Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-31

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| Forward, marchi We great arms ~ inn
~ suu atnelsts And first of all YOU VIII
attack the churches Away with those
49,. ss OF Worship They have b,en stand-
~ sncIe 20 long deluding the people with
| consolstlon IN their bereavements and so,.
rows, All those churches ought 10 he az
arpated; they have done so much to relieve
we lost ana bring home the wandlerlny. and
.ney nave so long held up the idea of eternal
r.,. sisef the paroNysm of this life IS over.
,as an sne - reters aud St. Pauls and tho
| temples and the tabernacles into Ire rtnh-
houses Away with those churchesi
Forward, march, We great army Of ipt;f,sis
| an atheists, and next of all they scatter the
SABBATH schools-the SABBATH schools tilied
Win pF1ghteyed, bright-eheeked little ones
VINO are singing songs on Sunday afternoon
ana getting instruction when they o,,gh, 10
De ON the street corners PLAYING marh.ss ~
swearing on the eommons Aw,y with
.hethi We great army Of infidels and atheists !.
anu next OF all they will attack ChrisIiaD
ssf,unls-the institutions OF mercy support
~ ~ ~ p,, Snrisuan philanthropies. Never mind
uhe Diiud eyes and the deaf cars and the
Suppled limbs and the weakened intellects.
Let paralyzed old age pick up its own food.
anu orphins hight their own way. and the
naii REFORMED go back 10 their evil habits.
forward. march, We great army of intideis
a Anu ainefsts, and with your battle-axes hew
uown the cross and spit up the manper Of
| Bethlehem. sei VI
On, we great army Of intidels and atheists !
ana now they come TO the grayeyarfls AMI
the cemeteries of the earth. Pull down the
sculpture above Greenwood's gate. for IN
a sn.as .ne resurrection. Tear away at the
entrance OF Laurel Hill the figure of old
mortality and the chisel On, We great army
OF inhdels and atheists, into tho yrayeyarsis
anu the cemeteries: aud where Won Soc
asleep In jesus cut IL way, and where
you nna marble story Of heaven blast Il.
and where You ind over little chlld's grave
'Snner little children TO come ,,nts Ne J,
substitute the words .sdelusion" and s.sham.
ana where you find an angel i'm marhie
strike on the wing. and when YOU come 10 a
iamity vault ehlsel on the door: dead on e
dead forever.o = =
but on. ye great army of iuidels and
ssaeists, on. They will attempt TO scale
| heaven. There are heights to be taken
Pile hill on hill and Pelion upon Ossa. and
then they hoist the ladders against the wall
OF heaven. On and on until they blow ii
the foundations of Jasper and the gates OF
pear. ihey charge up the steep. Now
they ann for the throne of Him who liyeth
forever and ever. They would take down
from their high place the Father, the Son,
the Holy Ghost. Down with themp, they
say. "Down with Him from the throne =,
they say "Down ioreyeri Down out Of
slsnt! lie Is not God. He has no right
70 SIT there. Down with Him! Down Wit /,
Christv' VIZ
world without head "a universe with
out klng--orphsn constellation fatberIes a
galaxies-anarehy siipreme-a detbroned
Jehosah-an asslssinatsd God psrricide,-
regicide, deleldel That is what they mean
IEat IS what they will have if they cau--if
they ean-if they chr. Civilization hurIe
back INTO scmi-l aFbafism, and semi-barbaI.
ism driven back iuto Hotteutot sayager,- '
The wheel of progress turned the ether way
ana turned toward the dars ages The clock
OF centuries put back two thousand years.
60 back, you Sandwich Islands, from your
schools and from your colleges and from
your reformed condition TO whatyou were in
$50, when the missionaries 4 r,t came. Call
hone the I've hundred missionaries from
INDIA and overthrow their TWO ,housand
schoo . where thee ae trying 10 educate
the heaihen, and scatter the IA 600 little
childlea that they have gathered out of
haro1rissn into eiyilizat OH. obliterate all
the work of DIR. DUFF in India, OF Dav;d
Abeel in China. DIR. KIM IN Gre see. ~
Judstn IN Bnrmah, Of David Brainar,l amid
the American Aboriginess and send home
the three thonsand nj sionaries of The cross
who are toll ng in foreign land, ioiliug for
thrists sake, toilng Themselves into the
grave. Tell these three thousand men of
God that they ere of no use. Send home
the medical missionaries who are doctoring
the bodies as well as the souls of the dying
nations. Go home, London Mis- ionary So
eiety. Go home, American Board of For
eign Missions Go home, We Morayian, aud
re1nquish back into daI knees and squ iIor
and Nth and death the nations whom 70
have begun 10 lift.
