Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-02-09

that speaks of heaven cut il away, and when
you find an inscription on the child's rest
ing place, Suffer little children to come un-
to Me-" substitute the words "Delusion and
sham" and if you find an angel in marble,
strike of the wings and on the doors Of all
the family vaults inscribe No hope, Dead
once, dead forever" And then open the
graves and sit down on the broken slabs for
banquet and carnival. And pour into the
skulls OF the dead the wine Of derision and
hate, and altogether, lifting chaliees OF skel-
eton drink 20 Doom and Darkness and An
initiation. life without comfort death
without peace, and for body, mind and soul
and family EXTINCTION. Make sEl the places
OF Christian burial the graveysrds in which
lie the whole family Of Christian graces
PRAYER dead, faith dead, repentance dead,
selfdenial dead, hope dead, society dead,
honesty dead, happiness dead. Turn the
sun into darkness"
Forward.
But forward and upward, We hosts Of
infdels and atheists there are heights to
scale. Pile hill on hill and Pelion upon
Ossa and hoist the ladders against the walls
of heaven. Let the sappers and miuers
blow up the foundations OF Jasper and put
dynamite under the gates of pearl And
now for the throne. One more attack and
the day is won. Charge! charged The
stormipg parties aim for Him that sitteth
on the throne; yea, the Father, the Son and
the holy Ghost. The assailants try to
hurry the spirit over the battlements with
miphtier wrench than Millions satan was
pitched into hideous ruin down. They cry,
Down with the Son OF God, and let the
iavelins as of old strike his side, and the
hammers his feet, and the brambles his
brow. Down off the the throne! Down out
of sight! Down toreverp And last OF all
and more than all they would have God.
the Father, feel the combined force Of all
human and Satanic spite and there be
decide. They would have his blood incar.
nadine the heavens till all immensity is red
as a thousand sunsets, Huzzah! huzzshl
A world without head. A universe with
out q king. Orphaned consultations,
Fatherless galaxies. A dethroned Jeho-
yah An assassinated God. Patricide.
Regicide, Decide.
That is What infdelity wants. That is
what it will accomplish if it can. Gviiiza'
ton will be hurled back into semi.barbarism,
and semi-barbarism into Hottentot saw
agery. The wheel Of progress will turn the
other way and roll toward the dark ages.
ANsfari0us Plot.
Never has such nefarious plot been laid
for the destruction Of the planet. and never
has such an alldestructive enginery been
set in motion as that which in6delity is
working When infdelity has conquered
this world it will be habitation Of three
wards-ope q mad-house, another laza-
reth, the third paudemouium. The con-
cert of this band Of infdel music has not
vet fairly begun. You have only heard
them stringing their instruments. / put
before you their whole programme from
inst TO last In theatres the tragedy comes
Inst and the farce last, but in the drama OF
death the farce leads off and the tragedy
fellows In the farce the infdels laugh and
mock, but in the tragedy God will laugh
and mock He says so. II will laugh at
their calamity and mock when their fear
coneth." From such opening cbasms Of
individual social national and worldwide
ruin, stand back. The time will come
-hen The lnfdel will be treated as crirni.
nal against society as well as against God.
Society will push out the leper and the man
with soul gaugrened icherous, vermin.
covered and rotting apart will fall into the
ditch and, denied decent burial, men will
come with spades and cover him up where
he is that the air be not poisoned with the
carcass: the only fl text for bis funeral,
Jermiah xxi and 10: With the burial OF
an ass, drawn a cast forth beyond the
gates OF
Jerusniem.'
But a thousand voices cry: "Will all
b, Sc allied fore s Of n deity and atheism
.ucceed IN destroying Christianity Will
lie church become extinct and the Bible
b, olete and civilization only q memory
lesl When the smoke. rolling up from the
city's chimneys, can arrest antannihilate
the noouday sun. At the destruction Of
lerusaIenlem Josephine says the text was
utilized The sun shall be turned into
darkness" His rays we're shut out for q
= lille. but did that destroy the sum- No;
that great luminary. which at the begin.
ming, shot like an electric spark from Cod :
finger, is rolling on 10, day, warming CONT
nents gliding oceans, aud with glorious
light deluging the world. Light for the
mountain. Light for this world. Light for
a whole circle Of worlds. Not faded light
but the blending Of violet, indigo, blue,
green, yellow, orange aud red, just as true
as when first evoked from the white light by
the solar spectrum. Light not worn out
by the ages, but stepping 10000 Mills
second. Light pulsating 45l 900, ,00O, ,00o,.
600 unduls,ions in q second. At the be-
ginning God said:
Let There BE Light.
And light was and light shall be. And 40
Christianity goes right on to warm and cheer
all nations. Men may shut their window
blinds Of prejudice 80 that they cannot see
it and may smoke their pipe Of speculation
till they are in the shadow Of their own va.
poripR, but the Lord God is the sun aud all
tie earth shall yet bask in its warmth and
brighten in its illuminations. Aye, when
iuliy let loose it will be swift gospel, and
Who can calculate the speed Of It's und ia
ions2 Aye, the pure white ligh, Of the gos'
pel holding in il all the beauties OF earth
and heaven, the plucked from amid the
spring grass and indigo Of Southern jungles
and blue Of skies and green Of forest foliage
and yellow Of autumnal forests and orange
Of tropical groves and the red Of sunsets, oil
broueh: out under the spiritual spectrum:
Great Britain will take Europe for God and
the United States will take America for
! God. Then both hs,ions together will take
Asia for God. Then all three will take Africa
for God. Who art thou, o great mountain
Before Zerubabel thou shalt become plain.
The mouth Of the Lord hath spoken II.