The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
TALMAGE.
As the Clouds Vailed the Sun Before tht
Destruction Of Jerusalem
the Great,
So the Uprolliug Vapors of Skepsi-
cism aud Blaspnemy Darken
Christian Religion.
Enorts of fnhdelity to Overthrow the Pure
Kingdom of Christian Religion
The light OF Gods
Love.

.BRooKLYS. n Y, Feb. S.-Befere the
sermon to-day DR.. Talmsge expounded .
chapter from the prophecies. The opening
hymn was:
From Greenlands icy mountains.
from midas coral strands,
Where Aries sunny fountains
Roll down her golden sands.
DR.. Tslmage's subject was "rhe Down
fall of RELIGION" aud his text was taken
from Acts ii 20: THE sun shall be turned
into darkness" Following is the sermon in
full:
Solar eclipse is here prophesied to take
place just before the destruction of Jerusa-
lem Jose phus. the worldly historian, says
that this prophecy was literally fulfilled and
that the skies were fall OF strange appear
anoes about this time. OF course the sun
was not obliterated, but clouds rolled be.
tween Ii and the earth. Christianity is the
rising sun in our time, but there are many
who, by the uprolling vapors of ekepticism
and The smoke Of their blssphemy, are at
tempting TO turn II into darkness.
Suppose the archangels Of malice and hor-
ror We're embossed aud permitted 20 extln-
guIsh the sun in the natural heavens They
throw on that great lamp of our planeta ~
systems oceans from other world, and the
waters roll Kissing down into the ravines and
cnasms OF that great iuminary, and expio-
sion 10 lows explosion until only q few
SPARKS Ut are are left, and now they are cool.
ing OF aud going down until the vast conti-
nents Of flame are reduced to Q small acreage
Of 6re, and this has been reduced to q few
Goals, aud they are whitening and soon GO
out, not spark left in the mountains OF
ashes aud the valleys of ashes and the cav
ems of ashes An extinguished sun, dead
sun, . buried sun. Let all worlds bewail at
the stupendous obsequies.
Under this withdrawal of solar light and
heat our earth of course takes universal
chill, and the tropics become the temperate,
and the enpsrats becomes the artic, and
there are frozen rivers and frszsn lakes and
frozen ocears The inhabitants gather in
from artic and antarctic regions toward the
center, TO fad the equator 30 the poles. The
slain forests are heaped into huge bonfres
around which shivering villages and cities
gather. The wealth of the coal mines is
hastily poured Into furnaces and stirred into
rage Of combustion; bat even the bonfires
are lowering aud the furnaces are cooling
of. aud the Nations are dying. Vesuvius
and Cotopaxi aud Stromboli and the Cali
fornis gey sers cease their smoke, and the
ice of the hair-storms manned unmelted in
the crasers- ALI the flowers have breathed
their last breath All the leaves of the for
ests have fallen. Ships on the sea v,sh sail
or frozen at the mast and helmsmsu frozen
ss the wheel and passengers frozen Ii the
cabin.
ALL NATIONS DYING.
dren frosted and dead In the cradle Octoge
marian frosted and dead by the hearth
Workmen with frozen arm holding the ham
mer or with with frozen loot on the shuttle
Winter in all zones. Winter from sea to sea
Allcongealing winter. Perpetual winter
Hemisphere sbackled to hemisphere Globe
of frigidity. Universal Nova Zembla- The
whole earth 10 an ice foe grinding again 81
other ice foes. So he archangels Vt malice
and horror have put out the natural sun and
destroyed our world, and they may take
their throne of glacier and their crown Of
ice and their sceptsr of ieicle.
What the oeliterstion OF the natural sun
would do for the natural world the destruc
ton of Christianity would do for the moral
world. The sun turned into darkness A,
the present time. infideliiy is joke. There
are people who will give fifty cents or . dol
lar to hear Christianity assailed by epigram
and qaibble and oandinage and harlequin
est laughs in Brooklyn Tneater last Sabbath
night Was ut the Lord Jesus Christ. the
Savior Of the world, the one Who came 70
carry our sorrows. l read from tn At lecture
the following IN regard TO Christ when
He was here He was forgiving and halfh
man. But now He is God. Instead of say
ing: Father, forgive them for they know
not what they do He sends them to eterna
fire. IL Is wonderful the difference Office
makes with some people. Laughter.
Now. there is one Jaw that ought either tt
be erased from the statute book or else exc
cuted, and that is the law sgsins blssphemy
What il blasphemy? / went into the Ia Ii
hpapv and foupt fbia authoritv. eRlaq
phemous words against God. contume
lious reproaehss and profane ridicul'
of Christ or the Holy Scrip
lures are onensss punishable at com
mon law, whether uttered by words or In
writing" IL o Door drunken man stood on
the street corner this morning and took the
name of God irreverently on his lips in pres
encs OF passers-by, he would be grabbed ant
hustled TO the police station. But there L
not city authority In the United Ststes tba
has backbone enough to stop the indecen
and blssphemous utierances OF last Sunday
night though il IL being delivered in oil th'
cities. Penalties and prisons for those VII,
defame the most Insignificant man in thu
city, but defa nation of God has perfect I'm
nonity- 1t would have been the hnes
drama ever enac ed on the stage of tina
Brooklyn theater If 10 the midst OF sucl
1teerances, my friend Patrick Campbell
Chief Of Police, Who believes In God sDs
stepped upon the stage. and gently puttin
his hand upon the shoulder of the lecturer
said: In the name of the common law o
this country. aud in the name of the fsmi
lice of Brooklyn. this infsmy must stop. an
stop here. and stop now"
Bot" says some oue are you not IL
favor Of free speschf' Oh. yes; am in "a
vor OF ell styles Of heedom-free driving Q
horses, but not liberty 20 run over people Il
the street, free fire in your stove, but not IN
csndiasism or the burning of the property Q
Others. free air. but not permission to poiso
that which Others breathe, free use Of ka'vea
bat no right to stab others. free use OF gun
powder, but no allowsR &C for assassination
free speech. bat no permission for obscenit
or slsndsr, or false swearing, or blasphemy
free - do right and act according to Law
but never free to do wrong againsg Law.
call the attention of judges and attorney
And Polics Commissioners and Mayors Z