(1883.)
Are the Books of Atheistic or Infidel Writers Extensively
Read?--Increase in the Number of Infidels--Spread of Scientific
Literature--Rev. Dr. Eddy--Rev. Dr. Hawkins--Rev. Dr. Haynes--Rev.
Mr. Pullman--Rev. Mr. Foote--Rev. Mr. Wells--Rev. Dr. Van Dyke--Rev.
Carpenter--Rev. Mr. Reed--Rev. Dr. McClelland--Ministers Opposed to
Discussion--Whipping Children--Worldliness as a Foe of the Church--The
Drama--Human Love--Fires, Cyclones, and Other Afflictions as Promoters
of Spirituality--Class Distinctions--Rich and Poor--Aristocracies--The
Right to Choose One's Associates--Churches Social Affairs--Progress
of the Roman Catholic Church--Substitutes for the Churches--Henry
Ward Beecher--How far Education is Favored by the Sects--Rivals of the
Pulpit--Christianity Now and One Hundred Years Ago--French Revolution
produced by the Priests--Why the Revolution was a Failure--Infidelity
of One Hundred Years Ago--Ministers not more Intellectual than a Century
Ago--Great Preachers of the Past--New Readings of Old Texts--Clerical
Answerers of Infidelity--Rev. Dr. Baker--Father Fransiola--Faith and
Reason--Democracy of Kindness--Moral Instruction--Morality Born of Human
Needs--The Conditions of Happiness--The Chief End of Man.