Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-30

the stomach. There have been cases where
human bodies were found entire in sharks.
Beside that read the entire account in
Jonah, and YOU will find ii does not say 1t
was whalee It was "a great fish," The
New Testament in one place, referring to
this ,occurrefce, calls the fish whale, but
the original name is word for any or all
sea monsters There were in olden times
fish compared with which the
Modern Whale Is q 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 one OF
the great sea monsters that used to swarm
the Mediterranean, some of them large
enough to allow prophet 10 live in them
three days, provided he keeps moving
around enough to keep the gastric juices
from taking hold of him, a sea monster
large enough to take down Mr.. lngersoll
and all his hlasphemies, and once down am
sure that, il at least three days, as in the
case of Jonah, there would be violent re
gurgitations. Mr.. Ingersoll goes On and
says there Are
Indeeencies In the Bible.
He dares Christians to read certain parts
of the Bible in their families. He takes up
the Bible from his lecturiHg desk and says
he will read some things, and then with an
affected blush he says there are some things
he dare not read in the presence of fami-
lies. His delicacy and modesty overcome
him. My reply is, there are things not in.
tendeds1 be read either in family circle or
in pulpit but, nevertheless, they are to be
read. Chi 20 iRte.the Office Of any physi-
clan in Brooklyn and find on his table med
ical Journals, and in his. library books, that
the physician would not think best to read
to his family, yet they are good books, and
valuable books, indispensable books, pure
books and no physician would be worth
the name of physician who did not own
them. Now, there are things IN the Biole
which are merely the anatomy OF sin, show
ing what a lazar-house of iniquity the heart
is when unrestrained, loathesome descrip-
tions from the reading OF which one rises
with a profitable disgust and horror. Not
to be read in public but in private. one
rises up from them not contaminated with
the evil. but as one in no wise enamored OF
putrefaction. There is Byronic descrip-
ton 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 circle, unless you de-
nounce all medical journals and books,
that are not fit TO be read in the family.
The blasphemer knocking about at every
thing finally runs his head against
Tables OF Stone.
and tries to break off one OF the ten COM
mandments. As illustration OF the un-
fairness of Mr.. Ingersoll quote his state
ment: "One of the commandments said
that they should not make any craven Inn
ages, and that was the death of art in Pal
estine ANY commandment that is the
death of art is not good commandment.
Mr.. IngerSoll. knew, as every one else
knows, that il was craven images made Tor
purposes OF idolatry that was forbidden,
and not pictures or sculpture for the re-
galement 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 sculpture
subjects. Blot out the Bible pictures, and
YOU blot out the best parts of the galleries
at Naples. at Venice. at Dresden, at Rome,
at Paris, at Edinburgh. and from all the
parlors OF Christendom, and you tear down
St. PaulS and ST. Marks and the Cathc-
drals of Milan and Cologne and the tati-
can. What are Raphael'S great pictures?
The TRANSPORTATION" The Draaght Of
Fishes" The Charge OF Peter, The Holy
Family The Massacre OF the InnOcents,"
Moses at the Burning Bush, Michael
the Archangel," The Nativity" and at
least four Madonnas. What were the sub
iects of Tintoretto's great pictures? The
Fall of Adam" Cain and Abel" The
Golden Calf, Paradise" !" Plague OF Fiery
SerpentS," Agony in the Garden, The
Temptation" Alteration OF the Masi, :.
the Innocents." Flight into Egypt"
"Crucifxion,N "Trhts MADONNA What
were the subjects OF Titian's
great pictures? The flagellation
Of Christ" The supper at Emmaus,'
Death of Abel, The Assumption, En-
tombment," Faith" Madonna What
were the subjectsof Michael Angelo great
pictures? "Annunciation, Spirits in
Prison at the Feet of Christ, Infant
Christ" "CrucfxiOn, "LastJudgement.
What were the subjects of Paul Neronese'
great pictures? Queen OF Sheba, Mar
riage in Cana" "Magdalen Washing the
Feet of Christ" The Holy Family. Who
has not heard OF Da Ninci's Last Supper,
or Turner's Pools OF Solomon" or Rubens'
"ScoUrging of Christi After the lanitor
in the cathedral at Antwerp had thrown
bocr the special covering OF that picture
onJ fa6 looked at it for five minutes, |
Sacred a% hack ap, inst the pillar exhausted
IN eRody mind and soul. Who has not
heard ot Orcagnas TRUMP oi n Death ;,
CIaude's Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca,
or Dore on everything from the creation to
the last creation? Knowing all this, Mr..
Iugers II represents the Bible as hostile to
art II in the court room he were guilty
OF suCn outrageous Misrepresentation he
would be silenced or thrown over the bar.
Mr. Ingersoll further SCOTS at the Bible
saying that there is not one word about
women in the Old Testament except the
word is
"Shame and Humiliation"
He reads also selections from the New Tes-
lament to show that the Bible all the way
through is degradation of woman. LET us
see, Come into this picture gallery, this
Louvre, this Luxemburg OF the Bible and
look around and find who are the most
honored There is Eve, perfect as perfect
God could make her. Deborah, the heroine,
with her womanly arm hurling host into
the battle Sarah, after death, put in ex-
pensive mansoleum at Macphela; Miriam.
standing guard by night over the infant
lawgiver in the floating cradle rocked by
the ripples OF the Nile, and afterward with
clapping symbols you see her leading the
Israelitish orchestra on the banks OF the
Red Sea; motherly Hannah, supplying
with her own loving hands the wardrobe OF
Samuel, the Prophet; Abigail, kneeling at
the foot of the hill till four hundred wrath
ful men at her beauty and prowess are halt
ed in the march of destruction,
Hurricane stopped at the Sight OF n
Water-LiIy.
a dew-dropdashing back Niagaras Ruth,
putting TO shame the modern slang about
mothefs.in.law by giving up kindred and
home and facing wild beasts and reptiles
and death for Naomi, her husbands moth
er; Ruth queen OF harvest fields, Ruth the
grandmother of David and ancestress OF
Christ: the story of her virtues and self
sacrifices, the finest pastoral ever written:
Vashti defying the bacchanalian reyelry OF
a thousand lords; and Esther tinging her
life away to save her exiled people; Dorcas,
the sunlight of eternal fame, gliding her
philanthropic needle; the woman with per-
fume in box made from the hills OF Ala
bastron, pouring the chrism on the head OF
Christ; the aroma lingering all down the
corridor of the centuries: Lydia, the mer-
chantress of Tyrian purple, immortaiized
for her Christian choice; the widow with
two mites more famous than the Peabodys
or the Lennoxes or the Girards; while
brought in with slow gait and careful at
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