Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 September 1878 — Page 7

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RAILROAD TIME TABLE.

Uni« depot. Cbastnnt and Tenth /treets for all trains except I. 81. L, O. and.freighta. Time live minutes faster than

Terre iiaiice tiifie. -Depot of I. & corner Tlppecauoe and Sixth streets. Explanation of References: fSatrrday excepted. "Sunday excepted. iMonday excepted, {Daily.

VANDALIA LIXK. (Leave going East.)

INDIANAPOLIS ST. LOUIS. T' (Leave going East.) Accommodation

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•Indianapolis Accommodation. .. Sfaat Line 4 Eastern Express "Indianapolis Accommodation.... (Arrive from East. •\Western Express "Mail and Express JFast Line 'ind.anapolis Accomodation (Leave going West.)

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Fast Line •Mail and Accommodation .. ^Express tArrive from West.) ilTastLine •Effingham Accommodation (Eastern Express

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•Accommodation W a $Day fcxpross ji $.lew Yuik Express N 6 1 2 am

TERttE IIAUTE AND LOGANSPOttT. (Depart.) •Terrc Haute and Lafayette mall... 6 80 a •Freight and Accommodation 1 16 "Toledo Fxprens 4 10 (Arm c. •FrfciRlit and Accommodation 11 00 •Mail and Express 12 JJ» •Through Express ,-A66. p.n

TERRE HAUTE AND EVANSVILLE. (Depart.) (Nashville Express a "Freight auu Accommodation...... 1^0 •Day Express

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'Accomodation 8 50 (Arrive, •Accommodation.. ^5 Fast Line 7 00 pm

CINCINN ATI AND TEP.RE HATJTB. jueaves depot corner Main and First street. 1 8 43 am Accouimolat'.ou (Arrives., •.^Mo'iiSfiaodatlon '.. .. 8 80

CAIRO VINCENNES KAILROAP For all points south and southwest. The Train leaving Vlncennes daily (except Sunday) at 2:60 p. m., makes direct connection at Cairo for Memphis, Vicksburg and New Orleans with Iron Mt. Railway for Texas

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the southwest and with tho steamboat! for all points on the Ohio and_ Misslssipl rivers. ,A'

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Street cars and omnibuses rtin to and from tho Depot on Tenth and Chestnut streetfc and omnlbussos to and from the Depot on Sixth andTipuocanoo streets.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER. 12,1878.

SEASONABLE RECEIPTS.?^# From the New England Farmer. TOMATO CATSUP. 'Cut one peck of ripe tomatoeB in alves boil them in a lined saucepan until the pulp is all dissolved, then strain them through a hair sieve and set the liquor on to boil, adding one ounce 6alt, one ounce of mace, one tablespoonful black pepper, one teaspoonful red pepper, one tablespoonful ground cloves, five of ground mustard let them all boil to* gether five 'or six hours, and stir them most of thft time. Let the mixture stand eight or ten hours in a. cool place add one pintoi vinegar and then bottle it seal the cork6 and keep in a cool, dark place

Another Method—For four or five uarts of catsup boil one peck of ripe tomatoes filteen minutes without removing the skins, and strain through a sieve put into a little bag one teaspoonful of Whole cloves, one teaspoonful of ground cinnamon, allspice and black pepper, and put these with a pint of good vinegir into the strained tomatoes, and boil the whole carefully from three to five hours when sufficiently boiled and condensed, stir in one tablespoonful of ground mustard and one teaspoonful of ground cayenne pep per, salt to taste, and keep in well-corked battles This catsup will Keep for veais.

CHOW-CHOW

Take 100 small cucumbers, fifty large reen bell-peppers, halt a peek of small 6tring-beans, half a peck of small white unions, half a bushel of green tomatoes and two large heads of cabbage. Remove all the 6eeds from the peppers, slice and salt all down over night next morning wash in cold water, lei them drain well, spread on a clo hand mix through it one pound of mustard, one pound of white mu-Uard seed, four ounces of celery seea and one ounce of whole alUpice. 1 like to have a fe«r of the peppers red, as it looks pretty through the mass, and the onions, if very small, I leave whole. After mixing well, put it in a kettle and cover with the best cider vinegar. After it begins to boil let in cook fifteen minutes. If desired, add while boiling, a bottle of salad oil it helps keep it, but it can be left out.

