement on general principles?
38808What do you think of the prospects of Liberalism in this country?
38808What do you think of the recent opinion of the Supreme Court touching the rights of the colored man?
38808What do you think of the result in Ohio?
38808What do you think of the revision of the Westminster creed?
38808What do you think of the sacredness of the Sabbath?
38808What do you think of the service pension movement?
38808What do you think of the signs of the times so far as the campaign has progressed?
38808What do you think of the tendency of newspapers is at present?
38808What do you think of the treatment of the actor by society in his social relations?
38808What do you think of the trial of the Chicago Anarchists and their chances for a new trial?
38808What do you think of the use he has made of the Dred Scott decision?
38808What do you think of this?
38808What do you think of"Spiritualism,"as it is popularly termed?
38808What do you think was the main cause of the Republican sweep?
38808What do you think will be the particular issue of the coming campaign?
38808What do you think, Colonel, of the Cuban question?
38808What does our party say?
38808What does the Republican party propose?
38808What does the word"extended"mean?
38808What does this mean?
38808What effect has the protective tariff on the condition of labor in this country?
38808What effect has the woman''s suffrage movement had on the breadwinners of the country?
38808What effect has unlimited immigration on the wages of women?
38808What effect, if any, would the complete franchise to our citizens have upon real estate and business in Washington?
38808What essentially American idea does he stand for?
38808What figure will Butler cut in the campaign?
38808What gave rise to the report that you had been converted--did you go to church somewhere?
38808What good can it do God to keep people married who hate each other?
38808What good can it do the community to keep such people together?
38808What good can it, by any possibility, do?
38808What had the Knights of Labor to do with a question of religion?
38808What has been the attitude of President Arthur?
38808What has it to do with the Democratic platform?
38808What has the administration done-- what has it accomplished in the field of diplomacy?
38808What has the press generally said with regard to the action of Judge Comegys?
38808What have you to say about his having died with sealed lips?
38808What have you to say about tariff reform?
38808What have you to say about the attack of Dr. Buckley on you, and your lecture?
38808What have you to say about the claim that Mr. Cleveland does not propose free trade?
38808What have you to say concerning the operations of the Society for Psychical Research?
38808What have you to say in regard to the decision of Judge Billings in New Orleans, that strikes which interfere with interstate commerce, are illegal?
38808What have you to say in reply to the letter in to- day''s_ Times_ signed R. H. S.?
38808What have you to say on the Mormon question?
38808What have you to say to that?
38808What have you to say to that?
38808What have you to say to the assertion of Dr. Deems that there were never so many Christians as now?
38808What have you to say with reference to the respective attitudes of the President and Senate?
38808What have you to say?
38808What is Mr. Conkling''s place in the political history of the United States?
38808What is a contract?
38808What is causing the development of this country?
38808What is education worth?
38808What is going to take the place of the pulpit?
38808What is his forte?
38808What is most needed in our public men?
38808What is the best philosophy of summer recreation?
38808What is the explanation of the stories of mental impressions received at long distances?
38808What is the history of the speech delivered here in 1876?
38808What is the reason for so much intemperance?
38808What is the use of wasting money for food?
38808What is true temperance, Colonel Ingersoll?
38808What is worse than death?
38808What is your conception of true intellectual hospitality?
38808What is your estimate of Susan B. Anthony?
38808What is your explanation of the Republican disaster last Tuesday?
38808What is your explanation of the miracles referred to in the Old and New Testaments?
38808What is your idea as to the difference between honest belief, as held by honest religious thinkers, and heterodoxy?
38808What is your idea in regard to it?
38808What is your idea of Christian Science?
38808What is your idea with regard to divorce?
38808What is your opinion as to the action of the President on the Venezuelan matter?
38808What is your opinion as to the effect of praying for the recovery of the President, and have you any confidence that prayers are answered?
38808What is your opinion concerning women as conductors of these revivals?
38808What is your opinion of American writers?
38808What is your opinion of Brewster''s administration?
38808What is your opinion of Colonel Ingersoll?
38808What is your opinion of Count Leo Tolstoy?
38808What is your opinion of General Grant as he stands before the people to- day?
38808What is your opinion of Ignatius Donnelly as a literary man irrespective of his Baconian theory?
38808What is your opinion of Matthew Arnold?
38808What is your opinion of Mr. Beecher?
38808What is your opinion of Mr. Gladstone as a controversialist?
38808What is your opinion of Spiritualism and Spiritualists?
38808What is your opinion of charity organizations?
38808What is your opinion of foreign missions?
38808What is your opinion of making ex- Presidents Senators for life?
38808What is your opinion of the Christian religion and the Christian Church?
38808What is your opinion of the Gerry Whipping Post bill?
38808What is your opinion of the effect of the multiplicity of women''s clubs as regards the intellectual, moral and domestic status of their members?
38808What is your opinion of the incoming administration, and how will it affect the country?
38808What is your opinion of the peculiar institution of American journalism known as interviewing?
38808What is your opinion of the position taken by the United States in the Venezuelan dispute?
38808What is your opinion of the relative merits of the pulpit and the stage, preachers and actors?
38808What is your opinion of the religious tendency of the people of this country?
38808What is your opinion of the result of the election?
38808What is your opinion of the work undertaken by the_ World_ in behalf of the city slave girl?
38808What is your opinion of"Christian charity"and the"fatherhood of God"as an economic polity for abolishing poverty and misery?
38808What is your opinion regarding the Republican nomination for President?
38808What is your opinion?
38808What is your opinion?
38808What is your remedy, Colonel, for the labor troubles of the day?
38808What is your reply to such assertions?
38808What kind of a President will Garfield make?
38808What kind of a person will do the whipping?
38808What language did he speak?"
38808What led you to begin lecturing on your present subject, and what was your first lecture?
38808What matters it that we differ?
38808What moral quality is there in theological pretence?
38808What must be the life of a man who can earn only one dollar or two dollars a day?
38808What must other nations think when they read the two letters and mentally exclaim,"Look upon this and then upon that?"
38808What must the real character of the scientific wretch be who would try an experiment like this?
38808What must they eat?
38808What must they wear?
38808What must"the great and good"Dole think of our great and good President?
38808What on earth has geology to do with the throne of God?
38808What ought to be done, or what is to be the end?
38808What part of the contract remains in force?
38808What part should you take if not that of the weak?
38808What phases will the Southern question assume in the next four years?
38808What place does the theatre hold among the arts?
38808What policy do they advocate?
38808What possible good did it do the world for Christ to go without food for forty days?
38808What punishment is there for physical crime?
38808What punishment, then, is inflicted upon man for his crimes and wrongs committed in this life?
38808What remains to be done now, and who is going to do it?
38808What section of the United States, East, West, North, or South, is the most advanced in liberal religious ideas?
38808What shall we say of a Bible that we dare not read to a Mormon as an argument against legalized lust, or as an argument against illegal lust?
38808What shall we say of the moral force of Christianity, when it utterly fails in the presence of Mormonism?
38808What should be done with the surplus revenue?
38808What should be the attitude of the church toward the stage?
38808What steps could be taken in any State of this Union?
38808What suggestion would you make for the improvement of the newspapers of this country?
38808What was settled?
38808What was the real difficulty between you and Moses, Colonel, a man who has been dead for thousands of years?
38808What was the real state of mind of the author of"Footfalls on the Boundaries of Another World"?
38808What will be the effect of the enthusiastic receptions that are being given to General Grant?
38808What will be the effect on labor of a departure in American policy in the direction of free trade?
38808What will be the fate of the Mills Bill in the Senate?
38808What will be the main issues in the next presidential campaign?
38808What will be the political effect of the Greenback movement?
38808What would be the effect on farms in that neighborhood?
38808What would be the effect on railroads, on freights, on business-- what upon the towns through which they passed?
38808What would be your advice to an intelligent young man just starting out in life?
38808What would have been his fate a few years ago?
38808What would have happened to him in Spain, in Portugal, in Italy-- in any other country that was Catholic-- only a few years ago?
38808What would the city that had been built up by the factories be worth?
38808What would the clergy of Washington think should the miracle of Cana be repeated in their day?
38808What would they have done had the vaults been empty?
38808What would you define public opinion to be?
38808What would you think of me if I should retort, using your language, changing only the sex of the last word?
38808What, in your estimation, is the value of the drama as a factor in our social life at the present time?
38808What, in your judgment, is necessary to be done to insure Republican success this fall?
38808What, in your judgment, is the source of the greatest trouble among men?
38808What, in your judgment, is to be the outcome of the present agitation in religious circles?
38808What, in your opinion, are the best possible means to spread this gospel or religion of Secularism?
38808What, in your opinion, is the condition of labor in this country as compared with that abroad?
38808What, in your opinion, is the condition of the Democratic party at present?
38808What, in your opinion, is the significance of the vote on the Mills Bill recently passed in the House?
38808What, in your opinion, were the causes for Blaine''s defeat?
38808What, in your opinion, were the causes which led to the Democratic defeat?
38808What, in your opinion, will be Browning''s position in the literature of the future?
38808What, on the whole, is your judgment of the book?
38808What, then, are their relations?
38808When I watch them on the avenue I, too, fall to quoting Scripture, and say,"Can these dry bones live?"
38808When Saul visited the Witch of Endor, and she, by some magic spell, called up Samuel, the prophet said:"Why hast thou disquieted me, to call me up?"
38808When we come to civil service, about how many Federal officials were at the St. Louis convention?
38808Where are the four hundred millions found?
38808Where are the most Liberals, and in what section of the country is the best work for Liberalism being done?
38808Where do we get the right to say that the negroes must emigrate?
38808Where do you meet with the bitterest opposition?
38808Where do you think it is necessary the Republican candidate should come from to insure success?
38808Where does Mr. Buckner propose to colonize the white people, and what right has he to propose the colonization of six millions of people?
38808Where is an actress on the English stage the superior of Julia Marlowe in genius, in originality, in naturalness?
38808Where is the great white throne?
38808Where rests the responsibility for the Armenian atrocities?
38808Which did more for his country, George Washington or Abraham Lincoln?
38808Which do you regard as the better, Catholicism or Protestantism?
38808Which in your opinion is the greatest English novel?
38808Which is the more dangerous to American institutions--the National Reform Association( God- in- the- Constitution party) or the Roman Catholic Church?
38808Which would you say are the better orators, speaking generally, the American people or the English people?
38808Who brought about"a critical period of our financial affairs"?
38808Who created the vast debt that American labor must pay?
38808Who do you think ought to be nominated at Chicago?
38808Who do you think will be nominated at Chicago?
38808Who made Herod?
38808Who made this taxation of thousands of millions necessary?
38808Who succeeded there?
38808Who wants it inflicted?
38808Who will be the Republican nominee for President?
38808Who, in your judgment, would be the strongest man the Republicans could put up?
38808Who, in your opinion, is the greatest leader of the"opposition"yclept the Christian religion?
38808Who, in your opinion, is the greatest novelist who has written in the English language?
38808Who, then, is really responsible for the acts of Herod?
38808Whose God?
38808Why are you so utterly opposed to vivisection?
38808Why did he want to pick out my bad things?
38808Why did not Brewster speak?
38808Why did you not take part in the campaign?
38808Why do people read a book like"Robert Elsmere,"and why do they take any interest in it?
38808Why do the theological seminaries find it difficult to get students?
38808Why do you make such a distinction between the rights of man and the rights of women?
38808Why do you not meet these men, and why do you not answer these attacks?
38808Why do you not respond to the occasional clergyman who replies to your lectures?
38808Why give us corn, and Egypt cholera?
38808Why inflict pain?
38808Why is it the Presbyterians are so opposed to music in the world, and yet expect to have so much in heaven?
38808Why not have the courage to say that if there be a God, all I know about him I know by knowing myself and my friends-- by knowing others?
38808Why not name the one, and have done with it?
38808Why not say that the universe has existed from eternity, as well as to say that a Creator has existed from eternity?
38808Why not take the middle ground?
38808Why not work with the great and enlightened majority?
38808Why rush to the extreme for the purpose not only of making yourself useless but hurtful?
38808Why should Christians refuse to persecute in this world, when their God is going to in the next?
38808Why should God treat us any better than he does the rest of his children?
38808Why should I say that he has the assistance of spirits?
38808Why should Sunday be observed otherwise than as a day of recreation?
38808Why should a barbarian boy cast reproach upon his parents?
38808Why should a man say that he loves God better than he does his wife or his children or his brother or his sister or his warm, true friend?
38808Why should a member of Parliament or of Congress swear to maintain the Constitution?
38808Why should an infinite God allow some of his children to enslave others?
38808Why should any one, when convinced that Christianity is a superstition, have or feel a sense of loss?
38808Why should ex- Presidents be taken care of?
38808Why should he allow a child of his to burn another child of his, under the impression that such a sacrifice was pleasing to him?
38808Why should he annihilate his mistakes?
38808Why should he make mistakes that need annihilation?
38808Why should he send pestilence and famine to China, and health and plenty to us?
38808Why should such a State be called free?
38808Why should the Democratic party lay claim to any anti- trust glory?
38808Why should the Republican party be so particular about religious belief?
38808Why should the reputations of the dead, and the feelings of those who live, be placed at the mercy of the ministers?
38808Why should they be compelled to license that which they are not permitted to enjoy?
38808Why should they care for what the animals suffer?
38808Why should we expect an infinite Being to do better in another world than he has done and is doing in this?
38808Why should we follow such an example?
38808Why should we not protect, by the same means, the actor?
38808Why should we postpone our joy to another world?
38808Why should we worship in God what we detest in man?
38808Why should you love the memory of one whom God hates?"
38808Why so?
38808Why was the word sheol introduced in place of hell, and how do you like the substitute?
38808Why was this?
38808Why were the bonds sold?
38808Why were the greenbacks issued?
38808Why, I ask, should God give life to men whom he knows are unworthy of life?
38808Why, then, resort to the duel?
38808Will Dr. Banks in his fifty- two sermons of next year show that his God is not responsible for the crimes of Herod?
38808Will Liberalism ever organize in America?
38808Will Mr. Cleveland, in your opinion, carry out the civil service reform he professes to favor?
38808Will a time ever come when political campaigns will be conducted independently of religious prejudice?
38808Will he listen to or grant any demands made of him by the alleged Independent Republicans of New York, either in his appointments or policies?
38808Will it necessitate the nomination of an Ohio Republican next year?
38808Will the Democratic party have a strong issue in its anti- trust cry?
38808Will the Supreme Court take cognizance of this case and prevent the execution of the judgment?
38808Will the church and the stage ever work together for the betterment of the world, and what is the province of each?
38808Will the instructions given to delegates be final?
38808Will the negro continue to be the balance of power, and if so, will it inure to his benefit?
38808Will the religion of humanity be the religion of the future?
38808Will the time ever come when it can truthfully be said that right is might?
38808Will there be other trials?
38808Will these two considerations cut any figure in the presidential campaign of 1884?
38808Will this add to their happiness?
38808Will this reverse seriously affect Republican chances next year?
38808Will you give your reasons?
38808Will you lecture the coming winter?
38808Will you state your reasons for your belief?
38808Will you take any notice of Mr. Magrath''s challenge?
38808With a solid South do you not think the Democratic nominee will stand a good chance?
38808With all your experiences, the trials, the responsibilities, the disappointments, the heartburnings, Colonel, is life worth living?
38808With the introduction of the Democracy into power, what radical changes will take place in the Government, and what will be the result?
38808Wo n''t you give us, then, Colonel, your analysis of this act, and the motives leading to it?
38808Would he want a divorce?
38808Would it not be better to teach that he who does wrong must suffer the consequences, whether God forgives him or not?
38808Would people be any more moral solely because of a disbelief in orthodox teaching and in the Bible as an inspired book, in your opinion?
38808Would the Catholicism of General Sherman''s family affect his chances for the presidency?
38808Would the Democracy of New York unite on Seymour?
38808Would you again refuse to take the stump for Mr. Blaine if he should be renominated, and if so, why?
38808Would you consent to live in any but a Christian community?
38808Would you have Government clerks and officials appointed to office here given the franchise in the District?
38808Would you have us discard it altogether?
38808Would you mind telling me how it was you came to be a public speaker, a lecturer, an orator?
38808Yet the sacred volume, no matter who wrote it, is a mine of wealth to the student and the philosopher, is it not?
38808You consider Greenbackers inflationists, do you not?
38808You do not deny that a religious belief is a comfort?
38808You do not seem to think that Arthur has a chance?
38808You have studied the Bible attentively, have you not?
38808You knew John Russell Young, Colonel?
38808You seem to agree with all that Justice Harlan has said, and to have the greatest admiration for his opinion?
38808You think, then, that there is no great principle involved?
38808Your objective point is to destroy the doctrine of hell, is it?
38808Your views of the country''s future and prospects must naturally be rose colored?
38808and if so what do you think of them?
38808and should this, if given, include the women clerks?
38808as expressed in_ The Herald_ of last week?
38808but,"Is this true?"
38808of the people to even call themselves Presbyterians, about how long will it take, at this rate, to convert mankind?
38806( vii) But who denies that the Apostles claimed a Divine mission? 38806 Do unto others as ye would that they should do unto you"?
38806How can divorce reform be best secured?
38806It is as high as Heaven; what canst thou do? 38806 Love God with all thy heart"?
38806Love thy neighbor as thyself?
38806Return good for evil?
38806_*** Now, what reason is there to suppose that parties divorced and remated will be happier in the new connection than in the old? 38806 32):And what shall I say more?
3880679): Or tu chi sei, che vuoi sedere a scranna Per giudicar da lungi mille miglia Colla veduta corta d''una spanna?
38806A man says that he has received a revelation from God, and he wishes to convince another man that he has received a revelation-- how does he proceed?
38806According to your reasoning, would there not have been left greater room for the career of human thought, had no revelation been made?
38806Admit that in the person supposed, the machinery of life goes on-- what is he more than an inanimate machine?
38806After a time the money failed in the land of Egypt, and the Egyptians came unto Joseph and said,"Give us bread; why should we die in thy presence?
38806After all, was not Bacchus as good as Jehovah?
38806After his resurrection, why did not some one of his disciples ask him where he had been?
38806After making this admission, of what use is the old idea of the forgiveness of sins?
38806After repudiating religion with scorn, you ask,"Is there not room for a better, for a higher philosophy?"
38806Again I ask, How can I help believing what I see every day of my life?
38806Again I ask, Is it desirable to have families raised under such circumstances?
38806Again I ask, why were the Jewish people as wicked, cruel, and ignorant with a revelation from God, as other nations were without?
38806Again, I ask, why should there be more than one inspired gospel?
38806Am I bound by the opinions of Bacon in matters of religion, and not in matters of science?
38806And I ask again, why should there have been more than one inspired gospel?
38806And do you know that this hideous offer caused millions to desert their wives and children?
38806And how did he ascertain that any of the apostles and prophets were entrusted with supernatural power?
38806And how, my dear Cardinal, do you account for the fact that God upheld concubinage?
38806And if his existence is immortal, are not the consequences immortal also?
38806And if the claim was made, how is it known that it was not denied?
38806And if the watch was made to keep time, was not the eye made to see and the ear to hear?
38806And if you disagree with Milton on this point, do you thereby pretend to say that you could have written a better poem than Paradise Lost?
38806And in order to find out what is this will of God, are we to ask the church, or are we to read what are called"the sacred writings"for ourselves?
38806And is it historically absurd to say that our ancestors of a few hundred years ago were as credulous as the disciples of Buddha?
38806And is this the end of your argument,"That you are not able to explain the inequalities of adjustment between human beings"?
38806And is this the foundation of morality?
38806And suppose that he also knew that only by betraying Christ could he save either himself or others; what ought Judas to have done?
38806And suppose the mother should then sobbingly ask:"What has become of my son?
38806And what is this but endless retribution?
38806And what right has he to have anything to say on the subject, unless he has agreed to do something by reason of this vow?
38806And what shall we say of the desire to condemn?
38806And when has it ever appeared except in a handful of vestal virgins, or in Oriental recluses, with what reality history shows?
38806And why did he drown a world to whom he had not even given that light?
