The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-09

per and put dynamite under the gates of pearl;
and now for the throne! One more attack, and
the day is won. Charge! Charged The storm
ing parties aim for Him that sitteth on the
throne; yea, the Father, the Son and the Holy
Ghost. The assailants try to hurl the Spirit
over the battlements, with mightier wrench
than Mllton's 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 BRAN
bles His brow. Down off the throne! Down,
out of sight! Down forever! 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 incarnadine the heavens
till all lmmeusity is red as a thousand sunsets.
Huzzah! Huzzah! world without a head. A
universe without a king. Orphaned constella-
tons. Fatherless galaxies. A dethroned Jeho-
yah. An assassinated God. Patricide, Regi-
eide. Decide.
That is what ~infdelity wants. That is what
it will accomplish if it can. Civilization will be
hurled back into semi barbarism, and semi
barbarism into Hottentot savagery. The wheel
or progress will turn the other way and roll
toward the dark ages. The clock of the centuries
will be set back two thousand years. Turn back
the Sandwich Islands from their schools, and
libraries. and reformed conditions to what they
were in 1920, when the missionaries of the cross
began their work of gracious revolution, Call
home the 500 Christian missionaries in India and
overthrow their two thousand stations, and
oCdtuoE Tic lfU, UUU pupils Ratner6Q OUT Oh OAR
barism into Christian schools. Level to the
ground on the coasts of all heathendom the
gospel batteries which were planted to capture
all Asia and Africa for civilization. Dlsband the
twenty exangeizing societies in South Africa
for the salvation of Bushmen and HottentotS.
Send back the converted Chippewas and Della
wares, and Oneidas to their warpaint, and bar
parity and nakedness. Let the 300 Poly
neSlan islands that have relinquished
heathenism be given back to their former
CrQ0ilflpS. (h0 hQNk RI UnfIF dQrKnQSS
from which Christianity extricated you, ye So
600 converts of China, ye go, 1000 converts of the
Indian archipelago, we 180, 900 converts of South
Africa, We 300, 900 converts of the South sea is
lands, We 800, 900 converts of India and Farther
India. Turn the sun into darkness" Blot out
all the work of DR.. Duff in India, and Abeel in
China, and King in Greece, and Judson in Bur
NAH, and David Brainerd among the American
aborigines, and discharge the 5000 missionaries
in the field from their ministry of self-sacrifice.
Call back the medical missionaries, those who
doctor both the bodies and the souls of the dy-
ing nations. Go home, English Missionary So
ciety, ana American Board of Foreign Missions,
and Moravians, 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 alE-deStructive enginery been set in mo-
ton as that which i~nfdelity is working. When
i~nfdelity has conquered this world, it will be a
habitation OF three wards-the one a mad house,
another a lazaretto, the third a pandemonium.
The concert of this band of infdel music has not
yet fairly begun. You have only heard them
strlnging their Instruments. i put before you
their whole programme, from first to last. In
~theaters, the tragedy comes first and the farce
last; but in the drama of death the farce leads
off, and the tragedy follows. In the farce, the
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 cometh" From such opening chasms of
individual, social, national and worldwide
when the infdel will be treated as a
criminal against society as we'll as against God.
Society will push out the leper and the man
with soul gangrened, icherous, vermin-covered
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 fit
text for his funeral, Jeremiah xii and 10: with
the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth before
the gates Of Jerusalem"
But a thousand voices cry: "Will all these
allied forces of infdelity and atheism succeed in
destroying Christianity? Will the church become
extinct, and the Bible obsolete and civilization
only a memory? Yes; when the smoke rolling
up from the city chimneys can arrest and ami
destruction of Jerusalem, JOsephus says
the text was fulfilled. 1.-THE sun shall be
turned into darkness" His rays were shut out
for a while, but did that destroy the sum- No;
that great luminary which at the, beginning shot
like an electric spark from Gods finger, isrolling
on to-day. warming continents, gliding oceans,
Light for mountain and 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 first evoked from the white light by the
solar spectrum. Light not worn out by the ages.
but stepping 100, 900 miles a second. Light pulls
ating 451 trillion undu]ations in a second. AT
tho beginning God said: sLet there be
light" And light was, and light shall be
And so Christianity goes right on to warm
and cheer all nations. Men may shut their win
dow-blinds of prejudice 80 they cannot see it,
and may smoke their pipe of speculation till they
are in the shadow of their own vaporing, but the
LORD God is the sun, and all the earth shall yet
bask in it's warmth, and brighten in it's illumina-
tons. Aye, when fully let loose it will be a swift
gospel, and who can calculate the speed of its
undulations. Aye, the pure white light of the
gospel, holding in it all the beauties of earth and
heaven, the violet 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, all brought out
under the spiritual spectrum. Great Britain
will take Europe for God, and the United States
will take America for God. Then both nations
together will take Asia for God. Then all three
will take Africa for God. Who art thou, O great
mountain2 Before Zerubabel thou shalt become
a plain. The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.