Weekly Trinity journal., 1862-08-16
EnnAeii,y ,,.e on.pri"g of Ignorance.

FREND GORDON :-Yope corresponlert il giving nm ac
count Of what he and heard at the nnersyie camp
meeting passes well deserved compliment On the con
gegation for their respectful attention and general good
behavior during the meeting lie tells us that there was
but one excoptionan " eccentrc individual j" who OBJ
jected to the doctrine held FORTH denied the authority OF
the Bible, and The truth Of the Christian religion
is great misfortune that there so many eccen
tc indiyiuals in California who consider that to rnocI
at revelation IS the mark of an Independent mind proc
Of great intellect despe what they 30 not understand
An honest lnbdel who IS open To congiconoue who
willing to investigate The doctrinos and teachings r. an
tanned 10 the scriptures is entitled TO some re>oect Pnt
any who asserts Chat the Bible Contains l,,riug In
consiSencies actual contradictions and bad prcccpts
shows his ignorance his entire ignorance Of either Sacred
Profane history
Those who ee*pise the Christian religion would do well
10 remember that infdelty has never satisfied n6deb
themselves there Is no harmony agreement in their
theories and those who accept such dogmas fail TO prove
what they charge against Christianity. or accomplish
what tHey pndettake. for nddellty They talk about
Nature and Natures Cod while they themselves are sur
rounded by dark and ipexplcable mysteries which tEev
cannot explain, and problems that they cannot solve
Said he when look aboad on every Side Soc Gis,to
contradictions and distraction when turn NV eve in
ward, fad nothing but doubt and ignorance where am
t. or what m 20 Voare sums no his sad tale bv wish
ing that he had never been born. mddeity denies tn,
fact which those confessions prove, and which he Bb,
declares that human reason without the aid Of revelation
meet the inquiries Of the mind or sgtisf t
ongings OF the soul What contrast there is between
the confessions of the champions Of nddelty and thf
declaration of ST. Paul the Christian Apostle there +.
laid up for a crown Of righteousness"
Some men who claim to be nGdels are so deporab bv To-
norant OF all Bible truth to suppose that the fear o
hell is the only indictment which professed Christian.
have to cause them to be religious while the scrpurp,
plainly declare that ole God because he first loved
u.s. bat without knowledge Of the Bible men take tbeir
own notions axioms aud bring forward objections
which have been answered before they we're born I re-
member that once listened to Of those cavers while
he brought forward his arguments against the Christian
religion and after carefully considering the arguments
which he produced could not call the man an infdel
but merely simpleton perSonfcaton Of Ignorance
on exhibition. Such is about as well oualifed IN
pass judgment on the Bible and its teachings AS wood
peeker is TO drive railroad tunnel through the Sierra
Nevada mountains. Phrenoogsts tell US that ms certain
faculties of the mind exercised in the same pronor
ton will their several organs DC -ss.oped II that +; b
case it would be well for 0f those cavcrs to cI
gate the brain for inhdey is sometimes caused by
lack Of that article. ~
WEAyERvILLE, august H. 1862