Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-28

I 4 Presbyterian, ana ne therefore regard
| every human being who has been born onl
once as totally depraved. He thinks tina
\ God never made single creature that didni
| deserve to be damed the minute He finishes
| him. Laughter So every one who op
poses Mr.. Talmage is infamous. The gen
crosby of an infidel is meanness, his honest,
| is larceny and his love is hate. Tslmsge
a consistent follower Of Calvin and Knox
and a consistent worrhiper OF the Jehovah 0
the ancient Jews. / oppose not him, but hi
creed. because it tends to crush out tn
natural tendencies in men to joyousness ant
goodness. There is something good in ever
human being, and there is probably some
thing bad. There are no perfect saints anC
no totally bad persons. There is the seed o
goodness in every human heart and tn
capacity for improvement in every human
| soul. Applause. Isn't it possible for
man who acts like Christ to be saved, what
ever be his belief? Cannot soul be infn
itely generous? And can any God damn
such 4 soul?
DARWIN BURNING UP IN HE'LL.
If Mr.. Talmage's creed be true, nearly al
the great and glorious men OF the past arr
burning to-day. If it be true, the creates
man England has produced in 100 years il
in hell. The world is poorer since spoke
here last, for Darwin has passed away. Zap
plause He was a true child of nature
one who knew more about his mother thar
any other child she had. Yet he was not
Presbyterian. Laughter He did not ge
his inspiration from any book, but from
every star in the heavens, from the insect IL
the sunbeam, from the flowers in the mead
ows and from the everlasting rocks. APP
plause.
ANY SUBSTITUTES FOR HE'LL.
ri the doctrine of the Presbytecians i:
true, what right had anyone to ask an un
believer TO fight for his country in the civil
war? What right had believer to buy ar
unbelieving substitute, when come day be
would look over the edge of heaven, auC
pointing downward would say TO a friend
shat is my substitute blistering there?
Laughter Mr.. Talmage says that my
mind is poisoned, and that the reason why
all infdels' minds are poisoned is that the J
don't believe the Bible. Let us see whether
it ia worth believing. / deny that an infn.
itely merciful God wonld protect slavery OF
would uphold polygamy, which pollutes the
sweetest words in language. l will not be-
lieve that God told men to exterminate their
fellow-men, to plunge the sword into women's
breasts and into the hearts of tender babes
I am opposed to the Bible because it is bad
MANY GOOD PASSAGES IN THE BIBLE.
/ don't deny that there are many good
passages in it, nor that among all the thorns
there are some roses. / admit that many
christians are doing all they can to idealize
the frightful things in the Old Testament. II
is the protest of human nature. Now, they
tell me that this book is inspired. Let us see
what inspired means. If it means anything
it is that the thoughts of God, through the
fundamentally of man, constitute this Bible
and that these thoughts were written. Now
Just suppose that some voice whispered in your
ear, how would you know it was Gods? How
did these gentlemen of old know it WIS God
who was talking to them? Ii anyone now
told you that God whispered in his ear, you
wouldn't believe him. Why? Because you
know him. Why are we asked to believe
those ancient gentlemen? Because We don't
know them. Laughter. Another reason,
according to Mr.. Talmage, why the Bible is
inspired is that prophecies in it have been
fulfilled. How do we know that the prophe-
cf5s were II5I fuIhTTed before they were writ
ten? They are so vague that you can't tell
what was prophesied. If you will read the
Bible carefully you will see that there was
not line, not word prophesyiDg the COM
ing of Christ. Catholics were right in say
ing that if the Bible was to be kept in awe
it must be kept from the people. Protestants
are wrong in letting the people read it.
TALMAGE, THE JEWS AND INSPIRATION.