A Chicago clergyman was aroused at midnight lafct week" to go and pray by the bedside of a dying man. On ascertaining that th« unfortunate being was a director in a gas co.npany, he said to the messenger: "Well, I don't know that there is any use in my going it'll just be a waste of good praying 6till I suppose, it's my duty," and reluctantly accompanied him.

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Regular Monthly Meeting of the Society at Farmer GU-V1 bert's Place. ..

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The regular monthly meeting of the Terre Haute Horticultural Society was held Thursday, on the hills by the banks of Lake Fluvanna, at the beautiful country residence of Joseph Gilbert. A big tent with open sides sheltered the dinner table, whereat about fifty hearty and contented people of both sexes, and all ages, sat down to a repast fit for kings. Dinner being dispatched, the regular exercises began in a sheltered nook under the broad and over arcbinjt limbs of some lofty forest trees. Mr. Lawrence Heinl presided. The minutes of a previous meeting were read by Rev. S.S. Martyn. James Modesitt was then chosen secretary.

The first exercise was an account of her trip to and stay at Waukesha, Wis., read by Mrs. Thco. Hulman as follows:

MRS. HULMAN'S PAPER.

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TLEMEN—As no better subject presents itsel, I will tr.ke my trip to Waukesha. Waukesha is about three hundred miles northwest. You can leave here 10 minutes oi seven o'clock A. »r., and arrive at Waukesha at 10 o'clock p. M. It is a small country town, between four and five thousand inhabitants. It is a lovely little village nestled in between the hills, and a magnificent view can be obtained by climbing any of these hills. One hill in particular affords a very fine view and a small tower (somewhat smaller than the tower of Babtl) i3 built upon this hill. Thev say of a fine day you can see the citv of Milwaukee, but I did not 6ee it.

The principal attraction of Waukesha is its tprirgs,ol which there were many more than I had first supposed the first discovered, or rather first made noted, is the Bethesda, then the Silurian, Glenn's Mineral Spring. Mt. Horeb, Olins Mineral Spring, White Rock Spring, Lethian Spring aud two irpn fountains or wells. Col. Dunbar's/spring is in a very prettv slope and the outlet flows into a minatcre lake where a boat is kept constantly in use for the guests, and attendants are regularly at the springs to dip fresh water from the fount that the angel Bethesda hovers over, and I suppose she disturbs the water at the midnight hour, although I did no: see her move from her watch.

Col. Dunbar has a very pretty fcark laid out into carriage drives and walks, perhaps somewhat smaller than the boulevards of Chicago, and the park is constantly filled with different guests, who come to drink. All who come soon become quite dissipated drinking from three to thirty, and fifty glasses a day. The principal attraction through the week i6 what they call Dunbar's circus. Now this calls for an explanation: Every Saturday evening the band plays, and all that have conveyances, and all that can afford a hired'livery drive through the pai-kf and the principal feature is the Colonel and his wife and daughter. The firBt'Saturday eveiting the Colonel and his daughter rode horseback, and his wife rode in a fine barouche, accompanied bv the Bishop. Of course, every one wishes to get a glimpse of the Colonel and family. Then comes the Glenn Mineral Springs, discovered by Mr. Glenn, from New York City, ho came here to drink of Bethesda. This,

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water of them all. It i* the coolest, and in'some respect is the mbst medicinal, it has cured when the other has failed. This is a newer spring than the Dunbar, but the grounds are going to undergo a great change in the next year, The Fox river runs through them. Thi6 is going to be enlarged, and one of the finest boating and fishing lakes will be made there, and two very handsome fountains and two arbors. Mr. Glenri has made additional purchases, and in the spring he intends to beautify the

?rounds.

