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Washixotox, Aug. a The antago nists of the Christian religion are In this sermon of Dr. Talmage met la a very unusual way, and the triumphs of the gospel are depicted. The text Is Ezeklel xaI, 21, "He made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked In the liver." " Two modes of divination by which the king of Babylon proposed to find ut the will of God. He took a bundle of arrows, put them together, mixed them up, then pulled forth one. and by the Inscription on It decided what city he should first assault. Then an ani mal was slain, and by the lighter or darker color of the liver the brighter or darker prospect of success was In-t ferred. That Is the meaning of the text. "He made his arrows bright, he consulted with Images, he looked In the liver." Stupid delusion! And yet all the ages have been filled with delu sions. 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 upon the human race. In the latter part of the last century Johanna Southcote came forth pretending to have divine power, made prophecies, had chapels built in her honor, and 100,000 disciples came for ward to follow her. About five years before the birth of Christ Apollonius was born, and he came forth, and aft er five years being speechless, accord lug to the tradition, he healed the sick, and raised the dead, and preached vir tue, and. according to the myth, having deceased, was brought to resurrection. Th Delphic oracle deceived vast multitudes of people: the Tythoness seated In the temple of Apollo uttering a crazy Jargon from which the people guessed their Individual or national fortunes or misfortunes. The utter ances were of such a nature that you could read them any way you wanted to read them. Mrrladi of "Dapet." So the ancient auguries deceived the people. The priests of those auguries by the flight of birds or by the Intona tion of slain animals told the fortunes or misfortunes of Individuals of na tions. The sibyls deceived the people. The sibyls were supposed to be Inspir ed women who lived in caves and who wrote the sibylline books afterward purchased by Tarquin tbe Troud. So late as the year 1S29 a man arose In New York, pretending to be a divine being, and played his part so well that wealthy merchants became his dis ciples and threw their fortunes Into his keeping. And so In all ages there have been necromancies, Incantations, witchcrafts, sorceries, magical arts, enchantments, divinations and delu sions. The one of the text was only a specimen of that which has been oc curring In all ages of the world. None of these delusions accomplished any good. They deceived, they pauperized 'the people, they were as cruel as they were absurd. They opened no hospi tals, they healed no wounds, they wip ed away no tears, they emancipated no serfdom. Dut there are those who say that all these delusions combined are as noth ing compared with the delusion now abroad in the world the delusion of the Christian religion. That delusion has today 400,000,000 dupes. It pro poses to encircle the earth with Its girdle. That which has been called a delusion has already overshadowed the Appalachian range on this side of the sea, and It has overshadowed the Bal kan and Caucasian ranges on the other side of the sea. It has conquered Eng land and the United States. This cham pion delusion, this hoax, this swindle of the ages, as It has been called, has gono forth to conquer the Islands of the Pacific, and Melanesia and Micro nesia and Malayan Polynesia have al ready surrendered to the delusion. Yea, it has conquered the Indian archipela go, 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 al ready become the dupes of this Chris tian religion, and If things go on as they are now going on and If the In fluence of this great hallucination of the ages cannot be stopped It will, swallow the globe. Supposing, then, that Christianity Is the delusion of the centnrles, as some have pronounced It, I propose to show you what has been accomplished by this chimera, this fallacy, this hoax, this swindle of the And. In the first place. I remark that this delusion of the Christian religion has made wonderful transformations of human character. I will go down the aisle of any church In Christendom, and I will find on cither side that aisle those who were once profligate, pro fane, unclean of speech and unclean of action, drunken and lost. But by the power of this delusion of the Christian religion they have been completely transformed, and nc. 