The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-09-19
TALMAGE'S SERMON
PREACHED IN THE BROOKLY Tab
ERNICLE LASTSUNDAY.
The Way to Increase Your Faith Is to
Study The Bible, the Source oil All
Truth-An Eloquent Discourse.

Brooklyn, September Il. Especial In
his sermon at the Brooklyn tabernacle this
forenoon. Rev. DR.. Dewitt Talmage
preached to vast audience on the subject
of 'Rerlforccmcnt," the text being Luke,
II. >: Lord. increase our faith.
What Il pity he is going there, said my
friend, Il most distinguished general of the
army. when he was told that the reason
for my not being present on Il celebrated
day in Brooklyn wits that on that day !
had sailed for the Holy Land. why do
YOU say that enquircd some one. My
military friend replied: ooh he viii be dis
,llusioncd when he gets amid the Sgualor
and commonplace scenes Of Palestine.
and his faith will be shaken in Christianity.
for that is often the result" The great
general misiu,ccd the case. Wch: TO the
Holy Land for the one purpose of having
my faith strengthened. and tnat was the
result which CAME Of it. la nj oar Journey
ing. i'll all our reading. in ali our associa-
TONS, in all or plans. augmen 'IFi)n f..:htr
than the depletion of our faith, should be
our chief desire. 1t is easy enough - have
our faith destroyed. | can eve Won Il lvti pe
for its obliteratiOn Read mi icl 10, KS
have long and frequent conversations " III
ScepticS. attend the lectures ui tIoN. an
tagoniStic 10 religion, give full swing to
some bad habit, and your faith N,l be so
completely gone that you Will Laugh At the
idea that You ever had any. e y,.u want
to ruin your faith you can do ii more, eaSl
than YOU can do anything else. After be-
lioying the Bible all my life. | can ste Il
plain way by which, in S.X weeks. | could
enlist my voice and pen and heart and head
and entire nature in the 0omharImaut of
the scriptures and the church and ~ row
hold sacred. That il is easy 10 barish
soon and forever all respect for III. bible
| prove by the fact that 20 manly have
done 1t. They We're not Particularly bra.Ity,
nor had especial force Of viii, bur II " 30
thoroughly accomplished the overthrow Of
their faith that they have no more idea
that the Bible is true, or that On sti*niiy
amounts to anything than they hava IL Tie
truth of the Arabian Nights Enterlain-
ments, of the existence Of Don QuiXotc's
''windmillS.' They have destroyed their
faith 80 thoroughly that they never will
%Ipn may sweep over the city, the town.
the ncighborhoOd where they live and they
VIII feel nothing but silent or e. pressed
disgust. There are PERSONS in this house
today. who. twenty wears go. gave up their
lath and they Will never Resume it. The
black and deep toned bell of doom hangs
over their head and | take the hammer
Of that bell. and | strike it three times
with all my might. and il sounds. Woe!
of n,n>t If Won is the nrnvtr ,,xnr,sseJ by
th. 1iSriulpS tn Jrsus Christ i'm lhn words
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to study The Bible itself. DO not believe
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