I vyill give you a little incident

knew of a lady who went to' Col. Dunbar's agent, and told him jtf a worthy young marrried man with a wife and three children that ha'd lost his health for the last 6ix years, with Brights disease, and this gentleman had not been able to work for some time. He was a plasterer and fine calciminer by trade. 1 say gentleman, for I think one can be a gentleman, and be a plasterer too. He had started for Little Rock, Ark., and before he got to St. Louis, he heard of the Waukesha waters, and conclu ed to go there. So he sold his ticket, and on his way he had his money 6tolen—$150—but he happened to have some more in another pocket, and with this he had been staying in Waukesha for six weeks, and drinktpg of the Bethesda. He said he was not getting much better, and he was not able to stay longer, but he wished he could take a barrel with him, but he was not able to pay their prices. So this lady went and related the circumstances to Dunbar, bnt be said he cculd not do anything for* him. She asked if they would not give the water if the barrfel was paid for* He did not think the Colonel would. She then went to r. Glenn, and related the same to him, gnd his reply was, "Why, I will give the barrel and all. Gocl has given the water." So this 6hows the difference between two parties, although friends of the lady had appealed to the Colonel himself, it might have been with different results. The Olien spring is also a fine spring and perhaps in time it may become the first as well as the best spring. The Silurean spring is for the lovers mostly, the baths at the Silurean are very'fine. Mt. Hotgb is the highest of them ail, and is a vary fine spring, and contains a good deal ff carbon, so much so it sparkles like &hs*pagne, whan disturbed. The (too srells are well impregnated with lrtUt and must he very beneficial to a nrducts} system atwl one that needs toning There one peculiar feature water* i| reduces a fleshy perfcda poor per-

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do not know how much they might have lost, it they had remained and drank the water, for the undersigned lost two pounds in three weeks. Another attraction Waukesha has, are its stone pavements, in walking along you find many fine specimens of petrifications, what seem to be fishes. You can see the back bones and the ribs, and in some instances they see to be elk horns, and some fine specimens of shells imbedded in the solid stone, and stoue itself. It teaches us that we have not got all the history of this earth written in books, only as one has studied it from nature. The climate is delightful, the air is so much finer than here, that one soon feels the beneficial change. The weather was so cool that of a morning one h*d a fire, and found it corntortable, although through the day the sun shower very warm, I believe the thermomiter went down some mornings as low as 6o degrees, and through the day 85 degrees.

It does not seem to be a fruit growing country, apples this season were frozen in the spring, so, consequently, were very scarce and small. Tomatoes were very small and green yet not many small fruits. Just be before we came away we had the first blackberry or rather dew berry. Peaches have to be shipped to them. This here is a land of plenty but with our land of plenty we have to take a plentiful share of sickness.

If one can only afford to leave here through the month of August and a part of September they would derive a great benefit from it.

Nearly every house a boarding house and you can get board from $5 to $7 in private families and the Fountain House, what was, 1 see it has since burned, the board was $3.00 or $17 per week, and all are anxious for boarders. Before arriving there we would hear all the houses were full and we would find it difficult to get accommodated, but on the contrary we found them like an omnibus, room for more. 'Very respectfully'

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Submitted. MRS. THEODORE HULWAN. Rev. Martyn then read Charles Lambs fam us '"Dissertation on roast pork," which excited not a little merriment.

The subject for discussion was: "Are labor saving machines beneficial to lairing people?"1' Rey. S. S. Martin, lead the discussion,'taking the negative, and, totwithstanding he was talking in the teeth ot his own views and defending a really indefensible side, made a very able and ingenious argument, which was listened to with great attention. We are not able to give his argument. Following him and and for the most part taking the affirmative, were Messrs. A. B. Pegg, John Wier, J. F. Sou\e, H. D. Scott, T. W. Harper, W. C. Ball and Wm. Mack, and for the ladies Mrs. R. W. Thompson, James Modisett, T. W. Harper, Theodore Hulman, M, M. Joab, Julia* Hosford, H. D. Scott, and others.

Mr. Mack's remarks in the negative was especially ingenious, he arguing that labor SAYING contrivances were not beneficial because they deprived laborers of employment,and then cliching it by proving that they did not save labor.

The next meeting will be -held at the residence of Mr. John Wier, south of the city, and on the first Thursday in October. Mrs. Pence will read a paper on "cooking," and Mrs, Julia Hosford on the microscope. The essayists will be Mrs. M. M. Joab, H. D. Scott, and J. F. £oule. The reader will be Mrs. T. W. Harper. The subject for discussion will be "The effect of the reading of fiction.'

AZET'l ELETS.

Vvno first wore stockings?—Hose-a. —[Baltimore Every Saturday. Motto for the free lover—"Kiss, but never tell"-—the o. g.—[Elmira Gazette.

No, boy, you canVlay on Paris Green this summer.—f Sy racuse Sunday Times. G. Corn is in town.—[Rome Sentinel. 50 is Belle Leyake.—[Brookville Democrat.

The sky must be afraid of somebody, for it carries its heaven shooter.—[Boston Post, ft! "Jif "O'U 'irff %t

Young bess should be called "Charity," when they "begin to hum."—[ Hackensack Republican.

