Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-23

had said. The Wind goeth towards the
| south and ,turneth shout to the north, and
the wind retlrneth again according to his
CURRENT General Meyers was called Old
Probabilities because Of his acquaintance
with the weather but lob was really Old
| Probabilities. Long before the world knew
much about physiology, Solomon describes
the spinal cord as O silver thread, and
| thousands of years bsfore Harvey discover
ed the circulafion of the blood, Solomon
described it under figure when he spoke
of "the pitcher broken at the fountain" ("
the pitcher thai carried the crimson of life
all through the temple Of the body. James
Watt thought that be was making mighty
discovery whep he applied steam TO the
rail train, but the prophet Nahum, thous-
ands of years before, had described light
ming express train at night and the jarring
of the car couplipgs as he said: The
chariots shall rsge IN the streets, they shall
iostle one agzinst another, in the broad
ways they shall seem like torches, they
Run Like She Lfshtnings.
Professor Morse thought he was discover
ing something wonderful when he invent.
ed the electric telegraph, but thousands OF
years before Job described electric COM
inunication, "Csnst thou send lightnings
that they may gcsnd say unto them here
We are All tnc tdM1eIs VI VIC Sois Va
have been busy, the Biackstones. the Cokes,
the Clarendons the Hales, the Emmets,
the Currans, the Edmund Burkes, the
Erskines, the Rufus Choates, and all their
work, and all Roman law, and all English
law, and all American law, and all the laws
of the ages worth anything are founded on
ten laws recorded by an ancient lawyer by
the name of Moses. The Bible authors in
stead of being according to Ingersoll ignor,
ant and behind the time were at least 4,0oO
years before the time. After plying all the
batteries and Leyden jars, and voltaic piles
and telescopes, and philosophic apparatus,
and advancing for thousands OF years,
Copernicus and Herschel, and Agassiz and
Silliman, and Joseph Henry and Dr. Draper
have Just come up with
Antiouated Job and Old Moses.
At the risk of spelling Mr.. Ingersoll's
chief joke and raising his snarls, must
take from him his fayorite bone q
while, and show there was no absurdity in
womsn's creation. The word in Genesis
translated rib is a general word, meaning
| side. II is uncertain from what part OF his
| side. Without knowing q word or letter
| of Hebrew, Ingersoll sets himself up e
| expound Genesis. 4 man might as well
| try to expound Sophocles without know
| ing a word of Greek, or Horace without
knowing O word Of Latin, or Jean Pau
| Richter without knowing word OF Ger
man, or Shakespeare without knowing
word of English. Stupendous Ignorance
on the part of Mr.. lngersoll not to know
that this word in Genesis means side and
not rib. Woman taken from mans side
| How any man who has good wife can
| scowl at the nearness and solemnity OF the
| relation thus allegorized, cannot under
stand. will not quote Matthew Henry:
theory as 10 why she was taken from man
side. / think she was taken from his rtgo'
side aud under his right arm, that he Nigh
| Fight Her Battles,
that he might be her uufailing defense
that he might strike down her assailant
that he might ayenge her honor That L
| what makes q man so unbounded in his i'll
dignation and so hyid in his rage when
| his wife is spoken against. Malign him
traduce him, slandcr him and he may for
give Won. But assSail the character OF hi
wife and YOU had better stand out OF th'
resch of his right arm. From his side tha
so they might walk the path Of life together
From his side! that when She steps int
the pillows Of trouble he may hold her up
From his side! that when they stand b!
the little grave he may sustain her, sayin!
'Mother we shall get our darling baci
| AGAIN on tne tesuIEecttOl' lnih hAo oiuo
| beautiful, tender, glorious, pathetic, ,suggeS
tive! From his side, his equal. From hi
| side, his companion. From his side, hi
ioy, his pride his help, his solace, hi
charge, his better SELF his choice as the beS
being in all the earth! From his side! 81
that we al
Thrill in Sympathy
when the two who were married al Ben
nirgton last Thursday week on the FOL
lowing day stood in the wreck of the Hud
son River railroad train and threw thci
! arms around each other in the flames ant
perished, last Monday carried up the church
aisle those who had beer the ushers at tn
wedding the pail bearers at the funeral am
putting the twain into the same grave. Th'
conductor says she might have been saved
for while his limbs were pinioned only he
dress was fast She would rather die thar
90 away from his side. Nothing wonder
fuI in that, the Mosaic account I? those VIII
remember the two christia, old people 9
the heads of the table in the old home
s.esd. WIZ did you put them side by sid'
H. the church yard? Why did you think
CT them as side by side in heaven? Wher
your days on earth are done and you go up Il
ioin them. my opinion is you will find then
| side by side Moses wrote passage thrill
ing with centuries of magnificent power
and rolling with eternal reverebration
! VI en- he recorded that il was from man s
side that woman started, and no one but
stark and brazen- faced fool will laugh at 1t
From his side! You know the due
Paihos and the Solemnity
of the Mosaic statement who have
stood by the caSket Of dead wife
and taken up the thin and wasted finge
that was round and plump when, many
wears ago you put the ring on it and every
unkind word you ever uttered comes bach
with a sting in il, and you fold over th'
still heart the hands that have been 81
busy for your welfare and all the memorie
of YOUR life rush upon you in an agonizint
farewell. The Mosaic account is not 81
very laurhable TO you. From his side!
Ingersoll further declared that the Bible
lies because it says that when the Jew
went into Egypt there were seventy people
! and nj the end Of two hundred and fifteei
wears they came out and were found Z,
have multiplied into three millions, al
impossible increase unless there had beer
sixty-eight children in each family. y
course that
Would Have Been Impossibie.
But the Bible says that they stayed II
Egypt four hundred an1 thirty years, 81
that the increase TO three millions was tht
ordinary rate Of increase of population
IN other words when the Bible says they
were there four hundred and thirty year.
Ingersoll represents it as saying two hun
dred and ffteen years for the sake OF making
a laugh about the over increase OF popula.
ton. He throws away two hundred and
fifteen years For the sake of appearing
smart he cuts off from the Jewish nation
twice as much time IS has transrired be
tween the declaration of American inde
pendence in l776 and lss2 A man who
| will do that will do any thing but give an
honest representation Of the Bible. lnger.
| soil declares the Bible
Favors PoIygamy.
| He says: SIS there man here who De
lieves in that institution. You say no, we
do not. Then you are better than youi
God was four thousand years ago. He be
| lieved IL, taught il and upheld it" Lei
us see If the Bible approves o.
polygamy. How many wives did Got
| create for ADAM One. AsGod was there
starting the marriage institution, your
common sense would say he must have
started it as he wished it 70 continue. II
God had wished him to have six wives hs
would have given him six, or twelve wives
He could have given him twelve. Genesi.
Il n In