The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-05-23
has no right tosit there. Down with HIM


without king-orphan consultations
fatherless galaxies-anarchy supreme-a
dethroned Jehovah-an assassinated God
-parricide, regicide, decide! That IS
what they mean. That is what they will
have if they can-if they can-if they can
Civilization hurled back into semi-barba-
rism and semi-barbarism driven back into
Hottentot savageryl The wheels of pro-
gress turned the other way and turned
toward the dark ages. The clock OF the
centuries put back two thousand years.
Go back, you Sandwich islanders 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 mission
aries from India and overthrow their two
thousand schools, where they are try
ing to educate the heather, and scat
ter the 10000 little children that they
have gathered out of barbarism into civil
izaticn. Obliterate all the work OF DIR.
Duff in India, OF David Abeel in China,
OF DR.. King in Greece, OF Judson in Bur
NAH, of David Brainard amid the Amerl-
can aborigines, and send home the 3,OOO
missionaries of the cross who are tollIng
in foreign lands, toiling for Christ's sake,
tOiling themselves into the grave. Tell
these 5000 men OF God that they are of no
use. Send homo the medical missionaries
who are doctOring the bodies as well as
the souls of the dying nations. Go home,
London missionary society. Go home,
American board OF foreign missions. Go
home, We Moravians, and relinqulsh back
into darkness and squalor and filth and
death the nations whom We have begun to
lift.
Oh, nv friends, there has never been
such a nefarious plot on earth as that
which infdelity and atheism have
planned. We were shocked few years
ago because OF the attempt to blow up the
parliament house in London; but II IN
fidelity and atheism succeed in their at
tempt they will dynamite world. Let
them have their full way and this world
will be habitation of three rooms-a
habitation of Just three rOOms-the one
mad-house. another a lazarettO, the other
a pandemonium. These infidel bands of
music have only Just begun their concert
yea, they have only been stringing up
their instruments. l to-day put before
you their whole programme from begin
ming unto close In the theater the trag
edy comes first and the farce afterward.
And in the former atheists and inidels
laugh and mock, but in the latter God
Himself will laugh and mock. He says
mock when the fear cometh.
From such chasm OF individual, ma
tional. worId-like ruin stand back. Oh,
young men, stand back from that chasm!
You see the practical drift OF my sermon.
! want YOU to know where that road leads.
Stand back from that chasm OF ruin. The
time is going TO come you and may not
live to see it, but it will come, just as GER
tainly as there is a God, it will Gomez
when the infdels and the atheists who
openly and out and out and above board
preach and practice infidelity and athe-
ism will be considered as criminals against
society, as they are now criminals against
God. Society will push out the leper, and
the wretch, with soul gangrened and ichO-
rous and vermin-covered and rotting apart
with his beastiality Will be left to die in
the ditch and be denied decent burial, and
men will come with spades and cover up
the carcass where it falls, that it poison
not the air, and the only text in all the
bible appropriate for the funeral sermon
will be jeremiah xxi, 10: HE shall be
buried with the burial of an ass"
A thousand voices came up to me this
morning saving: "Do you really think
infidelity Will succeed? Has Christianity
received its death blow? and will the bible
become obsolete?" Yes, when the smoke
of the CITY chimney arrests and destroys
the MONDAY sun. Josephus says about
about the time OF the destruction OF
Jerusalem the sun was turned into dark
ness but only the clouds rolled between
the sun and the earth. The sun went
right on. 1t is the same sun, the same
lumnary as when at the beginning it shot
out like an electric spark IRON Gods fin
ger, and to-day it is warming the nations,
and to-day it is gliding the sea, and to-day
il is filling the earth with light The same
old sun, not at all worn out though its
light steps 100000 miles a second,
though its pulsations are 450, COO, 100000
undulations in q second-the same sun
with beautiful white light made up of the
violet, and the indigo, and the blue, and
the green, and the yellow, and the orange
the same beautiful cOlors now just as
when the solar spectrum first divided
them.
At the beginning God said: ''Let there
be light, and light was, and light is, and
light shall be. So Christianity is rolling
on, and it is going to warm all nations, and
all nations are to bask IN It's light. Men
may shut the window-blinds so they can
not see it, or they may smoke the pipe of
speculation until they are Swallowed I'M
der their own vaporing, but the Lord God
is a sun! This white light of the gospel
made up of all the beautiful colors OF earth
and heaven-viClet plucked from amid
the spring grass and the indigo of the
southern jungles, and the blue of the
skies, and the green of the foliage, and the
yellow of the autumnal woods, and the
orange of the southern groves. and the
red of the sunsets. All the beauties of the
earth and heaven brought out by this
spiritual spectrum. Great Britain is going
to take all Europe for God. The United
States is going to take all America for God.
Both of them together will take all Asia
for God. "Who art thou, oh great noun
tain before Zerubbabel thou shalt become
a plain" The mouth of the Lord hath
spoken it. Hallelujah, amen!
IngersoIl Versus Gladstone.
LSt. Louis Catholic World
Ingersoil in the hands of Gladstone is a
pigmy in the grasp Of giant. The states
man shows that Ingersoll's argument
against Christianity is nothing more than
a tissue OF Shiny assumptions, founded
upon a belief in his own infallibility.
The main merit of the great states
mans paper is TO lift the controversy out
of the low grounds of particular and often
misleading details, which have served
Ingersoll with so much ambiguous ammu-
milton, into the highlands OF principles
and reason. Ingersoll can no more live
In this keen atmosphere than a water
snake can in the brilliant and arid skies of
mountain peaks. He may wriggle and