The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-05-25
| TALMAGE's SERMON.
The Brooklyn Divine Discusses the
Dangers Of Inadelity and
Modern Atheism.


shake or All Fears and GirA
the 6sspel Arner On.
DR.. Talmagc's subject on the 18th, was
"Obscuration," and his text:
v.M
lilo said:
Solar eclipse is here prophcsticd TO take
place about the time Of the destruction Of
ancient Jerusalem. Joscphl,s, the historian,
says that the prophecy was literally fulfilled,
and that about that time there were strange
appearances in the heavens. The sun was
not destroyed, but for little while hidden.
Christianity Is the rising sun of our time,
and men have tried with the uprollins vapors
Of skepticsm and the smoke of their bias.
phcmy 10 turn the sun into darkness. Sup
pose the archangcls Of malice and horror
should let loose little while and I've allow.
cd he cxtinguish and destroy the sun III the
natural heavens They would take the
oceans from other worlds and pour them on
this luminary OF the planetary system. and
the waters 80 Kissing down amid the ravines
and the caverns aud there Is explosion after
explosion until there are only few peaks Of
hrc left i'll tho sun, and these are cooling
down and going ont until the vast continents
OF name are reduced 10 u small acreage Of
iirc. and that whitens and cools off until
there are only a few Goals loft, and these are
whitening and gong out until there Is nor u
spark LETT in all the mountains vt ashes and
the valleys Of ashes aud the clasms of ashes.
An eNtinguiShcf suns dead sun:a buried
sun. Let all worlds wall at the stumndo,,s
ohscQuicS.
" course. this withdrawal Of the solar
light and heat throws or earth into uri.
Sersal chill. and the tropics became the tom
lSratc. and the temperate becomes the arc.
VIC, and there are frozen rivers and iiozen
lakes and frozen oceans. From arctic and
toward the center and find the equator US
The poles The slain forests are piled up in.
10 great bonfire. and around them gather
thc sliverins villages and rit,cs. The wealth
OF the coal mines is hastily poured into the
furnaces and stirred into rage OF combustion,
Si,i soon the i'oniires begin 10 lower, and the
furnaces begin 10 80 ont and the nations he.
sin 10 die. CotopaNi, Nc>rvius, Etna, S;ron,.
boil. Californian scysers, cease TO smoke.
aud the ice Of hal.>tUrms remains linmcItcd
in their crater. All the flow crs have breath.
cd their last breath. Ships with sailors
frozen a, the mast and helmsmcn frozen ut
the wheel and passengers frozen in the
and then at the south. Child frosted and
dead in the cradle. uctogcnaran frosted
and dead at the hearth. Workmcn with
frozen hand on the hammer and frozen foot
on the shuttle. Winter from sea TO sea. ALL
conyraing winter. Perpetual WINTER
Globe OF frigtdity., Hemisphere shackled TO
hemisphere by chains u lee. Universal
Nova Irmba. The earth aud ice-i'oe grind.
ing against other icc.tiocs. The arclanglcs
OF malice and horror have done their work,
and now they may take their thrones Of
glacier and lo"k down upon the ruin they
lav" wrought
What the destruction of the sun In The
earth, the destruction Of Christianity would
br the moral world. The sun turned Into
darkness. lntdel tv in our time is consider
cd great joke. There arc people who re.
dice TO hear Christianity iariratlired, and
TO hear Christ fssa led Win q,iil,blr and
quirk and Misrepresentation and badiuayc
aud larlequinade.
pro- osc this morning TO take intidelity
and atheism ont Of the realm Of ior,llarity
into one Of tragedy, and show YOU what tl"y
propose and what, if they are successful.
they will accomplish. There are those in
all our communities who would like. 10 sec
the Christian religion overthrown. and who
say the world would be better without It. /
want TO chow you What 10 the end Of TIL,
road, and what IS the terminus of TIL.
crusade. and what this world will he when
atheism and intdelity have triunphed over
II, II they can. say, if they ian. rcitcr.
ate 1t. il they ran.
