The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-26
IngersoIi Sailed.

a Ieii2lous rainier, Ta!mg ige,
'socked it in;a the athe,stic crank, Boi
lngersOll, IN a recent sermon. Some OF
his 'sockdoiascrs' will bear repeating,
even in an agricultural Journal. How
mach 40 you think Iugersoll will i'm
pede Christianity ?"-roared the rant
ing rip snorter of the Tabernacle. Il will
tell you. About as much as one snow
flake en- the track would impede the
Chicago express train. Perhaps BOT
50 much AZ that. 1t is more like q
bowel In Switzerland i'm peding an Al
pine avalanche. The very Sabbath after
inssrsoli spoke in this region, extin
gushing Christianity, we received into
this church 400 souls in beautiful coz
secrstion of themselves TO Jesus Christ.
There has been accomplished for Chris
tlanity in the last ten years as much -
vas accomplished ia the previous fifty
years.
preach these rno for the benefit
OF individ uals. There are young men
who through the teachings of Ingersoll
have given up frst their religion and
then their morals. Let In~xersolIs
teachings triumph and We should sooa
fill all the psnitentiaries, gsnblin:
bells, and houses of shame On the Or
tinent. In twenty years we should
have 4 hell of life eclipins ia abomias-
ton the hell Bob Iugersoll has SO much
laughed at.
%"Iugersoll raises = laugh against the
Bible by saying that it teaches that
the world was made out OF nothing
and that he cannot imagine nothing
made in something. | offer a thousand
dollars reward to any NAN whs will
show me = passage Of the Bible that
tells nae that the world was made eat
of nothing. The first passage in Gen
ssis says it was made out Of Gods en-
impotence. There is as much difference
between IngersolPs statement Of it and
the truth IS there is between the stac
Of = ship and the stern. He leaves out
In the beginning You can roll ten
millions or thousands Of years of time
into that beginning. You are not com
PEELED to believe that the world was
made in six days of our time. The
evening and the morning of the irst
day need not mean twenty four hours,
but Gods day.
He swo0ps upon the third er fourth
verse, and wants to know bow it was
that light was created three or foar days
before the sun shone. This shows In
gersoll's geological, chemical, and as
Economical ignorance. If he had stop
ped the first sehoolboy be had met he
might rave learned that there arc other
sources of light besides the sun that
there is the light of electricity; that
Herschel and other astronomers have
held that the sun does not give light,
out is snly the candlestick that holds
he light. The boy might have told
BIN that there was ; time in the histo-
ry of the world when 5000 miles of
liquid granite famed with light. The
bog might have told him Of the aurora
borealis and the aurora australis. The
boy might have told him that there arc
ten thousand sources of light beside.
the light of the sun.
He sharpens all his witticisms to dss-
troy our belief in the dsluge and Noah's
ark. He says it must have rained eight
hundred feet of water a day, that the
ark could not have been big enough to
contain the animals, that the mountain
on which the ark rested must have
been seventeen thousand feet high, and
he Ices not believe the story. Neither
de [. There is ne such story in the
Bible. We must read the story as it
was written by Nsah, who described .
scene as be saw it. Noah meant that
the whole earth was covered as far
IS he saw it: that all the animals
went ia a. fe as he knew them and
| not all who were in the globe.