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 com plete Is the delusion. Yea, their own families have noticed It-the wife has noticed it the children have noticed thnt went for rum now If t liw a- v-r r0es for books and for clothes and for Education. He Is a new man. All'wbo Snow him say there has been a won Wul change. What Is the cause of blchangef This great halluna tlon f tbp ChxuitJan reUrfon. There is as much dlffereaoe between what he Is now and what be once was as between a rose and a nettle, as letween a dove and a vulture, as between dav and night Trerucndoudeluslonl Admiral Farracvt Admiral Farragut. one of the most admired men of the American navy, early became a victim of this Christian delusion, and. seatedjnot long before his death at LougTJranch, he was giv ing some friends an account of his early life. He said: "My father went down hi behalf of the United States government to put an end to Aaron Burr's rebellion, -i was a cabin boy and went along with 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 abroad. One day my father cleared ev erybody out of the cabin -except my self and locked the door. He said: David, what are you going to do? What are you going to ber 'Well,' I said, 'father, I am going to follow the sea. 'Follow the sea and be a poor, miserable, drunken sailor, kicked and cuffed about the world, and die of a fe ver In a foreign hospital.' 'Oh, no! I said. 'Father, I will not be that; I will tread the quarter deck and command as you do.' 'No, David,' my father said; 'no, David, a person that has your principles and your bad habits will never tread the quarter deck or command.' My father went out and shut the door after him, and I said then, I will change, I will never swear again, I will never drink again, I will never gamble again,' and, gentlemen, by the help of God, I have kept those three vows to this time. I soon after that became a Christian, and that de cided my fate for time and for eter nity." Another captive of this great Chris tian delusion. There goes Saul of Tarsus on horseback at full gallop. Where Is he going? To destroy Chris tians. He wants no better play spell than to stand and watch the hats and roata of the murderers who are mas sacring 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 putting him on small diet and denying him a cloak, and condemning 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 surgery of the sword, and one summer day In CG he was decapitated. Perhaps the mightiest intellect of the C,000 years of the world's existence hoodwinked, cheated, cajoled, duped by the Chris tian religion. "Delualon of Cbrlatlanlty. Ah, that Is the remarkable thing about this delusion of Christianity! It overpowers the strongest Intellects. Gather the critics, secular and reli gious, of this century together and put a vote to them as to which Is the greatest book ever written, and by large majority they will say "Paradise Lost" Who wrote "Paradise Lost?" 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 Paine begging him to destroy "The Age of Reason" In manuscript and never let it go Into 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 Hen ry, the electric champion of liberty, en slaved by this delusion, so that he says, "The book worth all other books put together Is the Bible." Benjamin Rush, the leading physiologist and anatomist of his day, the great medical scientist-what did he say? "The only onrt nrfeet relicion is Christian ity." Isaac Newton, the leading phi losopher of his time what did he say? That man surrendering to this delu sion of the Christian religion, crying out "The sublimest philosophy on earth Is the philosophy of the gospel." ri,i rtroTv-tor. at the pronunciation of whose name every scientist the world over uncovers bis neaa, uaviu Brewster saying, "Oh, this religion has been a great light to me, a very great light all my days!" President Thiers, the great French statesman, acknowledging that he prayed when he said, "I invoke the Lord God, n whom I am glad to believe." David r ii.ctn nhle to conquer the Hon, able to conquer the panther, able to conquer the savage, yet conquereu uj this delusion, this hallucination, this .o .kindle of the ares, so wueu they find him dead they find him on his knees. William 1 uiausiuuc, tPiieet In England, unable to resist this chimera, this fallacy, this delusion of the Christian religion, bnnse of UCKl every oauuauu it thf Invitation of the rec- tor read the prayers to the people. ir those mighty Intellects are overborne by this delusion, what cnance is for you and for me : ilrnni Infidel. Besides that I have noticed that first rate Infidels cannot be dtpended n fnr steadfastness In the proclama- ta fioethe. a UOn Ol liitrii. otuw" ,.m ctontic. was so wrought upon by this Christianity that In a weak moment he cried out "My belief In the h. sired me in my literary and moral life." Rousseau, one of the most .iinnf champions or innaemj, !t,ct hu whole life warrin against Christianity," cries out Th majesty of the Scriptures amazes me. Altemont the notorious Infidel, ont Mnt Ti would have been safe a-alnst this delusion of the Christian I religion. Oh, no! After taming again ' Christianity all his days. In his last horrs he cried out "Oh. -thou blas phemed but most Indulgent Lord God, hell Itself is a reruge 11 niue mc tl-.v frmrnr' Vo!talr. the most talent ed Infidel the wo"rideTer saw, writing 250 publications, ana the most of them spiteful against Christianity, himself the most notorious libertine of the cen- 1 tury one would have thought he could fastness In the advocacy of Infidelity and In the war against this terrible