St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-14
INGERSOLL INDICTED
For Making Merely Denials,
Assertions and Mis-
statements
III ATTACKS ON THE BIBLE.
Ar 3hbishop Ireland Makes an
Enthusiastic Defense OF
the Book.
TERRIFIC BLOW AT UNBELIEF
Glowing Pictures Of Christian
Life Contpasted With
Suicide.

The cathedral was uncomfortable
crowded last night; and that, too, de-
spite the fact that many extra seats mad
been placed i'll various parts of the
church. Archbishop Ireland was an
nounced for ali address in refutat!on Of
Bob lngersolPs attack Oh the conference
and inspiration Of the Bible. A very
large part of the archbiShOp's audience
was made up Of men and women not
members of the Catholic church, but
deeply interested in the discussion OF
matters that lie very close 10 every
human heart, by men everywhere rec
ognized as among the masterful spirits
OF the age.
The archbish0p's manner was deeply
earnest. and his delivery at times was
impassioned. With clenched hand or
extended fingers, features set and mus
Giles tense. he would emphasize a point
in a manner almost tragic. Throughout
the delivery Of the sermon, if such II
may be termed, very close attention was
paid 10 every word that fell from the
speakers lips. The address is here
given in full:
The Bible: What ct Is and what
Ii HAS Bone.
= The Bible! My soul goes out 10 it in
love, gratitude. reverence, worship. 1t
is, indeed, the BibIe-the book Of books.
The voice of the Great Master OF the
universe speaks to me through its pages;
its light, illumining the religious and
moral world, radiateS from His own
divine face; the sweetness which 1t dis
tiliS is the tenderness Of His own father
heed. Written in it are my hopes for
time and eternity. 1t is Gods message
to me, telling OF my Maker and Of my
relations TO Him, marking my road to
bliss, sustaining me on earth in trial
and suffering, until the goal beyond
heavens portals is reached. They who
Insult the Bible insult what is best in
me and dearest to NE; they insult my
aspirations and my hopes: they insult
my God, and l were a traitor to myself
and 10 Him, were | not ready 10 defend
it, even to The sacrifice Of my life.
In speaking mine, | have spoken your
profession of faith, my Christian
brethrc%, and as we take the Bible, SO
does WUrlG-Wide Christendom take it.
so have Christendom and the civilized
world taken it for two decades OF CEN
turtles.
The Bible is in possession; Christen-
dom Is its kingdom; Christian civiliza-
ton Is its flower and fruitage. Back Of
it TiS4 the centuries giving to it plenary
loyalty. and receiving from it their
highest thought and their most sacred
affections. The Bible imposes itself
with all the weight OF Christian history
and Christian civilization.
The burden. of proof rests upon those
who contradict the Bible, who deny its
authority and power. Clear and potent
should be the arguments that could de-
throne it from the pedestal of glory
where centuries have placed it.
Aous5 assertions WYE Not Dethrone
gi2e Edible.
The enemies of the Bi0le have been
heard. What are their weapons OF at
tack? Denials and assertions. argu-
ments totally beside the question, mis-
statements and misconceptions. l give
10 consideration to lOudneSS and aSSur4
anCe Of tone, and to vulgar sneers; so
apt, however, to catch the attention Of
the unwary and the weak minded.
The Bible an inspired book. Why,
that means that there Is God. But
there is 10 God. God Is a guess" 1t is
we'll that the statement has been made.
The denial Of God and the denial OF the
Bible 20 together, the one proceeding
from the other. But God is. and a de-
NAL OF HIS being is denial Of your
own mind. which, if recognized in any
measure. compels us TO confess God. A
famed modern thinker, Max Muller,
wrote few days ago i'll the Nineteenth
Century that he cannot be all agnostic.
After thousands of years Of physical
and metaphysical research" he says,
we can say 10 more than that there
is Nous, that there is mind and
reason in nature. Sa Majestic lie Has
ard (chanCP) has been dethrOned in sci
entilic studies and neither natural Sc
lection, nor struggle for life. nGr the
influences of environment nor any other
aliases Of it will account for the LOgOS
the thought, which, with its thousand
ages, looks at us through the transpfr-
ent curtain of nature, and calls fol-
thoughtful recognition from the Logos
within us. Ii any philosopher can per
suade himself that the true and we'll
ordered genera Of nature are the re-
salt Of mechanical causes, whatever
name fe may give them, he moves in
a world altogether different from my
own"
Direct Revelation AntccedentIy
ESrOba bic.
This supreme mind is God; and, He
living ana reigning, the Bible is posi-
bic 1t purportS TO be a direct revela-
ton from God to the world of men
Cannot the mind who made the uni
verse ANA constituted it in the har.