REY. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. DAY SERMON, Subject: “A Plague of Infidelity.” TeXT: “Let God be true, but every man a liar Romans {ii,, 4. That is if God says one thing and the whole human race says the opposite, Paul | would accept the Divine veracity. But there are many in our time who have dared arraign the Almighty for falsehood. Infidelity is not only a plague, but it is the mother of plagues It seems from what wo hear on.all sides that the Christian religion is a huge blun. der; that the Mosaic account of the creation is an absurdity large enough to throw all nations into rollicking guffaw; that Adam and Eve never existed; that the ancient that there never was a miracle; that the Bible is the friend of cruelty, of murder, of polygamy, of all forms of base crime; that the Christian religion is woman's tyrant and man's stultification; that the from lid to lid is a fable, a cruelty, a hum- bug, & sham, died for its truth that the church oroperly gazetted wore miserable dupes; of Jesus Christ is as a fool; that when ‘homas Carlyle, the skeptic, said, “The Bible is a noble book,” he was dropping into imbecility; that when Theodore Parker declared in Music hall, Boston, ‘Never a boy or girl in all Christendom but was profited by that great book,” he was be coming very weak minded; that it is some. thing to bring a blush to the cheek of every patriot that John Adams the father of American independence, declared, “The Bible is best book in all the world: and that lion hearted Andrew Jackson turned into a sniveling coward when he said, “That | sir, is the rock on which our re public rests.” and that Daniel Webster ab- dicated the throne of his intellectual power and resigoed his logic, and from being the great expounder of the constitution and the great lawyer of his age turned into an idiot when he sald, “My heart assures and reas- sures me that the gosp 1of Jesus Christ must be a divine reality rom the time that at my mother's feet or on my father's knee I first learned to lisp verses from the sacred writings they have been my dajy study and vigilant contemplation, and if there is any- thing in my style or thought to be commend- ed the credit is due to my kind parents in in stilling into my mind an early love of Secriptures;” and that William H. Seward, the diplomatist of the century, only showed his puerility when he declared, whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever growing influences of the Bible” and that it is wisest for us ! the throng in the affections multitudes and it under to be trampled upon and hissing contempt; your old father was hoodwinked and en and cheated and befooled when he lo this as a staff after his bair grew gray, his hands were tremulous, and bis shortened as he came up to the very: grave; and that your mother sat with a pack of lies on her lap while reading of the better country, and of the ending of al! her aches and pains, and reunion not only with those of you who stood around ber, but with the children she had buried with infinite heart. ache, so that she could read no more until she took off her spectacles and wiped from them the heavy mist of many tears Alas that for forty and fifty years they should have walked under this delusion and had it under their pillow when they lay a-dving in the back room, and asked that some words from the vile page might be cut upon the tombstone under the shadow of the old country meeting house where they sleep to-day waiting for a resurrection that will never come This book, having deceived them, and hav. ing deceived the mighty intellects of the #t, must not be allowed to decwive our ger, mightier, vaster, more stupendous intellects And so out with the book from the court room, where it is used in the solomon ization of testimony. Out with it from un. der the foundation of church and asylum, Out with it from the domestic circle. Gather together all the Bibles—the chilkiren's Bibles the family Bibles, those newly bound. and those with lid nearly worn out and pages al most obliterated by the fingers long ago turned to dust—bring them all together, and let us make a bonfire of thew. and by it warm our cold eriti I after that turn ander with the pil { indig mtion the polluted ashes of that joathsome sdulterous, erusl and deathf{ul book which is so antagonistic to un sliberty, and md woman's honor, and world's mpriness Now that is the substance « ity proposes and declares, and the attack on the Bible is accompanied by g t 1 there is hardly any subject about which mirth is kindled than about the Bit ~ in. no man was ever built with a keener appre wm of it There is health in laughter instead of harm physical health menial health, moral health, spiritual health vided you laugh