chimera, this delusin of the gospel. But no; in his last hour he asks for Christian burial 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 upon their power to re sist this great delusion of Christianity. Thomas Paine, the god of modern skeptics, his birthday celebrated In New York and Boston with great en thusiasm 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 and too dishonest to pay for It Thom as Paine, the adored of modern infi delity Thomas Paine, who stole an other man's wife in England and brought her to this country Thomas Paine, who was so squalid land so loathsome and so drunken and so prof ligate and so beastly in his habits, sometimes picked out of the ditch, sometimes too filthy to be picked out- Thomas Paine, one would have thought that he could have been depended on ror steadfastness against this great de lusion. But no. In his dying hour he begs the Lord Jesus Christ for mercy. Pow erful delusion, all conquering delusion, earthquaking delusion of the Christian religion. Yea, It goes on. It is so Im pertinent and It Is so overbearing, this chimera of the gospel, that, having conquered the great picture galleries of the world, the" old masters and the young masters, it Is not satisfied until it has conquered the music of the world. Look over the programme of any magnificent musical festival aad see what are the great performances and learn that the greatest of all the subjects are religious subjects. Gospel Structure. Yes, this chimera of the gospel is not satisfied until it goes on and builds it self Into the most permanent architec ture, so it seems as if the world is nev er to get rid of it. What are same of the finest buildings In the world? St Paul's, St. Peter's and the churches and cathedrals of all Christendom. Yes, this impertinence of the gospel, this vast delusion, is not satisfied until it projects Itself and In one year gives, contributes, $6,230,000 to foreign mis sions, the work of which is to make dunces and fools on the other side of the world people we have never seen. Deluded doctors 220" physicians meet ing week by week in London in the Union Medical Prayer circle to wor ship God. Deluded lawyers Lord Cairns, the highest legal authority in England, the ex-adviser of the throne, spending his vacation in preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to the poor people of Scotland. Frederick T. Freiinghuysen of New Jersey, once secretary of state, an old fashioned Evangelical Christian, an elder in the Reformed church. John Bright, a deluded Quaker. Henry Wil son, the vice president of the United States, dying a deluded Methodist or Congregationalist. Earl of KIntore dying a deluded Presbyterian. The cannibals In South sea, the bushmen of Tierra del Fuego, the wild men of Australia, putting down the knives of their cruelty and clothing themselves in decent apparel all un der the power of this delusion. Judson and Dotv and Abeel and Campbell and Williams and the 3,000 missionaries of the. cross turning their backs on home and civilization and comfort and eoinz out amid the squalor of heathen ism to relieve it to save it to help It, toiling until they dropped into their graves, dying with no earthly comfort about them, and going into graves with no appropriate epitaph, when they might have lived in this country and lived for themselves and lived luxu riously and been at last put into bril liant sepulchers. What a delusion I Yes. this delusion of the Christian religion shows itself in the fact that It eoes to those who are In trouoie Now. it Is bad enough to cheat a man when he Is - well and when he is pros perous, but this religion comes to a man when he is sick and says: "iou will be well again after awhile. You are going Into a land where there are no coughs, and no pleurisies, ana no consumptions, and no languishing. Take courage and bear up." Yea, this awful ehlmera of the gospel comes to the noor. and it says to them, "lou an on vour way to vast estates and to .i;d.nli alrc-nvs declarable." This S4 1 V.V " 4 delusion of Christianity comes to the bereft and it talks of reunion before the throne and of the cessation of all sorrow. And then, to show that this rielnsion will stop at absolutely noth ing, it goes to the dying bed and fills mo trlth nntieioations. HOW C LUUSS K. mneh better It would be to have him die without any more hope than swine onri mt nnd snakes! Shovel him un der! That is all. Nothing more left of him. He will never know anything mH shovel him under! The soul Is only a superior part of the body, and when the body disintegrates me boui disintegrates. Annihilation, vacancy, everlasting blank, obliteration. Why not present all that beautiful doctrine to the dying Instead of coming with this hoax, this swindle of the Christian religion, and filling the dying man with anticipations or anotner me umu crv,0 in tiie last hour have clapped ovuiw their hands, and some have shouted, and some have sung, and some have been so overwrought with Joy that t'harr n-nr nnlr look ecstatic? Palace gates opening, they thought diamond coronets flashing, hands