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PLAGUE OF INFIDELITY. u DR. TALMAGE DISCOURSES ON THE c PREVALENT SIN. It Is Better for a Man to Believe God V Than the Entire numan Cace-Wiit 0 Great Men Think of thot Bible-Argn mente Against This Plugue. NEw Yoic, April 5.-Continung his course of sermons on "The Ten Pla gues of the Cities," Rev. Dr. Talnage to-day took for his sabject "The Pla-ue of Infidelity." The discourse was daliv ered to large and appreciative pudicnces at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the forenoon and the Now York Acade my of Mucsic in the evening, The text was Romans iii,: 4: "Let God be true, but every man a liar." That is if God says one thing and the whole human race says the opposite, Paul would accept the divine veracity. But there are many in our tinse who have dared arraign the Almighty for falsehood. Infidelity is not oilly a plague, but it is the mother of' pla gues. It seems Irom what we hear oil all sides, that the Christian religion is a huge blunder, that the Mosaic account of the creation is an absurdity large enough to throw all iatiois into rollick ing gufl'aw; that Adam and Eye iiever existed; that the ancient flood and1(1 Noah's Ark wero impossibilities, that there never was a miracle; that the Bible is the friend of cruelty, of' murder, of pol3gami1y, of ill form.4 of' base crime; that the Christian religion i3 woiiail's tyrant and imn's stultiication; that the Bible froin lid to lid is a fable, a cruelty, a humbug, a sham, a lie; that the imar tyrs who died for ifs truth were miisera ble dupes; that the Church of Jesus Christ is properly gazetted as a fool; that when Thomas Carlyle, the sceptic, t4aid, "The Bible is a noble book,'' lie wis dropping into imbecility; that when Theodore Parker declared in Music IIall, Boston, "Never a boy or girl ill ill Christendom but was prolitted by that great book,'"he was becoinng very weak minded; that it is somtethiig to bring a blush to the cheek of every 1patriot, that John Adams, the father ol Ameri cani inldewilence, declared, 'The Ihibe is the best book inl all the world;'' anid that lioii-heaited Andrew Jacikson turned into a siivellig coward wlien lie said, "That book, sir, is the rock on which our republic rests'' atid that Daniel Webster abdicated the throne of his intellectual power and resigined his logic, and from being the gieat expoun der of the Constitution aid the great lawyer of his age, tunied itto ati idiot, when he said, "Aly heart v.ssures and re assures me that the G()sple of ;Jesus Christ must be a divine reality. From the time that at my mother's Feet, or ot my fither's kjnee, .I first learnied to lisp verses Iroi the sacred writings, they have been iy (]aily study anid yiglint conteinplation, and if' there is ailything iml my style or thoulit to be coillillended, the credit is due to my kinid parents inl inistilling into my miid an early love of tihe Scriptures;'' and that Wtllian II. Seward, the diplonatist o' the cnitury, only showed his pierility whein lie de clared, "'The whole hiope of humian pirog ress is suspended on the everigrowing influences of the Bibile;'' and thant it is wisest for us to take thant book from the throne in fte afrections of ukoun ted mlitfudes, and put. it und(er our feet to b)e trampled upon01 by hlatr'ed andc hiss mig cont,empl; and1( that your old farthter was hoodwinked, andI cajoled, and (chea ed1, and be fooled, when lie leaned oil thiM as a stall' after his hlair grew gray, anid his hands were tremulous, and his stepl shortened ais heC (came up1 to the verte elO the grave; and that your' mlother* sat withl a pack of' lies oni hwr hitp while reading of the better (ounttry, anld of the endintg of all her aches andlt pains, and( re untion not onily with those of you who st(od arouind her, but with the chiildren she had b)u:iedl with infinite hteartacfhe, so thant she c'ould ire 'd 110 miore until sihe took oflf her spectacles, and wipied from them the heavy mist of' many tears. AlasI that for forty and fifty year's they should have walked under this delusion and1( had it uinder their pillow when they hiay a dying ill the back roomi, and askedf fliat some words from the 01(d book might lhe cut uplon the tombstone undler the shad(ow of' the old country meeting house where thley sleep to-day waiting for ai resurrectiotn that will never come. Th'is boo0k, having deceived theml, and having dleceived the miighty intellects offthe past, muist not lie allowed to dleceive our larg er, mightier', vast er, more stuplenidous in tellects. And so out with the boo0k from the 'our't-r'oom whieire it is used in the solemnltization of' testimony'. Out with it fr'om under the founditation (if chultrch and asylum. Ouit with it, fr'om the dlomestic circle. Gather together' all the Bibles-the children's Bibles. the faily Bibles, those nlewly bound, and those with lid neairly worni out andc pa ges5 almost obliterated biy the luinger's long ago tuirned to dust-bring them all together, and let us make a bonfiret of them, and uy it, warum our (cold crmiticismn, and after flhat turn tmtdler with the pioloughshare of' pubilic inldignlationi the uilterouis, obscene, cruel and( deathltlu 1oo,k which is so antagoniistic to matn's