Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-10
n NcUE OF uNBELIEF
LOWING CAUSE OF ALL
Z " -, AGuES OF CITIES.


!, '"'' CHRISTIANITY and Agnosticism-
I I'LL, glorious Results OF " Living fa'th-
~" mas Iniiaclity Done?
W. ..,.i,r his course of sermons on
Con'ra, ea Plaques of the Cities Rev.
lA r., IMAGE took for his subject "Ihe
Pr @''p If ln6dclity.' The discourse
khsa,e ,;,ord to large and appreciative
fas "'o a; the Brooklyn Academy OF
Ndlei',, ~, .,l, forenoon and the New York |
fuse ~ If Music in the evening. The
taaga pomans ill., 4, Let God be true,
N oycry mai! liar.
u 'S,l II cod says one thing and the
Ina t,,nan race says the opposite,
ho ,,e,.'ni1 accept the Divine veracity.
u. there ore many IN our line VINO
Rut 3 5'' arraign the Almighty for
ave th ". lntidclity is not only a
>,I'pO bpf il is the mother OF plaques.
Iasug ,o,ns from what We hear on all
II s ,,,st the Christian religion is huge
Eae' ' ~. hat the Mosaic account of the
tan .ton is an absordity large enough to
Tea ,r all nations into rollicking gutfaw;
hIo"A Adam and Eve never existed; that
ha t .."i. food and Noah's ark were
IL Entities that there never was a
lalos ,Io. ,Iat the Bible is the friend of
I a']+y of murder, of polygamy, of all
u'ns Of base crime: that the Christian
c i:aion is woman's tyrant and mans
I.'i;;Grotion: dat the Bible from lid to
/ a fablc. q cruelty. a humbug, q
,.n = lie; that the martyrs who lied
ha'i ~ " troth were miserable dupes: that
(v' ',,,rrb. of Jesus Christ is properly
III sa l. as q fool: that when Thomas
anIrln the skeptic, said, "The
k sst, i, . noble book" he was dropping
'pN imbccjIity: that when Theodore
E .% declared in Music Hall, Boston.
kycver Il boy or girl in all Christendom
y, was proii'cd by that great book he
frss Incoming very weak-mindcd; that 1T
something to bring a blush to the
fbc.; Of every patriot that John
, r the father of American in
t'an " declared, "Thc Bible is
W best book in all the world:"
Isnd that lion-heartcd Andrew jackson
|mrncd into a sniveling coward when he
EsM THAT book, sir,is the rock on which
|oar Republic rests" and that Daniel
|Wrb,trr dedicated the throne of his in
talIoctual power and resigned his logic,
land from being the great cXponder OF the
and the great lawyer OF his
|oer turned into an idiot when he said,
|"Nv heart assures and treasures me that
|,hn gospel OF Jesus Christ must be a
Eiyine reality. From the time that at my
|mothers feet or on my fathers knee l
first learned to lisp verses from the sacred
Writings they have been my daily study
and gigilant contemplation, and if there
+ is ANYTHING in my style or thought to be
commended the credit is due to my kind
parents in lnstilling into my mind an
earN loHe OF the Scriptures:' and that
William II. Seward. the diplomatist of
. the century. only showed his puerility
when he declared, The whole hope of
human progress is suspended on the ever
growing Influences of the Bibles" and
tAat il is wiscst for us to take that book
from The throne i'm the affections of UNI
cil4ted mltitudes and put it under our
.el 10 be tramulcd upon by hatred and
Using contempt; and that your old
atAG was hoodwinked and cajoled and
Cheated and hcfo0icd when he leaned on
his as a staff after his hair grew gray,
and his hands were trcmnlouS, and his
steps shortened as he came up TO the
VERGE Of the grave: and that your mother
sat with Il pack OF lies on her lap while
reading OF the better country, and OF tho
ending OF all her aches and pains, anC
rluiOn not only with those OF you who
stood around her. but with the children
She had buried with infinite heartache
50 that She could read no more until she
them the heavy mist of MANY tears
A!a>. that for forty and fifty years they
should have walked under this dclusiol
and had it under their pillow when the.
lay a-tying in the back room, and asked
lAat some words from the vile page nigh
be cut upon the tombstone under thu
shallow Of the old country meeting hous'
where they sleep to-day waiting for ;
resurrection that Will never come.
IRIS book, having deceived them, ant
having deceived the mighty intcllccts o
lie past, must not be allowed to de
ccNe our larger, mighticr. vaster, mor
Slupendous intclccts. And so out will
lhc1ooh from the court room, where i
Is used in the solemnization of testi
MoIE Out with it from under TIN
looHdation of church and asylum. Gu
WIN it from the domestic circle
ualher together all the Blbles--th
vAlloren's Bibles, the family Bibles
'Aost newly bound, and those with liz
N'ailE worn out and pages almost obllt
F id by the fingers long ago turned t.
,aQSl-brlng Them all together, and lie
u MAKE bonfire of them, and by
warm urcold criticism, and after tina
; !"lH under with the plowshare of publ
i''0ighatlon the polluted ashes of tina
ao@yhSome, adulterous, obscene, cruc
a. al" oeathful book, which is so antago
il>ue TO mars liberty, and woman
No,.of, and the worlds happiness.
? NOW that is the substance of what in
N'eI!(y proposes and declares, and tn
attack on the Bible is accompanied b
sltaI locoslty. and there is hardly an
~ about which more mirth is kin
uleo 'han about the Bible. l like fun
nv man was ever built with keener az
5Riceiallon of it. There is health i
Sumter 3l,r instead of harm-physica
lh n, spiritual health-provided yo
IA i"l!Sh al the right thing. The mornin
Il Jocund. The Indian with its own mis-
Tgap1izes the cataract Minnehaha, @
l-"uShlng Water. You have not keE
Ioui eyes open or your ears alert If yO
+"', not seen the sea smile, or heard tn
i ~ ~ clap their hands, or the orchard
D. d, o'oSsom week aglee with redolenct
f DI' mere is laughter which is dealt
rot'. mere is laughter which has tn