Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-04-11

THE "rLAGUE OF INFIDELITY" THE
SUBJECT. THE SHEER AND MOCK
ERY OF THE BIBLE BY THE INFI-
DELIC WORLD CLEARLY ANSWERED.
Noth,nr Good From InfdelIty.


BROOKLYN. N. Y, April CDR.
Talmage delivered sermon yesterday
morning at the Brooklyn Academy OF
Music on the subject, 1.-THE Plague OF
Infdelity." The text chosen was
Romans, iii, 4: ''Let God be true, but
every man liar"
That is IL God says one thing and the
whole human race says the opposit, Paul
would accept the divine vcracity. But
there are many in our time who have
dared to arraign the Almighty Tor
falsehood Iniidelity is not only plague,
but is the mother Of plaques.
II seems from what we hear on all
sides. that the christian religion is
huge blunder: that the Mosaic account
of the creation is an absurdity large
enough TO throw all nations into roll
licking guffaw; that Adam and Eve
never existed: that the ancient Hoo ana
Noah's ark were impossibilities: there
never was mil icle: that the Bible Is tie
friend OF cruelty. OF murder. OF polyga'
nv, OF all forms OF base crime: that the
christian religion is woman's tyrant and
mans qualification; that the Bible from
lid to lid is fable, a cruelty, u humbug'
a lie: that the martyrs who died Tor its
truth were miserable dupes: that the
church OF Jesus Christ Is properly gaz-
zetted as a fool: that when Thomas Car
lyle. the sceptic, said, 1.-THE Bible Is
noble book, he was dropping into lmbec-
ility: that when Theodore Parker de-
clared in Music hall, Boston, not COY or
girl in all Christendom but was profted
by that great book" he was be-
coming very weak minded that
it is something to bring blush to the
cheek OF every patriot: that Jonn
Adams. the father OF American indie
pendence, declared, THE Bible is the
best book in all the world" and that
lion-hearted Andrew Jackson turned
into q snivelling coward when he said,
THAT book, sir, is the rock on which
our republic rests, and that Daniel
Webster abdicated the throne OF his IN
tellectual power and resigned his logic,
and from being the great eXDourder OF
the constitution and the great lawyerot
his age, turned into an idiot when he
said. MY heart assures and treasures
me that the Gospel o. Jesus Christ must
be divine reality. From the time ut
my mothers feet, or on my fathers
knee, first learned to lisp verses from
the sacred writing. 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 instilllng
into my mind an early love of the scrip
tures;" and that William II. Seward.
the diplomatist of the century, only
showed his puerility when he declared.
1.-THE whole hope OF human progress is
suspended on the ever growing intin-
ces Of the Bibles" and that 1t Is wlsest
IA us TO take that book from the
~ Dne in the affections OF uncounted
> titudes, and put it under our feet to
be trampled upon by hatred and kissing
contempt; and that your old father was
hoodwinked and cajoled, and cheated,
and befooled. when he leaned on this US
a 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 pack OF lies on her lap while
reading OF the better country and OF
the ending of all eraches and pains and
reunion not only with those of you who
stood around her, but with the children
she had buried with infinite heartache,
SO that she could read no more until she
took off her spectacle and wiped from
them the heavy mist OF many tears.
The attack on the Bible Is accompa-
MED by great jocosity, and there Is
hardly any subject about which more
mirth is kindled than about the Bible.
like fun; no man was ever built with a
11eener appreciation OF 1t. There is
health in laughter instead of harm
physical health, mental health, moral
health, spiritual health--provided you
laugh at the right thing. The morning
is jocund. The Indians with its own
mists baptizes the cataract Minnehaha.
or laughing water. You have not kept
your eyes open, or your ears alert, you
have not seen the sea smile, or heard
the forests clap their hands, or the or
chards in blossom week aglee with red
olence. But there is laughter which
is deathful, there is laughter which |
has the rebound of despair. 1t is not
healthy to giggle about God, or chuck!e
about eternity, or smirk about things |
of the immortal soul. You know what |
CduSeu buo dCClucuL years aBO Ou Vic |
Hudson River railroad. It was an in
toxicated man who for joke pulled the
string OF the air brake and stopped the
train, at the most dangerous point
of the journey. But the lightning |
train not knowing there was any i'm
pediment in the way, came down,
crushing out of the msngled victims the
immortal souls that went speeding in
stantly to God and Judgment. It was
only joke. He thought it would be
such fun to stop the train. He stopped
1t! And so infidelity is chiefly anxious
to stop the long train Of the Bible, and
the long train Of the churches, and the
long train of Christian influences, while
coming down upon us are death, judg-
ment and eternity, coming a thousand
miles minute coming up with more
force than all the avalanches that ever
slipped from the Alps, coming with
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