Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 46, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 April 1891 — Page 4

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INFIDELITY DETHRONED, Bev. T. DeWitl; Tulm'age Attaoks the Mother of Moral Plagues. Infidelity Arraigned and Found Wanting in AU the tilorlous Attributes that Xih» Christianity a Constant Blessing. The following discourse on “The Plague of Infidelity,” whieh he characterized as “the mother of plagues,” was delivered by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage In Brooklyn and New York city, from the text: I.ct God be true, but every man a liar—Homans Hi. , 4. That is, if God says one thing and the whole human race says the opposite, Paul would accept the Divine veracity. Rut there are many in our time who have dared arraign the Almighty for falsehood. Infidelity is not only a plague, hut it is the mother of plagues. It seems from what we hear on all sides, that the Christian religion 1b a huge blunder; that the Mosaic account of the creation is an absurdity large enough to throw all nations into rollicking guffaw; that Adam and Eve never existed; that the ancient flood and Noah’s ark were impossibilities; that there never was a miracle; that the Bible is the friend of cruelty, of murder, of polygamy, of all forms of base crime; that the Christian religion is woman’s tyrant and man’s stultifies

tion; that the Bible from lid to lid is a table, a cruelty,.a humbug', a sham, a lie; that the martyrs who died for its truth were miserable .dupes; that the church of Jesus ■Christ is properly gazetted as Mt fool; that when 'ghomas Carlyle, the fekeptie. said, “The Bible is a noble fcobk,” he was dropping into imbecility; Riat when Theodore Parker declared in Dlusic hall, Boston, “Never a boy or girl in all Christendom but was profited by that great book,” lie was becoming very weak minded; that it is something to bring a blush to th% cheek of every patriot that John Adams, the father of American independence, declared, “The Bible is the best book in all the world;”. and that lion-hearted Andrew Jackson turned into a sniveling coward when he said, "That book, sir.is the rock on Which our republic rests;” and that Daniel Webster alidicated the throne of his intellectual power and resigned his logic, and from being the great expounder of the constitution and the great lawyer of his age, turned'"into an idiot, when he said: “My heart assures and reassures me that the (lospel of Jesus Christ must be a Divine reality, from the time that at my mother's feet, or on my father's knee, 1 first learned to lisp verses from the sacred writings, they have been my daily study and vigilant contemplation, and if there is anything in my Btyle or thought, to be commended the credit is due to iny kind parents in instilling into my mimi an early love of the Scriptures;” and that William 11. Seward, the diplomatist of the eentnry, only showed his puerility when he declared; “The whole hope of human progress is suspended Qn the ever-growing influences of the Bible;” and that it is wisest for us to take that book from the throne in the affections of uncounted multitudes, and put it under our feet to be trampled xipon by hatred and hissing 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 fjat with a pack of lies on her lap while reading of the better country, of the ending of all her aches and pains, and reunion not only with those Who stood around her, but with the children she had buried with infinite heartache, so that she could read no more until slie took off her spectacles and wiped from them the heavy mist of many tears.

Alas! tnat tor forty anti fifty years they should have walked under this delusion and hud it under their pillow when' they lay a-dying in the back room, and asked that some Words from the old -book might be cut upon the tombstone under the shadow of the old country meeting house where they sleep to-day, waiting for a resurrection that will never come. This book, having deceived the mighty intellects of the past, must' not be allowed to deceive our larger, mightier, Vaster, most stupendous intellects. And so out with the book from the court room, where it is used in the solemnization of testimony. Out with it from ttndert the foundation of church and asylum. Out with it from the domestic circle. Gather together all the Bibles —the children's Bibles, the family 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 all together, and let us make a bonfire of them, and by it warm our cold criticism, and after that turn under with the plowshare of public indignation the polluted ashen of that loathsome, adulterous, obscene, cruel and deathful book, which is so antagonistic to man's liberty, and woman's honor, and the world’s happiness; Mow, that is the substance of what infidelity projjowfe and declares, and the attack on the Bible is accompanied by great jocosity, and there is hardly any subject about which more mirth is kindled than about the Bible. I like fun; no man was ever built with a keener appreciation of it. There is health in laughter instead of harm—physical health, mental health, moral health, spiritual health—provided you laugh at the right thing. Thfc morning is joennd. The Indian with its own mist baptizes the cataract Minnehaha, or laughing water. You have not kept your eyes open or your ears alert if you have not seen the sea smile, or heard the forests clap their hands, or the orchards in blossom-week nglee- with redolence. But there is a laughter which is deatkful; there is* a laughter which has the rebound of despair. It is not healthy to giggle about God, or chuckle about eternity, or smirk about the things of the immortal soul. You know what caused the accident years ago on the Hudson Kivcr railroad. It was an intoxicated man who for a joke pulled the string of the air brake and stopped the train at the most dangerous point of the journey. But the lightning train, not knowing there-was any impediment in the way, came down crushing out of the mangled victims the immortal souls that went speeding instantly to the God and to judgment. It was only a joke. He thought it would be such fun to stop the train. He stopped it! And so infidelity is chiefly anxious to stop the long tram of the Bible, and the long trai n of the churches, and the long train of Christian influences, while coming down upon us are death, judgment and eternity, coming a thousand miles a minute, coming with more force than.all the avalanches thatever slipped from the Alps, coming with more strength than all the lightning-express trains that ever whistled or shrieked, or thundered across the continent. this sentiment of infidel kers I cannot join, and I propose lome reasons why I can not , and so I will try to help ; iresent condition any who ' sen struck frith 43m awful ]