A great many railroad casualties are caused from railroad casual ties.—-[Hack eneack Republican.

The young mah of the period is one whose career has cohie to a full stop. —[Yonkers Gazette.

The tramp is the man who sees the whole world, but loses his own sole. —[Hartford Journal. .^

When banks become unsteady, even the depositor is likely to lose his balance. Hackensack Republican.

Why is an auctioneer who sells a woman a bottle «f cordial a base coward? Because he knocks her down an 'elixir,

A good idea in a sea of words is like a Venus with a linen duster buttoned up to the chin .—[Turner's Falls Reporter.

The early settlers are all right, of course. We complain of the great army who do not settle at all."—[Stillwater Lumberman.

Religious services were held in open air in Keokuk yesterday. Anyhow, a whirlwind came along and took up a collection.—[Constitution. "The 6ting of a bee will always be in-tere-sting."—f Hackensack Republican It would be just as easy to say it will be entertaining.—[Rochester Herald.

ITCHING FILES* The symptoms are moisture, like er»plration. Intense itching increased by scratching, very distrcssng particularly at uight.as it pin worms were crawling in and about the rectum, the private parts are sometimes affected it alio ed to continue, very serf00sresults may follow. DR.

SWARM'S ALL HCALIKO Ounioutf is a pleasant auro cure.

HOME CURES—ffe were great sufferers from Itching Files, the symptoms were as above deacribed, the use of 8w«yne's Oint mentin a short time made aperfectcure.

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WEEKLY GAZETTE

REV. ABBEY.

This is a platform cf free thought,1"'according to the declaration of this convention. Expressions have been uttered here, within the last two or three days, which ceitainly indicate that there has been such an amount of free speaking, at least, as has seldom been heard from any other platform e^er erected. Free thinking, freely expressed here, has ranged up and down among nearly ill the questions which ever have been suggested to the human intellect. Nearly everybody under the sun has been advocated, alone excepting the Christian religion. And, as remarkable as it must have sounded to many ears, this one thing*—the Christian religion—embodied in the Bible, has been charged with the crime of fostering and advocating all, or nearly all, that is pernicious so the condition of mankind. And Christian ministers, almost from the first address from this platfoim to the present! time, have been arraigned and charged with being the gilded, hypocritical, thieving upholders of this accursed system for the oppression of the human race. Strange as it may seem to some of us, here we have heard over and over again that the Christian religion has been, and is, the one thing in the wdrld which has entaiied upon men the many and various evils with which they are afflicted.

Materialism, in nearly every one of its phases, has here been advocated but apparently, not so much with the design of gaining' the acceptance of men to it, a? that of striking a blow at Christianity and the Bible. Spiritualism from the foundation principles of a true mental philosphy, to the crude vulgarism of the seance, has strongly asserted its rights but very plainly, again, not 60 much with the design of winning adherents for itself, as that of smiting Christianity. The doctrine of Freelove, both from speeches and from pamphlets sold on the grounds, has gloried in its advocating the abrogation of the marriage relation, and leaving mankind to perpetuate itself after the manner of bea6ts and Christianity as being the great impediment to the ascendency of such doctrines, has been denounced as the cause of licentiousness and the degradation of men and women.

Without further specifying the various doctrines discussed, enough has been saiJ to illustrate the logic of this platiorm. Putin a strictly logical and analytical form, it is this: Christianity i9 the cause of all evil evils do exist in *6ciety, among mankind therefore, Christianity is responsible for these evils and, therefore, we must hound Christianity to death. A very good logic indeed! the only trouble of which is, that th» ^premises are as false as any statements ever made by human lips. So apparent is this, that we could not help exclaiming, when listening to many of the addresses from this platform, as Madftm Roland exclaimed, when led forth to her execution and standing before the statute of Liberty, "O, Liberty, what crimes have been committed in thy name!" so much for the character of the discussions we have had here, and their logic, which has been enmity to Christianity, as standing in the way of Atheism, Deism, "Spiritualism," Woman's rights," Materialism, Free-loveism, &c., &c.

After such an arraignment of the Bible and the Christian religion,

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The Bible and Chiistianity Vindicated.

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Abstract of the A dd*6£& Delivered by Rev. Edwttrd W. Abbey, of Terre Haute,

At the Late Watkini Convention.

