Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-16

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it is far better to love men than God. 1t
is better to love your wife and children
than to love Jesus Christ, you cannot help
him; he is dead. But you can help them.
What is blasphemy! 1t is q ~geographi-
cal questions. 1t was blasphemy once in
Jerusalem to say that Christ was the
son of God. 1t is blasphemy here to say
it is not. You will have to look at a map to
know whether you are guilty of committing
blasphemy or not. 1t is something be-
hind which the hypocrisy of the world
crouches.
Surprising a man should live sixty-nine
years a wretched life, and. then die a re-
p%entent. with a prayer upon. his lips. Do
you know that I think it would have been
better had he lived sixty-nine years doing
good in the world and die with a curse
upon his lips. I say. live right and
death will take care of itself.
An inidel is one who sails the sea and
touches the shore of other lands. He is
willing to think and express his thoughts.
People say I misquote the Bible III saying
the world was made of nothing. 1 never
said this. I said the Bible says at
first there was nothing and
God created something. He lived an in
finite space of time when there was moth
ing. He thought of nothing because moth
ing had happened. I am told by the Pres
| byterians that God made the universe from
omnipotence. Now what is the use. of ON
impotence in such a case! I mean when there
was nothing. Omnipotence means I'M
limited power. The weakest man on earth
can lift as much nothing as can God AL
mighty. I find that the sun was not made
until the fourth day, andI said grass could
not grow without the rays of the sun.
This Presbyterian says the sun was
not the only source of light He says
there were volcanic fires. What a light
that would be to farm by.
I lind the seed of infdelity in church.
All these fellows who held absolute proof
in absolute contempt are weakening. The
orthodox preachers. of this city are trying
to eepllin the miracles. Now
l would advise these preachers not to en-
deavor to explain these miracles. If you
can explain it the miracle is gone. If you
fail you are gone. There was a time when
they said the whole world was flooded.
There was a time when they gloated over
the drowning of all the PEG
pie. But now they say it
was partial. They begin to doubt if there
was water enough to flood the world. I
said, "If it was partial, why did they place
birds in the ark:' A good, smart bird
could have flown to some other district.
How did they get those animals in the ark
A Presbyterian preacher said they went
into the ark to get out Of the rain. But
the Bible says they were in the ark before
the rain begaa. In olden time they said
these animals were carried into the ark by
the angels. What a procession! Think If
an angel with a good sized hippopotamus
under his arm. Talmage is now
trying to explain the miracle OF the whale
swallowing Jonah. Now, ever since that
story was originated a big lie has been
called a fish story. Talmage says he don't
think Jonah went into the stomach of the
whale, but remained in his mouth and so
escaped the action of the gastric juices.
Think of the miracles God performed
for the Jews. Water was turned into
blood. The Red sea was parted and the chill
dren of Israel passed through. Moses
smots the rock and water flowed. Yet af-
ter these people saw all this they preferred
to worship a golden calf which they could
make themselves. I can only account for
it by thinking they were there at
the time. l think of the miracle perform
ed at the time a man a little bald was fol-
lowed by a crowd of little children. This
bald man happened to be a prophs.. Then
the Great Jehovah's brow contracted with
intense wrath. He said to his clerk, s:Two
BEARS" and those children we're
torn and mangled into shapeless
masses. Think of the poor
mothers of those children picking up
those mangled remains. I cannot believe
it.
Thousands of people believe there is
something miraculous in the Bible. Now
the Catholics nave a pope. We have a book.
The Catholics have the best of US. If they
happen to elect an idiot as pope, he won't
live always, but our book is always the
same, filled with heathenish doctrines. I
may be wrong,
for this, but I can't help it. There was a
time when science was ldged by the Bible,
but now the time has come When the Bible
is judged by science.
I suppose I have been charged
with one thing Or another by
more than a dozen minister's.
But what does it matter whether am guilty
with all the crimes in the calendar, but does
that prove the Jonah storys. They say 1
disparaged Queen Victoria. l never said
a word against her, DOM know her. I
said Queen Victoria was queen by circum-
stances, while George Eliot wore a
LIVING CROWN OF GLORY.
upon her brow. a crown woven in the womb
of her genius.
The next argument is the argument of
numbers. l am told that you could not
get a majority of infidsls in all the United
States. Well, what of it? At one time
the Bible was put to a popular
vote, and the people said
cruelty him. They say there has been
printed more bibles than any other one
book. Well, what of it? Does that prove
it true? If the editor of the Herald
should be charged with libel you might
say. 30, no, the Herald is not guilty of a
falsehood. 1t has the largest circula-
ton of any paper in the country.
When we become. thoroughly educated,
every man will become his own church
and his own pope.
When our constitution was made the
name of God was not put into it, but
THE NAME OF MAN
was, and that is of ~infnitsl more i'm
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