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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 6, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 18.

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His God

His God.—Robert Ingersoll, after hearing of Moody's belief respecting Jonah, "was surprised that a man living in the century of Humboldt, Darwin, Huxley, Spencer, and Haeckel, should believe such an absurd and idiotic story." But since Ingersoll read a certain sermon of Moody's, he understands it all, and "can account for the amazing credulity of this man. Mr. Moody never read one of my lectures. That accounts for it all, and no wonder he is a hundred years behind the times. He never read one of MY lectures; that is a perfect explanation." Some of the ancient idolators, if they did not have sense enough, had unselfishness enough, to make their gods outside of themselves, albeit they clothed them with their own attributes, but Mr. Ingersoll, with an egotism as foolish as it is distasteful, places himself upon the throne, invested with all needful knowledge and wisdom. This is a characteristic of heathenism and all false religions, they exalt self, not God.