The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-07-02
REPLY TO TIIOIGIrTS FOE
THINK EkkS.

Mr.. EpIToR;-"Perseverance in
evil doing is the characteristic of civ
ilized human nature" No sooner is
the heather convinced that there's is
no virtue in wood and stone than his
conscience recoils from worship Of
the same. His idols are broken in
pieces and he opens his mind to re
ceive the truth. With the civilized
man, however, it is different. Though
he may have once been in possession
of the truth yet when fully given over
to false doctrines he may be thor
oughly convinced of their untenable-
ness still will he cling to them, and
even with tighter grasp. He at
tempts to philosophize; but being on
false basis each step places him
further from the truth. Every at
tempt to explain or satisfy himself
with his situation only the more con-
vinces him that he is in the wrong,
Finally, it would be undignitied and
compromising for him to admit his
error. This he win not do. So he
goes on.
With these truths in mind we turn
to the article in your paper of the
18th on Thoughts for Thinkers"
1t is our object to avoid, in our re-
marks, anything like worldly dis
cussion. Therefore, we shall ignore
Mr. Ms fippant insinuations, his
bold egotisms, and his wordy abraca
dabra (though little will be left
thereafter) and shall at once turn
our telescope to the great gaseous
body of his last article in order TO
find if possible any atom of solid
matter therein. We bring the thing
to focus-hold right steady-thcre
looms up q conglommeration of non
sense, confusion worse COMPOUNDED y
it appears a miniature of old chaos
and now to complete the scene Mr.
N himself "merges from the mists''
and, like Millions Satan, "O'cr bog
or steep, through strait, rough, dense
or rare, with head, hands, wings OF
feet, pursnes his way and swims, OF
sinks, or wades, or crceps, or flies
To show the disordcred state Of thu
thing and its author we touch, in
substance, an item or two: "a corpse
is a mortal soul" Speaking of tho
number of persons led into Egypt by
Jacob lie confounds the evident mean
ing of "souls" in this instance with
its meaning when referred to as the
seat of the moral faculties. Again
he dogmatically and Internationally
asserts not only what no man knows
or can know, but in so doing mocks
God and makes Him liar! for he
denies that immortality is an attri
butte of the soul, or that "the pure
in heart shall see Cod" he must
therefore deny mans responsibility
to God and his duty to his fellow
man, thus showing his utter con
tempt for divine as well as human
laws-the speedcst way to disinte.
grafton and death.
Tic whole body Of tho filthy arti-
Gle abounds and is composed Of just
such ''black, tartarous, cold, internal
dregs" as these, void Of truth OF
sense; adverse to life and, oozing as
they do from a disordered mind, are
the last drippings of moral rotten
ness. We pity Mr.. N but we arc
disguised at his attempt Though fee
| ble) to outrage truth, and to let loose
upon decent community stream
of filth long pent upin prurient and
vicious mind.
Faith must precedc science, but
Mr.. N by inventing these terms has
demonstrated that he is not seeking
for truth. If MIR. N had shown
different symptoms our treatment
would have been different. But that
His Satanic Majesty seemed to have
been the instigator, the prime mover
of the business, reason would not only
be useless but it would be Casting
our pearls before swine;" for Mr.
Ms object was not to receive the
truth but to fight against it, in his
own words: "to defeat my views Oh
immortality" Therefore, we are jus
titled in our general treatment of his
qnixotic madness Gin hurting him
self headlong against Christianity
and in our plain remarks upon 8
plan so evidently suggested by the
devil and set on foot by his duped
disciple.
Mr.. N must remember that it is
neither manly nor wise to propose the
destruction of system with no sub
stitute to offer; that dogmatic asser-
tions cannot overthrow long and firm
ly established doctrines, and that in
hurting his little, dwarfed and dis
ordered mind against the bulwarks
of Christianity he Injuries himself and
creates no sensation whatever.
NJ.