Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-08-16
SERMON
Rev. DR.. Calniaee
Subject: The Gospels Triumph-victoriea
Of the Christian Religion Depicted
Transformations Wrought by Christ's
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Reclaimed.

Subject: The Gospels Triumph-victoriea
OF the Christian Religion Depicted
Transformations Wrought by Christ's
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Reclaimed.
Copyright. Louis Klopsch. 1891
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The antagonists of
the Christian religion are in this sermon Of
DR.. Talmage met In very unusual way,
and the triumphs OF the Gospel are depict
ed. The text Is Ezekiel XXI, Il "He made
his arrows bright. he consulted with i'm
ages, he looked in the liver
Two modes OF divination by which th
king OF Babylon proposed to find out the
will of God. He took n bundle Of arrows.
pulled forth one, and by the inscription on
1t decided what city he should first as
sault. Then an animal was slain, and by
the lighter or darker color OF the liver the
brighter or darker prospect OF success was
inferred. That Is the meaning of the text,
"He made his arrows bright, he consulted
with images, he looked in the liver" Stupid
delusionl And yet all the ages have been
filed with delusions. 1t seems as IL the
world loves to be hoodwinked, the delusion
Of the text only specimen Of a vast number
of deceits practiced upon the human race.
In the litter Fart Of the last century Jo.
hanna Southcote came forth pretending to
have divine power, made prophecies, had
chapels built in her honor, and 100, 900 dis
ciples came forward to follow her. About
five years before the birth Of Christ Apol-
lonius was born, and he came forth, and
to tn" tradition, he healed the sick, and
raised the dead, and preached virtue, and, d,
according to the myth, having deceased,
was brought to resurrection.
The Delphic oracle deceived vast multi
tudes Of people; the Pythoness seated in
gon from which the people guessed their
Individual or national fortunes or mlsfor-
fortunes. The utterances were of such a
nature that you could read them any way
you wanted to read them.
But there are those who say that all these
delusions combined are as nothing COM
pared with the delusion now abroad in the
world-the delusion Of the Christian relig-
lon. That delusion has to-day 400 .00O, 900
dupes. 1t proposes to encircle the earth
with its girdle. That which has been called
a delusion has already overshadowed the
Appalachian range on this side OF the sea.
and 1t has overshadowed the Balkan and
Caucasian ranges on the other side of the
sea. 1t has conquered England and the
United States. This champion delusion.
this hoax, this swindle Of the ages, as II
has been called, has gone foith to conquer
the islands of the Pacific, and Melanesia
and Micronesia and Malayan Polynesia
have already surrendered to the deiusion.
Yea, 1t has conquered the Indian archi-
| pelago, and Borneo and Sumutra and Gel
ebes and Java have fallen under its wiles
| In the Fiji Islands, where there are 120 ,00C
people, 102 900 have already become the
dupes Of this Christian religion, and il
things go on as they are now going on and
II the influence Of this great haliucinatior
OF the ages cannot be stopped it will swal
low the globe. Supposing, then, that
Christianity is the delusion of the cen.
turtles, as some have pronounced 1t, pro-
pose to show you what has been accom-
'ished by this chimera, this fallacy, thi:
THE swlndle OF the ages.
-st place -,a-k that thi:
made