Another argument of Mr.. Talmage for the
inspiration of the Bible is that the Jews
have been kept as wandering, prosecuted
race to fulfill the prophecies of the Old Tes-
lament. | don't believe an infinitely merci-
full God would persecute race for thou
sands of years to use them as witnesses
Christian hate has not allowed the Jews to
learn trade nor to practice profession,
and now, by kind of poetic justice, the Jews
control the money of the world. Emperors
go to their bankers with hat in hands and
beg them to discount their notes. This is
because God has cursed the Jews. APP
plause Only little while ago christians
have robbed Hebrews, stripped them naked,
turned them into the streets and pointed to
them as a fulfllment of divine prophecy.
Ii You want to know the difference between
some Jews and some christians, compare the
addresses of Felix Adler with sermons of
the Rev. Dr.. Talmage. Continued ap-
plause Mr. Talmage thinks that the light
of every burning Jewish home in Russia
throws light upon the gospel. Every wound
in a Jewish breast is 10 him a mouth to
proclaim the divine inspiration of the Bible.
Every Jewish maiden violated is another
fulfillment of Gods holy word. Applause
What do these horrid prosecutions prove,
except the barbarity of christians? Next it
il said that martyrs prove the truth of the
Bible.
MARTYRS FOR THE FAITH.
Mr.. Talmage aihrms that no man ever
died cheeTiully for a lie. Why, men have
gone cheerfully TO their death for believing
that wafer was Gods flesh. Thousands
died for their belief in Mohammed. Men
have died because they believed in INNER
sion. Either Mr.. Talmsge is a Catholic, a
Mohammedan, Baptist, or else he believes
that these thousands died for lies. APP
plause.l Every religion has had its martyrs,
and every religion cannot be true. Then it
is said that miracles prove the inspiration
OF the Eible. But it is impossible by the
human senses to establish violation OF ma
lures laws. When the Hebrews threw
down sticks before Pharoah, and they be-
came snakes, did he believe? No; because
he was there. After the Jews had been led
through the desert and had been fed upon
bread rained from heaven, had been clothed
IN indestructible pantaloons, and had
luenched their thirst with water that fol-
owed them over mountains and sands, when
hey saw Jehovah wrapped in the smoke of
Sinai, they still had more faith in a calf that
they could make than in anything Jehovah
could give them. Laughter. 1t was so
with the miracles of Christ. Not twenty
people were converted by one of them. In
act, human testimony cannot substantiate
miracle. Take the miracle about the bears
which ate the children who laughed at the
old prophet. What do you
meant? Why, first, that children ought to
aspect preachers, and, second, that God is
Kind to animals. Laughter Nearly every
miracle in the Old Testament is wrought in
he interest of slavery, polygamy, greed, or
ust. / wish by denying them to rescue the
equation of Jehovah from the assaults of
he Bible. Laughter.l
WITNESSES TO THE TRUTH OF THE BIBLE.
Who are the witnesses to the truth of the
narratives of the Bible? Eusebius was one.
lie lived in the reign of Constantine and said
hat the tracks of Pharaoh's chariots could
,e seen-perfectly preserved in the sands of
he Red Sea. He was the man who forged
he passage in Josephus which speaks about
he coming of Christ. Good witness, isn't
ie? Another one was Polycarp. We don't
lom in the reign of Marcus Aurelius, and
when the fire wouldn't burn him and he
ooked like gold through it, heather was
% mad about it that he ran his sword
through Polycarp. The blood gushed out
md quenched the FIRE, while the martyrs |
Oul flew up to heaven in the form of dove.
And that's all we know about Polycarp
Laughter. To know how much reliance
mould be placed upon the judgment of such
trustworthy witnesses, we should look at |
What some of their beliefs were. They |
bought that the world was fiat, that the |
'henix story was true, that the stars had |
onls and sinned, and one said that there |
Fere four gospels because there were four |
Tinds and four corners of the earth. He |
night have added that it was also because 9 |
onkey has four legs. Laughter
''FALsE IN ONE, FALSE IN ALL"
Mr.. Talmage proves by the testimony OF !