libeirty, anud wolmn'5 honiotr, and1( the woirld's happliniiess. .Now that is the substanice of what imfidelit,y priapoises ti declaires, andi~ the at,tack oil the Bibile is accompainied by gtreat jocosity, and there is hairdly any subject, about, which moire mtirthi is kindledl than about, the Bible. I like fun; no0 mail was ever biuilt with a keener app)reciation of' it. There is health ,im laughter insneadl of' hiarm--phyjsciatl health, menltal heal th, mtoral healft, spiritual health,-provided yon laugh at the right ting. Th'le moin(titg is *o cunld. The Jindian wvithi its ownl mlist baptizes thme catar'act Mlihaha, or laughing water. Youl have not kept. y our eyes openl, or your ear alert, itf you have not scen the sea smile, or hleard the forests clap their hais, or- the orchards in blossom-week ag:ec with r'e dlolence. But there Is a laughtter which is deathlful, thlere is a laughter whlichl has the rebound of despair. 1t is not, healthy to giggle about, God, or chuickle about eternity, or smirk about the things of tile immortal soul. You know what caused tihe accident years ago on the Hudson River railroad. It was an in toxicated man who for a joke pulIled the string of the airbrake and stop ped tile train, at the most dlongerous ploint of' thle j ourney. But the ligh ting trainl, n o t knowmgl there was anyl impediment in the way, came down, cruishiing out of the mangled victims tIle immortal souls that went speedIng instantly to God and judgment. It was only a joke. lie thought it would be such fun t.o stop the train. He s$opped it! And so infIdelity is chliy anxious to stop tile long train of) . the I$ble, and the long train of the churlu, atid the long tram of Christian ifluences, while coming down upon s are death, Judment, and eternitly, 3ming a thousand miles a minute, omlng with more force than all the valanches that ever slipped from the Lips, coming with more strength than i the lightning express trains that ever ehistled, or shrieked, or thundered .cross the continent. Now, in this sentiment of infide! Linkers 1 cannot join, and I propose to rOve you some reasons why 1 cannot )e an infidel, and so I will try to help >ut of this present condition any who may have been struck with the awful plague of scepticism. First, I cannot be an iniidel because infidelity has no good substitute for the consolation it proposes to take away. You know there tire millions of people who get their chief consolation from this book. What would you think of a cru sade ofthis sort? Suppose a ma should resolve that lie would organize -t con spiracy to destroy all the medicines from all the apothecaries and from all the hios pitals of the carth. The work is done. Th medicines are taken and they are thrown into the river, or the lake, or the sea. A patient wakes up at, midnight in a paroxysm of distress, and wants an anodyne. "Oh," says the nurse, 'the anodynes arc all destroyed; we have no drops to give you, but instead of that I'll read you a book on the absurdities of morphine, an(d on the absurdities of all remedics." But the man continues to writhe in pain, and the nurse says: "I'll continue to read you some discourses on anodyne, the cruelties of anodynes, the indecencies of anodynes, the absurdities of anodynes. For your groan, ll give you a laugh." Here in the hospital is a patient having a gangrened limb amp1u tated. Ie says, "Oh, For ether. Oh, for chloroform."' The doctor says, "Why, they are all destroyed; we don't have any more chloroform, or ethier; but I have got something a great deal better. I'll read you a palimphilet against, James Y. Simpson, the discoverer of chlioro forimIi as an aim'sthietic, and against. Doc tors Agnew, and llamilton, and I losack, atind Mott, and Harvey, and Abernethy.'' "But,'' says the man, "I must, have somie amustetit." "No," says the doctors, "they are all destroyed, but we have got sonietliing a great (lel better." "'What is that?'' "Iun."1 Funl about Imedicilies. Lic down, all ye patients in liellevue hospital aind stop Your -roaning--ah ye broken-liearted of all the cities, and quit your crying; we have the cathiolicon at, last! Here is a dose of' wvit, here is a streng.thein'i plaster of sarcasm, lere is a bottle ot ribaldry that you are to keep vell slhaken up and take a spoonful of it alter each meal, and if that does not cure you, lere is a solution of blashemv in which you may bathe, and here is a tinctur of derision. Tick le the skeleton of deatli with a repartee! Alake the King of Terrors cackle! For all t'ie agomiies of all the a -s, a joke! Alillions of people wilIing with uplifted liand toward heaven to aiflirm that the Gospel of Jesus Clrist is Full of conso lation For them, and yet inlideity pro J)oses to take it away, giving nothing, aibsolutely nohing excelt fun. is there Ally greaitr height, or- deptli. or length, ar breadth or amniensity of' ineanness in all God's uiver e! Infidelity is a religion of "Don't knowv." is there a God? Don't, know. Is the soul immortal? Don't know. If we should meet each other in the future world will we recognize each other? D)on't know! A religion of'"'don't know'' fir the religion of' "I know,'' "I1 know in w~hiom I have blievetd.'' "I. know that my Recdeem'er liv'eth.'' Infidelity