The Brookhaven leader., 1888-05-24

would take down from their high place
the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost.
"Down with themn they say. "DOwn
with Him from the throne" they say.
"Down forever! Down out of sight!
He is not God. He has no right to sit
there. Down with Himi Down with
ChriStp'
A world withouta head, universe with
out a King. Orphan consultations. Fa-
therless galaIies. Anarchy supreme. A
dethroned Jehovah. An assassinated
God. Patricide, regicide, decide. That
is what they mean. That is what they will
have, if they can, if they can, if they can.
Civilization hurled back into semi-bar-
baTism, and semi -barbarism driven back
into Hottentot savagery. The wheel OF
progress turned the other way, and turned
toward the dark ages. The clock of the
centuries put back two thousand years.
Go back, you Sandwich Islands, fromyour
schools and from your colleges, and from
your reformed condition to what you were
in 1920 when the missionaries first came.
Call home the five hundred missionaries
from India and overthrow their two thou
sand schools, where they are trying to
educate the heather, and scatter the
one hundred and forty thousand
little children that they have gathered out
of barbarism into civilization. Obliterate
all the work of DR.. Duff in India, OF
David Abeel in China, of DR.. King in
Greece, of Judson in Burmah, of David
Brainard amid the American aborigines,
and send home the three thousand mis-
sionaries 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 doctoring
the bodies as well as the souls of the dy-
ing nations. Go home, London Missionary
Society. Go home, American Board OF
Foreign Missions. Go home, We Mora
vians, and relinquish back into darkness,
and squalor, and filth, and death the ma
tons whom ye have begun to lift.
Oh, my friends, there has never been
such nefarlous plot on earth as that
which infidelity and atheism have
planned. We were shocked few years
ago because of the attempt to blow up the
Parliament houses in London; but If in
fidelity and atheism succeed in their at
tempt, they will dynamite the world. Let
them have their full sway, and this world
will be a habitation of three rooms-a
habitation with just three rooms; the one
a mad house, another lazaretto, the
d
bands of music have only just begun
their concert-vea, they have only been
stringing their instruments. to-day put
before you their whole programme, from
beginning unto close. In the theater tbs
| tragedy comes first and the farce after
ward, but in this infidel drama of death
the farce comes first and the tragedy after.
ward. And in the former atheists and
| intidels laugh and mock, but in the latter
God himself will laugh and mock. He
says so.
will laugh at their calamity and mock when
! their fear cometh.
From such a cnasm 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 TO know where that road leads.
Stand 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 cer-
tainly as there is a God, it will comel
when the infidels and the atheists who
! openly and out and out and above board
preach and practice inidelity 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 gangrened and
! ichOrous and vermin covered and rotting
! apart with his bestiality, will be left to
| die in the ditch and be 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
| funeral sermon will be Jeremiah xii, 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
Il hi -.
received its death blow? and will the Bible
| become obsolete?" Yes when the smoke
of the 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. It
! is the same sun, the same lufnina-
| ry as when at the beginning it shot
| out like an electric spark from Gods
! finger, and to-day it is warming the na-
! tions, and to-day it is gliding the sea,
and to-day it is filling the earth with
| light. The same old man, not all worn
out, though its light steps one hundred and
| ninety million miles a second, though its
| pulsations are four hundred ana fifty trill-
| ion undulations in a second. Same sun
with beautiful white light, made up of the
| violet and the indigo and the blue and the
green and the yellow and the orange-the
| seven 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 nations are to bask in its light.
Men may shut the window blinds so they
can not see it, or they may smoke the pipe
| of speculation until they are shadowed
under their own vaporing; but the Lord
God is a sum- This white light of the Cos
pei, made up of all the beautiful colors of
| earth and Heaven-yiolet plucked
from amid the spring grass, and
the indigo of the southern jungles,
| 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 Britain is going to take
all Europe for God. The United States
are going to take ali 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, ON great mountain before
| Zerubbabel thou shall become plain.
The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
| Hallelujah, amen!
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| He who lives simply for this world will
| soon lose all he has gained, be it much or
| little 1t can not last longer than he lasts.