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A PLAGUE OF UNBELIEF,
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MOVING CAUSE OF ALL
PLAQUES OF OITIE9.
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Masterly Contrast of ttm
KffVeU of Christianity anil Aatinstlulsm.
Tim Olorlo HmhiIIs of a Mln faith.
What Nm inMetlty ltT
Nkt York, April ft, Contlnulnn lilt
WitrM of sermons on "Tho Ten I'lawies of
Mia Cillen," Iter. Dr. Tnlmiiue today took
tor hi subject "Tho PIhkiio or Itillilullty,"
lhe discourse was delivered to Inro mid
afpreclatlva audience at tlio Brooklyn
Academy of Mtislo In tlio forenoon nmt tho
Hew York Academy of Music In tho own
lag. The text was ltomnu III, O'Let
Qkxt l true, but every mnii n llnr."
Tfcht Is If Goil says one UiIiik and the
whole human rude saya tlio opms!tu, Paul
would accent the tilvlno Tonicity, Hut
there nre ninny In our time who hnvo tin ml
vraltfn the Almighty for falsehood. In
lldellty U not only n ilAKtie, but It U the
aother of nluijties.
It seem from what we hear or Ml sides
that the Christian religion la n Iiiiro blun
ter! tlmttho Moaala account of tho creation
U An absurdity InrKa choukIi to throw nil
Mtlom Into rollicking guffaw; tluit Adnm
tad Kve nertr ekteteut that tho iiHclent
loot! and Noah's ark wen Impossibilities;
that there never wa a miracle! tlmt the
Mble I tho friend of cruelty, of murder, of
olykAiny, of All forma of base crime; tlmt
the Christian religion It woman's tyrant
and tnan'a stultification; that the Hlble
from Ikl to lid ta a fablej a cruelty, a hum
bug, a aham, a lie; that the martyr who
(led for lu truth were miserable dupes)
that the church of ,' Jeau Christ la
properly guetted an a fool; that when
Thomas Carlyle, tho skcptlo, Mid, "The
Bible la a noble book," ho waa dropping
Into Imbecility; that when Theodore Parker
declared In Miulo hall, Uoatoa, "Never a
hoy or gtrl In nil Christendom but waa
profited by that great book," he waa be
omlng very weak minded; that It la some
thing to bring a bluih to the cheek of
every patriot that John Adams, the father
f American independence, declared, "The
Mble la the beat book In all the world;"
tad that lion hearted Andrew Jaokaon
tamed Into a sniveling coward when he
aid, That book, air, la the rook on which
Mr republlo reata;" and that Daniel Web
itor abdicated the throne of hta Intellectual
Ewer and realised hla logic, and from
Ing the great expounder of the conatltu
tlon and the great lawyer of hie age turned
Into aa Idiot when ho aaid, "My heart as
area and reaaaurea me that the gospel of
Jeans Christ must bo a divine reality.