38806And why do you hold the will responsible, when you insist that it is swayed by the passions and affections?
38806And why should such persons be punished?
38806And why should the whole human race become tainted by the offence of those who had no moral sense?
38806And why should we call anything a"divine scheme"that has been a failure from the"fall of man"until the present moment?
38806And will those thoughts be wholly free from sadness?
38806And you say:"How can you hurt my feelings?"
38806Are Catholic nations better than Protestant?
38806Are Catholics better than Protestants?
38806Are miracles impossible?
38806Are not such methods of proceeding more suited to placards at an election, than to disquisitions on these most solemn subjects?
38806Are only those opinions honest that are formed without any interference of passion, affection, habit or fancy?
38806Are the angels in their highest estate nothing but happy paupers?
38806Are the inspiration of the Bible, the divinity of Christ, the atonement, and the Trinity, principles?
38806Are the statements of the inspired witnesses alike on this important point?
38806Are there any waters of oblivion that can cleanse his miserable soul?
38806Are there no retributions in history?
38806Are these the words of infinite mercy?
38806Are they all to be saved?
38806Are they nearer honest, nearer just, more charitable?
38806Are they to remain forever without character?
38806Are we in need of children born of such parents?
38806Are we justified in saying that the Catholic Church is of divine origin because the Pagans failed to destroy it by persecution?
38806Are we not responsible to"receive the truth in the love of it?"
38806Are we only required to give our assent to certain principles in order to be saved?
38806Are we to be bound forever by the ancient barbarians?
38806Are we to be saved because we are good, or because another was virtuous?
38806Are we under the same obligation to share his vices as his views?
38806Are you driven to the necessity of proving the existence of one tyrant by the words of another?
38806Are you looking down upon him from the altitude of your own inferiority?
38806Are you satisfied that Napoleon expressed his real opinion when he justified himself for the assassination of the Duc d''Enghien?
38806Are you urging an objection to the dogma of immortality, when you say that a race of unparalled intellectual capacity had no confidence in it?
38806Are you willing to admit that the Ten Commandments are not for all time?
38806Are you willing to rely upon an argument that justifies the treachery of that wretch?
38806Are you willing to say that all success is divine?
38806As a matter of fact, who cares what the Old Testament says upon this subject?
38806As to Lord Bacon, let me ask, are you willing to accept his ideas?
38806Behind every wish and thought, every dream and fancy, every fear and hope, are there not countless causes?
38806Besides, what right have you to say that I"look upon annihilation as the common lot of all"?
38806But are Christians guilty of this baseness because they accept the blessings of an institution which their great benefactor died to establish?
38806But coming at the close of the controversy, have they not some of the ineffectual features of a death- bed repentance?
38806But do you think to escape mystery by denying the Divine existence?
38806But even if we know that there is a God, what can we know of His character?
38806But how and in what way, does a Christian marriage involve a vow before God?
38806But how are you going to get rid of these?
38806But how do we know that the disciples of Christ wrote a word of the gospels?
38806But how does the matter stand historically?
38806But how is it possible for a man who believes in slavery to have the slightest conception of benevolence, justice or charity?
38806But if we are immortal-- if there be another world-- why was it not clearly set forth in the Old Testament?
38806But if you tell him:"I saw a dead man raised to- day,"he will ask,"From what madhouse have you escaped?"
38806But is there not another side to this?
38806But of praise on what account?
38806But suppose the father to be infinite-- why should the child sacrifice anything for him?
38806But what has all this to do with the fact that he who watches the scales in which evidence is weighed knows the actual result?
38806But what has all this to do with the point at issue?
38806But what is regeneration but a change of character shown in a change of life?
38806But what is to become of the boys and girls who"behave themselves,"who attend to their studies, and comply with the rules?
38806But what of the victims?
38806But what support does your hollow creed supply?
38806But where is the legislation?
38806But where shall we find another Pascal?
38806But who were the vicars of Christ?
38806But why did God allow simultaneous polygamy in Palestine?
38806But why should I, an unlearned and unauthorized layman, be placed in such a predicament?
38806But why should we appeal to names?
38806But why such a limitation?
38806But why?
38806But would that be a more orderly community, more refined or more truly happy?
38806But, after all, is the success of the Catholic Church a marvel?
38806But, after all, would even passing good come from this greater freedom?
38806By what means did that Great Power hold in bondage the then known world?
38806Can God, through the Bible, make precisely the same revelation to two persons?
38806Can Jehovah be excused because of his youth?
38806Can a being endowed with such transcendent gifts doubt the goodness of his Creator?
38806Can a good man mock at the children of deformity?
38806Can a good man, believing a good doctrine, persecute for opinion''s sake?
38806Can a law be satisfied by the execution of the wrong person?
38806Can a man be indifferent between two such sides of the problem?
38806Can a moral being be absolutely indifferent between two such issues?
38806Can a murderer find justification in the agonies of his victim?
38806Can he rid himself of it by fleeing beyond"that bourne from whence no traveler returns"?
38806Can her conduct affect in any way the happiness of an infinite being?
38806Can it be indifferent and all the same to us whether God has made Himself and His will known to us or not?
38806Can it be possible that any punishment can endure forever?
38806Can it be pretended that the witnesses could not have been mistaken about the relation the Holy Ghost is alleged to have sustained to Jesus Christ?
38806Can it be said that success is supernatural?
38806Can it be said that this contributes to the moral purity of the human race?
38806Can it truthfully be said that the Catholic Church is now universal?
38806Can she be bribed with money, or a home, or position, or by public opinion, and still remain a virtuous woman?
38806Can she never sit by her own hearth, with the arms of her children about her neck, and with a husband who loves and protects her?
38806Can the imagination conceive a worse fate than your religion predicts for a majority of the race?
38806Can the scales in which reason weighs evidence be turned by the will?
38806Can the virtue of others be preserved only by this destruction of happiness, by this perpetual imprisonment?
38806Can there be a law that demands that the guilty be rewarded?
38806Can there be a sadder fact than this: Innocence is not a certain shield?
38806Can this add to the joy of Paradise, or tend to keep one harp in tune?
38806Can this be avoided by saying that a false god is better than none?
38806Can this be called reasoning?
38806Can this increase the happiness of the one or of the three?
38806Can we believe that an infinitely wise and good Being would choose immoral, dishonest, ignorant, malicious, heartless, fiendish, and inhuman vicars?
38806Can we believe, upon the testimony of those about whose character we know nothing, that Lazarus was raised from the dead?
38806Can we control our thought?
38806Can we in this way account for the doubts entertained by the intellectual leaders of mankind?
38806Can we stop thinking?
38806Can we tell what we are going to think tomorrow?
38806Can we, for this reason, say that it is a supernatural religion?
38806Can you afford to occupy this position?
38806Can you answer these questions?
38806Can you by any possibility answer this question?
38806Can you conceive of an"Almighty Friend"deforming his children because he loves them?
38806Can you conceive of his changing his orders by reason of the message?
38806Can you deny that Christ addressed the chosen people when he said:"Jerusalem, which killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee"?
38806Can you imagine a superstition so gross that it can not be defended by that argument?
38806Can you read the names mentioned in the decrees of the Infinite?
38806Can you say that he has given his opinion?
38806Can you say that this is only destruction?
38806Can you think of any excuse for an earthly father, who, having wealth, learning and leisure, leaves his own children in ignorance and darkness?
38806Cosmas or Humboldt, St. Irenà ¦ us or Darwin?
38806Could a God with any sense of humor give such directions, or watch without huge laughter the performance of such a ceremony?
38806Could a noble man demand, or joyfully receive, the humiliation of his fellows?
38806Could a savage account for the telegraph, or the telephone, by natural causes?
38806Could anything be more suspicious if credible, or less credible even if He were there to say so?
38806Could not Caiaphas, the high priest, have said substantially this to Christ?
38806Could not a follower of Buddha make the same illogical remark to a missionary from Andover with the glad tidings?
38806Could the condition of this victim be rendered worse by the death of God?
38806Could there be progress in heaven without intellectual liberty?
38806Did English judges and juries approach with an unbiassed mind the trials for the Popish plot?
38806Did God hear the prayers of the slaves?
38806Did God invent tumors for the brain?
38806Did God treat the Canaanites better than Pharaoh did the Jews?
38806Did Greece produce a man who could by any possibility have been the author of"Troilus and Cressida"?
38806Did Jehovah believe in the innocence of thought and the liberty of expression?
38806Did Jehovah teach and practice generosity?
38806Did Jehovah uphold this savage view?
38806Did Napoleon judge according to the evidence when he acquitted himself in the matter of the Due d''Enghien?
38806Did ever savagery, with strange and uncouth marks, with awkward forms of beast and bird, pollute the dripping walls of caves with such commands?
38806Did he allow the flames to devour the flesh of those whose hearts were his?
38806Did he allow the innocent to languish in dungeons because he was their friend?
38806Did he allow the noble to perish upon the scaffold, the great and the self- denying to be burned at the stake, because he had the power to save?
38806Did he at that time"denounce Christ for not agreeing with him"?
38806Did he at the time know what kind of man he was joining to me?
38806Did he attain character through struggle and suffering?
38806Did he come to give a rule of action?
38806Did he come to teach us of another world?
38806Did he consider that a"metaphysical question"?
38806Did he cultivate those seeds?
38806Did he do the one- hundredth part of the good for mankind that was done by Voltaire-- was he as great a metaphysician as Spinoza?
38806Did he do these things because he loved mankind, or did he do these miracles simply to establish the fact that he was the very Christ?
38806Did he establish the institution of slavery?
38806Did he hear the prayers of imprisoned philosophers and patriots?
38806Did he hear the prayers of martyrs, or did he allow fiends, calling themselves his followers, to pile the fagots round the forms of glorious men?
38806Did he knowingly plant in the blood or brain the seeds of insanity?
38806Did he pander to the barbarian view of the worthlessness of life?
38806Did he say:"Whoso giveth a cup of cold water to the excommunicated shall wear forever a garment of fire"?
38806Did he then know that he was a wretch, an ingrate, a kind of wild beast?
38806Did he then know that this husband would desert me-- leave me with two babes in my arms, without raiment and without food?
38806Did he"violate the laws of social morality and decency"?
38806Did not Elijah know that the name of Baal"was encircled in the heart of every believer with the profoundest reverence and love"?
38806Did not God know at the time the vow was made that it ought not to have been made?
38806Did not Jehovah teach that the act that we describe as murder was a duty?
38806Did that infallible Council, under the guidance of the Holy Ghost, destroy idolatry?
38806Did the Catholics have it, and was it taken by Luther?
38806Did the Jews believe that Christ was clothed with miraculous power?
38806Did the pupils believe the teachers?
38806Did the writers of the four gospels have"''the sensible and true avouch of their own eyes''and ears"in that behalf?
38806Did they believe without evidence?
38806Did they have any evidence?
38806Did they not follow one who offered a reward to those who would desert fathers and mothers?
38806Did they not heap contempt upon the religion of their fathers and mothers?
38806Did they not join with him who denounced their people as a"generation of vipers"?
38806Did they order their soldiers to kill men, women, and children, and to save alive nothing that had breath?
38806Did this detestable doctrine"create the purity and peace of domestic life"?
38806Did this tend to the elevation of woman?
38806Did this"Almighty Friend"allow millions of his children to be enslaved to the end that the"splendor of virtue might have a dark background"?
38806Did you intend to say Dante, or Bishop Butler?
38806Did your God create these victims, knowing that they would be victims?
38806Did"Mammon"or Moloch do anything more infamous than to establish slavery?
38806Do I lack"reverential calm"?
38806Do I rebel because my"constitution is warped, impaired and dislocated"?
38806Do astronomers, geologists and scientists put the hand to the ear fearing that an accent may be lost?
38806Do not Christians weep above their dead?
38806Do not these facts prove that your God is cruel to all alike?
38806Do not these wants and these objects have something to do with the will, and does not the intellect have something to do with the means?
38806Do the Catholic nations move in the van of progress?
38806Do the believers in indissoluble marriage treat their wives better than others?
38806Do they believe that Christ from heaven''s throne mocked when colored mothers, reft of babes, knelt by empty cradles and besought his aid?
38806Do those who have raised Italy from the dead, and placed her again among the great nations, pay attention?
38806Do we forget that there are two species of polygamy-- simultaneous and successive?
38806Do we not know that for hundreds of years the Mohammedans erected more hospitals and asylums than the Christians?
38806Do we not know that when the Roman empire fell, darkness settled on the world?
38806Do we speak of wise credulity-- of intelligent credulity?
38806Do you agree with Bacon?
38806Do you attack only those with whom you wish to live in peace, and do you ask questions, coupled with a request that they remain unanswered?
38806Do you believe in the principle of divorce under any circumstances?
38806Do you believe in the principle of divorce under any circumstances?
38806Do you believe that any founder of any religion could have written"Lear"or"Hamlet"?
38806Do you believe that he saw and knew all these things, and that he, the"Almighty Friend,"looked coldly down and stretched no hand to save?
38806Do you believe that the English judges in the matter of the Popish Plot gave judgment in accordance with their opinions?
38806Do you believe that the"Almighty Friend"then governed the world?
38806Do you chain a wild beast because he is morally responsible?
38806Do you consider that God was one of the contracting parties in my marriage?
38806Do you consider that the proper way to attack the God of another?
38806Do you consider that the"survival of the fittest"?
38806Do you find anything in what I have written tending to show that I believe in annihilation?
38806Do you find in this flame the bud of hope, or the flower of promise?
38806Do you find it in any published words of mine?
38806Do you find this doctrine of hope in the Presbyterian creed?
38806Do you insist that nothing except the right can live for two thousand years?
38806Do you kill the poisonous serpent because he knew better than to bite?
38806Do you know that in this sentence you demonstrate the existence of a dawn in your mind?
38806Do you know that nearly every intelligent minister is now ashamed to preach about it, or to read about it, or to talk about it?
38806Do you know that only a few years ago"the glad tidings of great joy"consisted mostly in a description of hell?
38806Do you know that the standard has changed?
38806Do you not believe that any honest man of average intelligence, having absolute control of the rain, could do vastly better than is being done?
38806Do you not know that the worst thing that can be said of Nero, Caligula, and Commodus is that they resembled the Jehovah of the Jews?
38806Do you not see that if men have done good and bad, the future can have neither a perfect heaven nor a perfect hell?
38806Do you not see that self- preservation lies at the foundation of worship?
38806Do you not see that this argument devours itself?
38806Do you not see that this sentence is a cord with which I easily tie your hands?
38806Do you not see that you have bidden farewell to the Presbyterian Church?
38806Do you not see that you have furnished the cord for me to tie your hands behind you?
38806Do you not see that your argument proves too much, and that it is equally applicable to all the religions of the world?
38806Do you not see that your doctrine gives intellectual freedom only to foundlings?
38806Do you not see that your excuses are simply the suggestions of other crimes?
38806Do you not see that your future state is infinitely worse than this?
38806Do you not see that your position can not be defended, and that you have provided no way for retreat?
38806Do you not see that, according to your philosophy, only the damned can grow great-- only the lost can become sublime?
38806Do you not think that the criminal deserves the pity of the virtuous?
38806Do you prove it by the words he put in the mouths of his characters?
38806Do you prove the truth of these fine words, this honey of Trebizond, by the victims of religious persecution?
38806Do you really believe that this world is governed by an infinitely wise and good God?
38806Do you really desire that I should add weight to my words?
38806Do you really think that God joined us together?
38806Do you really think that he"Bade the slave- ship speed from coast to coast, Fanned by the wings of the Holy Ghost"?
38806Do you really think that it is the same Christianity that has been living all these years?
38806Do you really wish me to succeed?
38806Do you regard ignorance as the foundation of virtue?
38806Do you say this is"a great mystery,"meaning that it is something that we do not know anything about?
38806Do you see any design in the volcano that sends its rivers of lava over the fields and the homes of men?
38806Do you see any design in this?
38806Do you see no difference between the religion of Calvin and Jonathan Edwards and the Christianity of to- day?
38806Do you see the same design in cancers that you do in wheat and corn?
38806Do you think that men enough could join this church to prove the truth of its creed?
38806Do you think the Bible calculated to restrain him?
38806Do you think this would enable him to withstand temptation?
38806Does France listen?
38806Does God, like an ignorant doctor, bury his mistakes?
38806Does Great Britain care for this voice-- this moan, this groan-- of the Middle Ages?
38806Does Italy hear?
38806Does Mr. Black pretend that such statements would be admitted as evidence in any court?
38806Does Mr. Ingersoll know what he is talking about?
38806Does Mr. Ingersoll want to disgrace his own intellect by pretending that he can not see this simple analogy?
38806Does a belief in immortality keep back their tears?
38806Does a kind father mock his deformed child?
38806Does a lack of knowledge as to the fate of the human soul imply a belief in annihilation?
38806Does any Christian believe that if God were to write a book now, he would uphold the crimes commanded in the Old Testament?
38806Does any decent man wish the assistance of a constable, a sheriff, a judge, or a church, to keep his wife in his house?
38806Does he agree with St. Augustine in his estimate of women-- placing them on a par with beasts?
38806Does he appeal to the man''s reason?
38806Does he believe in some being superior to himself?
38806Does he call attention to this because most theologians are hateful and ungentlemanly?
38806Does he defend the weak, succor the oppressed, or trample on the fallen?
38806Does he laugh at misfortune, at poverty, at honesty in rags, at industry without food, at the agonies of his fellow- men?
38806Does he laugh when he sees the convict clothed in the garments of shame-- at the criminal on the scaffold?
38806Does he long for the fires of the_ auto da fà ©_.?
38806Does he not know that hundreds of judges, some of them as great as the late lamented Gibson, believed in the existence of an impossible crime?
38806Does he not know that in Egypt, before Moses lived, the insane were treated with kindness and wooed back to natural thought by music''s golden voice?
38806Does he not know that these admissions were made in the presence and expectation of death?
38806Does he not know that they admitted that they had spoken face to face with Satan, and had sold their souls for gold and power?
38806Does he not positively know?
38806Does he preserve order in Russia?
38806Does he regret that dungeons of the Inquisition are no longer crowded with the best and bravest?
38806Does he rub his hands with glee over the embers of an enemy''s home?
38806Does history show that there is a moral governor of the world?
38806Does infinite justice annihilate the work of infinite wisdom?
38806Does it not equally imply a belief in immortality?
38806Does it not seem to you infinitely absurd to call orthodox Christianity"a consolation"?
38806Does it relieve mankind from fear to believe that there is some God who will help them in extremity?
38806Does it seem possible that infinite goodness would create a world in which life feeds on life, in which everything devours and is devoured?
38806Does it seem possible to you that an"Infinite Father"sees all this and sits as silent as a god of stone?
38806Does it tend to convince even yourself?
38806Does not Mr. Black know that thousands of people charged with witchcraft actually confessed in open court their guilt?
38806Does not Mr. Black know that, thousands of years before Christ was born, there were hospitals and asylums for orphans in China?
38806Does not a gradual improvement in the thing created show a corresponding improvement in the creator?
38806Does not an infinite God know the circumstances under which every vow is made?
38806Does not the commandment"Love thy neighbor as thyself,"apply to nations precisely the same as to individuals?
38806Does not the idea of sacrifice run through human life, and ennoble human character?
38806Does not the intrinsic and eternal distinction of good and evil make itself felt in spite of the will?
38806Does not the willingness show that he is utterly unworthy of the sacrifice?
38806Does not the world know that all the crimes or offences punishable by death in England could be divided in the same way?
38806Does not this question admit that the teachings of Christ will not serve for all nations, all ages and all states of civilization?
38806Does the Archdeacon agree with St. Augustine?
38806Does the Archdeacon deny that credulity is ignorant?
38806Does the Archdeacon insist that there is an obligation resting on any human mind to believe without evidence?
38806Does the Bible shed no light?
38806Does the Cardinal regret that kings and emperors are not now engaged in the extermination of Protestants?
38806Does the Dean think that the satisfaction of St. Paul justified the wretches who beat and stoned him?
38806Does the absolute prohibition of divorce where it exists contribute to the moral purity of society?