proposes to substitute a religion of al thi negatives Ior our recligion of' glot'ious p>ositives showing tight belbr'e us a world of reuniion and ersta~sy, and hlighl comn I antoishi~p. antI glorious worship. and( stupendouis victory; the mightiest joy of' e'arth not high enough to reach to the base of the 1Ilimalaya of' uplifted splen dor awaiting all those who on wing of Chriistian faith will soar toward it, ilave you heard of' the conspiracy to put out all the lighthouses oii the coast? D)o you know that oii a certain night of next, month, Eddystone lighthouse, I ell Hlock lighthouse, Sherryvore highthouse, Montauk lighthouse, Hatteras light house, Neow L onidon lighithouse, I arne gat lighthouse, and the 140 lighthouses on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts are to be extinguished '' Oh,'' Tou say, ''what will become of' the ships on that night ? What will lbc the fate of' the one million sailors following the sea? What w~ill lie the (loom of' the millions of passen ger's? Who will arise to put, do on such a con sp)iracs?"' Every mani, woman, andl child in America, andI the wor'ld. But. that is only a inble. T1hat is what infidelity is trying to (10, put, out all thie light.houses on the coast of' eternity, letting the soul go up the ''Narrows'' of' (deathi with 110 light, no comf'ort, no peace-all that coast coveredl with the blackest of dlark niess. lIstead of' the great, hghthouse, a glowworm of wit,, a lirefly of jocosity1. Which (10 you like the better, O) voyager fihr eternity--the firefly or the hlithiouse? What a mission infidelity has started on! Thle extinlguishmuent, of' lighthouses, the br'eakinig up of lifeboats, the dlismuis sal of all the pilots, the turning of' the in er'iption onu your' ('hild's g rave into a hrcee andl a lie. Walter Scott's '"Old Mortal ity,'' chisel in hand, wvent through the landil to cult out into plainier letteris the half obi'0)ter'ated inscriptions1 oil thle ttofb stones, and1( it wa's a beautiful miss ion. But intidel'ty spends its time with ham nmer and1( chisel tryinig to cult out hi'omu the toimbsto nes of' youar (h adl tall thle story of' r'esur'rection and1( heaven. ft is the icoin ochtast of every villange gi'aveyai'd, and of' eve'ry city cemetery, and of' W',stmin ster Abbey. Instead of' CXristian coni solation for the dyinig, a fr'eeinig sneer. Infstead( of' pray'er, a grimace. lIstea.l of Paul's triumlphanut dletiance of' death, a going out you know not whiere, to tolp von know not when, to do you know niot what. Th'lat is infidelity. iF'urtihermore: I cannuot lhe ani infidel, beGcatuse of' the tise ebar'ges infidelity is dl the time miaking againist the Ille. P erhaps .the slander that has made thle most impr)uession andI that some Chr'is Lianus have niot beeni intelligent enough to (deny is that the ible fav'ors poly'g. amiy. D oes the God of the Bible uph'old polygamiy, or did lie? How many wiyes tiid Giod make f'or Adam? iIe made one wife. D oes not your common sense tell you when God started the marriage institution, lie startedh it as he wvanted it contmuled? If God had fav'ored poly' gamy lhe could have cr'eated for' Adam tive wives, or ten wives, or twenty wives, .just as easily as lie made one. At the very first of the Bible God shows himself in favor of' monogomy andl an tagonistic to polygamy. Genesis 2: 24 "Therefore shalh a man leave his fatheor and mother and shall cleave unto his wIfe." Not his Wives, but his wife. [Iow many wives did God spare for Noah na the ark? Two and two thle birds; two md two the cattle; two and two the ions; two and two the human raco. If ~he God of the Bible hasd favored a mut Apllcity of wives, he would have spared a plurality of wives. When God first launched the human race, he gave Adam one wife. At the second lauiching of the human race he spares for Noah one wife, for Ham one wife, for Shem one wife, for Jabbet one wife. Does that look as though God favored polygamy ? In Leviticus xvlii. 18, God thunders his prohibition of .nore than one wife. God permitted polygamy. Yes; just as he permits to-day murder and theft and arson and all kind of crime. lie permits these things as you well know, but lie does not sanction them. Who would dare to say lie sanctions them ? Because the presidents of the United States have permitted polygamy in Utah, you are not, thereforc, to conclude that they patronized it, that they approve( it when, on the contrary, they denounced it. All o' God's ancient Israel knew that the God of the Bible was against polygamy, for in the four hundred and thirty years of their stay in Egypt there is only one case of polygamy recorded only one. All the mighty mien of the Bible stood aloof, from polygamy, ex cept those who, falling into the cri uc, were chastised within an inch of' their lives, Adam, Aaron, Noah, Joseph, Joshua, Samuel, monogamists. But you say: "Didn't David and Solomon favor polygamy?'' Yes, an(d did they not get well punished for it? Read the lives of those two men, and you will come to the conclusion that -ill the attributes of God's nature were against their be havior. David suffered for his crimes in the caverns of Adullam and Massada, in the wilderness of Mahanaim, in the bereavemncuts of Ziklag. The Bedouins after