From the time that at my mother's feet
or on my father's knee I first learned to
llepvenea from the aacred writings they
have been my dally study and vigilant con
taonplatlon, and tt there la anything In my
ttyM or thought to be commended the
erailt ta to my kind parents in Instill
lag lato'my'mlnd aa early love of the
SerlDtarea;" and that William H. Sewanl,
tfca dlDlomatlat of the century, only showed
hla puerility when hadeelared, "The whole
hope of human progress la auspendedon
the ever growtug Influences of the Illble;"
aa that It la wisest for ua to take that
book from the throne In the affections of
uaeouated multitudes and put It under
oar feet, to be trampled upon by ha
tred" a4hlsta ooatenipt; and that
yoar old father waa hoodwinked and
cajoled aad eheated and befooled when
he Waned on this aa a staff after hla
hair 'grew gray, b4 Ma . hands wera
traaiaioaa, and hla steps shortened as 'be
came af to the verge of the grave; and that
yoar mother sat with a pack of Ilea on her
lap while reading of the better country, and
of the ending of. all her aches and pains,
and raaalMyaoe oaly with those of "row
who stood around her, bit with the chil
dren she had buried with luflnlto heart
ache, so that she could read no more until
she took off her spectacles and wiped from
them tho heavy mist of many tears. Alast,
that sorlorty. and. jflfty. years, they should
aavwaikdlasar tain delusion aad had
It aiar tketr BflloVr when they lay a'dytng
la tho back room, and asked that some
wonla from the vile page might be cut upon
tho tombstone under the shadow of the old
country meeting house where they sleep
today waiting for a resurrection that will
This book, having deaelyed them, aad
having 4ooelvedthormightr latellacta of
the paat&auat aotbe ailowod to .deceive
our latter, mightier.' VSter, nferi stuped"'
doua Intellects. Aad ao out with the hook
from tho eourt room, where It la used In
the solemnisation of testimony. Out with
It from under tho foundatioVoi ohueh
aad asylum. Out with it frotafthe "domes
tleelreto. Gather together all the Bibles
tho ehUdrsa's Bibles, the family Ulblea,
those newly bad,, aad .those, with, 1M
nearly wora out and pages almost obllto
atod by tho Angers long ago turned to
dualbring them all together, and let aa
atakla hjeagWof'tham, aad, ay U-warm
ouraaUlrMclsmV aftor that tuni.tta
derfrtth lha, plowshare of public tadlgaa
tion Mm foliated ashes of- that loathaoma;
adulterous, obscene, cruel and deathful
book which la ao antagonistic to. maa'a
liberty, and woman's honor, 'aad tho
workt'a happiness.
A8IKMTICS ATTACK THK VKRT LIFE.
Now that la the substance of whatlnfl
delltyk proposes aud declares, and the, at
tack oa Mm Mbw is aeeom'panled,by great
joeostty, aad there ta hardly any subject
about which mora mirth la kindled than
about tho Bible. 1 like f ua; ao man was
ever built with a keener appreciation of it
There la.nealtu la laughter Instead of harm
physical health', mental health, moral
health, spiritual health provided jrou
laugh at the right thlig. Tho morning Is
jocund. The ladlaa, with Ita own mlatbap
tlasB tho oalaraot Mlaaehaha, or Laughing
Water. You havo not kept yoar eyes opeu
or your ears aler jf ; you have not aeen the
aea smile, or heard the forests clap their
hands, or the,orehanls.,(a, blossom, week
agleo wlU rsdoieaos. Btit therels a1 iaugh
ter which la deathful, there ta a laughter
whletflhsi' the' rebound of uWpalr ItTTU'
i aealtay to giggle about Uod or chuckle
eternity or smirk about the things
of tho immortal soul.
Yea, know, what .caused the accident.
nan ago oa the Hudson Hlver railroad.
It waaaa intoxicated man who for a joke
aaUed the utrlng of the air bmke tnd
stopped, the train, at the most dungeroua
pfllatufitheljearaey. But the lightning
trula, not knowing there was nny Impedi
ment la the iray,ca'tu! diwn, crtulilug out
of the maugled victims the Immortal souls
UNgfreeA .(weeding UaUatly to Got and
junalt fit' was oalya Joke. He thought
ejaiild ho aaeh faa to atop the tralu. Ue
iliajgi H. Aad ao laMellty la chmly
aaxtoiw to atop tho long train of the Bible,
traiaei tae eaurajma. aad tae
WCaMetUAaaees. wafts
ia aae aa ari death, Judgweat
', aoauag a taousaad miles a
wMa mere fores than all
hat over slipped from the
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stonnwnahae
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strength than aU
the lightning exprwta trains that ever whla
Med or Khrlekcd or (Imndcrctl ncroaa tho
continent.
Now In this jocularity of In (Idol thinkers
I can not join, nnd 1 propono to glvo you
sonto reasons why I (iinunt bo nn Inildrl,
and ao I will try to help out of this present
condition any who nny hnvo boon struck
with the awful plague of skepticism,
First, I can not bo nn Infidel because In
fidelity haano good auhstltuta for the con
solation It proposes to take away. You
know there are millions of people who get
their chief consolation from this book.
What would you think of a crusade of this
sortf Suppose a man should resolve that
he would orsanlre a conspiracy to destroy
all the medicines from all the apothecaries
and from all tho hospitals of the earth.