First, I can not be an infidel because infidelity has no good substitute for the consolation it proposes to take away. You know there are millions of people who get their chief consolation from this book. What would yon think of a crusade of this sort? - Suppose a man should resolve that he would organize a conspiracy to destroy all the medicines from all. the apothecaries and from all the hospitals of the earth. The work is done. The medicines are taken and they are thrown into the river, or the lake, or the sea. A patient wakes up at midnight in a paroxysm of distress, and wants an anodyne. “Oh,” says the nurse, “the anodynes are all destroyed; we have no drops to give you, but instead of that I’ll read yon a book on the absurdities of morphine, and on the absurdities of all remedies.” But the man continues to writhe in pain, and the nurse says: “I'll continue to read you some discourses on anodynes, the cruelties of anodynes, the indecencies of anodynes, the absurdities of anodynes. For your groan I’ll give you a laugh.” Here in the hospital is a patient having a gangrened limb amputated. He says, “Oh.' for ether. Oh, for chloroform.” The doctors say: “Why. they are all destroyed; we don’t have any more chloroform or ether; but I have got something a great deal better. I’ll read you a phamphlet against James Y. Simpson, the discoverer of chloroform as an anaesthetic, and against Drs. Agnew and Hamilton and Hosack and Mott and Harvey and Abernethy.”

"But," says tne man, "l must nave some anaesthetics.” “No,” say the doctors, “they are all destroyed, but we have got something a great deal better.” “What is that?” “Fun.” Fun about medicines. Lie down, all ye patients in liellevne hospital and stop your groaning—all ye broken-hearted of all the cities and quit our crying; we have the catholieon at'last! Here is a dose of wit, here is a strengthening plaster of sarcasm, here is a bottle of ribaldry that you are to keep well shaken up and take a spoonful of it after each meal, and if that does not cure you, here is a solution of blasphemy in which you may bathe, and here is a tincture of derision. Tickle the skeleton of death with a repartee! make the king of terrors cackle! For all the agonies of all the ages, a joke! Millions of people willing with uplifted hand toward Heaven to affirm that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is full of consolation for them, and yet infidelity proposes to take it away, giving absolutely nothing, except fun. Is there any greater height, or depth, or length, or breadth, or immensity of meanness in all God's universe? Infidelity is a religion of “don't know.” Is there a God? Don't know! Is the soul immortal? Don’t know! If we should meet each other in the future world Will we recognize each other?Don't know! A religion of “don't know” for the religion of “I know,” “I know in whom I have believed.” “I know that my Redeemer liveth.” Infidelity proposes to substitute a religion ■ of awful negatives for our religion of glorious positives showing right before us a world* of reunion and ecstasy, and high companionship, and • glorious worship, and stupendous victory; the mightiest ioy of earth not high enough to reach to the base of the Himalaya of uplifted splendor awaiting all those who on the wing of .Christian faith will, soar toward it] Have you'heard of the conspiracy to put’out all the lighthouses on the coast? Do you know that on a certain night of next month Eddystone lighthouse, Hell Rock lighthouse, Sherry vore lighthouse, MontaUk lighthouse, Hatteras lighthouse, New London lighthouse, Barnegat lighthouse and the six hundred and forty lighthouses on the Allantic and Pacific coasts are to be extinguished? “Oh,” you say, “what will become of the ships on that night? What will be the fate of the one million sailors following the sea? What will be the doom of the millions of passengers? Who will arise to put down such a conspiracy?” Every man, Woman and child In America and the world. But that is only a fable. That Is what infidelity is trying to do, put out all the lighthouses oil the coast of eternity, letting the soul go up the “Narrows'' of death with no light, no comfort,! no