at the r ght thing morning is jocu In bapt the cataract Minnehaha | have not wt if you onrd the f oir hands or Bards in blossom redolence But there laa thter which has the rebound of despair not healthy to giggle about God or ckie about eternity or smirk about the of the immortal soul at caused the accident years tvom River Railroad It was an intoxicated man who for a § ke pulled the string of the air brake and stopped the train at the most dangerous point of the journey But the lNghtning train, not knowing there was any impediment in the way, came down, erushing out of the mangled victims the im mortal songs that went speeding instantly to God and judgioent., It was only a joke. He thought it would be such fun to stop the train. He stopped it. And so infidelity is chiefly anxious to stop the long train of the Bible, and the long train of the churches, and the long train of Christrian influer oon, the 3a oe, in ’ ihe nit isn, an wsha of publi hscene of what infidel. yt wl, The ian with its nist kept have rests Fos Oper § rs al the son » the ot week agles with In: 1 while coming down upon as are death Judg- | ment and eternity, coming a thousand miles A minute, coming with more foree than all the avalanches that ever slipped from the Alps, coming with more strength than all the lightning express trains that ever whis. tied or shrieked or thundered across the con. tinent Now io this joeularity of infidel! thinkers | reasons why | cannot be an infidel, und wo | will to help out of this present condition Any who may have been struck with the awful plague of skepticien First, I eannot be an infidel because infl. delity has no good substitute for the conse lation it prope . hn | full of conscintion for them, flood and Noah's ark were hm possyliitise; | Bible | | Is thers a God! a lie; that the martyrs who | | Ahithopel after him | the Bdomites after him, the Syrians after oennnot join, and | propose to give you some | | rid to the tor. Tl read you a pamphlet against James Y. Simpson, the discoverer of chloro. form as an anmsthotic, and against Drs Ag- new and Hamilton and Hosack and Mott and Harvey and Abernethy.” Rut" sys the man, a have some anmwsthetios.” "No," says the doctor, ‘they are all de. stroyed, but we have got something a great deal better.” “What is that" Fun." Fun about medicines. Lie down, all yo pa tients in Bellevue Hospital, and stop your groaning, all ye broken hearted of all the cities, and quit your crying; we have the ecatholicon at last Here is a dose of wit, here is a strengthen ing plaster of sarcasm, here is a bottle of vibaldry that you are to keep well shaken up and take a spoonful of it after each er and if that does not cure you here fs a solu. | tion of blasphemy In which vou may bathe, Tickle the Make the For all the agonles and here isa tineture of derision. skeleton of death with a repartee! King of Terrors cackle! of all the ages a joke! toward heaven to aflirm that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is ity proposes to take it away, giving nothing, absolutely nothing, except fun. Is thereany | greater height or depth or length or breadth or immensity of meanness in all God's uni- Yyerse Infidelity is a religion of “Don't know." Don't know! Is the soul immortal? Don't know! If we should mest each other in the future world will we reco nize each other? Don't know! A religion of “don't know” for the religion of “I know,” “I know in whom I have believed.” “I know that my Redeemer liveth.” [nfl delity proposes to substitute a relicion of awful negatives for our religion of glorious positives, showing right before us a world of reunion and ecstacy and 1 companionship and glorious worship and stupendous vie tory, the mightiest joy of earth not high enough to reach to the base of the Himalaya ol splendor awaiting all those who of Christian fs | on w it Have you heard of the conspiracy to out all the lighthouses on the const? kpow that on a certain nigh and and on sailors { ho wea? the do Who will arise ' Every man, America and the wo m of i 1s of passengers’ an onspir- child in acy nm infidelity started « Hment febonats, the « of the What a missi The exting: breaking up of | the lots, the turning ! eo anda le, * chisel is ut out ir rated it was a i, went through the nd 10 « lottar half m the & LE rl infidel hat ip tions « mbt way tiful mission: but ds its time vith hammer and chisel trying to it out tt ws of your dead all wm and heaven, [tis the village graveyard and rand of Westminster Ab ‘hiristian consolation f the dying, a freezing Instead praysr a grimace. Instead ff Fan mphant deflance of death, a going ou know not where, to stop you know not . to do you know not what Chat is in vo Lon bet of resurrecti winst of eve "ry : ity bey