The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-05-11
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FsE$E3 Secretary Wo tenn.
Letter from Ex.ReV. Timothy B.
Taylor, Formerly Of West YiF.
ginia-.IIe Tells How lie Has
Received Light, aud Offers 10
Discuss His Views In Public
Debate. .H e
Editors Wheeling IntellIsencer EssFf
am indebted to afriend ID Pittsburgh
for n copy Of your paper Of April 18th,
in which | find what and my friends
regard as u very unkind criticism OF my
present position and work. hope you
will allow me word In disqualification,
not so much on my own account rs upon
account Of my friends. The article in
your paper bears upon It's face tho evil
lenCG OF an attempt to break the intu-
ence OF my present position and teaching
by beliItling my former position and
teaching as Methodist preacher and
newspaper editor.
Ny friends knew full well that | never
set up any claims to great ability as
preacher or as n writer. But they
Knew Just a. well that whencycr
II was announced that The HIlev. Tin.
Othy" was to- preach, or lecture on tent
perancc or any other subject, hc Ind
larger audiences than the most Of preach
crs, and that the readers Of his paper, the
Republican, were increased IN q few months
to nearly double the number that he com.
menced with, and he personally knows
that he receives good round com hensation
for writing for different papers and pc.
riodiCals to-day, "humbug" or no humbug.
But In the article under review there
arc some gross Misrepresentation made
unintentiOnally, | have nodOubt-suGh as
charging ME with preaching "the Gospel
according to Andrew Jackson Davis"
Mr.. Editor, have become an humble stu
dent Of Nature, and this Is The Gospel |
preach, according to my own highest con
ception OF what constitutes truth and
duty. regret to say that | have not had
time to read but one Of Mr.. Davis great
works, and that is his life, or the "Magic
Staff" ! have paid more attention to
such authors as Strauss, Colenso, Renan,
"Eeoe Homo and "Ecee Deus" Parker,
Herbert Spencer, Darwin, Huxley, VIM
HOwett, Crooks, Tyndall, Carpenter md
Wallace. It was through the study Of
such authors, us we'll a. following the
deep convictions OF my own soul, that ]
have been led to where I now stand on the
question Of theology. Do you think it
kind or Just to ridiCule one for such
course2 II you knew the nature Of the
terrible struggle through which passed
TO get out Of the old grooves or rllts, you
would feel less like chidingmcG n
Again, who said that came TO bei"an
inhdel or a doubtef In regard 10 the mir
acles Of Paul and Peter" ! never have
doubted them at all. II Ia the construction
put upon them and The conclusions draWn from
them that / hare doubted. II the fact that
Paul and Peter performed miracles, so
called, constituted their cause Divine,
then Is my cause Divine, for here l find,
without number almost, miracles sur pass
Ing far anything found III the New Testa-
ment.
Why am charged iacetiouSly with be-
Ing "too much Of a saint 10 receive such
communication as that given by Samuel
TO saul2 Sit meant that my moral char
acter is not what II ought 10 be2 | anI
proud that was expelled from the Meth
odist Church IN 1871 for the crime Of
"heresy," and thnt "no dog In all the camp
Of Israel dared to move his tongue
against my moral characters and that
same character sustain 10 this day, and
dare any man to say aught to the contrary.
; Can l be informed where the burlesque
comes in In connection with my present
work, "leClnring TO people on the philos-
ophy Of new religion"2 The inhabit-
ants Of Boston are perhaps as well read
and intelligent people as America affords.
/ have given twelve lectures on the
spiritual Philosophy" every. one Of
which has been largely attended and
luHdly applAuded, not only by the audi
tors but by the press, secular Ns we'll 40
snititnal; and am now cooperating
with capitalists in Boston and elsewhere
TO build in this city grand spiritual
temple to cost not less than $3O0,O00 de-
signed TO facilitate the development Of
thIs new religion. Here we shall have
Sunday meetings and all kinds Of spirit
lal sennceS Under test conditions, pub
fishing house, &c., DC. 'F.
But the writer concludes his article
by quoting from an altogether different
feport Of a different occasion entirely.
Let the writer Of the unkind and ungen.
erous article in your paper Of the 18th
ult, remember that II takes something
more than sneers and pooh.poohs TO an.
swer the stern logic Of facts such, as are
transpiring everywhere to-day
And now, kind friend, with all your
efforts to undeftate my ability, II YOU
can find an honorable opponent to meet
me in discussion Of these questions ]
will slip down to Wheeling and spend a
week with you.
Fraterually thine,
CSieago, lfg 9 1915. u g'TAYth0'Hs g \
VIZ arc each Of us thoughts Of God, we
owe our being to hdring been in that infin-
ia mind and a. the author Of the book
oi Wisdom says, "Nevet WouldSt Thou
have made anything hadst Thou not lov::
ed n" The Creator cannot be diSgusted
with his creatures infrmilies, or weafied
Of his weakness, or ready to abandon him
because Of his sins, for he has underAlood
"a ali g,,,,, ,kn GksGl and IN hia hook Wefe