Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-30
Start a World, and Swing n World, and
Destroy a World,

| one would think He would not be very
much exhausted il He stopped ii, or BY
extra refractiOn of the light OF the sun
continued its illumination. The ancient
battle of which Mr.. IngerSoll speaks 50
contemptuOqSly was worthy of prolonged
day by extra refraction OF the suns rays:
for what Yorktown was in revolutionary
times and what Gettysburg was in our civil
war. and what Sedan was in the Franco
German war. and what Waterloo was in
Sapoleonic destiny. that was JOShua's bat
tie against the five allied armies at Gibeon.
II changed all history and was as important
then as battle now in which England and
America and France and Germany and
Russia and Italy and Turkey and Austria
should come face to face for victory or an
Inhalation. However much any other
world, solar or lunar or stellar might be
fastened on its errands of light ii would be
excusable if it fingered by the way and
put down for little while its sheaf OF
light to gaze at
Such an ArmageddOn.
In the early part of this century there
was a dark day when workmen went home
from their fields and legislatures and
courts adjourned. and TO this day the dark
ness has not been explained. II God could
advance the night before its time, could he
not postpone the night after its time? |
have heard my father say that he was start
ed out by his neighbors on night in 1888,
or thereaboutS, because of the seeming riot
of the heavenly bodies, all the stars shoot
ing about in such awild way that the world
was terrified. Astronomers, TO this day,
have not been able TO explain that star
shooting. II God can start thousands OF
meteors and then stop them, | think he
can stop two worlds for Joshua's eXtinc-
ton OF the five allied armies. II God can,
as on that night in 1888, engineer train of
ten thousand meteors, and halt them with
out collision or accident, l think he can
control 1.-TWO carriages OF light and BY a
golden brake. 4 celebrated eye doc
tor, in Boston. declared recently
that he had more cases of diseased eyes
Immediately after an eclipse than at any
other time, and that ii came by so much
looking through smoked glass at the sun
in an eclipse. So this hating sun of Joshua
has burnt the eyes of Mr.. 1ngersoll, look
ing through a glass smoked with the
fires of
Hatred Against Christianity.
This infdel is still further amused at
the amounting oil put upon Aaron and all
the judgments that came upon those who
misused the amounting oil. OF course it is
easy to make mirth Of that which is only
symbol. do not belong TO the order of
Masons nor have seen the ceremony, but
when they put oil on the cornerstone of q
new building, no good man would laugh at
il. The amounting oil is only symbol OF
blessing and sanctity. 1t ought not TO re-
quire that man be Mason in order 70 see
the solemnity Of amounting a corner stone,
or that man be Christian in order to see
the Solemnity in the amounting of an an
eient professor of religion. As we'll make
fun Of n wreath put on a coffin, or a badge
worn in grief, or slab on q sepulchre.
They mean nothing except
ASymbol Of Affection
and remembrance, As we'll laugh at the
water in church rite, whether sprinkled
from the fountain or standing in the bap
tistry 1t is q farce except as the type of
spiritual cleansing, and then to every earn
est person, whether Christian or unbe-
liever, it is charged with beautiful signifi.
canoe. An honest man will look beyond
the type to the thing signifed. II takes q
very bad heart to laugh at the amounting
oil of the Scriptures. Mr.. Ingersoll, with
great deriSion, speaks of the Bible state
nent that the whale swallowed Jonah and
and after three days elected him upon the
dry land. II Mr.. Ingersou wiE 60 TO the
museum in Nantucket. Massachusetts,, he
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