Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-06-09

down through drawbridee into a watery
grave. would not want to see five hundred
Christian people go into such disaster. but
tell you plainly that ! could more easily see
that than L could for any protracted time
stand and see an infdel die, though his pillow
were of elder down and under a canopy Of
vermilion. l have never been able to brace
up nv nerves for such a spectacle. There is
something at such time so indescribable in
the countenanee. Just looked in uDon 1t for
a minute or two, but the clutch OF his fist
was SO diabolic. and the strength OF voice
was so unnatural, could not endure It
There is no hell, there is no hell, there is no
hellI' the man had said for sixty years; but
that night when | looked in the diving room
of my Infidel neighbor, there was something
on his countenance which seemed to say:
"There is. there is, there is, there isl
The mightiest restraints to-day against
theft. against immortality, against libertin-
ISM against crime of all sorts-the mightiest
restraints are the retributions of eternity.
Men know that they can escape the law, but
down in the offenders soul there is the reali-
cation of the fact that tbev cannot escape
God. He stands at the end Of the road Of
proiiicacy. and he viii not clear the guilty.
Take all idea of reiribution and punishment
out of the hearts and minds of men. and it
would not be long before BROOKLYN and New
York and Boston and Charleston and Chi
cago became So1oms. The only restraints
against the evil passions of the world to day
are Bible restraints.
Suppose now these generals of atheism
and infidelity got the victory, and suppose
they marshaled a great army made up of the
majority of the world. They are in COM
panies, in regiments in brigades-the whole
army. Forward. march, We hosts of infidels
and atheists. banners flying before, banners
flying behind, banners inscribed with the
words: mo Godl No Christi No punish
mentl No restraintsl Down with the Bible!
Do as YOU pleased" The sun turned into
darkness.
Forward, march, We great army of infidels
and atheists And first of all you will attack
the churches. Away with those houses of
worship They have been standing there so
long and deIuding the people with consola-
ton in their bereavements and sorrows. All
those churches ought to be extirpated; they
have done so much 10 relieve the lost and
BRING home the wandering. and they have so
long held up the idea of eternal rest after the
paroxysm of this life is over. Turn the 1T
Peters and st. Pauls and the temples ana
iabernacles into club houses. Away with
those churchesi
Toward, march, We great army of in
iidels ami atheists. and next of all they scat
ter the Sabbath-schools-th Sabbath schools
filled with bright eyed, bright checked little
ones. who are singing songs on Sunday after
noon. and getting instruction when they
ought TO he on the street corners playing
marbles or swearing on the common. Away
with them, Forward, march, We great army
of niidels and atheists, and next of all they
will attack Christian asylums-the lnstltu-
tions of mercy supported by Christian PM
lauthroDieS Never mind the blind eyes and
the deaf ears aud the crippled limbs and the
weakened intellects. Let paralyzed old age
pick I'D its own food, and orphans fight their
own way, and the half reformed go back to
their evil habits. Forward. march! We great
army of infidels and atheists. and with your
battle axes hew down tho cross and split up
the manger of Bethlehem
On, We great army of infidels and atheists,
and now they come to the graveyards AMI
the cemeteries of the earth. Pull down the
sculpture above Greeuwood's gate, for it
means the resurrection Tear away at the
entrance of Laurel Hill the figure of Old
Mortality aud the chisel. On, We great army
of inlidels and atheists, into the graveyards
and the cemeteries; and where you see
ASLEEP in Jesus" cut it away, and where
YOU find a marble story OF heaven, blast il,
and where you find over little child's grave:
Suffer little children 10 come unto me"
substitute the words ''de,usion" and 'sham,"
ard where You find an angel in marble. strike
OF the wings, and when you come TO a family
vault, chisel on the door: Dead once, dead
forever"
But on, We great army of infidels and
atheists, on They will attempt to scale
hill IN hill and Pelion upon Ossa, and then
they hoist the ladders against tine walls OF
heaven. On and OH until they blow up the
foundations of jasper and the gates of pearl.
They charge up the steep. Now they aim
for the throne of him who liveth forever
and ever. They would take down from their
high place the Father, the Son, the Holy
Ghost. down with theml" they say.
Down with them from the throner they
say. Down forever. Down out of sightl
He is not God He has no right to sit there
Down with himl Down with Chrstw
A world without head, universe with
out a king. Orphan consultations. Father
les galaxies. Anarchy supreme. A de-
throned Jehovah. An assassinated God.
Parricide regicide decide That is what
they mean. That is what they will have, if
they can. if they can, if they can. Civili1a-
ton hurled back into standardization, 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 200O
years. Go back, you Sandwich Islands, from
your schools and from your colleges, and
from your reformed condition, to what you
were in 1870, when the missionaries first
came. Call home the 500 missionaries from
India and overthrow their 1000 schools
where they are trying to educate the
heather, and scatter the 10000 lit
tie children that they have gathered
out Of barbarism into civilization. Obj
literate all the work of DIR. Duff in India,
of David Abeel in China, of DIR. King in
Greece, of Judson in Burmah, of David
Brainard amid the American aborigines, and
send home the three thousand missionaries
of the cross who are tolling in foreign lands
toiling for Christs sake, toilIng themselves
into the grave. Tell these three thousand
m.n Of God that they are Of no use Send
home the medical missionaries who are doc
toring the hO1ies as we'll as the souls Of the
nations Go home, London missionary so
cIety. Go home, American b)ard 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
a nefarious plot on earth as that which inf
deity and atheism have planned. We were
shocked a few years ago because OF the at
temptt to blow up the parliament houses in
London: but if infidelity and atheism sue
coed in their attempt they will dynamite
world. Let them have their full way and
this world will be habitation Of three rooms
"a habitation with just three rooms; the
one madhouse, another la7aretto, the
other pandemonium These infldel bands
of music have only just begun their concert
YEA they have only been stringing their
Instruments to-day put before you their
whole programme from beginning unto close.
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