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TALMAGE’S se-rmon.
Th® Eminent Divine’s Sunday
Discourse.
Subject: The Gospel’s Triumph—Victories
„f tlie Christian Religion Depicted—
Transformations Wrought by Christ’s
Teachings— Drunkards Reclaimed.
[Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1899.]
Washington, D. 0.— The antagonists of
tlie Christian religion are In this sermon of
Tir Talmage met In a very unusual way,
and the triumphs of the Gospel are depict
e 0 The text Is Ezekiel xxl., 21, “He made
his arrows bright, he consulted with im
ages, be looked in the liver."
‘Two modos Babylon of proposed divination to by find which the tlie
ti u g of out
w iU of God. He took a bundle of arrows,
cut thercb together, mixed them up, theu
pulled forth one, and by the inscription on
{t decided Then what an unimal city ho was should slain, first and as- by
sault. lighter darker color of the liver the
the or
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 theliver.” Stupid
delusion! And yet all the ages have beoa
filled with delusions. It seems as if the
world loves to be hoodwinked, the delusion
of the text only a specimen of a vast number
of deceits practiced of upon the last the human race.
In the latter part century Jo
hanna Southcote came forth protending to
have divine power, made prophecies, hud
chapels built in her honor, and 100,000 dis
ciples came forward to follow her. About
five years before the birth of Christ Apol
lonius was born, and he came forth, and
after five years being speechless, according
to the tradition, he healed the sick, and
raised the dead, and preached virtue, and,
according to the myth, having
was brought to resurrection.
The Delphic oracle deceived vast multi
tudes of people; tho Pythoness seated in
the tomple of Apollo uttering a crazy jar
gon from which the people guessed tneir
individual or national fortunes or misfor
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 ure as nothing com
pared with the delusion now abroad in the
world—the delusion of the Christian relig
ion. That delusion has to-day 400,000,030
dupes. It proposes to encircle the earth
with its girdle. That which has been called
a delusion has already overshadowed tfie
Appalachian range on this side of the seu,
and it has overshadowed the Balkan and
Caucasian ranges on the other side of the
sea. It has conquered champion England and the
United States. This delusion,
this hoax, this swindle of the ages, as it
has been called, has gone forth to conquer
the islands of the Pacific, and Melanesia
and Micronosia and Malayan Polynesia
have already surrendered to the delusion.
Yea, it has conquered the Indian archi
pelago, and Borneo and Sumatra and Cel
ebes and Java have fallen under its wiles.
In the Fiji Islands, where there are 120,000
people, 102,000 have already become the
dupes of this Christian religion, and if
tiiiDgs go on as they are now going on and
if theiufiuence of this great hallucination
of the ages cannot be stopped it will swal
low the globe. Supposing, then, that
Christianity Is the delusion of the cen
turies, as some have pronounced It, I pro
pose to show you what has been accom
plished by this chimera, this fallacy, this
hoax, this swindle of the ages.
And, in the first place, I remark that this
delusion of the Christian religion has made
wonderful transformations of human char
acter. I will go down the aisle of any
church in Christendom, aud X will find on
either side that aisle those who were once
profligate, profane, unclean of speech aud
unclean of action, drunken and lost. But
by the power of this delusion of the Chris
tafn leligien they have been completely
transformed, and now they are kind and
amiable and loving and useful. Everybody
sees the change. Under the power of this
great hallucination they have quit their
former associates, and, whereas they once
found their chief delight among those who
gambled and swore and raced horses, now
they find their chief joy among those who
go to prayer meetings and churches, so
complete is the delusion. Yea, their own
families hnve noticed it—the wife has no
ticed it, the children have noticed it. The
money that went for rum now goes for
books and for clothes and for education.
He is a new man. All who know him say
there has been a wonderful change.
What is the cause of this change? This
great hallucination of the Christian relig
ion. There is as much difference between
what he is now and what he once was as
between a rose and a nettle, as between a
dove and a vulture, as between day and
night. Tremendous delusion!