38806Does the absolute prohibition of divorce where it exists contribute to the moral purity of society?_ We must define our terms.
38806Does the absolute prohibition of divorce, where it exists, contribute to the moral purity of society?
38806Does the brain think without our consent?
38806Does the fact that millions of the faithful visit Mecca establish the truth of the Koran?
38806Doubtless we are many of us in error; but how can Mr. Ingersoll enlighten us?
38806During all that time, can it be said that the Catholic Church was universal?
38806Educate, or exterminate?
38806Evidence about what?
38806First, Do I believe in the existence of God?
38806For if man lives after death, and keeps his personal identity, do not the"consequences"of his past life follow him into the future?
38806Had Christianity then produced the equals of the great Greeks and Romans?
38806Had the father the right to sell or kill his child?
38806Has Jehovah improved?
38806Has Mr. Ingersoll fallen into the egregious blunder of confounding these things?
38806Has he the right to express that opinion?
38806Has infinite mercy- become more merciful?
38806Has infinite wisdom intellectually- advanced?
38806Has it been"fruitful in the good things"of justice, charity and forgiveness?
38806Has man become more merciful than his maker?
38806Has man outgrown the Inquisition, and will God forever be the warden of a penitentiary?
38806Has not almost every valuable book since the invention of printing been denounced by the believers in the"divine scheme"?
38806Has religion had control of the world so long that an honest man seems monstrous?
38806Has she no right of choice?
38806Has she no right to build another home?
38806Has she no right to guard the jewels of her soul?
38806Has the Cardinal forgotten the Council of Nice, held in the year of grace 787, that declared the worship of images to be lawful?
38806Has the Catholic Church produced a greater man than Humboldt?
38806Has the Christian world outgrown its God?
38806Has the Protestant produced a greater than Darwin?
38806Has the church been merciful?
38806Has the creed of Buddhism changed in three thousand years?
38806Has the promise and hope of forgiveness ever prevented the commission of a sin?
38806Has the writer of the Reply really weighed the force, and measured the sweep of his own words?
38806Has there been found upon the records of the savage world anything more perfectly fiendish than this commandment of Jehovah?
38806Have I not suffered enough?
38806Have not the subjects of redemption been for the most part the enemies of civilization?
38806Have they believed without evidence?
38806Have you abandoned Jehovah?
38806Have you answered that?
38806Have you appealed from him to the standard of reason?
38806Have you convinced even yourself of this?
38806Have you convinced even yourself of this?"
38806Have you discovered any theory that will account for both of these facts?
38806Have you done that young man any good in taking from him what he held sacred before?
38806Have you literary bread to eat that I know not of?
38806Have you never seen a drunkard reformed?
38806Have you not left him morally weakened?
38806Have you noticed any change in the last generation?
38806He came, they tell us, to make a revelation, and what did he reveal?
38806Hear now, O house of Israel, is not my way equal, are not your ways unequal?"
38806Here they gather, old and young, rich and poor; and as they join in the same act of worship, feel that God is the maker of them all?
38806How are we to find a common measure, again, for different kinds of greatness; how weigh, for example, Dante against Julius Caesar?
38806How are you going to stop this downward tendency?
38806How can a God accept the suffering of the innocent in lieu of the punishment of the guilty?
38806How can a person"incapable of perceiving right and wrong"have an idea of duty?
38806How can any loving man or woman"encircle the name of Jehovah"--author of these words--"with profoundest reverence and love"?
38806How can sin be transferred from men to animals, and how can the shedding of the blood of animals atone for the sins of men?
38806How can the criminal be washed clean and pure in the blood of another?
38806How can you sustain the conduct of missionaries?
38806How can you, how can any man with brain or heart, believe this infinite lie?
38806How did Christ make marriage a sacrament?
38806How did Jehovah command his people to treat their neighbors?
38806How did Jehovah treat the animals in Egypt?
38806How did it happen that Christ wrote nothing?
38806How did it happen that a man who had done so many miracles was so obscure, so unknown, that one of his disciples had to be bribed to point him out?
38806How did it happen that he established no asylums for the insane?
38806How did religions other than Christianity and Judaism arise?
38806How did the angels become good?
38806How did we come here?
38806How did you ascertain this fact?
38806How do we know that the writers of the gospels"were men of unimpeachable character"?
38806How do we really know what the great men of whom you speak believed, or believe?
38806How do you account for Confucius, whose name is known wherever the sky bends?
38806How do you account for him, who has had more followers than any other?
38806How do you account for the fact that the flag of this impostor floats to- day above the sepulchre of Christ?
38806How do you account for the fact that your God permitted some of his children to become insane?
38806How do you account for the justice of God?
38806How do you account for these differences?
38806How do you account for this difference?
38806How do you account for this miracle?
38806How do you account for this?
38806How do you explain this?
38806How do you know"that they have been set down to work out their destiny"?
38806How does a man use power?
38806How does he know that God made the universe?
38806How does he know that any revelation was made?
38806How does he know what God would be likely to do?
38806How does that throw any light upon my case?
38806How does the pope speak?
38806How far in the future must he travel to forget that look?
38806How is it known that it was claimed, during the life of Christ, that he had wrought a miracle?
38806How is it possible for angels, living in"a child''s picture,"to"suffer and be strong"?
38806How is it that a despotism is established?
38806How is it that he conquered and overran more than half of the Christian world?
38806How is it that he forgot to say anything on the subject when he gave the Ten Commandments to Moses?
38806How is it that he forgot to say anything on the subject when he gave the Ten Commandments to Moses?
38806How is it that on a thousand fields the banner of the cross went down in blood, while that of the crescent floated in triumph?
38806How is it that the few enslave the many?
38806How is it that the nobility live on the labor of peasants?
38806How is it that there is nothing in the Old Testament on this subject?
38806How is its existence to be accounted for?
38806How is this known?
38806How long must the night be to sleep away the memory of such a hideous life?
38806How long will it be before he will venture in?
38806How long will what you call Christianity endure, if it changes as rapidly during the next century as it has during the last?
38806How many have there been?
38806How many hospitals for the sick were established by the church during a thousand years?
38806How shall this be determined?
38806How then can it be said that Christianity has been in changeless opposition to nature as man has marred it?
38806How then can we account for the wars of extermination?
38806How then should it be thought a thing without reason that a Deliverer of the race should give His life for the life of the world?
38806How under such circumstances could they have the sense of guilt, or of obligation?
38806How was it possible for any one of the four Evangelists to know that Christ was the Son of God, or that he was God?
38806How was the Roman empire formed?
38806How would he account for these wonders?
38806I admit that St. Augustine had great influence with the people of his day-- but what people?
38806I ask you, Was there a resurrection?
38806I asked of Dr. Field, and I ask again, this question: Why should an infinitely wise and powerful God destroy the good and preserve the vile?
38806I asked: Why should God treat all alike in this world, and in another make an infinite difference?
38806I will answer by a question: was not this foretold?
38806I would help you gladly, but I do not wish to defeat the plans of your Almighty Friend"?
38806I wrote the article that appeared in the August number, and by me it was entitled"Is All of the Bible Inspired?"
38806II., v. 7),"out of the dust of the ground?"
38806IS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT DEGRADING?
38806IS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT DEGRADING?
38806IS DIVORCE WRONG?
38806IS DIVORCE WRONG?
38806If Christ performed the miracles recorded in the New Testament, why would the Jews put to death a man able to raise their dead?
38806If I accept, will the act lessen the felicity or ecstasy of heaven?
38806If Nature is infinite, how can there be a power outside of Nature?
38806If Paul did not commend Jephthah for keeping this vow, what was the act that excited his admiration?
38806If a wife dies and the husband marries another woman, is not that successive polygamy?
38806If a wife dies, and the husband marries another wife, is not that successive polygamy?
38806If all who never heard are to be saved, is it not dangerous to hear?--Is it not cruel to preach?
38806If an infinite God creates a man on purpose to damn him, or creates him knowing that he will be damned, is not the crime the same?
38806If an infinite being is one of the parties to the contract, is it not the duty of this being to see to it that the contract is carried out?
38806If belief depends upon the will, can all men have correct opinions who will to have them?
38806If he comes to the conclusion at which you have arrived,--that Jehovah is God,--has he the right to express that opinion?
38806If he concludes, as I have done, that Jehovah is a myth, must he refrain from giving his honest thought?
38806If he feels toward me as a father should, why did he give no warning?
38806If he knew he was negligent, what must his opinion of the result have been?
38806If he wakes, will not the recollection cling to him still?
38806If he was actuated by love, is he not as powerful now as he was then?
38806If it all depends on the will, what is evidence?
38806If it is not a crime, why should any penalty be attached?
38806If it is our duty to forgive our enemies, ought not God to forgive his?
38806If it is so difficult, why do you call it a revelation?
38806If it is the duty of the injured to forgive, why should the uninjured insist upon having revenge?
38806If kindness and affection on the part of parents demoralize children, will not kindness and affection on the part of children demoralize the parents?
38806If man can exist without the"spiritual intuition,"do you insist that the"spiritual intuition"can exist without the man?
38806If my heart were only good-- if I loved my neighbor as myself-- would I then see infinite mercy in these hideous words?
38806If not, do you pretend that your mind is greater?
38806If not, why do you quote his name?
38806If nothing, why should he interfere?
38806If one is bound by the religion of his father and mother, and his father happens to be a Presbyterian and his mother a Catholic, what is he to do?
38806If she asked you for a little assistance, would you refuse it on the ground that by being helped she might lose character?
38806If she does not, what is there left of marriage?
38806If slavery was a crime in Egypt, was it a virtue in Palestine?
38806If so, what is the consideration for this obligation?
38806If that doctrine be true, is not your God an infinite criminal?
38806If that doctrine be true, what else is there worthy of engaging the attention of the human mind?
38806If the Archdeacon replies that the revelation itself will bear the evidence within itself, what then, I ask, does he mean by the word"evidence"?
38806If the argument is good in the mouth of a Catholic, is it not good in the mouth of a Moslem?
38806If the book and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and brain do not agree?
38806If the commander of one army should send word to the general of the other that his men were firing too high, do you think the general would be misled?
38806If the estimate of human life was low, what was the sacrifice worth?
38806If the light was necessary for one, was it not necessary for all?
38806If the marvelous propagation of the Catholic Church proves its divine origin, what shall we say of the marvelous propagation of Mohammedanism?
38806If the poor mother still wept, still refused to be comforted, would you thrust this dagger in her heart?
38806If the religion of Christ was for that age, is it for this?
38806If the success of a church proves its divinity, and after that another church arises and defeats the first, what does that prove?
38806If the words are not inspired, what is?
38806If there are three parties-- the man, the woman, and God-- each one should be bound to do something, and what is God bound to do?
38806If there was no general atonement until the crucifixion of Christ, what became of the countless millions who died before that time?
38806If there were three parties to my marriage, my husband, myself, and God, should each be bound by the contract to do something?
38806If they kill the babes in our cradles, must we brain theirs?
38806If they ravish, murder, and mutilate our wives, must we treat theirs in the same manner?
38806If this be true, upon what principle can a woman continue to sustain the relation of wife after love is dead?
38806If this doctrine be true, how can God be just or virtuous?
38806If this failed to still the beatings of her aching heart, would you repeat these words which you say came from the loving soul of Christ?
38806If this is true, would you call Abraham"a self- exile for conscience sake"?
38806If to the man who reads it, has he the right to give to others the revelation that God has given to him?
38806If wonder suggests a designer, can it go on increasing until it denies that which it suggested?
38806If you do not, do you claim to be a greater man?
38806If you had the power to give sight to the blind, to cleanse the leper, and would not exercise it, what would be thought of you?
38806If you think of three as one, can you think of one as none, or of none as one?
38806If"God would be likely to reveal his will to the rational creatures who were required to obey it,"why did he reveal it only to the Jews?
38806If"believers are not obliged to approve of the conduct of Jephthah"are they free to condemn the conduct of Jehovah?
38806If, as the Cardinal says, the religion of Christ is in absolute harmony with nature, how can it be supernatural?
38806If, then, he agrees with my statement, why endeavor to controvert it?
38806If, then, she is not bound to remain his wife for the husband''s sake, is she bound to remain his wife because the marriage was a sacrament?
38806In a contest between Christianity and Paganism, in the first century, would you have considered the question settled by names?
38806In a contest between Protestantism and Catholicism are you willing to abide by the tests of names?
38806In my reply to Dr. Field I had asked: Why should God demand a sacrifice from man?
38806In order to see the beauty, the depth and tenderness of such a consecration, is it essential to be in a state of"reverential calm"?
38806In other words, are these questions to be settled by theological and ecclesiastical authority, or by the common sense of mankind?
38806In other words, do they not demonstrate the absolute impartiality of divine negligence?
38806In other words, do you not bring your own religion exactly within your own definition of superstition?
38806In other words, have I the right to answer your letter?
38806In that case would you be guided by"spiritual intuition,"or by your reason?
38806In the eyes of intelligent men of Greece and Rome, were all deeds, whether good or evil, morally alike?
38806In the light of this sentence, where do you find a place for forgiveness-- for your atonement?
38806In the presence of these commandments, what becomes of the fine saying,"Love thy neighbor as thyself"?
38806In this connection, what does the word"credulity"mean?
38806Independently of conditions, can it exist?
38806Is Christian polygamy less odious in the eyes of God than Mormon polygamy?
38806Is God a party to the contract?
38806Is Jehovah to keep the cells of perdition in repair forever, and are his children to be the eternal prisoners?
38806Is Spain the first nation of the world?
38806Is a belief in Beelzebub a belief in demonology?
38806Is a man to be eternally rewarded for believing according to evidence, without evidence, or against evidence?
38806Is a"spiritual intuition"an entity?
38806Is an act infamous in man one of the virtues of the Deity?
38806Is belief the result of that which to us is evidence, or is it a product of the will?
38806Is character of no importance in heaven?
38806Is credulity to be winged and crowned, while honest doubt is chained and damned?
38806Is death more merciful than God?
38806Is every man great in proportion to his genius?
38806Is fear the arch that supports the moral nature of man?
38806Is genius the sole constitutive element of greatness, or with what other elements, and in what relations to them, is it combined?
38806Is happiness a gift or a consequence?
38806Is he accountable for Siberia?
38806Is he gentle or cruel?
38806Is he infallible in faith and fallible in fact?
38806Is he not to suffer for this poor creature''s ruin?
38806Is he to hold the man to his contract, when the woman has violated hers?
38806Is he to remain a victim forever?
38806Is he willing to go a step further and say that there is an obligation resting upon the minds of men to believe contrary to evidence?
38806Is heaven only a well- conducted poorhouse?
38806Is her modesty the property of another?
38806Is intellectual stagnation a demonstration of divine origin?
38806Is it Mr. Black''s idea that this happened by chance?
38806Is it Mr. Ingersoll''s idea that this happened by chance, like the creation of the world?
38806Is it a belief in an infinite God?
38806Is it a crime to be governed by that which to you is evidence, and is it infamous to express your honest thought?
38806Is it a crime to investigate, to think, to reason, to observe?
38806Is it a great stretch of language to say that it is his"punishment,"and nonetheless punishment because self- inflicted?
38806Is it a rare thing for the pious to be candid?
38806Is it a revelation to the man who reads it, or to the man who does not read it?
38806Is it a scene for congratulation when the bishops of thirty nations kneel before a man?
38806Is it according to common sense that an infinitely good God would order some of his children to kill others?
38806Is it an effort to avoid that which can not be met?
38806Is it based upon experience?
38806Is it because of"total depravity"that I denounce the brutality of Jehovah?
38806Is it because you were brought up in that Church, of which your father, whom you regard with filial respect and affection, was an honored minister?
38806Is it conceivable that a good man with power to control the winds would not prevent cyclones?
38806Is it desirable that this relation should last through life, and that it should be rendered sacred by the ceremony of a church?
38806Is it for the good of society that virtue should be thus crucified between church and state?
38806Is it his business to hold the woman to the contract, when the man has violated his?
38806Is it historically absurd that millions of people have believed in systems of religion without evidence?
38806Is it historically absurd to say that Mohammedanism is based upon mistake?
38806Is it historically absurd to say that they believed without evidence?
38806Is it in this way that"my misty creations are made to roll away and vanish into air one after another?"
38806Is it necessary that heaven should borrow its light from the glare of hell?
38806Is it necessary that my heart should break?
38806Is it necessary to believe in the existence of an infinite intelligence before you can have any standard of right and wrong?
38806Is it necessary to lose your liberty in order to retain your moral character-- in order to be pure and womanly?
38806Is it not a consolation to have an Almighty Friend?
38806Is it not better to drink wine than to shed blood?
38806Is it not better to have no God than such a God?
38806Is it not far better to worship a God of stone than a God who threatens to punish in eternal flames the most of his children?
38806Is it not humiliating to know that man is willing to kneel at the feet of man?
38806Is it not necessarily produced?
38806Is it not possible that intelligence may at last raise the human race to that sublime and philosophic height?
38806Is it not possible that out of this perception may come not only love and pity for others, but absolute justification for the individual?
38806Is it not possible that out of this perception may come not only love and pity for others, but absolute justification for the individual?
38806Is it not possible that we may find that everything has been necessarily produced?
38806Is it not somewhat difficult to discover"the signature of beauty with which God has stamped"this animal?
38806Is it not strange that Christ did not tell of another world distinctly, clearly, without parable, and without the mist of metaphor?
38806Is it not strange that some one in the Old Testament did not stand by an open grave of father or mother and say:"We shall meet again"?
38806Is it not strange that the ones he had cured were not his disciples?
38806Is it not true that I say now, and that I have always said, that I do not know?
38806Is it not true that no matter how good men are they must die, and will they not die of diseases?
38806Is it not wonderful that Luke and Matthew do not agree on a single name of Christ''s ancestors for thirty- seven generations?
38806Is it not wonderful that no historian ever mentioned any of these prodigies?
38806Is it not wonderful that no one at the trial of Christ said one word about the miracles he had wrought?
38806Is it not, after all, barely possible that a man acting like Christ can be saved?
38806Is it of supernatural, or miraculous, origin, and is it possible that this"spiritual intuition"is independent of the man?
38806Is it possible for a human being to increase or diminish the well- being of the Infinite?
38806Is it possible for a"policeman"to"silence a rude disturber"in this way?
38806Is it possible for the human mind to conceive of an infinite personality?
38806Is it possible for the ingenuity of man to extract from the doctrine of hell one drop, one ray, of"consolation"?
38806Is it possible for you to find in the literature of this world more awful passages than these?
38806Is it possible that God established a government in which benevolence was unknown?
38806Is it possible that God is intolerant?
38806Is it possible that God will hate his enemies when he tells us that we must love ours?
38806Is it possible that Napoleon-- one of the most infamous of men-- had a nature so finely strung that he was sensitive to the divine influences?
38806Is it possible that St. John thought that God would kill two eminent Christians for the purpose of getting even with one heretic?
38806Is it possible that a being can not be just or virtuous unless he believes in some being infinitely superior to himself?
38806Is it possible that a being of infinite wisdom made hospitality a crime?
38806Is it possible that a designer exists from all eternity without design?
38806Is it possible that a nation in which falsehood and evil had reached their highest development was, after all, so wise, so just and so equitable?
38806Is it possible that an infinitely wise and compassionate God insists that a helpless woman shall remain the wife of a cruel wretch?
38806Is it possible that any good mail exists who is willing to gain the affection of his children in that way?
38806Is it possible that he knows nothing of the religion of Buddha-- a religion based upon equality, charity and forgiveness?
38806Is it possible that in fighting, for instance, the Indians of America, if they scalp our soldiers we should scalp theirs?
38806Is it possible that only those who believe in the God who persecuted for opinion''s sake have any standard of right and wrong?
38806Is it possible that the leader of the English Liberals is nearer civilized than Jehovah?
38806Is it possible that the present Vicar of Christ is not certain as to the number of his predecessors?
38806Is it possible that the sinfulness of man created the countless enemies of human life that lurk in air and water and food?
38806Is it possible that the vast fabric of papal power has this, and only this, for its foundation?
