5 TH E TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, AUGUST 24, isne. T r ib u tes to In g erso ll. ----------- pressions of disbelief in regard to orthodox dogmas. Ingersoll came before the general public as an eloquent and powerful opponent of Chiistianity as a divine system, and of the Bible as a super- human production, about twenty- five years ago. He was familiar with the ar.ti Christian writers, like Voltaire and Paine, and he pre sented their arguments and objec tions to the divinity of the Bible with an eloquence which, in its way, perhaps had never been equalled.—[B. F. Underwood. Colonel Ingersoll was a strong, independent character, an unique and picturesque personality who by his presence and speech made a marked and widespread impression upou the popular mind. His influ- ence was direct and immediate, His thought did not have to perco- late down through several intel lectual strata before it reached the masses; for it was plain simple thought, easily grasped and pre sented in the most attractive man ner. Ingersoll was a master of sim Ingersoll’s brilliant mind never ple, forceful impressive oratory. In thought he dealt with the con- crawled in the dust. Knowing the crete, not with the abstract, and his goddess of doubt to be the herald of talk was full of imagery as well as truth, he followed her with implicit' of emotion. He never tired an au- faith, and made the desert of skep- dience with abstruse arguments, ticism blossom as the garden of with labored processes of reaching truth. He drank from every fount- a conclusion. Indeed he stated aiu of learning, and died the un- what he believed, and then often crowned king of orators. He wor- brought an illustration or told a shipped liberty and reverenced story to make the opposite appear right. He broadened every church false and absurd. in the land, and did the God of Ingersoll was a wonderful word- love a service the world can never painter. He was, too, bubbling forget. The God he despised was a ov * t with humor, and saw’ the lud- god of the dark ages [C.A.W endle. icrous side of every subject first. . His wit was as keen as a razor’s P isto n and prejudice .nay tend edge, and he couid make his satire •« ^ nil'h ,he lu8ter of, .I n‘ etingingly severe. He was full of g<-'.soil’s fame, but in the widening emotion and sentiment, of poetry J ears. when “ an sha11 be “ ore and pathos, and he could arouse 8aared thal> a book> tho6e ,hen,es sympathy and melt his hearers to wb'<b b's 8en'us clothed in an tears as well as excite them to un- abiding beauty will continue to controllable laughter by amusing live and be blight. He was the anecdotes and funny illustrations. ideal “plumed knight,” the friend Ingersoll’s strength as an orator of liberty. He wanted to have the • i- - . v his simple, izv epigram- ( s 0,0 1 ave know t hat he was in his wit, . w as also a man, . , language, his kid pathos v.nd.nc and ««a and that the 1 price of his liberty / matic r sarcasm, ««a It was he power of and in Via»..;»» keeping could not . be too high. ° ... . „di.onukxr« who took Frederick Douglass to his eanily w ithin the com prehension " . 6 and on the average intellectual level °«n home ... Peoria, when all other of his audience. Ingersoll did not d”°rs were ' ur" ed agaln6t hlm‘- have originality of thought which [«<"• Reverdy Ransom, estranges a teacher from the multi- As an earnest believer in the lude, at first; but originality of ex- djvjnjty of our Lord, I come to pay pression which attracts, gains an my tribute to one who was an in immediate hearing and commands spired believer in the universal attention. brotherhood of man. We are not Ingersoll took common place here to judge of his conscience and thought and put it in a dress of his creed. we only know of his kind- own, which made it appear new. negg and his sympathy. As man, The creation of his mind was al citizen, and patriot he dwells in the ways the phraseology. For cen- memory of every man of these uries men had repeated the ex- Washington, Lincoln,Grant, pression, “From from nothing, nu.umg, nothing Logan, and Ingersoll are the « « ____Iv ArvOt* comes It was reserved for Ingei- mjghty group of our great dead. 1 Vi considered Cl il orpfl in . . . . had . a friend •• 1 in • T-.1 »oil to say, . “Nothing in All Robert . G. T_ In the light of a raw material is a de gersoll. He measured manhood by cided failure.” its true worth to its fellows or its Ingersoll’s effectiveness as a pop- country. if he found fault with ular orator was helped by what, for exi9ting order of things it was the philosophic thinker, is a de- because he loved man more than feet—lack of consecutiveness, of creed pie was as honest as any continuity, of completeness in the man jn his sincerity and belief, and treatment of his subject. 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He was the greatest poet since , f Ingersoll, although the son of a Shakespeare, and the most^power | rt _ ° , „,QÜ Q ful champion of the people we have Congregational clergymen, was a eyer bad He had a warm heart skeptic and a Freethinker from boy- where warm hearts are seldom hood. When he was a small lad found — beneath popularity and he shocked his playmates by ex-,fame. [John McGovern. t SILV ER TO N . & OREGON-