The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-01-26

lNtNt- tIltl 10 MY IItttu.U8 years.
Why. tltu, answer this champion bias
individual cases OF destruction. There
are young men who have, Gs a result of
Ain. IuguIsUiI'5 teaching, given I'D re-
ligi0n, and as result OF il given up
their uralS. lugersOll's teaching, tri-
umpaaHt would hlI all the PeniLeu-
tiar4ts and gambling hellS and houses
OF shame un the planet. No g." .e sys-
tenn a. morals, ana I'm tWrvfy years We
should have a hell Ou earth which would
eclipse in abOminatiOn any hell that
has ever been scOtted at. But while the
great cause goes on | want to save in
dlyIduals. | want to persuade them to
get on the train instead of throwing
themselves in front of ii. Christ is go
ing to save this world anyhow, the only
question Is whether you and l will re-
fuse to get into the life boat. Besides
that | want to put into the mouths of
all these young men arguments with
which they can answer their assailants
And now we go on with the trial-In-
fidelity the plaintiff, Christianity the
defendant. The jury is impaneled. Mr
lngersOll gives his testimony. In the
opening sentence of this sermon, in
dicated his charges against the Chris
tian religion. Now, my hearers, prin-
ciple settled in all COuTt-TOOnis and in
all intelligent society is False in part,
false in all" If the witness misrepre-
sent any one thing, every Judge, every
juror, every man throws overheard
the whole testimony. If he can not be
believed in one thing OF a half dozen
things he can not be believed i'm any
thing. Now if | can show you that Mr.
IugursOll either iguOrantiy OF wiiliuIly
mlstepreseuts three or four things iu
the Bible you viii reject all his asscr-
tiUns and all his charges as unworthy
of CTedeucC. First he 'aised a TuystpT-
ing laugh at the Bible by saying: lis
this book true? The gentleman who
wrote il begins by telling us that God
III Ge the universe out Of nothing. 1
caa not imagine nothing being made
into something At the bCgiUniIg OF
most of his lectures, Mr.. Ing raull
makes that gigantic misrepresentation.
! offer a thousand dollars reward for the
man who will show me the passage in
tie Billie which declares that God made
the world ont Of nothing. The first line
Of he Bible indicates lie made il ont of
His OmnipOtence. ''ln the beginning
God created" You need not turn to
Your Bible, but to your memory to see
the out and out IngersOllian misreprc-
seutatiun. a misrepresentation from
stem to stern, and from cutWatCT TO
taifrail, and from top of mainmast down
to the barnacles on the bottom. Why
did not Mr.. IlgersOll begin with mis-
representing some obscure passage, and
| then ne might not have been found Outy
| No, he takes the most memorable and
| the most magnificent passage, all the
! geological and astronomical discover
! les of modern times adding o its gran
| deur. I'm the begiunlngW There is
| room for ten million ages TO roll. No
particular date given. Ten thousand
/ million years, Ii YOU Want lp luliIR so.
! If the world was created 10y that long
| pTOtracted process, then suddenly and
| quickly ana in a weeks time il may
nave been fitted up for mans residence
as house might be many years in
building, but after it is done 10y put
ting on extra hands it might in one
week he curtaiEed and Chaudeliertd and
cushioned ana carpeted and upholstered
for a bride and groom. But still you
are not compelled TO think that il was
sufficiently adjusted t) man in six
of our days. Not necessarily days Of
twpnty-tor hours, but Gods days, and
Il thousand years are with him as one
day. And the evening and the morning
were the first day, GOu's day. And the
evening and the morning were the
second day, Gods day. And the even
ing and the morning were the sixth
day, Gods day We live in the seventh
day. that is the Sabbath of the world,
the day of redemption, the greatest day
Of a week in which each day is made up
of thousands of years. Can you imag-
inc how a Christian man can get his
mind and soul into such blasphemOus
twist that he can scOff at this first
chapter of Genesis, whose verses are
billOWs Of light from seas of glory?
Come, now, and laugh at the IngeTsOi-
Liam statement that the world was made
out of nothing. He rings the changes
on that word nothing. He has gone all
through the cities stating that which
lea that has common sense knows to be
a Misrepresentation. ] take that mis-
representation and | nail it so high that
North and South and East and West
may see it and remember it. There is
as much difference between MI. IngeT-
soils statement and the truth as be-
tween nothing and OmnipOtence. Gen
tlemen of the jury trying this case be
! tween Intidelity, the plaintltf, and
Christianity the defendant, | impeaclI
the witness, Robert 6. IngersOll, for his
misrepresentation of the first verse of
the Bible. If he begins with the first
verse to misrepTesent, [ demand that
you expect Misrepresentation all the
way through, and that you throw over
board his entire testimony.
| | take step further in the impeach-
that, after having misTepresented the
! first verse of this Bible, he would have
rested from his labOrs and taken a few
| chapters of fair exception. No, he can
I hardly keep from bursting with laugh
ter as he sweeps in caricature upon
the third or fourth verses of the first
chapter which indicate that light was
created on Monday, when the sun was
not created until Thursday. Ha! ha,
Think of it! Light without any sun.
Think of it, he says, light three days
before the sun was created. Ridiculous,
imbecility, balderdash, dotishness in
the Mosaic account. He rocks from
side to side, with uncomfortable laugh
ter. Light three days before the sun
was created! My friends, here comes
in Mr.. IngeTsoll's astronomical and ge-
illogical ignOrance-a prOfOunder and
more disgusting Ignorance than ever
before disgusted any lecturing plat
form. If he had asked any intelligent
boy on the way home from one of our
High Schools whether there could be
any light without the sun, the school
boy would answer: 'Yes, sir; heat and
electricity give light independent of the
SUM-" The schOol-bOy would have told
him that the earth, in process of con-
densatiOn, was surrounded by thick va