The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-06
A MODERN MOSES
TEACHES A NEW DOCTRINE.
Al Fri. spIritu.lht tells what he rAinE, Ofths
Bibls-Ths Scriptures not AZ Aid to Morality
Aad CIrliIratiOa-Naturs's God the oaiy
True oue-Auswsrs to. MatsriliIsts.

Bible-The Scriptures not Al Aid to Morality
Aud CIViifzatioa-NAture's God the oaiy
True oue-AusNe1 to. MateriAlists.
CLEVELAND, March 5.-0ne Moses Hull,
an exponent Of the spiritualistic belief, tf
Erie, Pa, delivered an address yesterday
afternoon and last evening to the Spirit
ualists Of this city at Weisgerber's Hall.
Mr.. Hull's subject was "Nature's Bible"
He started with the query, "Do we need
Bible to teach us Of God, to make us moral,
or to give us civilization ?" He told how
Bible teachers endeavored to show that
without the Bible God would never have
been known. The Bible taught bloody
God, and several instances were cited
from the Bible said to confirm this state
ment. DR.. Watts description Of the
Christian God was quoted:
Ills noStrils breathe out fiery streams;
Hes consuming hrG:
HIS Jealous eyts. his wrath intlAme
And false his vengeance higher"
Then, to show the idea OF God held by
so.called heathen, he quoted Pythagoras,
v b ) said, long before there was 2 Bible
"God Ia neither the object of sense nor
subject OF passion, but invisible. only in.
telligible and supremely INTELLIGENT. Heis
the universal spirit that prevails and
ditfuseth itself over all nature All beinps
receive their life from him. There ia I'M
one only God, who 10 not, as some are
apt to imagine, seated above the world.
beyond
rup opu op rup ,v,vp,sv.
N ., H'
put peing hlmsel all IN all, lie sees all the
beings that fill his immensity, the only
principle, the light OF heaven. the Father
~ ali Ha n.odrcoo ovorr,t;nn. H. o,,o,x,
20 %', ~ fvAuHeo e'e' sntIs' i.e oiusi'
anu ulsposes Oh all things. fersia, under
Zoroaster, at the time OF the Macedonian
expedition. recognized one universal INTEL
I;ca,oo ,ha o.oa.or n,oso.,,o. =, 4 ,a.o-.,a.
I'll tb;ne. ths r,a, bn1 ana sofeai s,S
.hS CO. o;var ~ al aood eee .raa ~. " ~ ~, -,
sneaan..j sae ss. ~ ID @ 3 "as 'oa nt nI, H. uu
authorities on ancient history wero onoted
to show the falsity Of the claim Of friends
o. the Bible; he attempted to show that
ms ,he tSsn IL otar y, Soars
among those who had accepted the Bible as
their standard; Inc arts and sciences
heiore etu % the Bible ases was % dresmed " of e9 Of
the Mohammedans, he quoted Dra per as
saying: when Europe was hardly more
Gems were cultiyating and even, creating
science. iheir trlumphis IN pnllosophy,
mathematics, astronomy, chemistry ana
mediclne proven 70 pe more uutaole, ana
thefelore more important, Inan their mill
tafy actions had Deen. History toid that
european christians prohted 6y Arabian
learning, ana were hignly indented 70 me
saracens ior Improvement: IN the various
sciences, ior the mathematics, astronomy,
physics ana philosophy that were taught
IN Europe nom lle tehth century, were ior
the most paft ufawn rom the ARABIAN
schools mat were eslaolisned IN SPAN anu
!aly or rom the writings OF Arabian sages.
Hence the safacens may IN one respect DO
considered the ~a
RESToRERs OF LEARNING IN EUROPE.
He did not see that Christianity had
do,o ,,,oh II, o;,,;l;,o.;o, Ioo,.. ..;J.
1.-THE practice OF sacrificing children, which
was condemned and. prohibited under
Diocletian, the pagan, was encouraged and
authorized under Constantine the Rrst
Cbr;St;an Emneror nor joes any Ch,;.t;ar
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