| Show FOR FOB DR YORK anil and his admirers Admire rb to consider A clear and able Anal analysis of liis fallacious assertions SALT LAKE CITY april 16 1888 editor deseret desei et news trusting that the cause of truth will be a sufficient apology fur agai agaid a refer iipp to the mout of dr york the wn er avill brumly notice the lecture of last evening I 1 the doctor has proven himself to be a second hand dealer in liger sellian old clot clothes hev with all goods at a heavy di count f om first cost aa usual it was an ex a wholesale of religion and a special attack on prayer which was waa however toj for even liberal infidels to endorse the title of i tie he heavy effort was the naked truth out proved to be a sue of bald falsehoods not naked but masked in verb verbia taye ce and sophistry toe the doctor with his usual consas tency charged the christian religion with responsibility for all tim super ution that clings clina to Christ christendom eadom when he should know lit if he be knows anything wat humanity has ever been prone to mix error with truth through its efforts to understand the seemingly inscrutable and that science has not been free from vie vicc and that the religion of christ is in no wise responsible lor for superstition it is a fact patent to aay one acquainted wita the cond condition iticia ot of hu humanity maniLy at the time of el jesus advent amoni the jews and fr t r hundreds hun dreda of if ears aubye qu u ly that at it was a dark aud Haper sti bious ra the greeke hi invested vested every grotto nod aud cavern with its special pint or goblin every star with heing a god every natural phenomenon with being the result ot of unseen fir I 1 pe it kamana man A m A i pagans and an 1 skeptics j to nose people p gospel G tipa ti pJ wills Is i iw of cna stiv aults r I sap 6 j 1 wa was i r jec 10 out vy va s 3 at f e cywa ou oo a co u ic k oasia t e talf IA e leaders ot of a century A I 1 D mixed au an j amount of pal pagan gan doc brines trines rites and superstition so as to make it moie buoie palatable to their pagan proselytes prose lytes and thus ID us the hristian teliS jop became so corrupt that it bore HO U more resemblance to the gospel goepel 0 I 1 ads aecus ral i and hydrophobic ic ravines of dr york fork h ade e to adre con science 0 hence it was a adle le system of foa that burned adoo dt at the stake sod persecuted to td th tha grave it was riot ciol religion 1 that those and countless otier etier dutra outrage si but a 9 monster of skeptical iniquity seeking absolute power if dr draper and others are authorities in ia history vie tae leaders of the system were skeptics their conduct proved their infidelity dr boik his reply to the rev mr iliff etro stated if my memory serves me that the present civilization and progress are the results or effects of christianity referred to the existence of the arts and ances abdus ane in batra acl the JIM absence of 91 them among tae christians as proof th thill t our civilization civilisation 19 of of arabic ht rather than tha i of et dearig christian tan origin be thit that as 96 it may the metora t statement proves too tob much for hit bi Our purpose pose as we ine remarkable advancement of the followers of wats was due to the liberal patronage of that extremely religious rel ious whom the persecuted jews found a refuge and who were the first to lay tue the foun dation of the arts and se sciences lences thus does the doctors assertion that ire religion never had a truth vanish like an infidel nightmare referring to hire hin oi of nazareth Naz ireth the doctor has said ile he wis probably a good man but a fana fanatic 1 in informing form in his estimate of the redeemer the doctor U obliged to receive the testimony of f the apostles which he hd was wa s written ritten otte one hith hilldred drei and fifty ally years sitter after the crucifixion 1 viewing his estin estimate tate from his hia own standpoint it may be thus interpreted f f JJ DF r york takes the testimony of men ato dead years before they wrote ardie it and proves to uis ins logical mila ta tnt it jasus of irett was a good man 19 and oy ny vie fie same testimony believes hi him in to be a afana fana le ic why should the doctor arti r cl jonah awl the whale after such an exhibition of ef asinine faith his declaration proves only one thing that it is impossible for even science to evolve a logician from a fool the truth is that not a line nor a word can be found in the now new testa teata ment from which tte the faintest inference can be drawn as to the latter half bait ol of theDac the toila estimate of the character of jesus amid the darkness and superstition of the middle ages he stood a coll personification of wisdom and PURITY t oue olie whose life was so blameless as to warrant the faith of millions he basmore was more thin man and whom after nearly nineteen vin eteen hundred years of human t it is im possible to imitate another pet nobby of the doctors which by the way he invariably rides with his bis face to the hoboba tail is in finding fault with wih the creator because he create the world and ana mankind perfect as in conformity tu to the doctors ideas oi of how it ought to have been done so as to obviate the th ther hother of 0 now saving savin them afar Jf 11 ark ar the doctor believes in universal evolution i or progress from the simple to the complex a force which is ever urging the universe forward according to the fixed laws of nature ana asserts that thai no other method is possible and toon in the same breath asks aska why god annul the natural law of progress and perform an impossibility also in a childish querulous qin bulous manner he asks why god reveal himself to the doctor and botor infidels so as to prove to them 11 his Is existence and if he dont the doctor wont believe there is a gd gad can the doctor see the force is impelling all things forward ip in the path of progress it if tie he can it do a he not dot deny its ita existence because he cant know the freak of nature that produced that neutral nondescript dr boik why does he not doubt his own i and because he be cant see his bis own brains has he be or anybody f ise any reason to believe he his has any 11 dr yorks greatest reason M why christians should become infidels is that religion enslaves the mind and prevents that mental moral and physical advancement which would be attained as fiat idels who are mistakenly supposed to be conver conversant with modern science by which alone the ad van cement can be aae effected modern mode rn science euce for which a much 13 claimed may be partially enumerated as follows astronomy gd geology biology psychology ethics and those branches of learning which are necessary to a comprehension of or that anat radiate from the above list now what ii there in true religion to prevent jl A bel levei therein from studying any of tee sciences what is dacre to prevent him from a accepting cep ting all of demonstrated truth they bey contain or at as broad an investigation of natural law and force to the believer liever bp in a filature existence oue one of progress there is a greater eucen lu iva ty to him the utility of knowledge is not bounded by mortality be yond the horizon of time he looke forward 10 the infinite intini te future wi t 0 its vast and gloriod i possibilities ariel and realizing the be grecht truth jaora s is i fredica tirl or individual effort nerves ann h t ari it spare 2 ettre aaa 1 I be e pj 1 w 0 lruth ti toe je jacc e to nv u aoa on tian ir jj and vio pio avin uth on J canoe hae ut 01 r 11 13 are the Ws a teore iare niwo 1 1 tou are arc they caris fians or skeptics skeptic fist oft oar prison houses with wretched rifea have bare blackened the record of mankind aith crime are they believers in god that occupy houses of ill fame are the of those dens of infamy chris tiac in the true sense 2 who are the and saloon keepers skeptics of an cl rf mein men aad women who ha have to pray or if so nave bufe tor it do they ever amidst thuly stop to ask the blessing blessie of heaved on their teer de bau ahery 1 nevet and tyis fact alcue that chete is nothing in comi daht christ add erime crime the believer la in god and a future is not de barred from ant legitimate pa plea e q surel which the infidel enjoy I 1 11 I 1 the heair air is just as pure pare and bracing mhd birds sins sing just as sweetly all nature breathes a song of gladness and praise to its author and our father it there be a future it is the rightful heritage of those that have not reviled and mocked flim of nazareth reth if not the re reli goad gload man dan can baoy all that there is of oford abodd I 1 list last finished tile the doctors coarse ol of le dUffes in and as be seems to ue ae in setareh of d fl V paradise avise for tools fools W win aft mo mote 0 on adieu 11 yours lot lor brugh J f |