The work la done. The medicines nro
taken, and they nro thrown Into the river,
or the lake, or the son.
A patient wakes up nt midnight In a par
oxysm of distress, nnd wants nn anodyne.
"Oh," aays the nurse, "tlio Anodynes are
all destroyed; we havo no drops to give
you, but Instead of tlint I'll read you a
book on the absurdities of morphlno and
on tho nlmurdltlea of nil remedies." But
tho man continues to writho In pain, aad
tho atirso anyst "I'll continue to road you
some dlscoursea oa anodynes, the enmities
of anodynes, tho indecencies of anodynes,
the absurdities of anodynes. For your
groan I'll give you a laugh."
A1-A8I roll THM AOttflOWINO.
i Here In the hospital ia a patient having
gangrened limb Amputated. Heaaysi "Oh,
lor ether) on, ror enieroformr Tlio doc
tors sayi "Why, they are all destroyed; we
don't have any mora chloroform or ether,
but I have got something a great deal bet
ter. I'll read you a pamphlet against
Jamea Y, Simpson, the discoverer of chloro
form aa an anasethetlo, and njfalnst Drs.
Agnew and Hamilton and llosack aud
Mott and Harvey and Abernethy." "Hut,"
leys the man, "I must have some uuros
thettcs." "No," say the doctors, "thoy are
all destroyed, but we have got aomethlng a
great deal better." "What Is thatf"
"Fun." Fun about medicines. Lledown,
all ye patient In Bellevuo hospital, and
top your groaning; all ye broken hearted
of all the cities, and quit your crying; we
have the catholioon at last I
Hero Is a dose of wit, here la a strength
ening plaster of sarcasm, horn is a bottle
of ribaldry that you are to keep woll ahaken
up and take a spoonful of Itufter 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 renar
tool Make the King of Terrors cackle!
For all the agonies of all the ages a jokel
Millions of people willing with uplifted
baud toward heaven to affirm that the
goepel of Jesus Christ Is full of consolation
for them, nnd yet Inlldellty propose to
take It away, giving nothing absolutely
nothing, except fun. Is thero any greater
height or depth or length or breadth or Im
mensity of meanness lu all God's universe?
Inlldellty is a religion of "Don't know."
lathereaGodf Don't knowl Is the soul
immortal f Don't knowl It we shouvd
meet each other In the futuro world will we
recognise each other? Don't knowl A re
ligion of "don't know" for the religion of
"I know," "I know In whom I have be
lieved," "I know that my Redeemer llv
sth." Inlldellty propose to substitute a
religion of nwful negatives for our rellston
of glorious positives, showing right before
ua a world or reunion and ecstasy and high
oompaulonshlp and glorious Worship and
stupendous victory, the mightiest joy of
earth not high enough to reach to the base
of the Himalaya of uplifted splendor
awaiting all those who on wing 0 Chris
Maa. faith will soar toward It.
Have you heard of the oonsDlraov to nut
out all the lighthouses on the coast f Do
you know that on a certain night of next
month, Eddystone lighthouse, Bell Rock
lighthouse, Sherryvore lluhthouse. Mon-
tauk lighthouse, Hatteras lighthouse, New
London lighthouse, uarnegat lighthouse,
and the 040 lighthouses on the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts are to be extinguished?
"Oh," you say, "what will become of tho
ships on that night? What will be the
fate of tho one million sailors following tho
sea? What will bathe doom of the mil
lions of passengers? Who will arise to put
down such a conspiracy?" Every man, wo
man and child In America and the world.
But that Is only a fable. That Is what In
idellty is trying to do put out all the
lighthouses oa tae coast of eternity, letting
Mm soul go, up the."Narrows" of death
wiMi ao llaat,,no comfort, no peace all
that coast covered with the blackness of
darkness. Instead of the great lighthouse,1
a glowworm of wit, a firefly of jocosity.
