men, for its first principle is the freedom of the human will, and there are those who choose to reject it. But to the mass of mankind, directly and indirectly, it has brought uncounted benefits and blessings. Abolish it--take away the restraints which it imposes on evil passions--silence the admonitions of its preachers--let all Christians cease their labors of charity--blot out from history the records of its heroic benevolence--repeal the laws it has enacted and the institutions it has built up--let its moral principles be abandoned and all its miracles of light be extinguished--what would we come to? I need not answer this question: the experiment has been partially tried. The French nation formally renounced Christianity, denied the existence of the Supreme Being, and so satisfied the hunger of the infidel heart for a time. What followed? Universal depravity, garments rolled in blood, fantastic crimes unimagined before, which startled the earth with their sublime atrocity. The American people have and ought to have no special desire to follow that terrible example of guilt and misery. It is impossible to discuss this subject within the limits of a review. No doubt the effort to be short has made me obscure. If Mr. Ingersoll thinks himself wronged, or his doctrines misconstrued, let him not lay my fault at the door of the Church, or cast his censure on the clergy. "_Adsum qui feci, in me convertite ferrum_." J. S. Black. THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, BY ROBERT G. INGERSOLL. III. "Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do, in order to become acceptable to God, is mere superstition and religious folly." Kant. "Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do, in order to become acceptable to God, is mere superstition and religious folly." Kant.