peace—all that coast covered With the blackness of darkness, instead of the great lighthouse, a gloW-Woi'ih of wit, a firefly of jocosity. Which do you like the better, 0 voyager for eternity—the firefly or the lighthouse? What a mission infidelity has started on! The extinguishment of lighthouses, the breaking up of lifeboats, the dismissal of all the pilots, the turning of the inscription on your child's grave into a farce and a lie. Walter Scott’s “Old Mortality,” chisel in hand, went through the land to cut out into plainer letters the half obliterated inscriptions on the tombstones, and it was a beautiful mission. But infidelity Bpends its time" with hammer and chisel trying to cut out from the tombstones of your dead all the story of resurrection and Heaven. It is the iconoclast of every village grave yard, and of ever;/-, city cemetery, and of Westminster abbey. Instead of Christian consolation for the dying, a freezing sneer. Instead of prayer, a grimace. Instead of Paul’s triumphant defiance of death, a going' out you know not where, to stop you know not when, to do you know not what. That is infidelity. Furthermore, I can not be an infidel because of the false charges infidelity is all the time making against the Bible. Perhaps the slander that has made the most impression, and that some Christians have not been intelligent enough to deny, is that the Bible favors polygamy. Does the God of the Bible uphold polygamy, or did He? How many wives did God make for Adam? He made one wife. Does not your common sense tell you when God started the marriage institution He started it as He war.ted it to continue? If God had favored polygamy He could have created for Adam five wives, or ten wives, or twenty wives just as easily as He made one. At the very first of the Bible God shows Himself in favor of mono{famy and antagonistic to polygamy, Genesis ii, 24. ^ “Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife.” Not his wives, but his wife. How many wives did God .spare for Noah in the ark? Two and two the birds; two and two the cattle; two ana’ two the lions; two and two the human race. If the God of the Bible had favored a multiplicity of wives, He would have spared a plurality of wives. When God first launched the human race He ga,ve Adam one wife. At the second launching of the human race He spares for Noah one wife, for Ham one wife, for Shem one wife, for Japhet one wife. Does that look as though God favored polygamy? In Leviticus xviii., 18, God thunders His prohibition of more than one wife. God permitted polygamy. Yes; just as He permits to-day murder and theft and arson and aU kinds of crime. He permits these things as you well know, but He does not sanction them. Who would dare to say He sanctions them? Because toe presidents of the United States have permitted polygamy in Utah, you are not, therefore, to conclude that they patronised it, and they ap- ' ‘ " contrary, they de

knew that the God of the Bible was against polygamy, lor in the f^nr hundred and thirty years of Hhclr' stay in Egypt there is only one case of polygamy recorded—only one. All the mighty men of the Bible stood aloof from polygamy, except those who, falling into the crime, were chastised within an inch of- their lives. Adam, Aaron, Noah, Joseph, Joshna, Samuel, monogamists. But you say: “Didn’t David and Solomon favor polygamy?’’ Yes, and did they not get well punished for it? Bead the lives of Vhose two men, and you will come to the conclusion that all the attributes of God’s nature were against their behavior. David suffered for his crimes in the caverns of Adullam and Massada, in the wilderness of Mahanaim, in the bereavements of Ziklag. The Bedouins after him, sickness after him, Absalom after him, Anithopel after him, Adonijah after him, and Edomites after him, the Syrians after him, the Moabites after him, death after him, the Lord God Almighty after him. The poorest peasant in the empire married to the plainest Jewess was happier than the king in his marital misbehavior. How did Solomon 1 get along with polygamy. Read his warnings, in proverbs, read his self-disgust in Ecclesiastes/ He throws up his hands in loathing, and cries out: “Vanity of Vanities, all is vanity.” His seven hundred wives pestered the life out of him. Solomon got well paid for his crimes—well paid. I repeat that all the mighty men of the

