lieve him.
Why? Because you know him. Why are we asked to believe those ancient
gentlemen? Because we don't know them. Another reason, according to
Mr. Talmage, why the Jew bible is inspired, is that prophecies in it
have been fulfilled. How do we know that the prophecies were not
fulfilled before they were written? They are so vague that you can't
tell what was prophesied. If you will read the Jew bible carefully,
you will see that there was not a line, not a word, prophesying the
coming of Christ. Catholics were right in saying that if the Jew bible
was to be kept in awe it must be kept from the people. Protestants are
wrong in letting the people read it.

Another argument of Mr. Talmage for the inspiration of the bible is
that the Jews have been kept as a wandering, persecuted race to fulfill
the prophecies of the old testament. I don't believe an infinitely
merciful God would persecute a race for thousands of years to use them
as witnesses. Christian hate has not allowed the Jews to earn a
[living?] or at least to practice a profession, and now, by a kind of
poetic justice, the Jews control the money of the world. Emperors go
to their bankers with hats in hand and beg them to discount their
notes. This is because God has cursed the Jews. Only a little while
ago Christians have robbed Hebrews, stripped them naked, turned them
into the streets, and pointed to them as a fulfillment of divine
prophecy. If you want to know the difference between some Jews and
some Christians compare the address of Felix Adler with the sermon of
the Rev. Dr. Talmage. Mr. Talmage thinks that the light of every
burning Jewish home in Russia throws light upon the gospel. Every
wound in a Jewish breast is to him a mouth to proclaim the divine
inspiration of the bible. Every Jewish maiden violated is another
fulfillment of God's holy word. What do these horrid persecutions
prove, except the barbarity of Christians? Next it is said that martyrs
prove the truth of the bible. Mr. Talmage affirms that no man ever
died cheerfully for a lie. Why, men have gone cheerfully to their
death for believing that a wafer was God's flesh. Thousands have died
for their belief in Mohammed. Men have died because they believed in
immersion. Either Mr. Talmage is a Catholic, a Mohammedan, a Baptist,
or else he believes that these thousands died for lies. Every religion
has had its martyrs, and every religion cannot be true. Then it is
said t