Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-09-18

does lead 10 change Of mind (rasidaoid) and
good and cheap food and drink, with com
Portable quarters 10 enjoy them in, will 90
far TO empty gin palaces. Bot the aver.
age sinner will run all risks, with the dew
il.furnished hope that something will
turn up" 10 save him at Last, II you can
only give him. in lieu Of his darling sins
and hsuots, the orthodox God Of Gre and
birthstone, a hard bench In a mission chap
pei, or seatin one Of the coffee palaces 90
above described. O, for preachers TO
preach aod who is LOVE and nothing
eiss who will defend Him through thick
and thin by the name that lie Himself has
given us M the clue out Of all labyrinths;
and who will fairly and squarely meet all
cavaliers on their own ground and defeat
them with victory that our God will sure
ly eivel And o, for men Of money, who
win lavishly spend Il, Ia demonstrating
that the average man will take better
thing ifit is offered him, instead Of the
deadly poison that he now imbibes under
the stimulus Of gaslights, music, assiduou,
attentions and depraved appe,i,esl
have just been reading Il can read a
good deal now, while .s,ill fighting the
devil, without glasses, for unimpaired Wis
ion ahead,) a very delightful book against
in6dels entitled Tradition Of Eden" by
Shepherd. II is one Of hundreds like H.
II is not that brave hearts are wanting to
defend the truth when seen 10 be defensi-
BILE. Touch the blessed Bible at a Geolog
ical, chronological. Pathological or Cosmo
logical point, and hosts Of mail clad war
riors will SILVER a lance for its defence But
how comes il that when one like Col. In.
gersoll attacks the morality Of the Bible,
and boldly challenges a successful defence
OF the God Of the Bible, from the orthodox
standpoint, the armies Of Israel Zee like
frightened rabbits to theis tents, and cover
there, while this Goliath Of Gath bellows
defiance across the valley Of Elsh. "Give
me man, who will fight me-" is an I'M,
anssered challenge to-day, II il be a com.
BAT on his Ooa ground And that il the on
ly victory worth gaining. David gave his
opponent the vantage ground, took him on
the dead run, and slang stone without
aiming IL, 80 that God, not the skill Of
practicej Benjamin hand, might have all
the glory, and so he slew him, and cut of
the giants head with his own sword.
Brethren Of the ministry, has il come to
this that we have God concerning whom
the less that is said Of His moral chsrac-
ter, a. set forth in His word, the better.
Are We indeed driven 10 defend the ''olo-
gies" of the Bible as an excuse for letting
the central point Of attack 20 undefendedl
Are we any longer compelled to bow our
heads and cry out mysterious providen-
ces," When our God is accused Of perpe-
trsiing or permitting for holy ends, bloody
warfare, slavery Of the worst type, polyga-
my, murder, adultery; all the "evil" that
are done in the great "city" Of London,
daily and nightly; all the heathenism Of
the lends Of the EARTH" and charged with
all this, because our theology admits fairly
and logically the dreadful charge. l en-
treat you to ponder the fact, that Of all the
hundreds Of books written in defence Of the
Bible, not one attempts a defense OF the
point raised 80 awfully by Col. Ingersoll
And ais there not a cause" as David said
TO Eliab? Has not this silence given con-
sent to the charges, and 50 ss good John
Milton says: "You have brought scandal to
Israel, difidence Of God, and doubt to
feeble hearts, propense enough before to
waver" Alas the victims Of this dread
full silence on the main point, are around
you on every hand.
The remedy is simple. Deny, according
to scripture, that God does any OF thess
things expressly, implicitly, or Permissive-
II. Lay all upon the real perpetrstor, the
devil; and having done this, the LORD
will show you how to explain every SEEM
ingly adverse scripture TO the Subtraction
Of every honest mind. The dishonest
would not be convinced "though one rose
from the dead"
There we're 4S7 confessions at the Hack
ney meeting-nearly all adults. Praise
the dear LORD!
Hope TO report fresh field in my next
but none open just now, that we know
Ever in Jesus, GEO. o. BARNES.