St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-19

stars is $4,000 100000 of miles from
the earth. and that it is a vast
sun with worlds revolving about
it as worlds revolve about our sun?
Not long ago | looked through great
telescope at the star Sirius, and the light
that struck my eye had left the star just
seventeen years before. One of the
stars, which is sun many thousand
times larger than our sun, is so remote
from us that it takes thirty-Seven
years for ray of light from it
to reach us, and science shows
that some of these suns are so
far away that it takes millions
of years for their light 10
reach the earth. On Friday God made
the fishes, and in the afternoon some
great whales. On Saturday He made
some cattle, and lie also made Adam i'll
His own image. That is a mistake. 1t
is exactly the other way-GOd never
made man in His own image, but men
have made many Gods i'll their own
image. The entire Pentateuch shows
that the man who wrote it regarded God
III the image of man. full of revenge and
weakness. God rested on Sunday. What
did He do Monday. and what has He
been doing since? There are two ac-'
counts in Genesis of the creation, and
they differ from each other. One or
other of them cannot be true; yet you
are required TO believe them both.
One account makes out that Adam and
Eve were made at the same time.
In the other God is made TO
set about TO find companion for Adam.
The animals are accordingly paraded
before him in order that he may choose
a companion from among them; but he
pays no attention TO Miss Chmpanzee
nor to Miss Gorilla. And | am glad he
didn't. for if he had there would never
have been free thinker in the world"
The colonel drew picture of the day
of Judgment, in which highly moral
man Is called up, and after his char
aeter mas been found to be irreproacl-
able, he is asked if he believes the rio
story. He confesses that lie does not,
and he is condemned to hell. Another
man comes MP who is church member.
But upon examination it is fonnd
out that he Is bank presl-
dent, has defaulted for 100000
run away with another mans
wife. leaving his own with a family of
children. He is asked if he believes
the rib story. Yes, he believes it, and
is sorry it is not hundred times harder
to believe, so that he may demonstrate
his faith. He is sent to glory. The
speaker created great merriment in
his description Of Moses i'll Egypt.
Moses rod turned to serpent,
and Pharaoh'S magiciaus performed
the same trick. So the magicians did
everything that Moses did until it came
to turning the dust into lice. That's
where God got 'em," said the colonel
with his thumbs stuck in his trouser
pockets and looking straight at the
audience with his head inclined slightly
forward. But Pharaoh Just scratched
and wouldn't let the Israelites go. Then
God killed the first born-kiIied inno-
cent babes for the crime of the kingp'
The colonel also created an uproar IN
speaking of how the dew became mamma
for the children of Israel in the wilder
neSs.-How. when the mama was too
large it would thaw down to the proper
size. and when too small it would swell.
"What a magnificent thing mama
would be for United States currencyw
lie concluded by saying that the
Pentateuch was written hundreds OF
years after Moses was dead, and pro-
Guced number of reasons why it could
aot have been written in Moses time.