Admiral Fnrragut, one of the most ad
mired men of the American navy, early be
came a victim of this Christian delusion,
aud, seated not long before his death at
Long Branch, he was giving some friends
an account of his early life. Ho said:
“My father went down in behalf of tue
United States Government to put an end
to Aaron Burr’s rebellion. I was a cabin
boy and went along wifh him. I could
swear like an old salt. I could gamble In
every style of gambling. I knew all the
wickedness there was at that time
aboard. One day my father cleared every
body out of the cabin except myself and
locked the door. He said: ‘David, what
are you going to do? What are you going
to be?’ ‘Weil,’I said.‘father, I am going
to follow tho sea.’ ‘Follow tlie sea and be
a poor, miserable, drunken sailor, kicked
and cuffed about the world, and die of a
fever in a foreign hospital.’ ‘Oli, no!’ I
said. ‘Father, I wiil not be that; X will
tread the quarter deck and command as
you do.’ ‘No, David,’ my father said;
‘no, Datyd, a person that has your prin
ciples and your bad habits will never
tread the quarter deck or command.’ My
father went out and shut the door after
him, and X said then, ‘X will change, I will
never swear again, I will never drink
again, I will never gamble again,’ X and,
gentlemen, by the help of God, have
kept those three vows to this time. I soon
after that became a Christian, and that
decided my fate for time and for eternity.’
Another captive of this great Christian’
delusion. There goes Saul of Tarsus on
horseback at full gallop. Where is he go
ing? To destroy Christians. He wants no
better play spell than to stand and watch
the hats and coats of the murderers who
are massacring God’s children, There
goes the same man. This time he Is afoot.
Where is he going now? Going on the road
to Ostia to die for Christ. They tried to
whip it out of him, they tried to scare it
out of him, they thought they would give
him enough of it by ymtting him on small
diet, and denying hun a cioak, and con
demning him as a criminal, and howling at
him through the streets; but they could
not freeze it out of him, and they could not
sweat it out of him, and they could not
pound It out of him, so they tried the sur
gery of the sword, and one summer day in
6 G he was decapitated.'EPerhaps the mighti- world’s
est intellect of the 6000 years of the
existence hoodwinked, cheated, cajoled,
duped by the Christian religion. thing about
Ah, that is the remarkable
this delusion of Christianity! Itoverpow- the
ers the strongest intellects. Gather
critics, secular and religious, of this cen
tury together and put a vote to them as to
wnieh is the greatest book ever written,
and by large majority they will say,
“Paradise Lost.” Who wrote “Paradise
Lest?” One of the fools who believed in
this Bible, John Milton. Benjamin Frank
lin surrendered to this delusion, if you may
judge from the letter that he wrote to
Thomas Puino begging him to destroy “The
Age of Reason” in manuscript and never
let it go inrto type, and writing afterward,
in his old days, “Of this Jesus of Nazareth
I have to say that the system of morals
He left and the religion He has given us
are the best things the world has ever seen
or is likely to see.” Patrick Henry, the
elootrio champion of liberty, enslaved by
L b i S e a °?i 8< >‘hat be says’, “The book
rtk al ii L otl ? er i >0 ° ks P ut tOKether is the
Bible. n.Kt „ Benjamin Rush, the lending phvsi
ologlst and anatomist of his day, the great
medical scientist—what did he say? “The
only true and perfect religion is Christian
ity. Isaac Newton, the leading philoso
pher of his time—what did he say?
That man surrendering to this delu
sion of Christian religion, crying
out “The sublimest philosophy on
earth is the philosophy of the Gospel.’'
David Brewster, at the pronunciation of
whose name every scientist the world over
?M0W» Oh, this his religion head, David Brewster Baying,
has been a great light to
dent me, a Thiers, very great light all my days!” Presi
the great French statesman,
said, acknowledging that he prayed when he
“I invoke the Lord God, in whom I
am able glad to believe.” David Livingstone,
to conquer the lion, able to conquer
the pauther, able to conquer the savage,
yet conquered by this delusion, this halluci
nation, this great swindle of the ages so
when they find him dead they find him on
his knees. William E. Gladstone, the
strongest intellect in England, unable to
resist this chimera, this fallacy, this de
lusion of the Christian religion, went to
the house of God every Sabbath and often,
at the invitation of the rector, read the
prayers to the people. If those mighty in
tellects are overborne by this delusion,
what chance is there for you and for me?
