It is now almost universally confessed that the Sheldon experiment of conducting a daily paper “as Jesus would,” was a flat failure. The most sensible comment on that affair and the whole idea involved in it, is that made by former United States Senator John J. Ingalls, of Kansas, who remarks: “What Jesus would do were he in Kansas to-day can best be determined by considering what he did when he was in Nazareth and Capernaum nineteen hundred years ago. He attended strictly to his own business, he did not meddle in other people’s affairs. He only sought to establish a spiritual kingdom, and his empire was in the hearts of men. He told his followers to render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar’s. He neither bought nor sold nor interfered in politics. He said that all men are brothers; that God is their father; and that they should do as they would be done by. Ecclesiastical mountebanks who are directly responsible for the blasphemy of asking how Jesus would shave if he were a barber; what he would do if he had a headache; how he would act if he were in General Buller’s place in South Africa, inflict irreparable injury upon the cause of religion. They make a joke of the passion in the garden of Gethsemane, and cast contempt upon the agony of Calvary. It would be no greater sacrilege to ask what God would do. It is desecrating the greatest name in the world’s registration. It is trifling with the most awful mystery of the universe.”