The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-03-05
"PUT INGERsOLL IN JAIL"
MIR. Talmage Wants the Inflde1 Arrested
For BIasphemy.

"PUT lNGERSULL In JAIL"
Mr.. Talmage Wants the Infde1 Arrested
For BIasphemy.
"Christianity," said Mr.. Talmage, "i
the rising sun of our time. Yet there
are men trying, by the smoke of theil
blasphemy, to turn this sun into darkness
But what the destruction of the sur
would mean to our planet, the destruction
of Christianity would be to the world o.
morals. Infdelity in our time is consid
cred great joke. If lecturer in the
Brooklyn Theatre last Sunday is correct.
ly reported, he said, when we compare
cur God with men be is not much of o
Cod He said that when Christ was
here he was kind and fnrgivig, but now
that ne is God he would send men into
everlasting punishment, and that was
doubtless the effect of an Office Christ
who came to bear onr SORROWS and our
sins, maligned and made the subject OF
mirth Is there such thing as bias
phemy? IF 80, can the law be execut
ed? These are tremendous questions for
our lawyers and judges. There is such
law and it can be executed"
Mr.. Talmage then quoted from Rev.
DR.. speer, Chief.Justice Kent, Judge
Cody and other authorities to the nature
of blasphemy and how it could be pun
ished under the common law. "Now
say let the law against blasphemy be
erased or let it be executed. But am
asked, Don't you believe in free speech 2
Yes, I believe in all kinds of freedom.
believe in driving horses, but not in
driving over others. | believe in the free
use of knives, but not ID assassination.
l believe in free speech, but not in the
freedom of blasphemy. Freedom to do
right, but no freedom to 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, a
Christian man, had marched on the
stage with platoon of police and, laying
his hand on the lecturers shoulder, had
said:
"'In 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 (Applause, which
Mr.. Talmage rebuked. There will some
time arise in this country a municipal
authority which will arrest blaspbemers.
The carron. stencil of ip6delity will be
fumigated.
"This morning intend to take inidel.
ity out of the realm of jocularity and
place it in the realm of tragedy. First,
the success of inideIity would be the
disgrace of womanhood. In all States
and nations where Christianity has been
dominant woman has been honored.
Compare her condition here with her
condition in other lands, where Christi.
anity has made little progress. Yolked
like an OK, made beast of burden,
sacrificed on the funeral pyre of her hus-
band-cat, dog, COW, horse are better
than she If she touches u mouthfnl of
food before her husband finishes his meal
it is made O ground of divorce. Her
birth is fortune, her life horror, her
death deliverance. Christianity has
lifted her up almost 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
lyn Theatre 10 listen to wholesale
assault on Christianity. 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
hell. have seen men who have faunt'
ed their inidelity in the eyes of the
community for years, but when they
came to die they shrieked till they could
not endure the horror. :,
"Let the colonels of in6delity marshall
their hosts. March on! Wave your
banners in the airl There is no God
Do as you please! The sun in darkness
The first thing they will do is to abolish
churches, with their consultations for this
life aud their blessed home for the life to
come. March OIL 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
asylums 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
the resurrection. Then they find an
angel in marble over a grave, strike OIL
its wings! When they find over child's
grave the words, Suffer little children to
come unto me- strike them out. Let in
fidelity triumph and life would be with
out comfort and death without hope; for
body and soul only extinction. Faith
dead, self.denial dead, honesty dead,
chastity dead, civilization would be driv:.
en- back into barbarism and the clock OF
the centuries put back 1000 years.
1--WE we're struck with horror recently
at the attempt to blow up the House OF
Parliament with dynamite. Let infdel.
ity succeed and it would dynamite a
world. The earth will be a habitatiou
of three rooms when infidelity triumphs,
one head-house, the second lszaretto
and the third pandemoninm!
~ am asked, DO you think ipfidelity
will triumph p 'Yes, 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