Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-14

LIE QdAG1lHs EOh4 NUM-
away, and where you see a marble story
OF heaven blast IL, and where you dad
over
AuTTLx cHILD's GRAVE!
"Suffsr little children to come unto me-"
substitute "delusion" and "sham," and
where you find an angel 10 marble, strike
OF the wing, and when you come TO 8
family vault, chisel on the door: "Desd
once, dead forever"
But on, We great army OF inf1dels and
atheists, onl Tney will attempt to scale
heaven. There are heights to be taken
Pile hill on hill and Pelion upon O5ss,
and then they hoist the ladders against
the walls Of heaven. Ga and on until
they blow up the foundations of jasper
and the gates of pesri. They charge up
the steep. Now they aim for the throne
of Him who liveth forever and ever.
They wouih take down from their high
place the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost
"Down with thsm!" they say. "Dowa
with Him from ths throne! !" they say.
"Down forever! DoYn out Of sight!
He is no. G I'd. Hs has no right to sit
there Down with H,m! Dowa with
Clristp'
A world without q head, 8 universe
without king. Orphan constellation s.
Fatherless galsxies. Anarchy supreme.
A dethroned jehovah. An sssassir aied
God. Patricide, regicide, decide. Tia.
Is what they mean. That Is what they
will have, II they can, If they can, II they
can Civilization hurlei back into semi
barbsfism, and semi bsrbafism driven
back into Hottentot s.vagery. The wheel
OF p ogress turned the other way and
turned toward the dark ages. Tie 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 mission
aries frs. came. Call b me the 500 mis-
sionsfies from Iadis, ana overthrow their
1000 schools where they are tying TO
EDUCATE THE HEATHER
and scatter the lac, 600 little children tnst
they have gathered out Of barbafiam, into
civiliz stion % iterate all the work Of
DR.. Duff in 1ndis, Of David .Abeel in
Chins, OF DR.. King in Greece, of Jadson
in Burmah, OF David Brainard amid the
American aborigines, and serd home the
5000 missionaries Of the cross VINO are
toiling in foreign lands, tollirg Tor
Christ's sake, toiling themselves into the
grave. Tell these 5000 men of GJd that
they are Of no use. Send nome the med
ical missionaries who are doctoring the
bodies IS well as the souls Of the dying
nations. Go home, London Missionary
Society go home, American Board of
Foreign Missions! go home, ye
Norsvians, and relinquish back into
darkness and squalor and filth and death
the natioos whom ye have begun to lift.
On, my friends, there has never been
such nefsrious plot on eErth rs that
which IL Fidelity and atheism have planned.
We were shocked 8 few years ego be-
cause CT the attempt to blow up the Par
lament houses In London; but il infl tes-
ity and atheism eucceed In their attempt,
they will dynamite world. Let them
have their full wsy, and this world will se
hsbltetion Of three rooms-a habilation
with just three rooms; the one q mad
house, another q lSZlretto, the other o
pendemonium. These infiiel ban Is o.;
music have only JUST begun their concert
yes, tncy have only been stringins their
instruments. l to-day Put before you
their whole programme from beginning
unto close. In the theatre the tragedy
comes fest and the farce ofterWsrd; bu,
in this infldel drama Of de,th the
farce comes first and the tragedy after
ward. And in the former atheists and Ia
fdels laugh and mock, but in the latter
God Himself will laugh and mock. He
says so. 81 will laugh at their calamity
and mock when their fear coneth."
From such G chnsm of individual, ma
tionsl, world wide ruin, stand back. o.,
young men, stand back from tina, chssm!
You see the practical drift of my sermon.
1 want you to know where that road leads.
Stand back from that
CHAsM CT RUIN.
The time is going to come (you and may
not live to See IL, but it will come, jast as
certainly IS there is God, 1t will come)
when the iDfdels and atheists WAC openly
and out and out aud above board preach
and practice Iafdelity and Atheism will
be considered as criminals sgainst soci-
ETY., as they are now criminals against
God. Society will push out the leper,
and the wretch with soul gan
grened and ichorous aud YER
min-covered and roEting apart with
his bestiality, will be left to die in the
ditch, aud be denied decent burial, and
men will come with spades and cover up
the CARCASS, where 1t fails, that 1t poison
not the air, and the only text 10 all the
Bible appropriate for the funeral sermon
will be Jsremiaq xii: 10: "Ha shall be
buried with the burial OF an ass."
A thousand voices come up to me this
morning saying: "Do you really think
inf1dellty will succeed HIS 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 the time of the &c :truction of
Jerusalem the sun was turned into dark
ness; but oulY the clouds rolled between
the sun and the earth. The sun went right
on. 1t Is the same suo, the same lumi
nary as when st the beginning It shot out
like
AN ELECTRIC SPARK
from Gods finger, and to day it Is warm
ing the nations, and to day 1t is gliding
the ses, and to-day it is filing the earth
with light. The same old sun, not st all
worp out. though Its light steps 100, 000,- |
O0c miles second, though Its pulsations