The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-03-05
"PUT INGERsOLL IN aAIL.v
Mr. TelmnSe Wants the Iniidel ArEentod
For Blasphemy.


hHr. TalmnSe Wants the Inildel Arsestod
For Blasphemy.
Christianity" said Mr.. Talmage, "is
the rising sun of our time. Yet there
are men trying, by the smoke Of their
6iasphemy, toturn this sun into darkness,
But what the destruction of the sun
would mean to our planet, the destruction
OF Christianity would be to the world of
morals. Infidelity in our time Is consid.
cred great joke. If q lecturer in the
brooklyn Theatre last Sunday Is correct.
iy reported, he said, when we compare
our God with men he Is not much of a
God He said that when Christ was
here he was kind and fnrgivig, but now
that he is God he would send men into
everlasting punishment, and that waa
| doubtless the effect Of an office Christ.
| VINO came to bear Ollr snrrnws and our
sins, maligned and made the subject of
mirth Ia there euch thing as bias
phemy? If so, can the law be execut
ed3 These are tremendous questions for
our lawyers and judges. There is such
law and IL can be executed"
Mr.. Talmage then quoted from Rev,
DR. Speer, ChiefJustice Kent, Judge
Cody and other authorities to the nature
of b!asphemy and how ii could be pun
lshed under the common law. "NOw
cay let the law agsinst blasphemy be
erased or let It be executed. But 7 an
asked, Don't you believe in free speech p
Yes. believe in all kinds Of freedom.
! believe in driving horses, but not iu
driving over others. believe In the free
use OF knives. but not 10 assassination.
| believe in free speecb, but not in the
freedom Of basphemy. Freedom to do
right but no freedom 10 do wrong 1t
would have been one of the grandest
dramas ever enacted in the Brooklyn
Theatre If last Sunday evening my friend
Patrick Campbell, Chief of Police,
Christian mun, had marched on the
stage with platoon of police and, laying
his hand on tho lecturers shoulder, had
said:
I'm the name of the common law;
in the name Of the State of New York
and the city of Brooklyn, stopl Stop
here and stop now (Applaure, which
Mr, Talmage rebuked There will some
time arise In this country q municipal
authority which will arrest blasphemers.
The carr0na steuch of iuidelity will be
fumigated.
"This morning intend to take infidel.
ity out of the realm of joculnrity and
place it in the realm Of tragedy. Fir,t,
the success Of infdelity would be the
disgrace of womanh0ods In all States
and nations where Christianity has been
dominant woman has been honored.
Compare Der condition here with her
condition in other lands, where Christi.
anity has made little progress. Yolked
like an OK, made beast Of burden,
sacrificed OH the funeral pyre Of her hus.
hand-cai, dog, COW, horse are better
than she IT she t0uches m0u,hfnl of
food befure her husband finishes his meal
it Is made ground Of divorce. Her
birth 10 fortune, her life horror, her
death deliyerauce. Christianity has
lifted her up alm0st to the skies With
draw that and she will fall down to the
level of savagery. Yet last Sabbath
there were women present in the Brook
Ign Theatre 10 listen to wholesale
assault on Christianity. i make no re.
mark on these women. In the silence Of
their own souls let them make their own
observations.
destroy Christianity and you will
destroy society. Take from the world
the idea of hell, and there are many men
who would soon turn this world into q
bell. have seen men who have faunt.
ed their infidelity in the eyeB of the
community for years, but when they
camo 10 die they shrieEed till they could
not endure the horror.
Let the colonels of infidelity naarshall
their hosts. March on! Wave your
banners In the airl There Is no God
Do as you please The Run in darkness
The frat thing they will do is to aboiish
churches, with their cancellations for this
life aud their blessed home for the life to
come. March on Scatter the Sabbath
Schools, where the little children gather
to sing songs when they should be on the
streets swearing and playing marbles.
March on They will abolish the
asyums which Christian philanthropy
have established. March on Tear the
pictures out of the galleries of Europe.
They. are Bible pictures. Away
with the oratories Of Beethoven
Tear down the carving over the
gate at Greenwood 1t means
che resurrection. Then they find IN
augel in marble over grave, strike off
itaWingsl When they find over O child's
grave the words, Suffer little children 10
come unro me- strike them out. Let in.
fidelity triumph and life would be with.
out comfort and death without hope for
body and snul only extinction. Faith
dead, relf.denial dead. honesty dead,
chastity dead, civilization would be driv.
en- back into barbarism and the clock of
the centuries pu. back 1900 years.
I'VE were struck with horror recently
at the attempt to blow up the House OF
Parliament with dynamite. Let inidel.
ity succeed and It would dynamite O
world. The earth will be habiiatiop
of three rooms when infidelity triumpha,
one head.house, the second lazaretto
and the third pandemonium!
II am asked, DO you think iDfidelity
will triumph?' 'Ycs, when the smoke
of your chimney blots out the sum-
Great Britain will take all Europe for
Christianity, the United States all
America, aud both will take Asia and
lyica ~