From the Watkins, N. Y., Express, Aug, ». [The President of the late Freethinker's Convention, held in this village, August 22d, 23d, 24th and 25th, 1S78, having invited any Christian divine, who might desire a hearing, to come forward and occupy the platform for an hour, Rev. Edward W. Abbey, (son of Tyler H. Abbey of Watkins) a Presbyterian minister, residing at Teire Haute, Ind., who was temporarily in town, accepted trie virtual challenge, and delivered a remarkably talented, logical and eloquent vindication of the Bible and Christianity, of which the following is but an imperlect abstract.]—Ed. Express.

might not

be amiss to stop a moment, and look into the leaves of that old religious book which all the civilized nations of moderu times call "Holy," and at that civilization which Mt have been accustomed to say, is the best the World ever knew, and which is dependent for its existence on that Bible.

Opening its pages, we read such words as these, given as positive injunctions to men: "Let us watch and be sober," 'Comfort the/feeble," *'Be at peace among yourselves," "Support the weak," "Be patient toward all men," "Abstain from all appearance of evil," "And I pray God your whole spirit and- soul and body be preserved blameless and then, in order that none of these, or any other teachings, should be accepted blindly, or unreasonably, or superstitiously by men, it says, "Prove all things, hold fast that which is good." And iarther, we find this command, "I charge you that these things be read unto all the brethren."

The spirit ot this convention, exhibited in many a declaration, has been that the Bible repressed free-thought and free discussion, and, therefore, must be overthrown. In opposition to these misstatements and misrepresentations, we here see that from the very fir^ days of Christianity, the Bible has set forth the doctrine of free-thought tiiat it has commanded all men, whom it could reach, not superstitiously to accept anything, but with the fullest investigation, prove all things, and hold fast such only as are good. The Bible, we find, therefore, so far from placing a bar upon free investigation, lays down the primary principle tor the elevation and liberation of mankind, that men ought to test all things, by every conception they have of what is right, and g«od, and noble, and what will result in the welfare of men and society.

Now, then, how does this apply to the character and the logic of this Convention? In this way: If it does not seem good to you to believe it only test the doctrine candidly, in accordance with all

ers discussed here and elsewhere. The foundation teaching of the Bible is, test all things, and hold fast only such a* are good. But know ye, that for all these things, Go Will bring thee lnto judgement.

Such, then, is the plain, fundamental teaching of the Christian Bible, and it written in language so plain, that a babe in knowledge cannot fail in comprehending it. Now our infidel teachers make the grand central idea of their teachings, liberty of thought, etc -and emblazon this fourth as if it were something quite new to the world. But, against all such assumptions I enforce the truth, thai just such has been the idea, which this old Book has been seeking to get into the world for maoy a long century. It announced it in the beginning, and ever since has sought to enforce it.

And an organization called the Christian Church has been built up on these principles, and others of a smilar nature. This organization has existed ever since Curist taught His doctrines, and sent out his trained followers to preach them everywhere in the earth. This church came into contact with all forms ot religion, and all systems of philosophy. It soon gained "the ascendancy over them. How? The best illustration of the antagonisms it had —that is, best, in the sense of being the most favorable to enemies in the com parison—wis the system represented by Greek culture. The poetical mythology of Greece, based on human philosophy, though sublime and beautiful as that was in many of its phases, fell before it. It was "proven," and found wanting. The highest element of "sjood," that final criterian of worth, adhered to the doctrine of the Christian. The two were tested, and there resulted, what* "The survival of the fittest." Christian doctrine with its lofty demands of purity of life, and' its immacu'ate conception of purity ot heart, easily gained the suffrage of men, as against the beautiful but effete speculations of the Greek, which we are to bear in mind, represented the highest conceptions of living and thinking that un-Biblical nations had ever arisen to, or, we may suppose, could possibly rise to. The two were tested the best was retained. 5 1SS'

A representative of the Greek religion in the days of its final struggle with Christianity, has found among our modern infidels a champion, and this champion, Robert Ingersoll, is indeed held up from this platform as the Ilercule6 of infidelity against Christianity.

Now, in order to illustrate the character of the reasoning of this infidel leader, and it well represents much of what we have heard from this platform, I give you a specimen of his logic. He writes, that Hypatia, the Greek, was killed and that "since the murder of Hypatia, in the fifth century, when the polished blade of Greek philosophy was broken by the club of ignorant Catholicism, until to-day, stuperstition has detested every effort of'reason." "It is almost impossible," he Says, "iO conceive of the completeness of.the victory which the church achieved over philosophy."

