Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-05-23

nfidel bands of music have only just begun
their concert-yes, they have only been
| stringing their instruments. te.day put
before you their whole programme from be.
ginning unto close. In the theatre the
tragedy comes first and the farce afterward;
but in this inf1del drama of death the farce
comes first and the tragedy afterward.
And in the former atheists and lnf1dels
laugh and mock, but in the latter God him
self will laugh and mock. He says so. II
will laugh at their calamity and mock when
their fear cometh."
From such chasm of individual, nation
al, worldwide ruin, stand back. Oh,
young men, stand back from that chasm
You see the practical drift of my sermon.
want yon to know where that road leads,
Stand back from that chasm of ruin. The
time is going to come (you and l may not
live to see it, but it will come just as Ger.
tainly as there is a God, it will Gomez when
the inf1dels and the atheists who openly
and out and out and above board preach
and practice infdelity and atheism will be
considered as criminals against society, as
they are now criminals against God. Soci-
ETY. will push out the leper, and the wretch
with soul gangrened and ichorous and ver-
min-covered and rotting apart with his bes.
tiality, 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 net the air, and the
only text in all the Bible appropriate for
the funeral sermon will be jeremiah, xxi,
19: "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 obsolete?" 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 luminary as when at the beginning it
shot out like an electric spark from Gods
finger, and to-day it is warning the nations,
aud to-day it is gliding the sea, and to day
it is filling the earth with light. The same
old SUD, not at all worn out, though its
light steps one hundred and ninety million
miles second, though its pulsations are
four hundred and fifty trillion undulations
in second. 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 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 cannot
see it, or they may smoke the pipe of
speculation until they are shadowed under
their own vaporing; but the Lord GOO is a
sun! This white light of the Gospel made
up of all the beautiful colors of earth and
heavan-violet plueked from amid the
spring grass, and the indigo of the southern
jungles, and the blue of the skies, aud the
green of the foliage, and the yellow of the
autumnal woods, and the orange of tle
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 all America for God. Both of them
together will take all Asia for God. All
three of them will take Africa for God.
ssWho art thou, oh great mountain? before
Zernbbabel thou shall become plain."
The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Hallefujah, amen!