him, sickness after him, Absalom after him, Ahithopel after him, Adon ijah after him, the Edomites after him, the Syrians after him, the Moabites after him, deat,h after him, the Lord God Al mighty after him. The poorest peasant in -ill the empire married to the plaiest Jewess was happler than the king in his marital misbehavior. How (lid Solomon get along with polygamy? Road his warnings, in Pr )verbs, read his self-dis gust in Ecclesiastes. IIe throws up hIs hands in loathing, and cries out: "Van ity of vanities, all is vanity.'' His seven hundred wives nearly pestered the life out of him. Soloiou got well pald for his crimes-well paid. I repeat that all thei mighity men of the Scriptures were aloof from polygamy, save as they were ponlided and flailed, and cut, to pieces for their insult to holy marriage. I[* the liible is the friend of polygamy why is it that in all the lands where the Bible predomimates, pollygaimy is forbiddei and inl the lands where there is no Ilible, it is favored? Iolygamny all over China, all over India, all over Africa, all over 'ersia, all over heathendom, save as the missionaries have (lone their work, while polygamy ldoes not exist in Eng land and the United States. except inl defiance of law. The Bible abroad, (od honored monogamy. The Bible not abiroad, God abhoried polygamy. Another false charge which infidelity hip, imade against the Bible is that it is anta-onistic to woman, that it enljolis her degradation and belittles hier mis sion. U'nder this impression iany wo men have been overcome of this plague of infidelity. Is the Bible the enemy of woman? Coie into the picture gallery, the Louvre, tie Luxembourg of' the Bi ole, and see which pictures are the more hionoire(f. IIere is Eve, a perfect wvoman, as5 pei'feet, a woman as couldl be made by a perItect God. Iierce is Decborah, with bet' womanly arm hurlinig a host into the battle. Ihere is Miriam, leading the Israelitishi oirchcstra on the banks of the lied Sea. HIere is motherly IIannah, with her own loving hand rep)lenishiing the wardrhiobe of' her son Samuel, the propheCt. Ilerc is Abigail, kneeling at the loot of the mountain until the four hundired wriathful men, at the sight, of heri beauty and( priowess~ halt, halt-a hurricane stoppetd at the sight of' .he water lily, a dewdrop dashing back Niag ara. IIeire is Rtuth, puttng to shame all modern slang about mother's-in-law as she turnms her back on her home and her (counitry, andt f'aces wild beasts andl exile andit deaith,. that she may hbe with Naomi, heir hus band's mother. IRuth, the queen of' the ha:vest ficlds. Rluth. the irand mother of D)avid. Rtuth. the ancestress of' .Jesus Christ. The story of' her vir tutes and her if'e sacrifice the most beau tiful pastoral ever wirtten. IIere is Vashti. defying the bacchanal of a thous and( dIrunkein lords, and Estheir, willing to thr'ow her life away that, she may dleliver her people. And here is Dorcas, the sunlight of eternal flume gikting her phi! anthropic nieedlle, and the wvom an with perfumie in a box, made from the lills of Alabastron, pour'ing the holy chirism on the head of' Christ, the aroima lIngering all down the cor'ridor of' the centuries, I Ier'e is L~ydia, the merchantess of Tyrian pur'ple, immoirrtalized for her Christ,ian b)ehavlor.' IIer'e is the widowv with two mites, more famous ilhan the Peabodv's and thme I enoxes ofall ages, while he're conies ini slow of gait and with careful aittend(anits and( with estiecial honor and high fatvor, leaning on th.e arm of' inspir ation, one who is the joy and1( pride of any home so rarely lor'tunate as to have onie-an ld 1( Chir'stian grandmnotheir. Grmandmot,hier Lois. Who fias miore wor'shippers to-dhay thain at: y beimg that ever liv'ed omi earth, except dJes is Chriist? Mary. F"or what purpose did Christ per farm II is hirsft umiracle upon01 earthiy TIo irelieve the embarr'assment of' a woman ly hiousekeepemr at, the falling shiort of' a heverage. Whyi did Christ, br'eak up the silence of the ftombh, an<l( tear ofl th e hroud and rip tip thle irocksy It was to sto thle ber'eave nenit of' the two lIethI any sister's. For' whose t'aii ort wats Chriist most anxious in the hiouri of dhying exeruiciationy~ F"ora wvomaii, ami old wa mini, a wvriinklc-faced woman, a wvoiim who ini otheir days hio ield him ini her' arms, his f irist, friend, his last, friend, as is it ver'y apt, to be, his miothier. All the pathos of the nures c'omipr'essed imto one et tr"nce, " ehold thyi miother'i." D1 oes thle Ililec antaoniize woman:y If the Bib)le is $o antiaioiic( to wo man, how d0 youi ac'con foir the diler (ence ini womlan's condi(itioni ini Clniia amid Cenitratl A frica, iind1i her condhitin in England and Americay' Thleire is no dif ference except that, which the Bible makes. In lands wheire then,( is no J ii. ble, she is hitched like a heast of bur 'den to the ploughis,,she car'ries the hod, she su,bmi ts to ind(es cibable ind.gnitles. She must lhe kept, in a private iapartmenit snot if she come forthi she must be care fully hooded and religiously veiled as though it wer'e a shame to be a wvoman. D)o you riot know that, the ver'y first thing the Blibie does whmen it comes into a newy coiuntry is to strike off' the skackles