Milford chronicle., 1888-05-18

of the cross who are toiling in foreign lands,
toiling for Christ's sake, toiling themselves
into the grave. Tell these three thousand
men of God that they are Of no use. Send
home the medical missionaries who are doc
toring the bodies as well as the souls Of the
nations. Go home, London missionary so
ciety. Go home, American board OF foreign
missions Go home, ye Moravians. and re-
linquish back into darkness and squalor and
filth and death the nations whom ye have
begun to lift
Oh. my friends, there has never been such
n nefarious plot on earth as TINT which inf
deity and atheism have planned. We were
shocked few years ago because Of the at
tempt to blow up the parliament houses in
London; but if infdelity and atheism sue
coed in their attempt they will dynamite a
world. Let them have their full way and
this world will be a habitation Of three rooms
"a habitation with just three rooms; the
one a madhouse, another a lazaretto, the
other a pandemonium. These infidel bands
of music have only just begun their concert
yea, they have only been striRging their
instruments l today put before you their
whole programme from beginning unto
close In the theatre the tragedy comes first
and the farce afterward; but in this inhdel
drama of death the farce comes first and the
tragedy afterward. And in tho former athe-
lists and infidels laugh and mock, but in the
latter God himself viii laugh and mock. He
says so. 81 viii laugh at their calamity and
mock when their fear cometh."
From such a chasm Of individual, national,
world wide ruin, stand back. Oh, young
roen, stand back from that ehasmi You seq
the practical drift Of my sermon want
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back from that chasm Of ruin. The time is
going to come you and may not live TO see
it, but it will come, just as certainly as there
is a God it win comel when the inlidels and
the atheists who openly and out and out
and above board preach and practice in
fidelity and atheism will be considered as
criminals against society, as they are
now criminals against God Society
Will push out the leper, and the wretch with
soul qrangrened and ichorous and vermtn
covered and rottillg apart with his bestiality,
will be left to die in the ditch, and he denied
decent burial, and men will come with
spades and cover up the carcass, where it
falls, that it poison not the air, and the only
text in all the Bible appropriate for the fnll-
eral sermon will be jeremiah xxi, 10: "He
shall be buried with the burial of an ass"
A thousand voices come up to me this
morning, saying: DO, you really think in
fidelity will succeed Has Christianity re-
ceived its death blow! and will the Bible
become obsoleteF Yes, when the smoke Of
the city chimney arrests and destroys the
MONDAY sun. Josephus says about the time
of the destruction Of Jerusalem the sun was
turned into darkness; but only the clouds
rolled between the sun and the earth The
sun went right on. 1t is the same sun, the
same lulninary as when ut the beginning it
shot out like an electric spark from Gods
finger, and today it is warming the nations
and today It is gliding the sea, and today
it is filling the earth with light. The same
old sun, not at all worn out, though its light
steps one hundred and ninety million miles a
second, though its pulsatons are four hun
dred and fifty trillion undulations in sec
ond. Same sun with beautiful white light
made up of the violet and the indigo and the
blue and the green and the red and the yell
low and the orange-the seveu beautiful
colors now just as when the solar spectrum
first divided them.
At the beginning God said; "Let there be
light" and light was, and light is, and light
shall be- So Christianity is rolling on, and
it is going to warm all nations, and all ma
tions are to bask in its light. Men may
shut the window blinds so they cannot
see it, or they may smoke the pipe of specu-
lation until they are shadowed under their
own vaporng; but the Lord God is SUM
This white light of the Gospel made up Of
all the beautiful colOrs Of earth and heaven,
violet plucked from amid the spring
grass, and the indigo of the southern
iungles and the blue of the skies, and
the green of the foliage, and the yellow of
the autumnal woods and the orange of the
southern groves, and the red of the sunsets.
All the beauties Of earth and heaven brought
out by this spiritual spectrum Great Brit
ain is going to take all Europe for God. The
United States are going to take all America
for God. Both of them together will take all
Asia for God All three of them will take
Africa for God ''Who art thou, oh great
mountaius before Zerubbabel thou shall be
come plain" The mouth Of the Lord hath
spoken II. Hallelujah ameI