The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-13

granny! You've got to die soma dayt
She said. I amt died yet. have. IT
When he cornered her on her pro-
family or her drinking she made that
Silly, ridiculous ropir Had you asked
her how to boil a head Of cabbage,
roast a postum, or mako 4 corn pone,
she would have given you a sensible
reply.
Our character 10 our WIN. what
A. to Gains WINS
Il seldom preach IN = town very
long that some fellow doesn't ask me
the fool question, Whsrs did Cain
get his wife?' ! guess It isn't where
Cain got his wife that bothcrs some
Of you old sinks 10 much ~ Il Is
where yonr neighbor around The cor
ner got his! In other words. guess
II IL your neighbor's wife that bothcrs
you more than Gains.
Adam and Eve had other chiidrsn
besides Cain and Abel. a. ahown
by the nth chapter Of GencsaA Why
do you ask tho silly question? L. Il
because you want to diswedit ths
Bible. and try to ma some e1e9ss
for your living IN ainf
Listen! Darwin quotes Matthew.
who. In turn. quotes Euhler, who aays
that under favorable circumstances
population will double in twenty
Ave years. II yoa win study your
scrpturM chronology carefully, ron
will hnd that when Cain went ont to
court his wife he was = lusty youth
i3S years old. The Bible says that
Cain knew his wife In the land of
child Joseph says that Nod means
'vagabond.' or 'vagabondagc.' the
ground that God had cursed Allow
ing that there were seven pairs on
earth at the end Of the first twelve
years, and that population will double
In twenty-five years. and that Cain
was 12s years old when he knew his
wiferhat would have made the then
known population Of the world H.
$40. Allowing that hall were female.
which proportion holds good through
out the world, that would have made
6.S86 buxom damSeis from whom OLD
Cain could have chosen a wife good
enough to satisfy the most fastidicus
devotee with matrimonial incfinations
buxxing in his belfry!
Yet a lot OF fellows are EosnE TO
got his wife!
Explains MlraeaA
Zone night when I WAS xs.fstAmt
secretary OF the Y. m. c. A. IN Chicago.
had Or. Berry. who II now bishop,
speak in Faneuil hall In the audi
ence was 4 prominent lawyer. Z
went up to him and said. Mr.. c., how
ala you IKE that sermonr he s.id.
It was very pretty. but ! don't be
lieve tt / said, What don't you be-
lever He said. I don't believe In
the miraculous conception OF Christ
said. 'Why7 He replied. Give me
one instance where the laws Of ma
ture have ever been abrogated above
the hermaphrcditic order OF creation
said, That's easy!. SIT down and
give me something hardr I Aia
An exceptional experience (meaning
Jesusl. proves thai only by the con-
currence Of sex Ar1 being formed
And yet. my friends. beings have been
and are being virginally produced,
not only in the hermAphroditic, but
in the lower and higher orders OF
nature! Don't you know that every
produced from the unfructided exx
laid by virgin queen9 And Costello
wrote to Renauer. an infidel, saying,
4 have Matched silk worms frcm
the egg OF the virgin mothr ana the
old infidei replied. ! see! NIX nih.l0
nihn At" That Is. from ne4hins.
nothing comes'
Brittanica you vim and
that Huxley. In his last article ON
Biology tsays. .rhroughous xlmost Al
series OF living beings, agAmo genesis,
or non-sexual generation. prevailed
4. This does not prove that Jeeos
was, conceived by any means, or born
OF the Virgin Mary. Bat II find
these exception existing IN the lower
orders Of nature, II b unreasonable
and does abrorats the hw1 DOWN
there. He could not AbFoeate the law
Of nature IN thin ono and highest Of
ali beings, unan. and gfve ~ q Saw
vtour concstved " the Holy 0hostf
That In . doctrine, III. sweet. beant1-
hui, true, scf1ptural1y sctenttnci
Human SCUM
Another fellow sAvs, I would Dc
he viii Of God, but this immortality
81 the sout biasinsds worries me. Hero
. my d0k. my hcfse. my cat my cowt
Oh 10y thoy have no aoulf Yea
say hoy have no soul 'You ray
havef Yea what MAKES ne att
= Vim arst ean your ass.nusn -
ruars, III be. Muneey. q prsacSer e
other days. He sAid when the AAk !.
had gone foeth ana God sxid. Est -
make man. no tmAgines the Qua6.
rupied marmalia, each species II
urn. walking By and saying, Mako
him Like unto ono OF us!' God sati2
Nor Then the fishes Of the -
lnsir apesai. Make Aim MIX like antc
~ The Lard said No, The BIRD
" the ar A4w hy, ana dipping upCh
heir panl0nb, 6nA9 their sWeetnne
DOna and saaA, Make him Mks unto
,ne 81 tels 0o0 Anad. Not Let, =
make man - - i4eAsef h.
wherg daa ~ ~ ~ plnrAl1