The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-05-25


Forward, march! 70 hosts Of inndels and
atheists. banners flying before, banners hy.
Ing behind banners Inscribed with the words:
"No God! No Christ! No punishment! No
restraints! Down with the Biblc! Do as you
please" The sun turned into darkness.
Forward. march! 20 great army Of iufi.
a s,,, and stl'ei,ts And first Of all you will
houses Of worship! They have been stand.
ing there SO long delutling tho people with
consolation In their bcreavememts aud sor.
rows. All those churches ought to he OK.
ttrpated; they have done no much to relieve
the lost and bring home the wandering, and
they have 50 long held up the idea Of eternal
rest after the paroxysm OF this life IS over.
temples and the tahcrnaclcs into the club.
houses Away with those churches!
Forward, march! ye great army oi iniidcls
an atheists, and next Of all thcv scatter the
Sabbath seliools--the sabbath schools filled
with bright.eycd, bright.cliecked little ones
who are singing songs OF sunday afternoon
and getting instruction when they ought to
swearing on tho commons. Away with
them! yc great army Of intidcls and atheists
and next Of all they will attack Christian
asyl,ms-thc institutions Of mercy support.
cd by Christian philamtl,ropics Never mind
the blind eyes and the deaf ears and the
cripplcd limbs and the weakened intellrrts.
Let paralyZcd old age pick up its own food,
ana orpl,ins tight their own way, and the
half reformed 90 back to their evil habits.
Forward. march! We great army Of intitlels
ana atheists. and with your battle.aXes l,cw
down the cross and spit up the Manager Of
Bethlehem.
On. We great army Of inii,lc's and atheists!
and now they como to thu, srayc:yards and
the cemeteries Of tho earth. Pull down the
sculpture above GrccnwoOtl's gate, for 1t
means the rc>,lrrection, Tear away at the
entrance Of Laurel Hill the figure OF old
Mortality and the clliscl On. yr great army
OF infdclS and atheists, into the sravcyards
and the cemeteries: and where YOU see
"Aslecp in Jesus cut il way, and where
you tind a marble story Of heaven blast it,
and where vo,, find ovcra little ch,ld's grave :
''Suicr little children Z" cone unto Me-"
substitute" the words 'delu.ion" and ''sl,am,' v
and where you lind an angel In marble
strike of the wing. and when you come to i,
family vault rhisel Oh the door: "Dead On C..
dead forever"
Rut on! We great army Of intidcls and
atheists. on: They will attempt to scale
Pile hill on hill and Pclion upon Ossa, and
then they ltoist the ladders against the wall
Of heaven. On and on until they blow II,
the foundations Of jasper and tho gates ol
pearl. They charge up the steep. Now
they aim for the throne Of Him WHO livcih
forever and ever. They would take down
from their high place the Father, the Son.
tho Holy Ghost. down with them" they
say. "Down with Him from the throne -
they say. "Down forever! down out oi
sight. He is not God. lie has no right
to sit there. Down with Him! Down wit
Christw
4 world without head a universe with.
out kins-orphan constellation fathcrlc>s
4
Jehovah All as>as>inat.d tod parricidc,-
rcgici,lc, decide! That is what they mean.
That is what they will have IL they can if
they can il they can. Civilization hurled
back into somi-l'arbarism, and Semi.barbar.
ism driven back into liottcntot sava.ery
The wheel Of progress turned the other way
and turned toward the DARK ages. The clock
Of centuries put back two thousand years.
Go bark. you Sandwich Islands, from your
schools and from your colleges and from
your reformed condition 10 what you were in
1890, wlien the missionaries trI came. Call
home the five hundred missionaries f,om
India and overthrow their Two thou and
srhoos, where they a'c trying Ia educate
the hea'hcn. and scatter the "a 200 lit Il"
children that they have gathered out Of
larparis:n into civilization. Ohlitcratc all
the work Of Dr. duff in Iulia, of Dat d
Abeel in China. Dr. KIN. III Grc 90. ("
JudsOn in BlirmaI,, Of David Brainartl amid
the American Aborigimcs, and send lomr
the three ,honsand MI sionaries Of the cross
who are toll ng in 70 cign land, toiling for
thrist's sake, toillng Themselves into the
God that they are Of no use. Send home
the medical missionaries who are doctoring
the bodies as well as tho souls of the diving
nations. Go home, London Mis- ionary So.
