Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-04-07
INFIDELITY SC0RCHED.
DIR. TALMAGE's ELOQUENT REVIEW
OF AeNosTlclsM.

Justify Poiygamy7
NEW YORK. April 5. Continuing his
course of sermons on "The Ten Plaques
Of the Cities, Rev. DIR. Talmage today
took for his subject THE Plague of In
fidelity" 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 evening. The text was
Romans iii. 4, 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 for
falsehood. Inhdelity is not only a
plague but 1t is the mother of plaques.
1t seems from what we hear on all
sides 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
faw; that Adam and Eve never existed /;
that the ancient flood and Noah's Ark
were impossibilties; that there never
was a 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 isl fable, a cruelty, a
humbug, a sham, a lie; that the mar
tyrs who died for its 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 oil 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, S'he 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 a divine reality. From the
time that at my mothers feet or
on my fathers knee | first learned
to lisp verses from the sacred writ.
ings they have been my daily study
and vigilant contemplation, and il
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 II. Sew
ard, the diplomatist Of the century,
only showed his puerility when he de
clared, THE whole hope of human
progress is suspended on the ever grow
ing influences of the Bible;" and that
II Is wsest for us TO take that book
from the throne In the affections OF
uncounted multitudes and put 1t un-
der our feet to bo trampled upon 10y
hatred and kissing contempt, and that
your old father was hoodwinked and
caioled and cheated and beiooled
when he leaned on this as n staff after
his hair grew gray, and his hands were
tremulous, and his steps shortened as
he came up to the verge of the grave,
and that your mother sat with a pack
OF lies on her lap while reading of the
better country, and of the ending of all
her aches and pains, and reunion not
only with those of you who stood
around her but with the children she
had buried with infinite heartaohe, so
that she could read no more until she
took oil her spectacles and wiped
from them the heavy mist OF many
tears.
THR GLORIOUS CONSOLATION.
Alas that for forty and fifty years
they should have walked under this
delusion, and had it under their pillow
when they lay a-dying in the back
room, aud asked that some words from
the vile page might be cut upon the
tombstone under the shadow OF the old
country meeting house, whore they sleep
today waiting for a resurrection that
will never come. This book having
deceived them, and having deceived
the mighty intellects of the past, must
not be allowed 10 deceive our larger,
mightier, vaster, more stupendous in
tellectS
And SO out with the book from the
court room, where il is used In the
determination OF testimony. Out with
II from under the foundation OF church
and asylum Out with il from the do.
mestic circle Gather together all the
Bibles the ehildren's Bibles, the fam
lily Bibles, those newly bound and
thoss with lid nearly worn out and
pages almost obliterated by the fingers
long ago turned % dust bring them
all together. aud let as make a bonfire
OF them, and 10y IL warm our cold crit
icissn. and after that turn under with
the plowshane OF public Indignation
the polluted ashes of that loathsome,
adnlterous. obscene, cruel aud death
ful book which is 50 antagonists 20
mans liberty. and womans honor and
the worlds happiness