oh, my friends, there has never been such
a nefarious plot on earth as that which in.
hdeiity and atheism have planned. We
were shocked few years ago because of the
attempt to blow up the parliament house in
London; but il iniiGelity and atheism sue.
coed in their attempt they will dynamite
world. Let them have their full sway aud
this world will be a habitatioa OF three
rooms--a habitatioa witt just three rooms
the one madholl>e. ano Their lazaretto the
other i pandemoninm. The infidel bands
of music have only just begun their concert
yea, they have only been stringing their
instruments. ] to-day put before you their
whole programme fsom beginning unto
close. In the theatre the tragedy comes
first and the farce afterVard, but in this in
fide. drama of death the farce comes first
and the tragedy afterward. Aud in the
former aihe SITS ID iniidels laugh and mock,
but in the latter God Himself will laugh
and mock. lie says so. 81 will laugh at
their calamity and mock when their fear
cometh."
From such ehasm of individual, national,
worldwide ruin stand back. oh. Young
men. stand back from that chasnl! You see
the practical drift of my sermon. i want
you TO know where that road leads. Stand
going to come tyou and l may not live to see
II, but 1t will come, just as certainly as there
il God, il will GOMEZ when the infdels and
atheists who openly and out and out and
above board preach and practice intidelity
and atheism will be considered as criminals
against society, rs they are now criminals
against God. Society wall push out the
leper and the wretch, with soul gangrened
and ichorous and yermiD-eoyered and rot
ting apart with his beastiality will be left TO
die in the ditch and be denied decent burial,
and men wilicome with spades and cover up
The carcass where il falls that it poison not
the air, and the only text in all the Bible APP
propriate tor the funeral sermon will be
Jeremiahi xii, 10: ale shall be buried
with the burial Of an ass"
A thousand voices come up to me this
morning sayirs: "Do you really think init
deity will succeed? Has Christianity re-
ceiyed its death blow and will the Bible
become otsolete?p Yes, when the smoke
of the city chimney arrests and destroys
the MONDAY sun. Josephus 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. Ii is the same sun,
the same luminary as when at the begin
ming it shot out like an electric spark from
Gods finger. and to-day il is warming the
nations ard today il is gliding the sea, anu
to-day il is filing the earth with hight. ne
same old sun. not At all worn out, though us
light step. 1910, 600, 900 miles second, though
its pulsatIons are 45o, 0o0 900, DOC, 600 undula-
tions in d second-the same sun with beau:
tiful white light made up of the violet, and
the indigo, and the blue, and the green, ana
the red, and the yellow, and the orange
tine seven beautiful eolors 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, ana hghs
shall be. 80 Christianity is rolling Cd, ana
II is going 10 warm all nations, ana all ma.
tions are TO bask in its light. Men may smut
the window blinds so they can not see u, OF
they may smoke the pipe Of speculation I'M
til they are Swallowed under their own va
poring, but tie Lord God is "a sun TINS
white light of the gospel made up OF all Tue
beautiful colors Of earth and heayen-yioiet
pItcked from amid the spring grass and the
indigo OF the southern JUL giles, and the blue
OF the skies, and the green OF the foil-
ace. and the yellow Of the autumnal woods,
and the orange of the southern groves, ana
tbe red of the sunsets. All the beauties OF
earth and heaven brought out by this splr-
ittIal spectrum. Great Britain IS gong 70
take all Europe for God. The United states
i going to take all America for Goa. BON
OF them together will take all Asia Tor Goa.
All three of them will take africa iof 1oa.
ssWho art thou, oh great mountain! before
Zerubbabei thou shalt become pam:
The mouth of the Lord hath spoken IL
Hailelujah, amen!
nF ha N est.