The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-19
INFIDELS ANSWERED
Their Objections to the Bible At
tackled With Power.
QUEEN VIC is ALL RIGHT
The Bible IL Still Popular. and Its
Enemies Forgotten-itIs Medical.
Legal, Historical, scientific,
and Without an Error.


tured more than squad of unbelievers.
Strange to say. view of the audience
shows a larger percentage of men tnan
women in attendance. and the interest IN
the talks by DIR. Brown does not lag. HIS
address last evening was more than de-
Tense Of the Bible. There was a reflex ac-
ton to his answers to the objections OF
infidelity that had telling effect. 1t was
lecture mere than a sermon. but as US
ual, he took a text as a basis for his re-
marks: "Can any good thing come out
OF Nazareth"
II have no attack to make upon indi-
viduais. upon any one. So far as ] know
] have not an enemy In the world, but
my remarks are. as / always try to make
them. entirely impersonal, and tonight
are directed against infidelity and not
against men. However, l must mention
vhose who espouse fits cause. Inhdels are
divided into three classes-one Is an igno-
rant class; they are the hardest to get
along with. The second class are intelli-
gent people who wander in darkness, but
IL shown the light they will acknowledge
Il. The others are the free thinkers, as
they call themselves, and they are free
thinkers because they want TO be free
livers. They pretend TO understand and to
have read the Bible 20 times. but they
have not in nine cases out of 10. and
know no more about the holy book than
a sucking calf does about Bakers Call
90 the Unconverted'
Some have asserted I've heard women
object TO the Bible because 1t is too pro-
fame that you cannot read 1t in public
that Il is unit for general reading
When one woman tod me the Bible was
too vile l answered her, You would
never have known 1t II you had not taken
the trouble to look up the vile chapters,
and she had no more TO say.
THE Bible is a medical book. and 1t Is
a law book 1t deals with diseases and
crime. No one expects the books on a
doctors shelves, in lawyers libraries, to
speak in other than the plainest of
tongues.
Again, too. this Bible was translated
into Anglo-Saxon 300 years ago. In these
days people called a spade a spade, and
when they spoke they called things by
their right names. Shakespeare, as his
dramas were written, was one of the
plainest of writers. and has been expur-
gated as they are used to-day, and still
contain plain passages.
ITO the pure all things are pure. There
are men who find a double meaning to
anything that is said or read.
'It Is a historical book. 800 years older
than any other writing known to the
world. Infidels say that the Bible says
the world is only 5000 years old, but no
such passage can be found in the Bible
Genesis says: In the beginning and the
history of man is chronicled for about
5000 years. The 10th chapter OF Genesis
is the only history extant which tells
how the nations of the earth began, and
we find II is true to this day.
THE Bible describes the flood, how the
waters came and covered the earth Evil
dences of the presence of water-fossil
shells. fossil fish-are found on the noun
tain tops. Scientists now agree and fur
nish scientific proof that there was
flood, caused by the precipitation Of mois-
ture which encircled the earth In the ear
ly ages. IL these things are not true.
whence came the immense oceans, the
lakes and rivers which cover the sphere?
Until recently infidels laughed at the
idea of the children of Israel making
brick with straw. but only five years ago
in Egypt an ancient wall was discovered
In which half the brick were made with
straw and half without straw.
The Bible said the stars were number
less. and that was ages ago, and still the
heavenly Ornaments are uncounted. Job
says that the earth was hung in the emp
fy place In the north heavens. Astrono-
mers turn their telescopes in vain in
search of new stars beyond the pole star;
there Is an empty space in the heavens
10 the north.
I'm all the points of Babylonic history
the book of Daniel is corroborated by the
inscriptions and the records now in the
British museum. which were found in the
ruins of those ancient cities.
THE Bible is scientific book and
through all the changes that have occur
red In the world OF science II remains I'M
shaken. Scientific men have changed
their opinions, their views and their rea-
soning 100 times Not only from ancient
days, but during the past 50 years, the
entire structure of science has been torn
down and rebuilt. Christ said. Not one
tot or title Of my word shall pass away
and behold II still stands
Again, they say that the Bible Is full
OF contradictions. In San Francisco a
wealthy man backed my proposition and
1 offered IS for any contradiction In the
Bible which could not explain The an
swcrs poured in, but they were all an
swered. and these facts can be proven.
The infidels have published book of 500
contradictions, many OF them foolish
but all of them can be explained so plain
iy that they can be understood by any
one who Is fair"
He then proceeded to tear to pieces
dozen or more seeming contradictions
and Mistakes Of Moses"
The Bible is still a popular book. When
the revised version was issued the Chit
cago Tribune sold 10000 copies I'm one
day The rush for copies in New York
was never equaled. No infidel publication
ever sold like IT. Tom Paine was a Qua
ker, but he became an infdel after he
lived In France with another mans wife
No man can be a Christian and live with
another mans wife. Before he died he
repented. and 1 expect to meet him in
glory. Voltaire. one of the meanest.
vflest OF men. predicted that $50 years AZ
ter his death the Bible would be a rare
book. because of his writings against n
To-day his house in Geneva Is in the
hands OF the British Bible society. his
printing press is used for printing Bibles
and the house is full Of the books
An African chief sent an embassy 20
Queen Victoria, asking her to tell him the
secret Of how she had built up such a
powerful nation as Great Britain. For re-
ply she sent to him a magnihcenxly
bound copy OF the Bible. God bless
Queen Vfcforfa