Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-24

IN regiments, in bfigaacs the ,vbo,e or,,,,
Forward, march! We hosts Of infidels and
hsele , banners flying before, banners Nv
~, ~, banners inscribed with the words
rest,. Iou 20 Christ, No punishment Nc
iysHaintsi Down with the Rihlei no as ~,
p'Ssse The sun turned into darkness.
FORWARD, march! We great army ~ ;,,a
us. anu atheists. And first Of ali yo,, ,y,il
attack the churches. AWAY with thasn
nv ~ Of worsbipl They have been stand.
, ,ns eheIe 80 long deluding the people with
CONSOLATION in their bereayemen,s tsnd -
rows. All those churches ought 10 he ~
.urpated; they have done so much 20 relieye
~. .se ,ost ana bring home the wandering. ana
ehey nave 50 long held up the idea of eiernai
5 5sst Siter the paroXysm of this life - over
. iuln me 81 Peters and 81. Paus and tie
ho,,ln, anu tlle- tabernacies into the club
houseS Away with those churches
Forward, march, We great army oi in,,do,s
an atheists, and neXi OF all they scatter lie
osupath Scholastic sabbath schools slled
WIN origat-eyed, bright-cheeked little onns
Whe are singing songs on Sunday ntternoo,,
ana getting instruction when they o,Ioht h
oe vi .ue street corners playing marbles. or
swearing on the commons Axv,,, ,,,;,t,
theml We great army OF infdeIs and III o M.n
anu next OF all they will attack Christian
asy ,ums-the institutions of merry s,Innnr,l
eu ~ Christian philanthropieg. Never mind
ene oilnd eyes and the deaf ears anil the
Guppied limbs and the Weakened intellectS
- pAr,lyked old age pick up its own food.
hait ,l; nians hght their own way, and the
,sli REFORMED go back 20 their evil hahitS
forward, marchi We great army Of intidel.
anu atheists, aud with your battle-axes heyv
Bethlehem. VI
On, We great army Of inlidels and atheists
ana now they come to the graye-yar,Is ,nd
.ne ceuseteries OF the earth. Pull down the
H.
means the resurrection, Tear away Al the
enuanee OF Laurel Hill the figure of old
MORTALITY and tho ehisel On. Nc great army
OF inhdels anu atheists, into the grayev,rds
anu tbe cemeteries; and where Won see
hsieep IN Jesus cut it way, and where
sou nnu marble story OF heaven blast it.
anu where you ind over little chlld's grave .
"Siner little children to come INTO No >;
SUBSTITUTE the words 'delu,ion" and s.;bam. p
and where You lind an angel in mark n
STRIKE on the wing. and when Won come m !,
family vault ehisel on the door: dead IN O
dead forever a. -
But GU. ye great army of inRdels and
sNheists, on They will attempt to scale
heaven. There are heights 10 be taken
Pile bill on hill and Pelion upon ossa. and
then they boist the ladders against the wall,
OF heiNen. On and ON until they blow /,
the foundations OF jasper and the gates q,
pearl. They charge up the steep. Now
they ann for the throne Of Him who liyetb
forever and ever. They would take down
from their high place the rather. The SON
the Holy Ghost "Down with themp they
say. down with Him from tile throne 2,
thes say. "Doyn forever, Down out ~
sight! He Is not God. He has no rieht
To- SIT there. Down with Him! Down wit ,
A world without head "a universe with
OUT klng-orphan constellation -fathrrless
galsxles-anarrhy supreme-a dethroncd
Jehoyah-an assasSinsted parricide,
rsgielde, deieidol Thai is what they mean.
That IS what they will have ir they can II
they can--ii they can. Civilization hurle I
psek INTO seml-harbarIsm, and seini.barbar.
ism driven back into Hottentot sayavery
The wheel OF progress turned the other way
and turned toward the dark ages. The clock
OF centuries put back two thousand wears.
