Daily Republican., 1882-01-28
TALmAGE ON INGI RsOLL.

In the garden OF the sun
He has plu ked the fairest rose.
TALmAGE ON INGI RsOLL.
The Great InHdel sworn by the
Nebular HypOthosis.
81 impanel you, my audience, as a
Jury to render a true verdict in this
case of Christianity versus lniidelity,
said Dr. Talmage in the Brooklyn Tab
ernacle on Sunday morning. "Jr'y
impaneled. call your first witness, Il.
IG. Ingersoll. How shall we swear
him? Not on the Bible, for he believes
it is a pack of lies. Not with uplifted
hand, for that implies he existence of
God. We will swear him by the rings
of Saturn, the spots on the Sun, the
caverns of the moon, the milky way
and the nebular hypothesis. ! know
nothing OF the privat" character OF
X. G. Ingorsoll. nor do ] want to know.
Although in lectures and interviews he
has used my name, have no personal
luminosity to him. speak of him in
his capacity as public teacher. Why
do pr. ach the three or four sermons
that / intend to preach III answer to this
champion bias phemer Of America? Not
that fear christianity will be ovcrborne
by his SOOTHING charIequinade. How
much do you think lngei soil will i'm
pede christianity? | will tell you.
About az much as one snowflake on the
track would impede the half past Chi
cago express tain. Perhaps not as
IL, 10, /, Ia
in Switzerland impeding an Alpine
avalanche The very sabbath after
Ingersoll spoke in this region, extin-
gushing Christianity, We received INTO
this church 400 souls in public and
beautiful conservation of themselves to
Jesus thirst. There has been accom-
plished for christianity in the last ten
years as much as was accomplished III
the previous fifty years.
Ipreach these sermons for the benefit
of individuals. They are young men
who through the teachings of lngersoll
have given up first their religion and
their morals. Let Ingersoll' y teachings
triumph and we should soon fill all
penitentiaries and gambling hells, and
houses of shame Oh the continent. In
life eclipsing in abominatiOn the hell
Bob Ingersoll has NO much laughed at.
"Ingersvll raises a laugh against the
Bible by saying that it teaches that the
world was made out Of nothing, and
that he cannot imagine nothing made
into something. In nearly all his lee
lures he gives that gigantic misrepre-
sentation. offer ?. thousand dollars
reward to any man who will show me
passage of the Bible that tells me
that the world was made oat Of moth.
ing. The first passage in Genesis says
it was made out of Gods omnipoteuce
There is az much difference between
lngersoli's statement of it and the
truth as there is between the stem Of
shi p and the stern. The variation il
as wide as the distance from the top OF
the mainnast down to the barnacles
He leaves out In the lightning. You
can roll ten millions or thousands of
years of time into that beginning. You
are not compelled to believe that tho
world was made in six days OF our
time. The evening ard morning
of the first day need rot mean twenty
four hours, hut God gay.
Can you tell me how man can give
his mind such blasphemous twist as
to strike ont Of that first chapter of
Genesis that verse. which contains bill
lows of light standing up from sapphire
seas of glory? There is az much diff
ference between lngersOlps statement
and the truth ~ between nothing and
OmniDotence.
81 take another step to the impeach'
ment Of this witness, running side by
side with him up and down the whole
gamut Of his cachinnatiOns. He swoOps
upon the third or fourth verse, and
wants to know how it was that light
was created three or four days before
the sun shone. This shows lnoersoll's
geological, chemical, astronomical ig-
norance. If he had stopped the first
schooboy he had met he might have
learned that there are other sources OF
light besides the sun; that there Is the
light of electricity, That Herschel and
other astronomers have held that the
sun does not give light, but is only the
candlestick that holds the light. The
boy might have told him that there was
a time IN the history OF the world when
5000 miles of liquid granite famed with
light. The boy might have told him OF
the aurora borealls and the aurora aus
trais. The boy might have told him
that there are ten thousand sources of
light besides the light of the sun. If
he appeared in school the teacher would
have said: "Robcrt 90 down to the foot
Of the class, that being the place for
your Stupidity"
CHS is the most disgusting ignorance
ever exhibited on the lecture platform.
On account of this willful misrepreseu-
tation, aud of his geologic al, a,trono-
mical, chemical Ignorance, impeach
Robert Il. lngersoll rs inconlpe' ent to
give testimony in this case bet we0n IT.
fidelity and Christianity. To-day, !
nail on the front of the temple of skep.
ticism this misrepresentation by the
champion blasphemer Of America. Gents
Of the jury, impeach him aud demand
that you throw overheard his entire tes-
timony. False in part false III all.
4 fake Il step further, He sharpens
all his witticis ms 10 destroy our be-
lief in the delugc and Noah's ark.
He says it must have rained eight
hundred feet of water day, that tho
ark could not have been big enough to
contain the animals, that the mountain |
on which the ark rested must have been |
seventeen thousand feet high, and he
docs not believe the story. Neither do
|. There is no such story in The Bible
We must read the story ~ it was writ |
Eu by Moab who described the scene
Hhe saw ~ that all the animals went
'A9s far AZ he knew them. L. was not
NM'A.sary to sublnerge Europe and
I'm America, which were not then
.nn"ed. He omits all reference to
.ha ut Of the story which says that |
Sno 10y Nations of the great deep were
W, $40 before the windows Of heav-
tlI Wolo NnnuI . To fhn aiLn Of fila