38806Is it possible that these words fell from the lips of the Most Merciful?
38806Is it possible that this patriotic trinity is more powerful than the other?
38806Is it possible that you wrote the letter to prevent a controversy?
38806Is it possible to conceive of a more contemptible human being than a man who would appeal to force in such a case?
38806Is it possible to conceive of anything more immoral than for a husband to insist on living with a wife who has no love for him?
38806Is it possible to form character in heaven?
38806Is it possible to know who will be saved?
38806Is it possible to tell who is to be eternally lost?
38806Is it possible to think of one as three, or of three as one?
38806Is it possible to vindicate a just law by inflicting punishment on the innocent?
38806Is it possible to write greater contradictions than these?
38806Is it reasonable to believe that a good God would assist his chosen people to exterminate or enslave his other children?
38806Is it such evidence as satisfies the intelligence, convinces the reason, and is it in conformity with the known facts of the mind?
38806Is it that God is the Father of the human race; is that all?
38806Is it that man should treat his neighbor as himself?
38806Is it the belief in the immortality of the soul?
38806Is it the result of observation, reason and experience, or is it the child of credulity?
38806Is it the same Christian religion now living that lived during the Middle Ages?
38806Is it the same Christian religion that founded the Inquisition and invented the thumbscrew?
38806Is it therefore false that a connection does exist between matter and spirit?
38806Is it to the interest of society that those who despise each other should live together?
38806Is it true that a monk is purer than a good and noble father?--that a nun is holier than a loving mother?
38806Is it true that benevolence came with Christ, and that his coming heralded the birth of pity in the human heart?
38806Is it true that man deserves only punishment?
38806Is it true that most of man''s diseases are due to his own sin and folly and wilfulness?
38806Is it true that the Catholic Church overthrew idolatry?
38806Is it true that the wickedness of man has created the microbe?
38806Is it true that these deformities, these warped, impaired, and dislocated constitutions indispose men to belief?
38806Is it universal now?
38806Is it"against the tendencies of human nature"for a mother to throw her child into the Ganges to please a supposed God?
38806Is man more just than he?
38806Is not such credulity ignorant?
38806Is not that a desirable thing?
38806Is not that man civilized whose reason sits the crowned monarch of his brain-- whose passions are his servants?
38806Is not the church weakest at its centre?
38806Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion?
38806Is not the play of"Antony and Cleopatra"as Egyptian as the Nile?
38806Is not the sacrifice of a child to a phantom as horrible in Palestine as in India?
38806Is not the will a product?
38806Is not this a cruel treatment of the belief of a fellow- creature?
38806Is not this a fountain that brings forth sweet and bitter waters?
38806Is not this a perpetual crime?
38806Is not this a_ non sequitur?_ The question is: Were they a loving people?
38806Is not this a_ non sequitur?_ The question is: Were they a loving people?
38806Is not this"the survival of the fittest?"
38806Is not, then, the_ hiatus_, which the Reply has discovered in the teaching of our Lord, an imaginary_ hiatus_?
38806Is passion necessarily produced?
38806Is she bound by the contract he has broken?
38806Is she to become a social pariah, and is this for the benefit of society?--or is it for the sake of the wretch who destroyed her life?
38806Is she under any obligation to him?
38806Is she under any obligation to him?
38806Is that a doctrine believed only by people who lack intellectual capacity?
38806Is that so very absurd?
38806Is the Bible a revelation from God to man?
38806Is the Christian in the presence of this question as dumb as the agnostic?
38806Is the Thug of India more ferocious than Torquemada, the Thug of Spain?
38806Is the chance of his resistance as good as it was before?
38806Is the freedom of the future to exist only in perdition?
38806Is the man she hates the lord of her desire?
38806Is the open mouth of ignorant wonder the only entrance to Paradise?
38806Is the religious world to- day willing to test the efficacy of prayer?
38806Is the solution of this problem beyond your power?
38806Is the unnatural the supernatural?
38806Is the wife to lose her personality?
38806Is there a believer who does not regret that God commanded a husband to stone his wife to death for suggesting the worship of the sun or moon?
38806Is there a depth below this?
38806Is there a different standard for a history written in Hebrew, several thousand years ago, and one written in English in the nineteenth century?
38806Is there a higher standard of virtue in countries where divorce is prohibited than in those where it is granted?
38806Is there an adequate cause for every effect?
38806Is there any change?
38806Is there any contradiction beyond this?
38806Is there any denunciation, sarcasm or invective in this?
38806Is there any escape except by plunging into the gulf of annihilation?
38806Is there any ground for this imputation of narrowness?
38806Is there any morality in this?
38806Is there any obligation on the part of the wife to remain with the brutal husband for the sake of God?
38806Is there any opportunity of being dishonest in the formation of an opinion?
38806Is there any way of accounting for the fact that God upheld concubinage?
38806Is there any way out of this difficulty, except by confessing that Christianity is what it purports to be-- a divine revelation?
38806Is there anything deeper and stronger than a mother''s love?
38806Is there anything purer, holier than a mother holding her dimpled babe against her billowed breast?
38806Is there anything that savors of tyranny in this?
38806Is there no attraction in light, no repulsion in darkness?
38806Is there no future for her?
38806Is there no hope for him?"
38806Is there no hope for this victim?
38806Is there no possibility of delusion about a circumstance of that kind?
38806Is there not room for a better, for a higher philosophy?
38806Is there not some flavor of the sun and glow- worm here?
38806Is there some other consideration that can take the place of genuine affection?
38806Is there the slightest connection between my statement and your objection?
38806Is there virtue in retaining the name of wife, or husband, without the real and true relation?
38806Is this a candid statement?
38806Is this a crime for which a man should everlastingly perish?
38806Is this an answer, or is it simply taking refuge behind a name?
38806Is this an argument?
38806Is this considered an answer?
38806Is this in accordance with the doctrine of Jehovah?
38806Is this pathetic sacrifice on the one hand, this sacrilege on the other, pleasing in the sight of heaven?
38806Is this star, that sheds light on every grave, found in your Bible?
38806Is this the best that can be done by one of the disciples of the infallible God who butchered babes in Judea?
38806Is this the conclusion of the most enlightened Christianity?
38806Is this the echo of"Father, forgive them; they know not what they do"?
38806Is this the grave philosophical conclusion of a careful observer, or is it a crude, hasty, and careless overstatement?
38806Is this the last and most beautiful blossom of the Sermon on the Mount?
38806Is this true?
38806Is"your mole- hill higher than his Dhawalagiri"?
38806Is, then, the Bible a different book to every human being who reads it?
38806It may be that the Thugs were taught that murder is innocent; but did the teachers believe what they taught?
38806It may have the right to destroy the life of one dangerous to the community; but what has freedom to do with this?
38806It may here be objected that no man can so far suspend the inclination of the will when the question is, has God indeed spoken to man or no?
38806It would be wrong to call this intentional misrepresentation; but can it be called less than somewhat reckless negligence?
38806Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?
38806Let a man suppose himself a helpless woman beaten by a brutal husband-- would he advocate divorces then?
38806Let another read him, who knows nothing of the drama, nothing of the impersonations of passion, and what does he get?
38806Let me ask another question: Are Catholics or Protestants better than Freethinkers?
38806Let me ask the Archdeacon a question: Do you agree with St. Augustine?
38806Let me ask, by what man?
38806Let me ask: Why can not a blind man criticise colors?
38806Let us examine these three excuses: Was Jehovah justified in putting a low estimate on human life?
38806Let us put this question in a milder form: Suppose the second church lives and flourishes in spite of the first, what does that prove?
38806Matthew says that he cried:"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
38806May I ask, how you know that Shakespeare was a believer?
38806May I be allowed to ask this simple question: Who has?
38806May I be permitted to ask how he knows that space is an entity?
38806May it not be said truly that she gives her life for the life of her children?
38806May we not find that every soul has, like Mazeppa, been lashed to the wild horse of passion, or like Prometheus to the rocks of fate?
38806May we not find that every soul has, like Mazeppa, been lashed to the wild horse of passion, or like Prometheus to the rocks of fate?"
38806Mr. Cardinal, am I under any obligation to God?
38806Must all the redeemed feel that they are in heaven simply because there was a miscarriage of justice?
38806Must all vows made to God be kept?
38806Must not the man who forms the opinion know what it is?
38806Must she be an outcast forever-- deceived and betrayed for her whole life?
38806Must she live with him for his sake?
38806Must this woman, full of kindness, affection, health, be tied and chained to this living corpse?
38806Must we believe that Joshua stopped the sun, because Faraday was"the most eminent man of science of his day"?
38806Must we believe this because"Sir Gabriel Stokes is the living president of the Royal Society, and a Churchman"besides?
38806Nay, are the suggested improvements of that teaching really gross deteriorations?
38806No remedy for this mistake of your God?
38806Nothing about the sick he had healed, nor the dead he had raised?
38806Now, if God is as inconceivable as space, why should we pray to God?
38806Now, if a belief in God is necessary to the salvation of the soul, why should God create a soul without this capacity?
38806Now, if it should turn out that Darwin was mistaken, what then?
38806Now, when the children get strong and the parents are old and weak, ought not the children to beat them, so that they too may become kind and loving?
38806Of what blood were they?
38806Of what consequence is anything in this world compared with eternal joy?
38806Of what use were the other three?
38806On what ground, then, and for what reason, is the system of Darwin fatal to Scriptures and to creeds?
38806Or is there some other world of suffering and sorrow?
38806Or, will you read this?
38806Ought an honest man to be restrained from denouncing that faith because those who entertain it say that their feelings are hurt?
38806Ought divorced people to be allowed to marry under any circumstances?
38806Ought divorced people to be allowed to marry under any circumstances?_ This depends upon whether marriage is a crime.
38806Ought divorced people to be allowed to marry, under any circumstances?
38806Ought not the augurs to agree among themselves?
38806Ought not the memory of a good action to live as long as the memory of a bad one?
38806Ought not the revelation to be revealed?
38806Ought the world to be peopled by the children of hatred or disgust, the children of lust and loathing, or by the welcome babes of mutual love?
38806Perhaps you never saw your grandparents; but have you any more doubt of their existence than of that of your father and mother whom you did see?
38806ROME OR REASON?
38806Save, or destroy?
38806Shall we ask Servetus?
38806Shall we believe that Jonah spent three days and nights in the inside of a whale because"Professor Clark Maxwell''s death was mourned by all"?
38806Shall we hear the sighs and sobs of Siberia?
38806Shall we hear the story of Bruno?
38806Shall we speak of the originality of the design, of the skill displayed in the execution?
38806Should he read the life of David, and of Solomon?
38806Should the peasant be punished for the king''s crime?
38806Should the sun beg from the glowworm, and should the momentary spark excite the envy of the source of light?
38806Should the sun beg of the glow- worm, and should the momentary spark excite the envy of the source of light?
38806Should the sun beg of the glow- worm, and should the momentary spark excite the envy of the source of light?"
38806Suppose that he refuses to protect; that he abuses, assaults, and tramples upon the woman he we d. What is her redress?
38806Suppose the Bible had taught that selfishness, larceny and murder were virtues; would you deny its inspiration?
38806Suppose the vow was made in ignorance, in excitement-- must it be absolutely fulfilled?
38806Surely, I was not represented at that time, and is it right that I should be punished for what was done by others in the very beginning of the world?
38806THE Archdeacon says that it is, and yet in the same article he quotes the following from Job:"Canst thou by searching find out God?"
38806Take passions from human beings and what is left?
38806That he would command soldiers to rip open with the sword of war the bodies of women-- wreaking vengeance on babes unborn?
38806The Cardinal answers the question,"Can divorce from the bonds of marriage ever be allowed?"
38806The Dean asks this question:"Which custom, kindness or severity, does experience show to be the less dangerous?"
38806The Gentiles were left without forgiveness What has become of the millions who have died since, without having heard of the atonement?
38806The billions of slaves who were paid with blows?--the countless mothers whose babes were sold?
38806The great question still remains: What is right?
38806The last words, according to John, were:"Peter, seeing Him, saith to Jesus: Lord, and what shall this man do?
38806The question arises: Has every one who reads the Old Testament the right to express his thought as to the character of Jehovah?
38806The question now is, have I the right to express mine?
38806The question then arises, Should this marriage, under any circumstances, be dissolved?
38806The question then is, not have we the right to think,--that being a necessity,--but have we the right to express our honest thoughts?
38806The real question is this: If we can not account for Christ without a miracle, how can we account for Shakespeare?
38806The real question then must be: What is best for man?
38806The water drowns, the cold freezes, the flood destroys, the fire burns, the bolt of heaven falls-- when and where has the prayer of man been answered?
38806The"Inspired"Writers-- Why did not God furnish Every Nation with a Bible?
38806Then Peter said unto her,''How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the spirit of the Lord?
38806Then why should he insist upon the sacrifice of my life?
38806There is also another question: Is credulity a virtue?
38806There is another test: How does a man treat the animals in his power-- his faithful horse-- his patient ox-- his loving dog?
38806They answer the chimes of the bell, and what do they hear in this village church?
38806They say to every man who advances something new: Are you greater than the dead?
38806Thousands of religions have perished, innumerable gods have died, and why should the religion of our time be exempt from the common fate?
38806To answer an argument, is it only necessary to say that it"raises a metaphysical question"?
38806To make innocence suffer is the greatest sin; how then is it possible to make the suffering of the innocent a justification for the criminal?
38806To prevent this would you recommend him to read the lives of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, and the other holy polygamists of the Old Testament?
38806To the question then,"Can divorce from the bond of marriage ever be allowed?"
38806To this I will make but one answer: Does it convince yourself?
38806To this"inflection"has it come at last?
38806To what extent has man marred it?
38806True, he said,"Come unto me and I will give you rest;"but what did he say to those who failed to come?
38806Truly it may be asked, is not this a fountain which sends forth at once sweet waters and bitter?
38806Was Gautama inspired?
38806Was Isaac Newton so much greater than Humboldt-- than Charles Darwin, who has revolutionized the thought of the civilized world?
38806Was Jehovah led away by the example of the Gods of Moriah?
38806Was Mohammed inspired?
38806Was Pius IX., or any other vicar of Christ, superior to Abraham Lincoln?
38806Was Saul of Tarsus a Thug when he persecuted Christians"even unto strange cities"?
38806Was Socrates after all greater than Epicurus-- had he a subtler mind-- was he any nobler in his life?
38806Was he a believer in religious liberty?
38806Was he base enough and infamous enough to heap contempt upon the religion of his father and mother?
38806Was he in earnest when he said"that whoso sheddeth man''s blood, by man shall his blood be shed"?
38806Was he not"lashed to the wild horse of passion,"carried away by a power beyond his control?
38806Was he restrained by love?
38806Was he the founder of the Inquisition?
38806Was it any better in Palestine then than it is in Utah now?
38806Was it because Jephthah slew on the banks of the Jordan"forty and two thousand"of the sons of Ephraim?
38806Was it because the divinely inspired men did not know?
38806Was it for this reason that he caused them to exterminate each other?
38806Was it his ingenuity that so designed the human race that millions of people should be born deaf and dumb, that millions should be idiotic?
38806Was it immutable when its unity, internal and external, was broken?
38806Was it in any way born of the senses, or of the effect of nature upon the brain-- that is to say, of things seen, or heard, or touched?
38806Was it my duty to remain silent?
38806Was it my duty to speak or act contrary to this conclusion?
38806Was it necessary to offer this rudeness to the religious denomination in which you were born?
38806Was it not cruel for an inspired man to attack a sacred belief?
38806Was it not cruel to drown a world just for the want of a supernatural religion-- a religion that man, by no possibility, could furnish?
38806Was it not infinitely cruel to leave the world in darkness and in doubt, when one word could have filled all time with hope and light?
38806Was it precisely the same after its unity was broken that it was before?
38806Was it precisely the same after its unity was divinely restored that it was while broken?
38806Was it right for Jehovah to kill the children of the people because of Pharaoh''s sin?
38806Was it under these pontiffs that the"church penetrated the moral darkness like a new sun,"and covered the globe with institutions of mercy?
38806Was it universal while it was without unity?
38806Was not Emerson, so far as purity of life is concerned, the equal of any true believer?
38806Was not Voltaire justified in saying that the English were the only people who murdered by law?"
38806Was not the Church to be a field of wheat and tares growing together till the harvest at the end of the world?
38806Was not the civil law far better than the Mosaic-- more philosophical, nearer just?
38806Was that a violation of the"laws of social morality and decency"?
38806Was the son the property of the father?
38806Was there among all the countless millions of almighty Rome an intellect that could have written the tragedy of"Julius CÃ ¦ sar"?
38806Was there any lack of"reverential calm"in my question?
38806Was there any such thought in my Reply?
38806Was there anything in the worship of Venus worse than giving captured maidens to satisfy the victor''s lust?
38806Was there as much dread of God among the Pagans as there has been among Christians?
38806Was there ever a barbarian nation more savage than the Spain of the sixteenth century?
38806Was there no design in having an infinite designer?
38806Was there"husbandry in heaven"?
38806Was this a miracle?
38806Was this an honest error?
38806Was your God once an abolitionist?
38806We make mistakes and failures because we are finite; but can you conceive of any excuse for an infinite being who creates failures?
38806Were not his teachings practiced by Moses and Joshua and Jephthah and Samuel and David?
38806Were not the laws of the Romans much better?
38806Were the Pagans who embraced Christianity heartless sons and daughters?
38806Were the early Christians lacking in respect for their fathers and mothers?
38806Were the greatest men of all antiquity without this standard?
38806Were the opinions formed by the English Parliament on the Treaty of Limerick formed without the intervention of the will?
38806Were they all"concocted by a combination of knaves"?
38806Were they honest?
38806What advance has been made in what you are pleased to call the doctrine of the brotherhood of man, through the instrumentality of the church?
38806What are the retributions of history?
38806What became of Lazarus?
38806What becomes of the sacredness of the home, if the law compels those who abhor each other to sit at the same hearth?
38806What becomes of those who have heard but have not believed?
38806What can increase the happiness of this world more than to do away with every form of slavery, and with all war?
38806What can increase the misery of mankind more than to increase wars and put chains upon more human limbs?
38806What consideration does he receive?
38806What consideration does the infinite being give?
38806What could I say?
38806What could be more incredible?
38806What did Christianity in the early centuries do for the home?
38806What did God bind himself to do?
38806What do I mean by this question?
38806What do these causes find to disintegrate?
38806What do you mean by"spiritual intuition"?
38806What do you think of Abraham, of Jephthah?
38806What do you think of Abraham, of Jephthah?
38806What do you think of Abraham?
38806What does he get?
38806What does he say?
38806What does the Archdeacon mean by"spirit"?
38806What does the word"evidence"mean?
38806What does this demonstrate?
38806What does this prove?
38806What effect has that promise had upon family life?
38806What else does the minister say to the poor people who have answered the chimes of your bell?
38806What evidence have they on which to found this belief?
38806What followed?
38806What have corrupt and cruel judgments pronounced by corrupt and cruel judges to do with their real opinions?
38806What have nunneries and monasteries, and what has the glorification of celibacy done for the family?
38806What have you to say of the apostles?
38806What hope was there that such a teacher should convert imperial Rome?
38806What impression has Catholicism made upon the many millions of China, of Japan, of India, of Africa?
38806What is a man who has only been born once, to do?
38806What is a vicar of Christ?
38806What is common sense?
38806What is conscience?
38806What is evil?
38806What is good?
38806What is he?
38806What is idolatry?
38806What is justice?
38806What is moral purity?
38806What is passion?
38806What is right and what is wrong?
38806What is right?
38806What is that to thee?
38806What is the difference between one who can and will not cure, and one who causes disease?
38806What is the effect of divorce on the integrity of the family?
38806What is the effect of divorce on the integrity of the family?
38806What is the foundation of his choice?
38806What is the ordinary man to do?
38806What is the testimony of St. John worth in the light of the following?
38806What is the treasure in the keeping of the church?
38806What is this Catholic faith that must be held?
38806What is wrong?
38806What is your opinion of Jehovah himself?
38806What is your opinion of Jehovah himself?"
38806What is your opinion of Jehovah himself?"