Whiohjdo you like the better, O voyager
for. eternity, tho firefly or the lighthouse?
ft What a mlasloa, Infidelity has started oal
Tho' extinguleWment of lighthouses, the
breaking up of llfeboata, the dismissal of
all the pilots, the turning of the inscrip
tion on your child's grave Into a farce and
a no. waiter aeon's t "Old Mortality,"
ohtsel ta hand, went through the land to
out out Into plainer letters the halt obliter
ated lneerlptloua 00 the tombstones, and it
waa a beautiful mission; but Infidelity
spends' Its time with hammer and chisel
trying to cutout from the tombstones of
your dead all the story of resurrection and
heaven. It Is the Iconoclast of every vill
age graveyard and of every city cemetery
aad f Westminster Abbey. Instead of
Christian consolation for the dying, a freez
ing sneer. Iustead of prayer a vrlmace.
Instead of Paul'a triumphant defiance of
death, a going out you know not where, to
atop you know not when, to do you know
not what. That Is Infidelity.
THK VAUBK PLKAB OF INKIDKUTT.
Furthermore: I cannot be an Infidel, be
cause of the false charges Infidelity Is all
the time making against the Bible. Per
haps the slander that has made the most
Impression and that some Christiana 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
aense tell you when God started the mar
riage Institution he started It aa he waat-
ud It to continue? If God bad favored
polygamy he could, have created for Adam
re wives or tea wives or twenty wlvea
just as easily aa he made one.
At the very first of the Bible God shows
himself In favor of monpgamy and antago
nistic to polygamy. Genesis II, 34, "There
fore shall a mau leave nls father and
mother, aud shall cleave unto hla wife."
Not hla wives, but h(s wife. How many
wives did God apare for. N.oab n,tbf arkf
Two and two the' birds; two and two the
.cattle; (wo and two the lions; two and two
tho human race. If the God of the Bible
bad favored a multiplicity of wives he
would have spared a plurality of wives.
When God first lauaehed the human race
he gave Adam one wife. At the, second
launching of the human raee he spares for
lic-ia ond wife, for Ham, one wife, for Shem
,ogwtfe, fof Japhet one wife, Doua that
leek; as though Godfavred polygamy?
In 'Leviticus xvlll, 18, Gad thunders his
prohibition of more than one wife.
Uod permitted polygamy. Yes; just aa
be permits today's murder aad theft aad
arson and nit kinds of crime. Ho ermlU
fhesu things, ns you well know, hut ho
iIch'.i 'lot sanction them. Who would dnru
to My ho sanctions them? Ilecnuso tho
irwiiiciitfl of tho United Btates have xr
niltted polygamy In Utah, you nro not,
therefore, to conclude that they patronlKcd
It, that they approved It, when, on tho
contrary, they denounced It. All of Owl's
ancient Israel know that the God of the
lllltlo wah against Milygatuy, for lu tho
four hundred and thirty vars of their
stay In Kgypt there is only one case of
polygamy recorded only one. All the
mighty men of tho Illble stood aloof from
olygnniy except thoso who, falling Into
tho crime, were chastised within an Inch
of their lives. Adam, Aaron, Noah, Jo
seph, Joshua, Samuel, monogamist. Hut
) 011 say, "Didn't Uavld anarjolomon favor
polygamy?" Yes; aud did they not get
well punished for It?
Head tho lives of those two men and
you will come to the conclusion that nil
tho attributes of God's uaturu ware against
their behavior. David suffered for his
ci W nes In tho caverns of Adullam and Mas
smla, In tho wilderness of Mahiuinlni, lu
tho bereavement of Klklag. The Bedouin
lifter him, sickness after him, Absalom af
ter him, Ahlthopel after him, Adonljah lif
ter him, the Kdomltos after htm, tho Sy
rians after him, tho Moabltea after him,
death after him, tlio Iord God Almighty
after him. The poorest peasant In all the
empire, married to tho plainest Jewess was
happier than the king In his marital mis
Imliavlor. How did Solomon get along
with polygamy? Head his warnings In
Proverlm; read his self disgust In Kcclesl
astes. Ho throws up his hands In loath
ing nnd cries out, "Vanity of vanities, all
Is vanity." His seven hundred wlvea
nearly neutered tho life out of him. Solo
onion got well paid for his crimes well
paid.
