Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-05-24

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whose lives are bad or whose hearts are
impure, and who hate the Bible because oil
the idea Of future punishment for the same
reason that criminals hate the penitentiary.
q. have heard this brave talk about peo-
pie fearing nothing of the consequences Of
sin in the next world, and have made UP
my mind it is merely towards whistilnP
to keep his courage up. l have seen men
fiaunt their immoralitles in the face OF the
community, and I 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 shrleked until
you could hear them for nearly two blocks,
and in the summer night the neighbors got
up to put the windows down because they
! could not endure the horror.
| would not want to see 8 railroad train
with 800 Christian people on board go down
| through drawbridge into q watery grave.
l would not want to see 500 Christian PEG
pie go into such disaster, bat l tell you
| plainly that l could more easily sea that
than could for any protracted time stand
| and see an infidel die, though his pillow
were Of eiderdown and under a canopy OF
vermillion. have never been able to brace
up my nerves for such a spectacle. There
Is something at such a time SO indescriba-
BILE in the countenance. l just looked IN
upon it for a minute or two, but the clutch
of his fist was so dIabolical and the strength
| of voice was 50 unnatural l could not en-
dure it. ''There is no hell, there is no hell,
| there is no hell" the man had said for sixty
| years, but that night when looked in the
dying-room of my infidel neighbor there
was something on his countenance which
seemed to say: ''There is, there is, there
| is there is"
The mightiest restraints to-day against
theft, against immortality, against Iibsrtn-
| ism, against crime of all sorts-the might
| est restraints are the retributions OF
eternity. Men know that they can escape
the law, but down in the offenders soul
there is the realization of the fact that they
can not escape God. He stands at the end
of the road OF profigacy, and He will not
clear the guilty. Take all idea of retribu-
ton and punishment out OF the hearts and
minds of men, and it would not be long be-
fore Brooklyn and New York and Boston
and Charleston and Chicago became
Sodoms. The only restraints against the
evil passions Of the world to-day are Bible
| restraints.
Suppose now these Generals Of atheism
and infidelity got the victory, and suppose
Jucy = army w "a
the majority of the world. They are
in companies, in regiments. in brigades-
the whole army. Forward, march, We hosts
of infdels and atheists! banners flying be-
fore, banners flying behind, banners in
scribed with the words: mo God! No
Christ! No punishment! No restraints
Down with the Bible! Do as you please ~
The sun turned into darkness Forward,
| ~ inf A o1 nd of a
lists. And first Of all you will attack
the churches. Away with those
houses OF worship! They have been
standing there so long deluding peo-
pie with consolation in their bereave-
ments and SORROWS. All those churches
ought to be extlrpated; they have done so
much to relieve the lost and bring home the
wandering, and they have 80 long held up
the idea of eternal rest after the paroxysm
of this life Is over. Turn the st. Peters
and St. Pauls and the temples and taber-
n cles into club houses Away with those
churches! Forward. march! ye great
army of infidels and atheists, and next of
all they scatter the Sabbath scholastic
Sabbath schools filled with bright-eyed,
bright-cheeked little ones who are singing
songs on Sunday afternoon and getting in
struction when they ought to be on the
street corners playing marbles or swear
ing on the commons. Away with them
Forward, march We great army OF intidels
and atheists and next Of all they will at.
tack Christian asy!ums-the institutions OF
| mercy supported by Christian philanthro
pies. 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, and orphans fight
their own way. and the half reformed go
back to their evil habits.
| Forward, march! We great army Of in.
tidels and atheists, and with your battle.
| axes hew down the cross and split up the
manger OF Bethlehem. On, We great army
of infidcls and atheists, and now they come
| to the graveyardS and the cemeteries of
the earth. Pull down the sculpture above
Greenwood's gate, for it means the resur-
rection. Tear away at the entrance of
Laurel Hill the figure Of Old Mortality and
the chisel. On, We great army OF intidels
and atheists, into the graveyards and GEN.
eteries; and where you see ASLEEP in
Jesus" cut it away, and where you find a
marble story of Heaven, blast it, and
where you find over a little child's grave:
''Suffer little children to come unto me-
substitute the words ''delusion' and
''stam," and where you find an angel in
marble, strike off the wing, aud when you
come to family vault, chisel on the door
''Dead once, dead forever"
| But on, We great army Of infidels and
atheists, oul They will attempt to scale
Heaven. There are heights to be taken.
Pile hill on hill and Pelion on 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 charge 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 Down with them p
! 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 Christi
A world without head, a univ >rse with.
out King. Orphan considerations. Father
less galaXies. Anarchy supreme. A de-
throned Jehovah. An assassinated God
Patricide, regicide, decide. That is what
they mean. That is what they will have,
If they can, if they can. Civilization hurled
back into semi-bat barism, and semi barbar-
ism 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 year. Go back, you Sandwich
Islands, from your schools and from your
colleges. and from your reformed condition
to what you were in 1890, when the mis-
sIonaries first came Call home the five
hundred missionaries from India and
| overthrow their two thou sand schools
where they are trying 10 educate tn,
heather, and scatter the 10000 little
children that they have gathered