San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-05-03
INGERSOLL ATTACKED.
Hon. Elijah A. Morse Stands Up
for the Bible.
He Declares That Col Bob Is as Powerless
to Stop the Progress of the Gospel
as Is a BobOIink to OBJ
scnre the sun.

Representative Morse, of Massachu-
sets, recently delivered an address at
the Eastern Presbyterian church, Wash
ington, d. c., Dr. Easton, pastor, on
the subject of christianity VS.. Inf
deity" Mr.. Morse's address received
close attention from the Charge audience,
which included a number of senators
and representatives. Mr.. Morse said in
part:
Il suppose it is hardly necessary for
me to tell any person present that am
not a clergyman, but | remember to
have heard my father say, after he had
preached the Gospel for more than fifty
years, that the minister needed wit
nesses, men in active life, public men,
business men, to stand up and say that
the Gospel is true. That is the basis on
which l consent to speak tonight, for I
haven't the egotism to suppose that 1
can add anything to the preaching of
the learned pastor of this church,
man who has made the Gospel a study
for lifetime.
There is a question that is pertinent
right here, that is found in the book;
the question is: If man die shall he
live AGAIN. What is the answer that
infidelity gives to that question? Listen
to Mr.. Ingersoll's answer. Mark you
this is a solemn occasion when he says
this. Hank! he is standing by the cof-
fin of his brother. Now listen, he says:
Life is narrow veil between cold and
barren peaks of two eternities.' we
strive in vain to look beyond the height,
we cry aloud and the only answer is the
echo of our wailing cry From the
voiceless lips of the unreplying dead
there comes no word How do you
like it? Listen once more; he is stand
ing by the coffin of little child now.
Hank! Listen to the consolation he
gives these parents. He says: we can
not say that death is not good; we don't
know whether the grave is the end of
this life or the door - another, or
whether night here is not somewhere
else a dawn; every cradle asks us
whence, and every coffin asks us
WHITTIER How do you like it? What is
the answer the learned pastor of this
church would give on such an occasion?
venture that he would get out this old
book which Mr.. Ingersoll reviles, and
he would read out of it: He that liveth
and believeth in Me, though he were
dead, yet shall he live
MIR. Jngersoll says there are three
hundred contradictions in this book.
They are all in his poor brain. The
book is all right when it is rightly I'M
derstood. He delivered a lecture in
Boston not long since, on the Mistakes
of Moses l wonder what Moses would
think of the mistakes of Bob lnger-
soil? While he was on his way to de-
liver his last blasphcmous lecture in this
city, there was an average of two
churches built in this country, and mil
lions of our cOuntrymen were celebrat-
ing the birth of Jesus.
"Ingersoll is as powerless to stop the
progress of the Gospel as a chipping
squirrel sitting on a railroad track
would be to stop the Chicago lightning
express, or a 'bobolink' sitting on the
fence to keep the sun from rising. Now
who art thou that repliest against God?'
And l say, God pity the man that dashes
himself against the bosses of Jehovah's
bucller.
"Mr. Ingersoll is reported to have
said: How do you know that there is
any such God as the God of the Bible?
Did anybody ever see Him?' No, Mr..
Ingersoll, we never saw Him. We might
ask him if he had ever seen his own
brains. Astronomy tells us that the
sun is ninety-fve millions of miles from
this earth, and if it were a hollow
sphere it would contain a thousand
worlds like ours; and a man asks you
and me if we had ever seen God, and
wouldn't believe there was a God be-
cause he hadn't seen Him. Astronomy
tells us that there arc eighty millions of
solar systems floating - space, and for
aught know they all revo1ve around
the throne of God.
Il believe that the Lord Jesus Christ
put the whole Gospel into the parable,
when He said: The Kingdom of Heaven
is like unto a merchantmen, seeking
goodly pearls, who, when he had found
one pearl of great price, he went and
sold all that he had and bought it.
Have you got that pearl? If so you are
rich and you are wise. If you have it
not you are poor and blind and naked
and foolish
cat Marshfeld, in my district, lie
buried the mortal remains of Daniel
Webster, the great expounder and de-
fender of the constitution. AS he drew
near the end he asked to have the
Scriptures read. They brought in the
old book that Mr.. Ingersol reviles, and
read the Psalm beginning: The Lord is
my Shepherd and ending: Though
walk through the shadow of death
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