60 back, you Sandwich Islands, from yorr
schools and from Your colleges and from
your reformed condition TO what you were in
is2o, whea the missionaries fr,t came. Call
nome the I've hundred missionaries from
lncia aud overthrow their TWO thou and
sehoo Q, where they ale irving 10 educate
the heather, and scatter the "A 200 little
children that they have gathered out of
baroarisn into civilizat on. olliterate MI
the work of DIR. Dun m India, Of Dav d
Aheel in China. DIR. kins IN Greece. ut
Judson in Btrmab, OF Dav d Brainard amid
the three rhonSnd nj sionaries of the cross
who are toll ng in 70 eign land, toiling for
thrists 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 dying
nations. Go home, London Mis- ionary So
ciety. Go home, American Board of For
eign Missions. 60 home, We Moravians, and
reilniuish back into darkness and sIuIIor
and NTH and death the nations whom We
have begun TO lIft
Oh, my friends, there has never been such
nefarious plot on earth AS that which in
fidelity and atheism have planned. We
were shocked few years ago because of the
attempt TO blow up the parliament house in
London; but il inn6elity and atheism sue :.
coed In their attempt they will dynamite a
world. Let them have their full sway and
this world will be a habitaiioa OF three
rooms-a habitatioa with Just three rooms
the one a madhouse. another lazaretto. the
other a pandemonitnn. The infidel 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 f.em beginning unto
close. In the theatre the tragedy comes
first and the farce afterwsrd, but in this in
fide. drama of death the farce comes first
and the trageiy afterward. And in the
former athe SITS a ID iniidels laugh and mock,
but in the latter God Himself Will laugh
and mock. He says so. al will laugh at
their calamity and mock when their fear
cometh.o
From such a cbasm Of individual, national,
worldwide rllin 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 clasm OF ruin. The time Is
going TO come you and l may not live TO see
it but it will come, just as certainly as there
is a God, it will GOMEZ when the infidels and
atheists who openly and out and out and
above board preach and practice intidelity
and atheism Will be considered as criminals
against society, as they are now criminals
against God. Society wall push out the
leper and the wretch, with soul gangrened
and iehorous and yermin-eoyered and rot
ting apart with his beastislity 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 il falls. that it poison not
the air, and the only text in all the Bible APP
propriate tor the funeral sermon Will be
Jeremiah, xxi, 10: ale shall be buried
with tae burial Of an ass"
A thousand voices come up TO me this
morning saying: "Do you really think int
delity will succeed: Has Christianity re-
become oasolete:" Yes, when the smoke
OF the city chimney arrests and destroys
the noJnday sun. Josephus says about the
time of the destruction of Jerusalem the sun
was turned into darkness; but only the
clouds rolled between tho sun and the earth.
The sun went right on. IL is the same sun,
the same luminary as when at the begin
ming 1t shot cut like an electric spark from
Co.'s finger, and to-day it is warming the
nations ard today IL is gliding the sea, ana
to-day it is filling the earth with light. The
same old sun. not at all worn out, though It's
light steps I90, 200. coo miles second, though
us puisatIons are 450, 0J0 000, 90, 900 unduia-
tions in n second-the same sun with beau.
tiful white light made up OF the violet, and
the indigo. and the blue, and the green, ana
The red and the yellow, and the orange
the seven beautiful coIors now just as when
the solar spectrum first divided them.
At the beginning God said: ''Let there be
light" and light wa, and light Is, and nght
shall be. so Christianity is rolling. on, and
II is going TO warm all nations, aud all ma
tions are 10 bask in It's light. Men may shut
the window blinds SO they can not see 1t, or
they may smoke the pipe Of speculation un-
ill they are Swallowed under their own va
poring, but tie Lord God is sun j his
white light Of the gospel made up OF all tue
beautiful color; Of earth and heayen-violet
piucked from amid tile spring grass and the
indigo Of the southern juL gies, and the blue
OF the skies, aid the green OF the foll-
age, and the yellow OF the autumnal WOODS,
and the orange of the southern groves, anu
tile red OF the sunsets. All the beauties OF
earth and heaven brought out by this spir-
ituaI spectr,Im. Great Britain is going TO
take All Europe for God. The United states
i going to take all America for God. Both
OF them together will take all Asia for God.
An three OF them will take Africa for COD.
"Who art thou, oh great mountain! before
Zerubbabel thou shalt become pialn:
The mouth of the Lord hath spoken ~
Hallelujah, amen!
Healing waters of the west
Two hundred and fifty-nine years
ago, says Indian tradition, an epidemic