I repent that nil the mighty men of the
Scriptures were nloof from polygamy, save
us they wero pounded and llailed aud cut
to pieces for their Insult to holy marriage.
If tho lllblo Is tho friend of polygamy why
Is It that In all tho lands where tho lllblo
predominates polygamy In forbidden, and
lu tho lands where there Is no lllblo It Is
favored. Polygamy all over China, nil
over India, nil over Africa, all over Persia,
all ovor heathendom, save as the mission
aries have done their work, while polyg
amy does not exist In Knglnnd nnd the
United States, except In dellanco of law.
The Uible abroad, God honored monogamy.
The Illble not abroad, God abhorred polyg
amy. TDK oLorrr ofciiiuhtian womanhood.
Another fnlso charge which Inlldellty has
inado against the Ulblo Is that It Is ant ago
nistic to woman, that it enjoins her degra
dation nnd belittles her mission. Under
this Impression many woman have been
overcome of this plnguo of infidelity. Is
the Hlble tho enemy of woman? Come
Into the picture gallery, llm Louvre, tho
Luxembourg of the Illble, and see which
pictures are the moic honored. Here la
Kve, a perfect woman; ns perfect a woman
as could bo mnde by a perfect God. Here
Is Deborah, with her womanly arm hurling
a host into battle. Hero la Miriam, lead
ing the Israelltish orchestra on the banks
of the Hed sea. Hero Is motherly Hannah,
with her own loving hand replenishing thu
wardrobe of her son Samuel, the prophet.
Hero Is Abigail, kneeling nt thu foot
of the mountain until the four hun
dred wrathful men, at the sight of her
beauty and prowess halt, halt a hurricane
stopped at the sight of a water lily, a dew
drop dashing back Niagara. Here Is Ruth
putting to shame all the modern slang
nbout motbers-in law as she turns her
back on her home and her country, and
faces wild beasts nnd exile nnd death that
she may be with Naomi, her husband's
mother. Ruth, the queen of tho harvest
fields. Ruth, the grandmother of David,
Ruth, tho ancestress of Jesus Christ. Tho
story of her virtues and Ler life sacrifice Is
tho most beautiful pastoral ever written.
Here Is Vnshti defying Jtjhe bacchanal of a
thousand drunken lord, atjd Ksther will
ing to throw her life away that she may
deliver her peoplo, And here la Dorcas,
tho Biinllght of eternal fame gliding her'
philanthropic needle, ana the woman, with
perfume in a box made from the niua or
Alabastroii, pouring the holy chrism on
tho head of Christ, the aroma lingering all
down the corridor of the centuries. Here
Is Lydla, the merchantcsa of Tyrlan purple
Immortalised for her Christian behavior.
Here la the widow with two uiltea, mon;
famous thau tho Peabodys nnd tlie Len
oxes of all the ages, while here comes In
slow of gait and with careful attendants
and with especial honor and high favor,
leaning on the arm of Inspiration, one who
Is, the joy and prldo of any homo so rarely
fqrtunate as to have one, an old Christian
grandmother, Grandmother Lois. Who
baa more worshipers today than nny belug
that ever lived on earth except Jesus
Christ? Mary. For what purpose did
Christ perform his first miracle upon earth?
To relieve the emlmrrassment of a woman
ly housekeeper at the falling short of a
beverage. Why did Christ break up the
silence of the tomb, and tear off the shroud,
and rip up the rocks? It was to atop the
bereavemeut of the two Bethnuy sisters.
For whone comfort waa Christ moat anx
ious In the hour of d)lng4excruclutlou?
For a woman, an old woman, a Wrinkle
faced woman, a woman who in othor days
had held him in her arms, his first friend,
his last friend, aa it is very apt to be, his
mother. All the pathos of the agesi com
pressed into one utlerance, "Behold thy
mother." Does the Bible antagonize wom
an? A CALL roil THK WITNKSSE8.
