World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1909-05-06
Mt. Grove, NJ
April 2s.. 1903

Dear Ed am much pleased
70 hear from the Immortal j. B
again, as / had about concluded
that he had failed; but see he
has opened lis heavy batteries a.
gain, land / must say that / think
he had them loaded With blank
.catridges) on us and is going 10
knock US into smithers but We
will endeaver to stand the shock
or dodge the effect OF the tremen-
aous sound OF the blanks.
Now.in his answer to my arti-
Gle he says, we are not building
on conclusions, but the facts,
and then makes statement that
all religions ore built on conclu
sions and docs not present a sin.
gle argument or fact to prove his
,ser,iun he says there is not
a single flct in the god
idea or The future existancs OF
tn, spirit or the txistan 20
d4:,l out ide the Bible, this
may be true but we believe the
Bible and pity any man who does
nor. Vow J. B. do you call the
TRADE of stuff you set forth q.
nout Bruno, Fields, Edison and
others to be proof of any thing
but t0e incrcdulity of mankind,
and then you say that the same
people are very credulous or
they VOL rot elieve in til aide
Of IL God or future exis ance.
Now Sir did not all those men
have TO prove their statements
by actually doing what they said
they would do in order to make
believers of those credulous peo-
PIE, Teen he gees on to tell what
ne thiuks Of intelligence, he says
he does not deny that there is in
tclgenc, il n,ture and that all
the intelligence we have comes
from the inside and not from
without,
Nov =. will cite a case in point
while | am writing this article, |
received tie ibteiligel &C that an
old lrIeud of mine has become a
raving maniac and has to be re.
strained to keep him from doing
hurt to himself or some one else,
lid this intelligence come from
within or without.
Friend j. Is. you made great
o.uMder when YOU made that
statement b Cause the simple
iact is that nearly all the inteili-
..,ence we rec i've in this life
comes from without and not with
N. Then lie says he has already
shown t'at the life principal eX.
ia;s il the minerals (Which he
has not done merely stated
without a single rroof3 acmiting
,hat til y do Xist in the minerals
does he not know that there is nc
way known to man by which they
cam be used TO we life except
through life. I there is absolute
~ nothing known to man tna'
cln extract the life producing
materia! IRON the minerals bu'
life itself, and furtaer that w
cannot get the least sustinanc,
from any mineral that is not 80!
uble in water. The live germ Q
She plant cannot usc>a particle
of Inc life giving property of an.
mineral except it Is in solution il
the water Which the roots TAX
up from the 5 iii and the germ
o. lie must be in the plant or
cannot possibly use the proper
lie, that sustain life,
Then he says | was jumpin
tn a different subject when | RI
! tpraa to the life germ in diff"reu
, animals and that when he cam
to chat part of tie SUBJECT h
would enightcd me so | woul
KNOW better hereafter.
Now at that time / was tryin
to show that cannot be produce
except ny or through life, an
that the life germ Of one hin
could not be made to prodnt
any thing else but itself, thel
by knocking the Darwin doctrir
Of evolution the survival OF II