The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-05-11
OBSCURATION.
Talmage's Sunday Morning Dis
course.
The Nineteenth Century Apostle Expounds
the Gospel to an Overlooking Con-
cation,

| 4heny 10 Turn the Sun Into Darlxnecc-Th
result OF Infidelity the Complete and Tn
utCerable Degradation of Womanhood-
Tropnetlc Utterances OF the Great Divine
0iec'0S TO the Kansas city Times.
bKooKLxN, May 10: This morning th
rev, 1. Dewitt Talmage, ID, preached a
.no AaDernacie to an OVERLOOKING congrega
'lon' The hymn beginning,
stand up my SOUL shake off thy feara
And grid the Gospel armor on
was sung with magnificent effect DR.. Tai
IMAGES subject was 'Obscuration,'' and HI.
te1t; The sun shall be turned intn tIart.
ness. Acts H., V. 90 He said:
Soi"f eclipse is here prdphesied to take
P1"c0 ABOUT the time of the destruction OF
"AcenC Jerusalem. JOsephus, the historian
Gays thae the prophecy was literally fulfilled
"n0 lLaI ABOUT that time there were stranpa
appearances In the heavens. The sun was
Aot destroyed, but for little while hidden.
NH[ lStlanlty is the rising sun of our time. and
Anen nave tried with the uprolling vapors of
HAep'iclSln ana the smoke of their bias phemv
70 turn the sun into darkness. Sunnose tho
archangeIs OF malice and horror should no
let loose little while and be allowed 70 Nv
extlnguish and destroy the sun IN the natur.
|
other worlds and pour them on this luminarv
y. '"e planetary system, and the waters 90
"'o6lnS uoWn amid the ravines and the cav
erns ana there is explosion after explosion.
until there are only few peaks Of fire left in
i tne sun ana these are cooling down and 90
ny ouG uhtu the vast continents of flame
are arc redqced to small acreage of fire. and
1nat Whltens and cOols off until there
arg Only lew Goals left. and these are
MnIe1lng and going out until there is not a
t SPAR ielt IN all the mountains Of ashes and
the valleys of ashes and the chasms of asbao
AN e1tnguished sun. A dead
sun: A burned SUM- Let ali worlds
"aIi at the stupendous 0bsennias
~ coures this withdrawal of the solar
IgHt ana neat throws our earth into univerA
sal chill, and the tropics become the tnn1nar
ate, and the temperate becomes the Arctjn ond
snere are frozen rivera and frOzed lakes and
frozen oceans. From Arctic and Antarctic 70
Rlons the inhabitants gather in toward The
s centre ana hnd the Equator as the poles. The
s s,a'n I9tests are piled up into a great bon.
We,a anu around them gather the shivering vii |
iages and cities. The wealth of the coal rninns
10 hastily poured into the furnaces and |
surred into rage of combustion, but soon
t tne Oonhres began to lower, and the furnaces |
GGs@n 20 20 out and the nations began to |
T ElG' CotopaXl, Vesuvius, Etna. Stronbnli |
california geysers cease to smoke, and tho
lce ol nan storms remain unmelted in their
crater. All the flow ers have brcatbed their
raoC oreas1' Ships with sailors frozen at the
naSl, ana helnsmen frozen at the wheel, and
aHu passengers frozen in the cabin: ali no
t LIONS dying, first at the north and then at
lne Soutn. Child frosted and dead in the
Claule' Oct0genaran frosted and dead at
Lne heafth. WOrkmen with frozen hand
on on the hammer and frozen foot on the shut
Sre, winter from sea to sea. An-congealing
" Perpetual winter. Globe of frigidjtT9
hemisphere shackled to hemisphere by
chains fI1 of ice. Universal Nova ZembIa
ne ~! earth an fcefoe grinding against
other tce-fioes. The arch-angeIs of
malice and horror have don9 +beit
work, and now they may take their thrones n" Of
HIaclers and look down upon the ruin thew
have wrought "-H 'n0J
what the destruction of the sun in the nat.
~ ural heavens would be to our physical earth
~ tno obstruction OF Christianity would be
TO the moral world. The sun turned irtH
darkness. Intidelity in our time is consider.
9d great Joke There are people who re-
lolce 60 hear Christianity caricatured. and to
le@r Christ assailed with bubble and 0uirI
ana Misrepresentation and badinage and
harlequinade. GA"
propose this morning to tala 1nfaoIifv
and Atheism out of the fealm of iocnIarity
mo one CT tragedy, and show YOU what they |
propose, and what if they are successful
Lney VIII accomplish. There are those in ali
2 2u communities who would like to see the
II, ,
ne world would be better without it. want
o snow you what is this end of this road and r
WAT = The terminus of this crusade and 8
WAT this world will be when Atheism and e
nnuelity nave triumphed over it, if they can {
say, II they can, | reterate it, If they can :
In the first place, it will be the c0mnJeta
nd unutterable degratiOn Of wOmanhood | :
WI prove it by facts aud arguments which 7
10 honest man will dispute. In all commu- +
lties and cities and states and nations ,rhata !
I hos hoo,,
nan condition has been ameliorated and inn. +
rOyed, and she is deferred to and honored IN n
thousand things, and every gentleman +
axes of his hat before her. If Your assoc. :
lallons nave been good, you know that the y
anne OF wife, mother, daughter, surrrest :
racious surroundings. You know fnera
re no better schools and seminaries in q
rooklyn or in any other CITY of !
his country than the schools and !
for our young ladies' You
u3M that "hHe woman may suffer injustice 4
] England and the United States. she has @
lore Of her rights in Christendom than she i
as anywhere else. -
Now, compare this with woman's condition #
lands where Christianity has made little or II
o advance-in China, in Burbarv in Rornao -
lartary, IN Egypt, in IIndoostan Tie a.
urmese sell their wives and daughters as 50 | "
ANY sheep The Hindoo Bible makes il dis f.
racetul and an outrage for a woman to lis n
u TO music. or look out of the window in ! q
a (
wtul ground for divorce a woman's benin r.
ng to eat before her husband has finished V
S meal What mean those white bundles III
the ponds and rivers in China in the ~
ornlngf lnfantcide following infantcidp u
emale children destroyed simply because So
ley are female Woman harnessed to Ilow NJ
an OK Woman yelled and barricaded. and h,
all STYLES OF cruel seClusion. Her birth = n
isfortune Her life torture. Her death a a
'rror The miss onsrv Of the cross TO-DAY In II
,athen lands breaches generally to two N
oupS-a group Of men who do as they m
ease and sit where they please: the other ar
Dup women hidden ana Carefully q
Guided in side apartment whore tbey or
NJ hear the voice of the preacher. II
It may not tie seen No refine M
emit No liberty. No hone for this life. No m
pc Tor the life 10 come. Rrgei nose dy
amped foot. Djsfgured face Embruiet =,
H. Now compare those two conditions F.
Nv far toward this latter condition that / 70
eaN of would woman 60 If Christian in ia
euces we're Withdrawn and Christianitr Il
re destroyed! II is only question Of dE
mics III an object be lifted 10 a certain
int and not fastened there, snd tue de
ting power be withdrawn, how long be. sh
e that object will fall down 10 the lei
nj from which il startedl II will La
I down, and II will 60 still! further than &C.