Instead « Orne sneer t Furthermore I ennnot be an infidel. be cause of the false charges infidelity is all the time making against the Bible. Perhaps the siander that has made the impression and that some Christians have not telligent enough to deny is that Bible favors polygamy Does the God of the Bible uphold polygamy, or How many wives did God make Adam? He made me wife Does not + ir common sense tell institu- most beens in the 1 when God started the marriage tion He started it as He wanted It to con ? If God had favored polygamy He Il have created for lam five wives or ton w riw mty wives JUSt as easily as He made one At the very first of the Bible God shows Himwlf in favor of monogamy and antago nistic to polygamy. Genesis il, 94 There ball a man leave his father and mother hall cleave unto his wife Not his but his wife How many wives did spare for Noah in the ark? Two and @ birds; two and two the oattle: two y the lions; two and two the human If the God of the Bible had favored a 118 iplicity of wives Ho w ald have spared a plurality of wives When God first launched the human race He gave Adam At the second launching of the vw He spares for Noah one wife, for wife, for Shem one wife, for Does that look ae though yenmy? In Levitions xvii prohibition of more view tw ti and tw race w wile iman ™s Ha ne Japhet one God favored po rem one wife God p ted) He permits today's arson and all kinds these things, as yo wile YEAMY You, just as murder ani theft and of erime. He permits 1 well but He does sanction them. Who would dare to say He sanctions them” Bocoause the Presidents of the United States have permitted poly gamy in Utah, you are not, therefore, to con clude that they patronized it, that they ap proved it, when, on the contrary, they de nounced it All of God's ancient Kul knew that the God of the Bible was against po. ygamy, for in the four hundred and thirty years of their stay in Egypt there is only one case of polygamy recorded only one All the mighty men the Bible stood aloof from polygamy except those who falling into the crime, ware “hastized within an inch of their lives. Adam, Aaron, Noah, Joseph Joshua, Samuel, monogamists. But you say Didn't David and Solomon favor pologamy» You; and did they not get well punished for it? lead the lives of those two men and you will come to the conclusion that all the at tributes of God's nature were against their behavior, David suffered for bis erimes in the caverns of Aduliam and Masada, in the wilderness of Mabanaim, in the bereave ments of Zikiag. The Bedouins after him, sickness after him, Absalom after him, Adonijah alter him, know him, the Moabites after him, death after him, the Lord God Almighty after him The po aa in all the spire mar vanition, all is vanity.” wives nearly pestered Bolomon got well paid for his crimes--well as they were and fal ht rae i ors “the BY nit Millions of people | | willing with uplifted hands | ing to throw her alnest Jowoss was happier than | | the King in his marital misbehavior. How | {did Solomon get along with polygamy! | Road his warnings in Proverbs; read hisselt” of the Bible, and see which pictures are the more honored. Hero is Eve, a perfect woman; as perfect a woman as could be made by a perfect God. Hore is Deborah, with her womanly arm hurling a host into battle, Here is Miriam, leading the Isracl- Itish orchestra on the banks of the Rod Sea. Here is motherly Hannah, with her own loving hand replenishing the wardrobe of her son Samuel, the prophet, Here is Abigail, kneeling at the foot of the | mountain until the four hundred wrathful | men, at the sight of her beauty and prowess halt, halt-a hurricanes stopped at the sight of a water lily, a dew drop dashing back Ni- agara. Here ls Ruth putting to shame all modern slang about mothers-in-law as she turns her back on her home and her country, and faces wild beasts and exile, and death that she may be with Naomi, her husband's mother, Ruth, the queen of the harvest fields, Ruth, the grandmother of David Ruth, the ancestress of Jesus Christ. The story of her virtues and her life sacrifice is { the most beautiful pastoral over written { Here is Vashti defying the bacobanal of a and yet infidel. | thousand drunken lords, and Esther will life away that she may deliver her people. And here is Dorcas, the sunlight of eternal fame gilding her philan- thropic needle, and the woman with perfume | in a box made from the hills of Alabastron, pouring the holy chrism on the head of Christ, the aroma lingering all down the corridor of the centuries, Here is Idina, the merchan. tess of Tyrian purplé immortalized her Christian beha vio: Here isthe widow wit two mites, more famous than the Pe all the while here comes in slow of gait and with