Besides that, I have noticed that first
rate Infidels cannot be depended on for
steadfastness in the proclamation of their
sentiments'. Goethe, a leading skeptic,
was so wrought upon by this Christianity
that in a weak moment he cried out, "My
belief In the Bible lias saved me in my lit
erary and moral life.” Rousseau, one of
the most eloquent champions of infidelity,
spending his whole life warring against
Christianity, cries out, me.”' “The majesty of
the Scriptures amazes Altemont,
the notorious infidel, one would think he
would liavoboeu safe agaiust the delusion
of the Chrtstiau religion. 0b, nol Aftor
talking against Christianity ali his days,
in his last hours he cried out, “Oh, Thou
blasphemed hell but most indulgent Lord God,
itself is a refuge if it hide me from Thy
frown!” Voltaire, the most talented infidel
the world ever saw, writing 250 publica
tions, and the most of them spiteful against
Christianity, himself the most notorious
libertine of the century—one would have
thought he could have been advocacy depended
upon for steadfastness in the of
infidelity and in the war against this terri
ble chimera, this delusion of the Gospel.
But no; in bis last hour he asks for
Christian buriai, and asks that they
give him the sacrament of the Lord
JeSus Christ. Why, you cannot de
pend upon these first rate infidels; you
cannot depend delusion upon of their Christianity. power to Thomas resist
this great
Paine, the god of modern skeptics, his
birthday celebrated in New York and Bos
ton with great enthusiasm—Thomas Paine,
the paragon of Bible haters—Thomas
Paine, about whom his brother infidel,
William Carver, wrote in a letter which I
have at my house, saying that he drank a
quart of rum a day and was too mean Taine, and
too dishonest to pay for it—Thomas
the adored of modern infidelity—Thomas
Paine, who stole another man’s wife In
England and brought her to this country
—Thomas Paine, who was so squalid and
so loathsome and so drunken and so prof
ligate and so beastly in his habits, some
times picked out of the ditch, sometimes
too filthy to be picked out—Thomas Paine,
one who would have thought that he
could have been depended on for stead
fastness against this great delusion.
But no. In his dying hour he begs the
Lord Jesus Christ for mercy. Powerful
delusion, all conquering delusion, earth
quaking delusion of the Christian religion.
Yea, it goes on. It Is so impertinent, and
it is so overbearing, this chimera of the
Gospel, that, having conquered the great
picture galleries of the world, the old mas
ters and the young masters, it is not satis
fied until it has conquered the music of the
world. Look over the programme of any
magnificent musical festival and see what
<>re the great performances and learn that
the greatest of all the subjects are religious
subjects.
Deluded lawyers—Lord Cairns, the high
est legal authority in England, the ex-ad
viser of the throne, spending Jesus his Christ vacation to
in preaching the Gospel of Frederick T.
the noor people of Scotland.
Frelinghuyseu, of New Jersey, once Secre
tary of State, an old-fashioned Evangelical
Christian, an elder in the Reformed
Church. John Bright, a deluded Quaker.
Henry Wilson, the Vise-President of the
United States, dying a deluded Methodist
or Congregationalist. Earl of Iiintore dy
ing a deluded Presbyterian. Christian
Yes, this delusion of the re
ligion shows itself in the fact that it goes
to tho3e who are in trouble. Now, it is
bad enough to cheat a man when ho is well
and when he is prosperous, but this re
ligion comes to a man when he is sick and
says: “You will be well again after awhile.
You are going into a land where there are
no coughs, and no pleurisies, and no con
sumptions, and no languishing, Take
courage find bear up.” Yea, this awful
chimera of the Gospel comes to the poor,
and it sa^s to them, “You are on your
way to vast estates and to dividends al
ways declarable.” This delusion of Chris
tianity comes to the bereft, and it talks of
reunion before the throne and of the cessa
tion of all sorrow. And then, to show that
this delusion will stop at absolutely noth
ing, it goes to the dying bed and fills the
man with anticipations. How much hatter
it would be to huve him die without any
more hope than swine and rats and snakes!
