The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-04-10
INFIDELITY SCORCHED.
Or. TALMAGE's ELOQUENT REVIEW
OF A0NOSTICiSM.

msrkable Series Of Sermons ON 9TH
Plaques Of the Cities''-Does the BibI
\ Justify Poiygamy9
New YORK. April 6.-Continuing hi
course of sermons on ''The Ten Plague
1t the Cities" Rev. DR.. Talmage toda,
took for his subject 1.-THE Plague Of In
fidelity" The discourse was delivere,
to large and appreciative audiences a
the Brooklyn Academy Of Music in tn
forenoon and the New York Academ.
a Music In the evening. The text wa
Romans Iii, 4, LET God be true, bu
every man liar"
That is, If God says one thing and tn.
whole human race says the opposite
Paul would accept the divine veracity
But there are many in our time who
have dared arraign the Almighty fol-
falsehood. Infidelity is not only q
plague but it is the mother of plaques.
It seems from what we hear on all
ddes that the Christian religion is a
huge blunder; that the Mosaic account
Of creation is an absurdity large enough
TO throw all nations into rollicking guf-
Jaw; that Adam and Eve never exiJted !;
that the ancient flood and Noah's Ark
were impossibilities; that there never
was miracle; that the Bible is the
friend of cruelty, of murder, of polyg-
amy, of all forms of base crime; that
the Christian religion is woman's tyrant
and mans qualification; that the Bible
from lid to lid isa fable, cruelty,
humbug, sham, lie; that the mar
tyrs who died for it's truth were miser-
able dupes; that the church of Jesus
Christ is properly gazetted as a fool;
that when Thomas Carlyle, the skeptic,
said 1.-The Bible is noble book" he
was dropping into imbecility; that
when Theodore Parker declared in
Music Hall, Boston, Never a boy
or girl in all Christendom but was
profited by that great book" he was
becoming very weak minded; that it is
something to bring blush to the cheek
of every patriot that John Adams, the
father of American independence, de-
clared, 1.-The Bible is the best book in
all the world" and that lion hearted
Andrew jackson turned into a snivel-
ing coward when he said, ''That book,
sir, is the rock on which our republic
rests" and that Daniel Webster abdi-
Gated the throne of his intellectual
power and resigned his logic, and from
being the great expounder of the con-
stitution and the great lawyer of
his age turned into an idiot when he
said, my heart assures and treasures
me that the gospel of Jesus Christ
must be divine reality. From the
time that at my mothers feet or
on my fathers knee I first learned
to lisp verses from the sacred writ
ings they have been my daily study
arid vigilant contemplation, and if
there is anything in my style or
thought to be commended the credit is
due to my kind parents in instilling
INTO my mind an early love of the
Scriptures" and that William H. Sew
ard, the diplomatist of the century,
only showed his puerility when he de-
slared, THE whole hope of human
progress is suspended on the ever grow
ng influences of the Bible;" and that
t is wisest for us to take that book
rom the throne in the affections of
mounted multitudes, and put it un-
Ter our feet to be trampled upon by
hatred and kissing contempt, and that
your old father was hoodwinked and
,ajoled and cheated and befooled
Fhen he leaned on this as a staff after
lis hair grew gray, and his hands were
remulous, and his steps shortened as
10 caMe up to the verge of the grave,
md that your mother sat with pack
Il lies on her lap while reading of the
,etter country, and of the ending of all
Ter aches and pains, and reunion not
,hly with those of you who stood
round her, but with the children she
lad buried with infinite heartache, so
hat she could read no more until she
ook off her spectacles and wiped
rom them the heavy mist of many
ears.
THE GLORIOUS CONSOLATION.
Alasl that for forty and fifty years
hey should have walked under this
and had it under their pillow
When they lay a-dying in the back
Dom, and asked that some words from
he vile page might be cut upon the
ombstone under the shadow of the old
country meeting house, where they sleep
oday waiting for resurrection that
will never come This book, having
deceived them, and having deceived
he mighty intellects of the past, must
lot be allowed to deceive our larger,
nightier, vaster, more stupendous in
elects.
And so out with the book from the
curt room, where it is used in the
of testimony. Out with
from under the foundation of church
nd asylum. Out with it from the do
nestle circle. Gather together all the
children's Bibles, the fam