The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-28
TALMAGE AT THE ACADEMY.

tremendous audience gathered at the Academy
yesterday morning to listen to the discourse OF Mr.
Talmage, on the question Of the Bible In the public
schools, and frequent applause was given him dur
ing the delivery OF his Views on this matter Start
ing out with the assertion that the Bible was the
king OF books-the mightiest force that the hand Of
God ever projected among the nations-the preach
er proceeded to state his reasons why he was
opposed to the expulsion Of that book from the
common schools. II you had anything to say
against expulsion, you should speak now or FOR
ever hold your peace. "a v0ice-"Bullyp' ana ap
plausel aa
In the first place he was opposed to 1t because
such expulsion would decide that great multitude
of the children Of this country should have nc
moral and religious culture. We must take the
community just 1t is and recognize the fact thai
the vast majority Of people do not read the Bible In
their households and do not send their children tC
Sabbath schools, so that the majority OF the
children derive all knowledge about God and
Christ and eternity from the Scripture lessons Of the
day school. And II in the future history of this
country there were to be here, as many had estt
mated, more than three hundred millions Of peo-
pie. then that Christian man who voted the expu'
sion OF the Bible voted that more than two hundred
millions OF the future population OF this country
should have
NO MORAL OR RELIGIOUS CULTURE.
Another reason why the preacher was opposed
to expulsion was that the book interfered with no
mans right. The Jews had made no violent OppO-
siton to It. As to the Roman Catholics. the conse-
ment Of Schools Of their and the preacher in
quired II 1t was fair or common sense to expect
that those who went out from the common schools
and took their children should have an lnnue nee
over these who remained and wanted their chill
dren to read Gods word? II . majority had gone
back and tell iis who had remained that
daughters reading that Bibles No; the very
schools they proved they ought not now to have
any right to come in and say, "You shall not have
hsd nat The Bible was the most
of books. Wickliffe and COverdale and Matthew
were Catholics when they made their translation
Catholic, and .our translation, the King James
translation, was substantially the same thing; so
tha nS Boga WAS NO 90 e
knew Of no instance where teachers In our public
schools had tried to make proselytes: Another OBJ
lection to expulsion was that 1t would be
wARRING UPON THE CONSEQUENCES OF MEN.
AS o majority Of the people in this country were
Protestants, he asked whether the conscience OF
science OF Catholic2 (Applause:) II the Bible
were expelled our Romish brethren might be
feelings of hundreds Of thousands of Christian peo-
pie in this country would be warred upOn-peOple
whose hopes for heaven were hung upon tina, that
dalton for q republican form Of government. The
Bible was also the best school book that there was
Bring oil other books and put them IN pyramid,
but put the Bible on the top Of that pyramid.
1t was an interesting thought to him that when
the clock struck nine the teacher tapped the bell
in the schools of this country, the Scriptures were
opened, and after the lesson had been read the
little heads would bow Tor used TO bow IN the
prayer, "Our Father which art In heaven
A WHOLE CONTINENT RECrT1NG PRAYER
in concert Now, however. an influence came to
the school door and said, 'Clese the Bi5le-stop
piled the right to take out every ether book that
acknowledges God. and God would be dls1onored
in the estimation Of the young people Of this cou
try. When the school governments Of this coun-
try decreed that the Bible was not a fit book for
the common schools they started in the minds OF
book. You had no right to throw dishonor on this
book or arouse suspicion in the hearts OF chill
dren-a suspicion that would never be gone.
Another ground OF Mr.. Talmage's opposition to
expulsion was that the wise men OF this country
who founded and maintained the government were
opposed to expulsion, and to prov. this he quoted
from Washington, Webster, ct al Now, nay friends,
said the speaker, prefer to stand in the assOca-
ton Of men Of that class who have believed in
having the Bible In the common schools rather
than to stand in the association OF those men who,
BORN IN THE DITCH OF THE POLITICAL CAUCUS.
have been cursed TO crawl on their belly through
expulsion in order to please the foreign vote and
anxious to lick the ilthy heel OF the emgrant be-
fore he had time to wash his feet lApplausel But
have better argument: contend that this is o
supreme book from the hand OF Supreme Being,
and has right to go anywhere. II that Bible
to come up and say to the Lord Almighty =" You
may send that Bible anywhere, but not in our
common schO0lsY Then, again. l am opposed to
the expulsion because the common school is cre-
alton OF Professionalism. (Applause.) The whole
spirit OF the Catholic Church has been against the
common schools Archbishop Hughes said:-"Com-
mon schools are nurseries of rationalism, hcen-
tiousness and atheism He believed in common
schools, didn't hel Qaughtet.) Roman Catholic
ring against the system. You say, then, the Catho-
lies viii demand part OF the public funds to go to
q ,air hpn1c Wi Oft a NUhil In
THE GREAT QUESTION
in this country / cannot forestall but will SIM
ply say we might better let the public funds go
over to them and have our common schools sup
ported and maintained by the charities Of the
honor thrown upon the Word of God and the Bible
hurled out from eur common school system. loud
appause)
am also opposed to the expulsion because the
God or the BiNe has taken this country under his
especial care and evidently intends 1t to be
advance is that Intellectual culture without
moral culture is worse than no culture at ALL
Knowledge Is power" for good II consecrated;
but it is power for evil II unrestrained and I'M
guided by moral principle. The great curse Of the
land to-day is the educated villain.
You will mark that l have not said one word
against the Roman Catholic Church. l simply de-
mand that the consciences Of the Protestant be
sidered worth just as much as the censciences OF
the Roman Catholic Church. have no faith In the
bombardment OF that church. IL has never bat.
tered down cathedral but it has built great
many. nave no fear however, tnat tne Roman
Catholic Church will ever kinde any fires in this
country.
A FEW WORDS TO THE POLITICIANS
But there is enc source OF danger, and that is
the politicians who are threatening the safety and
the very existence OF our institutions. Look out
for their Vaccinations. All there are some of them
here to-day. can tell them by their bloated cheek
and bloodshot eye and their lecherous lip. TAP
plause) know them An, you are miserable
crew, you politicians. daughter ana applause.)
All you want is votes. But there is storm of In.
dignation and wrath arising that will sweep this
fraudulent, drunken crew that hang around the
city halls OF our cities to political perditisn and
then tumble them down into deeper pit, where
all thieves and pickpockets and adulterers have
their eternal residence with Satan and Bill Tweed
(Sensation
In conclusion this preacher exhorted the friends
OF the Bible to be vigilant and defend their rights.
BROOKLYN CHURCHES.
PLYMOUTH CHURCH