The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-28

ligiOn, and says nature and reason
are our only light and guide to reach
God and His kingdom. Both Athe-
ist and Deist deny absolutely the
truth and authenticity Of the Bible.
How can believer in Goo, In Christ,
in revealed religion, enter into an
argument with either as to a future
state of .e soul under Divine law,
Justice. power, mercy and love, when
all these Divine attributes, their
source. origin ahd the Holy book Of
God are denOur ced as a myth. a SUI
peTstitiOn arising from ignorance,
sympathy and affection? If there
be no Son Of God and no revealed
religion, then of all miserable aud
deceived creatures, the man Of God
is the most miserable and the most
deceived TC ARGUE with an infidel
about the Christian religion when he
denies your premises, and the exist
enCe of triune GOi and the truth
as contained In His recorded, re-
vealed will is a stupid qualification
of ones self, reflection upon God,
a disgrace to the invisible spiritual
Church Of His Son. Reasoning from
effect to cause, or relying upon the
powers Of the Unite mind We can
never reach the beginning and ac-
count for it by logic. Therefore We
insist that no believer in God, Christ
and revealed religion IS justified in
attempting to convince the intidel of
the existence of either by the rules
of logic or reason. You tell the
child that God made him, that God
is his father, and out of the innoa
cence Of his soul, he demands of you,
''whO made God?" You are at the
end of youc row, the child is as wise
as you. All the brain power and
wisdom of the world cannot answer
the chnlPs question. One and two
make three. What are the COmpO-
nent parts of the figure three? II is
composed of the unit one. OF what
is the unit one compOsed7 1t is
made up Of ITS fractional parts. Of
what are its Fractional parts compos-
edi Neither KING Solomon nor Bob
Ingersoll could or can answer.
Something must be conceded, the
premises must be admitted before
we can start cut 10 reasoning. None
but cranks or fools undertake to con-
vince the intelligent mind and judg-
ment of the truth or falsity of
proposition without some foundation
upon which t. otan1 and reason.
THE fool hath said in his heart
there IS no God" God Himself
spake this through His holy proph-
cts. But you deny the existence of
God and his prophets IS veil. Then 7
have no earthly means of proving to
you that there IS God and that
there were prophets The only cOnclu-
slve proof we have OF the existence
Of God, His son, HIS prophets and
apostles, which We can demonstrate
to the world is contained in the Old
and New Testament. this you say
is not of God but of the Devil.
Then we have no con.
elusive proof Of the existence of
God, His son and His religion which
we can make you see, Therefore we
will argue this question no longer =,
You 90 your way and we will 60 ours.
Admit the Bible to be OF God, and
that is an end to all Atheists, Deists,
Inidels and Bob Ingersolls. Deny
the Bible, deny its truth and iRspi-
ration and its Author and that puts
an end to all morality, all religion
and hope OF future state of rest,
and makes this world of chance.
And We would as soon expect to see
men walking on their heads as On
their feet; yes We would as soon ex
pect to see ships sailing oyer the
mountains bottom upwards as in the
seas bottom downwards. 1t is i'm
possible. There is God, and He
has Son and that Son died to save
the world, and none but cranks and
fools saw III their hearts or from
their lips there is no God.
What is light, what is darkness'
The one is the opposite of the other.
Dissolve each Into it's constituent or
component parts and then tell me
of what the component parts are
composed, ifyou can. Take oxygen
and hydrogen dissolve each into It's