Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-02-09
hELIGIONS FALL.
A Night That Knows No Ray Of
Light
IN ALL ITS AWFULNEss
People Who Pay Fifty Cents to
Laugh at the Worlds
Redeemer.
OBTAINING GOD WITH IMMUNITY.

BROOKLYN, n. 4, February 0.-Betore
the sermon TO day, DR.. Talmage ex :oounded
chapter from the Prophecies. the ope2-
ing hymn was:
"From Greenlsnd's icy mountains.
From India's coral strands,
Where Africa's sunny fountains,
Roll down her golden sands"
Dr. Talmage's subject was The Down
fall of Religion and his text was taken
iron Aetsi, 20: The sun shall be turned
into darkness" Following is the sermon
in FULL
Solar eclipse is here predicted to take
place Just before the destruction of Jerusa-
lem. Josephus, the worldly historian, says
that this prophecy was literally fulfilled
and that the skies were full of strange ap-
pearances about this time. Of course the
scene was not obliterated, but clouds rolled
between it and the earth. Christianity is
the rising sun in our time but there are
many who by the uprolling vapors of scep-
ticism and the smoke of their blasphemy
are attempting to turn it into darkness.
Suppose the archangels of malice and
horror were unloosed and permitted to ex-
tinguish the air in the natural heavens.
They throw on the great lamp Of our plane
tary system oceans from other worlds and
the waters roll Kissing down into the ra-
vines and chasms of that great luminary
aud explosion follows explosion until only
few peaks of fire are left and now they
are cooling off and going down until The
vast continents of flame are reduced
to small acreage Of fire and
this has been reduced to few Goals and
they are whitening and soon 60 out, not
spark left in the mountains of ashes and the
valleys of ashes and the caverns of ashes.
An extinguished sun. A dead sun. A
buried sun. Let all worlds wall at the
Stupeudous Obsequies.
Under this withdrawal of solar light and
heat our earth of course takes universal
chill and the tropics become the temperate
and the temperate become the arctic and
there are frozen rivers and frozen lakes
and frozen oceans The inhabitants gather
in from arctic and antarctic region toward
the center to find the equator as the poles
The slain forests are heaped into huge bon
fires around which shivering villages'and
cities gather. The wealth of all the coal
mines is hastily poured into furnaces and
stirred into rage Of combustion, but even
the bonfres are lowering and the furnaces
are cooling off and the nations are dying.
| Vesuvius and Cotopaxi and Suomboli and
the Californian geysers cease their smoke
and the ice Uf the hailstorms remain
unmelted in the craters. All
the flowers have breathed their
last breath. All the leaves of the forests
have fallen. Ships on the sea with sailors
frozen at the mast and helmsmen frozen at
the wheel and passengers frozen in the
cabin. All nations dying, first at the
north and then at the south. Children
frosted and dead in the cradle. Octoge,
marian frosted and dead by the hearth.
| Workrnen with frozen arms holding the
hammer or with frozen foot on the shuttle.
Winter in all zones. Winter from sea to
sea. All congealing winter. Perpetual
winter. Hemisphire shackled to- Hemis
phere. Globe Of frigidity. Universal Nova
Lembla. The whole earth an icetloe grind
ing against other ice-Goes. So the arch,
angels of malice and horror have pat out
the natural sun and destroyed our world
and they may take t e,r throne of glacier
and their crown Of ice and their
Sctptre of Icicle.
What the obliteration of the natural SUI
would do for the natural world the destruc
,ion of Christianity would do for the mora
world. The sun turned into darkness. Al
the present time infdelity is joke. There
are people who will give fifty cents
or a dollar to hear Christianity assailed by
cpigram and bubble and badinage and har
lequinade. If correctly reported, one OF the
loldest laughs in Brooklyn Theatre last
Sabbath mis- ght was at the Lord Jesus Christ
the Savior Of the world, the One who came
20 carry our sorrows ] read from that lee
,ure the following in regard to Christ
When He was here He was forgiving and
half human. But now He is God, instead
of saving Father forgive them for they
know not what they do He sends them tc
eternal fire. 1t is wonderful the difference
Office makes with some people. daughter, }
Erased or Executed.
New there is one law that ought either
to be erased from the statute book or else
executed and that is the law against bias
phemy. What is blasphemy? ! went int
the law library and lind this authority
"Blasphemous words against God, contume
lious reproaches and profane ndlcule o
Christ or the Holy Scriptures are offence!
punishable at common law whether uttered
bv words or in writing.
If poor drunken man stood on The
get corner this morning and took tn'
name of God irrevvrent!y on his lips II
presence of passershy, he would be grabbed
and hustled 10 the police station. B1
there is not ci authority in the Unite;
States that has enough backbone to stol
the indecent and hlasphemnus utterance o
last Sunday night, though it is being dehV
ered in al the cities. Penal les aud pms
ons for those who de'emP the most insignih
4 a nt man in the city b defa ion OF Go
has perfect immunity. 1t would have beer
the finest drama ever enacted on the stag
of that Brooklyn theatre, i, IN the midst o
such utterances my friend Patrick Camp
bill, chief Of police. who believes in Go.
and Christ had, with plA oon Of his OH
GERS, stepped upon the stage and gently put
ting his hand upan the shoulder o. the lee
turer, said: "In the name OF the common
law of this country and in the names OF tn
families of Brooklyn. this in'amY must stol
and stop here sni
Stop Now.
But" says some one, 'are you not IN "a
vor of free speechY Oh, yes: | am in ia
vor of all styles of freedom. Free driVin
of horses, but not liberty to run over pei
sons in the street; free fire in your stove
/ but not incendiarisms or the burning OF tn
property of others; free air, but not Per@1i'
sion to poison that which others breathe
fee use Of knives, but no right to stab ott
ers; free use of gunpowder, bat no sllowane
for assassination; free speech, bat no PEI
; mission for obscenity, or slander, or tals
swearing, or blasphemy; free to do ngt
and act according to Law, but never tree
do wrong and act against hW. ] call th
attention Of judges and attorneys and p
ice commissioners and msyoes OF cities
the impOrtacce Of either driving the Ia
. against blasphemy from the statute book
or putting it into immediate execution;