III. Col. Ingersoll's Rejoinder--How this Discussion Came About--Natural Law--The Design Argument--The Right to Rejudge the Justice even of a God--Violation of the Commandments by Jehovah--Religious Intolerance of the Old Testament--Judge Black's Justification of Wars of Extermination--His Defence of Slavery--Polygamy not "Discouraged" by the Old Testament--Position of Woman under the Jewish System and under that of the Ancients--a "Policeman's" View of God--Slavery under Jehovah and in Egypt--The Admission that Jehovah gave no Commandment against Polygamy--The Learned and Wise Crawl back in Cribs--Alleged Harmony of Old and New Testaments--On the Assertion that the Spread of Christianity Proves the Supernatural Origin of the Gospel--The Argument applicable to All Religions--Communications from Angels ana Gods--Authenticity of the Statements of the Evangelists--Three Important Manuscripts--Rise of Mormonism--Ascension of Christ--The Great Public Events alleged as Fundamental Truths of Christianity--Judge Black's System of "Compression"--"A Metaphysical Question"--Right and Wrong--Justice--Christianity and Freedom of Thought--Heaven and Hell--Production of God and the Devil--Inspiration of the Bible dependent on the Credulity of the Reader--Doubt of Miracles--The World before Christ's Advent--Respect for the Man Christ--The Dark Ages--Institutions of Mercy--Civil Law. THE FIELD-INGERSOLL DISCUSSION. (1887.) An Open Letter to Robert G. Ingersoll--Superstitions--Basis of Religion--Napoleon's Question about the Stars--The Idea of God--Crushing out Hope--Atonement, Regeneration, and Future Retribution--Socrates and Jesus--The Language of Col. Ingersoll characterized as too Sweeping--The Sabbath--But a Step from Sneering at Religion to Sneering at Morality. A Reply to the Rev. Henry M. Field, D. D.--Honest Differences of Opinion--Charles Darwin--Dr. Field's Distinction between Superstition and Religion--The Presbyterian God an Infinite Torquemada--Napoleon's Sensitiveness to the Divine Influence--The Preference of Agassiz--The Mysterious as an Explanation--The Certainty that God is not what he is Thought to Be--Self-preservation the Fibre of Society--Did the Assassination of Lincoln Illustrate the Justice of God's Judgments?--Immortality--Hope and the Presbyterian Creed--To a Mother at the Grave of Her Son--Theological Teaching of Forgiveness--On Eternal Retribution--Jesus and Mohammed--Attacking the Religion of Others--Ananias and Sapphira--The Pilgrims and Freedom to Worship--The Orthodox Sabbath--Natural Restraints on Conduct--Religion and Morality--The Efficacy of Prayer--Respect for Belief of Father and Mother--The "Power behind Nature"--Survival of the Fittest--The Saddest Fact--"Sober Second Thought."