APPENDICES. APPENDIX A. THE following notices of the press, together with the "Challenge," as set forth below, we copy from The Catholic Union and Times, of Buffalo, N. Y. : The author completely turns the tables on the doughty colonel. We commend the volume to all who would see the assumptions and crudities and mistakes of Ingersoll turned inside out, upside down, end for end, and over and over." -Chicago Star and Covenant (leading Universalist paper in the Western States). "There is neither truth, nor life, nor argument left in Ingersoll when Father Lambert has done with him.”—Chicago Western Catholic.. "We hope this pamphlet will find numerous readers among non-Catholics who desire to see the rot and rant of Ingersoll rubbed out by the learning and logic of Father Lambert."-San Francisco Monitor. "We purpose placing a copy in the hands of every delegate to the approaching Thinker's Convention in Rochester, and shall challenge them individually and collectively to reply."From The Catholic Union and Times, August 2, 1883. "The author takes up and thoroughly riddles the impious blasphemer.”— Louisville Western Recorder (Prot.) "An earnest and keen reasoner. -New York Herald. The pamphlet should have many readers." We clip the following from the Christian Witness and Advocate of Bible Holiness, Boston, December 18, 1884: "Notes on Ingersoll,' by Rev. L. A. Lambert. Seventh edition; 100th thousand. Published by the Catholic Publication Society, Buffalo, N. Y. This remarkable book is still selling, and Colonel Ingersoll will find it a hard book to answer. As the publishers say, 'it is growing on them.' We are now engaged on the eighth edition, 30,000 copies, which will bring the total number published up to 130,000. Two editions have been ‘pirated' in England, and one in Canada; and we have printed a large edition in London ourselves. In addition, the work has been translated into half a dozen different languages in as many different countries." APPENDIX B. "The history of Chrishna Zeus is contained principally in the Baghavat Gita, the episode portion of the Mahabarat Bible. The book is believed to be divinely inspired like all other Bibles, and the Hindoos claim for it an antiquity of 6,000 years. Like Christ he was of humble origin, and like him had to encounter opposition and persecution. But he seems to have been more successful in the propagation of his doctrines, for, it is declared, he soon became surrounded by many earnest followers, and the people in vast multitudes followed him, crying aloud: “This is indeed the Redeemer promised to our fathers." His pathway was thickly strewn with miracles, which consisted in healing the sick, curing lepers, restoring the dumb, deaf, and the blind, raising the dead, aiding the weak, comforting the sorrow-stricken, relieving the oppressed, casting out devils, etc. He came not ostensibly to destroy the previous religion, but to purify it of its impurities, and to preach a better doctrine. He came, as he declared, 'to reject evil and restore the reign of good, and redeem man from the consequences of the fall, and deliver the oppressed earth from its load of sin and suffering.' His disciples believed him to be God himself, and millions worshipped him as such in the time of Alexander the Great, 330 B. C. The hundreds of counterparts to the history of Christ, proving their histories to be almost identical, will be seen from the belief of his disciples. I. In his miraculous birth by a virgin. 2. The mother and child being visited by shepherds, wise men, and the angelic host, who joyously sang: "In thy delivery, oh! favored among women, all nations shall have cause to exult." 3. The edict of the tyrant ruler Cansa ordering all the first-born to be put to death. 4. The miraculous escape of the mother and child from his bloody decree by the parting of the waves of the river Jumna to permit them to pass through on dry ground. 5. The early retirement of Chrishna to a desert. 6. His baptism or ablution in the river Ganges, corresponding to Christ's baptism in Jordan. 7. His transfiguration at Madura, where he assured his disciples that "present or absent, I will always be with you.” 8. He had a favorite disciple (Arjoon), who was his bosom friend, as John was Christ's. 9. He was anointed with oil by women. . . . Like Christ he taught much by parables and precepts. A notable sermon preached by him is also reported.' On one occasion, having returned from a ministerial journey, as he entered Madura, the people came out in crowds to meet him, strewing the ground with the branches of cocoanut trees, and desired to hear him; he addressed them in parables, the conclusion and moral of one of which, called the parable of the fishes, runs thus: 'And thus it is, oh, people of Madura, that you ought to protect the weak and each other, and not retaliate upon an enemy the wrongs he may have done you.' . . 'And thus it was,' says a writer, 'that Chrishna spread among the people the holy doctrines of purest morality, and initiated his hearers into the exalted principles of charity, of self-denial, and selfrespect, at a time when the desert countries of the west were inhabited only by savage tribes.'"-The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviours, pp. 98, 99. |