In the first place, 1t will lie the complete
and lln,tterable degradation Of woman God,
Will prove 1t by facts and arguments which
no honest man Will dispute. liz all comm,ln.
itIes End citic, and states and nations where
the Christian rel ginn has been dominant,
woman's condition has been ameliorated and
improved, and she is deferred 10 and honor.
ed in t,,ollsand things. and every gentle.
man takes of his hat before her, II yo,,r rs.
soci.t'onS Lave been good, you know that
the name Of wife: mother, daughter. suggest
gracious surroundings. You know there are
no better schools and sem,Marcs in BROOKLYN
or IN any city of this county than the schools
AMI scninaries for our young ladies. Yon
in England and the United States, She has
more of her rights in ChrlstcndOm than She
has anywhere else.
Now. compare this with woman's cond;.
lion in lands where Christianity has made
little or no adtnnce--in China, in Harlary.
in Borneo, in Tartary, il Egyp;, in IIin,lo.
daughters as SO many sheep. Tie Hinsl"o
billie makes it disgraceful and an Outrage
for woman to listen to music or look ont Of
the window In the absence Of her husband.
and give, as q lawful ground for DIVORCE a
woman's beginning to eat before her husband
has finished his meal. What mean those
China In the morning! Infanicidc follow.
ing mfanticidc. Femme children DESTROYED
simply because they are female. Woman
harhesscd to q pillow rs an on. Woman yelled
and barr1cated, and in all STYLES of cruel
secl,tsion. Her birth a m;sio. tune. Her
life a torture. Her death horror, The
missionary Of the cross 1c.lay in heather
lands breaches generally to two srollps-a
group Of men who do us they please and sit
Where they please: the other yro,Ip women
hidden and carefully secluded in n side
AZ artment, where they may hear the voice
Of the preacher, but may not be stcl. No
refinement :. No liberty. \" hope for this
nose. Crampcd foot. Di>fuurcd fare. Em-
hr,ltcd .oul. Now compare those two condi.
ti0ns. How far toward this latter condition
that speak Of would woman 20 il: Christian
infuen:Gs were withdrawn and Christianity
wee destroyed? II Is only IA question of
dynsm:cs. an object he lifted to certain
point and not fastened there. and the lifting
power he withdrawn, how long before TIA, la
object will fall down to the point from which
it started! 1t will fall down, and il will 70
still further than the rnint from which il
started. Christianity has lifted woman I'M
from the very depth Of degradation almost
TO thu skies. II that lifting power he with.
ui""u sIc t"iiS siSti DtCh 10 Tue ucDftl nom
which che was resurrectcd, but not going
ANY ipwer because their Is no lower dpltl,
And yet, notwithstanding the f,r, that the
only salvation of woman from degradation
and we Ia tile Christian religion. and Tho
only influence that has ever lifted her in the
social srale is Chris ianity have read that
there are women who reject Christianity,
make 10 remark in regard to those persons.
I make no remark in regard 10 them. In the
silence Of your own soul make your ol,serya.
tons.
If fidelity triumph and Christianity he
overt :Jwn 1t means the decentralization Of
society. The one idea in the Bible that
atheists and intidels most hat, is the idea of
retri''l,tion. Take away the idea Of rctrl.
button and punishment ir,m society and
1t will beg,n very soon to disintesrate: and
take away ON the minds of men the fear
OF hell. and there are great many OF them
WHO wo lid very soon turn this world into q
hell. The majority of those who are ,,,I,r.
nant against the Bible because of the idea Of
punishment are men whose lives are bad or
whose hearts are impure, and who hate tie
Bible because Of the idea Of future Iu,i.l,.
mrnt for the same reason that criminals hal G
the pcnitentiary. oh, I have heard mis-
brave talk about people fearing nothing Of
the consequences Of sin In the next world,
and l have made up nv mind it is merely d
cowaId'swhistlins to keep his courage llp.
! have seen men far,nt their MUNICIPALITIES
~ the face Of the community, and have
hcaru them defy tile Judgment day and scotl
~ the idea Of any future consequence Of
their sin; but when they came to die they
shrl-kcd until you could hear t;,cn f,r near.
~ two blocks. and in the summer n.ll, the
| ncl@hbors got up 10 put tie windows Gown
hcaiisc they could not endure tho horror