The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-23


diligently Explain-He Saws that If
there is God Without Bodily Being.
Why should He be Called by the Mascu-
line Gender InfideI Also Attacks the
Trinity and Ridicules All Who Offer n
Defense.
Chicago, Oct. 22-Columbia theater
has never held larger audience than
1t did last evening. The loadstone was
Robert G. Ingerson and his new lecture
On 1.-THE Foundation of Faith" The
speaker looks just as on his last eppar-
ance His words rouse the same bursts
Of laughtr and applause.
In part the lecture was:
One of the foundation stones of our
faith is the Old Testament. If that
book is not true. if it's authors were un-
aided men, if il contains blunders and
falsehoods, then that stone crumbles to
dust. The biologists demonstrated that
the story of the universe having been
created in six days about six thous-
ands years ago could not be true.
According to the sacred scriptures,
man has been on earth $3.50 years
and on more. Is this true?
1t is we'll established that at one time
there lived the most gigantic mammals,
the mammoths, the woody haired rhi-
noceros, the Irish elk, elephants, and
other forms that have in those countries
become extinct. 1t was during the drift
period that these forms of life existed
in Europe and England, and that must
have been hundreds of thousands Of
years ago. In caves, once inhabited by
-
flint and the bones of these extinct ami
mails. With the flint tools man had
split the bones Of these beasts that he
might secure the marrow for food
Many such caves and hundreds of such
tools and Of such bones have been found
And we now know that in the drift
period man was the companion of these
extinct monsters. 1t is certain that the
account in the Bible of the creation of
the first man Is a mistake. 1t is certain
that the inspired writers knew nothing
about the origin of man.
EARTH CHILD OF SUN.
No one preterds that Egypt existed
as a nation before the foood. Yet the
astronomical representations found
must have been made more than a
thousand years before the world was
drowned.
BILE
According to that book the sun was
made after the earth was created. Is
this true? Did the earth exist before
the sun? The men of science are be
levers in the exact opposite. They be-
lieve that the earth is a child of the
Sun-that the earth, as well as the other
planets belonging to our constellation.
came from the sun. The writers Of
the Bible were mistaken.
Now, we know that there Is no fir1na-
nent, and we know that the waters are
not divided by a armament. Conse-
quently we know that, according to the
Bible, Jehovah did nothing on the sec
ond day. He must have, rested on
Tuesday. This being so. we ought TO
have two Sundays a week.
Seventy souls went down into Egypt
and in 2l5 years Increased TO 1000. 900.
They could not have doubled more than
four times a century. Say nine times
215 years.
Jereboam had an army of 500 900 men,
Abijah of 100000 They fought. The
Lord was on Abijah's side and he killed
100000 of Jereboam's men. All these
soldiers were jews-all lived in Pales-
tine, a poor, miserable little country.
about one-quarter as large as the state
of New York. Yet / 100000 soldiers
were put in the field. This required a
population in the country of 10.o09.oe0
or 100000. OF course this is absurd.
KING DAVID'S TEMPLE.
We are told by this inspired book of
the gold and silver collected by King
David for the temple-the temple after
wards completed by the virtuous Sol
ONION. According TO the blessed Bible
David collected about $4,000. 000. 900 in
silver-for silver had not been demone-
tized then-and 5000 000.000 in gold,
making a total of 1000, 000.o0
And all this for the temple of Jerusa-
lem, a building ninety feet long and
forty-fiVe feet high and thirty feet
wide, TO which was attached a porch
thirty feet wide, ninety feet long, and
is feet high. Probably the architect
was inspired. Is there a sensible man
in the world who believes that David
collected 81 o00, eco. GOO Of gold and silver?
rrhere is hardly $1,000 10000 of gold
nov used as money in the whole world.
TNhe Old Testament must be thrown
aside. 1t is no longer founda ton.
II bias crumbled.
THE NEW TESTAMENT.
gut we have the New Testament, the
Ga, uel of the Old, in which Christians
fnI the fullfillment of prophecies made
bv inspired Jews. The New Testament
1,o,tohes for the truth, the Inspiration
of fhe Old, and if the Old is false, the
Nv cannot be true.
In the New Testament we find all we
I, now about Jesus Christ. Certainly
,.iere should be no difference about the
birth of Christ, From the Christians
point of view, nothing could have been
: of greater Importance than that event.
OF course we know that the Holy Cath
Ole church has in her keeping the three
skulls that belonged 10 the three wise
men, but / do not know where the
church obtained these relics, nor exact
ly how their genuineness has been es-
tablished, Must we believe that Herod
murdered the babes Of Bethlehem? Ac-
cording 70 Matthew, Joseph. warned
by an angel took Mary and the child
and fed 10 Egypt. According TO Luke
they all went to Jerusalem, and from
there back to Nazareth. Both of these
accounts cannot be true. VIII some
Christian scholar tell US which TO be
iieve? When was Christ born? Luke
says that il tok place when Cyrenius
was governor. Here is another mistake
Cyrenius was not appointed governor
until after the death OF Herod, and the
taxing could not have taken place I'M
til ten years after the alleged birth or
Christ
According 10 Matthew there was be-
tween David and Jesus twenty-seven
generations. and he gives all the names
According 10 Luke there were between
David and Jesus forty-two generations
and he gives all the names. Besides,
the names OF all the ancestors ore diff
erena, with two exceptions. Matthew
saws that Joseph's father was Jacob.
Luke SAYS that He'll was Joseph'S ia
Their. Both Of these genealogies cannot
be true, and the probability Is that ooeh
are false. There is not in all the pulpits
ingenuity enough 10 harmonize these