Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-12-19
ment of the Bible and the belief in q
Supreme Being?

Look at governments where the teach
| ing of the Bible is respected, and look
at those where it is not. You find
them in the depths of barbarism and
decay. All history is against him, and
the progress of the best governments Is
due to the higher responsibility OF man.
| The greatest empires ever founded were
those BY Cyrus Tamerlan and Alexan-
der, and each perished with the death OF
their founders. Does he seek to give
YOU remedy for this malady? A youth
is indisposed and sends for DR.. Bob In
eersoll. '"Wel, Doctor" says the youth,
II have the bilious fever. Our family
physician told me 30, and left me pre-
scription, but would not take his med
icine. He is a great physician; has
never failed in single Instance to save
the patient if he would only trust him,
and take his medicine; but hearing OF
you "bobbing around" thought |
would try you, but my friends have OBJ
jected to the change, and have Just
left me, to return shortly again.
"Well, my boy" says DR.. Ingersoll, 81
will take your case in hand, but be-
lieve in alternatives. Suppose you try
the small pox; it may drive out the
bilious fever" In three days the Doc
tor calls, and the youth says, doctor,
you recommended the small pox for
bilious fever; il has driven the fever out,
but the small pox is certain death unless
arrested. What is your remedy? My
friends have left me; they won't come
for fear OF being innOculated with the
disease" 81 prescribe smoking" says
the Doctor. ''My boy, this small
pox is pretty bad, but l can
give no remedy: Though there
aer:: remedies spoken OF | don't
believe in them, just keep on having
the small pox, there is medicine called
Bible mixture that has brought many
through they use it, but the Pentateuch
is one of its ingredients and | have no,
faith in anything in which it is fonnd
and therefore discard the whole thing,
What would the patient say, then II
you can't do anything, l will send for
another physician, whether you believe
in him or not, for this Alternative treat
ment OF yours has been the great
est piece ofqudckiag | ever heard of. To
drive out disease that there was hope
Vi curing Nv dlOtlltl hiSCtSS'' Ot iN-
commended and could not treat, you
ought to be arrested and imprisoned.
either as lunatic for nal alpracticc for,
prescribing something you knew was
certain death, a worse and more
malignant disease than the one | had
and then leaving patient to SHIFT for
himself" Is Ingersoll honest? don't
think he is and will try to proveit Let
us cite
HYPOTHETICAL CASE.
Let us suppose that there never was
anything known Us Il Bible, 1t had ever
been sealed volume. That the belief
throughout this continent, (having no
commerce with other countries and
never knew nor heard Of any other
people) was that when we closed our
ewes in death, were dead to all eternity
and that man was to have an eternal
sleep in the grave. There are
two men sitting i'll a room and
they are talking OF the unpleasant
reflections of their belief. One is
Bob Ingersoll and the other john
Smith-well says Smith ''it is the sad
dest thought that haunts the Bob, that
my mind is to 90 to nothing and be,l
nothing, (the word soul never known
of that when we all die, gifted, as we
are with minds and knowledge superior
to the brute creation, tnat when | die
am to be nothing more than dead dog"
well says Bob sits pretty bad to think
of, but it's SO, We never heard or knew
of ANYTHING to the contrary, it's enough
to make Il man feel sort OF bobbed, just
to be bobbed right off and nothing more
of him, we would like to go bobbing for
something better, but nothing better
ever was known Of"
Bill Jones another friend bursts into
the room and hears the last OF this con
versation, and exclaims, boys | had
BEAUTIFUL DREAM
last night in my sleep, something like
IL little child with wings Il don't know
what name to give it, bright and beau
tiful, surpassing anything | ever saw,
Appeared and whispered to me when
YOU close your eyes in death, you don't
die eternally, YOU only close your eyes
to open them again, you open them to
the most enchanting spectacle that ever
greeted them, you open them upon a
most beautiful city SO bri ght, happy
and glorious, that YOU want to forget
YOU ever lived anywhere else. Crystal
streams of living water, and streets OF
gold are there; and when you have just
entered the heavenly gates, you have
Just began to look upon its beauties,
there is no sun or moon, but one,
spirit, that sheds q food OF brightest
light, and is the glory thereof;
this is to be your home
forever There is no pain, sorrow or
sickness; no malice, hatred, jealousy or
discomfort; but just supreme and per-
feet happiness, and if YOU will just be-
lieve on that supreme beauty and bright
one, who is the glory OF this beautiful
CITY. YOU shall come with Inc and abide
there. But you must believe on the
spirit, and YOU can't get there any other
way unless YOU close your eyes in death
believing. What would Bob and Smith
exclailn, "Why what a beautiful dream,
We wish it could be SO, that there was a
better and more beautiful life before the
grave, How sorry We are II Is only
dream, for it is a horrid thought to lie
All eternity in the grave"
So much for the dream. Not some
thing we would like to believe in, but
can believe in, guarantee, a promise
sure and steadiast. Take the promise,
it is yours If you will have it, Il lost my
only son that you might win it; take me
at my word"
He ain opposed to il though he says
so. Men are not apt to be opposed hon
estly to a thing that promises so much.
Does he offer anything better, anything
more pleasant, to the thought? He Is
the essence of vanity, and that vanity
eccentrieity. ! never yet saw an eccen-
trio man that did not make much OF his
eccentricity, and its bottom is vanity.
Nothing is offered to him better, and he
is incapable oil offering anything as good,
when he can. he can afford to lecture
tree for, plenty Of people can be hal TO
salary him. FLASH.
NoTE-Our papers here have de-
nounced him with the same boldness
that has characterized yours.