The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-11-05
CARL vOGrAND HIS PnlLosoPnY,
The Other Side OF the Question.
10 the EditofR oFtha IhtAllIRaneaF.

A1u SAuoE bluo u Luo uueSttOus
To the Editors the lntellIgeneeE
In your paper OF the End Of Novem.
Der, 1869, you are pleased to give the
philosophy OF human origin By Carl
YoRt; and as II 10 becoming common
for the secular press 10 hand round
among their readers the sayings and
dolngS OF a set Of philosophers who
have become wiser than God Almighty,
and rs many OF your readers know
nothing about what the Bible says, l
propose through your paper 10 give a
little OF the philosophy OF the blessed
effects Of the religion OF the Lord Jesus
Christ. As the Christian religion ID
based on the Bible, II what these phil.
osophers say 10 true, the Bible Ia false
consequently that system Of religion
which y based on II Is false. As TO the
age Of this planet on which we dwell, /
shall say nothing Rt present, but as 10
the time when the race OF man was put
In possession OF 1t, We have almost %
accurate an account OF It, as we have Of
the day our Pilgrim Fathers landed at
Plymouth.
This book Of books, called the Bible,
gives us q minute history Of the race
from that down 10 the present time.
This old book tells Us or nations and
kingdoms that have risen and fallen
that no other history In the world has
given any account OF.
Investigations made within the pres.
ent century have proven almost the en-.
tire history II gives, OF those nAlIonH
and kingdoms true. We need only
refer the reader to the discoveries made
ut Nlneveh and Babylon, and In Egypt,
within the last twenty years,
The Bible describes all the world oil
mankind az belonging to one OF two
classes, saints and sinners, and Il holds
up before US the happiness OF the one
and the misery Of the other In the
world to come; that the righteous shall
have peace In bis death and the wicked
trouble. Now II these two truths can
be proven true, they are worth thou
sands more 10 prove the truth or falslty
OF the Bible than all the bones that
have ever been dug out Of the earth, or
ever will be.
The first man that died was murder.
ed for worshlplng God acceptably.
His murderer was branded FOR his
crime, till he said my punishment Is
greater than can bear,' Here began
his he'll. This old book tells us OF an
Enoch who walked with God, and he
was translated 10 heaven, and OF q
Noah who believed what God said, and
Of those antedeluVian philosophers like
Vogt, and thousands OF others like him,
who did not, who may now be digging
up the carbonized bones Of their brother
philosophers OF that age, 10 prove there
Is no God, and that the Bible Ii false,
Then we have long list OF patriarcha
from Abraham on down to the time the
Jewish dispenSatlon was ushsred In
whose lives and deaths are recorded az
happy. During that dispensatIon we
have the condition OF both tho right
eous and the wicked laid before us for
example aud warning, showing the I'D.
vantaGes OF believing and practiclng
what God commands. and the sad con-
sequences OF not doing 1t. In the New
Testament we have heaven opened to
invite us, and hell unveiled to warn US.
Now, these philosophers wanted to try
70 destroy our faith In all this, and give
us nothing In the place OF It.
l am now over 60 years old, and have
read great many volumes, and many
biographies, and I have never read Of
one man who professed to believe the
Bible, as It Is held by Evangelical
Christians, and practlced according 10
that belief, that ever renounced his
faith on bis dying bed; and have
never read OF one nor found one, In my
long experience, who had neglected the
Word OF God and the practice OF relig-
ion, but regretted 1t in their dying hour,
who were conscious at the time OF their
death that they were dying.
l offer these last two sentences as au
argument against all the old carbon
lied bones that Vogt, and all the inf
dels in the world have ever dug up, or
ever will dig up.
Mr.. Editor, as you have copied from
the Now York Post, request them to
copy at least these two last sentences,
as the views OF one who has more faith
In the Bible than In old decayed bones.
BIBLE PHILOSOPHY.
Wheeling, West VG., Nov. 8, 1869.