Connecticut western news., 1891-04-08
INFlDELITY SCORCHED.
DR. 1ALMAGE'S ELOQUENT REVIEW
 OF AGNOSTiClSM.

markAble Seriea of Sermons on 'The
 Plagues of the Cities"-Does tho Bible
 Justify Polygamy9
 NRw YORK. April 5. Continuing his course of sermons on ''The Ten Plagues of the Cities" Rev Dr. Tallnage today took for his subject ''The Plague of ln-' fidelity The discourse was delivered to large and appreciative audiences at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the forenoon and the New York Academy R,lu;,Il~ iii. 4. Let God be true. but every man a 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. lntidelity is not only a plague but it is the mother of plaques.
 1t seelns from what we hear on all slices that the Christian religion is a huge blunder: that the Mosaic account of creation is ar absurdity large enough tu throw all nations into rollicking gulf flaw that Adam and Eve never existed |: that the ancient flood and Noah's Ark were ilnpossibilities. that there never was miracle: that the Bible is the friend of cruelty of murder. of polyg al,.y. of all forms of base crilne: that the Christian religion is wo,nan's tyrant and mans qualification. that the Bible T i.., eDH hurnbug 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 q fool: |: that when Thonas Carlyle. the skeptic. said 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 sLl ChriStendom but was proited 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. ''The Bible is the best book in all the world;" and that lion hearted Andrew Jackson turned into snivel ing coward when he said. 'Tlat book. sir. is the rock on which our republic rests:" and that Daniel Webster abdi cated the throne of his intellectual power and resigned his logic, and from l,eing 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 reassures me that the gospel of Jesus Christ must be divine reality From the time that at my mothers feet or on my fathers knee l first learned to lisp verses from the sacred writ rngs they have been my daily study and vigilant contemplation, and if there is anything in my style or thought to be commended the credit is due to my kind parents in installing into my mind all early love of the Scriptures" and that William H. Sew ard, the diplomatist of the century. only showed his pnerility when he de clared, "The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever grow ing influences of the Bible:" and that .t is wisest for us to take that book l from the throne in the affections of l uncounted multitudes. and put it un der our feet to be tralnpled upon by hatred and hissing contempt. and that your old father was hoodwinked and cajoled and cheated and befooled when he leaned on this as a staff after his hair grew gray, and L:s hands were treluulous. and his steps shortened as lIe calle up to the verge of the grave. and that your mother sat with 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 ,,nly with those of you who stood ,,round her. but witt, the children she had buried wich infinite heartache. SO that she could read no more until she ttnk of her spectacles and wiped | tears
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 l Alas! that for forty and fifty years rl,ey should have walked under this delusion. and had it under their pillow when they lay a-dying in the back room. and asked that some words from the vile page might be cut upon the tombstone under the shadow of the old country meeting house. where they sleep today waiting for a resurrection that will never coine This book. having deceived them. and having deceived tile mighty intellects of the past, must not be allowed to deceive our larger, iuig',tier vaster, more stupendous in tsllects.
 And so out with the book from the ':ourt room, where it is used in the >olelnnization of testimony. Out with It from under the foundation of church md asylum. Out with it from the do nestle circle. Gather together all the Biblcs-the children's Bibles. the fam fly Bibles, those newly bound and chose with lid nearly worn out and pages almost obliterated by the fingers long ago turned to dust bring them all together. and let US make a bonfire of them. and by it warm our cold crit, lcisIn. and after that turn under with tle plowshare of public indignation the polluted ashes of that loathsolne. ,dulterous. obscene. cruel and death full book which is so antagonistic to Iil;.n's liberty. and woman's honor. and the worlds happiness.
 How that is the substance of what ;nfdelity proposes and declares, and the attack on the Bible is accompanied by great jocosity. and there is hardly
 any subject about which more nirth i
 kindled than about the Bible. lik'