Shovel |him under! That is all. Nothing
more left of him. He will never know any
thing again. Shovel him under! The soul
is only n superior part of the body, and
when the body disintegrates the soul dis
integrates. Annihilation, vacancy, ever
lasting blank, obliteration. Why not pres
ent all thHt beautiful doctrine to the dying
instead of coming with this hoax, thi3
swindle of the Christian religion, and fill
ing the dying man with anticipations of
another life until some in the last hour
have clapped their hands, and soqm have
shouted, and some have sung, and some
have been so overwrought with jov Palace that
they could only look ecstatic?
gates opening," they hands thought—diamond beckoning, or
coronets flashing, Little children dying
chestras sounding. departed
actually believing they saw their
parents, so that although {Tie little chil
dren had been so weak and feeble aud sick,
for weeks they could not turn on their dy
ing pillow at the last, in a paroxysm of
rapture uncontrollable they sprang to their
l'eet and shouted, “Mother, catch me; I
am coming.” immensity of this delu
And to show the
sion, this awful swindle of the Gospel of
Jesus Christ, I open a hospital, and I bring
into thnt hospital the deathbeds of a great
many Christian people, and I take you by
the hand, aud 1 walk up and down the
wards of that hospital, and I ask a few
questions. I ask. "DyiDg Stephen, what
have you to say?” “Lord, Jesus, receive
my spirit.” “DyiDg John Wesley, God what
have you to say?” “The best of all is Is
with us.” “Dying Edward Payson, what
have you to say?” “X float in a sea of
glory.” "DyiDg John Bradford, what have
you to say?” “If there be any way of go
ing to heaven on horseback, or In a fiery
chariot, it is this.”J God. what delusion,
O my Lord, my delusion! Submerge a
what a glorious me
with it, fill my oyes and ears with It, put it
under my head for a pillow—this delusion
spread it over me for a canopy, put it un
derneath me for an outspread wing, roll it
over me in ocean surges 10,000 fathoms
deep. If infidelity,-and if atheism, and if
annihilation are a reality and the Chris
tian religion is a delusion, give me the de
lusion. understand It ali.
We)l, we will soon
Your life and mine will soon bo over. We
will ebrae to the last bRr of the music, to
the last act of the tragedy, tothe last page
of the book—yea, to the last line and to
the last word—and to you and me it will
either be midnoon or midnight!
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In what direction does it lie?”
“Straight below, sir. ”—Boston Trav
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tyrant, kissed her on the street. His
tory tells us that even tyrants may
have softer moments, for when the
wife of Pisistratus remanded the
death penalty for the offending youth,
the tyrant replied: “If we remove
those that love us, wliat shall we do
with those that hate us?”
Publius Maevius of Rome, on the
other hand, had a liberated slave torn
to pieces by wild horses because he
had kissed the Roman _, statesmans , , .
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daughter. The censor Cato promul
gated J a law prohibiting married . , peo
pie 1 from kissing each other in the
presence of their daughter.
Consolallon.
Mies Goodblood (savagely)— So that
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Mrs. Highflyer —Yes, dear; but don’t
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just splendid.—Judge.
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HE LOST ALL.
that Wlimnnie Creature,
the Lovely Ulr«ly Jones.
It was the first perfect day of the
springtime. The warm sun bright
the country landscape, and the
of opening apple blossoms cume
the laden atmosphere. The lazy
floated dreamily in the sky
chiefly because they could
go afoot nor on the trolley cars.
rural roads were smooth under
hammer of innumerable wheels,
Clarence Wheeler had stolen Birdy
from her haughty Soho home
a ramble on his '07 tandem among
highways of the township.
Stopping from their run, they rested
beneath a big oak tree which over
hung a wayside spring. Cowbells tin
kled In the wood lot below the mend
and little lambs with wobbly . , legs
ow,
three sizes too big for them gamboled
on the short green grass. On a broad,
flat stone that looked down upon the
crystal water Birdy spread the lunch
they carried in the tandem box, ami
Clarence brought water In a romantic
can that had been found hard by.
The soft winds toyed with the girl’s
bleached tresses, which streamed over
her face like a photogravure picture of
(he west wind to illustrate Longfel
low’s poems. Her cheeks flushed with
the vigor of exercise and robust health,
and when the young man approached
her from the spring his whole thought
was centered upon the winsome beauty
of the divine creature.
