New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-05-23

/ punishment are men whose lives are bad or
whose hearts are impure, and Who hate the
i Bible because of the idea OF future punish-
| ment for the same reason that criminals hate
the penitentiary. Oh, I have heard this
brave talk about people fearing nothing Of
i the consequences of sin in the next World,
and have made up my mind it Is merely u
| towards iwhistling to keep his courage up.
i / have seen men faunt their l,nmortalities
| in the face of the comm;l; ity, and have
heard them defy the judgment day and scott
at the idea OF any future consequence OF
their sin !; but when they came to die they
/ shrieked until you could hear them for near
Iy two blocks, and in the summer night the
| neighbors got up to put tie windows down
| because they could not endure the horror.
4 / would not want to see a rail tram with
/ five hundred Christian people on board GO
/ down through a drawb1idge into a Watery
! grave. ] would not want to see FIVE hum
/ dred Christian people go into such a disaster,
! but tell you plainly that / could more easl-
! lY see that than 1 could tor any protracted
| time stand and see an intidel die, though his
/ pillow were of eider-down and under a can
| opy OF yermillton. L have er,been able to
| brace upi my nerves for such q spectacle.
| There is something at such a time SO indis-
| cribable in the countenance. / just look ed
In upon it for minute or two. but the clutch
| OF his fist was so diabclc, and the strength of
| voice 50 unnatural, | could not endure it.
! 'sIhtre is no hell lnsre is no hell! there is
| no hellp' the man had said for sixty years;
bur that night when looked in tie dying
/ room of my infideInelghbor, there was some
| thing OIL bis countenanee which seemed to
! say: '.There is, there is. there is. there is"
The M gltlest retraints to-day against
! theft, against immortality, against libert:n.
ism, against crime of all sorts--the mightiest
| restraints are the retributions of eteralty.
Men know that they c IN escape. the law, but
! down in the offences oulethere is the reall-
| zation of the fact that they cannot escape
| God. He stands al the end of the load
OF profigacy, and He will not clear
| the guilty. Take all idea of retrihution and
| punishments out Of the hearts and minds OF
men, and it would rot be long before Bre Ok
| lyn and New York and Bos!ol and Charles
| ton and Chicago became SodGms. The only
restraints against the evil passions OF the
| world to-day are the Bible restraints.
| Suppose now these generals OF atheism and
infidelity got the victory, and supp se they
malshaled a great army made up ct the ma
| iority of the world. They are III companies,
| IN regiments, in brigades-tlle Whole army.
| Forward, march! We hosts Of infidels and
| ing behind, banners inscribed with the words:
| mo God! No Christ! No punishment. No
restraints! Down with the Biblel Do as you
please" 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 deluding the people with
! consolation in their bereavements and sor-
rows. All those churches ought to be eX-
| tirpated; 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 the paroNysm OF this life Is over.
| Turn the ST. Peters and ST Paus and the
temples and the tabernacles into the club
houses. Away with those churches!
| Forward, march! We great army OF infidels
an atheists, and next of all they scatter the
Sabbath schools-the Sabbath schools filled
with bright-eyed, bright-cheeked little ones
who are singing songs on Sunday afternoon
and getting instruction when they ought to
be on the street corners playing marbles, or
| swearing on the commons. Away with
| them! We great army of infidels and atheists;
and next Of all they will attack Christian
asylums-the institutions of mercy support
| ed by Christian philanthropies. Never mind
the blind eyes and the deaf ears and the
crippled limbs and the weakened intellects.
Let paralyzed old age pick up its own food,
ana orphans fight their own way, and the
half reformed go back to their evil habits.
| Forward, march! We great army Of infidels
ana atheists, and with your battle-axes hew
| down the cross and spit up the manger Of
| Bethlehem.
| On, We great army of infide's and atheists!
and now they come to the grave-yards 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 llltlQes and atheists, into the graYeyardS
AMI the cemeteries; and where you see
''Asleep in Jesus" cut it way, and where
you find marble story OF heaven blast it,
and where you find over little chlld's grave;
"Suffer little children to come unto Me-"
substitute the words "delu>ion" and s'sham,"
and where you find an angel in marble
strike off the wing, and when you come to q
family vault chisel Oh the door: ssDead en2e,
| 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 l.oist 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 liycth
forever and ever. They would take down
from their high place the Father, the Son,
the Holy Ghost. sDown 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 sit there. Down with Him! Down with
| ChristW
A world without head "a universe with
| out klng-orphan Observation-Disclosures
alaxies-anarchy supreme-a dethroned
Jehovah--an assassinated God-parricide,-
regicide, decide! That is what they mean.
| That is what they will have il they can't
! they can-if they can. Civilization hurled
/ back into semi-barbarism, and semi-barbar-
ism driven back into Hottentot savagey
! The wheel of progress turned the ether way
| and turned toward the dark ages. The clock
| of 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
schoo 8, where they are trying to educate
the heathen, and scatter the IA 1000 little
| CHILDREN that they have gathered out of
barDar.sm into civilization. Ohliterate all
the work of DR.. Duff III India, OF David
Abeel in China, DR.. KIM In Greece. Of
Judscn in Burmah, of David Brainard amid
the American AboIigines, ard send home
/ the three thonsand mi sionaries of the cross
who are toilng in foreign lands, toiling for
Cnrist's sake, toillng themselves into the
grave. Tell these three thousand men of
God that they are OF no use. Send home
| the medical ,ojSSi who doo+o,,;,,o.