The weekly Arizona miner., 1877-07-13
DR. oUIGLEY. ON BoB INGKRsoL.

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 The orator ridiculed the cosmogony of the Bible. People such as he cannot ex- plain how God made the world out of noth- ing, and therefore they say it WAS not made al all. Why do they not give Us an expls nation that We can believe and that reason can approve off The Church and the Bi. ble do not limit the coSmogony. The world may be sixty thousand millions of years old, as far as we are concerned, for the Bi- ble says: "In the beginning God made the heavens and the earth, and there is full stop there, and the common opinion is that II Is an infinite number of ages. He made first the heavens and the earth, but the earth was void; it was not what il is now IL corresponds with the periods Of the geolo. gists. There were immense lizards: there were animals that there arc not now on the earth; the earth was in an unfinished state; but the time is indefinite. He would believe the greatest ahsurdity in the world if he believed that the beautiful machinery of the universe came into existence without somebody putting 1t there The Colonel threw ridicule on man being like God, and said that if God was like man he would be q horrible looking fellow. We'll, if he was like the Colonel, he would be good look. fellow, but the real meaning of mans simili. tude, is his being free and also immortal
 voLTARE AND PAINE.
 The lecturer of red ia bet Ingersol S, ,000 to $500, if he believed the books, that Vol taire, when dying, three times begged for A minister Of religion, and was willing to give up his impieties and return to the Church Tom Pane, when dying, was roaring like wild beast. and asking for somebody to save him from hell and death. Bishop Fen wick and another priest visited him, and he asked if they could do him any good, for he was burning, and they said that they could, but he must retract, and if he cid he would be received in heaven like pcniient thief; but he would not do it. and he died in the fury of his frantic rage at being asked to deny his impious writings. The lecturer SAW nothing against reason in God keeping the rays of the sun on earth for 24 hours to assist Joshua in battle, or giving the earth little tip and prolonging the solar illumination, as in the Arctic Circle where there k day of six months. The Bible. he stated. is historical. allegoIical, anagogical. and hiperbolical in parts, and io understand it rightly. We mus; read it in iFt ifAtlNA SlliiNs iAt tldh htth itANNt thirty-eight Y ars, and he had read the Bi- ble one hour every day duriHg that period. with the exception of five days. The peu- pie whom the Jews put out of Canaun were the most wicked people on the face of the earth. IL was not their country, any more than Ireland is the country of John Bull. whom the Irish would drive out some of these days at the point of the pike. The Bible neither sanctions pOlygamy nor slavery. These were institutions tha, grew up. Man was made mono@tmist. but he fell into polygamy. The Colonel was in error in saying that polygamy k an uR- natural crime. IL k in no way unnatural {; on the contrary, nature, all through, follows it, among the animals and vegetables, but God never approved of polygamy for man. As to slavery, the Church has suppressed il wherever 1t has had the power; it abolished it in Ireland in the twelfth century; and slavery is now abolished all over the world. except where the civil laws interfere with the laws of the Church. The lecture, in closing. said he had great respect for Inger- Sol'S oratory, but he would like him to be a little more of philosopher.
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