ocnpiures were aiooi inrni puijguiuv, save as they were pounded and flailed) Since you put the Bible on your stand in the sitting-room, has the Bible been to you, O woman, a curse or a blessing? Why is it that a woman when she is troubled will go to her worst enemy, the Bible? Why do you not go for comfort to some great infidel books, Spinoza's “Ethics," or Hume’s “Natural History of Religion,” or Paine’s “Ago of Reason,” or Dedro’s' “Dramas,” or any of the two hundred and sixty volumes of Voltaire? No, the silly, deluded woman persists in hanging about the Bible verses: “Let not you heart be troubled,” “All things work together for good,” “Weeping may endure for a night,” “I am the resurrection,” “Peace, be still.” There stands Christianity. There stands infidelity. Compare what they have done. Compare their resources. There is Christianity, a prayer on her. lip: a benediction on her brow: both hands full of help for all who want help; the mother of thousands of colleges: the mother of thousands of asylums for the oppressed, the blind, the sick, the lame, the imbecile; the mother of missions for the bringing back of the ’outcast; the mother of thousands of reformatory institutions for the saving of the lost; the mother of innumerable Sabbath-schoOls, bringing millions of children under a drill to prepare them for respectability and usefulness, to say nothing of the great future. That is Christianity. Here is Infidelity; no prayer on her lips, no benediction on her brow, both hands elenched—what for? To fight Christianity. That is the entire business. The complete mission of Infidelity is to fight Christianity. Where are her schools, her colleges, her asylums of mercy? Let me throw you down a whole ream of foolscap paper that you may fill all of it with the names of her beneficent institutions of mercy and of : learning, founded by Infidelity, and supported alone' by Infidelity pronounced against Cod and the Christian religion and yet in favor of making the World better. “Oh,” you say, “a ream of paper is too much for the names of those Institutions.” Well, then,' I throw you a quire of paper. Kill it all up now. I will wait until you get all the names down. “Oh,” you say, “that is too much.” Well, then, I will just hand you a sheet of letter paper. Oust fill up the four sides while we are talking of this matter with the names of the merciful institutions and the educational institutions founded by infidelity and supported all along by infidelity, pronounced against (iod and the Christian religion, yet in favor of humanity.

UU, JUU ‘ JO IW uiuv.il room; we don’t want a whole sheet of paper to write down the names.'1 ■Perhaps 1 hail better tear ont one leaf from my memorandum book, and ask you to HU up both sides of it with the names of such institutions. “Oh,” you say, “that would be too much room; 1 wouldn’t want so much room as that.” Well, then, count them oh your ten fingers. “Oh,” you say, “not quite so much as that.” Well, then, count them on the fingers of one hand. “Oh,” you say, “we don’t want quite so much room as that.” Suppose, then, you halt and count on one finger the name of any institution founded by Infidelity, pronounced against God and the Christian religion, yet toiling to make the world better. Not one! Not one! Infidelity scrapes no lint for the wounded, bakes no bread for the hungry, shakes up no pillow for the sick, rouses no comfort for the bereft, gilds no grave' for the dead. While Christ, our Christ, our wounded Christ, our risen Christ, the Christ of this oldfashioned Bible—blessed be His glorious name forever—our Christ stands this hour pointing to the hospital, or to the asylum, saying: “I was siek and ye gave me a couch; I was lame and ye gave me a crutch; I was blind and ye physicianed my eyesight; I was. orphaned and ye mothered my soul; I was lost on the mountains and ye brought me home: inasmuch as ye did it to one .of the least of these, ye did it to me.” But I thank God that this 'plague of infidelity will be stayed. Many of those who hear me now by the Holy Ghost upon their hearts will cease to be scoffers and will become disciples, and the day will arrive when all nations will accept the Scriptures. The book is going to keep right on until the fires of the last day are kindled. Some of them will begin on one side and some on the other side of the old book. They will not find a bundle of loose manuscripts easily consumed like tinder thrown into the fire. When the fires of the last day are kindled, some will burn on this side, from Genesis toward Ifevelation, and others .will burn on this side, from Revelation toward Genesis, and in a.l their way they will not find a single chapter or a single verse out of place. This will be the first time we can afford to do without the Bible. What will be the use of the book of Genesis, descriptive of how the world was made, when the world is destroyed? What will be the use of the prophecies when they are all fulfilled? What will be the use of the evangelistic or Pauline description of Jesus Christ when we see Him face to face? . What will be the use of His photograph when we have met Him in glory? What will be the use of the book of Revelation; standing as you will with your foot on the glassy sea, and your hand on the ringing harp, and your forehead eliapleted with eternal coronation, amid the amethystine and twelve-gated glories of Heaven? The emerald dashing its green against the beryl, and the beryl dashing its bine against the sapphire, and the sapphire throwing its light on the jacinth, and the jacinth dashing its fire against the chrysoprassus, and you and I standing in the glories of ten thousand sunsets._* —One of the most notable tendencies of the world »t present is to growfcJder, 1-us JgM

