Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-09

paralleled, the clutch of the list Is so diaboli.
cal, the strength of the voice is so unearthly
There Is no he'll! there is no hell there is ne
hell" he had said over and over again fol
| forty years, but there was something in that
dying scene of my inhdel neighbor whicf
seemed & to say; -, There Is; there Is! ther,
atheist and libertinism and outlawry
and crime of all sorts are the
retributions of eternity. Men may escape the
law, for that is done every day, but there is
something down in the Offenders nature which
says You cannot escape God. He stands al
the end OF your road of profligacy." He viii
by no means clear the guilty. Take the Bible
idea OF retrIbutlon out of the world and
Brooklyn and New York and Boston and
Chicago and Charleston and New Orleans
would become Sodoms right speedily. The
only restraints on the evil passions of the
| world to-day are Bible restraints.
suppose now these giants in blasphemy
succeeded IN maTshalllng majority of the
| world on their side. There they are in COM
| march! ye great army of infidels and atheists
Banners flying before, banners flying behind.
inscribed with mo God, mo Saviour" DO
as you please mo punishment" mo moral
| law" Down with the Bible" The sun
| turned into darkness. Forward, march! tn :
| hrst assault Is upon the churches. Down
| with all the houses of worship that have been
| occupied by people who were deluded into be-
| ing comforred over their bereavements and
| their SORROWS. They deserve to be eXtirpatci
! because they spent much of their life in re-
1 IL
| holding before the struggling the idea of eter-
| nal rest after the par0Xysm of life is over
! Let the St. Pauls and the st. Peters and the
| Irlnltys and the TaOernaCles and the temples
| be turned into club houses or places Of
| merchandise! Forward, march Down go all
| the Sabbath schools of bright-eyed, bright
faced children, singing songs and getting in
| structlon when they ought TO have been play
marbles in the street or swearing on the
| commons.
Forward, march. ye hosts of infdes and
a la hnI Ia -,
| are sworn out OF the court house and let loose
| testimony be unhindered. Forward, and
down ten thousand asyiums and hospitals Of
mercy supported by churches and Christian q.
phllanthrOpists, prayers every morning by
the sick and prayers over the dead. Never
mind the blind eyes and the deaf ears and the
weakened intellects and the crippled limbs.
Let paralyzed old age pick up Its own food
and orphans find their own way and the half
reformed go back to their old iniquities. With
the broad-aXi, ,hew down the cross and split
up the bethlehem stable. Tear down from
Vatican and Florence and Venice and Dres-
den and all the picture galleries of The world
the mlghtest works OF art. for they are re-
nglOus-Claude's Burning Bush' and t5hir-
iandajO's "AdoratiOn of the Magi" and Rem
brandts "Christ in the Temple" and Paul We
rOnese's Marriage in Cana" and Michael
Angeles Last Judgment" And drive back
all the oratorios OF Handel and Haydn and
Beethoven into the crypts of the ruined
churches for they tell of the Messiah or the
creation or Japtha or Samson or other
Forward, march, ye hosts OF lnfidels and
atheists INTO the graveyards and cemeteries.
and tear down the sculpture from Green
woods gate representing the Resurrection
ana break up the artists figure of Old Nor
tality, and his chsel at the entrance of Ian
rel Hlll, and then march on and when Won
hnu an epltaph Asleep in Jesus" chsel out
inc Worus, ana When you find a stone that
speaks OF heaven cut it away, and when Won
1nd an inscription on the cbild's resting place
''outler little children TO come unto me- sub
% NvnT I1aIrr
If you find an angel in marble strike off the
wings, and on the door of all the family yanlts
lnscribe NO hope" 'Dead once, dead for
ever" 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 derlsIOn and hate, and altogether
liItinS challces OF skeleton drink to doom ana
udIknesS ana dnnlnllatlOn, a life without
comfort, death without peace and for body
mind and soul and family extinction Male
all the places of Christian burial the grave
yarus IN winch lie the whole family of Chris
tlan graces. Prayer dead. Faith dead Re
pentance dead. Self-denial dead. Hone
dead. Society dead. Honesty dead Hap
pIness dead. Turn the sun into darkness ,,
But, forward and upward, We hosts of IN
hdels and atheists. There are heights TO
scale. Pile hill on hill and Pelion uDon Ossa
ana MOIST the ladders against the walls of
heaven. Let the sappers and miners blow uu
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.