of a woman's serfdom? O woman, where are your chaIns to-day? 1101(1 up both your armis and( let us see your hiandcuff's; they are bracelets of gold, bestowed by husbandly, or fatherly, or brotherly, or sIsterly, or loverly aflection. Unloosen the warm robe from your neck. 0 wo man, and let us see the yoke of your bordage. Oh, I find the yoke a carcenet of silver, -or a string of cornelians, or a cluster of pearls that must gall you very mncai Uow had fOn must all have i, Since you put the Bible on your stand in the sitting room has the Bible been to you, 0 woman, a curse or a blessing? Why is it that a woman when she it troubled will go to her worst enemy the Bible? Why do you not go for comfort to some of the great intIdel books, Spi noza's Ethics, or fIume's Naturql Ilis tory of Religion, or Paine's Age of Rea son, or Dedro's Dramas, or any one of the two hundred and sixty volumes of Voltaire? No. the silly, deluded woman persists in hanging about the Ilible verses,"Let not your heart be troubled,' "All things work together for good,11 "Weeping may endure for a night.,'' -I am the resurrection,'' "Peace, be still.' Furthermore: rather than invite I re sist this plague of infidelity because it has wrought no positive good for the world, and is always a hindrance. I ask you to mention the names of the mici fll and the edcational mnstitutions which infidelity founded and is support ing, and has suported all the way through; institutions pronounced against, God and the Christian relligion, and yet pronounced in behalf of sull'ring hui ianity. What are the names of them? Certainly not the United States Chris tian commission; or the sanitary com mission; for Christian George II. Stuart was the presid .nt 0. the one, and Christ jan Henry W. Belows was the president of the other. Where are the asylums and merciful instituions tounde(d by in fidelity' and-*upported by infidelity, pro. nounced against God and the Bible, and yet doing work for the alleviation of suffering? Infidelly is so very loud in its braggadocio it must have some to mention. Certainly, if you come to speak of educationol institutions it is not Yale, it is not Harvard, it is not Princeton, it is not Middletown, it is not Combridge or Oxford, it is not any in stituttion from which a diploma would not be a disgrace. .Do you point, to the Geriman universities as exceptions? I have to tell you that all the German unversitics to-day are under positive Christian influence, except the Uiiversi ty of' IIeidelber, were the ruflianly sti(lents cut and niau' and mangle ad murder each other as a matter of' pride iistead of infamy. Do you mention Girard college. Philadelphia, as an ex ception, that colleze established by the will of Mr. Girard, which forbade relig ious instruction and the entrance olcer gymen within its gates? My reply is that I lived for seven years near that college and knew many ol its prolfessors to be Christian instructors, and no bet ter Chiristian influences arC to be found in any college than in Girard college. There stands Christianity. There stands iniidelit,y. Compare What, they have donle. Compare their reisources. There is Chriutianity. a praver on her lip; a benediction on her brow; both hands full of help; the mother of thiousands of collei-es; the mother of thousaids of asy lums for the oppressed, the blind, the sick, the lame. the imbec lie: the mother of missions for the brimging back of the outcast; this mother of th,ousan(s of re formatory institutions for the saving of the lost; the mother of innumerable Sab both schools brinaing millions of children under a drill to prepare them for res pectability and usef'uness, to say noth ing of the great future. That is Chris tienty. Itere is infidelit,y; no priawr on her lip~s, 110 benedlictioin on her brow; both hiand1s clenched-what r'? To fight, Christianity. 3That is the entire business. ThIe complete mission ot infidelity is to fight Christianit,y. Where are her schools, her' colleges, her' asylums of mnercy? Let me throw you down a whole ream of' foolscap papuer thatt you miay fill all of' it wit thifle names of hier beneficent, inst,itutions, the colleg~es and the asy lums, the institutions of mercy and of learning, founded by minfidelity, and sup p)ortedl alone b)y infiedlity, pronounced against Godl and the C hristian ireligion and yct in favor of makin" th e world better. "Oh,'" you say. "a ream of plaper is too much for the names of' those institutions."' Well, then, I thr'ow you a quire of paper. ill it all up now. I will wait until you get all the names down. ''Oh,'' you say, '"that is too imulch.'' WVell, then, I will just hand you a sheet of letter paper. .Just fill up the four sides while we arce talkingr of this mat,ter, with the names of the merciful inst,itut,ions and the edlucational institu tions found(ed by In tiidelity and supported all along by Infidelity, pronounced gainst, God and1( the Christian religian, yet in favor of humanity. "'Oh,'' you say, "'that is too muIch room; we dlon't, want a whlole sheet of paper to write dlown' tIme names.'' Per haps I had better tear out one leaf' from my memorandlum hook, and1 ask you to fill up both sides of it with the names of such institutions "Oh,'' you say, "'that would be