THE CHARMS OF MUSIC. One Cue In Which It Soothed Two S»TBreasts. Husband and wife had been quarrelling, says a Columbus paper. The trouble began in the house, but the belligerents had reached the sidewalk, where hostilities were resumed. She declared in the heat of passioh that she would not live with him another hour. He retorted that it didn’t make any difference, the quicker the separation came the better it would be for both. » The husband, raising his voioe to a high pitch, said: “This ends all relations between us.” “Go,” said the wife, “1 do not care now, for our home is only in name.” Suddenly there burst upon the night the strains of “Home, Sweet Home." It was the music of an orchestra that had just then begun a serenade to a resident near by. It seems that the company of musicians had been inspired, for the piece was never rendered any better than it was that night. The husband and wife ceased quarrelling, and both stood as if rooted to the spot. The effect upon them could be seen at a glance. Both were weeping. There was a brief but terrific struggle between duty and pride. The husband glanced at the wife in a pitiful sort of way, and his look was returned. As the strains of the great song were dying away, they rushed into each other’s arms. The love of former years was then and there renewed.

Early Society Buds. One of the absurdities of the day is the manner in which young schoolgirls from fifteen to seventeen are allowed to emulate their elder sisters in indulging in social dissipation, says the Boston Gazette. During the recent season there have not only been dancing classes but also private cotillons and dinner parties given for children tyho should either be asleep or in the nursery. If dinners are to be given for the “doves,” as the “sub-doves” are often called, what iS left for them when they really are introduced into society? It is no wonder that some of the debutantes of the last few seasons have been found to be well versed in the ways of the world, and ready to go quite as far as their elders, when it is considered, that the bloom of maidenly freshness has been taken off at innumerable cotillons, dances, sleighing parties and dinners. Mothers would do well to refuse to allow their daughters so much social liberty while they are at school, for they will find if this continues that their “buds,” when presented to fullgrown society, lack the charm that ingenuousness alone gives to young girls. Impaired Eyesight* The number of persons in town who wear eyeglasses is astonishing; the number of children wearing them is appalling. A large pro portion of the pupils in the higher classes of the public schools, says the New York Sim, are obliged to wear glasses, particularly in the girls’ schools. F ickerj^yj gaslight, long hours of reading and study, and badly-lighted classrooms are among the causes of eye weakness with the young people, but the amazing spread of the reading habit is at tlie bottom of the general trouble. As an oculist expresses it: “We are all taking up the habit of reading, but the habit is so new with the masses that they have not learned how to do it without damaging their sight.”_•' A Calf That II ants Rabbits. Sheffield can now boast the prize call of Georgia. It is a calf which is far ahead of all the sn ake stories of the 6tate—a calf that grows wild at the sight of a rabbit. Becently it gave a rabbit a lively chase, making it take shelter in a hollow tree. The calf would then bleat until some ono would come and catch the game. It is owned by an estimable lady of Sheffield, but she positively refused to lend the calf for others to hunt with. Extravagance of Roman Women. We are told on trustworthy authority that the dresses alone of Lollia Paulina; the rival of Agrippina, were valued at one million six hundred and sixty-six thousand dollars. Plinny relates that he saw her at a plain citizen’s bridal slipper, literally covered with pearls and emeralds worth forty thousand sesterces, equivalent in our money to one million five hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Another lavish beauty of nearly the same epoch, Lollia Sabina, never traveled without a train of five hundred she-asses, so that she might not miss her morning’s bath of asses’ milk. By the side of their Boman prototypes the most extravagant women of our own day seem thrifty.—N. Y. Ledger.

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