The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-11-29

soil Is himself not wholly spoiled pro
duct of biblical civilization. He Is not
born unbelieyer. The only atheists "by
BIRTH are the black races OF Australia
and the Kafirs and Hottentots OF South
Africa. They have forgotten God, though
one old man told DR.. Moffat that his faith
ems had some idea OF Supreme Being, but
they were panicky over witchcrat. The
only extended experiments in civilized
lands on his platform were those OF the
first French revolutionists and the Paris
Communists. The Colonefs early train
ing and genial temper, though It has not
prevented his adoption OF their theories,
would no doubt hinder him from following
their exampleif he could.
When he eulogizes science and Us mod
ern achievements we can sympathiZe with
him fully, but he ought to give credit to
the original sources as Alexander Won
Humboldt has done. He says in his Cos
mos: 4,
awe are astouished 10 And In 4 general poem (lhe
10th Psllm) Of such lImlted compass the whole uni
yeFse-the heavens and the eArth-sketehed Win =
few bold touches Similar views Of thecosmos occur
repeatedly In the Palms lnd more fully perhaps, 10
the Ssih chapter Of job The meteorological processes
WhIeh take place In the atmosphere, the formation
alton Of hail and The voice Of the rolling thunder, are
described With indlTidualihng accuracy, and many
questions are propounded which We, In the present
state Of our physical knowledge, may, indeed Be able
70 express under more seientihe definitions, but
scarcely able to answer satisfactorily"
Whom Job tells us that God hung the
world on nothing, he is entitled TO as much
credit as modern philosophers for demon.
strating the same fact. Weleaye the Colo
mel to his know knothing position respect
ing the existence Of the Deity, and hope he
may find sounaer basis for II than for
much Of his biblical exegesis.
IXGERsoLL's RENoRsE.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
II all that Col. Ingersoll says is said
without equiyocation or mental reserva-
ton, the fact doesn't appear at all times
and under all circumstances. A reporter
CHANGED to be passing through the halls of
the Burnet House Yesterday morning, soon
after midnight, and was startled by anoise
sounding like the yell of maniac lost
among the labyrinths of the catacombs.
Hurrying in the direction whence the
sound came, establishment quickened into
wonder at the discovery that the dialogue,
or solilioquy, apostrophe, or whatever it
was continued, and came from the room
occupied BY Col. 1ngersoll. The first inn
pulse was to cry for police, then to send
for doctor, then to summon hell.hoy,
and then to draw nearer and listen. The
bell messenger responded and affirmed
that the valiant Colonel occupied his room
alone, and Immediately after the reporter
was assured OF the truth Of the messengers
affirmation.
The yell had subsidized, but. words were
still audible. The voice was none other
than Ingersoll's. It sounded strange and
hollow, and often gutteral. The words
were broken and disconnected. Evidently
COL IHgersoll was asleep and dreaming.
The reporter was in the hearing OF Ia SOM
namubulist. The first words that caught
his ear were: "0h, Father Abraham!"
Then there was n break and an evident
tossing about on a restless couch, and then
followed: ~ ought to be saved-Moses in
the bulrushes-believe it al-Polar bear
in Ark drinking soda-water-Jonah swal-
lowed a whale-0-o-o-o forgive sinnerl
greatest among million-take hack leo
a long pause followed, and the
scribe was about to turn away when the
solitaire NEE ting was resumed: Believe
in second, third, or even fourth death,
hellfire, birthstone, resurrection, Homer,
Moses and the Apocalypse, anything, O
Lord! I'm lost sheep. Q forgive! forgive!
forgive! GwouCh!" With the last mort
we knew the pagan orator had awakened,
and, knowing we had no right to listen to
his wakeful comments on fretful dream,
we, messenger and scribe, departed,
HARD on BOB.