too much room11; 1 wvouldn 't want so much room as fliat..'' Well, then, suppose you couii t t hem on your tenl lingers, " Oh,'' y>u say, "'not quite so much as that.'' Well, then, count them on the finger's of one hand. '"Oh,'' you say, ''we doin't want quite so much room as that.'' Suppose, t,ben, you halt and count on oine finger thme name of any iinstitution foiiuuled by infidelity. supp)ortedl entirely he in fidelity, pr10 nounced against G od anid the Chuiistianm religion, yet toiling to make the worl better. Not onie! Not one! Is infidelity so poor1, s0 starvel ing, so mean, so unmless? Get out, you muiser'a ble paupler' of' the univer'se! Crauwl imto soinle rat hole of eveirlastinig mothimngness. Iinlidelity' stanmdinig to-dIay aid thme suil feing, groaniing, (lying nations, a mm yet dloimng abs ool ute ly inoth inmg save try'ving to iInpfede those whlo are toilinig uiitil thley, hill exhausted inito theiri gr'aves in tr'yinmg to miake the wor'ld Ibe tteri. (Gat her iip all the woirk, all the meireifnl woirk, that iniidelily has ever donew, add it all fo ge thier. and thiere is inot so muneh nobilt fy in it as in the smial lest beadm of th at. sis Ier of ('barily who last niighmt went upi tIme (lark all ey of' fhe town puit a jar' of' jelly f'or an inival id :m pptellto on a bro keni s tami(, and1( t hen kneldt on th are lloorbiii, praymig the mereicy of Chirist uipona lie dlymg soul. Infielit.y scrapes no lint for the woiund(edl, bakes no bre'ad tor the hun gry, shakes imp no 1pillow for the sick r'ouses nio comfort for the fbereft, gilds no0 grauve for the (lead. While Christ, our Chbrist, our wounded Christ, our risen Chruiist, the Christ of' this 01(1 fash i01ned liible-blessed be his glorious name forever!-our Christ stands this hour poInting to the hospItal, or to the 'asylum saying: "I was sick andI ye gave ine a couch, I was lame and ye gave me a crutch, I was blind and ye physIcian ed my eyesight, I was orphaned and y mothered my soul, 1 was lost on thei mountain and ye brought me home; Inasmuch as ye (lid it to one of the least of these, ye did it to ime." But I thank God that this plague of In fidelity wilt be stayed. Many of those who hear me now by tihe Ioly Ghost upon their hearts will cease to be scof fers and will become dilsciples, and the day will arrive when all nations will accept the Scriptures. The book is going tekeeprig~ht onuntil the fires of thelas da ae kndld.Some of them will bqgin on one side and some on the ther side of the old book. They will iot find a bundle of loose manuscripts )asily consumed like tinder thrown uto the fire When the fires of the ast dsy are kindled sOme will airn on this side, from Genesis toward levelation. anid others will burn on this iide, from Revelation towards Genesis, 111d in all their way they will not find a -inglo chapter or single verse out ot placo. That will be the first tine we ,an afford to do without the Bible What will be the use of the book of Genesis, descriptive of how the world was made, when the world is destroyed i What will be the use of the prophecte. when they are all fulfilled ? What wil he the use of the evangelistic or Pau' line description of Jesus Christ whei we see him face to face? What will b( the use of his photograph when we have inet him in glory? What will be th( uIse of the Bootc of Revelation, stand ing as you will with your foot on the glassy sea, and your hand on th- ring ing harp, and your forehead chapletei with eternal coronation,amid the ime. thystino and twelve-gated glories o heaven ? The emerald dashing it green against the beryl, and the bery dashing its blue against the sapphire and the sapphire throwing its light 01 the jacinth, and the jacinth dashing it Lire against the chaysoprassus, and yot and I standing in the glories of ter thousand sunsets. HAMBURGREDEEMED. Governor Hen Tillhnan Closes Up Itt Am ,hltheatre. AUO USTA, April 3.-The Chronicle't protest, has not been in vain. itmbur has been redeemed. Tle sporting town of the two state will now have to retire on its unsavo r record aind] live it down. No more ea and dog lights, chicken lights or an other kind of lights will be allowed t make night or (lay hideous. This is wha Governor Ti.lman says, and so it mus be. This town of ancient business im portance, but which has sprung latel: into national notoriety because of the cruel animal and chicken fights that hav taken place within its limits, will nov resuime its wcntted quiet, so far as wild cat and bull-dog lights are concerned. A big cocking main between Nortl and South Carolina commnenc-d yester day in IIamburg and occupied a greate part of the daty, a good crowd being i1 attendance. Six ights of the main wer ot~)~. Tiese fights werc witiesse< with cons,iderable interest, as a goo( deal of' money was upl) on the issue They resulted :3 to 3, and neither state' cocks could cirow over the victory. "At ter these "main'' lights folir spirite hack tights took place, which. in thei turn, resulted 2 to 2, leaving honors stil easy. Just before the lights were conclude( a piece of intelligence was received whicl caused something of a sensation. Thi news which somewhat startled the crow< was that an ollicial order had been re ceived by the local authorities