The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-11-30

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But common sense can burst
This atheistic theory
by asking simple questions
That any child might ask:
THE universe was like an egg"
Begets the query;
Who made it so and formed
It as it is; whose task?
The answer deads the mind
To God as primal cause.
How could thing create
Or make itself from naught?
If so it must have acted
Long before it was;-
A contradiction worse
BY man could not be taught.
But Furthermore in nature
We discover wise design,
And plans and purposes
That stamp the whole creation;
But one and all of these
In arguments combine
To show to man his Maker
And his true relation.
If then the universe
Shows ample thought and reason.
We must admit the fact
OF universal mind;
But this necessitates
A thinker and a person,
A God DER all supreme
In thought and strength combined.
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To reason thus, mind finds
It's fullest satisfaction
In backing itself up
Within the mind of God;
In Him it rests secure,
He is it's strong attraction,
True mind will back to Him,
Though universe abroad.
How strange that man should seek
To make a. God of nature
Which is but a reflection ..
OF His sovereign will
To say that nature thinks,
It but nomenclature
She only thinks and acts
His mandates to fulfill
All things that do appear w.
Could not law ordain:
That the true function is
Of an essence all supreme.
All works of man we trace.
Back to the unseen BRAIN
This the essential cause,
The universal theme:
XII
What fools are they who will
Not believe except they see;
Since nine-tenths of our knowledge
Rests on faith alone.
Have you your own brain seen,
Or life that governs thee,
Or wind or gravitation
Creations strong backbone?
To challenge God to sight, -
Like inidels have done.
Is worse than superstition
OF the darkest age;
What king to prove his 81 am"
Would leave his legal throne,
That every doubling subject
Might believe his parsonage?
Much less if God Is God,
Would He such doubt dispel,
Since order reigns supreme
Throughout his wide domain;
What further proofs require
His IT am to foretell.
Hear Moses and the Prophets, t.
They will not speak in vain.
XIV. i
Should modern skeptic need
Some other proof than this,
60 read the martyrs faith
And if life of many saint;
Their hidden source of power
Needs no higher witness
Living millions have it
Though weak, perhaps, and faint.
XVI
Then let the idolaters
OF modern science scott.
Like Baars priests of old
They all shall come to naught;
"Cry louder! Your God sleepeth!
or iourneying far off, 80
Elijahs God Is He
Who fire from heaven brought.
XVII.
Let one proof more suffice
And we'll end all disputation,
That there is q God
Whom we can love and trust;
Deny the historic Jew,
Disprove his disrensation,
Or keep forever silent
Till YOU admit it must.
If then there is God,
Maker of Heaven and Earth,
And all things visible or not,
They all in Him begin;
We believe that He has made
A record of mans birth,
That plainly shows the ape
Is not mans origin.
XIX.
But first we must admit
How limited is man
In knowledge infinite
With His to be compafed;
Since all things had begun
Before our race began
Wa little know of fOretlmES
Just how the world Jared.
So here we have the best
OF ground for refutation
OF theories that oppose
The oracle divine;
Besides the writs and annals
OF most ancient nations,
AL help to make a record
To prove the genuine
XXI.
For search where e'er you will.
Go find some story told Sd ssss II. ST
More worthy of our Maker,
" Than this plain old Bible;
With It to be compared s. Sc
What are the. myths of old
! Their gods and what they did.
AS in ancient Sibyl? S5. Il 4. s.
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" spare that Book Of Faith s Z s asl2 &
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