Out of Nothing."

Now this is a "lie." The gentleman who wrote the Pentateuch begins by telling us simply that "In the 'beginning' God created the heaven and earth." Not one word about what the universe was made out of. For all that the passage says to the contrary He may have made down a former universe for the purpose of building up the present one. He who doubts this should turn up the passage for examination. See how soon his lie is shattered by a very little truth! And now as Ingersoll has endeavoured to make nothing into something, he has, in his own words, "made a decided failure." "A lie will not fit anything, but another lie made for the express purpose." If you lay it beside a little truth it will vanish into thin air. It is remarkable that so brilliant a man as R. G. Ingersoll should have laid the foundation of his argument against the Bible in a lie! The foundation being a lie what must be the value of the superstructure? If there are any truths in it they cannot fit into or agree with the foundation: hence the fabric must be insecure. Is it, however, a construction of lies made for the "express purpose" of fitting the first one? Well, no. There is a large quantity of