of th town From Governor Tillman, calling oi them to stop all such lighting and to ar rest those who participated in such sport This was news, indeed, and of' th worst convincing sort. It, was movin intellgenuce. with the accent on tit move. The main, which was to be con tinned for three (lays, it was quite evi dent, could not go on. Fortunately fo the participants. however, they coulk And they went. They p)robably ha some uncomllmentar'y things to say c Governor Tillmuan. Possibly The Chror iele, whose stand in this matter ha brought the question to Governor Till nian's attention, caime in for a shiarc c the compliments that were p)assed. Br the proession moved on, lust the sanc The hghit of day will not be hieralde in IIamburg this imortning by the clario notes of the chant,icleer f'rom the o1 North State. The tar heel has dustes closed up' his coops and quietly gon away. No longer is the message frog the Governoir of' South Carolina to th Governor of Nort,h Carolina to be on of' hist.oric convivialit,y. Nowv it is, kee your game cocks oii your on dung hill and don'G sendl them into my dlomain t enter the prize ring. A new battleticld w~ill have to be se lected if the figrhts aire to go on to a fir ish. Th'le authorities are now arnme with the law and if' any nmoire fightingi carriedi on, they ar'e compelled to se that, it is stoppedC(. This is p)retty har on the sports, but it, is the edict of' th iairmer governor. It, is undlerstood t,bu a new place is to be0 selectedl andl tha the lights will be contimuedi elsewhere il Carolina-at, some point out of the reae of Chronicle reporters.-Augusta Chron There's the Dinner Deli ! What a clatt,ering and a chattering a the chiildlren answer the dinner b)ell an rush ,into the dining room. Oh ! th gratification a goodl appetite aff'ords a our uoon daiy's meal is set before us Blut, this Vacant, c'hiar, what, (leesi mean ? "Oh, that is Uncle Charley' seat. G;uess lhe don't feel like eatinu lie's got dysp)epsia, you know."' Dys le psia ! horrors ! Deliveir us from dlys l)elsia. What's the use of being plague, with such ati ailment, anyway? What' the use having a stomach so irritate, and1(1sore thla, even one bit of food give it distress? WVhy not heal the soreness an< allay the irritation and strengthen it muscular processes, by uising B3otani liloodI Rahni. Will it, cure? It.c(rtan111 will. Maniy, muany a lormteir dyspepti owes his eujoyment of' life to B. Bi. B G ive it a tia!. S. .1. Charnidler, 1tichmnond, Va. writes: '"No one0 caitntalford to 1i withlout 11. B. B. w%ho( wishes ant appetite I ('ouid scarcely ('at a single biscuit io biea kfast , but slince taking B. Il. 11, lean the whlole table, so t.o speak.' lantIos and Organn., N. W. 'T'ucuu>, 134 Main Street, Co luimbia, S. C., sells P?ianos and Organs direct, from factory. No agents' coim missions. Th'ie celebrated Chickering I 'inano. Mat hushiek 1'iano, celebrate< for its cleariiess of tone, lightness o ouch andl lasting qualities. Mason i llamhin Upright Piano. Sterling Up ighit Pianos, from $225 up. Mason 2 Laumlin Organs surpassed by none. Ster ing Organs, E0 utp. Every Instru men uairanteedi for six years. Fifteen daym Lrial, expenses bo0th ways, if not satie factory. Sold on Instalments. Randall Pope, the retired druggist 0 Madison, Fla., says P. P. P. is the boa alterative In the market, and he ha hantdled andl sold all the sarsapairilla andt blood medicines that were adve! tised. ____ ____ Tetter, Saltrhteum and Cancer are a curetd by P. P. P. The effects on thea diseases are perceptible after the firsl bottle of P. P. P. was used. A complete BJedreom Suit for $1.5 freight paid to your depot. Send fe Catalogue. Add ress L. F. Padget; Augusta, Gas. Erysinelaa-I, L. Irvin, of Thomat ville, GIa., says he was afficted wit Erysipelas for ten/years and was oni cnred when P.P .Was used. Another Otro for Rheuimatism. LA Im CITY, F LA. P. P. 1. 311*', co., ..X nnah, C/a. C,ENTLEIi -:N -- I had tietnatlsm for over six years, atlst iMay was taken down and Coll IntiA 1 my I 1. MV legs and feet were ba,ily swoll-n tid the color of a red apple, aI'l 1 was in a fearful condition. I heard of '. '. P'. (Prickly Ash Poke loot :mdl 'otas sium), and after speing wha the ingre dients were--as the fomi/a iv on the bottle-I concluded to try it, and after taking turee small bottles w:ts ablo to go down town, and attend 1o iy bsi ness, and I must say that I Ieel like another man. Ami now toking the large size, and to-day 1 believe that I will - soon be as likely %3 aIn 1 man of sixty-one years of age can expect to bt. A. C. LANO. NOTFICEU! Before assuring your life, 01 inlvestiig your ionl. ey, examine the Twlenty Year Tontine Policies of THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF 11E United states. Pol icies iiatiring inl 1891 realize cash retuins to tle owners, of amounts varying froi 120 to 171 ;Pe' cent, of thle mlonley paid inl, besides tiht adant age of the Assurance dirint-, thw miholo porho(l 0' twenlty Thefolowig licn of t ile m n actual ea-iI iniatuintg t his 'e ct -Endu1owmient Poli'cv No. 61,1125. Issued in 1S71, at .11- 2 A. itun ,,00t. 1emiiuml, T2:t0. PTta lrelmius i Paid, at etuI of ' onltine reriol , i i 1 CASil SUR1lmN DEII VALV E, !s, III.45, (ual to .11t fOr ea-1h ,-;0(l paid inl preiillil-. which is equivalent to a 1 turn of all pi eimIiti s paid, Iwith interest at i pr cent. per annum.) Or, in 3 lieu o cash, A PAID-UP LI FE POLICY F0l'% 51.in,470. (Eiiiuoal to $ I05.Stt for eacht @100 . paid iin premuiumts.) 