Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-06-29
BOB IHuERsoll.
He Answers the Reverend Gentle.
mes Whs Have Presumed "a
Critietse Him Seine PuuEens
Remarks or she Great Orator.

Soi. Dop. AnSersoil uelivereu . lecture
in the Grand Opera House. San Francisco.
on Wednesday evening. In which he
answered the criticisms. on hii views "
religion. by Rsvorends DR.. Woodbridge.
]. s. Kalloch and Thomas Guard. Follow
ing are extracts from the lecture:
Il Oh. WOODBRIDGE.
The first gentleman I will call your at
tsntion to Ia the Rev. DIR. Woodbridge. II
seems that when I delivered my lectures
the conclusion was come 10. "that man
does not believe In anything but matter
and force-that man does not believe In
spirit" Why notf" II by spirit you
mean q thing that thinks. / am one Of
them myself. II you mean by spirits that
aspires. why then Am . believer In spirits;
but Whatever spirit there Is In this
universe I will take my oath Ia . natural
product and not superimposed upon
this world. All I will say Is that
whatever Is, Is natural. and thcre 10 a.
much goodness In my Judgment. a. much
spirit here In this world as In any other.
and you arc just - near the heart Of the
universe here as you ever can be. but they
say "there Ia matter and forco and there
10 force aud there 10 spirit" Well. what
OF itp There Is no matter without force.
What would Keep II together unless there
was forcel Can you imagine matter with
out forcel Honor bright, can you con
ceive Of force without matterP And what
IL spiritr They say spirit Is the frst thing
that ever Was. II seems TO me sometimes
~ though spirit was tho blossom and fruit
Of all and not the commencement. But
they say spirit was first. What would that
spirit dor No forco-no mAtter-a spirit
living In an infinite vacuum without side.
edge OF bottom. This spirit created the
world. and II this spirit did there must
have been . time when IL commenced TO
create. and back Of that an eternity spent
In absolute idleness. Can spirit exist with.
out matter or without forcer i honestly
say I do not know what matter Is. what
force il. what spirit Is; but 10 you mean
by matter anything l can touch. or by
force anything We can overcome. l belisvo
In IL. II you mean by spirit anything that
can think and love, ! believe In spirits.
REV. ]. 3. KALLocH.
Taking up Mr.. Kalloek. the Colonel
said:
lie say. the last hours are grand testing
hours; that those arc the hours when
atheists dishonor their principles and In
fidels bewail their folly. In proof Of this
he cited the death-bed scenes Of voltaire
aud Tom Paine. Ny opinion 10 this. that
when man approaches death his i~ntellec-
tual faculties fail. no becomes like . child;
no hasi 80 70 speal. iess aha iets sense;
L.. .ense that no IA abie m 90 hsel N IN
.uper.tition Of his Childhood. II. gets n
from his mother. and i saw that supcrsti.
tion doe, no sanctify the mother. but the
mother sanctihes superstition. Every
superstition In the world has been rend.
erred sacrd by the sacred love of mother.
Allow mo 10 saw that from the day OF tbo
death OF yoltaire the church has nurrued
bim-pot enIy the Catholic church bu,
The Protestant churcbes "a we'll. The
cur.e NJ Rome Was launched NJ him. and
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