38806What man must we take as the standard?
38806What must you say?
38806What must you say?
38806What opportunity is given to them to"suffer and be strong"?
38806What part of this contract or sacrament remains in living force?
38806What power was there in this isolated Man?
38806What proportion is there between the cause and the effect?
38806What race, what nation, has been redeemed through the instrumentality of this"divine scheme"?
38806What reason have you for believing that your God will do better in another world than he has done and is doing in this?
38806What right have you to occupy the position of the deists, and to put forth arguments that even Christians have answered?
38806What shall we say of a God who established slavery, and then had the effrontery to say,"Thou shalt not steal"?
38806What shall we say of a God who has one of his children stoned to death for picking up sticks on Sunday, and allows another to enslave his fellow- man?
38806What shall we say of the followers of Buddha, who far outnumber the followers of Christ?
38806What should I have done?
38806What then is the basis of this religion which you despise?
38806What unseen virtues went out of Him to change the world?
38806What was it in the days of Galileo, Copernicus and Kepler?
38806What was it when the Western World was found?
38806What was the world when science came?
38806What was the"Almighty Friend"worth to her?
38806What were the retributions of history?
38806What will there be left of the supernatural?
38806What will you say to that mother?
38806What witnesses shall we call?
38806What would I think of myself, had I the power by a word to send the blood through all her withered limbs freighted again with life, should I refuse?
38806What would the opinion of a man without passions, affections, or fancies be worth?
38806What would we think of a law that allowed the innocent to take the place of the guilty?
38806What would we think of a man who would allow another to die for a crime that he himself had committed?
38806What would you call such a proceeding now?
38806What would you say of a mechanic who was forced to destroy his own productions on the ground that they were"incurably bad"?
38806What would you say of a school teacher who should kill one- third of the children on the morning of the first day?
38806What would you think of a man who was willing that his wife should become the mistress of the king, provided the king would make him presents?
38806What would you think of a mother who would deride and taunt her misshapen babe?
38806What, I pray you, is the"heavenly treasure"in the keeping of your church?
38806What- was it when printing was invented?
38806When anything refuses to grow, are we certain that the seed was planted by God?
38806When did it cease so to be?
38806When did this"spiritual intuition"become the property of man-- before, or after, birth?
38806When has any God listened to the prayer of any man?
38806When that book is opened, and we read its awful pages, shall we not all think"what might have been?"
38806When they were uttered, did"righteousness and peace kiss each other"?
38806When you think of one as three, how do you get the other two?
38806When you think of three as one, what do you do with the other two?
38806When, and where, and how did I lose mine?
38806Whence came the elevation of womanhood?
38806Where did you get your right to express your honest thoughts?
38806Where do they get"elevation of character"?
38806Where is a way to escape from the effect of a cause that is eternal?
38806Where is he now?"
38806Where will he find in the Old Testament the rights of wife, and mother, and daughter defined?
38806Whereupon Peter said:"''Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much?''
38806Which of the fragments was universal-- which was immutable?
38806Which of the warring sects in America has this treasure; or have we, in this country, only the"rust and cankers"?
38806Who are the greatest and wisest and most virtuous of mankind?
38806Who can be a disciple of Jesus Christ who does not believe the words?
38806Who can describe exhaustively the origin of civil society?
38806Who can describe exhaustively the origin of civil society?
38806Who can describe that which unites men?
38806Who has entered into the formation of speech, which is the symbol of their union?
38806Who has entered into the formation of speech, which is the symbol of their union?
38806Who has taught the equality of men before the law, and extinguished the impious thought that man can hold property in man?
38806Who is the superior man?
38806Who knows how little has been resisted by those who stand, how much has been resisted by those who fall?
38806Who knows that the universe was created?
38806Who knows the strength of the temptation to another?
38806Who knows whether the victor or the victim made the braver and the more gallant fight?
38806Who listens?
38806Who told him that the devilish spirit of persecution was authorized, or encouraged, or not forbidden, by the Gospel?
38806Who will ascribe this to natural causes?
38806Why cautiously?
38806Why did Jehovah fail to establish hospitals and schools?
38806Why did Mr. Black fail to answer what I said in relation to the doctrine of inspiration?
38806Why did he accept the vow?
38806Why did he allow a contract to be made giving only to death the annulling power?
38806Why did he allow the savages to depend on sunrise and sunset and clouds?
38806Why did he fail to enlighten the worshipers of"Mammon"and Moloch, of Belial and Baal, of Bacchus and Venus?
38806Why did he fail to speak?
38806Why did he go dumbly to his death, leaving the world to misery and to doubt?
38806Why did he hide this imperfect light under a bushel?
38806Why did he leave them without a bible, without prophets and priests?
38806Why did he leave this great truth to a few half- crazed prophets, or to a cruel, heartless, and ignorant church?
38806Why did he not cry, You shall not persecute in my name; you shall not burn and torment those who differ from you in creed?
38806Why did he not emerge from the darkness?
38806Why did he not explain the doctrine of the Trinity?
38806Why did he not furnish every nation with a Bible?
38806Why did he not give the Scriptures to the Hindu, the Greek, and Roman?
38806Why did he not leave them unconscious dust?
38806Why did he not plainly say, I am the Son of God?
38806Why did he not say something positive, definite, and satisfactory about another world?
38806Why did he not tell his disciples, and through them the world, that man should not persecute, for opinion''s sake, his fellow- man?
38806Why did he not tell the manner of baptism that was pleasing to him?
38806Why did he not tell them what world he had visited?
38806Why did he not turn the tear- stained hope of heaven to the glad knowledge of another life?
38806Why did he use the word"some"?
38806Why did not Jehovah, the"Father of all,"give them the Ten Commandments?
38806Why did not the Catholic God commence''with the sinless and sexless?
38806Why did the real God secrete himself and allow his poor, ignorant, savage children to imagine that he was a beast, a serpent?
38806Why did this God allow mothers to sacrifice their babes?
38806Why did you end the series with Shakespeare?
38806Why do they feel it incumbent upon them to explain that which they admit God would have explained had the human mind been capable of understanding it?
38806Why do you defend that which you can not understand?
38806Why do you hold the intellect criminally responsible for opinions, when you admit that it is controlled by the will?
38806Why does he not open the eyes of the blind now?
38806Why does he not with a touch make the leper clean?
38806Why does your reason volunteer as a soldier under the flag of the incomprehensible?
38806Why fill the world with the children of indifference and hatred?
38806Why hast thou forsaken me?"
38806Why is all this?
38806Why is idolatry the worst of sins?
38806Why is it that he who made all the constellations did not put in his heaven the star of hope?
38806Why is it that it lives on and on, while nations and kingdoms perish?
38806Why is it that the Catholic Church"lives on and on, while nations and kingdoms perish"?
38806Why is it that we love color-- that we are pleased with harmonies, or with a succession of sounds rising and falling at measured intervals?
38806Why is the living God, whom Christians believe to be the Lord of liberty and Father of lights, denounced as the keeper of a loathsome dungeon?
38806Why not leave it as an infinite God made it?
38806Why not stop preaching and let the entire world become heathen, so that after this, no soul may be lost?
38806Why should God permit the triumph of injustice?
38806Why should God, a being of infinite tenderness, leave the question of immortality in doubt?
38806Why should He allow the honest, the loving, the noble, to perish at the stake?"
38806Why should He treat all alike here, and in another world make an infinite difference?
38806Why should Jehovah allow his worshipers, his adorers, to be destroyed by his enemies?
38806Why should a God demand a sacrifice from man?
38806Why should a God of infinite wisdom create men and women whom he knew would be"incurably bad"?
38806Why should a being who destroys nations with pestilence and famine expect that his children will be loving and forgiving?
38806Why should a husband and wife be compelled to live with each other after love is dead?
38806Why should a man be willing to let the innocent suffer for him?
38806Why should a man who faithfully kept his contract of marriage, and who was deserted by an unfaithful wife, be punished for the benefit of society?
38806Why should a pure woman worship a God who upheld polygamy?
38806Why should an Archdeacon be cruel, or even ill- bred?
38806Why should an Infinite Being demand worship?
38806Why should an infinitely wise God desire this development and consolidation?
38806Why should an infinitely wise and powerful God destroy the good and preserve the vile?
38806Why should any civilized man worship him?
38806Why should any man depend on the goodness of a God who created countless millions, knowing that they would suffer eternal grief?
38806Why should he allow the honest, the loving, the noble, to perish at the stake?
38806Why should he be convicted and punished for what he could not help?
38806Why should he be doomed to live without a home?
38806Why should he create souls that he knew would be lost?
38806Why should he fortify a heathen in his crimes?
38806Why should he have created uncounted billions destined to suffer forever?
38806Why should he kneel to the unchangeable?
38806Why should he see millions in savagery destroying the lives of each other, eating the flesh of each other, and keep his existence a secret from man?
38806Why should he treat all alike here, and in another world make an infinite difference?
38806Why should he waste a seventh of his whole life in hearing the same thoughts repeated again and again?
38806Why should her life be destroyed because of his?
38806Why should his name"be encircled with love and tenderness in any human heart"?
38806Why should infinite goodness leave the existence of God in doubt?
38806Why should man worship the inflexible?
38806Why should not every human being be in"abject terror"who believes your doctrine?
38806Why should one God wish to be worshiped as three?
38806Why should one who admits that he himself is totally depraved call any other man, by way of reproach, a monster?
38806Why should she be chained to a criminal and an outcast?
38806Why should she be punished for the dishonesty or brutality of another?
38806Why should the Infinite ask anything from the finite?
38806Why should the Reply assume that it is on account of the sacrifice of his child?
38806Why should the fatal gift of brain be given to any human being, if such gift renders him liable to eternal hell?
38806Why should the infinite ask anything from the finite?
38806Why should the infinite ask anything from the finite?
38806Why should the infinite demand a sacrifice from man?
38806Why should the loving be tortured?
38806Why should the noblest be destroyed?
38806Why should the wife still be bound in indissoluble chains to a husband who is cruel, infamous, and false?
38806Why should the world be filled with misery, with ignorance, and with want?
38806Why should there be more than one correct account of anything?
38806Why should they attempt to kill the Master of Death?
38806Why should three Gods wished to be worshiped as one?
38806Why should we desire the destruction of human passions?
38806Why should we pray to one God and think of three, or pray to three Gods and think of one?
38806Why should your God allow His worshipers, His adorers, to be destroyed by His enemies?
38806Why should your God allow his worshipers, his adorers, to be destroyed by his enemies?
38806Why then do not theologians stop explaining?
38806Why then should evidence be weighed?
38806Why then should the father make demands of love, obedience, and sacrifice, from his young child?
38806Why was it not revealed by Jehovah?
38806Why were four gospels necessary?
38806Why were men and women created?
38806Why were the worshipers of false deities as brave, as kind, and generous as those who knew the only true and living God?
38806Why would your God people a world, knowing that it would be destitute of benevolence for four thousand years?
38806Why"claiming"?
38806Why, then, do you accept them?
38806Why, then, does he throw polygamy into the face of the religion which abhors it?
38806Why, you ask, do men suffer so?
38806Why?
38806Why?
38806Why?
38806Why?
38806Why?
38806Why?
38806Will God hold a poor girl to the bitter dregs of a mistaken bargain?
38806Will Mr. Black be kind enough to state at what time"the church covered the globe with institutions of mercy"?
38806Will Mr. Black have the kindness to state a few of his objections to the devil?
38806Will he be more merciful?
38806Will he be wiser?
38806Will he deride the misshapen?
38806Will he have more power?
38806Will he not desire the higher and better side to be true?
38806Will he not take into consideration the imperfections, the ignorance, the temptations and the passions of his children?
38806Will he tell him the circumstances under which he received the revelation?
38806Will he tell him why he is convinced that it was from God?
38806Will it add to the grief of God?
38806Will it in any way affect his well- being?
38806Will it increase the happiness of the infinite for me to remain homeless and husbandless?
38806Will it make any difference to God whether it is kept or not?
38806Will not all the redeemed assassins remember the faces of the dead?
38806Will not all the redeemed rascals remember their rascality?
38806Will the Archdeacon be kind enough to tell how the spirit can be approached passing by the reason, the understanding, the judgment and the intellect?
38806Will the Christians of America admit this?
38806Will the angels in heaven, the redeemed of earth, lose their memory?
38806Will the lost be the only ones who will know that the right thing has been done, and will they alone appreciate the"ethical elements of religion"?
38806Will the pulpits of the United States adopt the arguments of this"policeman"?
38806Will the reverend gentleman tell us, and without circumlocution, whether the acceptance of Christianity is necessary to the salvation of anybody?
38806Will they repeat the words that you have quoted:"Mercy and judgment are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other"?
38806Will this ever come to pass?
38806Will you be kind enough to tell me your opinion of the apostles in the light of this story?
38806Will you have the kindness to explain what it is to act contrary to evidence, or contrary to common sense?
38806Will you read a portion of the Presbyterian Confession of Faith?
38806Will you read this?
38806Will you tell me why God failed to give his Bible to the whole world?
38806With great propriety it may be asked: In the keeping of which church is this"heavenly treasure"?
38806Within their jurisdiction are life, liberty and property safer than anywhere else?
38806Without desiring to hurt the feeling?
38806Would Elizabeth have had no leaning towards finding Mary Stuart implicated in a conspiracy?
38806Would a good father allow some of his children to kill others of his children to please him?
38806Would a loving God, with fierce hail from heaven, bruise and kill the innocent cattle for the crimes of their owners?
38806Would an infinitely loving God hold his ignorant children in derision?
38806Would he lead them with gentle hands toward the light, or lie in wait for them like a wild beast?
38806Would he pity, or mock?
38806Would he torment, torture and destroy them for the sins of men?
38806Would it be possible for him to have an idea?
38806Would it not be far better to fill the young man''s mind with facts so that he may know exactly the physical consequences of such acts?
38806Would it not be much easier to prove that science is of divine origin?
38806Would it not have been better if man, before the poor woman was blinded, had put asunder whom God had joined together?
38806Would it not have been far better had he said:"I come not to bring a sword, but peace"?
38806Would not that be a second violation instead of a vindication?
38806Would not this have saved countless cruelties and countless lives?
38806Would not your argument, Mr. Black, have been just as good in the mouth of a Brahmin then, as it is in yours now?
38806Would they have dared to crucify a man who had the power to clothe the dead with life?
38806Would you not rather trust a wise and honest man with the lightning?
38806Would you rob her of that Unseen Friend-- the only Friend she had on earth or in heaven?
38806Would you say that he was an infinitely wise mechanic?
38806Would you still read from your Confession of Faith, or from your Catechism-- this?
38806Would you tell her that to think of a world without poverty, without tears, without pain, is"a child''s picture"?
38806Would you then put this serpent in her breast?
38806Yet so it has come to pass; and how?
38806You ask me whether I would"rob this poor woman of such a friend?"
38806You ask me, What is Christianity?
38806You ask:"Why then should the father make demands of love, obedience, and sacrifice from his young child?"
38806You further say, that your simple object was to answer the question"What is Christianity?"
38806You have asked me what is to become of one who seduces and betrays, of the criminal with the blood of his victim upon his hands?
38806You may ask, And what of all this?
38806You seem to ask me whether divorce from the bond of marriage can ever be allowed?
38806and can two such issues be equally attractive to a moral agent?
38806and if he desire, will he not incline to the side that he desires to find true?
38806and, if so, why did it not appear in the first four thousand years?
38806any virtue in this?
38806deeper than Hell; what canst thou know?"
38806impress the intelligence of the Great Republic?
38806is the revealed law of purity, generosity, perfection, divine, or only the poetry of imagination?
38806of Jephthah?
38806or will those words be spoken by the redeemed as they joyously contemplate the writhings of the lost?
38806or, if she leaves him to preserve her life, must she remain his wife for his sake?
38806seize it, and is it now in the keeping of the Church of England?
38806that he sees no choice between the murder of helpless age, of weeping women and of sleeping babes, and the defence of liberty and nationality?
38806that such a doctrine should exorcise the fullness of human pride and lust?
38806this the arch that supports the dome of civilization?
38806this the corner- stone of society?
38806whether this is the tone in which controversy ought to be carried on?
38810Anything else?
38810Did you do anything on account of it?
38810Did you ever claim anything from Dorsey?
38810Did you ever say anything to Dorsey about it?
38810Did you ever say anything to anybody that you had any claim against Dorsey?
38810Did you ever write to him?
38810Did you know the contents?
38810Did you know what it meant?
38810Did you make the entries at the time they purport to have been made?
38810Did you not tell Bosler that you wrote it?
38810Did you swear to it?
38810Did you tell Hesing that Hoyt was innocent?
38810Did you tell Mr. Hesing that Munn was not in it?
38810Did you tell him that Munn never was in it-- that Munn was innocent?
38810Do n''t you know, as a matter of fact, that he was here on the 3d of April, 1878?
38810Do you believe I care anything about that? 38810 How did you come to see it, John?"
38810How is your mother?
38810How many books did you have? 38810 Is that the way you treat a friend?
38810Mr. Hesing, did Mr. Rehm tell you that Hoyt was innocent?
38810Mr. Rehm, did you ever give Mr. Burroughs notice that Mr. Munn was coming in order that he might put his house in order?
38810Very well,said he,"what will you give me?"
38810Well, but,says Rerdell,"do n''t you know the trial is going on now?
38810Well, how is your grandmother?
38810Well,Jackson answered,"I asked Hopkins--""Who else?"
38810Well,he said,"do you know the widow Thompson?"
38810Well,says Rerdell,"my good God, ai n''t there any way I can get out of this?"
38810What else do you want?
38810What for?
38810What has that to do with this divorce case?
38810What more can you let us have?
38810When was it filed?
38810Why did n''t they call Bosler?
38810Why did n''t you call so- and- so?
38810Why did they not when they were to carry additional trips give a new bond?
38810Why?
38810Why?
38810Yes,he says;"but, my God, suppose the other dogs should hear of it?"
38810; they would have had all those affidavits showing substantially the same per cent., would n''t they?
38810A conspiracy to do what?
38810A failing contractor on the hundredth route?
38810A fraudulent order of August, 1879. Who made it?
38810About how long would it take you to break me up?
38810According to the testimony of Roelle those people were at dinner, and where, gentlemen, is the philosophy of that lie which they have told?
38810After he got the originals copied why did he not burn up the originals so that nobody could ever find them in his possession?
38810After he got these routes what did he do?
38810Again I ask why would not the Government give him his price?
38810Again I ask you, gentlemen, why would Mr. Dorsey give such a paper to Rerdell?
38810Ah, but they say, do n''t you remember those Clendenning bonds?
38810All the horses engaged in the business; those that are drawing corn for the others, as well as the rest, will you not?
38810Am I criminal if I go on and perform the contract as I agreed and draw the money?
38810And I said we would not produce them?
38810And I suppose when you retire, the first question for you to decide will be: Was there a conspiracy?
38810And do n''t you remember that he went into a kind of homily on neighborhood gossip, that hardly anybody escaped?
38810And do you know some of the meanest things in this world have been done in the name of reform?
38810And do you not recollect the delight, the abandon with which Mr. Bliss emphasized the word house, when he said that they met at Dorsey''s house?
38810And has it come to, this?
38810And how do I know?
38810And how do they support this will that has in it the internal evidence that it was written by James R. Eddy?
38810And if Donnelly had the books, how did Rerdell write the information before he went to Donnelly?
38810And if he did discontinue it, was he under any obligation to allow a month''s extra pay?
38810And now are you going to be such a perfect devil as to have me arrested for perjury for making that same affidavit?"
38810And now we come to the word"liberal,"is that a hard word to define?
38810And that they found the office open?
38810And then how does it happen that Rerdell kept it?
38810And then they come to Thomas J. Brady, and they tell you that that man is to be convicted upon the testimony of whom?
38810And was he afraid also that you would believe it?
38810And what did he say when he got through with it?
38810And what did he want to be believed for?
38810And what else does he swear to?
38810And what else?
38810And what else?
38810And what have you done with the other three wills that you have in this case?
38810And what is that?
38810And what is that?
38810And what is that?
