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


Gather together all the Bibles
the children's Bibles, the family Bi.
bles. those newly bound, and those
lid nearly worn out and pages almost
obliterated by the fingers long ago
turned to dust-bring them all to.
gether, and let us make bonfire OF
them, and by it warm our cold criti-
cism, and after that turn under with
the ploughshare of public Indignation
the polluted ashes of that loathsome,
adulterous, obscene, cruel and death
full book Which is so antagnDistic to
mans liberty, and woman's honor land
the worlds happiness.
Stop! says some silly old man.
Stop! says some weak minded woman.
Stop, says some small Drained child.
Perhaps YOU had better give the Bible
trial before you condemn it. Well,
we viii give ii trial. / impauel
this whole audience as a jury 10 ren-
der this case-Infdelity, the plaintiff.
vs.. Christianity, the defendant.
Twelve Jurors are ordinarily enough
In case. but in this case, of vaster
importance than any other, | this even
i'm impinel all the thousands OF
people here gather rs jury, and |
ask tn m silently to affirm that thew
will we'll and truly try this issue of
traverse joined between. Infdelity.
the plaintiff, and Christianity the de-
tenhent, so he p you God.
The jury lmpaneled. call your first
witness. Robert O.. Ingersoli Here!
Swear the witness. But how are Won
to swear the witness? | know of only
two ways of taking an oath in i court
room. The one is by kissing the
Bible, and the other is by lifting the
hand. [ cannot ask him to swear bv
the Bible, because he considers that "A
pack of lies, and theTef re il could
give no sOlemnItv to his oath |
cannot ask him to lift his hand, far
that seems TO imply the existence of u
God, and that is a fact ia dispute.
So swear him by the rings Of
Saturn and the spots on the sun, and
the craverns in the moon, and the
Milky way, and the nehular hypothes-
is, that he will tell the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing hut the
truth in this case between InfAeiiiy.
the plaintiff, and Christianity, the
dafendent.
BUT THE TRIAL COMES ON.
The jury has been impaneled. The
first witness has heen called. In thu
opening sentences of my sermon, |
gave MIR. IngersolPs charges agsinS.
Christianity Now my friends, it is
principle settled in all court rooms,
and among all intelligent people.
false in part, false in all If a witness
is found to he making a mlsrepreSenta-
ton nn the stand, it does not make
any difference what he testfes 10 after
lt; it all goes Overb ard. The Judge, !
the jury. every common sense mau !,
SAY S, False in part, fase in all. Now. /,
il can show you. the Lord helping I
me that Mr.. Iugerso!l makes mi>rzp-I
res, ntatlOns IN one respect, or in two
or IN three respects, | Will 1
1-mtrd that as intelligent men aud /
"a + minded women, Won throw over
board his entire testimony. II he !
viii mi,represent in one thing, he viii .
misrepr sent all the way through /!
False H. one, false in all.
Mr.. I1ga,so.l q 'es ON and says the
Bible fa,ors pol eamy. He says 10
ais audieuce: Is there any man here
vno believes in Polygamy? No
Th-n vou are better than your Cd;
or four thous nd yrs ago he be-
eyed in it. and taug... :. and upheld
I. Does the God OF The Bible mp
poIi polygamv, or did He? IL ~
nanv wive. did God make for Adam?
T. made one wife. Does not your
common -ense tel You when Cod
rarted the marriage institution Re
tarted it "a He wanted it t" continue?
t Sod had favored polygamy he
oull have created for Adam five
yves. rten wives, or twenty wives,
uSt as easily as he made one. AT
he very first of the Bible God shows
HIMSELF Ia favor of monogamv and
to poiygamy. Genesis
i:24: Therefore sha!l a man leave
liS father and mother, and still cieave
INTO his vile. Not his wives, bat his
wife Haw many wives did God
pare tor Nah In the ark? Two and
NO the birds; two and two the
,atile: two and two the lions two
MI two the human race. If the God
f the Bible had favored multiplicity
# wives, he would have spared
,luralitv of wives. When God first