Ingersoll Answered

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Excerpt from Ingersoll Answered: An Examination of His Discourse Entitled What Must I Do to Be Saved? Since writing my Reply I have perused a sketch of one of Colonel Ingersoll's Receptions or At-homes, from which I have learned a little of the more private life of the lecturer. The reporter says, near the conclusion of his sketch, If I had never heard anything of Colonel Ingersoll's views, I should say I was in the house of the most perfect Christian that ever lived. After a statement of this kind one is anxious to go a little into particulars, and this the writer frankly enables us to do. For example: When the servant opens the front door and the callers enter the large front hall, if the Colonel and his wife are near the door they come out into the hall at once, greeting the visitors with the heartiest kind of a welcome, making them feel that the family would not have been quite satisfied without their presence. It is satisfactory to learn that the visitors go in by the front door. That has long been a Christian habit, and, indeed, is looked upon as a commonplace in Christian conduct. If any visitors came to the back door, or tried to clamber in by one of the windows, the action would be accounted suspicious, though it might have about it the piquant savour of absolute intellectual freedom. The reporter then sketches the pleasant house, its pictures and books and statues, and then he adds, the Colonel's course may be tracked by the shouts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.