Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-18
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,,orplug the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmsge,
m. presched at the Tabernacle to an
orera owing congregation. The hymn be-
ginning,
asssud up my souL shSEe off thy fears,
Ard gird the Gospel arnor on;''
.,s sung with magnificent effect. Br.
T.lmsge's subject was "Obscuration,"
.nspbIs text: "The san shall be turned
VITO darkness" Acts H., v. 20. BE
said:
.solsr eclipse IS here prophesied to take
,.ce about the tine of the destruction Of
!rcisnt Jerusalem. Josephus, the histo-
,ri,p, tays that the,prophecY Was literally
faAIef, and TA4t about that time there
vsre strang sp 9earsnces In the heavens.
The sun WAS rot destroyed, but fer H.
de while hidden.
Christianity is the rising sun Of our
time. md men have tried with the uprol-
Inc y.pors Of sl-epticism and the smoke
N heir 5lsspheIny to turn the sun into
d,rkpess Suppose the archaDgels OF
mslice snd horror should be let loose a
little while and be allowed to extiDguish
and destroy the sun In the natural
heavens. They would take the
oceans from other worlds
spd pour them on this
luuinsry Of the planetary system, and the
waters 90 Kissing down amid the raVines
and the csverps, and there is EXPLOSION
after explosion, until there are only Few
cesks Of fretieft in the sun, and these are
cooling down and going out untl thePvast
continents Of fame are reduced to .
small acreage Of fire, sud that whiteps
and cools CT until there are only d few
pO.ls left, and these are whitening and
going out until there is not spark left
ali the mountains of ashes and tue
valleys OF eshes aud the chasEls Of aches.
An extinggished sun. A dead sun. A
buried sun Let all the worlds wall at the
stupendous obst quies.
OF course, this withdrawal of the soisr
light and heat throws our earth into
universal chill, and the tropics become
the temperate, and the temperate becomes
the Arctic, and tner- are frozen rivers
and irczsn lskes and fro zen oceans. From
Arctic and Antartic regions the inhab1t-
ants gather in toward the center and find
ths equator as the poles. The slain for
ests are piled up into q great DO f1re, aud
tIUuuu s-C4o S6thC4 thC
and cities. The wealth Of the coal mines
is hastily poured into the furnaces aud
stirred into rage OF combustion, but soon
the bondres begin to lower, and the fur
nsces begin to go out, aud the nations
begin TO die. Cotopi XII, Vesuvlus, e ma,
SIomboli, Californian geysers cease to
smoke, and the ice Of nail-storms remains
Tymelted in their crater. All the flowers
NE breathed
THEIR LAST BREATH.
Ships with sailors frCz.n at the mast,
and helmsmen frozen at the wheel, ana
passengers froz N in the cabin; sll ma
south. Child frosted and dead in the
cradle. 0csogensrlan frosted and dead
at the hearth Workmen with frcgsn hand
on the hammer and frozen foot on tue
shuttle. Wluter from sea to sea. ALI
congeSllng winter. Perpetual winter.
Globe of irigidity. Hemisphere shackled
TO hemisphere by chains of ice. Univer-
ssl Nova Z=mola. The earth an ice foe
grinding against other ice-fioes. The
uchangels OF malice and horror have
done their work, and now they may take
their thrones Of glacier aud look down
upon the ruin they have wrought.
Wins. the destruction Of the sun In the
natural heavens would be to our physical
earth, the destruction of Christianity
would be TO the moral world. The sun
tusned into darkness. IDfdelity In our
time is considered great joke. There
are people who rel lice to hear Christ
Aniy caricstured, Add to hear Christ as,
sailed with qui5ble end quirk , and
Misrepresentation and badinsge and har-
lequinade,
propose this morning to take IafGelitY
ana Atheism out of the realms of jpcularliy
mo one Of tragedy, and show you what
Iley propose, snd what, IL they are sue
cesstul, they will accomplish. There are
nose IN all our communities who would
NE to see the Christian religion over
nioSa, AMI who say the world would be
SNer without 1t. l want TO show you
was! IS the md OF this road, and what is
se terminus OF this crusade, and what
WIS world will be When Atheism snd inf.
ggthsy have triumpned over it, il they can.
.aY, they can. l reiterate 1t, II they
IL the first place. It will be the CON-
p@N and unutJersble
DEGRADATION OF woMANHooD.
WIN prove It by facts and arguments
"aco no honest msn will dispute. In all
.~smuaities and cities and states and
sSs1ons where the C1ristian religion has |
zen dominant, weman's condition has |
=; zen smellor6ted aud improved, and she
,ss,Gs'erred 10 and honored in thousand |
snd every gentleman takes Of his |
h. oeiore her. II your associations nave |
s, ,a good, yJu know that the name If |
.r aei mother, dsughser, suggest grscious
bs.tounoings. You know there are no |
lS -s'eE schools and seminaries in Brook
~ OF in any city of this |
sssA than the schools and
tnsries for our Young ladies'. You
;,s, a Iost while women may suffer in
40 I'e IN E gland and the United States, /
dr., as more Of her rights in Christen-
Nv uan sse has anywhere else.
cow, compare this with woman's
b,s in lands where Christianity |
al, msde little or no advsnce-in
h pl N Berbary, in Borneo, In Tartary,
ssn sSpt, Ia Hindostsn. The Burmese
M tneir wives sud daughters as so
d. soeep. The Hindoo bible makes 1t
lis,saa ceial and an outrage for women to
Si,SoIo music, or to look out OF the
us o,S In the absence OF her husband,
svanss IS lawful ground for divorce
huss..s beginning to eat before her
ne.n y mas finished his meal. Whist
nd =, nose white bundles on the ponds
hn..assrs IN China In the morhing2 In.
eblld,uass following infsnticide. Female
tre fa, destroyed simply because they