OHdl SCa CudTgG. Inc SLOFmlng naFtirS IN
for Him that sitteth on the throne: yea the
Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. The
assallants try to hurl the spirits over the
! oattlements with mlghtler wrench than Mil
toms Satan was pitched into hideous ruin
down. They cry Down with the Son of God
aud let the jayelins as of old strike his side
and the hammers his feet and the bramblcs
his brow. Down off the throne! Down ouf
of sight! Down forever" And last of an 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 incarnadine the heavens
tlll all lmmenslty is red as thousand sunsets
HuZzah. huzZah! a world without a head
universe without King. Orphaned con
stellatlons, fatherless galaXies. A detbroDed
JehoVah. An assassinated God. Patrlcide,
Regiclde, Decide.
That IS what inidelity wants. That
1t VIII accomplish if it can. Civilization sill
pc hurried back into semi barbarsm and semi
Oarbarlsm into HOttentOt savagerv The
wheel Of progress will turn the other Wav and
roll toward the dark ages. The clock Of tie
century VIII be set back two thousand
years. Turn back the Sandwich Islands from
their schools and libraries and reformed con-
dltlon TO what they were in 1920, when the
missionaries OF the cross began their work of
gracious revolution. Gail home the five hun
dred Christian missionaries in India and over
throw their two thousand stations and scatter
the hundred and forty thousand DupiIs oatb-
cred out of barbarism into Christian schools
Level TO the ground on the coasts of all heath
endOm the gospel batteries which were Dlant-
eu 10 Capture all ASIA ana Africa for CiViIiZa-
tlon. DIsDand the twenty evangeliZing So
cletles IN South Africa for the salvation Of
bushman and IOttentOts. Send back the
converted Chlppewas and Delawares and
Oneldas TO their war paint and barbarity and
nakedness. Let the three hundred PoIv-
neslan islands that have reIinuuished
heathenism be given back TO their for
mer cruelties. Go back to yOIr, darkness
from which Christianity extricated Won. We
$4,000 converts of China, ye 10000 converts Of
the Indian Archipelago, ye 1000 converts of
South Africa, ye 800. 900 converts of the SoUth
Sea Islands, ye 100000 converts Of India and
Farther India. Turn he sun into darkness, >,
Blot out all the work of DR.. Duff in India and
Abeel IN CHINA, and King in Greece, and Jud-
son in Burmah, and David BraInerd among
the American abOrIgines and discharge the
three thousand missionaries in the field fron
their ministry Of self-sacrifiCe. Call back the
medical missionaries. those who doctor hotb
the bodies and the souls of the diving nations
Go home, English Missionary Society and
American Board of Foreign Missions and
MOravlans, and. surrender the world that you
have begun to conquer back to the filth and
the squalor and the despair from which they
are now emerging.
Never has such a nefariOus plot been laid
for the destruction Of the planet and never
has such an all-destructive enginery been set
in motion as that which infdelity is Work king
When lnhdelity has conquered this world, iC
Will be habItatIOn of three Wards-the one
madhOuse, another a lazarettO, the third n
a pandemonium. The concert Of this band of
lntidel music has not yet fairly begun You
ments. l put before you Their whole DrO-
gramme from first to last. In theatres the
tragedy comes first and the farce last but n
the drama of death the farce leads of and the
tragedy follows. In the farce the nfidels
laugh and mock, but in the tragedy God
will laugh and mock. He SAYS So
Il will laugh at their calamity and mock
when their fear cometh." From such OPEN
ing chasms of individual, social, national and
worldwide ruin stand back. The time will
come when the infdel will be treated as a
criminal against society as well as against
God. Society viii push out the leper and the
man with soul gangrened, itcherOus, vermin
covered and rottlng apart will fall into the
ditch ana denied decent burial: men viii
come with spades and cover him IN where he
IS that the air be not poisoned with the car
cass; the on fit text for his funeral Jere-
miah, xxi and 10: with the burial of an
ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of
Jerusalem"
But thousand voices cry: ''Will all these
allied forces of infdelity and atheism sue
ceed in destroying Christianity? Will the
church become extinct and the Bible obsolete
and civillZat on only memory" Yes! when
the smoke rolling up from the city's chimnevs
can arrest and aBnihiate the MONDAY sun
At the destruction of Jerusalem JOeephus
saws the text was fulfilled: ''The sun shall be
turned into darkness" His rays were shut
ont for q while, but did that destroy the sun2
No. that great luminary which at the begin
ming shot like an electric spark from Gods
finger is rOllingonIto- day warming sentiments,
gliding oceans, and with glorious light
valley. Light for this world. Light for a
whole circle of worlds. Not faded light, but
the blending of violet, indigo. blue, green,
yellow, orange and red, just as true as when
hrst evoked from the white light by the solar
spectrum. Light not worn out by the ages,
but stepping 10000 miles a second. Light
pulsaUing 45l trillOn undulat'Ons in a
saS saf4nd Let At there 1ee be- 6egnn4g gBE GOd 5Od
light was and light shall be. And SO Chris