Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-04-06
ON LIES AGAIN
AND TaIS TINE REV. TALMAGE TALkS on
INFIDRLITY.
God is True, and His Emana,ions are Not to Be
0oniradictsd - Tbs Eloquent Preacher
Proves His Tex, by Series
Citations from History.
sp.elaI T.L.qrq,n . IL 49,.

ANEM lOhhf u pm - ~NA-N'AN'A ---
course OF sermons on The Ten Plaques
of the Cities" Rev DR.. Talmage to-
day took for his subject The Plague OF
Iniidelity. The discourse was delivered
10 large and appreciatiye audiences at
the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the
forenoon and the New York Academy
of Music in the evening. The text was,
Romans 3: 1: Let God be true, but
every man liar
That is If God says one thing and the
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 Tor
falsehood. Infdelity is not only u
plague but 10 is the Mother of Plaques.
Ii seems from what we hear on all
sides, that the Christian religion is a
huge blunder; that the Mosaic account
of the creation is an abSurdity large
enough 10 throw all nations into rOllick-
/ ing guffaw: that Adam and Eve never
existed; that the ancient flood aud
NOah'S Ark were possibilities; that
there never was a miracle; that the BIZ
\ ble is the friend Of cruelty, of murder,
of polygamy. OF all forms of base crime:
\ that the Christian religion is wOman'S
/ tyrant and mans qualification: that the
I Bible from lid 70 lid is fable, a cruelty,
La humbug, sham, a lie; that the mar
| tyrS who died for It's truth were mis-
cradle dupes; that the Church Of Jesus
Christ is properly gazetted as fool;
that when Thomas Carlyle, the sceptic,
said: The Bible is noble book" p" he
was dropping into imbecility; that when
/ Theodore Parker declared in Music
Hall. Boston, Never boy or girl in
all ChrStendom but was protited by that
great book, he was becoming very
weak-minded; that il is something to
bring a blush 10 the cheek OF every
patriot that John Adams, the father Of
/ American independence, declared, The
Bible is the best book In all the world;
and that lion-hearted Andrew Jackson
turned into "a Sniyeling coward, when
I he said, That book, sir, is the rock
on which our Republic rests: and that
| Daniel Webster abdicated the throne OF
| his intellectual power and resigned his
logic, and from being the great eX-
FOUNDER OF the Constitution and
the great lawyer of his age,
turned into an idiot, when he
said. My heart assures and reaSSureS
me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must
be- a divine reality. From the time that
at my mothers feet, OF on my fathers
I knee, l first learned TO lisp verses from
the sacred writings. they have been my
daily study aud vigiiant contemplation.
and IL there is anything IN my style or
t sE IN ssrQaff
due 10 my kind parents IN inStilling
into my miud an early love Of the Scrip
tureS;" aud that William III. Seward,
I the dipiOmatiSt of the century, only
showed his puerility when he declared,
| THE whole hope Of human progress Is
suspended on the eyer-grOwing intlu-
enceS Of the Bibles" and that it is wis
est for Us 20 take that book from the
throne IN the affections OF unconnted
multitudes, and put il under our feet to
be trampled upon by hatred and hiss
ing contempt: and that your
old father was hoodwinked, and cajoled,
and cheated, aud befooled, and he
leaned on this as staff after his hair
grew gray, and his hands were tremu-
lous, and his steps shortened Us he
came up 20 the verge OF the grave; and
that your mother sat with i pack of
lHrs on her lap while reading OF the
better country, and OF the ending Of
all her aches and pains, and reunion not
iOnly with those OF you who stood around
her. but with the children she had
buried with infinite heartache, so that
she could read no mOrS until she took
of her SpectacleS, and wiped from them
the heavy mist of many tears.
INFIDELITY HAS NO SUBSTITUTE.
First cannot be an lnfdel because
lufdelity has no substitute for the con
ISOLATION il proposes TO take away. You
know there are millions OF people who
get their chief consolation from this
book. What would you think of cru
SADIE OF this sort? Suppose man
should resolve that he would organize
conspiracy to destroy all the medi-
cineS from all the apOthecarieS aud
from an the hospitals Of the earth. The
work is done The medicines are
taken and they are thrown into the
river, OF the lake, or the sea. \ pa
tient wakes up at midnight in a par
|MAN~Il UA 4ANAANaNs 4AlA W1AAAN an 0hN
dvne. "0h." says the nurse,
"the auodyues are all de-
stroyed: we have no drops TO
give you, but instead Of that I'll read
YOU a book on the abSurditieS of NOR
phine. and on the abSurditieS of all
remedies" But the man continues to
writhe ia pain, and the nurse says:
IN continue 70 read you some dis
courses on anOdyneS, the crueltieS OF
|anodyneS, the indecencieS o. anOdyneS,
the abSurdities of anodynes. For your
groan, III give you a laugh" Here in
the hospital is patient having gan
grened limb amputated. He says, "Oh,
for ether. Oh for chloroform. The
doctors say, "Why, they are all deS-
troyed: we don't have any more chloro-
form, or ether; but | have got some
thing a great deal better. III read you
a pamphlet against James 7. Simp-
sou, the diScoYerer OF chloro-
form as an anaSthetic, and against
Doctors Agnew, and Hamilton, and
HoSack. and Mott, and Harvey, and
B. Abernethy." But" says the man,
IL must have some auHSthetics. mo,
saw the doctors, "they are all destroyed,
but We have got something a great deaI
better" "WhaJ Is that?' Fun.
Fun about medicines. Lie down, all ye
patients in Bellevue Hospital and STOP
d vour groaning-all ye brOken-hearted
OF all the cities, and quit your crying
we have the cathOlicOn at last. Here Is
dose OF wit, here is strengthening
MASTER of sarcasm, here is 4 bottle OF
ribaldry that you are 10 keep we!
shaken up and take a spoonful OF IL after
each meal. and il that does not cpre YOU
D. there Is solution of blasphemy in
which YOU may bathe, and here is .
tincture OF deriSiou. Tackle the Skele-
ton OF death with repartee. Make the
, King OF Terr0rS cackle, For all the
aconies OF all the ages, joke. Millions
of people willing with uplifted hand 10
, ward heaven TO affirm that the GoSpe
( ~ Jesus Christ is full of consolation FOL
B. them. and yet inidelity proposes TO take
it away, giving nothing absolute y
r nothing. except fun. Is there any great
er height,o depth, or length,or breadth
I or immensity Of meanneSS Ia all God
universe.
1NFlpELITY DEFINED.
Inaiellty is a religion Of Don
know" Is there a God? Don't know
Is the soul immortal? Don't know l
o. we should meet each other in the future
I world would we recognize each other
b Don't know. A religion OF don't know
] for the religion Of Il know, Il know
I in whom I have believed, Il know
that my Redeemer liyeth.' lnhdelit,
e nroposes to substitute a religion o
awful negatives for our religion o
glorious poSitiveS showing right befor