Show ial r FROM THIN THINGS G 8 WE KNOW EDITOR in a recently published work by bishop foster footer of tho the methodist methodi st church is to found the following lowing fal and wo o challenge rl the infidel world to refute a t single sentence tile the bis hop davs there are some things which ii may y be staid said to be known or oi otherwise the term ten in knowledge has no meaning and all reasoning is 4 void among those are s man knows hini himself self as existing coir second oo ir nian man knows the external world as existing shird man knows that the present order of things himself In included chided did not aina aldays exist I 1 ith MU man knows that whatever 11 had a beginning beonnie g fiust have a cause nian man knows th throb at t ch the e cause must 11 have existed a 1 t ced eidly bufore before to the effect which it ib produced sixth nian man knows that which is cause of all effects cannot itself bo be an effect seventh man mall knows that that which is and that which is not no an at eff effect 00 t of an any y cause L itself be eternal and sole cause of all things thing which have had b ad a b e i n n i n g I 1 man k knows n 0 w s whatever wis was contained it in all 1 11 e effects f J was potentially in the ineffable J cause before it a appeared in effect thus from froin the things which are known by a law of reason we a are ra compelled to auire the existence exi stell e of an eten eternal rial all powerful a and n d m infinitely wise god who is the th e free fre personal cause of whatever exists 1 it in time himself only being eternal and a lid undivided this proof is ab S solute and must stand while rea son holds its throne A 1 who can gainsay such lotic logic an honest man who revere netly climbs the eight steps of this jacoby raco 1 ladder will find himself landed on the thresh c hold of the infinite for any one to deiy deiv the existence of god H is only to show stupidity wid gross X ignorance ignorance 5 E 0 G graff r a ff uw |