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... reason to save your soul . A soul without reason is scarcely worth saving . There is no more degrading doctrine than that of mental non - resist- The soul has a right to defend its castle — the brain , and he who waives that right ...
... reason to save your soul . A soul without reason is scarcely worth saving . There is no more degrading doctrine than that of mental non - resist- The soul has a right to defend its castle — the brain , and he who waives that right ...
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... reason . Only that which never happened needs to be substantiated by miracles . The universe is natural . The church must cease to insist that the passages upholding the institutions of savage men were inspired of God . The dogma of the ...
... reason . Only that which never happened needs to be substantiated by miracles . The universe is natural . The church must cease to insist that the passages upholding the institutions of savage men were inspired of God . The dogma of the ...
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... reason enough to see for themselves that the plan of the universe could not have been designed without a Designer or executed without a Maker . But Mr. Ingersoll asserts that , at all events , this material world had not a good and ...
... reason enough to see for themselves that the plan of the universe could not have been designed without a Designer or executed without a Maker . But Mr. Ingersoll asserts that , at all events , this material world had not a good and ...
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... reason both assure me that the infallible God proceeded upon good grounds when he authorized slavery in Judea ... reasons for the forbearance to legislate directly upon the subject . It would be improper for me to set them forth here ...
... reason both assure me that the infallible God proceeded upon good grounds when he authorized slavery in Judea ... reasons for the forbearance to legislate directly upon the subject . It would be improper for me to set them forth here ...
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... reason to doubt that the statements of the evangelists , as we have them now , are genuine . The multiplication of copies was a sufficient guarantee against any material alteration of the text . Mr. Ingersoll speaks of inter- polations ...
... reason to doubt that the statements of the evangelists , as we have them now , are genuine . The multiplication of copies was a sufficient guarantee against any material alteration of the text . Mr. Ingersoll speaks of inter- polations ...
Contents
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THE FIELDINGERSOLL DISCUSSION | 121 |
of OpinionCharles DarwinDr Fields Distinction between Super | 143 |
Retribution a Necessary Part of the Divine LawThe Case of Robin | 183 |
Claim The Incurably BadResponsibility for not seeing Things | 199 |
COLONEL INGERSOLL ON CHRISTIANITY | 221 |
Church not in DangerClasses who Break out into Articulate Blas | 251 |
and AbrahamRelation between Darwinism and the Inspiration | 255 |
Rise and FlourishMormonismAlleged Universality of the Catholic | 364 |
Some infamous PopesPart II How the Pope SpeaksReligions | 372 |
either Divine Origin or Supernatural AidCardinal Mannings Argu | 405 |
1889 | 406 |
from PolygamyBiblical MarriagePolygamy Simultaneous | 431 |
REPLY TO DR LYMAN ABBOTT | 455 |
1890 | 475 |
Power of KindnessCrimes against Soldiers and SailorsMisfortunes | 503 |
The Church Its Own Witness by Cardinal ManningEvidence | 307 |
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Popular passages
Page 72 - But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God . 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
Page 302 - And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul : so that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
Page 288 - Neither was there any among them that lacked : for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
Page 195 - What are these which are arrayed in white robes ? and whence came they? And I said unto him ; Sir thou knowest. And he said to me ; These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Page 89 - And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Page 203 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 196 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Page 190 - Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot ; who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Page 270 - They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.