The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-03-01
HAYS VI. I1GERsOLL,
Lecture Of Dr.. George r. Hays At the
First PFesby IeFian Church Last Nigh
in Reply 10 InEeFBOlI,

First Presbyterian Church LAST Aight
in Reply 10 IDEsrsOII.
DR., George P, Hays, President OF Wash
ington and Jefferson College, delivered
his famous lecture in reply to Ingersoll's
"WhAt Must We Do to be sayed2" at the
First Presbyterian Church, in this city,
to large and intelligent audience.
Rev. D. A. Cunningham, D. D., pastor
OF the church, introduced the Doctor, who
spoke substantially as follows:
On Friday, December 10, 1880, at 7
O'Clock p, NJ, l addressed q missionary
meeting at the Allegheny Theological
Seminary. At 1901 was listening to In
gersolls lecture on what Must We Do to
be Saved" During the half hour that
elapsed between the time the lecture be-
gan and the time when arrived, he was
denying that the New Testament was writ.
ten within hundreds Of years OF the time
claimed, and supported his assertion by
single argument. In reply to his asser'
tons l set over the concessions
OF the German Rationalists, who Tor
100 years examined the evidence with
an intellectual microscope. They admit
that PsuVs epistles were written during
his lifetime, and in them every fact is in.
yolyed, | shall come later to his single
argument, Imay here state that heard
no new line of argument that evening.
Ten years study Of the evidences OF Chris.
tianily satisfies me that he who reads Vol
taire, Rousseau and Paine will have not
the form Of Ingeraolls argument, but the
essence Of ali he says. As they have
failed, so will he, except to do no harm.
His character, Ia OF no Importance; he NAV
be an outlaw and his arguments sound
nevertheless. With all that thoroughly
agree, but It sounded odd in lecture
where most OF the argument was based on
the weakness Of the ministry and the by.
poCrisy OF Christians.
II his character is OF no importance
neither is theirs, He says he is never
personal, and jnsjnuates unlairness in the
personaiE.y OF he replies, But there are
millIons Of PresbyteriaRs aud there is
only one Of him, It is therefore possible
for him to be impsrsonal and impossible
TO reply without seeming personality.
He IL brilliant in the use OF adjeCtiVes,
but adiectiyes and adyerbs are the weak
parts oil speech. The strong parts are the
noun, the actor sud the verb. When ad.
ieCtives run to seed they become. Prolane
swearing, WHICH aMo amor .S. 70 nolnlng., He
IN y CiEeeE. and sboTs BY Psui's speech, ut.
tered In Hebrew, to q Jewish mob in Je.
russIem, that Hebrew, not Greek, was tho
everyday language o. eSoahlIty lor ~ mIhY
Sye eSts ha ~onld have ssan that wbso
p"nI sSLed ths nf,cnr IN lat him snsak N
L a"' r aeSo ' noIicamSn IooLad m in az.
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lssory anu nUus,m IS !.,tNn"IisIs oUd
5ns poInt sk@.n no,,d sat,Ia tSa HmsS, I
SnllslAg VtIuys Hou'u sea ono W. snIa.
Dy supmluiIg Y " anY Vonce''"p'e fu'es
Oh h'sIofica Ves'''n'n''
OWE Us ANOTHER.
We should be glad II lnfdelity would
not nm Ne hibIa somsthing that will civil.
s s Wy ~ 800 .'Sa,n,aIn -. nona;o,ono,, ond
lze saVSseS' MAINTAIN ''s p'Nsf7'en'', aHu
uphold morality. Give US book written
by thirty different men, through sixteen
cortr,ioS comnosed NJ sixty.slx tracts
Shich Sbs,I he consi0tent and svmmstri.
UsI ''u S -" toct aoCh msw sksntic anoneeds
SS,! sh 81" az, s,tacSino bis com oan;ons and
Tn0ersoIl has felt their force. "A eastern
atbeisia denonnced him for rehashing AZ.
ninSaJ tbeotias He saws Matthews7 vna,
poI nowhsre sska for faith. II il the I'm.
possiSla hat a Heb,sw. writing for He.
pvo oo Ohonid aasnme a comrnon knowl.
o oiSsS ~ Du tbot which had been their com.
man ia,th ior more than Zoo years, Mat.
tbew thnuvht 10 40 sketch Christis life AZ
N show Him the Messish Of the Hebrew
n,6nbst II He was that, no jew needed
p fhs told n bslisye. Ingersoil saws
Ch,tst vss a vsrv Sood man. Then there
'saS : asSns and tSe onestions of WHO He
,vsS ami whv fla was ara for him TO ans.
wa, wSs 1 aS vail a. for I,s' He saws that AZ
w vail a. tor ia, He saws fiat az Jesus
CS,;st died ior man be offers Him tbe
t,ihn,o n his Tsvsrance and tssra' Brt II
Sh,;Ot e uoa not The Messiah His dyIn1
Dhnn us I'D and M He did. was simnIv
20 cI;nSS n ioIIv An oydInsrv simbla.
tnU o c C have escaned without harm and
Snd 'V ;Sa ~hoIs fswiSh sanbsdrim beIn
Kim s sTsv WI" FTSsre IA no theory Of His
d d' ,hsy rrataS Il ANYTHING eIse tbon ali.
o u,aiN sHSs S tho thsnry NJ asonomenf "
'u nr, I hs spys ~ Gcjod can't damn ths tor.
r;,iuS no I IiT23d Iirsr,S ia ~ iorvive mr. tH
sst tvnS liz INV nuSt iorSIva HIs INT mrst
Gnd tbereiora insist on bringing these
s Sv1 intn bis Immediate nrsSehos' and
s taEa than nv ior bis eyerIsstipr compsnv ?
Wbon Dad Ia,s lila enemies slone and
,otoo nj hand NJ res,rsint ofr them. that
T. I ~ ja m thon Ima"ins ,his wo,iJ
Fin III 1 Iha Snod toLsn oSI NJ Il and ali