Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-15
A REPLY 70 PAGAN BOB.
Col. White Answered the Arguments
Of the Great Infd8l
Made in His Recent Lecture in the
Opera House, at an Open Meeting
of Bates Lodge. a. F. and A. M,
In the. Masonic Temple Last
Night.


Bates Lodge No. 80, A. F. & A. NJ,
held an open meeting last night in the
Masonic Temple. A large number OF
invitations were issued, and the hall was
we'll filed with ladies' and gentlemen.
The feature of the meeting was an adj
m;rable address by Col Robert White,
on The Ancient landmarks, Shall
Their Radiance be D.mmed?' an an
swer to the recent lecture delivered in
the Opera House by Bob Ingerson. The
exercises were opened with an address
Of welcome by Geo. B. Peabody, W. NJ
In explaining his own position, Col.
White sad in his Introductory remarks;
Il stand, a simple, unpretending Blue
Lodge Mason, and, like the lowly sAep-
herd boy of Israel, l hope, by Goa
help, TO pick some pebble stones from
The pure booklet of trutl, and hurl tneh'
at this mighty Goliath, and Win ms
own weapons STAY The giant. lie de-
clared that with the limited time at
his disposal it would be impossible 10
answer IN detail the attacks upon the
Bible made in Col IngersOlls lecture;
ne would reply simply 70 the iniide
attacks upon Old Testament Scrip
lures. He charged that Ingersoll does
not consider facts as they exist, but
with the aid Of oratorical trickery
makes bold assertions which he does
not artemp, to Prove.
In answer to IngersOll's assertion
that biologists have proved that the
author Of Genesis was mistaken as 10
the age of the world he said: Ninety
years ago the Infdel French Institute
taught eighty geological theories as
true. each hostile to the Bible, not one
of which is accepted by scientists OF TO-
day. But short time ago, Gil sclen-
t:fc men, MOI blusterers and babblers
to a crowd at one dollar per head, drew
up manifesto declaring that, after
diIgent study and research, they found
the B.bla IN he in perfect accord with
true science. C}u tAe "ru, ana lne
master minds OF the leaders OF science
are among the mightiest advocates or
the inspired book. The flames OF the
seven times heated fiery furnace OF Jne
scientific refner, have often tested the
pure gold of that Book of Books, and n
testing proved that all Scripture is
given by inspiration Of God That
very Book speaks of science falsely so
called Il is in that school That lnSer-
Soils geology is taught
IngersolIs manner Of speech is the
q, b %
truths sake but for either gain or ap-
plause. Moses does not say that the
universe was created in six days. In th9
first verse Of Genesis he says: In the
beginning God created The Heavens and
the earth" In the last verse he says:
And God saw everything lie had
made" not created. "and behold it was
very good" The six days OF Genesis
DO not by any far reading or interpre-
-atiOn. include that remote antiquity
hidden in The depths Of The eternal
ages: that beginning in which God
created the Heavens and the earth. "Is
not the very first verse of Genesis the
general Introduction, telling IN one
short. terse but full sentence, Of the be-
ginning. when the Heavens and the
earth" the universe, was created? Is
70 else than the preface Of The SIX chap
ters Of the Book of the description of
those great things which God did, in
changing that earth, which was without
form and void, in confusion and empty
ness. chaos Itself INTO hab.table globe
I'm v1.ch man with a living soul nigh,
dweH?"
I'm summing UP his answer to Irger-
soils assertion that the finding of i'm
Dlements of flint and bones of certain
animals in caves. proves that Adam
was not the first man. Col White said:
What sort of man was Il. pray. who
lived I'm caves the comDanion of these
monsters whose homes he had IN sDlit
Win mint N find his fo0d2 Was n an
Adam. into whose nosrils God breathed
the breath of life. and VINO then became
living sOul9 II IS the man made in
Gods image from whom the Bible
counts its wears lust such a man as
men are now with living soul and
nor voul hone sDl.tter Of the caves"
Tho spaal-or newt answered. tine arou-
meots 6r TngersoT r5o7r1:ne the in
so-.ntion ;r he TqvDt.an temp1e. that
The pilla saws -be snn was created after
the e9r-5. and that according to tina
Booi, Co1 rested an tha second d9v He
thsn tc7l, nm The infd9rs charge that
the bsstorica1 statements of The RibIe
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