Milford chronicle., 1888-05-18
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY, MAY IS, 1888

is only question Of dynnmics. II an object
be lifted to a certain point and not fastened
there, and the lifting power be withdrawn,
how long before that object win fall down to
the point from which it startedi 1t will
fall down and it will go still further than
the point from which it started Christian
ity has lifted woman up from the very depths
Of degradation almost to the skies If that
lifting power be withdrawn she falls clear
back to the depth from which she was resur
rected, not going any lower because there is
no lower depth. And yet, Notwithstanding
the fact that the only salvation Of woman
from degradation and woe is the Christian
religion, and the only influence that has ever
lifted her in the social scale is Christianity
have read that there are women who reject
Christianity make no remark in regard
to those personl make no remark in re-
gard to them. Ia the silence of your own
soul make yous observations
II infdelity triumph and Christianity be
overthrown, IL means the Generalization OF
society. The one idea in the Bible that athe-
lists and infdels most hate, is the idea Of re-
tribution. Take away the idea Of retribu-
tion and punishment from society, and it
take away from the minds of men the fear
of hell, and there are a great many OF them
who would very soon turn this world into a
hell The majority Of those who are indig
nant against the Bible because Of the idea Of
punishment are men whose lives are bad or
whose hearts are impure, and who hate the
Bible because Of the idea of future punish
ment for the same reason that criminals hate
the penitentiary. Oh, have heard this brave
talk about people fearing nothing Of the
consequences of sin in the next world, and l
have made up my mind it is merely a
towards whistling to keep his courage up. l
have seen men faunt their imnorahties in
the face Of the community, and have heard
them defy the Judgment day and scoR at the
idea of any future consequence Of their sin /;
but when they came to die they shrieked
until YOU could hear them for nearly two
blocks, and in the summer night the neigh
bors got up to put the windows down because
they could not endure the horror.
would not want to see rail train with
five hundred Christian people ON board go
down through q drawbridge into a watery
grave. / would not want to see five hundred
Christian people go into such disaster, but l
tell you plainly that could more easily sec
that than could for any protracted time
stand and see an infidel die though his pillow
were of elder down and under a canopy of
vermilion. have never been able to brace
up my nerves for such a spectacle. There is
something at such a time so indescribable in
the countenance. just looked in upon it 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
HE'LL" the man had said for sixty years; but
that night when l looked in the dying room
of my infidel neghbor, there was something
on his countenance which seemed to say:
''There is, there is, there is, there isl"
The mightiest restraints today against
theft, against immortality, against lbortin-
ism, against crime of all sorts-the mightiest
restraints are the retributons Of eternity.
Men know that they can escape the law, but
down in the offenders soul there is the reali-
zation of the fact that they cannot escape
God. He stands at the end of the road of
prohigacy, and he will not clear the guilty.
Take all idea Of retribution 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 Sodoms. The only restraints
against the evil passions of the world today
are blDie IeSUfulnls
Suppose now these generals of atheism
and infdelity got the victory, and suppose
they marshaled great army made up Of the
majority of the world They are in COM
panies, in regiments, in brigades-the whole
army Forward march! ye hosts Of intidels
and atheists, banners flying before, banners
hying behind, banners inscribed with the
words: 'No Godl No Christi No punish
InentI No restraintsi Down with the Biblel
Do as you pleasen The sun turned into dark
ness
Forward, march, ye great army Of infidels
and atheistsl And first of all you will attack
the churches. Away with those houses Of
worship They have been standing there 50
long and deluding the people with consola-
tion in their bereavenlents and sorrows All
those churches ought to be extirpated; they
have done so much to relieve the lost and
bring home the wandering, and they have so
long held up the idea of eternal rest after tho
paroxysm of this life is over. Turn the St
Peters and ST. Pauls and the temples and
tabernacles into club houses Away with
those churchesl
Forward, march, ye great army of in
fidels and atheists, and next Of all they scat
ter the Sabbath schools-the Sabbath schools
filed with bright eyed, bright checked little
ones who are singing songs on Sunday after
noon, and getting instruction when they
ought to be on the street corners playing
marbles or swearing on the common. Away
with theml Forward, march, ye great army
of infides and atheists, and next of all they
will attack Christian asylums-the institu-
tions Of mercy supported by Christian phil
anthropies. Never mind the blind eyes and
tlhe deaf ears and the crippled limbs and the
weakened intellects Let paralyzed old age
pick up its own food, and orphans fight their
own way, and the half reformed 60 back to
thsir evil habits Forward, march We great
army of infdels and atheists, and with your
battle axes hew down the cross and split up
the manger Of Bethlehem
On, ye great army Of inadels and atheists,
and now they come to the graveyards and
the cemeteries of the earth. Pull down the
sculpture above Greenwood's gate, for it
means the resurrection Tear away at the
entrance Of Laurel Hill the figure Of Old
Mortality and the chisel On, We great army
of infidels and atheists, into the grayeyards
and the eme,eries; and where you see
''Asieep in Jesus, cut it away, and where
you find a marble story of heaven, blast it,
and where you find over a little childsgrave,
''Suffer little children to come unto me-"
and where you find an angel in marble, strike
off the wings, and when you come toa family
vault, chisel on the door; Dead once, dead
forever
But on, 70 great army Of infidels and
atheists, onl They will attempt TO scale
heaven. There are heights to be taken Pile
hill on hill and Pelion upon Ossa, and then
they hoist the ladders against the walls Of
heaven. On and on until they blow up the
foundations of jasper and the gates Of pearl
They charge up the steep. Now they Gim
for the throne Of him who iveth forever
and ever They would take down from their
high place the Father, the Son, tho Holy
Ghost. Down with themn they say.
Down with him from the throne!n they say.
''Down foreverl Down out of sight he is
not God. He has noright to sit there. Down
with bim Down with Christp
A world without q head, universe with
out a king Orphan consultations. Father
less galaxies Anarchy supreme. A do