DENTON DEMOLISHED.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4225, 17 July 1882, Page 3

DENTON DEMOLISHED.

(To the Editor of the Evbuing Stab.) Sir,—Well done Reddish ! So there are some one or two still at the Thames who have tbe courage to answer Denton, who by his lectures has proved himself to be the, greatest spiritist of ihe day, and consequently the .greatest, atheist, for spiritism and atheism are synonymous terms. Well done Reddish ) Den (on gets it hot from you. Why, after Denton, one would suppose that you had been developed from the vegetable your name implies, and from a turnip, reddish, too, and a white one, the hottest of tbe species; but me* thinks y6ur heat comes from another and a better source. All- credit to you, Mr Reddish! Some of the daring, bare-faecd statements of Mr Denton were enough to make a Christian's blood boil within him, and the hair of his head to stsnd bolt upright—statements the reverse of truth and common sense-—statements which entirely reverse the order of the Deity in His creative as well as his destructive powers, as described in His own manuscript—tbe Bible. The earth a fire earth at first. Indeed! ,Where's your proof Mr DP JTon gave none that could for a moment establish your theory. The Bible teaching is that it was a water earth, and that it is now becoming a fire earth. At tbe deluge —and this even you, Mr Denton, could not deny—we are told " all tbe fountains of the . great deep were broken up and the flood-gates of heaven were opened;'' words wbich convey a tremendous eruption of waters from beneath and an equally tremendous downpour of the same element from above. There is not a word about fire in all tbe narration, nor'previous to the Deluge. This eruption from below, no doubt, heaved up the earth's surface, and gave it its present configuration of mountains arid plains and seas and rivers. But Denton don't believe in the manuscripts of Deity, and I do; so I can only make the statements of truth, and shall not argue with such a man, but tell him that in a few years how the earth, which at the Deluge received its baptism of water, will receive its baptism of fire, and this the same manuscripts of Deity assure the inhabitants positively and without doubt. Where will Mr D. be then ? Consigned to oblivion with all bis brother spiritists and- atheists. But, again, man is developed from a baboon, and is not a special creature. What next from the infidels? Well, to my mind, Mr D. must have been developed from some donkey whose organ of acquisitiveness must have been tremendously large, for. to acquire pebbles and almighty dollars seems to be the height of the ambition of this gentleman. What a pity his fine talents are thrown away upon

such insignificant nonentities, and that ho demeans himself to talk such arrant *~ nonsense ! Man, after he came, from the hands,, was evidently a noble cX^jfellow—a magnificent man, a herculean beintt. The.length of^ life tbatjmao attained to before, the Deluge is proof of what, man was in his earliest days, and this no one injhis senses doubts'. Man has degenerated because he chose to throw off his alleigance to his Creator and tosetup/fo&himself, and work out his own foil jv aa3 it is now come to this, that if he was allowed t<s go on in the general fast living and luxurious ways of the '" present time man would soon, be reduced to a pigmy, and die out, as many racas have done previously. That is the truth, Den ton, and it is patent to all of us who make any real observation. Man is now ' bringing upon himself his own destruction eVerywhere.' To conclude, don't be permaded, my readers, to give up your Bibles and the grand truthsthey proclaims concerning men, but especially believing men and women in the future; cleave to them, hold, them fast, for the Bible declares a future for the believers therein, which bo spiritists and infidel can ever attain unto. The days fast approach that will try you all. The Egyptian embroglio is the beginning of that time of trouble such as never.was since a nation existed. Who will come out of it scathless ? Certainly not spiritists and unbelievers in the Deity, and His word for the great object of all such is to get rid of Divinity altogether.-rl am, &c, 'William .Wood.