The Nevada County picayune., 1922-01-05

''''N' no place for supreme being in his new theories and that man and the world came from orderly processes of nature-that the world came from 2 mist or vapor according to the Nehular hypothesis and that man came from the lower order of animals as the anthrapoid apes and then on down through tadpolc and prot0plism, etc. He did not bel eve there was q God and depended entirely upon his theory of evolution to account for all the mys teries of the universe. Many learned men shared in his views and it was no uncommon thing 10 find lawyers, phy- Sicians and some ministers turning God and regarded it as only a book of cleverly devised fables to he used for pious purposes.
 Ingersoll was a very captivating orator, but not a profound thinker or learned scholar, while Wallace was T scholar and man of a very logical turn of mind and always would go to the foundation of every cause and find if if was really correct Ingersoll proposed that they should make an in vestigation of the whole matter of Chr stianity and the inspiration of the bible and that he would assail Moses and the Old Testament and Wallace would take the New Testament and that they would make matters so clear that there would be no question in the mind of any thinking man about the bible and the church. Gen. Wallace had figured in many severe battles of the Civil War and had won a name for exact thinking and methodical ar rangcment of everything about the army. and so he proposed that he should write book and show that the New Testament was made mp prin- cipally of spurious documents and that there was no geographical, lis torical or scientific ground for belief in them Of course that would mean that Christ was not divine and that there was no miracles and hence the whole structure would collapse and the people would be brought to realize that all the storoies of the miracles of Christ and His resurrection and ascension were all q myth. But lawyer like he was going to go over all the ground and make thorough inyeStiga tion and leave nothing undOne and as an honest man he would do justice tn both sides He therefore resolved C" travel over Palestine and 20 through all the territory and look into all libraries and examine all so-collcd &o&. Del manuscripts and would show them to he inst forgeres and thai the people had leen imposed upon. He would get up book that would deal with the matter first hand and present it i'll such attractive form that all literary people would acknowledge it's slprem acv and be convinced by the reason and indisputahle argument contained in it. So the investigation was made and several years were spent in a thorough research and nothing left un- done and he went to the very bottom of the whole matter,
 In the meantime IngerSoll remained in this country and delivered few spicy lectures against the bible and especially selected Moses aS his target, and had famous lecture on "The Mistakes of Moses" and many were swept from their feet by his wit and sarcasm. but he did not go down to the foundations as did Gen Wallace. and it was discovered that he Na$ just doing surface work and made but little sold investigation. He was fol lowing in the steps of former miidelS as Hume. Voltaire. Tom Pain and men of like caIber and there was but little if any original thought or matter in his diScGurseS.
 All of sudden it was announced to
 the infdel world that Gen. Wallace was not going to bring out anything
 that would be helpful to them. and that really his investigations were leading him into the opposite camp.
 So Gen. Wallace came out with his book and dumbfounded his intidel