The Underwood-Marples Debate: Commencing July 20, 1875, and Continuing Four Evenings, Between B. F. Underwood, Boston, Mass;, And Rev. John Marples, Toronto, Ont (Classic Reprint)

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It to the moral subject. So with the mathematical test; and because the moral does not agree with the physical or mathematical, they say that it is not true. With regard to the first kind of truth, or evidence, that is phys ical truth or evidence made patent to one of the five senses, such as I see the book or hear the sound of stamping. If I took up a rose and smelt it I receive the truth. If I took a piece of beef and put it into my mouth, I should taste it. Then again, by the sense of' feeling I can determine the truth of the hardness or'the softness of metals, and these senses are the inlets of the soul. When I was a student at college, and an agent of the Sheffield T0wn Mission, there was a gentleman in that town who became the leading skeptic or Infidel in the place. One day I was engaged in a conversation. With him, and I asked him what he thought of the men, women and children around him. He replied that he had never met a man or woman equally as good as him self. Frequently discussed with this gentleman, and one day he had in his hands two pieces of iron, which he knocked together. He said I can see, hear and feel that those are two pieces of iron, and if your God existed, I could hear, see er feel him, and because I can do nothing of this, I therefore conclude there is no God. I replied, You suppose that conclusive, Mr. Dod worth? He said, Yes. I again replied if my God was iron, I could hear, see or feel him, but as he is not, but is spirit, I can neither see him nor hear him, nor feel him. I said, do you understand logic. He said that he understood reasoning most thoroughly. I then told him that there were three kinds of logic - the physical, the mathematical and the moral, and if you will take the moral standard and apply that to the existence of God, and if the subject will not come up to it, I will give up.

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