The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-05-25

many Of them Who would very seoa turs
this world into . he'll 1ho majority of
those who are indignant asainst tie Bible
because Of the idea Of punishmeat are men
whose lives are bed OF whose hearts are
impure, and who hate the Bible becauss Of
the idea Of future punishment for he same
reason that criminals hate the penitentiary.
o. I have heard this brave talk shout peo-
pie fearing nothing Of the consequences Of
sin in the next world. and have made mp
my mind it 10 merely . towards Whaling
TO keep his courage up. have seen men
flaunt their immoralitles in the face Of the
community. and have heard them defy
the judgment day and SCOT at the idea Of
any future consequence Of their sin; but
when they came to die they shrieked 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 railroad train
with $40 Christian people on board go down
through drawbridge into watery grave.
would not want to see 500 Christian poo
pie 60 into such disaster, but I tell you
plainly that l could more easily sea that
than I could for any protracted time stand
ouu Scc iuHucl ulcs RitlOW
were Of eiderdown and under . canopy Of
vermillion. l have never been able to brace
up my nerves for such spectacle. There
Is something at such time so indescriba-
BILE in the countenance. just looked in
upon it for minute or two. but the clutch
OF his fist was SO dlabolical and the strength
Of voice was so unnatural could not en-
dure it. "There is no hell, there is no hell,
fsSo l. hall thnv hoA a0sA fne aivtx
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 hbsrtin-
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
they marshaled . great army made up OF
the majority OF the world. They are
in companies, In regimeuts, in brigades-
the whole army. Forward, march, ye hosts
of infidels and atheists! banners flying be-
fore, banners flying behind, banners in
scribed with the words: mo Godi No
Christi No punishment No restraints
Down with the Biblei Do rs you please r,
The sun turned into darkness. Forward,
march, re great army Of infidels and athe-
lists. And first Of all you will attack
the churches. Away with those
houses of worship They have been
standing there 30 long deludinR peo-
pie with consolation in their beresve-
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 % 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 infdels and atheists, and next Of
all they scatter the Sabbath schools-the
Sabbath schools filled with brighteyed,
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, ye great army OF lnhdels
and atheists, and next Of all they will at
| tack Christian asylums-the institutions oil
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 60
back to their evil habits.
Forward, march! re great army Of in
| fdels and atheists, and with your battle
| axes hew down the cross and split up the
| Manager OF Bethlehem. On, ye great army
Of in6dels and atheists, and now they come
| to the graveyards and the cemeteries Of
the earth. Pull down the sculpture above
Greenwood's gate, for 1t means the resur
| rection. Tear away at the entrance oil
Laurel Hill tho figure Of Old Mortality and
the chisel. On, ye great army Of iniidela
and atheists. into the graveyards and Gem
eteries; and where you see "Asleep in
Jesus" cut 1t away. and where you find Q
marble story Of Heaven, blast 1t, and
| where you find over . little child's grave:
''Suffer little children to come unto me, u
| substitute the words ''delusion" and
''sham," and where you find an angel In
marble, strike OF the wing, and when you
come to family vault, chisel on the door:
''Dead once, dead forever"
But on, We great army Of infidels and
| atheists, ont They will attempt to scale
Heaven. There are heights to DO 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 VI 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 y
they say. 'Down with Him from the
| throneV they say. ''DOwn forever! Down
out of sight! He is not God. He has nc
right to sit there. Down with Himi Down
with Christv'
A world without Q head, q univ srse with
out a King. Orphan consultations. Father
less galxxies. Anarchy supreme. A de-
| throned Jehovah. An assassinated God
Patricide, regicide, decide. That is what
they mean. That is what they will have
il they can, II they can. Civilization hurled
back into semi-bar 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 1891, when the mis-
sionaries first came. Call home the i've
hundred missionaries from India and
overthrow their two thousand schools
where they are trying to educate thu
he ho Ia