West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1882-02-10
THE BIBLE WOMANSFRIEND
NOT HER SHAME. HER uUuIIIA-
TION, ANDHER DEGRADATION.

"As the wolf how Is az the sky, a.
the dog bays at the moon, so is tn,
blasphemer represented as making
mouths at heaven said Dr. Tai
mage ia his morning. sermon, last
Sunday. "Wheu tae wolf shell
irighten away the sky, when the doc
shall stop the moon, on that night
will the blasphener drive away the
God OF the Bible. Mr.. 1ngsrsoll
finds great cause for caricature in the
Bible statement that, in Joshua'e
time. the sun and moon stood still
to allow him to complete victory.
He declared it impossible. But, if a
man can make clock, cannot he
start it and stop it and start it again?
II a nachinist makes corn thresh-
er, can he not start it aud stop 1T
and start it agsin2 If God has the
strength aud the wisdom TO make
the universe, can Ue not start it and
stop 1t and start it AGAIN. Is the
clock stronger than its maker9 Is
the universe mightier than God2 1t
isPossible that the day may have been
prolonged by an unusual refraction
Of he suns rays. The sun an 4 moon
m ght have been Ggurstively stop
ped. You must remember that the
Bible authors used the vernacu'ar OF
their own day, just as you aud now
say that the sun gees down when it
does not 60 down. There was no
need OF stellar confusion. If the
world entirely stopped its,rotation,
that was none Of the business Of Ju-
piter and Mercury and Saturn. Only
this morning an astronomer has told
US, through the associated pl ess, that
another world has been discovered.
Astronomers see worlds born aud
die and disappear. If God can start
a world, and destroy it, Il can stop
it.
"Ingersoll scoE5 at the battle
which Joshua W .s Eghting, az though
it wac an Insignificant battle. But
what Yorktown was to the Revo,u-
ton, what Gettysburg was to our
civil war, what Sedan was TO the
Franco German war, what Waterloo
was to Napoleon. that battle was to
Joshua. In the early part OF the
present century there was dark
day that astronomers have not been
able TO explain. If God can advance
the night earlier than its time, can
lie not adjourn the night until after
its time2 Common sense teaches us
that if God can start and stop tens
Of thousands OF worlds, lie could start
and stop two. II God can engineer
train OF ten thousand worlds, can
He not control two carriages, and
put down a golden brake to stop the
sun, or a silver brake to atoo The
moon?
"A doctor in Boston said that after
an eclipse he had an unusual nun
Der OF cases OF people who had .n;ur-
ed their eyes looking through smok -
ed glass. 1t seem5 tha; the sun that
stood ST. ] damages The eyes Of In
| geraoII because he looks through a
| glass smoky with the fires Of his owl
hatred against Christianity and
against God.
"Ihe blssPhemer, Inpersoll, furth
er laughs at the anointing oil used
and jeers at the judgment of God for
its misuse. 1t is essy to scott at any
thing used as a symbol You might
as well laugh at the use Of the oil in
Masonic ceremonies at the laying oil
a corner stone. You might as vel
laugh at the wreath on a coffin, Of
the garb Of grief or the slab Of q
sePnIchre. Th = are mere symbols
Of affection and remembrance. A
man may laugh at the water used il
baptisn, or al the oil used in the an.
Gent sanctuary.
"Ingersoll huds great cause fol
caricature in the Bible statement o
the whale that swallowed J onah, snC
elected him upon dry ground in thre
days If Mr.. Ingsrsoll would 90 T.
Nantucket he would zee The skeleton
Of whale big enough to swallow
man, When 7 saw it / said that tb
story Of Jonah was not so improbabl
after all. There is cavity in
whales mouth large enough for
man 20 turn 10. But, If you vii
read the story carefully. you will fu.
that it says nothing about whale
but that tine Lori prepared a erea
fish. Scientists tell ue that tber
have been great fishes that woul
make tie modern whale seem insio