Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-04-11
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Oh. TALMAGE's ELOQUENT REVIEW
OF AeNosTlcIsM.
The Remarkable Of Very Re-
I markat;io Series Of Sermons on 1.-The
Tlagnessof the CItlos"-Docs the BlbIe
Justify I:olyrnmyG
1ssy5ss goRK, April 5-Continuing his
cohrs sermons on 1.-The Ten Plaques
oflthe Sifies;sp Rev.Dr. Talmage today
tookf for is subject THE Plague of In
tldeiIt esdisconrse was delivered
tofarge and d 4 preciatise audiences at
thesBrook cad eingo Music in the
foEeno on: the a N ew academy
Of Music iii evening rlietexts was
RoiSiiia set t5Iod be true but
every 4
y rays one ching and the
Who'll 90 tlle opposite:
Pau woslll file q iYine eFncity;s
EItstt ieress in our iffiea WHO
have dared 81 vi AlInig for
fal5sfood Intidelity is not only a
tt1ttti Isl the lnotllcrof plaques.
Ut seems frori Whit I'VE hear on oil
sides; that tile Christian religion is a
huge blunder; that tile Mosaic account
.ofEcreatioll is IN absurdity large enough
tostIlrow all nations into rollicking guf-
faw;t that Adam and Eve never existed;
that the ancient flood and Noah's Ark
were in possibilities; that there never
vas ~ 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 isa fable, cruelty,
humbug, n sham, lie; that the mar.
tyrs who died for its truth were nliser
able sdupes; that the church Of Jesus
Christ is properly gazetted as fool;
that when Thomas Carlyle, the skeptic,
said THE Bible is noble book" he
was dropping into imbeoility; chat
when Theodore Parker declared in
Music Hall. Boston, Never boy
or girl in all Christendom but was
proited by that great book" he was
becoming very weak minded; that it is
something to brings blush to the cheek
of every patriot that John Adams, the
father of American independence, de-
clared, 1.-THE Bible is the best book in
all tile world" and that lion. hearted
Andrew Jackson turned into snivel-
ing coward when fe said, THAT book,
sir, Is tile rock on which QUIZ republic
rests" and that Daniel Webster abdi-
Gated the throne OF his intellectual
power and resigned his logic, and from
being the great eSpounder of the con-
stitution and the great lawyer of
his age; turned into an idiot when he
said. my heart assures and treasures
ne that the gospel of Jesus Christ
must; be divine reality. From the
time that ut 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 ylgilant contemplation, and if
stl,eFecSs nything in M yle-4or:
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 BibIe;" and that
it is wisest for us to take that book
from the throne in the affections Of
uncounted lnultitudes, and put it I'M
der our feet to be tralnpled upon by
hatred and kissing 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 his hands were
tremulous, and his steps shortened as
he came up to the verge of the grave,
and that your mother sat with q 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 heartache, so
that she could read no moro until she
took off her spectacles and wiped
from them the heavy mist of many
tears.
THE 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, 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 q resurrection that
will never come. This book, having
deceived them, and having deceived
the mighty intellects of the past, must
not be allowed to deceive our larger,
1nigbtier, vaster, more stupendous in
tellects.
And SO out with the book from the
court room, where it is used in the
solelnnizntion of testimony. Out with
it from under the foundation of church
and asylum. Out with it from the do
lnestic circle. Gather together all the
Bibles-the children's Bibles, the fam
ily Bibles. those newly bound and
those with lid nearly worn out and
pages almost obliterated by the fingers
long ago turned to dust-bring them