Show DR TALMAGE ON 09 ATHEISM elder J E talmage spoke in the twentieth ward meetinghouse on sunday evening on the subject of atheism he began by describing the various divisions ot heterodoxy atheism infidelity and materialism then sketched briefly the systems opposed to this bis theism deism polytheism and pantheism Pau theism these were all made plain to every listener and then the speaker proceeded to his bis subject proper showing how bow the disposition to worship something the sun the bills bille graven images fire anything where the mind has not been educated up to the christian standard is inherent in our species he ridiculed the idea that idolatry belonged only to past ages and was confined to the untutored showing how bow the golden call in other forms is worshiped as much now as in the he days of its creation and even more it was also shown that the worship of the calf that to is not golden in the shape of flocks and herds to is more prevalent now than ever it was that for the he sake of these idolized symbols vaen men will swear falsely before their maker and thrust the neck of an innocent follow fellow creature into the noose if need be to gain them or a portion of them then said he helf if the king of tortora thrusts his bis hand into your family circle and takes taken away a loved one it if you see another lingering in the shadow and about to depart call loudly upon this god you have created this superior thing that you worship and adore for aid and comfort and it will not give them why then worship a thing having no power and unable to respond to your jour calls callep 1 the speakers illustrations were numerous and so apt ws as to make plain lain beyond controversy all his positions t ons so striking indeed were some of these that even to many were prepared prepare tl for them they seemed to be an awakening the bursting forth in a now new and striking form of more or less dormant facts the most striking feature perhaps of elder talmage agea s reasoning is the leaving of nothing to the listener in the form of an apse dixit his last words were let us ever keep before us the words spoken upon linail fiina ii amid the thunder a roar and the S flash thou have none other gods god but me J 91 9 |