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

believe that he speaks his own sentl-
ments, albeit they have been enuncl-
ated by others before he was born. the
series of sermons cannot fail TO be inter
esting as well as instructive, and the
fact that they are now being dissemina-
ted by the daily press, and thus placed
within the reach of all, should be sub
ject of qualification to all believers in
true Christianity.
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Specfdl 10 the Register.
BROOKLYN, January 22-Dr. Talmage,
this morning, delivered the second OF his
series of sermons on Infidelity, in reply to
Col. Ingersoll's lecture. After the opening
hymn, Arm of the Lord, awake, awake"
the Doctor announced his text. Psalms
lii 1, ''The fool has said in his heart, there
is no Cod" aud then proceeded:
Noone but fool would say so, and he
would not say it with his head, for it takes
no especial brain to reason out design in
all things, and hence designer. But 1t is
the heart OF sin, and pride, and self-cop-
ceit; the heart which is hurt by such pure
and overtowering existence. The fool hath
said in his heart there is no God. III there
were some hope of success, and = crusade
were started for the dethronement OF God,
and the driving him OIL the edges OF OK
istence. all the infidels would be in the
first division. and Ingersoll, the champion
blssphemer of America, would be Coionei
in one of the regiments. When the world
slew Jesus Christ il showed what 1t would
DO with the eternal God if once it could get
its hands On him. Prove God and you
believe
a God without you believe in His giving
revelation to His creatures. Atheism ana
! infdelity are twin brothers. The war
against God and the Bible is no new thing.
Mr.. InCersOll offers not one original
thought. lie only recites the words OF
Paine, Voltaire, Vciney, Hobbs and Colenso.
Except when he quotes from himself, for
the most Of his lectures are about the same
thing 1t is the same lecture whether he
calls il mistakes of Moses or skulls,
or Liberty of Man, Woman and Child, or
gives it no title at all. There never was a
man who did SO large business on 80
small q Capital
and that borrowed capital. He has been for
| thirty years trying To hatch out one or two
eggs. He picks up the bone of Adams
skeleton and runs it through all his lee
lures and that bone happens 70 be n rib,
the rib that was said to be the nucleus of
the womanly creation, and he sharpened
that rib and plunges thatrih, and tlouriShes
that rib. and gnaws that rib and holds on
| to that rib as my greyhound {or six months
spent all his spare time i'll paying attention
| 10 bone utterly bleached and useless. l
| used to lose my patience with himand take
| the bone away and throw it over Il fenco,
| but the next morning, coming suddenly
upon him, | would find him at his old
affinity, and he would look up TO me as
much as to say: "You don't know how
| dependent am on this bone for happiness.
| | want to Casry il wherever | go. | am an
infidel, and l want it in my lectures"
People coming in late to Mr.. lngersoll'sl lee.
| ture ask the janitor if lngersou has come
| yet 10 Adams rib. AS Guiteau, 0arlield's
assassin, said he would laugh his case out
Of court, so Ingersoll hopes to laugh the
| Bible and its author out OF existence. In
/ the one case il has been as successful as the
other. This attempt TO Obliterate the God
, Of The Bible is not an attempt at parricide,
which is the murder Of a father: but worse
| than that; nor fiatricide, which is the
murder of o mother, but worse than that;
nor fTatricide, which is the murder OF
| brother, but worse than that; nor regicide,
which is the murder OF q king, but worse
than that. 1t is an attempt at decide,
which is the
Assassipation OF God.
And Mr.. Ingersoll has thrown the ut
! most force of his yulgarity and caricsture
against the book OF Genesis. He thinks
that if he can capture that first gate to the
Bible he can enter and iconoclast the whole
temple. / showed you last Sabbath morn
ing how he sometimes willfully and some
times through astronomical, geological and
geographical Ignorance, misrepresents
three great occurrences.
He says still further that when Moses
wrote that God made the armament he eV-
iIently thought the sky solid affair, and
knew nothing about evaporation. Ignor-
ant Moses Wise lpgersoll! But Noah
Webster and all the other photographers,
as far IS know, tell you that in Scripture
the word firmameut instesd of meaning
sOlidity means eXpanse, the sky-not a
hard metallic roof, but stretching out, an
extension. Ingersoll laughs and says that
Moses evidently thought that the stars were
just fastened up to this solid roof or sky,
but knew nothing of astronomy, because
he says no more Oft than these five words,
He made the stars also" My friends, the
book Of Genesis was not written to teach
astronomy no more than TO teach Us botany
or geology or anatomy or physiology or
chemistry. The one object was to describe
the
Worlds Origin and OutnI
II the sacred writers had gone into the par
ticulars of all these things, 500, 900 volumes
would not have contained them, and sacred
literature would have been cumherous and
unmanageable. But enough flashes out
here and there to show Us that the ancient
writers were not such ignorsmuses as In
gersoll thinks they were. Ages on ages be-
fore the world understood anything about
evaporation and condensation, Job wrote Of
it: He maketh small the drops of water.
they pour down rain according TO the rdpor
thereof" Until within comparatively
few years the philosopher thought that the
light of the sun came straight 20 the earth.
After ages of experiments the law of re
fraction, or the bending OF the
rays as they approach the earth, was dis
covered. But Job knew that thousands of
years before when he said of igh: "It is
returned as clay to the soil" Galiles and
Isaac Newton thought that they were 6nd-
iag out something new when they said the
world instead of being stationary was in
motion. but Isaih. thousands OF years be-
f?rc, spess Of y: ss::Ss:i. y -: sa-..a Or ia