The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-05-17

come unto Ine, SuDSIiIuI6 Ito "O'No
''delnsion" and "sham," and where you
find an angel in marble, strike OIL the
wing, and when you come to family
vault chisel on the door, "Dead once,
dead forever"
But on, We great army of infdels and
atheists, on They will attempt to scale
heaven. There are heights to he taken.
Pile hill on hill and elion 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 charg- 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. "nown with them % they say.
"Down forever! own out of sight
He is not God He has no right to sit
there. Down with Him Down with
Christ |"
A world without a head, universe
without king. Orphan considerations.
Fatherless galaxies. Anarchy supreme.
A dethroned ehovah An assassinated |
God. Patricide regifid', deitite. That
is what they mean. That is what they
will have il they can, if they can, if
they can. Civilization hurled back into
semi-barbarsm, and semi-barbarism
driven back into Hottentot 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 $50,
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 heather, and scatter the one hun
dred and forty thousand little children
that they have gathered out OF barbarism
into civilization. Obiterate all the work
OF DR.. Duff in India, OF David Abeel in
China, of DR. King in Greece, of Judson
in Burmah of David Brainard amid the
American aborigines and send home the
three thousand missionaries OF the cross
who are toiling in foreign lands, toiiing
for Christ's sake, toiling themselves into
the grave. Tell these three thousand
men of God that they are OF no use.
Send home the medical missionaries who
are doctoring the bodies as we'll as the
souls of the dying nations. 20 home,
London Missionary Society, go home,
American Board OF Foreign Missions.
Go home, ye Moravians, and relinqulsh
back into darkness and squalor and tltn
and death the nations whom ye have be-
gun to lift.
Oh, my frinds, there has never been
such nefarious plot on earth as that
which infdelity and atheism have PLAN
ned We were shocked few years ago
because of the attempt to blow up the
Parliament Houses in London, but If
infdelity and atheism succeed in their
attempt, they will dynamite a world.
Let them have their full way, and this
world will be habitation OF three rooms
q habitation with just three rooms
the one mad-house another lazaretto,
the other a pandemonium. These in
! fidel bands of music have only just begun
their concert-yea, they have only been
stringing their instruments. l to-day
put before you their whole programme
from beginning unto close. In the theater
the tragedy comes first and the farce
afterward, but in this infidel drama OF
death the farce comes first and the
tragedy afterward. And in the former
atheists and infidels laugh and mock, but
in the latter God himself will laugh q d
mock. He says so. 81 will laugh at
| Ju6lT ChihlllIJ aAN AhOSA WhOA bAANA
fear cometh."
From such chasm of Individual, ma
tional, worldwide ruin, stand back. Oh,
Young men, stand hack from that chas nj
You see the practical drift OF my sermon.
| want you to know where that road
leads. Stand back from the chasm OF
ruin. The time is going to come you
and may not live to see it, but it will
come, lust as certainly as there is God,
it will GOMEZ when the inhdels and the
atheists who openly, and out and out,
and above board, preach and practice IN
fidelity and atheism 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 ichorous, and vermin-
covered, and rotting apart with his brsti-
atty, will be left to die in the ditch, and
be denied decent burial, and men will
come with spades and cover up the car
cass, where it falls, that it poison not the
air. and the only text in all the Bible ap-
propriate for the funeral sermon will be
jeremiah xxi, 10. "He shall be buried
with the burial OF an ass"
A thousand voices come up to me this
morning saying "Do you really thlnA
infdelity will succeed Has Christianity
received its death blow? and will the
Bible become obsolete ?" Yea, when the
smoke of the city chimney arrests anC
destroys the monday sun. Josephui
SAYS about the time of the destruction o.
Jerusalem the sun was turned into dark
ness, but only thsclouds rolled between
the sun and the earth. The sun wen
right on. 1t is the same sun, the same
luminary as when at the beginni i
shot out like an electric spark from { od'
finger, and to day it is warming t ma
tions, and to day it is gliding the sea, an(
to-day it is filling the earth with light
The same old sun, not at all worn out
though its light steps one hundred anC
ninety million miles second, though it
pulsations are four hundred and fit
trillion undulations in second. Samt
sun with beautiful white light made VI
of the violet and the indigo, and thI
blue, and the green, and the red, and tn
yellow, and the orange-the seven beau
tiful colors now just as when the sola
spectrum first divided them.
At the beginning God said: de
there be light" and light was, and ligh
is, and light shall be. So Christianity i
rolling on, and it is going to warm al
nations, and all nations are to bask in it
light. Men may shut the window blind
so they cannot see il or they ma,
: smoke the pipe OF speculation until the,
are shadowed under their own vaporing
but the Lord God is a sun! This whit
} light of the Gospel made up of all th
, beautiful colors of earth and heaven =
violet plucked from amid the sprin,
} grass, and the indigo OF the Southern
/ jungles, and the blue OF the skies, anC
D the green of the foliage, and the yellow
8 Of the autumnal woods, and the orang
of the Southern groves and the red o
3 the sunsets. All the beauties of eartl
. and heaven brought out by this spiritua