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Ingersoll’s Father and the Doctrine of Hell

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 21, 1882

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 59, No. 12.

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Ingersoll’s Father and the Doctrine of Hell

—It seems that Mr. Ingersoll's father was a preacher of more than usual force and eloquence. The Christian at Work quotes the Louisville Courier Journal as saying that on one occasion he commenced to speak at one o'clock p. m. and continued his discourse until sundown. In this sermon “he so vividly portrayed the tortures of hell that the whole vast audience was swayed like trees by a strong wind.” Perhaps his father's long sermons, thoroughly saturated with the doctrine of an orthodox hell, did not make an infidel of Mr. Ingersoll; but the tendency is in that direction.