The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-05-24
Falryland.


The rain has prohibited our appear.
ance but we will try and wade through
the mud this week.
Mrs. Blackburn visited with Mrs. NJ.
Fry last Sunday.
Mrs. Ollie West has been suffering for
some time with felon on her finger.
"Uncle Johnnie" Coin as he was
Familiarity called, died at the poor farm
and was buried Friday in the Tennessee
Mrs. Mary Lee was badly hurt last
Saturday by being thrown from the
buggy, the horses being frightened by a
dog. People who persist in keeping
dogs that are dangerous to pass by on
account of their ferocity should keep
them in chains.
Abner Pence took dinner at Mrs.
Fry's Sunday.
WICK Fry and John Hall killed about
125 rats Wednesday.
Lon Adams and children were Van
Vert callers Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Fry spent Sun
day with Vick's mother and family.
Some people are continually mlstak-
ing fear and superstition for religion.
They are as far apart as the sun and
the earth. True religion isloving God
and doing his commandment, "What-
soeyer we would have men do to you do
We even so unto them" This is the
sum and substance of religious life.
II we all obey that rule we will not be
far from right. When we are cited to
Robert Ingersoll's works and told that
they will help us think, we can't keep
from thinking how thin they are when
we read them. For instance take this
argument Of his: "It is illogical to say
because of the existence of this earth
and of what you can see in and about it
that there must be an infinite, intelli-
gence. You do not know that even the
creation of this world and of all the
planets discovered required an infinite
power or infinite wisdom. l admit that
it is impossible for me to look alta watch
and draw the inference that there was
no design in its construction or that it
only ha ,pened. could not regard it
as product of some freak of nature
neither could l imagine that its various
parts were brought together and set in
motion by chance. You find watch
and you say that it exhibits or shows
design. You insist that it is so wonder
full that it must have had designer, in
other words that 1T is too wonderful not
to have been constructed. You then
find the watch maker and you say with
regard to him that he too must have
had designer for he is more wonderful
than the watch. In Imagination you
go from the watch maker to the being
you call God and you saw he designed
the watch maker but he himself was moi
designed because he is to wonderful tt
have been designed. And yet in the
case of the watch maker 1t was tn,
wonder that suggested the design Will,
in the case of the maker of the watct
maker the wonder denied designer
You must remember that the argumen
of design is applicable to ALL" lnger
soil takes two objects, the earth and
watch. He says: "The watch is so won
derful that he cannot think it came b.
chance. 1t must have designer" s.
he concludes by examination of it. Blu
he says: "It is illogical to say that tn
earth had designer" The earth &C
cording to his estimation was not won
derful enough to require designer 70
its construction. Then he goes on ant
shows by his argument that if tn
watch had a maker, the watch make
must have had maker and the maker
of the watch maker must have had
maker and so on. He seems to want t,
show because we cannot explain tn
origin of our God that we should doub
there being a Goo, Would 1t not b
just as logical to deny having a brain o
mind because we cannot explain all it
mysteries? We all know that we hav
brains by which we think yet no ma
has. been able to describe the pl ocess
broaph faai brain 10 'aee th qass
drop Of blood through the circulation
Because we cannot tell how we thin
r why not say we do not think and tn
We have no Trains because we cam
explain the mysteries of them? If
was logical to say that such an insight
cant thing as watch had design
how much more logical to say that tt
:, great mysterical earth had designer.