New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-05-23
TAI1MAGE'S SERMON.
Tho Brooklyn Divine Discusses the
Dangers Of Infdelity and
Modern Atheism.
tie Warns Doubling TEnomases to
Shake Off All Fears and Gird
the HosDei Apuao1. On

NO
lie said:
( Solar eclipse is here prophestied to take
place about the time of the destruction OF
ancient Jerusalem. Josephus, the historian,
Gays that the prophecy was literally fulfilled,
and that about that time there were strange
appearances in the heavens. The sun was
not destroyed, but for little while hidden.
. Christianity Is the rising sun Of our time,
and men have tried with the uprolling vapors
of skepticism and the smoke of their bias
phemy to turn the sun into darkness. Sup
pose the archangels of malice and horror
Ghould let loose a little while and be allow
ed be extinguish and destroy the sun in the
natural heavens. They would take the
oceans from other worlds and pour them on
(1is luminary of the planetary system, and
the waters go Kissing down amid the ravines
and the cayerns, and there is explosion after
explosion until there are onlya few peaks of
FIRE left in the sun, and these are cooling
down and going out until the vast continents
OF flame are reduced to small acreage of
fire, and that whitens and cools Off until
there are onlya few Goals left and these are
whitening and gong out until there is not a
the valleys Of ashes and the chasms of ashes.
An eXtinguished sun; dead sun;a buried
sun. Let all worlds wall at the stupendous
obsequies.
OF course, this withdrawal of the solar
Hight and heat throws our earth into 4 uni
Tersal chill, and the tropics became the tenn
perate, and the temperate becomes the are
sic, and there are frozen rivers and frozen
lakes and frozen oceans. From arctic and
antarctic regions the inhabitants gather in
toward the center and find the equator as
fhe poles. The slain forests are piled up in.
20 great bonfire, and around them gather
Che shiYering villages and cities. The wealth
OF the coal mines is hastily poured into the
furnaces and stirred into rage OF combustion,
but soon the bontires begin to lower, and the
furnaces begin to go out and the nations be-
gin TO die. CotopaXi, Vesuvius, Etna, Strom-
Doll, Californian geysers, cease to smoke,
and the Ice OF hail-StOrms remains unmelt9d
&njtheir crater. All the flowers have BREATH
ed their last breath Ships with sailors
frozen at the mast and helmsmen frozen at
the wheel and passengers frozen i'll the
cabin; all nations dying, first at the north
dead in the cradle. Octogenarian frosted
and dead at the hearth. Workmen with
frozen hand on the hammer and frozen foot
on the shuttle. Winter from sea to sea. ALL
congealing winter. Perpetual winter.
Globe of frigidity. Hemisphere shackled to
hemisphere by chains 81 ice. Universal
Nova Ienlbla. The earth and ice-foc grind
ing against other ice-fioes. The archangles
ofmaiice and horror have done their work,
and now they may take their thrones of
3 glacier and look down upon the ruin they
Laye wrought.
What the destruction of the sun in the
natural heavens would be to our physical
earth, the destruction of Christianity would
De to the moral world. The sun turned into
darkness. Infdel tv in our time isconsider-
ed great joke. There are people who re-
.foice to hear Christianity caricatured, and
10 hear Christ assa led Win bubble and
quIrk and misrepresentation and badinage
and harlequinade.
propose this morning to take infidelity
and atheism out of the realm Aof jocularity
mic one OF tragedy, and show you what they
propose and what, if they are successful
they will accomplish. There are those in
all our communities who would like. TO see
the Christian religion GVe"thrown and who
say the world would be better without it. [
want TO show you what is the end of this
ROAD, anu What IS the terminus of this
crusade, and what this world will be when
atheism and infdelity have triumphed over
1t, Il they can. l say, il they can. [ reiter
ate it. if they can.
In the first place, IL will be the complete
and unit, cradle degraaation of woman God.
VIII prove 1t by facts and arguments which
no honest man VIII dispute. In all commune
9tIes and cities and states and nations where
tue Christian religion has been dominant,
Woman's condition has been ameIiorated and
improved, and she is deferred to and honor
cd III tIousand things, and every gentle
man talles off his hat before her. If vour as
aociat ons Rave been good, you know that
Ghe name OF wife, mother, daughter suggest
gracious surroundings. You know there are
alo better schools and Summaries in BROOKLYN
Or III any city OF this county than the schools
and semlnaries for our young ladies'. You
n n with . :
in England and the United States, She has
more OF her rights i'll Chnstendom than she
has anywhere else.
Now, compare this with woman's condi-
EEssoG In ,lhnds where Christianity has made
9tttle or no adyance-ln China, III Barbarv,
10 Borneo; in Tartary, in Egyp5, in Hindo
stan. The Burmese sell their wives and
daughters as so many sheep. The Hindoo
billie makes it dsgraceful and an oltrore
for a woman to listen to music or look o,lt Of
the window in the absence of her husband.
and gives as lawful ground for divorce
Wotlall > reg INNING 10 eat before her husband
has 1inlShett his meal. What mean those
white bundles on the ponds and rivers in
China in the molnng? Intanticide follow
ing infanticide. Fema1e children DESTROYED
simply because they are female. Woman
narhesseo 10 a ploW as an OK. Woman yelled
and barr1caded, and in all STYLES of cruel
seetusion. Her birth a misfortune. Her
aIfe torture. Her death a horror, The
missionary of the cross tc-day in heather
lands breaches generally to two groups-a
group of men who do as they please and sit
where they please; the other group women
hidden and carefully secluded in a side
apartment, where they may hear the voice
OF the preacher, but may not be seen. No
Ee Snement. No liberty. No hope for this
life. No hope for the life to come. Ripged
nose. Cramped foot. Dstigured face. En-
bruted soul. Now compare those two condi-
tions. How far oward this latter condition
that speak of would woman go il Christian
influences were withdrawn and Chrlstianity
we're destroyed? 1t is only question of
dynames If an object be lifted to a certain
point and not fastened there, and the lifting
power be withdrawn, how long before tnaf
object will fall down to the point from which
it started? 1t will fall down, aud it viii 90
still further than the point from which it
started. Christianity has lifted woman up
from the very depth of degradation almost
20 the skies. If that lifting power be with
drawn she falls clear back to the depth from
(which she was resurrected, but not going
any lower because Lnere Is no lower depth.
and yet notwithstanding the flet that the
only salvation of woman from degradation
and wee is tie Christian religions, and the
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