The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-02-12
SOPHISTICAL BOB.
Inge, soil On The Flood.

The Chicago times prints a long
interview with the gifted Infdel Bo5,
in which he states that the following
is his creed:
Firss-Happiness is the only good.
Second-The way to be happy is 10
make others happy. Other things
being equal. that man 10 happiess
who is the nearest iust-who is
truthful, merciful and intslIigent-in
other words, the one who lives in
accordance with the conditions OF
life.
Thifd-The time to be happy is
now, and the place to be happy is
here.
Fourth-Reason is the lamp OF the
mind-the only torch of progresr; and
instead of blowing that out and de-
pending upon darkness and dogma it
is far better to increase that sacred
light.
Fifth-Every man should be the
intellectual proprietor of himself
honest with himself, and intellectu-
silly hospitsble-and upon every
brain reason should be entbroned as
king.
Sixth-That every man must bear
the consequences. at least of his own
actions; that il he puts his hands
in the fire, his hands must smart,
and not the hands OF another. In
other words, that each man must eat
the fruit of the tree be plants.
[ can not conceive that the teach
ing OF these doctrines would fill
penitentiaries or crowd the gallows.
The doctrine of forgiveness-the idea
that somebody else can suffer 10 place
of the guilty-the notion that just at
the last the whole account can be
settled-these ideas, doctrines and
notions are calculated to fill peniten-
tiaries. Nothing breeds extravaganza
like the credit system.
Most criminals of the present day
are orthodox believers, and the gal.
lows seems to be the laet round of the
ladder reaching from earth to heaven.
The Rev. DR.. Sunderland, OF this
city, in his sermon on the assassina-
ton of Garfield, takes the ground
that God permitted the murder for
the purpose of opening the eyes of
the people to the evil effects of inf
deity. According to this minister,
Col, in order to show his hatred of
infdelity, inspired" or allowed one
Christian to assassinate another.
THAT FLOOD BUSINESS. :
In regard to the explanation of the
food, as lately given by Mr.. Talmage,
viz that it was only partial food,
the sophistical colonel sage:
Mr.. Talmsge takes the ground that
the food was only partial. and was,
after all. not much off food. The
Bible tells US that God said He would
destroy all flesh wnerein 10 the
breath of life from under heaven.
and that everything that is in the
earth shall die" that God slso said:
81 will destroy man whom l have
created from the face of the earth,
both mGn and beast and the Creep
ing things and the fowls of the air,
and every living substance that |
have made will / destroy from of the
face of the earth"
l did not suppose that there was
any miracle in the Bible larger than
THE CREDULITY OF Mr.. TALMAGE.
The food story, however, seems to
be little more than he can bear.
he is like the Witness who stated that
he had read "Gulliver's Travels" the
stories of Munchausen. and the
"Flying Wife," including Robinson
Crusoe." and believed them all, but
that Wirt's Life of Patrick Henry"
was more than he could stand.
1t is strange that q man who be-
lieves that God created the universe
out of omnipotence should believe
that He had not enough omnipe-
tence left to drown . world the size
of this. Mr.. Talmsge seeks to make
the stery of the h0od reasonable The
moment il is reasonable it ceases to
be miraculous. Certainly God CAD
not afford to reward with eternal JOY
man for believing reasonable
story. Faith is only necessary when
the story ia unreasonable, and if the
food only gets small enough 1 can
believe it myself. l ask for evil
dence, and Mr.. Talmage seeks to
make the story 90 little that it
can be believed without evidence.
He tells us that it was kind OF
"local option" flood-A little vet for
that part OF the country.
Why was it necessary to save the
birds? They certainly could have got.
ten cut of che way OF q real small
food. Of the birds, Noah took
fourteen of each species. He WAS
commanded to take of the fowls OF
the air by sevens-seven or each sex
and, as there are at least II. 900
species, Moan collected an svisry of
about $4,000 birds, provided the
food vas general. II it was local,
there are no means of determining
the number. But why, if the food
was local, should he have taken any
of the fowls of the air into his ark !?
: II they had to do was to fly away, or
"foost high" and il would have
been just as easy for God to have i'm
planted in them, for the moment, the