carelu dants and with especial honor and high f leaning on the arm of inspiration is the joy and pride of any ho fortune to have one, an randinother, Gr Lol OTe Worshipers than at over Hved on « Mary. Forv fon and the Lenoxes of ages, atten Yor, who #0 rarely d Christian wi any ne te ns imother 1 has @ tr ny being ti 3 His first mirac embarrassment the falling did Christ break and tear off the it we » upon earth of a short up the Chr excruciation a wrinkle faced wo ther days had hel first friend. His to be, His mothe unpresoed Int mother Does woman? If the Bible how do y woman s om Af is 0 ma pri forth she 1 ay ¥ t i man very first thing the into a new country Do y Bible to sirike bow hand hushandly sisteriy or | robe owed brotherly o loosen th arm woman or a besing? Why wibled will NAD, & Curse 1 when she is tr ‘Natural History “Age of Rasson of Voltaire? persists in “lot not your beart things work together for way endure for a night Poace, be still than invite | resist boonuse it has world and umes woman 8 Verses, troubled “Al good.” “Weeping ‘1 am the resurrection Fart} rather this plague of infidelity wrought no positive good for the # always a hindrance. | ask you to mention the name of the iful and wion al institutions hich infidelity founde! and is supporting, vi bas supported all the way through ins pronounced against God and the Christian religion, and vet pro. pounced in behalf of suffering humanity What are the names of thes Certainly not the United States Christian commie 5. or the sanitary « Christ George H. Stuart hanging armor the edu fasion, for An the President of the ne, and Christian Heary W. Bellows was the President of the other Where are the asylums and merciful in stitutions founded by infidelity and SUP ported by infidelity, pronounced agains God and the Bible, and yet doing work { the alleviation of suffering’ Infidel very loud in its brageadocio it must sone 10 mention Certainly. if you speak of educational institutions it Yale, it is not Harvard, it is not Prin it is not Middletown, it is not Camberid Oxford t any institution from which i not be a disgrace, Do 3 versions as exw ou that all the Ger are under Christian influences, except the University { Heidelburg, where the ruffanly students cut and maul and mangle snd murder each other as a tatter of pride instead of infamy Do you mention Girard College, Philadelphia, as an exoeption, that college established by the will of Mr. Girard which forbade ro gious instroction and the entrance of clergymen within its gates. My reply is that | lived for seven years near that college and [| knew any of its professors to be Christian instroactors, and no better Christiag influences are to be found inany college than in Girard Colloge More stands Christianity, There stands infidelity. Compare what they have done Compare their resources. There Is Chris tianity, a prayer on ber lip: a benediction on her br Bod ir want help; the mother of thousands of ool legen; the mother of thousands of asylums for the oppressed, the blind, the sik, the mn woe elt a itn : nan positive Wppom You count them on your ten fingers, 20h," ¥ou way, “not quite so much as that,” Wall, then, count them on the fingers of one hand. “Oh " you say, “we don't want quite #0 much room as that.” Buppose, then, you halt and count on one finger the name of any institution founded by infidelity, supported entirely by infidelity, pronounced agninst God and the Christian religion, yet toil. ing to make the world better, Not one! Not one! Is mildelity wo poor, mean, so useless’ Got pauper of the universe ! 80 starveling, so out, you miserable Crawl into some rathole of everlasting nothingness. Infidelity | standing to-day amid the suffering, groaning, dying nation, and yet doing « nothing save trying to imoede those who are toiling until they fall exhausted into their | graves in trying to make the world better, Gather up all the work, all the merciful | work, that infidelity bas over done, add it lof abodys | | and ve min hands full of help for all who | nme, the imbecile; the mother of missdons | for the bringing back of the outoast; the mother of thousands of reflormatory instite tions for the saving of the lost; the mother | of innumerable Sabbath-schools bringing millions of children under a drill to prepar them for respectability and usefulness, to say nothing of the great future, That i | Christianity, Here is infidelity ; no prayer on her lips. no benadiction on her brow, both hands clenchet «what for?! To fight Christianity. That is the entire business. The complete mission of infidelity to fight Christianity, Where ars her schools, her colleges, her asylums of merey? Lot me throw you down a whole i § : 3 s ETH soils: Li ull together, and thers