The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-08-12
CHRIST'S TEACHINGS.
Dr.. Talmage Depicts Triumphs Of
the Gospel
Victories % the Christian Religion
-~DrunEards Are Reclaimed
aAd Thieves MADE
R~IEhteoua.

and Thieves Made
RIghteOsG
Copyright iSSs. by Louis Kiopsch)
Washington. AUS 6
The antagonists Of the Christian
religion are in this sermon Of Dr.. Tai
mage met in s very unusual way, and
the triumphs OF the Gospel are depict
ed. The text is Ezekiel si:2i; He
made his arrows bright he consulted
with images. he looked In the liver"
Two modes Of d~iyinstion by which
the king Of Babylon proposed to find
out the will Of God. He took a bundle
Of arrows, put them together. mixed
them up, then pulled forth one, and by
the inscription on It decided what city
he should first assault. Then an ami
NAL was slain. and by the lighter or
darker color Of the liver the brighter
or darker prospect Of Gee was in
ferred, That is the meaning Of the
text; HE made his Arrows bright he
consulted with images, he looked In
the liver" Stupid deluSion. And yet
all the ages have been filed with delu-
sions. II seems as II the world loves
20 be hoodwinked. the delusion Of the
text only a specimen Of q vast number
OF deceits praeticed upon the human
rae In the latter part of the last
century Johanna Southcote came forth
pretending TO have Divine power, made
n-opIacfaa h.I ch~Dalr hrsIs Z, L.
honor, and 10000 disciples came for
ward TO follow her. About i've years
before the birth of Christ ApouOnius
was born, and he came forth, and after
FIVE years being specifies. accord
ing 10 the tradition. he healed the sick.
and raised the dead. and preached vir-
tue, and, according TO the myth, having
deceased, was brought TO resurrection.
The Delphie oracle deceived vast
multitudes of people; the Pythonsss
seated in the temple Of Apollo uttering
a crazy jargon from which the people
guessed their individual or national
fortunes OF misfortunes. The utter
ances were Of such a nature that you
could read them any way you wanted
10 read them.
So the ancient auguries deceived the
people. The priests Of those auguries
by the flight Of birds or by the intona-
ton Of slain animals told the fortunes
or misfortunes Of individuals and Of ma
tons. The sibyls deceived the people.
The sibyls were supposed 10 be in
spired women who lived in caves and
who wrote the sibylline books after
ward purchased by Tarquin the Proud.
So late as the year 1929 a mar arose in
New York, pretending TO be q Divine
being, and played his part so well that
wealthy merchants became his dis
ciples and threw their fortunes into his
keeping. And SO in all ages there
have been necromancies, incantations,
witchcrafts, sorceries. magical arts,
entertainments, divinations and delu-
sions. The one Of the text was only a
specimen Of hat which has been oc-
curing in all ages Of the world. None
OF these delusions accomplished any
good. They deceived, they pauperized
,ha naonla a.. -
- "a rL.-sNsI
tails, they healed no wounds, they wiped
away no tears, they emancipated no
pn, ,h.-. -.
,hsss dal%ns,ons onwhia.S
inc comnarsd ,ri,L n"
.brosd a. ~ -,
,bs nris,,an ra,;nioa Tta. 1n
hoe ,o.day aon 400 nna Ia"
80 80 .ua;raJs r. ~
eirdla Tha, uh,oh 10 hAa.aan
5e,nsior re- 49,
Anna,achIan ranaa ~ ~
sea. and n has oversb.dousd ~ d.
kan and Caucasian ranges on ,ba IN,
side OF the sea. II has conoDered Enc.
land and the limited state This obox-
MON delusion. this boav This s,yindI.
Of the ages. as IL has baan caIIsd hos
gone forth TO conoper The Island, ~
the Pacific. and Nelanesia and MR.
nesia and Malavan Polynesia havs al.
ready surrendered IN the deIus;on Yea
IL has GnnmmETRd Tho Indian nEahfRala-
20. and Rorneo and sumo,ra ana CaI-
ebes and lava have fallen nrder ;,s
wiles. in the Fiji Stands where tbsra
are i2O6Ob peonle mo 400 bava o.
ready become the dunes of tbis Chris
tan religion. and n things oo ON "a
they are now going on and 10 tba In
Auence Of This grest borIncinotio. =,
the ages cannot be stonned n wn
swallow the plobe srnpos;ro ,bor
that Christianity IL the 5elnsion NJ tbs
centuries ne some have nropourced 4,
I n-ronosa IN shoyv 90, arha, has -
| a~cromnlisbed bv ,Lis obinara ,Lt.
faIIacy ,bis boo~ ME snindia =, A.
aces
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b,, - n-onaa-S,1 ..a".I-Har~-
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m nonsv ,b,, 49,, TO- - ,onr
noes Tor hooks and Cor clothes and IN,
education. He is n new man. An who
know him sav there has bee, a ZION.
derfuI change What IL the cause n,
his cbangeS This great baIlnclns,Ior