beckoning, or cT,ectras sonndlns. Little children dy ing actually believing they saw their departed parents, so that aiinougn the little children bad "been so weak and feeble and sick for weeks they could not turn ca their dying pillow at the last In a paroxysm of rapture uncontrollable they sprang to their feet and shouted, "Mother, catch me; am coming." More Swindler. And to show the Immensity of this delusion, . this awful swindle of the srosoel of Jesus Christ I open a hospi tal, and I bring into that hospital the deathbeds of a rreat many Christian people, and I take you by the hand, and I walk up and down the wards of that hospital, and I ask a few questions. I ask, "Dying Stephen, what have you to say?" "Lord, Jesus, receive my spirit" "Dying Jehn Wesley, what have you to say?" "The best of all U God is with us." "Dying Edward Payson, what have, you : to , sa?V "I Coat In a sea of glory.' "Dying John Bradford, what have you to say?' "If there be any way of going to heaven on horseback, or In a fiery chariot It is this." "Dying Neander, what have you to say?" "I am going to sleep now. Good night" "Dying Mrs. Florence Foster, what have you to say?' "A pilgrim in the valley, but the mountain tops are all agleam from peak to peak. Dying Alexander Mather, what have you to say?" "The Lord who has taken care of me 50 years will not cast me off now; glory bo to God and to the Iamb! Amen, amen, amen, amen! Drlnsr John Powson, after preaching the ffospel so many years, what have you to say?" "My deathbed is a bed of rosef." "Dying Dr. Thomas Scott, what have you to say?" "This Is heav en begun." "Dying soldier in the last war, what have you to say?' "Boys, I am coins: to the front" "Dying tele graph operator on a battlefield of- Vir ginia, what have you to say?" "The wires are all laid, and the poles are up from Stony Point to headquarters. 'Dvine Paul, what havo you to say?" "I am now ready to be offered, and the time Of mv departure is at band; I have fougkt the ffoea fight. I have Mu lshed my course, I have kept the faith. O death. v?here Is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Thanks be unto God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." O my Lord, my God, what a delu sion, what a glorious delusion! Sub merge me with It, fill my eyes ana cars with It, put It under my head for a pillow this delusion spread it over me for a canopy, put It underneaui ue for an ontspreaa wing roll it;over me In ocean surges 10,000 fathoms deep. If infidelity, and if atheism, and if an nihilation are a reality and the Chris tian religion Is a delusion, give me the delusion. Grand Results. The strong conclusion of every rea sonable man and woman Is that Chris tianity, producing such grand results cannot 'be a delusion. A lle.j a cheat, a swindle, a hallucination cannot launch such a glory of the centuries. . Your logic and your common sense convince you that a bad cause cannot produce an illustrious result. Out of the womb of such a monsfer no such angel can be born. There are many who began with thinking that the Christian religion was a stupid farce who have come to the conclusion that it is a reality. Why nrp vou In the Lord's house today? Why did you sing this song? Why did you bow your head in the opening prayer? Why did you bring your fami ly with you? Why, when I tell you of the ending of all trials In the bosom of God, do there stand tears In your eyesnot tears of grief, but tears of Joy, such as stand In the eyes of home sick children far away at school when some one talks to them about going home? Why Is It that you can be so calmly submissive to the death of your loved one, about whose departure you once were so angry and so rebellious? There Is something the matter with you. All your friends have found out, there is a great change. And if some of you would givefyour experience you would give it In scholarly style, and others giving their experience would give it in broken style, but thd one experience would be Just as good, as the other. Some of you have read; everything. You are scientific, and you are scholarly, and yet if 1 should ask you "What is the most sensible thing you' ever did?" yen would say, "The most sensible thing 1 ever did was to give my heart to God." But there may be others who have not had early advantages, and if they were asked to give such experience thev might rise and give such testi mony as the man gave In a prayer meeting when he said: "On my ' JT here tonight I met a man who asked me Kb:..-, I was going. I said, 'I am going Z (i.y.r meeting.' H. said There arcV. ;ood any religions, amd I think tl' -at of tbem are delusions; as to the Christian religion, that is only a n- ra. that Is a mere notion, the cir-'::an religiea.' I said to him, .c.-rer you see that tavern over there7 'Yes,' be said, I see it' 'Don't you see me? 