He sat down by her side. His soul
drank in the charm of the picture.
She looked up from the can of pot
ted beef that she was opening, with a
smile of confident approval on her
young face. Suddenly her eye kindled
and the rosy flush of young woman
hood* gave way to a ghastly pallor. Her
lip curled in scorn. Her classic head
was lifted in anger.
“Merciful heaven!” shrieked the
young man. “Tell me, dearest girl,
what is the matter?”
But she stepped back, and, striking
the attitude that she had learned at
the Soho amateur dramatic club, she
pointed her finger at him and said in
tones that would wither a load of hay:
“All is lost, Clarence Wheeler; you
are sitting in the pie!”—Pittsburg
Times.
An Indian’* Awful Self-Punishment.
H. r. Myton, United States Indian
agent at White Rocks, Utah, has
among the Ute Indians on his reserva
tion a man who for twenty years lias
done awful penance to atone for the
accidental killing of his mother, but
who, in spite of what he lias passed
through, iliinks that he has not yet
suffered sufficiently for his transgres
sion.
The killing was entirely accidental,
and the tribe bold the Indian blame
less, and did not punish him. His con
science, however, was his accuser, and
it held him up as a criminal.
IVhen his first burst of grief was
over he imposed a harsh sentence up
on himself. He made a solemn vow
that for the rest of his life he would
not wear clothing or enter a house,
tepee or other dwelling,
For more than twenty years the red
skin has kept his word. He sleeps in
t ] je 0 j )en air with a piece of an old
blanket about three feet square hung
over him on some sticks, He Is en
tirely nude.
Mr. Myton says that the Indian lies
on the ground through the winter,
even when the thermometer goes as
, * rAV as ^0 degrees below zero. New
York Journal,
The Referendum.
“I remember the referendum here
in Indiana when I was a small boy.”
“I don’t, and I have lived in the
state all my life.”
“You have a very poor memory.
Didn’t you ever get into a dispute
with another boy, and finally agree
leave the decision to the crowd?”—In
dianapolis Journal.
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Ko Hesitation Hope About Glvln
Those Presents Uncle.
“’Taint everybody that’s got such
right feelings ns Sally Potter and her
inn; I will say that for the Potters,
even if our family aren’t going to be
connected, after all.” Mrs. Roberts
was speaking to her next-door neigh
bor, Miss Elizabeth Sprawle.
“They’re honest as the day, 1 know
that,” said Miss Sprawle, "and 1 only
hope your Ned will find another girl as
good as Sally.”
“There’s not a mite of hard feeling
„ answered _
betwixt Ned and Sally, „
Mrs. Roberts; "they re good friends
still, only they made a mistake get
ting engaged. They wore too young to
know their own mimla, and Mrs. Pot
ter and l both take blame that we
didn’t counsel them to wait. But that
isn’t, wlmt I was going to tell you.
You remember that sprigged muslin
dress pattern that Ned gave Sully
when the engagement came out?”
Miss Sprawle nodded assent.
“Well," continued Mrs. Roberts, “it
being so hot last summer, Sally had it
made up and wore it, as you probably
know, but not enougli so but what
’twotlld have given excellent wear this
year if they’d been married. Well, as
soon as Sally and Ned decided to
break off Mrs. Potter came over, and
nothing would do but 1 should tell
her just what the material would
cost!
”1 hated to, hut she would have it,
and at last I told her Ned paid .?(! for
it; and to-day Sally brought over tlie
money in an envelope, and there was
not only the $fi, but 3G cents interest
for the year!
“I told Sally that there weren’t many
folks that would have thought of pay
ing C per cent, interest in such a case,
but she was real surprised, and said
’twas only what was right. Now,
what do you think of that?"
“Ned never’ll find another such, I’m
afraid!” said Miss Sprawle, and Mrs.
Roberts agreed with her.—Youth's
Companion. ________. . ..
Her Disadvantage.
Maud—That’s all bosh! If yon had
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I’d like to see him kiss me!
Gertrude—I suppose you would,but
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for keeping him from kissing me, I
suppose I might have been able to do
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