A Last Word to Robert G. Ingersoll, by Dr. Field--God not a Presbyterian--Why Col. Ingersoll's Attacks on Religion are Resented--God is more Merciful than Man--Theories about the Future Life--Retribution a Necessary Part of the Divine Law--The Case of Robinson Crusoe--Irresistible Proof of Design--Col. Ingersoll's View of Immortality--An Almighty Friend. Letter to Dr. Field--The Presbyterian God--What the Presbyterians Claim--The "Incurably Bad"--Responsibility for not seeing Things Clearly--Good Deeds should Follow even Atheists--No Credit in Belief--Design Argument that Devours Itself--Belief as a Foundation of Social Order--No Consolation in Orthodox Religion--The "Almighty Friend" and the Slave Mother--a Hindu Prayer--Calvinism--Christ not the Supreme Benefactor of the Race. COLONEL INGERSOLL ON CHRISTIANITY. (1888.) Some Remarks on his Reply to Dr. Field by the Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone--External Triumph and Prosperity of the Church--A Truth Half Stated--Col. Ingersoll's Tumultuous Method and lack of Reverential Calm--Jephthah's Sacrifice--Hebrews xii Expounded--The Case of Abraham--Darwinism and the Scriptures--Why God demands Sacrifices of Man--Problems admitted to be Insoluble--Relation of human Genius to Human Greatness--Shakespeare and Others--Christ and the Family Relation--Inaccuracy of Reference in the Reply--Ananias and Sapphira--The Idea of Immortality--Immunity of Error in Belief from Moral Responsibility--On Dishonesty in the Formation of Opinion--A Plausibility of the Shallowest kind--The System of Thuggism--Persecution for Opinion's Sake--Riding an Unbroken Horse. Col. Ingersoll to Mr. Gladstone--On the "Impaired" State of the human Constitution--Unbelief not Due to Degeneracy--Objections to the Scheme of Redemption--Does Man Deserve only Punishment?--"Reverential Calm"--The Deity of the Ancient Jews--Jephthah and Abraham--Relation between Darwinism and the Inspiration of the Scriptures--Sacrifices to the Infinite--What is Common Sense?--An Argument that will Defend every Superstition--The Greatness of Shakespeare--The Absolute Indissolubility of Marriage--Is the Religion of Christ for this Age?--As to Ananias and Sapphira--Immortality and People of Low Intellectual Development--Can we Control our Thought?--Dishonest Opinions Cannot be Formed--Some Compensations for Riding an "Unbroken Horse." ROME OR REASON? (1888.)