011 A IF E A NN Ui;iTY of $;::::.5 O :ne fact is wot thi a thuou-and theories t,There is no0 Assurane ex tanit in tiny comi panmy which ceuntpatcs with tiIhis. '!Te .itni table is fte strlongest comupanyv In Ito wotrld atid t ransaet s fte Iarge'.t busins.j(' 1 For fu rthier intformiatiuon addrtess or1 apply 1to the ntearest agent of th e Society, or' write W. J. RIODDEY, S April 8-3m1 ilOCK 11I1LL, S. C. - TIlE LAIRGEST STOCK, MOST1 SKIL,LED WOlRKMEN, i ~LOW ESTI P'lIIC R. .F. H. HY ATT, Is the best place in South Carolina 01r Southern States lto securot satisfaction in 1 Amnericani and Itailian ,Mlarble WVoik. All 3 kinds of Cemetery Work a speciality. 1 LlIIADSTIONES$, MON I;MENTls, &(c. I Send for prices and futll in formuatiotn. F. H. HYATT, Aprils Iy COLUMlIlA, M. C. LIPPIIAN BR11S., Wholeualo Drugghsts, Sole Proprieter., I ppan's Block. Sarauh GO INE SHW CAS * *As ft ctaogo TERR N*'F GC.''u r.s.T Padit Pa the 10dt. A GRIAT OEFEH THAT MAY NOT AGAIN 11E 1EPEA'.ED, SO DO NOT DELAY, "ST111HK 1Hii1.b' THE IRON IO HOT." Write for Catalogue u(bw, and say what )a er you saw tis advertisement in. entember that I selt everything that Zoes4 to furnishing a hoine-manufactur ing some things and buying others in the hrgest. possible lots, which enables me to wipe out all competition. IleItE AitE A FEW OF MY START lNG BARGAINS A No. 7 Flat top Cooking Stove, full "ize, 15x17 iici oven, fitted with 21 pieces of ware, delivered at your own depot, all freight charges paid by me, for only Twelve Dollars. Again, I will sell you a 5 hole Cookin Range 13x13 inch oven, 18x26 inch top, ft ted with 21 pieces of ware, for THIR TEEN DOLLAB R, and pay the freight to Vour depot. jDO NOT PAY TWO PR1IE FOR YOUR GOODS. I will send you a nice plush Parlor suit, walnut frame, either in combination er banded, the inost stylish colors for 83.50, to your .xaiIroad station, freight paid. I will also soill you a nice Bedromos uit consisting of Bliteau with glass,1 high head Bedstead, 1 Washstand, 1 Centre table, 4 cane seat chairs, 1 cane seat an back rocker all for 16.50, and pay freigh to your depot. Or will seno you an elegant Bedroom suit with largo glass, full marble top, for 30, and pay freight. Nice window shade on-spring roller $ 4 Elegant large walnut 8 day clock, 4.00 Walnut lounge, 7.0 Lace curtains per window, 1.6 I cannot describe everything in a small advertisement, but have an immense store containing 22,600 feet of floor room, with ware houses and factory buildingsin othe parts of Augusta making in all the lar gest business of this kind under one man agenent in the Southern States. Those storesand warehouses are crowded with the choicest productions of the best facto ries. My catalogue containing illustratie of goods will be mailed if you will kindry say where you saw this advertisement. pay freight. Address, L. F. PADGETT, Proprietor I'adgett's Furniture, Ztove and CarpetStore, 1110-1112 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA. t dicne 211"1 'Wh illIze your a1-otnnd giveydur - n oe n5 Utent.! b.u ri: with1 "':11rha, D 's pp 1.11 il :h 1nIt I I sa. - "'' ~ .d ng I. w% oi r o'lt Nso w lh h f,and( - ,it' e ll i livofc r(_er, if hocould I.u aro t iro l outfi:;a 2 n and SC!w:;'nemwnt, take . PI.j5~ I,-u Iro !lfic ly'ry,i tho roung :- ut r cort., take P P os i vt-r w ritih henache, indigestion, tk,ty amt wteaknes'is, take If yoa, suffer with rervous prostration, ro ntug ani a generai let down C. the sysem tako3 IP. P. P. Flor Bloort Polwm,. Rheicumatiin,- eIso'erf ula 0.1 ors.Malaria, Chiromio Fomale Couplins tako PP P APrickly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium. The bet blfood purifier in the world. I PPMAN iiRROS., Whlosale Druggist., Soliu P'ropr'ittors, 'IPP.A'S i( LCK, favatning.1$i.3 LOW PRICES WILL BE MADE ON TALBOTT SON'S ENGINEiS A NID BOILERS, SPE&lAL EST1IMATES ON SAW MiLLS. O@IN MILLS. PLANERS AND MA- , CHiiNERtY GENERALLY AT BOTTDWM FIGURES. V. 'V. BadIham, Gen. Agt, COLE EIA, N, C. Buy tihe Tatlbott Enginu; it Is tile best. (JI"ll "E MOST APPRlOVED) plans, wvithx Suction Fan or Spiked Hell Seed Cotton Elevatar furnished; 3 r'ompet itivye prices. (COTTrON GINS and PRIESSES of best makers. TIhomas I lay Kakes~ Deering Mower, Corbln Harrows and 1 Janet, Jr A large stock of Portablio and Stationary inning and1( b'aw M ill Enigins en hand. State A gents fo: -. C. & ii. COOPER & CO'S Corlis En nlieit Lanue Saw Mills anud Liddell Coem paniy's compllete line. W. Hi. GIBIIES, .Ju., & CO. Near Union D)epot, COL,UMnIA, 5.'(O. IIEAEl TIllEME l.9IlJRif Farm Wagons, complete with body etc. 2i 3-4 ini Thtimblei Skin-*.--.-.......39.50 3 In Thimble skin..""..--.-.--....41.0 3%' in 'Ihumble Skin..................00g One Horse Wagons, 124.50, 126.s0 andI $28.50. Warranted second to none. Write for Circumlars. Buggies, Carriages, Rtoad Carts, &o., at 10 per cent less than regnlar prices. Send for Catalogue. Th'lis tffer Is for only 80 tlays in order to rediuce stock--so ordern HOLLER & ANDER3o0N