The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-03-28
Sejrnca and Religion,

Editors o! the Register.
Whal a mudtlc this book, the Bible,
is. According to it, the Eienic pr5to,
plasts were the only human beings liy~
Ing ou the globe al certain timC.
Children were born INTO them Cain,
after having killed his brother MARI cd,
Whom did he marry? Either hjs SIS
ter or d prG-AdamNe. But there were
no pre-AdGmites, and hence Cain must
have been guilty Of the damuab.e
crime o! incest. Here, then, we have
the infinitely wise Creator jsvising =
plan for peopling the world 50 bung-
liugly that q great organic law CT hs
own establishing, peryading the Whole
animal kingdom, Is necessarily coairc-
vered in the fret attempt 10 carry i
into execution. SO mucu :ar infinite
wifdOm.
When the Lord hal 5p2gcl Cain lor
his foul murder be (Cain) exclaimed,
ut shall come to pas5 that whoever
findeth me ahall slay me. But after
Abel was killed, nonc were let bu'
himself and parents, Tor Eve excIaims
at the birth OF Seth, "G0d hath ar-
pointed me another seed ius:eat OF A5c!,
whom Cain slew" Who Gre Adsh
and Zjllab, who married Lamech be-
tween the death OF Abel anl the bIgth
of Seth? Who helped Cain ha'.i "j'
citv, and what did lie want w.:h . city
when it would appear that be was the
sole inhabitant OF the land OF Nod
1t ia eaid in Genesis 426, Then he.
gan men TO call upon the name ot tic
Lord" This was at the birth Of Enos,
23j wears after the creation. Il i. poe
sible the descendants OF Adam never
called upon the name OF the Lord be
fore this time? Would 1t not sccm
more reasonable to conclude that tie
men spoken OF here belonged to som"
other race than Adam's2 But this Is
enough.
In Saturdays issue oi your psiy:
there appeared q couple OF article @
theological character signed r'Sp7"'
lively "Onhodox" and m.
Orthodox seems to be g.vjus bis
brother Ar,hropos slight lecture ,or
granting feason any weight in matter
Of religion. His theory Is that outside
OF faith there is 20 hope for Ce.'E,c1
and he then proceeds to euumsIctc q
great number OF Christian doCtElac5, a.
| tie very mention Of which res-Jl
starts aehast. After RLUihIiauug h0-
thropos, be says, Our only reliance !.
on faith aud not on reason. Tn's ::
sound Orthodox advice. and AntAroPo:
would do well TO head it. This is t-t
way and only way 10 do il. FiIst, cX
tiuguish the lamp OF reason; thea 'aH'
refuge in blind faith, and cTyo: VIZ
all her native hideousUess NAV b
pressed to the bosom with per;ec: San
| foil. 1t matters not that the ScrlP'
lures say, Let US reason together,
and Paul reasoned Of righteous
ness temperance, and judg'
ment to come" there being MUCH r,1i'
.ieiy here.
M thinks that wriiers, instead 0
attacking the Bible under the cover 0
ordinary science, ought rather TO dirsc
their arguments against the resurrec
ton OF Christ, or historic fact, i! belni
the keystone of the great srCh Q
ChriS;iali;y, He also says that tho
Billie was not intended as teX:ooo!
in Science. Whether il wss 60 inteni
ed or not, it has been go construed u
every age since it had an exs.e-ca
Look over the correspondence 10 .n.
paper for the last few weeks a,d sec
it bas not been put forward - ve:',c
ency clopedis o; all Eiuds Q. knowledge
Was it not quoted a. = ;ex!-0eoI
tagains, Descaries. Radi, Noaipi Gu
Gsi!leo2 How Jared COluDbus au
: Harvey ss it's hands?
In speaking OF prayer, N cay
! Professor Tyndsll admits that IN