Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-08-25

miratiOn Of all the people" He further
says: III is amazing what substitutes
have been presented for what my text
Gals the glorious Gospel! There mas
been a hemisphere apOstasy. There are
many people IN this and all other large
asemblages, who have no more idea or
what the real Gospel is than they have
Of what IS contained in the fourteenth
chapter of Zend-Ayesta, the Bible OF
the HndO0, the first copy Of which l
ever saw I purchased in Calcutta last
September. The old Gospel is fifty feet
under and the work has been done by
the shOvels Of those who have been try
ing 70 cOntriYe a philosophy of religion.
There IS no philosophy about II. SO
Brother Talmage cOnfesseS that the old
Gospel is fifty feet under. TrUly,a rex
markable confession. And as the old
Bible says: out OF thine own mouth
VIII judge Thee, and ranking Dr.. Tai
image as one Of the first OF our day and.
country, of the ministers of God, 1 will
judge them out Of their own mouth as
the mouth Of His ministes. He makes
the truthful. assertion: There is no
philosophy about L" This is a plain
Ike faith. Then ne makes the more as
t0lisling assertion that some theological
seminarles have been hot beds OF .nh-
deity because they have tried 10 teach
the philosophy of religion" What a
glorious foundation for the ministry 20
be built upon! He further states: BY
The time young theological student
gets half through he IS relied with the
plenary inspiration and the divinity OF
Christ and the questions Of eternal des-
tiny, i would here interrupt him on
eternal destiny and go back to Brother
Talmage and see what ne says, that Is
1 such has been his case ne IS more ft
for the lowest bench in the infant class
in the Sunday schOl than TO become a
teacher and leader Of the people. Does
this not fulfill Isaiahs prophecy, that
the leaders of this people viii cause
them TO err? His sermon is so full Of
many illustrations that I must use him
further. He says: Here also come,
covering up the old Gospel, some who
think they can by law and the eXpOsurd
! Of crime, save the world. and from
Portland, Maine, across to San Francis
co,and back again 70 New Orleans and
savannah, many of the ministers have
gone into the detective bushes. World
~ reform, by al means, but unles it be
also Gospel reform, it viii be a dead
failure. How much simpler he ght
have stated Ii. that if the love of Christ
| constrained US not, that no means Of
man can urge is In to the army of the
Lord. Now, as Brother Talmage de-
I fv- l-fs
ing out one Of his mistakes and reprOof
OF which we only wish 70 confirm our
: assertions. He says: Here comes an
other c.ass Of people who in the pulpits
and outside OF It, cover I'D the GOsDe!.
who, with the theory that il makes no
final difference what you believe, or
how you act, you are bound for heaven
any how. There they SIT side by side
in heaven, Garfield and Gu.teau. who
shot him: Lincoln and J. Wilkes Booth,
who assasinated him;WashingtOn and
Thomas Paine, who slandered him:
/ Mana Sah!b and the missionaries whom
he dubbed to death at Cawnp0re; Herod
/ and the children whom ne massacred:
Paul and Nero who beheaded him" q
would here state that Isaih SAYS:
I lf,ti+
I the Lord. Though your sins be as scar
let they shall be white as snow though
| taey be red like crimson they shall be
as WOOL He had in view the efficacy
Of the redemption in Jesus Christ, who
/ stated Himself that He came not to call
/ the righteous to repentance but that He
came to seek that which was lost And
/ I must affirm that all these oppOsites
whom he would set aside as unfit for
| heaven, that Il is their crimson stained
/ hands or souls which Christ makes
! white as snow, and not as Brother Tai
mage continues, AS a result Of the pro-
mitigation Of such mOngrel and con-
glOmeraJed heaven there are millions of
/ people in ChrisJendOm who expect to
20 straight to heaven from their serag-
/ los and from their inebration and their
suicides, when midst the lOudest thunder
that breakes over the basaltic island TO
which ST. John was eXpatriated. was the
one in which God announced that the
ab0minable and the mWderers and
whormongers and sorcerers and idOla-
teTs and all liars shall have their place
in the lakes which burneuh with fire and
birthstone, which is the second death. 3"
o, what m-sinterpretation of the
Scriptures! And as Brother HODGES
stated IN his sermon repeat again. that
the words Of Christ sharply contradict
this. "Ye do err. not knowing the Scrip
lures Now hear Brother Talmage
when he says, Il correct what I said
when I stated that the Gospel was buried
fifty feet deep. Il IS buried thousand
feet deep" o, what an awful confession
from a minister of the Gospel, who pro-
feses 10 lead the people of Godl Let us
see if his assertion is true and review
his remarks.
Concluded Next Week
DAN'L DINGFR.