Two great speeches by Leonard Spencer

Pres LINCOLN Gettysburg Address /

Announced: PREACHER De Witt TALMAGE on Infidelity

Infidelity and Christianity

This is not what you think it's about:

De Witt TALMAGE (1832 - 1902) was a controversial speaker.

His sermons on Infidelity and Christianity is against the new biblical scholarly criticism of the 19th century, but more broadly about secularism in the USA. He is one of the original fundamentalists

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Talmage on infidelity
T. De Witt Talmage (author) 

Len Spencer (speaker) 
5/12/1908 Camden, New Jersey [unconfirmed] 3 Master Victor 16106


Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg
Len Spencer (speaker) 
Description: Recitation

10/26/1906 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [unconfirmed] 1 Master Victor 16106 10-in. Pressings made after 3/30/1917 were pressed from new masters created by acoustical dubbing.

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I tell you, Christianity is on the march, while Infidelity is dwindling into the imbecility that was demonstrated a few days ago at Rochester, New York State, where, after the blowing of the trumpets and the gathering of all the clans there assembled a small group of semi-idiots to denounce the Christian religion and eulo gize one of their dead patrons, a libertine, arrested in New York and Boston again and again for scattering obscene literature that dead man the patron saint of the whole movement. While Infidelity is thus dwindling and dropping down into imbecility and indecency, the wheel of Christianity is making about a thousand revolutions in a minute. All the copies of Shakespeare and Tennyson and Disraeli and of any ten of the most popular writers of the day, less in number than the copies of the Bible going out from our printing-presses. Two years ago, in six weeks, more than two million copies of the New Tes tament purchased, not given away, but purchased, be cause the world will have it. More Christian men in high official position to-day in Great Britain and in the United States than ever before. Stop that falsehood going through the newspapers I have seen it in twenty that the judges of the Supreme Court of the United States are all infidels except Judge Strong. By personal acquaintance I know three of them to be old-fashioned evangelical Christians, observing the holy sacrament of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I suppose that the majority of them are staunch believers in our Christian religion. And then hear the dying words of Judge Black. Last month, a man who had been Attor ney-General of the United States, and who had been Secretary of the United States, no stronger lawyer of the century than Judge Black dying, his aged wife kneeling by his side, and he uttering that sublime and tender prayer : " O Lord God, from whom I derived my existence and in whom I have always trusted, take my spirit to Thyself and let Thy richest blessing come down upon my Mary." The most popular book is the Bible, and the mightiest institution is the Church, and the greatest name among the nations, and more honoured than any other, is the name of Jesus.