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Show DR. KRAMER ANSWERS INGERSOLL'S BOOK AND EULOGIZES BIBLE AS POETRY, 0IST0RY AND PHILOSOPHY Last nicht at the Methodist Episco pal church a very attentive hearing was Riven to Dr. Kramer's sermon. More and more are those who hear "Big Jim," convinced that behind all the methods used there is a heart that beats with love for God and for humanity. hu-manity. HiK answer to the nook of Robert Ingersoll. The Mistakes of Moses," was both logical and forceful force-ful His eulogy of the Bible as poetry, history and philosophy was most beautiful beau-tiful and compelling Some of his pic tures were the work of a master. He showed himself a real word painter. Several ministers v. ere present, and Rev. Mellinger of the Christian church I led in prayer. In Dr. Kramer's appeal was again revealed the wonderful power pow-er oi the man. A number of people I raised their hands for prayer and several sev-eral decisions were made io follow Chriet and to unite with His churdi Un eoir In nnrl "Ingersoll has been exposed time and again and answered a thousand liinc. No man ever attempted such a big business on such a small capital He dealt in the secondhand furniture cf Tom Puine. and Voltaire -An. wa.- a successful trimmer He said in the south where Christian sentiment was strong what he dared not in other portions of the count r.. He assumed ilKit a beltel in God was Incompatible with reason The Bible declar 'The fool has said there is no God.' And it requires but little reason to prove thai Ingersoll was the lord and not God No man believes in the Almighty Al-mighty nothing. Only a lunatic would gay that something came iroin nothing. If there is a mark on the unherse, fjen there must have been a marked. He claimed that human life was transmitted trans-mitted but let him tell us from srhal was the first man's life transmitted? If from a monkey Ihes where did the monkey receive his life? if ire came from protoplasm then there must be Intelligence In protoplasm for we are intelligent creatures He declares thai i the miracles of the Bible are frauds. I Mere tricks or men imposing Ufon - tie i ignorance of the people Why stajjgei at the miracles of Christ we are per i forming greater ones today. Man otands in the fire and is not burned, .rides the sea and is not drowned. I presses a button and 'urns nmht into day. Man has built a railroad across Siberia, built a Panama canal, made Sahara blossom as the rose, built Cities jlike Venue and republic like Holland j upon the water. He has created flow-1 flow-1 ers from weeds and wholesome foods !lrom poisons He has wrought from the marble block the creations of zen-I zen-I ius and thrown upon the canvas the i mimicry of nature. He has :aade all nations his back yard, the sea his highway, and the sun his coal bin A child's life has been saved ern after a'part of ihe brain has been removed man with a stab in his heart lived and they have even found the secret ol the declipe of old age and will arrest ar-rest it. Talk about miraclep we are only now in the infancy of things. "Mr. Ingersoll says who knows who .wrote the four gospeis? How coes he know who wrote Paradise Lost. He I accepts the voice of testimony, history and tradition. We accept the same i kind of testimony only more voluminous volumi-nous for the authority of the New Testament Tes-tament Did Christ bamboozle' ihe i people9 What respect can any man hrve for such an indictment? Can we r believe th man who taiicht the purest I morality given to the world and who .lived the most benevolent life was a I mere vender of tricks which he had learned from Egyptian astrciogists? I Friends, the Bible accords with his itory. The Bible has proved itself. It is no experiment Look at it as a book i of pholisophy. Compare it with Plato's and you will find he borrowed from Moses. Philosophy can equ?l the first recorded words of Moses: "In the beginningf, God created the heavens -nd the earth." Look at it as a book lof poetry. How mm b more sublime : i Isaiah than Milton How much j more picturesque is Solomo" than ! Homer. In the Bible you sec a land shadowed with wings. A star coming ! out of Jacob, a lion of the tribe of judan, a rainbow mound the throne. :a woman clothed with the sun, seas of i glass, Overs of pearl, walls of jasp r I TV. A T1:L1 1 mmmA lUn a-r.h-.nla! circle of poetry and again men are ; gathering their precious laurels to adorn the temple once crowned with thorns. Ingersoll is consistent with .himself when he says I do not believe In the New Testament doctrine of non resistance. He was therefore a mral ! anarchist My friends, Christianity is ! no experiment. It is the anvi' which has worn out all the hammers of persecution per-secution They tried to strangle it in I its cradle, but it was born no. to tie. ! Mennon opens not her moutn. The sacred fires of the Persians have died lout and there is no pnest to light thm. The harp of Orpheus still hangs upon the willow, the cup of Bacchus is drained dry. hushed are the thunoers lof Jupiter, Brahma no longer sits on her throne of gold, Egyptian mummies mum-mies still wait for their promised res urrection. Jesus has towered over all Ihe wrecks of time ard has introduced !to humanity the truest concepMon of the dignity of life and made atom's cohere, co-here, multiplied the few discipies who met in Jerusalem into teeming millions, mil-lions, caused the Jordan to roll with life, made the wilderness bl.nsom as ! the rose, humanized the Hottentot, I clothed the cannibal in his riint mind, 'introduced marriages in places never j known before, caused the wandering 'Arab to fling his blood-shot eves upon I Calvary, and no longer do sacrificial I fires burn, nor rivers run red with human gore. All Baugbt the radiance iof Redemption's star and with ears of ! Joy j.re hastening to the cross I believe that Christ and hla rel ion I will yet stay the red hand of war. ; jklss away the tears from Italy's face,; I wreathe with love the dark brow of j i Spain, lame the Russian bear, give, new life to England's withered rose, glorify old Scotland's thistle, awake dear Erin's heart, cross the Atlantic and become the brightest star in Columbia's Co-lumbia's gem, and there will be no tresses of silver in her locks of gold, when choirs celestial and choirs ter-restial ter-restial and jubilan' thunders and ryth-matic ryth-matic whispers will sli)g once more: "Sinners Jesus will receive, Sound his word of grace to all. Who the heavenly pathway leave, All who linger and all who 'all." Meetings will continue each night al the Methodist church, Including Saturday. Sat-urday. Sunday at 11 o'clock and at 7:45, the evangelist will preach. The! theme Sunday night will be; "The; Trial of Jesus" No meeting will be, held Monday night, but will cont'nue; each night during the comlnc week, j |