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make devil to tempt this creature
and We know he will fall. and we
know that We will have to punish him
for falling, and not-with-standing the
fact that he may only sin three or
four times in the brief span of his life
of go or 20 years, We will place him
in our he'll in the charge of our devil
and have him burned forever and ever.
Marcus IS put to sore straits in de-
Tending his doctrine that Matter is
not Eternal, and that God. Christ.
and the Holy Spirit are all the same
person II is really pitiable to see
how he founders in attempting to ex-
plain the enigma of Christ. he being
God prayed to himself before the
crucifxion to be relieved from suffer
ing on calvary for the sins of the
world 1t is also a great burden on
Marcus-Nathan to explain the reason
for God sending himself to the World
TO do his ministry, being baptized of
John in the river Jordan, and then
voice from himself, the Holy Ghost.
and God asserting, also Christ agree.
ing that the missio nwas well per-
formed
If Marcus viii read recent copies Of
a humorous publication called LIFE"
he will see a faithful exhibition of his
luminous explanation, in articles in
the publication mentioned in which
Lyman Abbott, Theodore Roosevelt
and President Taft hold interviews
with themselves Marcus very clever
ly says that il is impossible for per-
son that is not saved, to understand
his miracle of mathematics that three
times one is one and once one Is
three. 1t occurs to us that this prob
lem is about as intricate as the one
he quotes: How old is Ann" Go
back to your little Congregational
| encyclopedias, the pseudo-scientist
Dana, friend Marcus and read another
| page into the records of this discus
sion and see If you can not let a few
rays of the nminiferous Ether through.
Should this fail, you have yet another
chance, and that is to have DR.. Kitto,
the famous CD Defender of the Myths
of the Bible He will no doubt be
able to save the day for you, as easily
as he saved King David's character
1 by quoting the 51st Psalm in attempt
ling to extenuate his many crimes
When you make your next defense
of the Trinity and try to show that
God is Spirit you might explain why
Man was made in Gods image, and
lhow any being could be made in the
image of a will'o-the wisp that has
neither body parts nor passions.
Nathan-Marcus when you have time.
| you might explain to your readers
that the Hebrew word from which
Spirit, Soul, Breath and Wind Is rem
dered is the same and means only
words mentioned, just as the fancy of
the Scholars who translated the Bible
dictated If Soul suited better the
tastes of the committee in certain
place. then Soul was used Genesis II,
II, And the Lord God formed man of
the dust of the ground, and breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life;
and man became living SOUL
The third Chapter of John, from 1st
to 10th. verses also show the same
translation.
The RationaIists are not willing to
accept such flimsy explanations as
vouehsafed by Col Marcus as to the
idea of the PRESENCE, which seems
to be in his mind sort of yapory sub
stance similar to the one described by
Bacon, and later used by Scientists to
designate that substance which is
lever present. and yet can not be
weighed or measured substance
that is supposed to be the parent OF
Electricity, Heat and Light, Ether
i Most Rationalists accept the follow
ling conclusions accept them because
they are reasonable and can be under
stood
1st. Matter-Substanee cannot be de-
stroyed-cannot be annihilated
End Force can be destroyed, can.
not be annihilated
Srd Matter and Force cannot exist
apart matter without force-no
force without matter.
4th That which cannot be destroy
ed could not have been created that
4 the indestructible is the uncreatable.
II these corner-stones are facts. it
follows as necessity that matter and
force are from and to eternity; that
they can neither be increased nor di-
minished
The Rationalists have some general
IDEAS that they agree on. They be-
lieve that many passages in the Scrip.
Itures are sublime and beautiful-they
also believe and know that these same