Acts 13:9-11 Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him.… Mr. Beecher once met Colonel Ingersoll, a great American atheist, and Colonel Ingersoll began to discourse on his atheistic views. Mr. Beecher for some time was silent, but, after a time, asked to be allowed to tell a story. On being requested to do so, he said, "As I was walking down town today, I saw a poor man slowly and carefully picking his way through mud, in the endeavour to cross a street. He had just reached the middle of the filth when a big, burly ruffian, himself all bespattered, rushed up to him, jerked the crutches from under the unfortunate man, and left him sprawling and helpless in the pool of liquid dirt, which almost engulfed him." "What a brute he was!" said the colonel. "What a brute he was!" they all echoed. "Yes," said the old man, rising from his chair, and brushing back his long white hair, "yes, Colonel Ingersoll, and you are the man. The human soul is lame, but Christianity gives it crutches to enable it to pass the highway of life. It is your teaching that knocks these crutches from under it, and leaves it a helpless and rudderless wreck in the Slough of Despond. If robbing the human soul of its only support on this earth — religion — be your profession, why, ply it to your heart's content. It requires an architect to erect a building; an incendiary may reduce it to ashes." Parallel Verses KJV: Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,WEB: But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him, |
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