Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-04-10


The Glorious Results of IA Living Taith.
What Has inndeiiiy Uone2
New YORK, April {. - Continuing his
course OF sermons or 1.-The Ten Plaques of
the Cities Rev Or Tnlinage today took
for his subject "rhe Plague Of ln1delty'
The discourse was delivered to large and
appreciative audiences at the brooklyn
Academy Of Music In the forenoon and the
New York Academy Of Music in the ever
ing. In" teAt WIS Romans Iii, 1, Let
God b" true, pUt every man liar"
That ~ II God sdNs one thing ard the
whole human race says the opposite, Paul
would aocept the Divine veracity. But
there are :nauy IN our time who have dared
&rrniGr the Almighty for falsehood. In
fidelity is NOS only plague, but it is the
mother Of plaques
1t seems from what we hear On all sides
. that tue Christian religion is a huge blum
der; that the Mosaic account of Che creation
il an abs urdity large enough TO throw all
nations into rolicking guffaw; that Adam
and Eve never existed; that the ancient
food and Noah's arh were Iupossibilties;
that there never was Il miracle; that the
Bible is the friend of cruelty, of murder of
polvgsmy, OF all forms Of base crime; that
the Christian religion is womans tyrant
and mans qualification; that the Bible
from lid to lid is u fable, a cruelty, a hum
bug, a sham, "a lie, that the martyrs who
died for its truth We're miserable GupeS;
mat the church Oh Jesus Christ 10
properly gazetted as Il fool: that when
Thomas Carlyle the skcptic, said, "1'he
Bible Is noble book he wa, dropping
into imDeclity; that when Theodore Parker
declared i'll Music has Boston, "Neyer a
boy or gIrl IN all CHfislontom but was
proiited 10y That great book, he was I've
coming very "c', iI.ii"cd, iuat Ii - >plne-
thIng 70 "r!uE Il '.H,u 10 the cheek OF
every p1tilpt inat JoAH -N'!'NH :. inc father
OF American Independence, drcuHrd the
Bloie Is the best BOOK in al tn' W""lI;
ana that non hearted Nu.t'f dt',son
turned INTO a snireuuc o.N "hcI lie
sale, Inat book, ar, j. 'u' j. - 81. '"h
our republic rests; ana t.lW D'uci " oh-
stcr abdicated thet hronc"i ui sin "ctJal
power and resigned hi- .".i', ".d from
beng tine great e"poun"cr col iA' ""u>'ltu-
non ana the great law. cr"i uiS age turned
mo an ldiOj when nc sad, 'NE u'A:t as
rures and treasures me- tHA' the gospel Of
Jesus Ihrl't must Dc utNiH' fcantN.
SIuln the time tndl at my mothers ieeJ
or on my lNt"ers knee HIST learned to
lisp verses from The Sactri Writings thry
nave been my uHIN Nlud| ANA FI-''ani con
temptation. am! ii lhcrc u 'nyI AnG IN my
stY!e or tAp"Iht to hr commented the
@edit IL due to my Ainc parents in inNtiil-
IN INTO my mIhu "u tuIi love on ne
scrntlre', ana tnal ~ I'!l"m Il. ;""ard,
ghe dIHioihatlsj vi tne century, only ahoWcd
bis pueriity "hen nco"ci*rcd, Ihe whole
hope @! human progress is Su~Hehdad On
thr ever Sr""lI@ 'uhNtHce> "t tue i3lhi";
ana that II is w'-'rt ior Us 10 take that
book from the tAioo" IN the affections Of
En"Juute4 mum .tid"S ana pat Ii under
our Irel to hr tramNl"d upon ny ha-
trri ana his .hE contempt; and that
your ""d I"ntr was AooN"lnhcd and
c2Jo.ed and chrltoi and betooIcd when
he it1H"'l on this HN a. stan after his
hair grew gray, a'i his hands were
trcinu'o1-, an" -t~ STEPS shortened as he
came up to thr }''-aoI jAe grave; and that
your n.". hrr sh. WIN pack ct lies on her
zap "HAr ftaNIh- 90 i1r country, and
OF the ending OF all her &Cl"~ and pains,
ald reunion not only WIu hose IF Nou
who stood around her, bot with the cE;!-
CIen she hNI buried VITA infinite heart
acne 80 i4S- she c'1lG reid hp more untll
f.t#.L ..#E rt.s' d