Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-05-26
INCERSOlLISM
Rev. DR.. Talmage Arraigns In
fidelity as the Enemy
Of Women.
The Destroyer of Men and the Re
m0ver of all Moral he
sIraints.
BaCCRATIO

BROOKLYN, Nay l3;-This morning the
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage. ID. d., preach
ed at the Tabernacle to an overlooking
congregation. The hymn beginning,
! stand up my soul, shake off thy fears,
And giro the Gospel srmor on I"
was sung with magnificent effect. DR..
Talmage's subject was Observation"
and his text:
1.-The sun shall ks turned int darkness."-
Acts IT,, wa.
He said
Solar eclipse Is here prophesied to take
place abOut the time of the destruction OF
ancient Jerusalem. Jssephus, the histo-
rian, says that the prophecy was literally
fulfilled, and that about that time there
were strange appearances in the heavens.
The sun was net destroyed, but for a lit
tie while hidden.
Christianity is the rising sun of eur
time, and nen have tried with the uproll-
ing vapsrs Of skepticism and the smoke
! of their b~lasphemy to turn the sun into
darkness. Suppose the archangels of
malice and horror should be let loose =
little while and be allowed to e%xtinguish
and destroy the sun in the natural heav-
ems. They would take the oceans from
ether worlds and pour them on this lu-
minary OF the planetary system, and the
waters 60 kissing down amid the ravines
and the caverRs. and there is explosion
after explosion, until there are only a few
peaks OF fire left in the sun, and these
are cooling down and going out until the
vast continents Of flame are reduced to .
small acreage Of fire, and that whitens
and cools of until there are u few Goals
left, and these are whitening and going
sut until there is not a spark left in all
the mountains of ashes and the valleys Of
ashes and the chasms Of ashes. An ex-
tinguished sun. A dead sun. A buried
sun. Let all worlds wall at the stupen-
dous s%bsequies.
OF course, this withdrawal of the solar
light and heat throws our earth into a
universal chill, and the tropics become
the temperate, and the temperate becomes
the Arctic, and there are frozen rivers
and frozen lakes and frozen oceans.
From Arctic and Antarctic regions the in
habitants gather intoward the centre and
find the equator as the poles. The slain
forests are piled up into a great bonfire,
and around them gather the shiyering
villages and cities. The wealth of the
coal mines is hastily poured into the fur
naces and stirred into rageof combustion,
but soon the bontires begin to lower, and
the furnaces begin 10 go out, and the ma
tons begin 10 die. CotopaXi, Vesuvius,
Etns, Stromboli, Californian geysers
cease to smoke, and the Ice Of hail storms
remains unmelted in their crater. Ali the
flowers have breathed their last breath.
Ships with sailors frozen at the mast, and,
helmsmen frozen at the wheel, and pas
fx.Ya, - ~ nab,~. ell nattnnn
diving, first at the north and hen at the
south. Child frosted and dead in the
cradle. Octogenarian frosted and dead
at the hearth. Workmen with frozen
hand On the hammer and frozen foot on
the shuttle. Winter from sea to sea.
All-congealisg winter. Perpetual win
ter. Globe Of frigidity. Hemisphere
shackled TO hemisphere by chains Of ice.
Universal Nsva Zembls. The earth an
ice-ioe grinding against other ice foes.
The archangels Of malice and hsrror have
done their.wsrk, and now they may take
their thrones OF glacier and look down
upon the ruin they have wrought.
What the destruction Of the sun In the
natural heavens would be to our physical
earth the destruction Of Christianity
would be to the moral world. The sun
III Z INV htSC. ihIdNlIby ~ oti
time is considered . great joke. There
are people who rejoice to hear Christian
ity caricatured and to hear Christ assailed
with quibhle and quirk and misrepresent-
alton and badinage and h~arlequinade.
INFIDELITr.
propose this morning TO take infidel-
ity and atheism out of the realm of jocu-
larity int one of tragedy and show you
what they propose and what, if they are
successful, they will accomplish. There
are those in all Il communities who
would like to sec the Christian religion
s%verthrown, and who say the world
would be better without it. | want to
show YOU what is the end Of this read,
and what is the terminus of this crusade,
and what this world will be when athe-
Ism and inndelity have triumphed over il,
if they can say, if they can. l reiter,
ate it. if they can
In the FIRST place it will be the complete
and unutterablc degradation OF woman.
hood. will prove il by facts and argu.
ments which no honest man viii dispute.
In all communities and cities and states
and nations where the Christian religion
has been dominant, woman's condition
has been ameliorsted and improved and
she is deferred to and honored in . thou
sand things and every gentleman takes
Of his hat before her. II your associa-
ions have been good, you know tina, the
name Of wife, mother, daughter sugges,
gracious surroundings. You know there
are no better schools and seminaries in
Brseklyn Or in any city OF this country
than the schools and semissries FOR sul
young ladies. Y5uAaow that while wo
nan may suffer injustice In England anc
the United States. she has more OF he
rights in Christendon thsn she has any
where else.
voNAN's CONDITION IN nRArHRE LANDS
Now. compare this with woman's con
di,ion in lands where Christianity hal
made little or No advance-in China, il
Barbary, in Bsrnes, in Tsrtary. In Egypt
in Hindostsn. The Burmese sell theil
wives and daughters as SO many sheep
The Hildss Bible makes il disgracefu
and an outrage for . woman 10 listen L
music. Or 10 look out Of the window il
: Inc absence ~ her husband. and gives a
? a lawful ground for divorce woman
beginning % eat before her husband ha
. finished his meal. What mean thos'
white bundles on the ponds and rivers il
China in the morning. Infsnticide fol
| Lowing iRfantiCide. Female children de