The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-02-02


SOIL, THE CHAMPION BLAsPHElIER OF
AMERICA, FURTHER ANSWERED"
TExT-Psalms lii, 1: ''The fool hath
said in his heart there is no God"
No one 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 a de-
signer, but it is the heart of sin, and
pride, and self-cOnceit, the heart which
Is hurt by such pure and OyeTtOweTing
existence. The fool hath said in his
heart there is no God. If there were
some hope of success, and a crusade
were started for the dethrOnement of
God, and the driving off the edges of eX-
istence all the Infidels would be in the
first division, and Robert &. IngersOll,
the champion blasphemer of America,
would be Colonel i'll one of the regi-
ments. When the world slew Jesus
Christ it showed what it would do with
the eternal God if once it could get its
hand on him. Prove a God and you
prove the Bible. You can not believe in
a God without you believe in His Civ
ing revelation to His creatures. AthC-
ism and Intidelity are twin brothers.
The war against God and the Bible is
no new thing. Mr.. IngersOll offers not
one original thought. He only Tecites
J y
Hobbies 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
it Mistakes of Noses" or skulls or
Liberty of Man, Woman and Child" or
gives it no title at all. There never was
man who did so large a business on
| so small capital, and that borrowed
capital. He has been thirty years try
igNf fp hot ont 10
picks up one of the bones of Adams
skeleton and runs it through all his
lectures, and that bone happens to be
| rib, the rib that is said to be the nucleus
| of the woman by creation, and he shar-
pens that rib, and plunges that rib, and
| flOurishes that rib, and knaws that rib,
and holds on to that rib, as my grey
| hound for six months spent all his
spare time in paying attention to bone
utterly bleached and useless. | used to
| lose my patience with him and take the
bone away and throw it over a fence,
but the next morning coming suddenly
upon him l would find him at his old
affinity, and he would look up to me as
much as to say: You do not know
how dependent l am on this bone for
happiness. | want to carry it wherever
| go. l am an infidel, and | want it in
all my lectures" People coming in
late to Mr.. IngersOll's lecture ask the
janitOr if Mr.. IngeTsOll has yet got tC
Adams rib, AS Guiteau, Garfeld's
assassin, said he would laugh his case
out of Court, so IngersOlPs hopes tC
, laugh the Bible and its author out OF
existence. hi the one case it has been
as unsuccessful as the other. This at
tempt to Obliterate the God of the Bible
is not an attempt 1T parricide, which is
/ the murder of father, but worse than
that; nor matTicide, which is the muir,
der of a mother but worse than that
nor fratTicide, which is the murder of q
brother, but worse than that; nor Tegi
eide, which is the murder of King
but worse than that. 1t is an attempt
at decide, which is the assassination Of
God. And Mr.. IngersOll has throw
the utmost force of his vulgaTity anC
caricature against the Book OF Genesis
He thinks that if he can capture thai
first gate of the Bible he can enter anG
icOnOclast the whole temple. | showed
you last Sabbath morning how he some
times Willfully and some times through
astronomical, geological and geOgrrph
ical ignorance misTepresents these great
| occurrences.
He says still further that when Moses
wrote that God made the armament HC
evidently thought the sky solid affair
and knew nothing about evaporation
Ignorant Moses, wise IngersOll! Blu
| Noah Webster and all the other lexicOg
Taphers, so far as l know, tell you tha'
! in Scripture the word armament, in
stead of meaning sOlidity, means eX
panse, the sky, not a hard metallic roof
but stretching out, an extension. In
. geTsOll laughs and says that Moses eYi
. IDENTIFY thought that the stars were jus
fastened up to this solid roof or sky, bu
knew nothing of astronomy, because HI
says no more of it than these five words
He made the stars also" My friends
the Book of Genesis was not written L
teach astronomy no more than to teacl
us botany, or geology, or anatomy, Of
physiology, or chemistry. The one OBJ
ject was to describe the worlds origin
and outfit. If the sacred writer's haC
gone into the particulars of all thesC
things five hundred thousand volumes
would not have contained them, ant
sacred literature would have been lum
beTOus and unmanageable. But enough
flashes out here and there to show u
that the ancient writers were not sucl
ignOramuses as IngersOll thinks the
were. Ages on ages, before the wOTl
understood anything about evaporation
and condensation, Job wrote of it: Fl
maketh small drops of water; they pOu
down rain according to the vapOr there
! of" Until within comparatively few
years the philosophers thought tina
the light of the sun came straighttO tn
earth. After ages of experiment tn
law of refractiOn, or the bending of tn
rays as they approach the earth, wa
discovered. But Job knew that thOus
ands of years before, when he said @
light: at is turned as clay to tn
4 seal.' GalileO and Isaac NewtO
thought they were finding out some
thing new when they said the wOrlC
instead of being stationary, was in me
ton; but Isaiah, thousands of years bt
fore, spoke of the circle of the earth O
4 it's path in the heavens. For long age
4 men thought the earth had under it
i solid foundation, but Job said: "H
4 hangeth the earth upon nothing
4 Thousands of years before Maury fOun
out the relation of the wind current
and the law of the trade winds tn
Scripture had said: The wind gOet
A toward the south aud turneth about
j the north, and the wind returneth agai
4 according to his currents" Generi
4 Myer was called Old Probabilities, b.
cause of his acquaintance with I'll
weather, but Job was really Old Probi
bilities. Long before the world kne'
much about physiology Solomon d
2 | ooribad tho cninal cord oo N civ.