The Christian nations of the world to-day are armed against each other. In Europe, all that can be gathered by taxation--all that can be borrowed by pledging the prosperity of the future--the labor of those yet unborn--is used for the purpose of keeping Christians in the field, to the end that they may destroy other Christians, or at least prevent other Christians from destroying them. Europe is covered with churches and fortifications, with temples and with forts--hundreds of thousands of priests, millions of soldiers, countless Bibles and countless bayonets--and that whole country is oppressed and impoverished for the purpose of carrying on war. The people have become deformed by labor, and yet Christianity boasts of peace. Seventh--"And what death has infidelity ever cheered?" Is it possible for the orthodox Christian to cheer the dying when the dying is told that there is a world of eternal pain, and that he, unless he has been forgiven, is to be an eternal convict? Will it cheer him to know that, even if he is to be saved, countless millions are to be lost? Is it possible for the Christian religion to put a smile upon the face of death? On the other hand, what is called infidelity says to the dying: What happens to you will happen to all. If there be another world of joy, it is for all. If there is another life, every human being will have the eternal opportunity of doing right--the eternal opportunity to live, to reform, to enjoy. There is no monster in the sky. There is no Moloch who delights in the agony of his children. These frightful things are savage dreams. Infidelity puts out the fires of hell with the tears of pity. Infidelity puts the seven-hued arch of Hope over every grave. Let us then, gentlemen, come back to the real questions under discussion. Let us not wander away. Robert G. Ingersoll. Jan'y 9, 1891. INGERSOLL CONTINUES THE BATTLE. V. NO one objects to the morality of Christianity. The industrious people of the world--those who have anything--are, as a rule, opposed to larceny; a very large majority of people object to being murdered, and so we have laws against larceny and murder. A large majority of people believe in what they call, or what they understand to be, justice--at least as between others. There is no very great difference of opinion among civilized people as to what is or is not moral. It cannot truthfully be said that the man who attacks Buddhism attacks all morality. He does not attack goodness, justice, mercy, or anything that tends in his judgment to the welfare of mankind; but he attacks Buddhism. So one attacking what is called Christianity does not attack kindness, charity, or any virtue. He attacks something that has been added to the virtues. He does not attack the flower, but what he believes to be the parasite.