Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06
TALMAGE ON lNGERsoLL.
"A Large Reward for Bible victims-Wom,
an and the Bible.

i TALMAGE ON lNGERSOLL.
A Large Reward for Bible victims-Woin-
an and the Bible.
Mr.. Ingersoll says the Bible is an i'm
pure book. He reads apassage, affects to
blush and says: 81 can't read more in
the presence OF this refined audience"
and puts the book away. There is
much in medical books that can't be
read in public; then put those books
away. When the Bible deals with the
putrefaction of sin, we are to see its
harm and not love it. The Bible way
OF showing sin makes you hate it; the
Byronic way makes you love it. MI.
Ingersoll says the Bible is a cruel book.
Is it? Acruel book produces cruelty.
Where the Scriptures are not practiced
the people beat each other. There are
$50, 900, 900 Bibles in circulation. Show
nc 1000 victims, show me GOO, or 500,
or 400, OF 200; show ME 100, OF GO, or
40, or 20, or 5; yes, show 2, show /: I
offer $1,000 for one victim. Applause.
Mr.. Ingersoll says the Bible is wom-
ans tyrant. 1t is? Come into the
worlds picture gallery. Look at Eve.
perfect woman; see Deborah, mighty
for good; see Abigail, in her beauty and
power, stop the armed. host-a hurri-
cane stopped at sight of a water-lilly,
a dcwdrop aashing back Niagara.
[Applause. Here is Vashti defylng a
debauched Kings crew; here is Esther
saving her nation: here is the woman
the perfume of whose ointment has come
over the ages; here is Dorcas, the light
of bliSsful fame gliding her needle;
here is Lydia, loved of all. Oh. here is
Il good old oma leaning on a staff,
grandmother Lois! Who has more
worshipers than any save Christ? a
woman. Mary. Applause. For whom
did Christ perform His first miracles:
Woman. For whom did Christ raise
the dead? For the sisters of Bethany.
| For whom was Christ most anxious in
His dying hour: A wrinkled old woman,
His mother. All! the world of mean
ing-behold thy mother. How the Bible
hates women! All! no Bible in a land
and woman is a beast of burden, a vailed
slave. Why does woman 90 to that
Bible in time Of trouble? All! she knows
it says weeping may endure for the
night. but Joy ONE with the morning.
All things work together for good to
them that love God. That book SAYS:
Husband love your wife. Why does She
go to that cruel book?
Look ut another picture-the woman
with base character brought into the
presence of Christ. He, with a sword
of sarcasm, splits her enemies from
scalp to heel, saying: LET him that is
without sin cast the first stone.n lap
plausc. Oh. how the Bible hates wom-
en-! Oh, women, hold up your hands,
let ne see Your handouts. l see, those
gold bracelets tiashing-they were put
there by fatherly, brotherly, ,%.loverlv
hands. Applause.] Where is your
yoke? Loosen those warm wrappings.
lsce Your golden. carnelian and pearl
chains-Christianity put them there.
Applause. And yet when Ingersoll
says the foolish things against the BIZ
bic. five hundred idiots clap their hands
and say: that's So" Laughter.7
All. he is false in this, and false in one,
false in all.
He says the story that m was
formed from q rib of Il man is ridden
lous. He gnaws on that rib, and has
been doing il for years. If l had an
old hound Who day after day gnawed
on the same old dry rib as if he depend
cd on it for happiness, l would drive
HIM away. Mr.. 1ngersoll doesn't know
that the word rib, translated, means
mans side. He doesn't know a word
OF Hebrew. and vet would translate
Genesis. He doesn't know Greek, Lat
in, German or English, and vet would
translate Homer. Virgil. Schiller and
shakespeare, don't adopt the idea OF
Matthew Henry, wso says women was
taken from a mans side because that
was near his heart, and l repudiate the
doctrine that she WAS taken from his
Side so she could reach all his pockets.
Laughter.
An, She was taken from his right side
that his good right arm might protect
her. That's why man GETS SO mad
when You talk against his wife. Cot
out of the striking distance when Won
Ialk against imam wife. CApplause.l
FROM his side ut his side-that is her
position. Do you remember the bridal
couple killed on the train from Ren.
ninston. Vt? There was a collision
the train was burned. and bride and
groom persisted. The conductor said
the bride could have escaped; the doc
tors said the bride need not have
persisted. The husbands body was
under the timbers, but only
tci oleSs was caught. yet she died
from his side she would not 90.
| Ny nrn,.,y0 ,>,,l-.- -.
Don't think am opposed to fun. God
never made \ mar who loved finn mora
nan ! do. But don't giggle at God
All. there is a blasphemous Side IT,
1"n. On that wrecked train there was
q man who said: Watch me have finn
! WI. pun the string of this steam brake,
! anu " wiII s war people seth. see the train stop
said his companion. Bur he pulled ,h,
string. stopped the train at a daneeron:
curve, and along thundcred TIA 9.