38810And what is the next charge?
38810And what kind of words are misspelled?
38810And what more?
38810And what right has a man who is carrying the mail to interfere with the policy of the Post- Office Department?
38810And what was the object of the letter?
38810And what were the means at his command?
38810And who else?
38810And why did he make that remark to you, gentlemen?
38810And why do I say it?
38810And why not?
38810And why was Munn going to make trouble?
38810And why?
38810And why?
38810And why?
38810And why?
38810And why?
38810And why?
38810And why?
38810And why?
38810And will you say that Job Davis did not know the word administrators?
38810And will you say the ordinary word give was spelled by this educated young man"guive"?
38810And you wrote John Smith first, and I changed it to Sam Jones, do n''t you recollect, as otherwise there would be two Smiths?
38810Any need of publishing his will?
38810Any need of reading any more than the attesting clause to the attesting witnesses?
38810Any need to divulge a line?
38810Are there not two petitions there altered?
38810As I say, how does it happen to be in the possession of Rerdell?
38810At the time you burned your books had you any knowledge that they contained any evidence of fraud against the Government?
38810At the time?
38810Because of patriotism?
38810Because the moment he got there he could be asked, Where did you find the will?
38810Bosler?"
38810But do you not see it made no difference?
38810But is it fair, gentlemen, for a prosecuting officer to state to you that he supposed all the routes of Dorsey were expedited?
38810But suppose it turns out that the substitution did not take an extra dollar from the United States?
38810But what did we offer?
38810But what has that to do with us?
38810But what more?
38810But why did they not tell the facts?
38810But, gentlemen, is there enough even to bind him?
38810By what he does for whom?
38810By whom?
38810By whom?
38810Can I go back to Dorsey?
38810Can you believe that?
38810Can you believe this man who has been contradicted by every one brought upon the stand?
38810Can you believe this man?
38810Can you explain that on any other hypothesis?
38810Can you take his word after he has sworn as he has?
38810Could he by any possibility have alluded to the photograph when he said:"Did I say that Davis''s name was on it when I signed it?"
38810Could you locate it if you had a good map?
38810Could you write a fairer letter than that, to save your life?
38810Could you write a milder letter than that, to save your life, and refer to the subject?
38810Deny me the right to attend to my own affairs?
38810Did Boone take those bonds up to Dorsey and show them to him?
38810Did Dorsey at Saint Louis treat it as his bantling?
38810Did Dorsey make any such statement?
38810Did Dorsey write a letter to Bosler in which he admitted his guilt?
38810Did I say that, sir?
38810Did Job Davis rise from the dead and write another will?
38810Did Job Davis write the will?
38810Did Job Davis write this will?
38810Did Mr. Bliss at that time suppose that Mr. Dorsey was chairman of that committee?
38810Did Mr. Dorsey do anything about gathering information?
38810Did Mr. Dorsey, gentlemen, in your presence, swear that he had brought Rerdell up?
38810Did any man wearing the human form ever propose a more corrupt and infamous bargain?
38810Did he act like somebody trying to cover up a fraud?
38810Did he ask any questions?
38810Did he confess that he was guilty of the conspiracy set forth in this indictment?
38810Did he ever sign the photograph?
38810Did he give any advice?
38810Did he have it when he made his affidavit in July, 1882?
38810Did he have it when he made his affidavit in November?
38810Did he have it when he went to MacVeagh?
38810Did he have it when he went to Mr. Woodward in September?
38810Did he have it when he went to Woodward?
38810Did he have it when he went to the Postmaster- General?
38810Did he interfere with Mr. Boone in the business?
38810Did he know at that time that Rerdell had given his papers over to Mr. Woodward?
38810Did he know at that time that he had offered to challenge the friends of the defendants from the panel?
38810Did he know it was not true when he put it in the indictment?
38810Did he know that they were in the handwriting of Mr. Rerdell?
38810Did he mean for himself?
38810Did he not also swear that Vaile and Miner had not the interest of one cent in any route that went to Stephen W. Dorsey?
38810Did he not in every one of those transactions act like a reasonable, sensible, good man?
38810Did he pay too much for it?
38810Did he read them?
38810Did he say to him,"It is because we have got a conspiracy?
38810Did he tell the truth?
38810Did he think of saving Dorsey by going and getting these books?
38810Did he want his clerk to help him keep the secret, knowing that if the secret got wings it would render him infamous?
38810Did he want them?
38810Did he want to attend to these contracts?
38810Did he want to engage in carrying the mail of the United States?
38810Did he want to enter into some partnership by which the Government was to be fleeced?
38810Did he want to gratify his spite because he had made a bargain with them by which they were to realize hundreds of thousands of dollars?
38810Did he want to stay here?
38810Did he, in your presence, swear that he had done anything of the kind?
38810Did he, in your presence, swear that he had led him to infamy?
38810Did it take a conspiracy to leave them off?
38810Did it?
38810Did n''t he know that the bond was given to somebody else?
38810Did not I offer in this court to prove what was done with every solitary route we had?
38810Did not Mr. Ker know whether the routes had been expedited or not?
38810Did the prosecution know that Rerdell had made the two affidavits?
38810Did they contain the accounts of the subcontractors?
38810Did they expect to win this case on that indictment?
38810Did they indorse false petitions for the purpose of putting money in the pockets of these defendants?
38810Did they look out for productiveness?
38810Did we make one?
38810Did you ever hear of a grocery man endeavoring to cry down that which he wished you to buy?
38810Did you ever hear of a merchant crying down the quality of the cloth he wished to sell?
38810Did you ever know as much humanity in a conspiracy as that?
38810Did you ever know of a vender crying down his own wares?
38810Did you ever know of anybody on earth doing business at a smaller per cent, and paying for the trouble?
38810Did you ever know such a streak of benevolence to strike anybody?
38810Did you ever pay Jacob Rehm any money?
38810Did you ever sign that?"
38810Did you have any conversation with him in regard to this route, with regard to the needs of the country for mail service; and, if so, what was it?
38810Did you have two?
38810Did you not say that the decision there was that the conspiracy might be inferred from the combination to do the act?
38810Did you say it thinking that Munn did hear it?"
38810Do n''t you believe that they talked with somebody?
38810Do n''t you know that the mail is the pioneer of civilization?
38810Do n''t you recollect the two letters you asked Dorsey so much about?
38810Do n''t you remember that testimony?
38810Do n''t you see how everything fits together when you get at the facts?
38810Do n''t you see?
38810Do you believe it?
38810Do you believe it?
38810Do you believe it?
38810Do you believe that Brady would make a confident of him?
38810Do you believe that Brady would substantially admit in his presence that he had been bribed by Dorsey?
38810Do you believe that Job Davis spelled sheet-- a sheet of paper--"sheat"?
38810Do you believe that he ever had any such conversation?
38810Do you believe that he knows as much about the mail business as Colonel Bliss?
38810Do you believe that he knows as much about the wants of the great Northwest as the gentlemen who are prosecuting this case?
38810Do you believe that members of Congress of the Lower House and of the Senate were their agents and tools?
38810Do you believe that these defendants had at their beck and call the representatives of the entire great Northwest?
38810Do you believe that?
38810Do you believe that?
38810Do you believe they were dishonest men, and do you believe they asked for what they did not want?
38810Do you depend on just that thirty?
38810Do you know anything about any crookedness?"
38810Do you know her boy?
38810Do you not know that there ought to be a mail wherever the flag floats?
38810Do you not know, and do I not know, that the mail is the substantial benefit we get from the General Government?
38810Do you not remember what I told you?
38810Do you not see, gentlemen, it is utterly impossible to believe that?
38810Do you not think that it is better to get a man out of the Cabinet than to put another into the penitentiary?
38810Do you recollect the day of the month?
38810Do you recollect the number of the house?
38810Do you say now that the other routes of his, to the number you talked of, were expedited?
38810Do you see the red in that"Job"?
38810Do you see what a big idea that is?
38810Do you see?
38810Do you see?
38810Do you suppose that pays?
38810Do you tell me that under such circumstances, if Stephen W. Dorsey had conceived this thing, he would have gone off and left it?
38810Do you think I will allow any man willfully, maliciously, and with malice aforethought, to swear that I am an innocent man?
38810Do you think I would stand a lie of that kind, sir?
38810Do you think he is the kind of man who would let such a chance slip?
38810Do you think he would have done that if the will had not been signed, if it were worth only waste paper?
38810Do you think that fellow would vote to send a stupid man to Congress who could not get another mail?
38810Do you think that man would not sign a petition for another mail?
38810Do you want any better testimony than that, that Dorsey did refuse to advance any more money?
38810Do you want to be convicted on that kind of testimony?
38810Do you want to be locked up on that kind of testimony?
38810Do you want to be rendered infamous during your life upon the testimony of such men as Golsen and Conklin and Rehm?
38810Do you want to be separated from your wife or your child on that kind of evidence?
38810Do you want to go to the penitentiary with that kind of witnesses against you?
38810Do you?
38810Do you?
38810Do you?
38810Does it accord with our experience?
38810Does it accord with what we know?
38810Does it show that there was a conspiracy if Dorsey signed his name after Peck had sold out his interest in the routes?
38810Does it show that they had any conspiracy before that time?
38810Does not that very fact, that blanks were left, show that they were to take the judgment of the men who were to do the swearing?
38810Does that show that they were then in a conspiracy?
38810Does that show they were co- conspirators?
38810Donnelly?"
38810Dorsey had him already locked up there, do n''t you see?
38810Dorsey says,"Why?
38810Even Mr. Bliss, in his speech, asked,"Why did n''t they call Bosler?"
38810February 11, 1874, ninety- six cents, which made twenty- six cents; and so it went on in that way, until what?
38810For the sake of saving Dorsey?
38810For what purpose?
38810For what?
38810Fraudulently filing what?
38810From these figures, gentlemen, you will see it, and how high did it go?
38810From whom did they keep it secret?
38810Gentlemen, is it wonderful that all the people of the West want mails?
38810Gentlemen, is that your view of human nature, that a man can not become the friend of another suddenly?
38810Gentlemen, is there any depth of depravity below that?
38810Gentlemen, was it natural for S. W. Dorsey to get the money back that he had advanced, or some security for it?
38810Had it a revoking clause in it?
38810Had it been hatched at that time?
38810Had the egg of this crime then been laid?
38810Has Jacob Rehm told against this defendant a true story?
38810Has a man got to be so stupid that he will not take advantage of a perfectly plain thing in order to escape the charge of conspiracy?
38810Has all the testimony upon that point-- has the confession of Rerdell to MacVeagh and James shrunk to this little measure-- that it is"only a straw"?
38810Has any conspiracy been established beyond a reasonable doubt?
38810Has any evidence been introduced to show that the name of an insolvent man was put upon any bond as security?
38810Has any one of you ever had in his mind which side of the street that was on?
38810Has anybody shown that that was Job Davis''s habit?
38810Has it shrunk to this little measure?
38810Has not each one of you in his mind a reason why they did not bring the ones that they talked with?
38810Has not the humblest man in the United States a right to send a petition to Congress?
38810Has not the smallest man-- I will go further-- has not the meanest man the right to petition Congress?
38810Has the conspiracy as laid been proved by the evidence?
38810Has there any evidence been introduced to show that there was a bad bond?
38810Have I not the right on the next day to charge him twelve thousand dollars for it?
38810Have I not the right to get it carried as cheaply as I can?
38810Have the prosecution introduced one particle of testimony to show that there was?
38810Have they impeached Mr. Keith?
38810Have we not the right, gentlemen, to petition?
38810He came back here and settled up and sold out his interest for how much?
38810He found that he was about to fail with the Government, and then the important question to him was: Has Dorsey found this out?
38810He is asked, Were you a member of the Post- Office Committee in 1877?
38810He just said,"How much is it?"
38810He knew that he was suspected, did n''t he?
38810He not only wants you to believe it, gentlemen, but he asks twelve men-- you-- to swear that he came by it honestly, does n''t he?
38810He put his hand in his pocket and said,"Do you see those letters to that woman?"
38810He said:"But what are the payments?"
38810He then says,"Well, how shall we get out of this?"
38810He then was engaged in the sale of protection, was he not?
38810He wants you to believe that he came by it honestly, does n''t he?
38810He was pounding him away in the road with all his might, and a man came along and said to him,"What are you pounding that woodchuck for?"
38810He would not have discovered it if it had not been there, would he?
38810He, at that time, as appears from the evidence, was the attorney of Roots& Kerens; and who were they?
38810How are we to establish the fact that it was extravagance?
38810How are you going to prove that too much was paid for carrying the mail upon these routes?
38810How are you to find that this was extravagance unless you know what it could have been done for?
38810How came he to use the word"further"?
38810How can a man try not to remember?
38810How can the court determine that without passing upon the evidence in the case?
38810How comes that in his indictment?
38810How could he disguise his spelling?
38810How could such a question be raised, gentlemen?
38810How did I know what Senator you meant?
38810How did he act?
38810How did he come to destroy them?
38810How did he come to do that?
38810How did he come to keep it all this time?
38810How did he come to spell the name Reddell?
38810How did he ever get those affidavits?
38810How did he find that out?
38810How did he know any more about the service than Dorsey?
38810How did he turn it over?
38810How did that arch- conspirator, as they claim him to be, happen to write that letter to Clendenning?
38810How did these men come to bid so cheaply on some of these routes?
38810How did they appear to be the books of a firm?
38810How did they conspire?
38810How did they find these means, gentlemen?
38810How do you fix that?
38810How do you know that a thing is extravagant unless you know the price of it?
38810How do you know?
38810How do you prove it is extravagance?
38810How does he know?
38810How does he say it got to his house?
38810How does it happen that Mrs. Rerdell, when she was put on the stand, never mentioned that red book?
38810How does it happen that Rerdell wrote out the information for Donnelly, then got Donnelly to certify it, because Torrey had asked it?
38810How does it happen that Woodward was not sworn about it?
38810How does it happen that his name never figures in any division?
38810How does that work with you?
38810How else did Mr. Bliss find this out?
38810How fast?
38810How is a conspiracy proved?
38810How is it possible for a bid to be fraudulent?
38810How long could the money be drawn for that service in that country?
38810How long would a fraud like that last and live?
38810How long, in your judgment, would it be before the department would find out that there was no such post- office, no postmaster, and no mail?
38810How many Salt Creekers do you think it would take to convince you that he was around spelling sheet"sheat"?
38810How many cases of that occur in this will?
38810How many men will it take?
38810How many times?
38810How much did he agree to give you for it?
38810How much is the loss in this District per annum?
38810How much money did he get on all these routes?
38810How much money did you give Jacob Rehm?
38810How much money did your house give Rehm?
38810How much of that vast sum did he relieve the contractors from upon the evidence?
38810How much?
38810How much?
38810How often?
38810How sustained?
38810How was he to palm that off?
38810How were the affidavits made for his benefit?
38810How were the orders made for his benefit?
38810How were the petitions filed for his benefit?
38810How would he open an account with Mitchell without anything to be charged against him or to be credited?
38810How would that help him consummate a fraud?
38810How would the attorneys for the Government in this case like to have their fees settled upon that basis?
38810How would you correct one affidavit in blank by another affidavit in blank?
38810How would you feel, to find a verdict here that this is a good will, and afterwards have it turn out to be what it is-- an impudent, ignorant forgery?
38810How would you go to work to defraud the Government by filing a subcontract?
38810How?
38810How?
38810How?
38810I ask the gentlemen to tell us what men were in danger of making this trouble?
38810I ask you, Mr. Foreman, and I ask each of you, Was there a conspiracy at that time?
38810I ask you, also, if the testimony of Stephen W. Dorsey with regard to that transaction is not absolutely consistent with itself?
38810I ask you, as sensible, reasonable men, if he would have been offered a quarter interest under those circumstances?
38810I ask you, gentlemen, what evidence is there in this case that Mr. Brady ever conspired with any of these defendants?
38810I ask you; I ask your common sense; I appeal to your brains: Is it probable that he would do all that absolutely for nothing?
38810I asked Mr. Rerdell,"When you got that letter did you understand it?"
38810I entered into this conspiracy because you urged me to, and now after we have got the routes, you are going to abandon it"?
38810I said,"Did n''t you take these books over to New York in a carpet- sack?"
38810I said,"My little man, what are you going to do when you grow up?"
38810I say is it an excuse to give to his weeping wife?
38810I say why did you not bring in James W. Bosler and prove our guilt?
38810I then handed him a little paper, and asked him,"Do you know anything about that?
38810I want to ask you if there is a thing in all the evidence not consistent with innocence?
38810I wish to submit some authorities to the Court upon this question: Must the exact scheme be proved?
38810If I am an honest man I suppose I will jump the contract, wo n''t I?
38810If I am shown a paper and asked,"Is that Mr. Smith''s handwriting?"
38810If Miner had known that that petition was there that he had made, would he have allowed it to stay there?
38810If Mr. Munn had been why did n''t he say that Munn was?
38810If Rerdell expected to palm off the copies as the originals, why did he keep the originals?
38810If Rerdell had come to Donnelly to find what the account was, how did it happen to be in Rerdell''s handwriting before it got to Donnelly?
38810If Rerdell had the books, why did he want to go to Donnelly for information?
38810If a man tells the truth without being sworn, is that evidence that he is a dishonest man?
38810If corroboration was so necessary why were not their witnesses corroborated?
38810If he was the originator of the conspiracy would he have taken thirty per cent, burdened with a debt of twenty thousand dollars?
38810If he was, why did they have to get somebody close to Brady?
38810If he went to Donnelly to get the facts, how did Rerdell happen to write this before it got to Donnelly?
38810If it was for the purpose of stopping the men from making trouble, why not pay it to the men they wished to stop?
38810If it was to be a fraud, why put the post- office off the route?
38810If that was a perfectly honest will and came to him through perfectly pure channels, would he not want you to know it?
38810If the parties at that time had been conscious of guilt, why were any suspicious papers left on file?
38810If there had been any fraud about it, would they not have withdrawn the paper?
38810If there was a conspiracy of such a magnitude, why should Boone go out of it?
38810If they all agreed on the number of horses and men it would take, and about what it would cost, they would bid about alike, would n''t they?
38810If they had such a conspiracy what did they want of Mr. Moore?
38810If they had them all at one time together, and if he and Dorsey had talked about them, why were they not filed at the same time?
38810If this was done to prevent the men working at the rectifying- house from making trouble, why not pay the men?
38810If you say there is evidence, when was the division made?
38810If you say yes, then the next question for you to decide is, who conspired?
38810In 1878?
38810In March was there a conspiracy?
38810In a few days he says he started for New York, and the question arises, why did Rerdell go to New York at all?
38810In every crime in the world you have got to prove the four W''s-- Who, When, What, Where?
38810In reference to what particular point?
38810In the first place, what is a conspiracy?
38810Instead of robbing the Government the Government has robbed us; and they say,"Why did you not bring Bosler?"
38810Is a man to be regarded as a conspirator because some outsider thinks he got too good a bargain?
38810Is circumstantial evidence sufficient?
38810Is corruption all we are distinguished for?
38810Is he candid now?
38810Is it a crime to make a good bargain with the Government?
38810Is it a crime to make money?
38810Is it a crime?
38810Is it a genuine will?
38810Is it an excuse to give to his child:"I sent your father to the penitentiary upon the evidence of Jacob Rehm"?
38810Is it an excuse to give to his pallid, invalid wife?
38810Is it any evidence of fraud?
38810Is it because we are a nation of rascals that the word America sheds light in every hut and in every tenement in Europe?
38810Is it because we are distinguished for corruption that that one word, America, is the dawn of a career to every poor man in the Old World?
38810Is it because we have such a reputation for corruption that a million people from foreign lands sought homes under our flag last year?
38810Is it genuine?
38810Is it honest?
38810Is it my duty under such circumstances to go and notify the Government that I have cheated it, and that I would like to have it put the contract down?
38810Is it natural, is it probable, is it reasonable?
38810Is it natural?
38810Is it natural?
38810Is it not absurd to suppose any such thing?
38810Is it not perfectly wonderful that this memorandum should be in imitation of Rerdell''s writing, when it was written by Dorsey?
