The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-04-01

take the people OF any community are all
the intelligence, culture and brain outside
the church? Are believers the ignors
uses and infidels the men of brains! And
as 10 petrifying the heart, / also respect
fully ask where did the philanthropisls of
the world originate, and who carries them
on? Who first thought of asyluns, hos
pitfalls, homes for the fallen, and who built
and who Supports them? Who are car
ing Tor thu poor, the deprsved, the fallen
tO-dav? Inidels? Not quite. All these
benefcien; institutions were founded and
are manned and supported by believers in
Christianity. Were IL not for the contri-
buttons OF the church they would perish
Hard would il 60 with the unfortunate if
the church and Christian believers should
cease sill effort and all bene6cience. pet
rifles the heart !" But D; how tender and
generous in6drlity makes men.
HUMAN SLAVERY.
Mr.. Ingersoll sfirms that the Bible up
holds human slavery. | reply that on sc-
count of the hardness Of mems hearts
slavery was suffered Tor time ; but the
Mosaic code was sOsshaped as to mitigate
its evils aud secure Its final extinction. Ii
was doubtless better thus to bring about its
gradual abolition than to uproot il by
sudden CONFUSION The RlDle Is against
,lavery-the highest scholarship Of the
world has settled that.
FOLYGANY.
Mr.. Ingersoll affirms that the Bible up
holds polygamy reply that in the be
ginning" God created man for one woman.
This was his plan. Through wickedness
,,a,, Il II into h1t vac MOI
looked upon with favor, was discouraged,
was gradually given up, and when Christ
came the world was ripe for his explicit
commands against IL. God had To deal
with men according to the degree of light
they possessed. He suffered, but never
furthe;ed and approved of polygsmy. j
admit that the patriarchs were not the men
they should have been In this respect.
They are not models. But they had many
noble traits, and must be Judged by the de-
gree OF light they possessed. Besides, what
does the clearer, fuller light of revolution,
as found in the New Testament, say on this
question? What is the teaching Of the
Christian church? Are the Bible and
Christianity to be thrown overheard be
cause the patriarchs had more than one
wife?
THE NEW TESTAMENT.
Mr. Ingersoll says: II don't know who
wrote the New Testament, nobody does,
nobody ever will in all probability" in
making such a statement he only shows
his ignorance or willful misrepresentation.
Let me briefly say that latter the first two
ar three centuries we find the Gospels eJ-
.ssly quoted and generally by name,
whenever the events they record are refer
red to. As We go farther back toward the
FIR. century, We find them still quoted By
name till We come 10 writers who. were con-
temporary with The Apostles, and they re-
Ter continually to the events described IN
the Gospels, sometimes in almost the very
words of the Eyangelists; this can BE- ac-
courted for only by suppOsiDg the Gospels
10 have been written by the Apostles and
ApC-IOlic men, whose names they bear.
Had they been later, or forged, or mere
compilations, they could not have been SO
early quoted or of UndOubt,d authOri V
MIRACLES
Mr. IugersOll saws that "Christ's miracles
were not thought of until he had been dead
over two hundred years" Indeed And
vet they are referred to by writers who
lived at the same time OF the Apostles
What a statement from a man who claims
TO be honest and truthful
THE AToNEMENT.
Mr.. Van Wagner said it was terrible for
a man To speak oi the atOnement as Mr.. |.
did. Such an expression of Gods love
should be reverentiy alluded to. The time
would come when Mr. |. would be glad TO
have a Saviour.
HE'LL. FIRE.
The speaker denied that the church now
taught, and the ministry preached hell tire,
a lake of birthstone, chains, darkness, and
devils whipping their victims. He said
that future punishment was the natural
result OF the violation % spiritual law.
Was heaven to he SLED with uurepentsnt
thieves, gamblers, libertinss, murdererS?
Was heaven TO be filled with the vile and
wicked?
Mr.. Van Wagner denied that the church
taught that men were damned for their
mental belief. Mems future depended on
their character here. As men left off here
they began there.
Mr.. Van Wagner concluded by asking
his auditors il they were on their dying
beds whom would they prefer To- have come
and comfort them, Mr.. IngersCll with his
Jokes end denisls, or some good Christian
minister, or Christian man or woman, with
their words of hope and Christ, and for
giyeness and heaven. Alter an earnest
prayer for the great in6del, a beautiful
song by.the choir and the beaedictiOn by
Rev. d. c. Browne, the large audience slow
ly dispersed.
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