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T he Scottish m in iste r oi th e good old o o o o o o c o o o o o o t
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gation falling asleep w ithout a word of ô ( ) M
M xr-xtiilation. “ Jeem s Robson,
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c o n s id e r a b h
(C o n tin u e d fr o m d th .
frigid zones some, so as to
them more adapted to the
I don’t th in k I would
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made o any - creatures
have
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a t least such as kill for them selves.
W henever was com m anded.) there sleeper forbye me.
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Before m any minuve» m e
I m ig h t h a v e se e n fit to m o d ify
pears nonsensical to m e.
W ith n o },and was held u p ; th e good lady was
some other features
also. But j e a th w hat would have
b e c o m e nodding again. Im m ed iately h er hus-
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band called upon h er to stan d up and
when I had come to m aking m an- ()f a u t he people and other creatures re(<eive h js public censure, w hich was
kind, I th in k I should have left m ultiplied upon the earth? M ulti-
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them alone as I had m ade them at plicat,ion would have to stop alter
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the first tria l (See Gen. 1.25-30.) aw hiie f„r s h eer lack of room. How a « » « * » » '- ;a n d ¡ 0 ; ^ »
and not have made them over again. W(H, | j the carnivorous creatures \ypat pastor would make such a speech,
My C hristian friends claim th a t the },ave m anaged? W ould they have w hat wife en d u re it to d ay ?—A gnostic
Lord God who, the sto ry te lls us, (jevo„ red their prey alive? And Journal-______________ _____________
m ade the second pair of people, was
the same person as the first party
who is called sim ply by his sir-
nam e God, and if I don’t accept th a t
they call me
an unbelieving
sinner and teach Sunday school
children th a t I wi 11 go to hell for it-
But he was called Lord God when
he made the second Adam and the
sergical rib-operation to get m aterial
to m ake Eve out of. (A dam was
m ade of dry earth.) God also did
WOU i j ft have still been alive after
|,ejpg chew edand swallowed? 1 he
lheo|ogues may say th a t th is death
business d id n ’t extend to other
Cyeatnres th an m an -k in d ’, hut I
j 0l,ft see w hat au th o rity they would
have for saying so. If there was
n o such th in g as death why was
the tree of life put in the garden?
W hat was the use of it anyw ay?
If I had been God 1 would have
stuck to m v agreem ent with the first
colored w ith “ P E R F E C T IO N "
Dyes will m ake beautiful C a r
pets an d Rugs, an d , u n lik e
o th e r dyes, th e colors o b tain ed
will not wash o u t or fade.
They are sim ple and econom
ical to use, and th e new “ P e r
fectio n ” C otten Dyes are esp e
cially ad ap ted for Rugs and Rag
C arp et m aking.
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the threat to k ill them was all rot. j his hands, and would not have been :
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If Adam had been a little sharper
and had eaten of the fruit of the
vanning the cause ot science am i m oral Del M ar’s H istory of M onetary
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But suppose Adam had obeyed of Eden.
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an d refused to p artak e of the fruit
And it appears th a t Cain found
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Eve offered to him, w hat would the a wife there.
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would have been wise and Adam ¡g left to conjecture. We m ay infer and’nJwîï>t o?oni Siouiand inventions wanted.
not. I fancy th e whole plan would th a t she was a daughter of the first
have been upset, and the Lord God
which we are told in (Gen. I 27.)
L ib e ra l U n iv e rs ity P o p u la r S u b s c rip tio n
in a dilem a. No com m and not th a t God created, and whom he
to eat had been given to Eve. If the ¿ ¡¿ n ’t put into Eden, and who
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L ord God had killed her, he would appears to have got along nicely £
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have had to make another, and to a n d m ade no trouble, th a t is the
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have driven her out would have o,fty way I can see th a t Cane got
been as bad. And to have left h er bis wife. Adam was a hundred the Oregon State Secular Union on demand, for the erec
there with A dam ,
she having and th irty years old when Seth was tion of a Liberal University at Silverton, Marion county,
all
the
knowledge and
him born, and h a d n o daughters yet. Oregon, provided, that the sum of five thousand dollars
none, would have put the men in a
be th at as it m ay, the God or is subscribed by good, responsible parties before said de-
bad fix. T heir progeny would have the Lord God w hichever you choose,
mand is made.
been only one half witted.
l a m made them and gave them long
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glad he ate it.
lives and it appears th a t they were
Of course an all-wise Lord God not slow to im prove their oppor-
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could have fixed th e m atter up in tunities.
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