38810Is it not wonderful that he felt called upon at that time to tell several falsehoods?
38810Is it not wonderful that such a conspiracy should have existed in all the Western States at one time?
38810Is it possible he would turn himself into a scavenger cart into which should be thrown all the moral offal of the city of Chicago for nothing?
38810Is it possible that any politician was envious of his place and power?
38810Is it possible that any politician was envious of the influence he had with President Garfield?
38810Is it possible that he had interfered with the career of some piece of mediocrity?
38810Is it possible that he would hire and bribe other men to commit these crimes for nothing?
38810Is it possible that he would tell a lie, gentlemen?
38810Is it possible that it is because he was the chief man politically?
38810Is it possible that the pioneer can get beyond the Government?
38810Is it possible that this Government can not afford to carry the mail?
38810Is it possible that those notes were about the route- book?
38810Is it possible the prosecution will say that he lied on the 13th of July, 1882, but in 1883, having met with a change of heart, he told the truth?
38810Is it possible, I say, that a man would make himself the sewer of all the official rot in this city, in which was deposited the excrement of frauds?
38810Is it possible, gentlemen, that there is any necessity for resorting to such statements?
38810Is it possible, then, that Mr. Bliss was afraid that Mr. Dorsey would swear that he took it West?
38810Is it possible?
38810Is it possible?
38810Is it probable a man would commit all these crimes for nothing?
38810Is it probable he would lay himself liable to the penitentiary every hour in the day for two years for nothing?
38810Is it productive?
38810Is it reasonable for him to take such care of it as he does of his own?
38810Is it worth anything?
38810Is n''t it altogether more natural, more reasonable, more probable, to say that a bad speller misspelled the words than that a good speller did?
38810Is n''t it wonderful beyond the circumference of belief, that a good speller and bad speller happened to misspell the same words?
38810Is not that the date of the order in the case?
38810Is not that the date of the order?
38810Is not that true?
38810Is that a crime?
38810Is that a fraud?
38810Is that a fraud?
38810Is that all born of the fancy of this gentleman?
38810Is that consistent with innocence?
38810Is that corroboration?
38810Is that his idea of Christianity?
38810Is that not exactly what he swore to on this stand?
38810Is that the result of being distinguished for corruption?
38810Is that the result of corruption, or is it the result of labor, of integrity and of virtue?
38810Is that the way people talk that conspire together?
38810Is that what you would call a voucher?
38810Is the amount disproportionate to his estate?
38810Is the overt act a part of the crime, and must it, be described with the same particularity that you describe the offence?
38810Is there any charge in this case relative to them?
38810Is there any evidence as to the words we used?
38810Is there any evidence in this case that Mr. Brady ever conspired with anybody?
38810Is there any evidence in this case that the subcontractors stole any letters on account of not having taken the oath?
38810Is there any evidence of it?
38810Is there any evidence of it?
38810Is there any evidence of it?
38810Is there any evidence of that kind?
38810Is there any evidence of that letter in this trial?
38810Is there any evidence of the conversation between Torrey and Dorsey?
38810Is there any evidence of what you say?
38810Is there any evidence that any route of Dorsey''s was expedited not mentioned in this indictment?
38810Is there any evidence that the signatures of real persons were attached, and the real persons did not live upon the routes?
38810Is there any evidence that they were all reported to Congress?
38810Is there any fraud now in that route?
38810Is there any law against a tinsmith bidding to carry the mails?
38810Is there any other man connected with this trial that ever did a more generous, nay, a more loving and lovely thing?
38810Is there any proof of that?
38810Is there any safety in human society if you will take the testimony of a perjured man?
38810Is there any safety in the world if you take the testimony of these men, especially when character avails nothing?
38810Is there any such provision in the statute?
38810Is there anything criminal in that?
38810Is there anything in a point like that?
38810Is there anything in the indictment about them?
38810Is there anything suspicious up to this time?
38810Is there enough to make a respectable suspicion even in the mind of jealousy?
38810Is there the slightest evidence that a fraudulent communication was ever sent to the department?
38810Is there the slightest evidence that a fraudulent letter was ever written?
38810Is there the slightest scintilla of testimony to show that Mr. Vaile came into this business through any improper motive?
38810Is this country distinguished only for its corruption throughout Europe?
38810Is this will written in that kind of hand?
38810It is a little curious he never wrote a letter to James Davis and said,"Where is the will, have you got it?"
38810It is an awfully awkward thing to deal with after you?
38810It is perfectly clear, is it not?
38810It was made on the 15th day of January, 1878. Who made it?
38810It was necessary to have a good charge on paper, and why?
38810James knew that he had gone over to New York to get those books, and he asked him,"Did you get the books?"
38810John W. Dorsey?
38810Let me inquire of the counsel for the defence if there are to be any other arguments upon their side?
38810May it please your Honor, in this route the only point is, had the Postmaster General the right to discontinue the service?
38810Miner?
38810More than that, is there any evidence as to who forged any names to any petitions?
38810Mr. Bliss says,"Why did he say the books were in New York?
38810Mr. Jackson was on the stand, Senator Sanders asked him,"Whoever told you anything against him?"
38810Must we treat the Government as though it were imbecile?
38810Must you do business with the Government as though you were contracting with an infant or an idiot?
38810Must you look at both sides of the contract?
38810Neither will they say whether that sum was made up in one check or by adding together a number of checks; and, if so, what number?
38810Now the question arises, who opened it?
38810Now, I ask you if it is not wonderful that Moore never told Boone that there was a conspiracy on foot?
38810Now, I ask you if the other parties were willing to swear to anything that these men would write, why were they made that way?
38810Now, I ask you, gentlemen, is there any sense in that story?
38810Now, I say, the question is: Who wrote this will?
38810Now, I submit to you, gentlemen, what does that mean?
38810Now, I will ask you again if he came by that will honestly, fairly, above board, would he not be glad to tell you the story?
38810Now, a copy would not show in whose handwriting the press- copy was, would it?
38810Now, comes another question: Who wrote this will?
38810Now, did Job Davis write this will?
38810Now, did it occur to him that he would save Dorsey in that way?
38810Now, do you believe such a story-- that he thought that man had the bond?
38810Now, do you not see how they moved to that town with the diabolical purpose of swindling this great Government?
38810Now, gentlemen, according to this evidence, you have got to determine, as I said in the outset, Was there a conspiracy?
38810Now, gentlemen, after the division of these routes what did Stephen W. Dorsey do?
38810Now, gentlemen, do you want to know how this fellow got caught?
38810Now, gentlemen, the responsibility is upon you, and what is that responsibility?
38810Now, gentlemen, why should he inform Burrows that Munn was about to make a visit here?
38810Now, if Donnelly wrote that after Rerdell had written, where did Rerdell get the information?
38810Now, if you want more mail, what are you to do?
38810Now, is it not infinitely surprising that Dorsey should imitate Rerdell without trying and without an object?
38810Now, is there the slightest evidence in the statement of the Government as to the frauds in this bidding?
38810Now, the next question is what is the law of accomplices, of informers?
38810Now, the next question is, was Job Davis a good speller?
38810Now, the next question, gentlemen, is what is meant by corroboration?
38810Now, the question is, did that second will revoke the first will?
38810Now, then, I say, they say to us,"Why do you not bring in James W. Bosler and prove your innocence?"
38810Now, then, gentlemen, what more?
38810Now, then, how did these names come in there?
38810Now, then, how must these overt acts be stated in this indictment?
38810Now, then, was this conspiracy entered into on August 7, 1878, when Boone went out?
38810Now, then, what more?
38810Now, then, you see that that is no badge of fraud, do you not?
38810Now, then, you take away the evidence of Mr. Rerdell as to Miner, and what is left?
38810Now, there is another little point: Why should Dorsey voluntarily put himself in the power of Rerdell by saying,"I have paid money to Brady"?
38810Now, they say, can you impeach Sconce?
38810Now, they say,"Why did n''t you put Bosler on?"
38810Now, was that will made?
38810Now, was there ever a conspiracy published so widely, that one end of the country kept so secret from the other?
38810Now, we have got to the division, and the question arises, was there a division?
38810Now, what did S. W. Dorsey do?
38810Now, what did he have in that letter- book?
38810Now, what do they say?
38810Now, what does Boone say on page 1584?
38810Now, what does Dorsey swear?
38810Now, what does Rehm come in to swear?
38810Now, what does that mean?
38810Now, what else?
38810Now, what else?
38810Now, what had he to do?
38810Now, what is that for?
38810Now, what is the history up to this time?
38810Now, what is the next great question in this case, and the question that will be argued at some length, probably, by the other side?
38810Now, what is the next?
38810Now, what is the proportion in both?
38810Now, what is the scheme of this indictment?
38810Now, what next did he do?
38810Now, what paper is that 87 X?
38810Now, what was Mr. Dorsey to do in the then state of the public mind?
38810Now, what was in that letter- book?
38810Now, what was the object in making this statement, unless it was pure forgetfulness?
38810Now, what were the papers?
38810Now, where is the evidence that he ever thought of this will, that he ever spoke of it?
38810Now, where was the whiskey being made that was crooked?
38810Now, why did Rerdell say he took the journal and left the ledger?
38810Now, why were these dates put in this indictment, gentlemen?
38810Now, why?
38810Now, why?
38810Now, will you permit Vaile to take advantage of his own wrong, and thus enable him to defraud another man out of his money?
38810Now, would not that be an intelligent contract?
38810Now,''when they came to write this indictment, why did they not tell the truth in it?
38810Of what use was Donnelly''s statement after Rerdell had made the calculation?
38810Of what use was it to Mr. Dorsey to keep that account?
38810Of what use was it to him to put down in a book,"I paid Brady eighteen thousand dollars"?
38810Of what?
38810Oh, they say, why did n''t they bring Knight in, and prove by him that he then recollected Mr. Keith?
38810On any more?
38810On page 2462, in answer to the question,"Did you not tell Carpenter that you brought no book from New York?"
38810On the principle, I suppose, of an account rendered and no objection made?
38810On the same page, in answer to the question,"Did you not tell French that you were trying to entrap James?"
38810One of the jurors got up and said that he would like to ask a question; he said,"What was the color of that dog?"
38810Or chairman of the subcommittee?
38810Or has every mail to treat this Government as though it was in its dotage?
38810Or must I go on and be cast away by him and be refused by the Government?
38810Ought a man to be sent to the penitentiary because he does not seize a house when there has been a technical violation without any fraud?
38810Profitable as these gentlemen appear to think it was, what did he do?
38810Q. I ask you in regard to your answer to that, if you did not say you did not?
38810Q. Mr. Rehm, did Mr. Abel ever give you any money?
38810Q. Mr. Rehm, how much money did the house of Dickenson& c Leach give you?
38810Rerdell replies,"What are you going to have me prosecuted for?"
38810Rerdell swears that acting upon the hint of General Brady he got a man to do-- what?
38810Rerdell?"
38810Said I,"Do n''t you know, as a matter of fact, that Dorsey was not here on the 3d of April, 1879?"
38810Said I,"What is it?"
38810Says Dorsey,"Do n''t you know you swore to a lie?
38810Sconce, in giving the history of the affair in Arkansas, was asked if he did n''t say,"Did I say that Davis''name was on it when I signed it?"
38810See?
38810Should the men that get the public attention in that direction be benefited, or the men who do nothing?
38810So, when Brady says to the contractor,"What will you carry the mail at six miles an hour for?"
38810Stephen W. Dorsey?
38810Suppose I said that the paper was only ten years old and it turned out that it was forty, is that a demonstration in favor of the other side?
38810Suppose I say to a man,"What will you take for that horse?"
38810Suppose that he was, what of it?
38810Suppose the experts had been wrong on both sides, and it had turned out to be iron ink, what would have happened then?
38810Suppose you should gain the applause of the whole United States by giving a false verdict; how would the echo of that applause strike your heart?
38810Take from this record the testimony of Rerdell, Walsh, and Moore, and what is left?
38810That being so, why should not affidavits have been made in blank?
38810That he is not only contradicted by all the evidence, but by himself, and how can you corroborate a man who tells no truth?
38810That his name never figures in any paper made in regard to this business?
38810That is a good reason for our not taking any routes with five trips, is it not?
38810That is natural, is n''t it?
38810That is not the slightest evidence of fraud, is it?
38810That is the question: Have they made out a case according to the scheme of the indictment?
38810That is to say, the scheme of this conspiracy?
38810That is, they had permission to withdraw it, and in the second affidavit is the interlineation"seven times a week,"is n''t it?
38810That looks honest, does n''t it?
38810That makes an aggregate of forty- five, does it not?
38810That question is this: Why did Dorsey retain Rerdell in his employ after the 20th of June, 1881?
38810That was done at that time, and why?
38810The Court: Was there ever such a letter?
38810The Government said to us,"Why did you not bring James W. Bosler to prove that?"
38810The Vice Chancellor: Is it of any significance?
38810The book that was copied had the Perkins account, and why?
38810The committee would send for him and would ask,"Mr. Donnelly, did you write in those books?"
38810The fellow says,"How will you tell?"
38810The first question then is: Who wrote the will of 1866?
38810The first thing he asked him when he got here was,"Have you done anything further against me?"
38810The lawyer asked,"What do you want of a divorce?"
38810The moment he repeated that conversation with Torrey, I said,"Where is Torrey?"
38810The next is, that whenever he discontinued a route or any part of a route, rather, he gave us a month''s extra pay; you heard that, did you not?
38810The next question arises, Can you find writing of Rerdell''s that looks like it?
38810The next question that arises, and which of course is at the very threshold of this case, is, did these parties conspire?
38810The next question, then, is what is the_ corpus delicti_; that is, in a case of conspiracy?
38810The old friend asked the boy,"How is your father?"
38810The old man put that question just as these witnesses were going out:"Do you know anything about any fraud?
38810The only objection to this order now is what?
38810The only question was,"Did Garfield write it?"
38810The owner says,"Why?"
38810The point is, who wrote"faster time"?
38810The question arises, how did that hurt the Government?
38810The question arises, upon what subject?
38810The question arises, was that a fraud?
38810The question is, Has any fact been substantiated in this case that contradicts a statement made in the opening?
38810The question is, was that money coming to John M. Peck?
38810The question is, whether the conspiracy as actually laid be proved by the evidence?"
38810The question now arises, did Mr. Rerdell take this money as charged?
38810The question then was what to do with him?
38810The second question you have to determine is, When?
38810The witnesses that came to the rescue of Sconce; how did they rescue him?
38810Then I asked him,"You had a contract with Dorsey, did you?"
38810Then if he wanted that information for Torrey, why did he not send it to him?
38810Then said Mr. Bliss to him,"That is not Mr. Dorsey''s writing?"
38810Then what becomes of the Mississippi?
38810Then what did he do?
38810Then what did he say?
38810Then what happened?
38810Then what happened?
38810Then what happened?
38810Then what is our condition?
38810Then what motive do you say they had in doing it?
38810Then where does that leave us?
38810Then would you say,"That is evidence that we have conspired"?
38810Then you come across this contradiction: Why should the name of J. H. Mitchell be there with nothing opposite to it?
38810There are two principal and important questions to be decided by you: First, is the will sought to be probated, the will of Andrew J. Davis?
38810There were two sets of those copies?
38810They could not get much closer than that, could they?
38810They got him, and offered what?
38810They say they only want what pertains to the mail business, but who is to judge of that?
38810They say to him,"Do n''t you know that you left out not only the amount of the bid, but the name of the bidder?"
38810They say to these witnesses,"Did you ever see such a clause as that in a subcontract before?"
38810They say,"Why do n''t you bring somebody to impeach Mr. Jacob Rehm?"
38810They would say,"What kind of protection have you got, sir?"
38810To July 24?
38810To the statement that was made in writing and given to you and the attorney- general by ex- Senator S. W. Dorsey?
38810To what statement do you refer?
38810To when?
38810Until the tax was raised from seventy cents to ninety cents, and what is it now?
38810Upon what meat do these officers feed that they are grown so great that an ordinary citizen may not address a petition to one of them?
38810Was Dickson indicted to bias public opinion?
38810Was Horace F. Page a conspirator?
38810Was Mr Dorsey here at that time?
38810Was Senator Hill a conspirator?
38810Was any contract granted upon those bonds or proposals?
38810Was any money paid out on it?
38810Was any such will made?
38810Was he a conspirator with their Representative in Congress from Oregon?
38810Was he afraid Brady would forget it?
38810Was he afraid he would forget it?
38810Was he at that time a conspirator?
38810Was he candid then?
38810Was he instructed to do it?
38810Was it a motive to steal something, or was it a motive simply to be correct?
38810Was it a receipt for any money?
38810Was it false?
38810Was it not consistent with innocence for Dorsey to open it and read it and then send for Boone and give it to him?
38810Was it not consistent with innocence for Peck to write S. W. Dorsey a letter?
38810Was it not consistent with innocence that John W. Dorsey met Peck at Oberlin, and that he met Miner in Sandusky?
38810Was it not consistent with innocence that Peck and Miner and John W. Dorsey should agree to bid?
38810Was it not natural for him to endeavor to convince distillers that he had plenty of protection to sell?
38810Was it not natural for him to make the distillers believe,"If you will give me ten dollars a barrel you will have perfect protection"?
38810Was it the book- keeper who, every report that he made, swore to a lie?
38810Was it the gauger who received six hundred dollars a month for being a liar and a thief?
38810Was it when Dorsey sent for Boone?
38810Was it when Miner got here in December, 1877?
38810Was not that consistent with innocence?
38810Was not that first affidavit interlined?
38810Was one copied from the other, and the copy so slavish that it was misspelled exactly the same?
38810Was productiveness thought of?
38810Was that because he was a co- conspirator?
38810Was that consistent with innocence?
38810Was that for the benefit of the Government?
38810Was that his business?
38810Was that natural?
38810Was that note at Lewis Johnson& Co.''s?
38810Was the Government ever defrauded out of a cent by them?
38810Was the conspiracy flagrant then?
38810Was the letter of the Attorney- General of the United States, written just before this trial began, written to bias public opinion also?
38810Was the present Secretary of the Interior a conspirator?
38810Was there a conspiracy then?
38810Was there a conspiracy when Dorsey received the letter from Peck or Miner?
38810Was there any conspiracy then?
38810Was there any danger of Munn turning state''s evidence against himself?
38810Was there any danger of any thief or of any conspirator saying anything calculated to bring this rascality to the surface?
38810Was there any danger of that book- keeper trying to throw himself out of employment?
38810Was there any danger of that gauger stopping his own pay?
38810Was there any danger of these liars and of these thieves making a fuss on their own account?
38810Was there any reason for supposing that it was twenty- five cents?
38810Was there anything criminal in that?
38810Was there ever a conspiracy like that, the news of which ran through the West like wild- fire, while the fellows at the East never heard of it?
38810Was there not danger that he would be declared a failing contractor?
38810Was there not just as much danger of Bridges making a fuss as Munn?
38810We have got it fixed with the Second Assistant Postmaster- General"?
38810We say to Burroughs,"In 1874, in 1873, in 1872, did Rehm tell you that Munn was not in it?"
38810We then asked Mr. Burroughs,"Did Mr. Rehm ever give you such notice?"
38810We then asked him,"Did he tell you that?"
38810Well, now, ought not you to let him tell his own story, ought not you, gentlemen, to be clever enough to let him do his own swearing?
38810Well, now, what did Boone do?
38810Well, then, why not pay the men?
38810Well, what is reasonable care?
38810Well, when was it filed or when was it transmitted?
38810Well, who said it did?
38810Were Senator Grover and Senator Slater also conspirators?
38810Were generals, judges, district attorneys, members of State and Territorial Legislatures-- were they all conspirators?
38810Were the balance- sheets just as good as the books?
38810Were they added coincidently with the affidavit for expedition?
38810Were they false?
38810Were those his exact words?
38810Were you asked any question about this whiskey business?
38810Were you asked by one of the grand jurors whether you knew of any illicit whiskey being made in this city by any of those distilleries?
38810Were you not asked if you knew of any crookedness about whiskey, and did n''t you reply"No"?