'Yes, of course, I see you.' Now. the time was when every body in this town knows If I had a quarter of a dollar In my pocket I could not pass that tavern without going in and getting a drink. All tbe people r of Jefferson could not keep me out of that place, but God has changed my heart, and the Lord Jesus Christ has destroy ed my thirst for strong drink, and there Is my whole week's wages, and I have no temptation to go In there. And, stranger. If this is a notion I want to tell you it Is a mighty powerful notion; It Is a notion that has put clothes on my children's back, and It Is a notion that has put good food on our table, and It Is a notion that has filled my mouth with thanksgiving to God.' " Well, we will soon understand it alL Your life and mine will soon be or or. We will soon come to the last bar of the music, to the last act" of the trage dy, to tbe last page of the book-yea, to the last line and to the last word and to Ton and to me it will either b I tnfdnooo or midnight! The mail buylnrf . a pair of shoos found the rWrht one ierfectly comfort able and ea?y, the left one rather snug. "It's usually so," said the salesman; "the left foot 1 commonly a little big ger than the right foot." . "Why don't you make the left shoe a little bigger, then?" asked the custom-. er. "Well," said the salesman, "the dif ference U usually not great, mid It might not bo-enough m that It would be noticed If trying on bo. And then It Is not so great but' what the differ ence In feeUug of the two shoes disap pears very soon. And tleu, too, iu ouo cases the man's right foot I the larger, the man lelng right footed Iu this re spect as men are sometime left hand ed, the reverse of the common habit in the use of their hands. ,lf r1hks were commonly made with the left a little bigger than the right to fitfthe major ity of cases, they'd be worse than ever when you hit a right footed man. ij the shoes are made alike In size, a man gets a pair that fit him comfortably to start with and they adapt themselves quickly to any slight differences In the feet."-New York Sun. How (nrc Kills. t Wise people have long leen a want that "care killed a cat," but It hns locn J left to the X rays to explain how nnd J why. Dr. Fritz Lnnge of Munich lias j turned his iluorcseent screen upon the siomacu 01 n napi'j wuinni and has seen the prm-es of digestion going on as It should in all well regu- lated stomachs. 1 inn ue na nnrouucvu 1 care and Irritation Into the' feline mind j by placing' a live mouse- Just ieyoiid j reach, and 'has kc h digestion stopped j theivhy. Tlo Scciitv For the Prevention or j Cruelty 'to Auiinals.inay v:y ut on lo half of th cV.t. or tbe .moiwo. or IkUi, but the Ie.;. on iv-ahi-t worrying Is as complete a any Chri-ttan Scientist could desire. -UVsrylirg Mmm digestion, causes dysjwpj!.. ivt'ir.l nil the nor mal phyK-'l (;'VfX5.esnd demoralises both, body f.nd .iniihl. It wastes -tbe forces of" life, destroy h:g 'the t!ssuts without accomplishing any t'.iliig. -Chicago Tril. uue. lilirwH'McGiilrc WlitnLjr. , t ... i'i.H . f (i iii ..1i nf Ills fan:ui:S bri;radev V:o Mury In too good to be io.-l. lie :;' I he was lending his men to the l').!t,in c'.e f the seven day:' battles hen mi aid rode by and announced 'the low that our army had carried -n c r;an strategic point and bevrral colors. "D'ye hear that, boys?" shouted Meagher.. "Our men liave won the dav and captured tin enemy's col ors:" ""Just ns I nld that," remarked the general, -"a private who was plung ing along out of -one 'muddy hole Into another, looked tip at me and said, "Ah, ginral, I'd rather hev a pint of Diiinls McGnlre's whisky now than all the col ors of the rainbow."-Donahue's Maga zine. Woulrist Wenr the Crown.- The late WiiKatu Morris, views on the laureatesldp. i::i.1o public In Mr. Mac-kail's 'biography.' were peculiar and interesting. Mr. Gladittoiic was willing to offer Morris the mureMidou to Tennyson; but'011 being sounded, the socialisf pr. although pleased with the honor, declined unreservedly. stating thnt. In hi opinion, the function of poet laureate was that of a cere monial writer of verse, and thai me M.irmiis of Lome, the languidly liter ary son-in-law of Queen Victoria, was the finest persou to fuiMMi. What does it do? It causes the oil glands in the skin to beceme more active, making the hair soft and glossy, precisely as nature intendtd. It cleanses the scalp froa dandruff and thus removes one of the great taesss rf j baldness. : It makes a better cirtu- j lation in the scalp and stops ' the hair from coming out. It Prevents cud 11 J Cures caicess :r ' , Ayer's Hair Vigor will surely make hair grow on bald heads, provided only there is any lif- -eraaln-ing in the hair b It restores cck. - Cray or white hair. It Avcs not do this in a moment, as will a hair dye; but in a short time the gray color of. age gradually disap pears and the darker color of youth takes its place. Would vou like a copy i 7 of our book on the Hair and Scalp? ' It is free. o It 70a do not obtain ail tha mmwi.? you axpectod from tne ata ai u writ Ua itocior ionoi 11. Addreaa, DR. J. C. AVER. Lowell. Maaa. r 1 -
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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Aug. 11, 1899, edition 1
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