The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-04-08

from the examination? We are an er-
lishtened people and We do and viR rx
anime Tor ourselves. The time nat
come when the masses are looking in
to this matter. and. therefore Why keep
back or atte mpt to change our base IN
the face OF the enemy? "Authropos'
still holds on to Reason to carry him
through. and cannon he zee thst 1t IL
all that the skeptlcs ask for | brought
forward but q few points TO show that
reason. ss Inquirer" has truly SAID,
woul d stand agbast-need / mention
more OF tbeu,2 ls it reasonable thai
God should damn all mspkiud lot the
SINS of one man who lived over six
thousand years sgo2 Can we believe
as reasonable that God was defeated by
Satan, one o. his own creatures, ard
that his triumph is almost com plete 2
ls il reasonable that God created 10.
sun, moon, the planets and all the tix
| Cd stars first as an ornameu; and 10
light up this little planet, aud more
especially Tor the bet .fit Of men, who
are fallen creatures and subjects Of His
wrath? Is il reasonable that after the
tall OF mao, and therefore as liable
hen as now to damnstlon, that no Sa-
vlor was sent to redeem him till over
four thou sand years had elapsed
Is Unreasonable it to believe that men
lived tn the age Of niue hundred year.
at certain age CT the world and re
defendants o the same race men =?
Is REASONABLE: in a just God and who
declared, thou shalt not kill, to make o
law-yiver and leader OF Moses. who
krlIei the Egyptian and who fled from
JUSTICE
Isit reasonable and can we believe
that God repented that be had ruade
man and was grieved at his heart I
Isl, reasonable that the Rid Sea
opened aud let through the Children
Israel
Isit reasonable that the walls OF Jerice
fell by tue blowing of rams horns2
LEI, reasonable aud can We believe that
Col WAS defeated in a certain vale,
oec .use the enemy had chariots o. iron.
Is il reasonable that God got rignten'
ed because the childrcu OF men built the
tower OF Babel?
Is;t reasonable and can We beiieve
that at the Goud at least Eve miles deep
of water were ADDED to the earth and
afterwards removed from tue iLh1ebCe
OF the p'anet2
Is il reasonable and can we believe
that the whale swallowed Jonah a. d
threw HIM up alive three days after
wards?
Isit REASONABLE: aud can We believe
Sam psou's streog b was in long hair
and that he caught three hundred ioIts
and set fire to trcr tails and the hs r
held fire long enough to burn all tie
graiu Of his enemies
could come down to the New Tes-
lament and call ou reason to show why
devils entered into people and anlmslr
= the first time in history, and to
snow Why mono have shown themselre
since, aud many other unreasonable
things according TO the modern acccP-
rslion reason as understood bv the
common people, although they may
appear as clear to the reasoning clergy
as the noon day sun These are lh 'ngs
that we read in the Old and New Tes-
,amrnt aud the people will read them
and why make them a stumbling block
by attempting 10 resson about them
when il is as clear as day, that no rea-
son that our clergy can bring 'orwsrd
can reconcile them on that Hypothesis.
We as od togy Christian b, b,lievers
claim these TO be mysteries that we
can rot Ut ders,and, and refuse to reason
upon them. call on p ok Axe to
clear up these things from his and
point If be car. | have not brought
forward this array to please infdel-,
but TO show that reason has precsrlous
footing here, but II ls by 'aith as Chris
uans that all three things can be be
lived. | we drp,rt from this position
we find as much reason TO believe thr
Mshommedar the Parsee, tue religion
| o z ,roas,er, or in this lite and deaf
OF Ch i,hna-they all 6osst oi th,ir
miracles and wonders. AID il bumsn
testimony is to Be trusted,
can prove them by clouds o.
Witnesses, and where do we stand
II one ia true aod all the
others false, where is the true religion,
Tor the miracles and wonders Of all be-
ing proved BY clouds ot wltues-es-one
affects the other and nothing remains
Our way out o these d,tficulties is to
have iaiih in God, 'or il we have ~
much faith as q grain OF mustard stei,
we can ssy unto his great mountaio o
dfficulties, be thou removed and cast
into the sea and it th ,ll be done,-
What a blessrd proWls.l Christ ire
quently rebuked the disc pies for rea'
souing among thens Ives. aid also
charges them with upbellei even after
the resurrection, intiustipg that ressou
led to unbelisf in religious matters.
Righteousness was impu ed unto
Abraham by reason OF his Isith. The
nauers referred TO are contrary to tu-
man reason, all must admit Except th.
reasoning clergy, because contrary
10 all our experience, but a true Chris
tan believes them because they are in
the word OF 1od and to him are mys.
Iries aud are beyond his reason. "a.
thropos" asks Us 10 reason about the
iucomprehensible, but tbis is 40 sb.
surdity. When any ons OF your CORES
pondeuts suswers the points raised 10 q
clear and convincing manner. through
reason, I will yield my position.
ORTHODOX