St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-09
What the Result Would Be if the Inf
dels and Atheists Should
Triumph.
The World a HabitatiOn of Three
Wards-A Madhouse, Lazaretto
and PandemOnium.
A Nefarious Plot for the Destruction Of the
Planet Set in Motion By
Infidelity,
But the Giants in Blasphemy Will No
Succeed in Marshaling a Major
tty of the World.


chapter from the Prophecies. The opening
hymn was:
"From Greenland's icy mountains,
From India's coral strands,
Where Africs sunny fountains
Roll down her golden sands"
DR.. Talmage's subject was "The Downfall
of Religion and his text was taken from
Acts ii:20: ''The sun shall be turned into
darkness.''
Following is the sermon in FULL
Solar eclipse is here prophesed 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 appear
ances about this time. Of course the sun
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 scepticism and the
SMOKE OF THEIR BLAsPHEMY,
are attempting to turn it into darkness.
Suppose the archangels of malice and hor-
ror were unloosed and permitted to
extinguish the sun in the natural heavens.
They throw on that great lamp of our plane
tary system oceans from other worlds, and
the waters roll Kissing down into the ravines
and chasms of that great luninary, and ex-
plosion follows explosion until only a few
peaks of fire are left, and now they are cool
ing off and going down until the vast CONT
nents of flames are reduced to small acre
age OF fire, and this has been reduced to a
few Goals, and they are whitening and soon
go out, not spark left in the mountains of
ashes and the valleys of ashes, and the cav
erns Of ashes. An extinguished sun. A
dead sun: A buried sun. Let all worlds
wall at the stupendous 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 becomes the arctic, and
there are frozen rivers and frozen lakes and
frozen oceans. The inhabitants gather in
from arctic and antarctic regions toward the
center to fiud the equator as the poles. Tie
slain forests are heaped into huge bonfires,
around which
sHIvERING VILLAGES
and cities gather. The wealth of all the coal
stirred into rage of combustion, but even
the bonfires are lowering and the furnaces
are cooling off, and the nations are dying.
Vesuyius and Cotopaxi and Stromboli and
the Cal flrnia geysers cease their
smoke, and the ice Of the hailstorms
remains unme elted in the craters. All the
flowers have breathed their last breath. All
tba Las of ba 10,
on the sea with sailors frozen at the
masts and helmsmen frozen at the wheel,
and passengers frozen in the cabin. All
nations dying, first at the north, then at
the south. Children frosted and dead In
the cradle, octogenaran frosted and dead by
the hearth. Workmen with frozen arm
holding the hammer or with frozen foot on
the shuttle. Winter in all zones. Winter
from sea to sea. All congealing winter.
Perpetual winter. Hemisphere shackeled to
hemisphere. Globe Of frigidity. Universal
Nova Zembla. The whole earth an ice foe
grinding against other ice foes. So the
archangels of malice and horror have put
out the natural sun and destroyed our
world and they may take their
HRoNE OF GLACIER
and their crown of ice and their sceptre of
icicle.
What the obliteiation Of the natural sun
would do for the natural world, the destruc-
ton Of Christianity would do for the moral
world. The sun turned into darkness At
the present time ininity would be a joke
There are people who will give fifty cents
or dollar to hear Christianity assailed by
epigram and qubble and badinage and har-
lequinage. If correctly reported, one Of the
louiest laughs in the Brooklyn theater last
Sabbath night was at the Lord Jesus Christ
the Savior of the world, the One who came TO
carry our sorrows. / read from that lecture
the following in regard to Christ: when
He was here He was forgiving and half hu-
man, but now He is God, instead Of saying,
Father, forgive them, for they know not
a hat they do He sends them to eternal fire.
1t is wonderful the difference Office makes
With some people. Lsughter.l !"
Now, there Is one law that ought either to
be erased from the statute book or else exc
euted, and that is the Law against blasphemy
What is blasphemyl l went into the law
library and find this authority. ''Blas-
phemous words against God, contumelious
reprosches and profane
RIDIcULE OF CHRIST
or the Holy scriptures are offenses, punish
able at common law whether uttered in words
or in writing" II a poor drunken man
stood on the street corner this morning and
took the name Of God irreverently on his lips
in the presence OF passers-by he would be
grabbed and hustled to the police station.
But there is not a city authority in the United
States that has backbone enough to stop the
indecent and blaspbemous utterance Of last
Sunday night, though it is being delivered in
all the cities.
There is class of persons in all our COM
munity hoping for the overthrow Of the
Christian religion and many who are bold to
say that the world will be better off without Il,
than with Il. / want TO show them the end
Of this road, the terminus of this crusade
aud what will be the state Of things on the
supposition that they triumph.
First, womanis complete and unutterable
degradation. / will prove it BY arguments
and facts that no sound or honest being will
dispute. In the communities and the cities
and the nations where the Christian religion
has reigned vomau's condition has been
ameliorsted and i'm proved and she Is bopored
and deferred 10 In a thousand things
and there is not a gentleman who does
not take Of his bat in her presence She may
in the United States and England suffer
some injustice but she has more Of her rights
in ChrisieDdom than anywhere else. II your
associations have been good, you know that
the words
WIFE AND MOTHER
and sister and daughter are suggestive Of
the most gracious surroundings. The best
schools and seminaries Of the United
States are for youug women. Then take
zoman's condition in lands xbere Christian
ity has made little or no hez6zzy, China
EEypt- Turkey, Assyriz- Borueo, Bsrbary.
The Barnese sell Eives and daughters ike
sheep The Hiodoo Bible forbids q woman