Look at this candidly, for he uses it as a conclusive argument against the Bible. We grant th it Hypatia was killed, brutally killed. We graat that Hypatia was killed by those who repretented the Christian church in the city where she lived. More than this, we grant for the argument, that a thousand Hvpatias were brutally killed by those who were called Christians, and professed to represent the the tystem of truth taught in the Bible., Granted, too, more than this, that a mat) to-day, one of your neighbors perhapi who is called a Chris.ian, aye, even stands in the pulpit and preaches from the Bible, proves false to trusts reposed in him and becomes a defaulter with other people's money. What do you say What do all say? What does the infidel say? What does the Bible say in regard to the affair? Simply "not good." We follow the teachings of our Bible, and test all things this robbery was not "good therefore we condemn it Hypatia was killed urjustly, therefore not "good," and we, with the Bible, condemn it, since it teaches men if "smitten on one "cheek, turn the other and threatens tnose who do unjust things with dire retribution, whether they be in the church 01' out of the church.

Now, he who denounces such actions is, to that extent, simpiy echoing Bible teachings. But our infidel teacher makes his denunciations the base of an argument by which to smite the Bible, and demand its overthrow. I ask the most simple mind, does it follow that the teachings which have forced upon mankind this high morality, that regard for the personal rights of others who dm gree with us, that "patience toward all men," and "avoidance of the very appearance of evil," are to be denounced as the cause of brutal, harsh, unkind actions.

The conclusion is now drawn by this great leader of infidelity, because those who are known as Christians, have done things which their Bible itself so severely denounces, therefore Christianity and the Bible are to be arrested, jnvicted and thsust into the dungeon of eternai obloquy. Does this follow The conclusion is not logical it is not, sensible it is weak, foolish, childish."

Analyzing, thus, his method of reasoning, I desire to put it into plain language before you, that this m&n, who has been spoken of from this platform, as the very Hercules among the enemies of Christianity, is perpetually drawing just such foolish conclusions trom promises, which are, however, the very foundation principles of Bible morality. While he, whose profession is that of an infidel endeavoring to overthrow Christianity, stands forth as a pleader for liberty, truth and tolerance, prepetratesfiore injustice, makes more misstatement*, an 1 exhibits a more intolerant spirit toward opinions and persons not agreeable to him, than those who listen to his lectures ever have a chance of witnessing in any other performances. From beginning to end of bis brilliant displays of rhetoric against Christianity, there is outside of the peculiar and essential truths, which he uses from Christianity as a bait for bis renowned hook of infidelity, scarcely an allusion to Christian facts or belief, which is not a misrepresention and even scientific facts are twisted and distorted, that he may make them tell against Christianity.

In his bitter deftunciation and flagrant misrepresentation of Puritanism, he shows himself utterly incapable of doing justice even to that sublime spirit, and to

the evidence bearing upon it. And so in regard to Jesus Christ as the Son of those tried and unflinching heroes in the verv God Himself And so, also, in regard I cause of liberty, to whom he owes it that to the doctrines ot free love, and all oth-' he c?n 1,0 up aqd down th sland djclaim-

iog infidelity, and that this platform cair re=ound with such utterances as we have^ listened to.

While it seems entirely' .unnecceasarv to protest against the infidel caricatures of Christianity, and espeoially as represetred in Puntanism ,we may go to the,-

other extreme, and insist that the crying need of our country in these days is a return f? to the sterling virtues of Christian Puritanism. If we were compelled to choose betweenf Puritanism, with all its faults and infidel-v v" ity, wi:h what we have had offered us on this platform in the two or three days past, we had better a thousand times. over to choose Puritanism. In place of the fear of God, Which, to the Puritan was so potent a restraint from sin, what: consideration is offered by ififidelity? "Why, this: It don't pay. In the infidel's view'sin is merely a mistake. Would to. God we could have more of that spirit of Christian Puritanism for the redemption of politics, of business, and of social life. Ah, these are not the teachings we need for ourselves and our country! We glance over the history of the pabt, and all along its pathway see the ruins of empires. Why is this? «We reflect and find that the most enlightened nation^,. with all |heir philosophy, and science, and culture, have gone down to slavery and barbarism, because they depended upon, their intelligence alone for their liberties, and their civilization.

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