National Republican., 1888-05-14

Forward, march, yc great army Of nn1cls
and atheists And first of all YOU will attack
the churches. Away with these houses Of wor-
ship! They have been standing there so long
deluGing the people with consolation In their
hereavements and sorrows. All those churches
ought to be cNtrpated; they have done 50
much TO relieve the lost and bring home the
wandering, and they have SO long held up the
idea of ctefnal rest after the parONysm of this
life is over Turn the 81. Peters and st. Pauls
houses Away with those churches
Forward, march yc great army Of inildGlS
en- sIsS a9a GS 9, S they cSHE Ing
with brght.eyed, brght.chcekcd little ones
who are singing songs on sunday afternoon,
and getting instruction when they ought to be
ON the street corners playing marbles OF
swearing ON the commons. Away with them!
Forward. march yc great .army Of inhdcls
aud atheists, aud next Of all they Will attack
Christian aSyums-the Institutions Of mercy
supported by Christian philautmoplcs. Mover
mind the blind eyes and the deaf ears aud the
crippled limbs aud the weakened intcllcctS.
and orphans fight their own way, and the half
reformed 60 back TO their evil habits. For.
ward march, yS great army of ihiideiS anu
atheists, and with your battle axes hCw down
the cross and split up the mangcr of Bcthle'
hem.
on, yc great army of inGdcs and atheists
and now they come tn the grlvcyards and the
cemeteries oi the earth Full dOwn,thc Sculp.
turc above Greenwood gate, for II means the
resurrection. Tear away at the entrance of
lsUUltl lill Illt IlpUfc Ol blt MOftUlltN anu inc
Chisel. ON, yc great army of lniidcls and atho.
lists, into the graveyards and the cemeteries;
and where you sec Asleep In Jesus" cut II
away and where yop find, lind marble 6,I story Of
little child's grave. suffer fttlc children to
come unto me substitute the words "delu-
sion and %shain. and where You lind an
YOU come TO a family vault chisel Oh the door,
Dead once, dead forever"
But on. yc great army Of iniidels and athe.
at tn ip
| There are heights to be taken Pile hill on
hill aud Pclion upon Ossd, aud then they
hoist the ladders against the walls of heaven.
ON and on until they blow up the foundations
of jasper AMI the gates Of pearl. They charge
W the steep. Now, they aim for the throneof
| Him who liyetl forever and ever. They would
| the SON. the Holy Ghost. Down with them"
| they say. Down with Him from the throne"
thSy, say "ncMn forever! Down ont Of Of
! there. Down with Him /! Down with Christi
\ world without n head, Il universe without
| king, Orphan consultations. fatherlcSS
JRh JeRoysh. A"rSS An "ssS.snated idde cod qS'I PatrSGs
| regicide decide. That is what they mean.
That That Is what they Will hayG, T. tHey Gam
fan to 1Rfby S Snd %Sn
ism driven back into llottentot savagery.
| The wheel of progress turned the other way
and turned toward the dark ages. The clock
Of the centuries put back two thousand years
| Go back, you sandwich Islands, from your
schools and from your colleges and from your
reformed condition to what you were IN 1920
| when the missionaries first came. Call home
| the FIVE hundred missionaries from India and
| overthrow their two thousand schools where
they are trying to educate the heathen and
| scatter the one hundred and forty thousand
| little children that they have gathered out of
barbarism into civilization. Obllterate all the
work Of Dr.. Duff in India, Of David Abcef
| In China, of Dr. King In Greece, ol
Judson in Burmah, Of David Brainard amid
| the American aborigines and send home the
there thousand missionaries Of the cross who
are toiling in foreign lands toiling for Christ S
sake, toilmg themselves into the grave. Tell
these three thousand men of God that they
are of no use. Send home the medical mis-.
sionaries who are doctcring the bodies as well
as the souls of the dying nations 60 home,
London Missionary. Society, Go home. Ameri-
can Board of Foreign Missions. Go home he
Moravians, and relinauish 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 u
neiarious plot on earth as that which inf
deity and atheism have planned We were
tempt TO blow up the parl lament houses IN
London; but II inhdelty and atheism succeed
IN thfir atttempt they VII dynamite ,h Woria world
will be a habitation of three rooms-a habita
tion with just three rooms; the, one q mad
homse another lazairet2 and the S other
have only just begun their concert-yea, they
have only been, stringirg their instruments
/ to-day put before you their whole pro
gramme from beginning unto close; 1.-THE
theater the tragedy comes, first and the farce
afterwards but In this nfidel drama of death
the farce comes, first and the tragedy after
ward. And in the former atheists and ntidels
laugh AMI mock, but In the latter God Him
self will laugh and mock. He says so. 81
will laugh at their calamity and mock when
their fear cOmeth."
From such chasm of individual. national.
worldwide ruin. stand back. oh, young men
stand back from that chasm! You see the
PrraStca DRIFT 9i Ga my sermon want you {
from that chasm of ruin. The time Is going
TO come (you and may not live TO see IT,. but
u will come, just as certainly as there, Is q
| God II Will come when the inhdcls and the
atheists who openly and out,and--out, and
above board preach and practice infdelity
and atheism wifi be considered as criminal;
asanst COD So Society b will viii push S ST out the % spsr
and the wretch with soul gonyencd and icho
rous and vermincoveIed and rottnG apar
ditch and be denied decent burial, and mel
will come with spades and cover up the car
cass where II falls. that u poison not the air
and the only text in all the Bible appropriat.
for the funeral sermon Will be Jeremiah xxi
49, lie shall be buried with the burial Of al
A thousand voices come up to me this mon,
ing, saying: "DO you really think iniidelit
will succeed: Has Christianity received 1t
, death blow? and will the Bible become obsc
lete;" Yes, when the smoke of the city chin
,Iosephus says about the time Of the de;truc
ton of Jerusalem the sun was turned int
darkness: but only the clouds rolled between
the sun and the earth. The sun went right on
II Is the same sum- the same luminary as whe
at the beginning II shot out like an electrl
spark from Gods finger, and to-day 1t is warm
ing the nations, and to-day 1t Is gliding the sea
and to-day Il is filling the earth with light
The same old sun, not at all Worn out, thong
its light steps one hundred and ninety millio
miles a second, though its pulsations are fou
hundred and fifty trillion. nndnlations in
second. Same sun with beautiful whit
light made up of the violet and the nlig
the yellow and the orange-the seven beaut
ful colors now just as when the solar spectrum
first divided them.
:. Al the beginning God said Let there. h
light and Hight was, and light is, and igl
shall be. So Christianity Is rolling ON, and ii
70 bask in It's light Menmay shut the windo'
blinds so they cannot see II, or they ma
smoke the pipe of speculation until they ~
Swallowed under their own vaporing;. but III
Lord God is a sun This white light of tl
. Gospel made up of all the beautiful colors {
the spring grass, and the indigo Of the soutl
ern inngles, and the blue of the skies, and II
/ green OF the foliage, and the yellow of d
autumnal woods, and the orange of the sOut
ern groves, and the red of the sunsets \
the beauties. of earth and heaven brought. OF
, | by this spiritual spectrum. Great Britain
/ going to take all Europe for God. The Unite
States are going to take all America for Coz
, Both of them together will take all Asia (,
God All three Of them will take Africa i'
| God. "Who art thou, oh great mountain b
; fore Zernbbabel thou shalt BECOME a plain
| luiah, amen!
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