Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-12-30
~ BAD BOIL CURED"
Or. TALmsGE ANALYzes RATIONAL.
ISM IN RELIGION.

Chris;ianiiy's New Foe Religious Dlssec-
ton and the brushing Away Of the Old
Religion OF Christ-Are Prayers An.
swcrede
BRooELYN. Dec, 23.-At the Taber
nacle today the Rev. T. De Witt Tai.
mage. ID. d., read and expounded u
chapter about the multiplication Of
ioaves and fishes. The opening hymn
was:
The morning light Is breaking,
The darkness disappears
Dr. Talmage took as the subject OF
his sermon. "A Bad Boil Cured" Tie
text was: Il have heard thy prayer;
behold, will heal thee. And Isaiah
said; Take a lump of figs. And they
took and laid il on the boil, and he re.
covered. IL Kings Xxx, s, Z,
Luxurious living is not healthy
The second generation of kings and
queens and lords and princes is apt TO
be brIinlcss and invalid. The second
crop of grass is almost always short
Royal blood is generally scrofulous,
You will not be surprised then TO
hear that King Hezekiah had dis.
orders which broke ont in a car.
buncle. virulent and deathful. The
Lord told him he must die; he
did not want TO die. He turned his
face 10 the wall, SO that his prayer
would not be interrupted, and cried to
God for his life. God heard the prayer
and answered it, saying: Behold, ]
will heal thee But there was human
inStIumcntality to be employed. This
carbunclG needed ''cataplasm. That
is tough word we use to show how
much wc know, If in the pulpit we
always used words tho people under
stood, $50 never snould havcany repu.
tlim rur l.gUiug. Well, tllis car
buuclc D. ndCd o caaplaSm. which il
a uruIurr. your. Old mother who
docrorcI hcrowu CHILDREN in tue lime
when physicians re not as plenty Us
they aH- nov tell you that the
very best pouluce is lig, and that was
what was used upon the carbuncle of
King Hezelliah. The power of God,
accompanied by this human instru.
mentality, cured the king.
In this age of discovery, when men
know so much it almost kills them,
and write SO wisely it almost kills us,
il has been found out that prayer to
God is dead failure. All things are
arranged according to memorable law.
There is no use in praying to God for
rain in time Of drought. The weather
probabilities in the morning papers
will decide the question, rain or nc
rain, and the whole nation in prayer
before God would not bring down q
single drop. lam not now speaking OF
an imaginary theory, but Of that which
is believed by ten thousand times ten
thousand men.
II sickness comes to your household,
it will depend entirely upon ventila.
ton, good diet, and the skill of the
doctors, as to whether your child gets
well The father might pray all day,
and the mother might pray all night
it would not have any effect upon the
case. If squills, belladonna, paregoric
and Cruel do the work, your child will
get well; if not, not. There is a cast
iron God seated at the head OF the uni
verse, holding in the cold grasp Of his
metal fingers band of law from which
nothing can break away.
| r, ~. ,,-,,r ar..t,
ENEMY.
Men and women of God. at this
point the great battle of Christianity
is to be fought. The great foe Of
Christianity today is rationalism,
that comes out from our schools,
and universities, and magazines and
newspapers, to scott at Bible truth and
caricature the old religion of Jesus.
II says Jesus is not God, for it is i'm
possible 10 explain how he can be di-
vine and human at the same time.
The Bible is not inspired, for there are
things in it that they don't like. Re.
generation is q farce; there is good
enough in us, and the only thing is 10
bring il out. Development is the word
development The Garden of Eden is
a fairy story, and no more 10 be be,
lieved than the Arabian Nights, " OF
"Gulliver's Travels" or Robinson
Crusoc." Veal started as balloons, and
are blood relations TO that monkey
squirming about ON the top Of thai
hand organ. Lazarus was not dead
when Christ pretended to raise him
he was only playing dad. The water
was not changed into wine at the we'd
ding, but Christ brought in some wine
that hc had found elsewhere 10 make
up the deficiency. Christ q J moi
walk on the sea, but on the shore, SC
near that il seemed as if he oil : Were
on the water.
What is still more alarming is, that
Christian men dare not meet this ridi'
cule. There is not one Christian man
in Eve that can, unblanchcd, stand in
the presence OF all this railery, say
ing: IL believe in the whole Bible,
and in every single statement that II
makes" Christian men Try 10 soften
the Bible down TO suit the skeptics;
The skeptics sneer at the dividing of
the Red sea; and the Christian goes
10 explaining that the wind blew q
hurricane from ono direction a good
while, until all the water piled up;
and besides, that il was low water any,
how, and so the lsraelites went
through without any trouble. Why
not be frank and say; Il believe the
Lord God Almighty came TO the brink
OF the Red sea, and with his right arm
swung back the pillows on the right