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


tality OF the soul. without which life
were too sad to contemplate.
| "There are two accounts of the cIea-
tion III Genesis, and they differ from
each other. One or the other cannot be
| true" Why not? Because they differ?
1t they contradict one another one or
the other cannot be true; but to differ is
not OF necessity to contradict. The ac-
counts Of Matthew and Luke differ as
to the incidents connected with the
TRANSPORTATION, but there is no contra.
diction, 1t is true that the accounts of
the creation differ, but Mr.. Ingersoll's
| conclusion is not therefore true. The
first account is written in chronological
| order, the second Is not written with
this view i'll mind. Here they differ.
The first narrative gives no more at
tention to the creation of man than to
the creation of other things, the second
narrative has man for its theme. Here
again is difference.
Mr.. 1ngersoll will be under the ne
cessity of pointing out why one or the
other cannot be true, else he is liable to
be considered mistaken again.
| ''Yet you are required to believe them
BOTH" Who requires US to believe the m
both? Not the author of the Penta-
teuch. If Mr.. IngerSolI will attend
church regularly | think he will find
that the clergy are dealing with more
vital questions, and that he has made-a
mistake.
Zone account makes out that Ada IN
and Eve were made at the same time.
In the other God is made to set about to
! find companion for ADAM" l defy
| Mr.. 1ngerSoll to find a verse in the
| second narration where it contradlcts
| that they were made on the same day.
| If he reads the second account, Gen.
IL, Is and Is, he will see that there is
no mention made of time. 1t simply
mentions the fact that the man was
placed in the Garden of Eden, and that
the woman was created for hi m. This
could all have been done on Gods sixth
day. There is nothing in this to con :
! tradict the first account, which says,
Gen. l.. 81: $50 God created man in
his own image, in the image of God
created he him, male and female Gre
ated He them.'
I'm the other God is made to set about
to find companion for Adam. Ac-
cordingly, the animals are paraded be-
fore him in order that he may choose a
companion from among them" To
| prove that this is another mistake, let
me quote from the second account,
Gen. H.. 1S: ''And the Lord God said,
1T is not good that the man should. be
alone; [ will make an help meet for
him. "-and notice, He had said this be-
fore the ''parading" was done, of which
we are told in the 10Th verse. If Adam
was to choose companion from among
the animals. all of which had been ere
ated previously, why did God say,
II will make an helpmeet for him, :"
| projecting 1t into the future, doubtless
of His sixth day. In the 10Th verse we
are told precisely why the ''parading"-
''And brought them unto Adam to seq
what he would call them." God having
said that he would make an helpmeet
| for man, it may have been in Adams
| mind, as many mistakes have been in
Ingersoll's mind, to find companion
among the animals which were brought
to him to be named; but there is no
| evidence whatever in the account that
'God set about to find such compan-
ion for ADAM" Either Ingersoll's rea-
soning faculties or his veracity are at
fault. He has made another mistake.
He did not say Il will find an help
meet for him." but Il will make an
nelpmeet for hirn.''
"But he pays no attention to Miss
Chimpanzee nor Miss G Gorilla." AS we
are told in the 10Th verse that the ami
mails were brought to Adam to be
| named, and as we read in the Goth
| verse, And Adam gave names to all
| cattle, an to the fowl Of the air, and to
every beast of the field.'' how can Mr..
Ingersoll say that he paid no attention
to certain ones. Is not this mistake?
| Then he expresses his appreciation
that Adam paid mo attention TO Miss
ChimpanZee nor Miss GoriiIa," and
says ''if he had there would never have
been a freethinker IN the world" This
would be small loss to society if all
| the freethinkers we're as loose thinkers
as himself. But in making this state
meHt, as man who sets science in con-
tradicti0n TO theology. he should not
| forget that il is science and not theology
| that is responsible for the theory of the
evolution of man from the very source
which he denies. Certainly he owes a
| debt of gratitude to the Pentateuch and
| to the clergy for the theory that gives
| him the possibility Of being a-free-
| thinker.
AS to his picture in which an ire
| proachable man is called up and con-
| demned to hell because he does not be-
lieye "the rib story" and does not belong
to the church it is not fair that the
| Bible, all or part, should be criticised
concerning what Is not within its covers.
| 1t is beneath critic to resort to such
| unfair means.
A lover of truth, seeker after truth
will deal with the Bible as he finds it
and not with any Outgrown doctrines of
man. Now, if he reads the Bible he
| cannot find from Genesis to Revelations
any such picture of the day of judg-
ment. nor anything that even he could
construe into that. If he will read the
| 25th chapter of Matthew he will find
| a picture of the day Of judgment very
| different from the counterfeit he pre-
| SumeS TO impose upon the public.
Then ingersoll tells US of the man
who is a church member. and who pro-
fesses to believe the ''riD story'-a bank
pre- Sident who has defaulted for $780,
| 900, running away with another mans
wife while his own family are left in
want. But it he will consult the chap
| ter before referred to he will find in the
| Both verse, Cast ye the Improbable
| servant into outer darkness; there shall
| be weeping and gnas hing of teeth" Is
| not this bank president of whom Inger-
| soil tells us an Improbable servant?
Will Col. IngersoH refer us to passage
between the covers Of the Book that
| he maligns where one such is
stated to have been ushered into
glory?" Strange that he did not see fit
10 quote single passage. referring to
the day of doom, in which any one was
ever asked as to his belief in the RIB
| story" Strange that he neglected to
show where any irreproachable man
had ever been condemned to hell OH
confession that lie did not believe SAID
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