Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-16
WHEELING. W. VA. MONDAY MORNING. JANUARY 16. 1882.


individual cases of destruction. There are
young men who have as q result of Mr.. In
gersolps teaching given up religion and as
result of it given up their morals. Iuger-
| soils teaching triumphant would fill all
the penitentiaries and gambling hells and
houses Of shame OF the planet No divine
system of morals and in twenty years we
should have hell on earth which would
eclipse in abomination any he'll that has
ever been scoffed at But while the great
cause goes on want 10 save individuals.
want TO persuade them to get on the
| train instead of throwing themselves in
front of it. Christ is going to save this
world anyhow, the only question is wheth
er you and will refuse to get into the life
boat. Besides that / want to put into the
mouths OF all these young men arguments
with which they can answer their assail.
| ants.
And now we go on with the trial, Intidel-
| ity the plaintiff Christianity the defend
ant. The jury is empanneled. Mr.. lnger-
/ soil gives his testimony. In the opening
| sentence of this sermon l indicated his
| charges against the Christian religion. Now
my hearers, q principle settled in all court
| rooms and in all intelligent society, is
| sFalse IN part false in all If the wit
| ness missepresent any one thing, every
| judge, every juror, every man throws over
| board the whole testimony. IL he cannot
| be believed in one thing or half dozen
| things, he cannot be believed in anything.
| Now If can show you that Mr.. Ingersoll
either ignorantly or wilfully misrepresents
three or four things in the bible, you will
! reject all his assertions and all his charges
as unworthy of Credence. First, he raises
a registering laugh at the bible by saying
..Is This Book True:
The gentleman who wrote it begins by tell
ing US that God made the universe out of
nothing. l cannot imagine nothing be-
ing made into something" At the begin
ming OF most of his lectures, Mr.. lngersoll
makes that gigantic misrepresentation.
offer s., 900 reward for the man who will
show me passage in the bible which de-
clares that God made the world out Of moth
ing The first line OF the bible indicates
that He made it out of his 0mnipotence:
'In the beginning God created" You
must not turn TO your bible, but to your
memory, 10 see the out and out lngersoll-
ian misrepresentation, a misrepresentation
from stem To stern, and from Cutwater
10 taffrail, and from top of main
mast down to the barnacles on the
bottom. Why did not Mr.. lngcrsoll begin
| with misrepresent;ng some obscure passage
and then he might not have been found
out. No, he takes the most memorable and
the most magnificent passage, all the geo
logical and astronomical discoveries OF
modern times adding TO its grandeur. In
the beginning !" There is room for ten
million ages TO roll. No particular date
given. Ten thousand million years il you
want to think so. If the world was created
by that long prOtracted process then sud
denly and quickly, and in weeks time it
may have been fitted up for mans resi-
dence, as house might be many years in
building, but after it is done, by putting on
extra hands, it might in one week be cur
tained and chandeliered, and cushioned,
and carpeted and upholstered for bride
and groom. But still you are not compell-
ed to think that ii was sufficiently adjusted
to man in six OF our days. Not necessarily
days of twenty-four hours, but Gods days,
and thousand years are with Him as one
day. And the evening and the morning
were the first day, Gods day. And the
evening and the morning were the second
day, Gods day. And the evening and the
morning were the sixth day, Gods day.
We live in the seventh day, that is. the
Sabbath Of the world, the day of redemp-
ton, the greatest day of the week in which
each day is made up of thousands OF years.
Can you imagine how Christian man can
get his mind and soul into such blaSphc-
nous twist that he can SCOif at this first
chapter of Genesis, whose verses are
fslIIoMs OF Li.ha From se"s Of of"-J.
Come now and laugh at the 1ngersollian
statement that the world was made out OF
nothing. He rings the changes on that
word nothing. He has gone all through
the cities stating that which every man,
woman and child in America that has COM
mon sense knows to be mSreprcSenta-
ton. take that misrepresentation and
nail il so high that the North and South,
East and West, may see II and remember
it. There is as much difference between
Mr.. lngerSolrS statement and the truth as
between nothing and Omnipotence: Cen
tlemeR of the jury trying this case between
infidelity the plaintiff, and Christianity,
the defendant, | impeach the witness,
Robert G.. Ingersoll, for his misrepresenta-
ton of the first verse of the Bible. Ii he
begins with the first verse to misrepresent,
| demand that you expect misreprescnta-
tjons all the way through and that you
throw overheard his entire testimony.
take a step further in the impeachment
of this witness. One would think that
after having misreprcsented the first verse
of this Bible he would have rested from
his labors and taken few chapters OF fair
exception. No! he can hardly keep from
bursting with laughter as he sweeps in car
aCatnre upon the three or four verses OF
the first chapter, which indicate that light
was created on Monday, when the sun was
not created until Thursday. Ha' ha!
Think of it.
Light without any Snn!
Think of it, he says; light before the
sun was created! Ridiculous imbecility.
Balderdash DOtishness in the Mosaic ac'
count! He rocks from side to side with un-
comfortable laughter. Light three days be-
fore the stin was created Ny friends, here
comes in Mr. Ingcrsolrs astronomical and
geological ignorance-a profounder and
more disgusting ignorance than ever dis.
gusted any leCturing platform. III he had
asked any intelligent boy on the way home
from one of our high schools, whether
| there could be any light without the sun,
the schoolbOy would answer, Yes,
| sir; heat and electricity. give light
| independent of the SUM- The scool.
boy would have told him that
| the earth in process OF condensation was
surrounded by thick vapnrs and the dis
| charge of many volcanoes of the primary
| period. and that these dissertations may
| have kent the light of the sun, long before
| created, from striking the earth until that
| Thursday The schOolboy would have told
| Mr.. Ingersoll that David Brewster, and
| Herschell, and all our modern astronomers
| agree in the fact that the sun is not light,
| bnt an opagne mass, the mere candlesick
that holds the light, but that it is surroun-
ded by phosphorescent atmosphere, ever
changing so that every one ought to know
| that though the sun may have been created
millions of years before, its lustre might
| not have struck the earth until that Thurs
day. The school boy would have told Mr..
Incersoll that light may be brought from
almost any surface, from the alkalies' for
instance, that in equalization the rocks
emit light. He would have told him OF the
light of the Aurora BorealiS aud Aurora
A1stralis. The school boy would have told
him OF the flame that may be looked from
the metallic bases. He would have told
him that at one time in the earth S history,
there must have been thousands OF miles OF
Liquid Granite,
flaming with light. He would have told
him that there are by observation
\ burned out volcanoes in other worlds
which must have blazed with almost insult
ferable light throwing their glare on our
world. The same School-boy would have
unstrapped his bundle Of books and read
from one called The Connection OF Physi-
cal Sciences" the account by Captain Bon,
nycastle of blazing sheet OF awful and
most brilliant light which appeared to him