Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-09-18

that they have, and spare them not, but
slsy both man and woman, infant and
sucking" Second picture - Psalm
civ, 8: "The Lord Is good to all. And
His tender mercies are over all His
works" First picture aRain-Jer., xvii,
Al: For We have kindled Q fire in mine
anger which shall burn forever. SEQ
ona picture, Psalm Xxx. 5.
"His anger sndureth but moment"
LIST picture again Ex. iv, ~. And the
Lord met him and sought to kill him."
I'd pic. Ell. II. l3. "Thon shalt not
kills" ("Be We perfect as your Father IN
heaven is peri cot LIST pie 2 Sam. xiv,
/. And the anger of the Lord was
kindled against Israel, and he moved
David against them to say Go, nam-
Der Israel and JUDAH" I'd pic. /
chron., xxi, /. And Satan stood up
against Israel. and provoked David to
number Israel" Is this contradiction
or are God and Satan enc AID the same
being). IL has been said figures will
not lie" LIST Us see lst pic, I'd SAM.
XIV, 9, says 10000 of Israel and
800, COO Of judah" I'd pie, chron., xxi.
5, saws there we're 81, 10000 of Israel
and 10000 JUDAH" cbron., xxi, 20;
xii, l, 2. Thirty and two years old
was he iJehoramJ when be began TO
reign, and he reigned in Jeru-
salem sight years, (which makes
him forty years old }, and
the inhabitants of Jerusalem made
Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his
stead. Forty and two years old was
Ahaziah when be began his reign"
How the youngest son of the family
can be two years older THAI his father
IL a mystery Of godliness that
swamps as.
Now look at what Jesus told his dis
ciples about the animal be was TO ride.
Matt, XXI, ., says: "He told them they
| would find the mother and colt tied
Mark, Ii. 2, and Luke xiv, q, say they
found tied only colt. John, xii, IA
| says IL was a ysung ass. and Jesus found
| il himself. Mark and Luke say be rode
the colt; bat Matt, xxi, Z. represents
| him as riding the colt and its mother.
Matt, Xix, ~: with God all things are
| possible" Bot picture No. says not
so. Judges l., -: And the Lord was
with Judah, and he drave out the in
habitants of the mountain; but could
not drive out the inhabitants OF the
valley, because they had chariots of
iron" Critics claim pa self contradic-
tons in the Bible,-not many for so
large a boek.-2O,000 absurdities. errors,
etc, and 10000 varieties of reading.
The clergy, or some Of them, tell Us,
like DIR. Cheever of New York, that "tbe
Bible does not contain the shadow of a
shade of error from Genesis to Revela-
tons" st. Augustine SAYS in his Book
of Sermons" (p. 49,: II believe things
in the Bible because they are absurd; !
believe them because they are impossl-
ble." With regard to the above state
ments, let me say with Jesus, where be
says: There be eunuohs which havs
made themselves eunnchs for the king
dom of heavens sake. He that is able
to receive it. let him receive it." Ifthese
perplexing pages can be 40 explained or
spiritualized, as some of the clergy
claim, that no contradiction or error ID
apparent, why do they not make IL q
speciality to do 50. and thereby forever
silence skepticism? Then we would not
be troubled by infide,s or heretios. We
are commanded to search the Scrip
tnres," and the clergy at each recurring
Sabbath tell US to read our Bibles; and II
we read with interest we cannot helI
seeing contradictions, errors, etc.
am as much opposed to materialism
as our worthy Baptist can be. l be
lieve In the teachings and precepts Of
Jesus, as | understand them. believe
they are the cornerstone of all true re-
liRions, both of the past and present
am with him when be says the truth
shall make us free, and also where ht
speaks of founding the house upon a
rock, (Which eminent commentators
claim means "the rock Of TRUTH, lei
us endeayer, then, to found our theories
ON the rock of truth, and we may rest
assured all opposing elements will he as
powerless to do Us harm as the surf that
rolls against the rock bound shore is to
mould or mar the rock. Truth" says
Davis, lis immortal and never dies
while error is mortal and must die"
Truth crushed to earth will rise again
The eternal years OF God are hers.
While error, wounded, writhes upon the
plain,
And dies amid her worshippers
q. II. MILLER