The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-03-30
MISCELLANY.
ID sbrewd Retorts.

A oora,o,non travelling in a stsse, sttempt-
ed 10 divert the company by 800 80 he
Scriptures AS to the pro,r-,si.ta,, aa.ar ~
sin particular, they were - "i's'SA 'asSA 'A0
events $780, .Ton ~ The coach who had hitherto
IA m aiast renIieS sSir, lnbeg leave to men
t;on one nsrties1ar prophecy as an exception,
. patar Ii Knowing this first, that there
shs1l son.s in the last day scotfers." Now, sir,
whethe the event be not long after the predc-
ton Z leave the company to judge The
moth of the scofer was stopped.
a preacher Of the gospel, ON being intro.
6uced to sceptic, with the explanation taas
the man was a sceptic, in the mlost " 81
extended circle of friends, said to niin, sup
pose then, you do not believe anything.
Oh, yes, l do believe great mauy 'e LII =,
Will you, then, be SO GOOD As 10 teii US
what you believer ...,,.o ,h.t
The sceptic replied, i DO not Delleve tnae
OLE story of the Bible about Cain obtaining
wife in the land of Nod, where there was no.
sNeyer mind what you don't believe said
the preacher, mo doubt there is much of that;
but tell us what you do believe. 1ld
The sceptic rallied and said, well, will
tell you; don't believe the account given by
Moses, that God commanded the Midianites
to be destroyed
4 am not inquiring for what you don't be-
ieve, but what you do believe. Tell US what
you do belieye.' e5isq \. fit Hf3
Recovering himself little. and clearing up
his voice, he made a desperate effort, saying,
i don't believe that old fable OF the Bible, that
God commanded the Canaanites to be de-
stroyed'
His belief was all disbelief RECOMMENDED
all the time with, Il DON'T believe
A Romanist once said to Christian, You
Protestants could not prove your Bible, if it
fn.t no <lx Gofbolis Ghurah and bpr
great men, True, said the Christian, for the
Bible predicted that there would be inst such
an apostate church and priesthood, and here
you are, just as the Bible said
After clearing discourse In which much
was aidTby the preacher about God, sceptic,
said to him, What is this God, about whom
you have been saying so much p The preach
erl replied, God is "a spirit The sceptic
hercely followed up: What is a spirit p
The preacher quickly turned on him, and in
CURED, What is a cornstock p =
-SWhy-why-why 1t is cornstockv YES,
siri replied the preacher, "a spirit is spiri!
and if you cannot tell what a cornstock is,
which you have seen thousands OF times and
has an existence, why do you ask me to tell
you what the Infinite Spirit is, or doubt his
A sceptie once said to preacher, III the
human body, after death, decomposes and re-
turns to its original elements, how is 1t raised
from the dead and identifed?' The preacher
replied, And II the child seven years old has
not one particle of the matter in it when it
was born, and If there is not one particle Of
the matter when it is fourteen years old that
was in it when 1t was seven, and If all the old
matter is superseded by new once every seven
years till the person is seventy years old, or if
all the matter has been superseded by new
matter ten times, as scientific men maintain,
and the identity is not lost, why may not this
person go through one more change, in death
and the resurrection, and not lose his identity,
and why may not this change take place, as it
will require no more power or wisdom to ac-
complish 1t. than any of tine former changes p
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