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

theater the tragedy comes f=st and the
farce afterward. But in this Insi,lel drama
! Of death the farce comes first and the
; tragedy afterward. And in the former
atheists and infdels 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 COM
eth"
From such chasm Of individual, nation
al. Worldwide ruin stand back. U, young
men, stand back from that chasm! You
see the practical drift Of my sermon. /
want you 10 know where the road leads.
Stand back from the chasm Of ruin. Tho
time is going to come (you and I may not
live to see it, but it will come just az GER
talnly as there is God, it will Gomez when
the infidels and atheists who openly and
out and out AMI above board preach aud
practice infidellty and atheism will be con-
sidered as criminals against society, as
they are now CRIMINALS against God. So
ciety will push out the leper, and the
wretch with soul gangrened and ichOrOus
vermin covered and rotting apart with his
bestiality 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 appropri-
ate for the funeral sermon will be Jere-
miah. 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 think
infidelity will succeed! Has Christianity
received its death blow! and will the Bible
become obsoIete2 Yes, when the smoke Of
the city chimneys arrests and destroys the
MONDAY sun. Joseph1s says about the
time of the destruction of Jerusalem the
sun was turned into darkness; but only
the clouds rolled between the sun and the
earth. The sun went right on. 1t is the
same sun, the same luminary as when at
the beginning it shot out like an electric
spark from Gods finger, and to-day it 10
warming the nations, and to-day it is gild-
ng the sea, and to- day it is filing the earth
with light. The same old sun, not at
all worn out, though its light steps
190, 0OO,0O) miles second, though
its pulsations are about 45O, OO0, OOO,-
OOJ, 900 undula,ions in a second. Same sun,
with beautiful white light made up of the
violet and the indigo and the blue and the
green and the red and the yellow and the
orange-and seven 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 1t is going to warm all nations and
all nations are to bask in its light. Men
may shut the window blinds SO they can
not see 1t, or they may smoke the pipe OF
speculation until they are Swallowed under
Their own vaporing, but the Lord God
is sun. This white light of the Cos
pei made up of all of the beautiful colors
Of earth and heaven-violet 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 earth
and heaven brought out by this spiritual
spectrum. Great Britain is going to take
all Europe for God. The United States are
going to take all America for God. Both
Of them together will take all Asia for
God. AL three Of them will take Africa
for God. "Who are thou, o, great mount
ain! Before Zeru bbabel thou shalt become
plain" The mouth Of the Lord hath
spoken it. Hallelujah, amen!