Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-05-25


II infdelity triumph and Christianity
ue osertnrown, it means the demoraliza.
ha. o OIL. society. The one idea in the Bible
!nat atnelsts and infidels most hate. ia the
idea OF retribution. Take awav the idea
OF retribution and punishment from so-
s.esy, ana It will begin very soon to disin-
tegrate; and take away from the minds of
men the fear of hell, and there are great
| many OF them who would yerv soon turn
this world into hell The majority of
nose who are indignant against the Bible
because OF the idea of punishment are men
whose hves are bad or whose hearts are
impure, and who hate the Bible because of
tne idea OF future punishment for the
Tertiary. Oh, have heard this brave
talk about people fearing nothing of the
consequences of sin in the next world, and
nave made up my mind it is merely Il
towards whistling TO keep his courage up.
have seen men faunt their immoralities
in tn face of the community, and have
heard them defy The judgment day and
SCOT 1.-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 neighbors got up TO put the vim
dows 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 drawbridge into watery
grave. l would not want to see five hum
dred Christian people gointo such disaster,
but tell You plainly that I could more
easily see that than could for any pro.
tracted time stand and see m infidel die,
though his pillow were Of elder down and
under canopy of vermillion. have
never been able TO brace up my nerves for
such spectacle. There is something at
such time 30 understandable in the counte-
nance. 1 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 80 unnatural, could not endure it.
"There is no hell, there is no hell, there is
no hell" the man had said for sixty years;
but that night when looked in the dying
room of my infidel neighbor, there was
something on his countenance which
seemed to say: "There is, there is, there
is, there is,"
The mightiest restraints to-day against
theft, against immortality, against libertin-
ism, against crime of all sorts-the might.
est restraints are the retributions of etern.
ity. Men know that they can escape the
law, but down in the offenders soul there
is the realization of the fact that they can.
| not escape God. He stands Mt the end of
the road ofsprofigacy, and He will not
clear the guilty. Take all idea of retribu-
ton 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 Chicago became
Sodoms. The only restraints against the
evil passions of the world to-day are Bible
restraints.
Suppose now these generals of atheism
and inidelity got the victory, and suppose
they marshaled great army made up of
the majority of the world. They are in
companies, in regiments, in brigades-the
whole army. Forward, march! ye hosts of
infidels and atheists, banners flying before,
banners flying behind, banners inscribed
with tho wosds: mo God! No Christ!
No punishment! No restraints! Down
with the Bible! Do as you pleased" The
sun turned into darkness.
Forward. march! ye great army of inf
dels and atheists! And first of all you
will attack the churches. Away with those
houses of Worship! They have been stand
ing there SO long and deluding the people
with consolation in their bereavements and
sorrows. All those churches ought to be
extirpated; they have done so much to re-
lieve the lost and bring home the wander
ing, and they have so long held up the
idea of eternal rest after the paroxysm Of
life is over. Turn the st. Peters and st.
Pauls and the temples and tabernacles
into club houses. Away with those
churches!
Forward, march, ye great army of inf
dels and atheists, and next of all they scat
ter the Sabbath schools Sabbath
schools filled with bright-eyed, bright
checked little ones, who are singing songs
on Sunday afternoon, and getting instruc-
ton when they ought to be on the street
corners playing marbles or swearing on
the common. Away with them! Forward,
march! ye great army of infdels and athe-
lists, and next of all they will attack Chris
tan asylums-the institutions of mercy
supported by Christian philanthro-
pies. Never mind the blind eyes and the
deaf ears and the crippled limbs and the the
age pick up it's own food, and orphans
fight their own way, and the half reformed
20 back to their evil habits. Forward,
march! ye great army of infidels and athe-
lists, and with your battle axes hew down
the cross and split up the manger of Beth
lehem.
On, We great army of infdels and athe-
lists. 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
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figure of Old Mortality and the chisel. On,
ye great army of intidels and atheists, into
the graveyards and the cemeteries; and
where you see asleep in Jesus" cut it
away, and where you find marble story
of Heaven, blast it, and where You find
over little child's grave, "Sutfer little
children to come unto me, /" substitute the
words "delusion" and "sham, and where
you find an angel in marble, strike of the
wings, and when you come to family
vault, chisel on the door. "Dead once, dead
forever"
But, on ye great army of infidels and
atheists, on! 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 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 them!"
they say. down with Him from the
throne!" they say. "Down forever! Down
out of sight! he is not God. He has no
right to cit there. Down with Him! Down
with Christi"
A world without head, q universe with
l.:.- n..,lo, consolidation Father.