The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-02-09

Mr.. lngrrsOll, with great derlSlQA,
speaks of the Bible statement that the
whale swallowed Jonah, and after three
days elected him upon the dry land. If
he will 30 10 IN museum in Nantucket,N
Mass, he will find che i8H+ IF a whale
large enough To swallow IL MN. There
IS IN the mouth OF lh- cun.iaau whale
". vity large enough for la.'' 10 live in
without descent lnLG the stomach. There
nave been cases Whrir amman bodies
we've 1Oaud entire in sharks. Beside
That, read the entire account IL Jonah,
ana you Will find il does not say il was
whale. 1t was great fish. The New
testament in one place, referring TO the
occurrence, calls the fish a whale; but
the original name is a word for any or
all sea monsters. There were in Olden
time tish compared with which the mod
Cin whale is shad. PrOcOpius says
that in the year 562 sea monster was
Killed after destroying vessels for fifty
years. The marine animal that took
care OF Jonah may have been any one of
the great sea monsters that used to
swarm the Mediterranean, some of them
large enough to allow prophet to live
in them three days, provided he kept
moving around enough to keep the gas
trio juices from taking hold of him a
sea monster large enough to take down
Mr.. IngersOll and all his blasphemers,
and once down l am sure that, in at
least three days, as in the case the
whale with Jonah, there would be yiO-
lent regurgitatiOn.
Mr.. Ingersoll goes on and says there
are indecencies in the Bible. He dares
Christians to read certain parts of the
Bible in their families.
He takes UP the Bible from his lectuT-
ing desk and says he will read some
things, and then, with an affected blush
says there are some things he dare not
read in the presence of families. His
delicaCy and mOdesty overcome him. My
reply is, there are things not intended
to he read either in the family circle or
in the pulpit, but, nevertheless, they are
to be read. | can go into the office of
any physician in Brooklyn and find on
his table medical journals and in his
library, books that the physician would
not think best to read in the family. yet
they are good books, valuable books, in
dispensable books, pure books, and no
physician would be worth the name of
physician who did not own them, Now
there are things in the Bible which are
merely the anatomy of sin, showing
what laZar-hOuse Of lniqulty the
heart is when unTestTained, lOathsOme
description, from the reading of which
one rises with a profitable disgust and
horror. Not to be read i'll public, but in
private. One rises up from them not
contaminated with the evil, but as one
comes from the dissecting room, more
intelligent than when he went in, yet
in no wise enamOuTed of putTefactiOn.
There is ByrOnic description of sin
which allures and destroys, while the
Bible description of sin warns and
saves. Do not denOunce the Bible as
unfit because there are some things not
| to be read in the family, unless you de-
nOunce all medical journals and books.
They are not fit to read in the family.
| The blasphemer, knocking about at eve
| rything, finally runs his head against
| the tables Of stone, and tries to break
one of the ten commandments. As an
| illustration of the unfairness of Mr.. In
gersOll, | quote his statement: "One of
the commandments said that they
should not make any craven images,
and that was the death of art i'll Pales-
tine. Any commandment that is the
death of art is not good command
ment." Mr.. IngeTsOll knew, as every
| one else knows, that it was craven ina
ges made for the purpose Of idOlatry
that were forbidden, and not pictures or
sculpture for the Tegalement of elevated
taste. Is the Bible the death of art?
Go through all the art galleries of the
world, and find that the most impressive
pictures are on Scripture subjects. Blot
out the Bible pictures, and you blot out
IllC DCSI ptll 10 VA llAC SullNiAV Ab -'tAllNGS
at Venice, at Dresden, at Rome, at Paris,
at Edinburgh, and from all the parlOrs
of ChristendOm, and you tear down st.
Paul's and st. Marks and the cathedTals
of Milan and Cologne and the Vatican.
What are RaphaePs great pictures?
"The TRANSPORTATION" The Draught of
Fishes" The Charge of Peter" >" The
nOcents," "NOses at the Burning Bush"
"AIichael the ATchaDgel," THE Natiy-
ity," and at least four MadOnnas.
What were the subjects of TintOrettO's
great pictures? "The Fall of ADAM"
"Cain and Abel" "The Golden Calf
Paradise" plague of Fiery SeTpents,"
agony in the Garden" "The Tempta-
tiOn," Alteration of the Magi," "Annun-
ciation," Baptism" Massacre of the
cifixiOn," The Madonna" What were
the subjects of Titian's great pictures?
"The FlagellatiOn of Christ" The
1.-The Assumption" "EntOmbment,"
Faith" "The Madonna" What were
the subjects of Michael Angelp's great
pictures? "AnnunciatiOn,'' Spirits in
Prison at the Feet of Christ" Infant
Christ" "CrueiixiOn," Last Judgment"
What were the subjects of Paul yerOn-
ese's great pictures? Queen of She
ba," Marriage in Cana" "Magdalen
washing the Feet of Christ, THE Holy
Family Who has not heard of De
Vinci's Last Supper" or Pools of 81
loam," or Ruben's 'ScOurging of Christ?
After ihe janitOr in the cathedral at
Antwerp had thrown back the special
covering of that picture, and L had
looked at it for five minutes, staggered
back against the pillar, exhausted in
body, mind and soul. Who has not
heard of Orcagna's Triumph of Death
Durer's Dragon of the Apocalypse,
Claude's Marriage of Isaac and Rebec-
ca" or DOre on everything from the ere
tion to the last cOntlagration? Know
ing all this, Mr.. IngersOll represents
the Bible as hostile to art. If in the
court room he were guilty of such out
rageOus misrepresentation he would be
silenced or thrown over the bar.
Mr.. IngersOll further SCOTS at the Bi-
BILE, saying that there is not one word
about woman in the Old Testament, ex-
cept the word of shame and humiliation
He reads also selections from the New
Testament to show that the Bible all the
way through is ia degradation of woman.
Let uf see: Come into this picture-gal-
Iaru fhia TOuVra this IOYpmhOurQ of