The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-11-28
PATTERSON AND CONOvEE.



Bob lugcrsoll was not offered tue Der.
lin mission. Inc Illinois delegation pre-
| .en,ed nj. name 10 Secretary Eyarts, who
| praised lngersOlI as stump speaker, but
avoided all mention oil the Berlin Ia ion
and repeatedly lodged ihe subject. The
| administration evidently does not want
10 give lngcr;oll the position aud will
10. do so. Rev. Or. Gregg, an cmi-
nent clergyman Of Dublin, ireland, has
now sent lngersoli challenge to meet
him and discuss BOb's position with ref.
erence to christianity, so that the Amcri-
can unbeiieycr will have no time to bOths
or about the Berlin mission. DR.. Gregg
is said 10 be heavy theological weight
and stalwart match for lngcrsoll. His
challenge is as follows;
~ shall conccde TO him as aids and as.
SCISSORS all the inlidels that the world can
supply, and vet ! shall be- willing in the
strength OF the Lord to meet MIN and
tn I'm, and TO give demonstrations against
him, that the kingdom OF God has now
come in power-that the principles of
Christianity that PROFOUND will secure
to true Christians in the use OF Scriptural
means immunity from sickness, inlirmity,
pain and death-in short, all the items OF
present advantage which. |, through
grace and mercy, enjoy myself and have
eXpOunded in my printed papers and
published works, and which may now be
demonstrably laid hold of and secured by
all true Christians. / undertake to meet
him before the American public, and
10 give demonstrations against him,
to their satisfaction, OF all the
particulars OF lattersday Chris
tianity that stand tor, and with which
know you are familiar-to show that
his abuse Of the Bible is blasphemy arts.
ing from ignorance on his part, that all
the speclalities Of objection advanced
| against it by him are frivolous and vain,
and Will in the hight OF learned eXposi-
ton entirely disappear. Thus the wars
OF determination recorded in the Old
| Testament, the imprecation in the 10th
Psalm, to all of which he has attached BY
implication and cpithets malicious
Wicked will appear not only faultless,
but pcriect-in short, shall stand up as
aforesaid tor the whole Bible and its Di,
vine character throughout, and make it
plain TO our hearers that the executions
which he has taken against 1t arc as base.
less as they are base.
"lle has demanded OF the Church of
Christ one miracle, one lact-a this years
tact. Woask, says he, only onc-one
TACT Tor charity q new miracle, and we
demand 1t now. Let the church furnish
at least one, or forever after hold her
peace. A very solemn challenge this,
and c0uched in ecclesiastical phrascolo,
gy, moreover. Now, tender to him
not merely one fact and one miracle, but
a whole dispensation of miracles. |
bring before him the church OF this last
day as instrumental under God In chang
ing the whole law of nature, and as
bringing back Tor the benefit of the whole
redeemed race of believers that paradise,
with its literal Immortality, that
was forfeited at the fall of
Adam, but rGgaincd to be enjoyed
IN rcgcncratcd world at the time settled
IN the counsels Of the Father before the
world was. IL these great glorles were
to be merely torestated by hope, and en-,
loycd through promise, they would be
laughed to scorn by the apostles OF In,
fidelity; but, sustained by a dispensatiOn
OF miracle that stand for, together with
the divine authority OF the Bible, know
not how he can quest my arguments or
make light OF my great positions. testify
against him that his objections to Chris
tnnity and the Bible are, one and all, un.
founded and frivolous. Let him hold his
ground against me, and fairly drive me
from the field OF argument, or else, to ap.
rroprate his own quotation, 'Let him
henceiorlh and forever hold his peace