St. Paul daily globe., 1894-02-26


there is no such statement made. and
that therefore he is again mistaken.
The only information Moses give us as
to 1.-THE Light is found in Gen. l.. 3, 4,
5: And God said, Let there be light,
and there was light And God saw the
light that it was good; and God divided
the light from the darkness. And God
called the light Day, and the darkness
he called Night" Now, in all this there
is not word said about the light aris-
ing out Of darkness. So then it was
Mr.. lngersoll. and not Moses, who "saw
in his mind God throwing chunks of
darkness on one side and chunks of
light on the other"
"He says that God divided the waters
from the land" Here again lngersoll
has miSquuted Moses. He says, Gen. l.,
e: Let there be armament in the
midst of the waters, and let it divide
the waters from the waterS"-not the
waters from the land. And God divided
the waters which were under the firma-
ment from the waters that were above
the armament. Is it not evident that
here again Ingersoll has made mis-
take?
1--WE are told that Wednesday, when
he got the waters out of the way of the
land, vegetation, beautiful flowers and
trees appeared" Here again Mr.. In
gersoll Is mistaken. Moses doesn't say
a word about getting the waters out of
the way of the land. as any one can see
by consulting the Pentateueh; neither
does he make mention of any f1owe rs.
This last is another of IngersolPs ora
torical tlights-the sugar coating that
he puts on his pills that his audience
may swallow them without making
wry faces.
The stars came near being forgot
ten." Where does he get his authority
for this statement? Certainly not from
the author of the Pentateuch.- May it
not be possible that here is another
mistake
''At that time the stars were supposed
to have been made of the little nothing
that was left over, and believed that
God stuck them in to adorn the MOON"
Where does Mr.. Ingersell find authority
for stating that there was any ''little"
left over, something or "nothing." as
the case may hove been?" Certainly
not in the Pentateuch has he authority
for those two statements. Ancient his
tory gives no such infor nation. Isn't it
probable that this is another m iStake of
IngerSoIl's?
Ibid Moses know that the nearest one
Of thOSQ ctaps is of O00 OON nm r,iiac from,
the earth. etc.?" We are surprised that
one who not only wishes TO direct the
American people along such varied
lines, but one who can tell US what the
Creator was doing and thinking about
before the creation. should have to ask
for information upon such simple SUBJ
ject. If he had taken the trouble to
consult the Pentateuch he would have
found that Moses was versed in all the
lore of the Egyptians. Had he consulted
Egyptian history he would have found
that they were not ignorant of the
science of astronomy. But granting
freely that Moses did not know as much
about the stars as. the modern scientist,
and that he had no means of telling their
distance from the earth, we are yet at a
loss to see that Ingersoll has shown us
that Moses made an astronomical mis-
take.
''On Friday God made the fishes, and
in the afternoon, some great whales" !"
We are told, Gen. l., 81" "And God
created great whales and every living
creature, which the waters brought
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There is no afternoon work mentioned
here. In the 23d verse we are told.
''And the evening and the morning were
the fifth day."
Does lngerSoli know that Gods fifth
day was our Friday? Is il not apparent
that as to the afternoon work Ingersoll
is again mistaken? Is it not possible for
a man who has been so often mistaken
to have also made a mistake in his
Friday" assertion?
'God never made man in his own
image" How does our would-be edu-
Gator know this? The only written au-
thority we have on this subject says
that He did; Gen. l., 81. Does he
reason thus? | make mistakes-God
does not, hence | am not made in His
image. His statement that man is not
made in the image OF God is but an
other of his bold assertions, unsupport-
ed by anything more reliable than his
own warped reason or his word, for
which he seems to have no regard what.
ever.
Until Mr.. Ingersoll produces some
evidence that man is not made in the
image of God we cannot. but feel that
this, too, is a mistake.
"GOd rested on Sunday" If this is a
mistake. Col. Ingersoll alone is respon-
slble. for Moses explicitly tells us God
rested on the seventh day, Gen. III,
2, 3, and the seventh day is not sunday
but Saturday, Sunday being the first
day of the week. or Lords day, and
never having been kept until after the
resurrection of our Savior.
what was he doing Monday? The
only day that we are told anything
about that corresponds to our Monday
was the second day. If Mr.. Ingersoll
consults the Pentateuch he will find
that was the day on which God made
Iu6 uIlildihCHl. Ii UO means To INQUIRE
what God did the day following mis- rest,
1t is to De feared that he will have to
deal with the question as he has done
with so many others-draw upon his
imagination, for God has not revealed it
i'll any way yet known to the unciyiI-
lied American people.
What has he been doing since? We
are surprised that, reaping so many OF
the benefits, after having gathered SO
many of the fruits of Gods industry, he
shouldn't know what He has been
doing. Now Mr.. Ingersoll begins to as
sumo more becoming attitude. He
asks to be taught, and the people of this
great republic can enlighten him unon
this question. Thanks be to God, who
giyeth us the victory through our LORD
Jesus Christ" Space will permit OF
but a bare outline, but if, Col. 1ngersol]
will study it and fill it out in Christian
spirit, the spirit of truth will lead him
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