38810Were you sworn before that grand jury by anybody?
38810What about?
38810What affidavits have you made in this case?
38810What are the facts?
38810What are the means?
38810What are the numbers of these affidavits?
38810What are the overt acts in the indictment?
38810What became of Lake?
38810What became of Lilley?
38810What became of McGrew?
38810What became of twenty or thirty other officials upon whose reputation this man had breathed the poison of slander?
38810What book would that committee want?
38810What can it do?
38810What color was it, red, brown, or black?
38810What confidence can you put in that kind of testimony?
38810What did Bosler tell him?
38810What did Harvey M. Vaile do?
38810What did Miner say?
38810What did Mr. Blackmar do with them?
38810What did Mr. Boone say?
38810What did he do with Dorsey?
38810What did he do with them?
38810What did he do?
38810What did he do?
38810What did he do?
38810What did he take?
38810What did he want Boone for?
38810What did he want a reputation with you for?
38810What did he want to do?
38810What did they say?
38810What did they want of Boone?
38810What did they want the books and papers for?
38810What did they want to introduce that for?
38810What did they want to prove by him?
38810What did they want with those things?
38810What did you do with it, if you did?"
38810What did you do with that amount in order to balance the books?
38810What did you do with them?"
38810What did you mean?
38810What did you say?
38810What difference did it make when it came from Washington?"
38810What difference did it make whether it was sent to Morey or to somebody else?
38810What difference does it make who wrote it?
38810What do we do in that according to the indictment?
38810What do you think of that?
38810What do you want me to give forty per cent, of this thing to Vaile for?
38810What does Boone say about that?
38810What does Boone swear?
38810What does Mr. Boone say?
38810What does Shaw say?
38810What does he say there?
38810What does he say?
38810What does he say?
38810What does he say?
38810What does he say?
38810What does he swear was in that letter?
38810What does that argument mean?
38810What does that mean?
38810What does that mean?
38810What does that mean?
38810What does that mean?
38810What does the evidence say?
38810What does the evidence say?
38810What does the evidence say?
38810What else could he do?
38810What else did I do?
38810What else did he do?
38810What else did he do?
38810What else did he have against Dorsey at that time?
38810What else did he have the morning after he was talking with MacVeagh?
38810What else did he have?
38810What else did he have?
38810What else did he have?
38810What else did he say?
38810What else did they want these false dates for?
38810What else does it do?
38810What else have we left?
38810What else have you got?"
38810What else is there outside in this case against Stephen W. Dorsey?
38810What else?
38810What else?
38810What else?
38810What else?
38810What else?
38810What else?
38810What else?
38810What else?
38810What else?
38810What else?
38810What else?
38810What else?
38810What else?
38810What else?
38810What else?
38810What else?
38810What else?
38810What else?
38810What else?
38810What evidence did the Government offer upon that point?
38810What evidence do you refer to?
38810What evidence have you that there was not?
38810What evidence have you that there was?
38810What evidence is there against Harvey M. Vaile?
38810What evidence is there of that?
38810What for?
38810What for?
38810What for?
38810What for?
38810What for?
38810What for?
38810What has that to do with it?
38810What have you to do?
38810What horses will you count?
38810What if he did?
38810What instructions as a matter of fact did Mr. Boone receive from Mr. Dorsey, if he received any?
38810What is a liberal provision for a wife that has no means of making her own living?
38810What is extravagance?
38810What is he going to make a fuss about?"
38810What is his story?
38810What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals-- from the beasts?
38810What is natural?
38810What is outside of the indictment?
38810What is probable?
38810What is reasonable?
38810What is that for?
38810What is that?
38810What is the date of the indictment?
38810What is the difference?
38810What is the effect of that testimony?
38810What is the evidence?
38810What is the evidence?
38810What is the great distinguishing characteristic of man?
38810What is the legal effect of that?
38810What is the next argument?
38810What is the next badge of fraud?
38810What is the next fraudulent order?
38810What is the next one?
38810What is the next sentence?
38810What is the next thing we did?
38810What is the next?
38810What is the next?
38810What is the next?
38810What is the next?
38810What is the object of the conspiracy?
38810What is the object?
38810What is the scheme of this indictment?
38810What is the use of always paying your debts as you agree?
38810What is the use of being true to principle?
38810What is the use of being true to yourself?
38810What is the use of doing honestly?
38810What is the use of impeaching him any more?
38810What is the use of living for others?
38810What is the use of paying Munn?
38810What is the use of taking a sublime stand in favor of the right with the world against you?
38810What is the use of taking care of your wife and your children?
38810What is the use of working and toiling?
38810What kind of evidence must we have in a conspiracy case?
38810What light does that throw upon the case?
38810What made him give it to him?
38810What makes him think that it would have been different?
38810What men work in that way?
38810What mental muscle is it that he contracts when he tries not to remember?
38810What more could he do?
38810What more did he do, gentlemen?
38810What more did he do?
38810What more did he understand?
38810What more did that man have?
38810What more do we want on that will?
38810What more does he admit?
38810What more does he say?
38810What more does he swear?
38810What more does he swear?
38810What more, gentlemen?
38810What more?
38810What more?
38810What more?
38810What more?
38810What more?
38810What more?
38810What more?
38810What more?
38810What more?
38810What more?
38810What more?
38810What morning was that?
38810What next?
38810What next?
38810What next?
38810What next?
38810What next?
38810What of it?
38810What of it?
38810What of it?
38810What on earth does it require to say that it is genuine?
38810What other man living has the faculty of blending wit and humor, pathos and fact and logic with such exquisite grace, or with such impressive force?
38810What other motive could there have been?
38810What other suspicious circumstance is there?
38810What overt act did Rerdell confess that he was guilty of-- what overt act charged in this indictment?
38810What page?
38810What part, then, did my clients play in this scheme?
38810What point are you now making to the Court?
38810What possible evidence is it of fraud?
38810What report?
38810What time in the morning?
38810What time of day?
38810What town was it in?
38810What was done after that?
38810What was done with the others?
38810What was his answer?
38810What was his object?
38810What was it attested for if it was not signed?
38810What was it?
38810What was left out, as they claim?
38810What was that for, gentlemen?
38810What was that for?
38810What was that for?
38810What was that testimony sworn to by Rerdell for?
38810What was that?
38810What was the basis of that statement?
38810What was the necessity of it?
38810What was the next thing?
38810What was the object of that statement?
38810What was the object?
38810What was the object?
38810What was the penalty if he did?
38810What was the reason?
38810What was the result of his going even to James and MacVeagh?
38810What was the route- book, gentlemen?
38810What was the second step?
38810What was the sense of it?
38810What was the trouble?
38810What was the use of taking that book, or those books, before the committee?
38810What were the means they had agreed to use?
38810What were they?
38810What were those papers?
38810What witness came here and swore that he would carry it for less?
38810What witness was before this jury fixing the price?
38810What witnesses have you talked to in this case?
38810What witnesses have you written to in this case?
38810What work have you done in this case?
38810What would a perfectly frank and candid man have done?
38810What would the Government counsel then have said?
38810What would you have done?
38810What, gentlemen, was his object?
38810What, if anything, did General Miles say that convinced you that you ought to build stations nearer together?
38810When I asked him, With whom did you conspire, when did you conspire, and what was the conspiracy?
38810When I said to Mr. Rerdell on cross- examination, not knowing anything about the letter,"Was that not written in 1879?"
38810When a man seeks to have a debt secured is that a suspicious circumstance?
38810When did Calvert find the room open?
38810When did Miner get back?
38810When did Mrs. Rerdell and Mrs. Cushman visit the room?
38810When did Rerdell get out of jail?
38810When did he have it done?
38810When did the evidence show they were filed?
38810When did the letter get up there?
38810When did we file it?
38810When did we file it?
38810When did we file it?
38810When did we file them?
38810When did we file them?
38810When did we file them?
38810When did we make that agreement?
38810When did we send it; when did we file it?
38810When did you first show it to John A. Davis?
38810When did you first tell anybody about it?
38810When did you say he sold out and got the money?
38810When does the testimony show that we made an informal verbal agreement?
38810When he got before the committee what did he swear?
38810When the Government tells a man,"You have got an office, have n''t you?"
38810When they give us notice to produce a book or letter and we do not produce it, what can they do?
38810When was it filed?
38810When was it filed?
38810When was it filed?
38810When was that contract made?
38810When was that oath filed?
38810When were these petitions filed?
38810When were they filed?
38810When were they made and sent?
38810When you make an affidavit, what do you do?
38810When, where and by whom was it done?
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38810Whenever he does become his friend the friendship has to be formed suddenly, does it not?
38810Where did they say that?
38810Where did you make the offer?
38810Where did you offer the production of the books?
38810Where did you offer to produce the books?
38810Where does Mr. Dorsey say that it was filled up when he swore to it?
38810Where is James R. Eddy?
38810Where is it?
38810Where is that letter?
38810Where is the indirect evidence?
38810Where is the page on which he says it?
38810Where is the use, I say, of being honest in your business?
38810Where is your conspiracy?
38810Where is your witness?
38810Where were the men that were going to make this disturbance?
38810Where were the men that were going to notice this oversight?
38810Where were the men that were going to stir up difficulties at Washington or any other place?
38810Where were we?
38810Where will one look for the like of it?
38810Where would the fraud be if they traveled the sixty miles except in having a postoffice where none was needed?
38810Where?
38810Which decision?
38810Which of the overt acts set out in this indictment is the overt act depended upon, together with the act of conspiring, to make this offence?
38810Which of these defendants are you going to find guilty upon that petition when there is not the slightest evidence as to who wrote it?
38810Which remains?
38810Who are you going to believe, Torrey or Rerdell?
38810Who attacked it?
38810Who conspired?
38810Who copied it?
38810Who could have told him?
38810Who does remember it?
38810Who else would he not want to know it?
38810Who ever told Mr. Bliss that he was not taking seven thousand five hundred dollars to the West?
38810Who filed it?
38810Who is Bosler?
38810Who is it that has objected?
38810Who is it that has tried to get the evidence?
38810Who is it that has tried to get the light?
38810Who is it that wants you to guess on your oaths?
38810Who is it that wants you to try this case in the dark?
38810Who is the next witness against Mr. Brady?
38810Who left them off?
38810Who left them off?
38810Who made it?
38810Who made them?
38810Who persuaded him?
38810Who pinned them?
38810Who was Elkins?
38810Who was Jennings?
38810Who was Perkins?
38810Who was gathering around him arms and hands to reach into the public Treasury for his benefit, while his own were apparently unoccupied with pelf?
38810Who was making up this conspiracy?
38810Who was present when you found it?
38810Who was the Senator?
38810Who was the fellow who was looking?
38810Who was to be postmaster?
38810Who was to make the reports?
38810Who was?
38810Who were present at the time?
38810Who were the members of that conspiracy?
38810Who will you believe, Chase Andrews or Mr. Rerdell?
38810Who wrote the will?
38810Who wrote this will?
38810Whom else do they bring now?
38810Whose name is expressed in the memorandum?
38810Whose work is it?
38810Why did Dorsey allow Rerdell to keep that book?
38810Why did Stephen W. Dorsey do that?
38810Why did he desert the Government?
38810Why did he do that?
38810Why did he do that?
38810Why did he go to New York?
38810Why did he have it stated on the 15th, gentlemen?
38810Why did he leave that in?
38810Why did he leave the ledger?
38810Why did he make that offer?
38810Why did he not call honest Brewer to the stand and let him deny that he asked Mr. Vaile to make that affidavit?
38810Why did he not copy the books himself?
38810Why did he not make it earlier, as soon as he got off the boat?
38810Why did he not put in the true date?
38810Why did he not say they were in Washington?"
38810Why did he not say to him,"Dorsey, if you are not going on with this conspiracy I am going back to Sandusky"?
38810Why did he not show it?
38810Why did he not stay with the Government?
38810Why did he not steal the book?
38810Why did he pretend that he had any more evidence unless he had it?
38810Why did he put his pencil through that?
38810Why did he say he was going to New York?
38810Why did he settle with him for so little?
38810Why did he swear that he had a conversation with Torrey in that office?
38810Why did he try not to remember?
38810Why did he want to look at the books and papers?
38810Why did he want to see that the books were in New York?
38810Why did he wish not only to make Mr. Rerdell acquainted with his crime, but to put in the hands of Rerdell evidence written by himself?
38810Why did n''t John A. Davis take the stand?
38810Why did n''t Miner tell him then,"What did you get up a conspiracy like this for, just to abandon it"?
38810Why did n''t he hear of it from old Downey?
38810Why did n''t he hear of it from the Quigleys or the Dotsons?
38810Why did n''t he hear of it in Salt Creek township, when it was seen and read and read and read again until I think many of them knew it by heart?
38810Why did n''t he pay it to Bridges?
38810Why did n''t he say it?
38810Why did n''t they call Mr. Bosler to corroborate their witness?
38810Why did n''t you have the fairness to tell all the circumstances?
38810Why did n''t you produce the Senator?
38810Why did n''t you put him on the stand?
38810Why did not Dorsey ask Rerdell at the time he made that affidavit,"Did you get a book in New York?"
38810Why did not James R. Eddy take the stand?
38810Why did not Miner tell him,"If you are not going on with this conspiracy I am going home"?
38810Why did not Rehm say to him,"How is he going to make a fuss?
38810Why did not Vaile and Miner, John W. Dorsey and Peck and Stephen W. Dorsey ask for the papers?
38810Why did not the Government bring Mr. Mitchell?
38810Why did not the parties who made the affidavits write in the amounts?
38810Why did not these gentlemen bring Senator Mitchell to show that he had some account with Senator Dorsey in May, 1879?
38810Why did these people petition?
38810Why did they introduce it?
38810Why did they not bring James W. Bosler?
38810Why did they not bring Senator Mitchell to show that he had some account with S. W. Dorsey in 1879?
38810Why did they not bring him on the stand?
38810Why did they not bring some of the officers of that bank, if there was such a note for three thousand dollars there?
38810Why did they not buy it?
38810Why did they not fill them up at the time and have them sworn to?
38810Why did they not get_ under the lamp?_ They were seen together once more, and the moment a man came up they walked off.
38810Why did they not pick out the checks upon which they claimed that the money was drawn that was paid to Brady?
38810Why did they not place her on the stand?
38810Why did they not prove it by Rerdell after Dorsey had sworn to the contrary?
38810Why did they not?
38810Why did they want a man close to Brady?
38810Why did we fail to produce our books and papers?
38810Why did we not go to six?
38810Why did we stop at three?
38810Why did you not ask Bosler about it, gentlemen, when you had him on the stand to prove your letter?
38810Why did you not bring him forward?
38810Why did you not say that to the jury?
38810Why did you not tell them that you had looked all through Mr. Bosler''s books?
38810Why do I say it is impossible that he should have written it, and the will should be genuine?
38810Why do I say so?
38810Why do they put it in the papers?
38810Why do they say that?
38810Why is it not stopped?
38810Why is it that John never got any information from Sconce?
38810Why is it that he is made the chief figure?
38810Why is it, gentlemen?
38810Why is not the Postmaster- General indicted for a conspiracy with some one?
38810Why keep the evidence of my own guilt, liable to be found at any moment by accident, by a servant, by a stranger?
38810Why keep the original and run the perpetual danger of discovery?
38810Why not avoid the suspicious circumstance of blanks and put the amount in at first, knowing that the men would not hesitate to swear?
38810Why not burn the original?
38810Why not give the money to men who were going to make the trouble?
38810Why not have a little bit of ordinary good hard sense?
38810Why not have it on the route?
38810Why not pay the men who were going to make the trouble?
38810Why not steal one that he already had possession of?
38810Why not take another step?
38810Why not?
38810Why not?
38810Why run the risk of his detection and its destruction?
38810Why run the risk of making the whole conspiracy public?
38810Why should Dorsey have told him in 1878 to get up fraudulent petitions?
38810Why should John W. Dorsey offer Boone one- third of it?
38810Why should John W. Dorsey sell out for ten thousand dollars?
38810Why should he have another set opened by Rerdell?
38810Why should he have cared so much about fifteen or sixteen thousand dollars with a conspiracy worth hundreds of thousands of dollars?
38810Why should he have paid Munn money?
38810Why should he have put himself in the power of Donnelly?
38810Why should he have sent notices to other distillers that Munn was coming?
38810Why should he not expect the committee of Congress to call for that book?
38810Why should he take pains to make himself the slave of the man he was hiring by the month?
38810Why should he take pains to put himself, the employer, absolutely in the power of his clerk?
38810Why should he tell them to put their houses in order?
38810Why should he?
38810Why should they?
38810Why should we have a jury at all?
38810Why should we make the offer after your Honor had decided that we could not do it?
38810Why should you hear this evidence, if after all you are to shirk the responsibility and turn the defendants over to the Court?
38810Why should you sit here at all?
38810Why then did he say to you, gentlemen, that he paid all this money over?
38810Why then did they not wish to fill up this blank?
38810Why was Mr. A. W. Moore offered one- quarter of it?--a gentleman who could be employed for one hundred and fifty dollars a month?
38810Why was it left where it was, gentlemen?
38810Why was one filed April 18th and the other two on the 8th of May?
38810Why were not others substituted that had no suspicious interlineations, no suspicious erasures, no suspicious blanks that had been filed?
38810Why were not those notes produced in evidence?
38810Why were not those notes produced in evidence?
38810Why were the papers left?
38810Why were these very affidavits at that time reported to Congress?
38810Why were they not continuously written?
38810Why were they not produced?
38810Why would he give him this false name?
38810Why would he have to resort to perjury and interlineation in order to get Brady to make orders that he, Brady, had conspired to make?
38810Why would he put himself in his power?
38810Why would he want to do such a thing if he was in a conspiracy with Brady?
38810Why would they leave blanks?
38810Why would they not give him his price for his evidence?
38810Why, then, this secrecy?
38810Why, they say,"Why did n''t you impeach him?"
38810Why?
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38810Will Judge Woolworth please tell the jury whether any witness testified that Job Davis made these separate from the rest of the word?
38810Will the Government say that there was a conspiracy at the time Peck or Miner wrote to S. W. Dorsey?
38810Will the counsel be frank enough to state when that decision was made?
38810Will you call dividing, a conspiracy?
38810Will you call going apart, coming together?
38810Will you say that this champion speller could not spell the word dispose, but wrote it"depose"?
38810Will you swear it was not a thousand?
38810Will you swear they did not give you thirty?
38810Will you tell me what page it was I spoke about Boone?
38810Would Dorsey write to that man a letter begging him for God''s sake not to go further?
38810Would I use paper that had my name, the number of my office, and the character of my business printed upon it?
38810Would I?
38810Would he have put himself in the power of that same man?
38810Would he not be glad to make it plain to you?
38810Would he not rather have sent some man to see him?
38810Would he not want all his neighbors to know it?
38810Would he not want every man and woman in this city to know it?
38810Would he then have put himself upon paper?
38810Would he try to palm off the copies as originals?
38810Would it be fair to decide the question whether they had made or lost money on one route?
38810Would it be natural for him to say,"I will protect you for ten dollars a barrel, and yet I have none of the officers in my pay"?
38810Would it have been impossible to convict those engaged in the conspiracy?
38810Would it not be natural for him to make out his protection as good as he possibly could?
38810Would it not have been just as likely that Bridges should have made a fuss as that Munn should have made it?
38810Would not Miner have gone to Brady and said,"Look here, what is the use of acting like a fool?
38810Would not the committee ask him the very first thing,"In whose handwriting are these books?"
38810Would that prove that there was any conspiracy?
38810Would the man who bid be willing that the amount of the bid should be inserted in the blank to be passed upon by the postmaster?
38810Would there be any argument in that?
38810Would you believe a man like that?
38810Yes; but what did they do with the rest of them?
38810You all understand that, do you not?
38810You are in the Senate; you are interested in these routes, and I want to hear no more from you"?
38810You have heard me read the agreement he made, have you not, with Miner?
38810You understand me now, do you not?
38810and I say to them, why did you not bring him?
38810another thief?
38810or did he say to Miner,"This is all I will do"?
38810what kind of sunlight do you mean?