If the Bible la so antagonistic to woman,
how do you account for the difference In
woman's condition In China and Central
Africa, and her condition In England and
America? There Is no difference except
that which the Bible makes. In lands
where there Is 110 Ulblo she Is bitched like
a beast of burden to the plows, she carries
the hod, she submits to Intlcscrihulilu lu
dignities. She must bu kept In a private
apartment, and If sho come forth she must
be carefully hooded aud religiously veiled
aa though It were a sliumu to be a woman,
Do you not know that the ery first
thing the Bible does when it comes
Into a new country Is to strike off
tho shackles of woman's serfdom? O
Woman, where are your chains today!
Hold up both your arms and let uh see
your handcuffs. Oh, we see the handcuffs
They are bracelets of gold bestowed b
husbandly or father))' or brotherly or sis
terly or loverly affection? Unloosen the
warm robe from your neck, O woniaii,
and let us see the yoke of your IkhkIiiku.
Oh, I find the yoku a enrcenet of ,tllm-,,oi
a string of u. .ellans, oracluster of peArls,
that must gall you very much. How bud
you must all have It.
Siuce ou put the Bible on your stand In
the sitting room, baa the Bible been to you,
O woman, a curse or a blessing? Why It
tt that a woman when she Is troubled will
go to her worst enemy, the Bible? Why
do you not go for eomfort to some of the
groat Infidel books, SplaaeeV'Kthlos." or
Hame't "Natural History of Religion,"
or Palne's "Ago of Reason." or Dedro's
Daaauij or aa aae of the aw volumes of
Voltaire? No, thu silly, deluded woman per
Mats In hangl 11 g alnmt the Bible verses. "Let
not yon" heart lie troubled," "All things
work t'Kethcr for good," "Weeping may
endure or a night," "I nm tho resur
rection," "Pence, IsjsIIII."
Furthermore, rather than Invito I resist
this plngue of Infidelity because It has
wrought no positive good for the world
and is always a hindrance. I ask you to
mention tho names of tho merciful and the
educational Institutions which Infidelity
founded and Is supporting, nnd tins sup
ported all tho way through Institutions
pronounced ngnlnst God nnd the Christian
religion, and jet pronounced In behalf of
Buffering humanity. What are tho names
of them? Certainly Hot tho United States
Christian commission, or the sanitary com
mission, for Christian George II. Stuart
was the president of the one, and Christian
Henry W, Hollows was tho president of tho
other.
COMPAKR THK HOHMTA1.S AND COLLEGER.
Where are the asylums and merciful In
stitutions founded by Inlldellty and sup
ported by Infidelity, pronounced ngnlnst
God and tho Hlble, and vet doing work for
the alleviation of suffering? Infidelity In so
very loud In Its braggadocio It must hnvo
some to mention. Certainly, If you como
to speak of educational Institutions it is
not Yale, It Is not Harvard, It is not Prince
ton, it is not MMdletown, it la hot Cam
bridge or Oxford, It la not nny institution
from which a diploma would not bo n dis
grace. Do you point to tho Germnn uni
versities as exceptions? I have to tell you
that all tho Germnn universities to-day are
under positive Christian Influences, except
the University of Heidelberg, where the
ruffianly student cut nnd maul and man
gle and murder each other ns a matter of
pride Instend of Infamy. Do you mention
G Irani college, Philadelphia, as an excep
tion, that collcgo established by tho will of
Mr. Glrard which forbade religious In
striictlon and the entrance! of clergymen
within Its gates. My reply Is that I lived
for seven years near that college aud know
many of Its professors to bo Christian In
structors, nnd no better Christian Influ
ences are to be found in any college than
In Glrard college.
There stands Chrlstlnnlty. There stands
Infidelity. Compare what they have douu
Compare their resources. Thero is Chris
tianity, a prayer on her lip; n benediction
on her brow; both hands full of help for
nil who want help; tho mother of thou
sands of colleges; tho mother of thousands
of asylums for the oppressed, the blind, the
alck, the lame, tho Imbecile; the mother of
missions for the bringing back of the out
cast; the mother of thousands of reforma
tory Institutions for the saving of tho lost;
tho mother of Innumerable Sablmth schools
bringing millions of children under a drill
to prepare them for respectability and use
fulness, to ay nothing of the great future.
That Is Christianity.