ix not so much nobil- in it as in the smallest bead of that sister charity who last night went up the dark alloy of the town, put a jar of ly for an invalid appetite on a broken stand, and then knelt on the bare floor praying the mercy of Christ upon the dying soul Infidelity serapes no lint for the wounded, bakes no bread for the hungry, shakes up no illow for the sick, rouse no comfort for the Proms gllds ne grave for the dead While Christ, our Christ, our wounded Christ. our risen Christ, the Christ of the old fashioned Bible—blessod be His glorious name foreve r! our Christ stands this hour pointing to the hospital, or to the asylum ying I was sick and yo gave and ye gave m Hind and ye 4 Ih ane] Inims physi on the mountains and much ye did inns as ye did 1 ft term jravus es of ten th How Some Goods Are Sold we then advert or fabrics and garments or prices which, face WOW a heavy loss cost replied tiet which busi we are In posi which woul » we cl RE, Bi nanufacturers, being more The price, i in stock, mark flerent grades, viz and #5 We laily press and 1500 of of which was a bargair em in three di . advertised na few dava this ‘special drive,’ made a ready sold, tement on the Sn we said, ‘we have ives.’ imbrellas at #1 1e of those Ours LE we put in this was worth from The morning the sale took place the people flocked in soon as the doors were opened, and in one hour and twenty nutes the last umbrella was disposed as of We sold one umbrells enly to each individual purchaser at this low figure, and consequently placed this bargain with upward of 500 different persons “The actual loss to us on this sale was several hundred dollars, but or the whole lot of 2180 umbrellas we averaged a very handsome profit, besides making our selves talked about and bringing 500 special customers into the store who, it is safe to say, bought more or less in the other departments of the house at a» profit. "wwDiry Goods Chronicle, American Tea. Mr. Gill, an expert on tea, shows from careful ealculstions made in China, India and Oeylon, that teas are produced and made ready for use at an average cost of from 54 to 4} cents a pound. China, he tells us, which formerly enjoyed a mon. [opoly of the trade, now produces less i than half of the tea used in Europe and America, and he maintains with grest | show of reason, that toa may be grown in large areas of the Southern States as | | of good depth and drainage, and a moist climate, are the two essential the tres or bush will stan Clever Mode of Detecting a Thief, Bome years ago, in one of the cavalry | barracks, & man complained that severs! | articles of his kit had been stolen. The { Corporal of the room, finding that the thief could not be discovered, got large ; tin mess dish and turned it upside down | | on the floor with the barrack -room cat underneath it. man to touch the dish in turn, saying touched it. As a matter of fact the cat did not mew, but the Corporal suddenly cried, “*1 have him!" and ordered the gas to be turned up. Then he ordered each man to show hands, and all were black ex ept those of one man; for the Corporal had, unknown to the men, blackened the back of the dish before putting it on the ground. Needless to say that the one man who had not cared the ordeal by touch was the search among his kit The man with by let off wit tot thie revealed empt f. nnd the 00 vers missing articles be hard to be dealt yer MH room ourt-mnarti WHS } two tered wit The Cor poral 1 1 th and holds ii Ya mini on » 4 Ja now We Then he ordered the gas | | to be turned down, and requested each | | was very bad and the streets were full of that the cat would mew when the thief | | Dukes { which | English | party attended y Emper: r sitting Faneral of the Czar's Nurse. There was & remarkable scene in Bt, Petersburg the other day at the funeral of Miss Catherine Strutton, who wus the nurse of the present Czar. The decessed Indy was eighty-one years of age, sad had been forty-six years in the service of the imperial family, In fact, she died nt the Winter Palace from which the funeral procession started. The weather melting snow and mud, which made the walking particularly disagreeable. But | in spite of all this and the attending dis comfort, it is worthy of note that none of those who were expected to be pres- ent failed to put in appearance. The White Car himself, and the Grand Viadmir, Sergius and Paul, walked side by side behind the hearse old lady's coffin, the the imperial contained the slush to the serviee, the Ambassedor’s h clergy mded by Rus- Press wading knee deep in church There meral vw, and sat the pre Disease Lurked in the Trunk : There is Gifjerenc i inion am Money In the Business, I Mra. 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