Evils of the cities : a series of practical and popular discourses delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle . ASSERTIONS. It seems from what we hear on all sides that theChristian religion is a huge blunder; that the Mosaic ac-count of the creation is an absurdity large enough tothrow all nations into rollicking guffaw; that Adam andEve never existed; that the ancient flood and Noahsark were impossibilities; that there never was a miracle;that the Bible is the friend of cruelty, of murder, ofpolygamy, of all forms of base crime; that the Christianreligion is womans tyrant and mans stultification;
Evils of the cities : a series of practical and popular discourses delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle . ASSERTIONS. It seems from what we hear on all sides that theChristian religion is a huge blunder; that the Mosaic ac-count of the creation is an absurdity large enough tothrow all nations into rollicking guffaw; that Adam andEve never existed; that the ancient flood and Noahsark were impossibilities; that there never was a miracle;that the Bible is the friend of cruelty, of murder, ofpolygamy, of all forms of base crime; that the Christianreligion is womans tyrant and mans stultification; thatthe Bible from lid to lid is a fable, a cruelty, a humbug,a sham, a lie; that the martyrs who died for its truthwere miserable dupes; that the church of Jesus Christ isproperly gazetted as a fool; that when Thomas Carlyle,the skeptic, said, The Bible is a noble book, he wasdropping into imbecility; that when Theodore Parker de-clared in Music Hall, Boston, Never a boy or girl in allChristendom but was profited by that great book, he wasbecoming very weak minded; that it is something to bring [92]. PLAGUE OF INFIDELITY. 93 a blush to the cheek of every patriot, that John Adams,the father of American Independence, declared, TheBible is the best book in all the world; and that lionhearted Andrew Jackson turned into a sniveling cowardwhen he said, That book, sir, is the rock on which ourrepublic rests; and that Daniel Webster abdicated thethrone of his intellectual power and resigned his logic,and from being the great expounder of the constitution,and the great lawyer of his age, turned into an idiotwhen he said, My heart assures and reassures me thatthe gospel of Jesus Christ must be a divine the time that at my mothers feet or on my fathersknee I first learned to lisp verses from the sacred writingsthey have been my daily study and vigilant contempla-tion, and if there is anything in my style or thought tobe commended, the credit is due to my kind parents ininsti
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