Here is infidelity; 110 prayer on her lips,
no benediction on her brow, both hands
clenched what for? To fight Christian
ity. Tlint is tho entire business. The com
plete mission of Infidelity to fight Chrls
tlnnlty. Whero are her schools, her col
leges, her asylums of mercy? Let me
throw you down n whole ream of foolscap
paper that you may fill all of It with the
names of her beneficent institutions, the
colleges, and the asylums, the Institutions
of mercy nnd of learning, founded by In
fidelity and supported alone by infidelity,
pronounced against God and the Christian
religion, nnd 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. Fill it nil up now. I will
wait until you get nil the names down.
"Oh," you say, "that Is too much." Well,
then, I will just hand you a sheet of letter
payer. Just fill up the four sides while we
are talking of this matter with the names
of tho merciful institutions nnd the educa
tional Institutions founded by infidelity
and supported nil along by Infidelity, pro
nounced against God and tho Christian
religion, yet lu favor of humanity.
WIIKItE AKK YOUtl KIIU1T8. AONOBT1C3?
"Oh," you say, "that is too much room.
We don't want a whole sheet of paper to
write down the names." Perhaps I had
better tear out one leaf from my memoran
dum book and ask you fill up both sides
of It with the names of such Institu
tions, "Ob," you say, "that would be
too much room. I wouldn't want so
much room aa that." Well, then, sup
pose you count them 011 your ten fin
ders. "Oh," you say, "not quite so much
aa that." Well, thou, count them on the
fingers of one hand. "Ob," you say, "we
don't want quite so much room as that."
Suppose, then, you halt and count on oue
finger the name of any Institution founded
by Infidelity, supported entirely by infidel
ity, pronounced against God and the Chris
tian religion, yet toiling to make the world
better. Not onel Not one!
Is Infidelity ao poor, ao starveling, so
mean, so useless? Get out, you miserable
pauper of the universe! Crawl into some
rathole of everlasting nothingness. In
fidelity standliig today amid the suffering,
groaning, dylug nations, and yet doing ab
solutely nothing save trying to impede
those who are tolling until they fall ex
hausted into their graves In trying to make
the world better. Gather up nil the work,
all the mtartlul.wierkjttUti infidelity has'
ever done, add tt all together, aud thero is
not ao much nobility in it as in the small
est bead of that sister of charity who last
night went up the dark alley of the town,
put a jar of jelly for an invalid appetite 011
a broken stand, and then knelt on the bare
floor praying the mercy of Christ upon the
dying soul.
Infidelity scrapes no lint for the wound
ed, bakes no bread for the hungry, shakes
up no pillow for the vick, rouses no com
fort for the bereft, gilds no grave for the
dead. While Christ, our Christ, our
wounded Christ, our risen Christ, tho
Christ of this old fashioned Bible blessed
be his glorious name foreverl our Christ
stands this hour pointing to the hospital,
or to the asylum, saying: "I was sick and
yo gave me a couch, I was lame and ye
gave mo a crutch, 1 waa blind and ye phy
slclnned my eyesight, I waa orphaned aud
ye mothered my soul, I waa lost on tho
mountains and ye brought me home; inat
asmuch aa ye did it to one of the least of
these, ye did It to me."
But I thauk God that this plague of lu
fidelity will be stayed. Many of thoso who
hear rae now by the Holy Ghost upon their
hearts will cense to be scoffers aud will bo
come disciples, and the day will arrive
when all Italians nlllccept thu Scriptures.
The book Is golng.'to keep right on until
the fires of the last day are kindled. Some
of thuiii will begin oi one side and some on
the other side of the old book. They will
not find 0 bundle of loose manuscrlnts c.im-
lly consumed like tinder thrown, Into the
II iv. Whei: the Ures of the liut day uru
kindled, some will burn on this side, from
Geuesla toward Revelation, nnd others III
bum ou thli'alde, from Revelation toward
Genesis, and In all their way they will not
lludaaluglo chapter or a single icru out
of place. That will bo the first time we
can afford to do without the Bble.
What will be the use of thu Ixxtk of Gen-
Mils,
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