, 1880-10-10


INC Goyernur not only had refused to interfere,
but bud had no intention OF interfering. The
So% On the doeS b be S S
sentence had been conmuted and it made him
happy; but thnt did not provo TINT the belief
u person happy is no evidence what
ever that tho thing believed is true;
t. Is eniy evidence ,,a that the nan
OF the value Of all doath-bed scenes and happy
martyrdoms for Christian evidences. They are
no evidence whatever Do oil the Jews who
the truo religion? Do THO deaths of the intlels
and herctics who have perlshed at the stake at
The bands IT the Christian Church provo that in
fidelity and heresy are trueI.
We are also told that In the year 81 A. D.
Tacltus said tho Christiaus at Rome were vast
Trajan referred to their great numbers i'll tho
remote provinces Of Bithynia: and TINT 1rcnsrus
and Tertullian, $50 A. D., said that the Christian
known world. But that. dues not prove who
wrote the Gospels Of Matthew, and Mark, and
Luke, ntld John.
One Of the neatest evidences that the Gospels
OF Matthew, and Mark. auo tue Acts were not
written By persuns contemporAueoua with the
events narrated therein, is in the anchrontsm by
the writer's as to the extinction OF Hebrew
as spoken language. Suppose an Englishman
or an American wcre on Il cross. with nails
through his hands aud feet and wound in his
nn n9onizing cry of patn were wrung from him.
he would not cxcairn, sfein Gottl mein Gotti
mon Dien! pourquoi m'astu abaudonne?" He
would bot try to show or bis lcnrutng on IN oc-
casion OF that kind. The language Of agony Is
bis words would be, MY Godl my Godl Why
hast Thou forsaken Incl" Again, in the last
part Of the twenty-hrst chapter Of Acts we are
MAS about to kill HIM, that he was res
cued by the Captain OF the guard, and taken
to tho castle, that ne s received permission m to
on the steps OF the castle and 'beckoned with
the hand unto the people, And when there was
Hebrew b e tongue. Now. % ali tic tho theoosians % * ans
unite In saying, and think it Is q historical
fact, that Hebrew had ceased to be spoken by
that corrupted Greek was the vernacular.
One Of two things Is, therefore, necessary: the
clergy must either admit that Hebrew was the
common tongue of the Jews In that ttmc and
thai therefore theGospels ought to be il Hebrew,
or that these books were written ut d period SO
long subsequent to the eve.ts narrated that ne
brew was dead language. He assumed that
the Jews in Jerusalem spoke Hebrew, and erred.
the three
Then We are told that CELSIUS, an curly anti
Christian writer admitted all the facfs In Jesus
70 me a he ds not know %
CELSIUS did anything Of the King: "a tne con- l''rt
trar we haze pretsy goqd e'tdencs hat ee snd a'a
be knew nothing more Of the facts Than VIC DO;
that is, he hnd tho ,test1mony Of manuscripts
hearsay. He was q o-platonist, and 1t is not
iikely That he could have admitted the Christlun
traditions to be fncts; Moreover, bis ATTACKS are
learn from origen's reply to him. that is whit
Origen said he said: and we have learned to
enoss ou and a4e
seai q aloxance: ,,', n,.,atl Al r.,';1s, xho
tsstss eaFs tse dss?sle the = most tas
CELSIUS admits all tho grand facts and doctrines
Of the Gospel as they were prcacnea 1s tad
Is altogether different thing. When man
says Admitting, for The sake Of arsument, mt
plies that be does not believe the facts. and Is
only admitting their truth nomentarily Ia order
to show hts opponent TO & xhst a. frnm I'm
this case, OF how difficult it is for believer to
understand and state properly an unbolevers
3udscd by bis lust lecture, MIR. lngersoll has
moved forward With gigantic strides recently;
that he recognizes certuin Christian truths, ana
miraron and his tears to Jesus Christ. Now,
every agnostlc. no matter whether ne 1s aG.
anaaed h M Or not 5as + bed euy
views Of the man Jesus and tho Sermon on the
Mount different from what he held ten years
for nHo az nu audlencs @ ia this same city that on The
other hand his views are only confirmed by time
and investigation Every agnostio recoxnlzes M N N
His s DAY, day. VINO ] st Ills fe ia trying to overthrow
the very thing which Christians have since set
IN HI, Is e nsf nyppG a.
$ g. aSs sas y
lives at tho hands OF Christians, and as men will
always lose their lives where religion has the
to In 1
should be LOST; and Bishop. .Faliows and the 9th.
should 'e p aa3 IN
would say to the infdel, "Ingersol was
a great anti Christian in his time; he hurled
be nored S ac be- Christian
! truths, and nj the last he paid the tribute OF
his admiration and his tears to this grand char
So @Seh for %s es Ro de not
i know what he said. We only know what 0rigen
says he said, and Orieen lived IN M age which
| than ours.
THO most important point claimed, probably;
is thar 1renteus, Tertultian, Eusebius, and
Irennus tlourisbed from l5o 70 200 A. D.; Tor
tullian from 200 to 24o a. D.; Euseblus from 800
to $40 4. D., and not one Of the Fathers who
.. Not one. Keep that IN mind. It is the
| kernel Of the whole question. More there is
ct the Of the
| written about that time, OF course men coming
later could quote from them. But those men BY
tnelf Quollnk 10 not prove that [ne dospelS
we're written BY the persons to whom they wore
attributed. III quote from the letters Of Jun
1us. that does not prove TO future generations
! who wrote the letters: it gives no information
whatever on that subject; The first three Cos.
! pels we're written about the year l50 a. D., and
| Matthew's and Marks and Luke's names we're
! forged to thom, and the eary Fathers, in quot
| ing, simply called them by the nnmes under
which they were circulating, But, keep it in
mind, there not trace Of the existence Of any
one Of tho four Gospels previous to the year 150
| A. D. NOT trace. Whom they Were written
| The reader should fix thoroughly in mind the
! fact that it was a common thing i'll the early
| days OF Christianity for any man to write gos-
pol or an. cpistle. and forge 8 celobrlted
name to 1t. The author Of "Super-
natural Religion" t., 460) says on this:
-No period in the history Of the world ever pro-
ducod SO many spurious works as the first two or
] three centuries of our era The name Of every
e maser no, fre n