St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-09

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| INFANTICIoE AFTER INFANTICIDE.
Female children cast off because they are
females See the women harnessed TO
plows like oxen. Hidden from the sight of
man by barricades and by wells
and by all styles of cruel seclusion Their
birth a disaster, their life a torture, their
death horror. The missionary of the cross
in heather lands to-day breaches to an
audience divided into two parts, the men
who may sit as they will, and the women
cruelty hidden in a side apartment where
| they can hear and cannot be SEEN No in
telligence. No liberty. No refining infu-
ences. No hope for this life and no hope
for the life to come. Hinged nose. Cramped
| foot. Disfgured faces. Maltreated mind
and embruted soul. How far back toward
that condition would woman go if the Bible
and Christianity were withdrawn is only a
question in dynamics. If an object be
lifted to certain point and be not fastened
there and the lifting power be withdrawn,
how far will the object fall? Clear back to
! the point from whence it was lifted. Christi
anity found woman in the last point of de-
graduation and raised her almost to the skies,
Now, let the power that brought
her up be Withdrawn and she will fall clear
down to the depths from which she was
resurrected.
Again, the downfall Of religion and the
TRIUMPH OF INFIDELITY
mean the decentralization of society. The
most obnoxious thing to infidelity is the idea
of retribution. Now, take all fear of yolun-
tary punishment out of society, aud let the
rule be that all go as they please, and how
long before disintegratons I declare it.
take 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 offended at the idea of future pun
ishment have such unclean hearts or lives
that they are opposed to future retribution
for the same reason that a criminal don't
like penitentiary. All this brave talk about
not fearing punishment for sin in the next
world is only a coward's whistling to keep
his courage up.
Take the Bible idea of retributiou 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 biasphemy
succeeded in marshaling a majority of the
world on their side. There they are in com
panies, in regiments, in brigades.
FORWARD, MARCH,
Ye great army of infdels and atheists. Ban
ners flying before, banners flying behind,
Transcribed with, "No God," ''No Savior" {"
''Do as you please,' mo punishment" {"
''No moral law,'' 'Down with the Bible. -
The sun turned into darkness. Forward
march. The first assault is upon the churches.
Down with all the houses of worship that
have been occupied by people who were de-
luded into being comforted over their be-
reavements and their sorrows. They de-
serve to be extirpated because they
spent much of their life In reforming
inebriety and in saving the lost and holding
before the struggling the idea of eternal rest
after the paroxysm of life is over. Let the
st. Pauls and the st. Peters and the Trinities
and the tabernacles and the temples be
turned into club-houses or places of mer-
chandise! Forward, march! Down go all
the Sabbath-schools of bright-eyed, bright
faced children, singing songs and getting
instruction when they ought to have been
| playing marbles on the street or swearing on
| the commons.
Forward, march, We hosts Of infidels and
atheists, into the graveyards and cemeteries
and tear down the sculpture from Green
woods gate representing the resurrection,
and break up the artists figure of Old Nor
tally and his chisel at the entrance Of Laurel
Hill, and then march on and when you find
an epitaph "Asleep In Jesus'' chisel out the
words, and when you find stone that speaks
of Heaven cut it away, and when you find
an inscription on the child's resting place,
'Suffer little children to come unto Me, -
substitute the words ''delusion and sham, -
and If you find
AN ANGEL IN MARBLE,
strike off the wings, and on the door Of the
family vaults inscribe ''No hope" ''Dead
once, dead forever" 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 dcrision and
hate. and altogether, lifting chalices of skel-
eton, drink to doom and darkness and an
inhalation, life without comfort, death
without peace and for body, mind and soul
and family extinction. Make all the places
of Christian burial the graveyards in which
lie the whole family of Christian graces.
Prayer dead. Faith dead. Repentance dead,
Self-denial dead. Hope dead. Society dead.
Honesty dead. Happiness dead ''Turn
the sun into darkness"
That is what infdelity wants. That Is what
il will accomplish II 1t can. Civilization will
be buried back into semi-b -barbarism, into
Hottentot savagery.
THE WHEEL OF PROGRESS
will turn the other way and roll toward the
dark ages. The clock OF the centuries will
be set back 9, 900 years. Turn back the
Sandwich islands from their schools ap
libraries and reformed Christian condition TO
what they were IN 1920, when the missionar-
les of the cross began their work Of gracious
revolution. Call home the 500 Christian
missionaries in India and overthrow their
2 900 stations and scatter the 100000 pupils
gathered out Of barbarism 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. Disband the twenty evan
galizing societies in South Africa for the sal
vation Of Bushmpn and Hotteutots. Send
back the converted Chippewas and Della
wares and 0neidas TO their war
paint and barbarity and nakedness
Go bone, English Missionary society and
American Board Of Foreign missions and
Moravians, and surrender the world that you
have begun to conquer back to the filti and
the soualor aud the despair from which they
are now emergingl
Never has such a Defarious plot been laid
for the destruction Of the planet and never
has such an
ALL-DEsTRUCTIvE ENGIyERY
been set in motion as that which infdelity Is
working. When infdelity has conquered
this world it will be a habitation of three
wards-tbe one a madhouse, another lsza-
retto, the third psndemonium. The CON
cert Of this band OF ini1el music has not set
fairly began. You have only heard them
strip ging theiri Instruments. Just before you is
their whole programme from first to last. In
th-aters the tragedy comes first and the farce
last, but in the drama Of death the farce leads
of and the tragedy follows. In the farce the
inhdels laugh and mock, but in the tragedy