The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-02-04
DIR. TALMAGE ANSWERING COL. IN
GEKSOLL.
Modern Inventions Described Ancident-
ally by Job.
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ally by Job. :
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stWere there any prospect OF SUCCESS
and an army were organizeo 70 We
throne God and drive Him OF the
stage of existence, the first division OF
the army would be headed by lnnoe!
Incersoll, the champion blasphemer vi
America, who would be colouei Oh one
of the regiments" said Or. !almasu III
his morning sermon yesterday. hs
war against the bible ana aga'ns' Uou
is no new thing. 1ngersoll IS only
dealing in second hand goods OF Paine'
Volney, Hobbies and Colenso. Wneh
he quotes from himself 1t Is all one
thing. 1t makes no difference What IS
the title of the lecture, whether Is
about the mistakes Of Moses or ABOUT
skulls. There never was q man VINO
carried on so large business on sucn
a small capital, and borrowed carital
at that. He picks up bone rom
Adams skeleton and runs WIN ~
through his lectures. That bone nap
mems to be a rib that was said to nave
heen taken from Adams side to create
woman. Ingersoll gnaws on 1t ana
holds on to it, as my greyhound Tor SIX
months used to gnaw upon bleacheo
and useless bone, although he had
nientv of good food. The dog used to
look nm into my face as ii to say, 'Sir,
Won don't know how much 1 am de-
; nendine for happiness upon this bone.
am an infidel.' When people get IN
late to Iugersoll's lectures they ASK
whether he has got up to Adams rio
: vet. Garfield's assassin has trieo 10
+ laugh his case out of court, ana niger. @
l soil has tried to laugh God and the
# Bible out of existence, and one will be
= as unsuccessful as the other. lnger-
v soll's crime is worse than fratricide, or
y parricide, or matricide, or regtclde. IL
IS is Deicidc-the assassination OF Goa
a T showed you last Sunday that lnger'
s. soll,s iconoclastic hand was that OF g
II man of geological, astronomical, geo
n graphical, and chemical ignorance
e that he had made three gross mlsrepfe
l. sentations of occurrences in the bloie
and that being false in one thing NJ
ought to be accounted false in all.
or seInpersoll goes further, and says tina
ne when Moses spoke Of God creating tn
,e- armament Moses showed his ignoranc
rt, and implied that the sky was soil
IT, affair, and that Moses knew nothin
to of the evaporation. Yet the leXicos
on raphers agree that the tirmame'
ate means not solidity, but expanse; tn
instead of meaning metallic ROOF
all means wide extension. lngerse
ro- laughs at the statement, ana says IN
Moses represented the stars as iasteh
lall to the solid roof. He accuses Moses
la ;gnorance because all the reference
ms, other worlds is in these words: 81
ate made the stars also.' But Moses q
ted not write to teach us astronomy. II
atttempt had been made to teach I
ion science $4,000 volumes would ma
me been required; the Scriptures Wot
have been cumbersome and unms
ageable.
AS "Thousands of years passed pe1'
the world thought out the laws OF C
densation and evaporation, put :.
cle.l described the process when he sa
nee Gle createth the water In small droE
1t, and speaks of sthe vapor thereof
that took thousands of years to find
took what Job knew.
Gate uEor thousands of years pco
seat, thought that the light of the sun ca
le OF straight to the earth. The law OF
ions fraction, or bending of the rays TO
cele- earth, is of comparative modern
ghly coyery. But job knew 1t. lie sai'
'tSir, the sunlight, 1T turneth as clay 10
want scal.' The world struggling for tn'
lmly ands of years to find out what
that knew at the start.
is in s.Astronomers thought they
the made a great discovery when
,ould found out the motions OF the ea
This But Isaiah knew it when he sPof
"lf the sorbit of the earth ana 'circ
must the earth.' For thousands OF yea
It the was thought that the earth rested
o the solid foundation. Isaiah knew b
floor, when he wrote, 'He hangeth the
ms upon nothing.
entle- uBefore Maury discovered the
d told winds the Bible described 1t.
After wind goeth toward the south
ed the turneth toward the north; and tn
d him and the wind returncth again ac
ou are ing to its course Job was the
Then, Old Probabilities, and described
of the course of the winds thousands OF
for all before Gen. Meyer.
(point- cages passed before the world
ast,) is anything OF physiology, but Soi
impos- speaks of the spinal cord as the
atchcd cord Thousands of years bcior
ed that circulation of the blood was X
ne. Solomon describes it in the 1lgur
pitcher at a fountain-a pitcher
k Lane ing crimson fluid all through the
beef is pie of the body.
ny the ssJames Watt thought he was II
a ne the a wonderful invention when he u
JIerce of steam power. But thOusa