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GO !" AGaIs.


Cos" remarks are too feeble to
be aided by benedietion, He falls
fathoms below his man Jones. $50"
like the fellow that said the horse was
eighteen feet high, sticks to it, "6o"
was sprinkled into the confession of
taith when he was a babe; it grew
with his growth, and now he stands
by ii, right or wrong, He even at
temps to prove that its absurd dec
laratsons impnting all earthly crimes
to the DEGREES of God are well found
Ell in the sacred scriptures, Says
God deoreed the incest and rebellion
of Absalom. Then, Alb. could not
help it. God made him do il. and If
God made him do it then II was Gods
act, not Abs. Just such INFAMOUS
teaching as you hold forth is what
enables Bob Ingersoll to blaspheme
the name of God, and you here
charge the Deity with all that is vile
and criminal. The confession needs
not only amending but it ought to be
obliterated. You talk about railing
at the bible! When you thus charge
the Deity with the authorship Of ev-
cry evil!! Not only SO but you dis
pute Paui's word in 1st Cor. XIV. 4,
where he says Christ soas buried
You say it is false. Alexander Pope
I said:
"A little learning is dangerous thing,
Drink deep or taste not the Pyeran spring.
For shallow drinking intexieates the BRAIN
go" is evidently drunk on small
stock of Greek, and he thinks nc
man can understand Gods plan ei
salvation unless he is smatteringly
instructed in a few Greek roots. He
has swallowed just enough of these
Greek roots to give him the collie
and they are now ripping and roaring
through his organs of digestion ex
claiming in the language of Patricl
Henry, "Give me liberty or give me
death"
The only way 1 can account fol
Cos present condition is that be
was sprinkled for baptism on hi;
parents faith and has never obtained
faith for himself and is an ally O
Bob Ingersoll. But according to hi.
theory he and Bob are both alike
God decreed it and they can't hell
it. go" was conscripted into thu
Presbyterian church when he was ,
babe without his knowledge or con
sent and consequently without faitl
land he still holds his own. He ha
not attained to faith and ought to b'
excused for preaching infdel doc
trine, disputing the words of Jesus
Peter, Paul ct id omane genus. He
however, is true to his confession o
faith and it is rather rare to find an,
outside of the class to which MI
,Gollah belongs and of which he i
sort of file leader that has th
temerity to defend the monstrositie
of that antiquated document. Th
masses have learned too much of tn
bible to follow the dogmas set fort
In the confession with that blind zes
that attaches so closely to ."Go.
Solomon said if you bring up chill
to believe such things when he is ol
! he will be about the same that he wa
when he started. Nought frol
nought and nought remains. No
Goliah says nothing IN the confessio
> is bindingson Presbyterians. Then
e is dead letter. If it binds nohod
then it is nothing. Well, l have SUI
ceeded ia this bout with Goliah b.
!, yond all expectations. I have e.
torted from him the confession tbs
), his Westminster confession of fait
is nothing and binds no ene-nt
even Presbyterlans. L feel like e,
claiming Gloria IN encelsis dei. No
&C.," let's burn all of them uE
clear the world of that much rubbis
and l will give you my copy
Esop's Fables to keep you fro
crying and if you will study it wi
care it will comfort you while gro
ing in the wilderness of sin huntir
| for Noah's Ark and Abraham's churc
= $50" you see first stands up +
the confession of faith. Then
says it is nothing, not binding ev
on Presbyteiians, of course then
binds no one else and is nothing, al
IT here he is against it. He is like t
: Dutch,nan' old horse, he is on DO
sides of the river. He also says til
N the confession is false when it q
clares that Christ was buried.
introduced 1T as q witness and
Id course must stand by it's testimer
1 only quoted it as his witness
prove what he said was untrr
R. Whenever eaR turn the witness
of my adversary against him |
\ sure of victory. This I did W
= 60" Now be good boy, Ike
your nose clean and eat no me
dirt. M. I. DUNCAN
Rev. Watson Leaves.
II ResoEUed, That in accepting
lro,;onation of fhp Rev Samilpl w