cirty. 90 home, American Board OF For.
eign Missions. Go home, We Moravian>. ami
rclinquish hack into darkness and STU ,Ior
and iilth and death the nations whom yc
have begun 10 lift.
oh, my friends, there has never been sllcl,
nefariolts plot on earth as that which in.
fidelity and atheism have planned. We
were shocked few years ago because Of the
attempt TO blow UP the parliament house in
London; hut il infi.clity ami atheism sue
coed in their attempt they will dynamite a
world. Let them have their full sway and
this world will bo habitaiion OF three
room>-a habitat!o, with Just three rooms--
the one a mldhoi.e. anc tller a lazarctto. the
other "a pandcmoni,i,n. The intidel bands
of music have only just begun their concert
yea, they lave only been stringing their
Instruments. to-day put before you their
whole programme f,om beginning unto
close. In the theatre the tragedy comes
tide! drama of death the face comes first
and the tragedy aftcrward. Aud in the
former a,hc SITS a ,d iniidels laugh and mock,
but In the latter God Himself will laugh
and mock. lie says SO. ." will laugh at
their calamity and mock when their fear
cometh."
From such cliasm of individual, national,
worldwide ruin stand back. oh. Young
men. stand back from that chasm! You see
the practical drift of my sermon. want
you 10 know where that road leads. stand
back from that clasm of ruin. The time Is
going to come lyo,l and may not live to SEQ
It, but 1t will come. Just rs certainly as there
is God, it will GOMEZ when the infidels and
atheists who openly and out and out and
above board preach and practice intidelity
and atheism will be considered as criminals
against society, as they are now criminals
against (iud. Society will push out the
leper and the Wretch, with soul gangreued
and icllorolls and vcrmil,-covcrcd aud rot
ting apart with his beastiality will he left TO
die in the ditch and be denied decent burial,
and men will come with spades and cover up
the air, and the only text i'll all the Bible ap.
propriate tor the funeral sermon will lie
Jcremiali1 xii, ~: ale shall lie buried
with the burial Of an ass"
A thousand voices come ,lp to me this
morning saying: "Do you really think inf.
deity will succeed? Has Christianity re-
ccived i,s death blow: and will the bible
become o5solctc?" Yes. when the smoke
Of the city chimney arrests and destroys
the no nday sun. .Io>cpl,ls says about the
time Of the destruction "f Jerusalem the SIN
was turned into darkness; but only the
clouds rolled between the SIN AMI the earth
the sun went right OIL. 1t is the same sun,
the same luminary us when at the begin.
ming it shot out like an electric spark from
Gods finger, and to-day it is warming the
nations. and today it is gliding the sea, and
to-day it is filling the earth with light. The
same old sun. not at all worn out, though its
light steps l!m.nOO, NW miles second, though
its pul>atlons are 4ii,ta,. 00O, HO, 900 und,lia-
lions in a sccond-thc same sun with beau.
tiful white light made up of the violet. and
the indigo. and the blue, and the green. and
The red. and The yellow, AMI the orange
the seven beautiful colors now Just as when
the Aolar spectrum first divided them.
At the beginning Gud said: "Lct there lie
light" and light wa, and light is, and night
shall hr. SO Christianity is rolling on, and
IT is going to warm all nations. and all ma
tions are to l,ask in its light. Men may shut
the window blinds so they can not see it, or
they may smoke the pipe Of speculation UNI
I'll they are Swallowed under their own va
porting, but tic Lord God is IL sun! This
white light of the gospel made up Of all tho
beautiful color> Of earth aud hcavcn--violet
pi'lckrd from amid the spring grass and the
1nut1' of the southern JIM. giles, and the blue
OF the skies, and the green of the foil.
age, and the yellow Of the autlimnal woods,
and the orange Of the southern groves, and
tho red OF the sunsets. All the beauties Of
itual spectrum. Great Britain is going to
take all Europe for God. Tho United states
Is going to take all America for God. Boil,
OF them together will take all Asia for God.
All three Of them will take Africa for God.
Nv no art thou, oh great mountain: before