Discussion between Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Hon. Frederic R. Coudert, and ex-Gov. Stewart L. Woodford before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York--Propositions--Toleration not a Disclaimer but a Waiver of the Right to Persecute--Remarks of Courtlandt Palmer--No Responsibility for Thought--Intellectual Hospitality--Right of Free Speech--Origin of the term "Toleration"--Slander and False Witness--Nobody can Control his own Mind: Anecdote--Remarks of Mr. Coudert--Voltaire, Rousseau, Hugo, and Ingersoll--General Woodford's Speech--Reply by Colonel Ingersoll--A Catholic Compelled to Pay a Compliment to Voltaire--Responsibility for Thoughts--The Mexican Unbeliever and his Reception in the Other Country. A CHRISTMAS SERMON. (1891.) Christianity's Message of Grief--Christmas a Pagan Festival--Reply to Dr. Buckley--Charges by the Editor of the Christian Advocate--The Tidings of Christianity--In what the Message of Grief Consists--Fear and Flame--An Everlasting Siberia--Dr. Buckley's Proposal to Boycott the Telegram--Reply to Rev. J. M. King and Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr. Cana Day be Blasphemed?--Hurting Christian feelings--For Revenue only What is Blasphemy?--Balaam's Ass wiser than the Prophet--The Universalists--Can God do Nothing for this World?--The Universe a Blunder if Christianity is true--The Duty of a Newspaper--Facts Not Sectarian--The Rev. Mr. Peters--What Infidelity Has Done--Public School System not Christian--Orthodox Universities--Bruno on Oxford--As to Public Morals--No Rewards or Punishments in the Universe--The Atonement Immoral--As to Sciences and Art--Bruno, Humboldt, Darwin--Scientific Writers Opposed by the Church--As to the Liberation of Slaves--As to the Reclamation of Inebriates--Rum and Religion--The Humanity of Infidelity--What Infidelity says to the Dying--The Battle Continued--Morality not Assailed by an Attack on Christianity--The Inquisition and Religious Persecution--Human Nature Derided by Christianity--Dr. DaCosta--"Human Brotherhood" as exemplified by the History of the Church--The Church and Science, Art and Learning----Astronomy's Revenge--Galileo and Kepler--Mrs. Browning: Science Thrust into the Brain of Europe--Our Numerals--Christianity and Literature--Institution's of Learning--Stephen Girard--James Lick--Our Chronology--Historians--Natural Philosophy--Philology--Metaphysical Research--Intelligence, Hindoo, Egyptian--Inventions--John Ericsson--Emancipators--Rev. Mr. Ballou--The Right of Goa to Punish--Rev. Dr. Hillier--Rev. Mr. Haldeman--George A. Locey--The "Great Physician"--Rev. Mr. Talmage--Rev. J. Benson Hamilton--How Voltaire Died--The Death-bed of Thomas Paine--Rev. Mr. Holloway--Original Sin--Rev. Dr. Tyler--The Good Samaritan a Heathen--Hospitals and Asylums--Christian Treatment of the Insane--Rev. Dr. Buckley--The North American Review Discussion--Judge Black, Dr. Field, Mr. Gladstone--Circulation of Obscene Literature--Eulogy of