I thank all who have said a kind word for me, and I also feel quite grateful to those who have failed to say unkind words. Epithets are not arguments. To abuse is not to convince. Anger is stupid and malice illogical.
And, after all that has appeared by way of reply, I still insist that orthodox Christianity did not come with "tidings of great joy," but with a message of eternal grief.
Robert G. Ingersoll.
New York, February 5, 1892.
SUICIDE OF JUDGE NORMILE.
*A reply to the Western Watchman, published in the St. Louis
Globe Democrat, Sept. 1, 1892.
Question. Have you read an article in the Western Watchman, entitled "Suicide of Judge Normile"? If so, what is your opinion of it?
Answer. I have read the article, and I think the spirit in which it is written is in exact accord with the creed, with the belief, that prompted it.