The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15

There will in some of our cities arise author
ity tall enough to see beyond all politics
surroundings. and strong enough to execut
the statutes of the States, and then we shal
have no more OF the execrable and BASTARD
denominations that were uttered last Sabbst
night in the Brooklyn Theatre. and the cal
rion stencil of leprous infidelity will be fun
ligsted from the atmos phere.
There is a cl ass of persons in all our com
munity hoping for the
OVERTHROW OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
arc many who are b)ld to say that the worl,
viii be better off without it than with it.
want to shew them the emu of this road, tn,
terminus of this crusade, and wha
will be the state of things on this supposi
tie n that they triumph.
tirst-woman's compete and unutterabl
degradation. / will prove it by argument
an facts that no sound or honest being will
dispute. In the communities an 4 cities enC
ne tions where the Christian religion ma
rel gned, woman's condition has been ameli
GRATED and improved AID she is honOred ant
deferred to in a Thousand things. and Their,
Is not q gentleman who does not take off his
hstIn her presence She may IN the United
States aud England suffer some I'M lstice bu
she has more OF her rights In christendon
tn 4D any where else. III your ASSOCIATION.
hs We been good, you know that the words
wife and mother and sister aud daughter are
eu ygestive OF the most gracious surroundings
tt best schools and seminaries OF the United
States are for young women
Then take womans condition in ls1ds
where Christianity has made no or little
Roadway. China. Egypt. Turkey, Assyria
Borneo, Bar barry. The Burmese seu wive:
and daughters like sheep. The Hindoo BIZ
ble forbids wo man to hear music or to SIT
at q window during the absence of her hus-
baud, aud allows q divorce II the wife Eats
hof hor hns han Hnto 10
Tie Hindoo wife is consumed on the
The horse, the COW, the dog
the cat are better off They were intended
for brutes, and only expect to be t.eated as
br,ites. Bot see the white bundles on the
rivers in the morning in China. Infanticide
after infanticide. Female children cast of
because they are females. See the women
harnessed to plows like oxen. Hidden from
the sight of men by bsrricades and by wells
and by all the stylee of cruel seclusion.
Tt cir birth is disaster. their life q torture,
their death horror. The missionary of the
CIT So in heathan lands to-day breaches To an
audience divided in two parts; the men who
msy sit as they Will and q D as they will, AID
the women cruelty hid len in a side apart
ment, wnere they can hear and not be seen.
No intelligence, no liberty no refining in
tiu suces, no hope for this life, and no hope
for the life to come. Rings d nose, cramped
foot, dis6gured facs, ;Daltreated mind and
embittered soul How far back towsI d that
condition W ,u'd women go if the Bible and
Ch ristisnity were Withdrawn is only ques-
ton in dynamics. IL sn object be lifted 10 q
Ger tain point and be not fastened there, and
the lifting power be withdrawn, how far vi
the object fail7 Clear back to the point from
whence il was lifted. Christianity found
woman in the last point of degradation and
raj Sod her almost to the ssies. Now, let the
nnv hal bSr ha " Is
an 4 she will fall clear down tn the depths
fro OIL which she was Teeurrecttd
Again TIE downfall I religion and the
TRIUMPH or INFIDELITY
me an the den oralizs:ion OF society. The
me st obnoxious thing to infidelity Is the idea
of reirl buliop. Now take all fear of volun
tary punishment yut OF society and let the
rule be that all 90 as they please, and how
long before disin'egr atom declare it
tai e the fear OF hell out of the MINDS of men
and the majority of them would soon make
this world hell The vast majority OF
those who are often led at the idea Vt future
pu nishment have such unclean hearts Oh
liv es that they are opposs d to future retribu'
tion for the same reason that q criminal
don't like penitentiarv. ALI this brave
talk about not fearing punishment for sin
IN the next world ~ only towards hist
lipg 10 keep his courage no.
| i nave seeE men tdlk very Draws ABOUT tue
future aud defy God, aud Haunt their / IN
moralities in the fare of society and chal-
lenee the Eternal, but in their last moments
they shrIeked TIL you could hear them for
two blocks, and the neighbOrs on hot sum
mer night had to put the windows down, be
cause they could not endure the sound.
4 ha rather zee o railroad train with SOC
Oh ristians on board 90 down through q
| drdwbridge into watefy grave than to see
one in idel or one atheist die. though 1t we're
on pillow of elder down and under q canopy
/ Of vermi ion. l would not want to see the
1 first catastrophe yet / would be sure of their
ha ppy destination. but have never been
abe to brace my nerves up for the latter
sps ctacle. The terror on the brow is so un
paralleled, the clutch of the fist is so dia
Dolic, the strength of the voice is so I'M
earthly There il no hell There is nc
hell There is no hell" he had said over
and over again for forty years. bat there Wal
something Ia that dying scene of my infide
ne ghbor which seemed to say: There lie
There is. There is!' Mightiest barrier te
atheist and libertinism and outlawry and
et rnity. Men may escape the Law, fol
that is done every day. but there II
something down in the offenders nature
which says: You can not escape God ID
ste uds at the end of your road of prof G
Icv." He will by no means clear the guilty
> ldze tue do y luea Oi IeIflOutlOu out Vi TUE
world and Brooklyn and New YORK and
, Boston ard Chicago and Charleston and
New Orleans would become Sodoms righ
speedily. rhe only restraints en- the evi
pa 'sions of the world to day are Bible re
straints
i Suppose now, these giants in blasphsmy
succeeded 10 marshaling q ma 0rity OF th'
world on their side. Here they are in com
} psnies in regiments. in brlgsdes. Forsard
march, Ye great army OF iDfidels and athe
! ists' Banners flying before. banners flynn
behind,. inscribed With No God" M
} Savior" do as you please" No punish
}, msnf," mo more law" Down with TIT
j Bro,e'' The sun turned into darkness
For ward march, The first assault is upor
/ the churches DowH with eli the houses o
Worship that have been occupied by people
who were deluded into being comforted owe
their bere ave nept and their SORROW. The,
deserve to b ,extirpsted because they spen
much of their life In reforming inebriety 90,
!, in saving the lost and holding before th
, struggling the idea OF eterpanl rest after tn
{ paroxysm OF life is over. Let the St Paul
: and the s. Peters and the Tripities and tn
tabernac es and the temples be turned int
lclIb houses or places OF merchandise Fol-
! ward, march Down 60 all the Sabbath
: sc hools of bright eyed, bright-faoed children
{ singing songs and getting instro etion vhe
, they ought 70 have been playing marbles i
: the street. or swearing on the commons.
I Forward march, ye hosts OF inhdels an
. atheists, Take the Bible on which witnesse
!. ere sworn out of the Courthouse and Ii
: loose testimony be unhindered. Forward