Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-05-14


ton cI sucietya IT,
ONE IDEA ~ THE BIBLE
that atheists and int dels must hate, is the
idea of retributiou. Take away the idea
OF retribution and punishment from sOci
ETY., ami it will begin very soon to disin'
tegrate; Snd take away from the minds oi
men the fear of hell, and there are great
many OF them who would very sOOn turn
this world into bell. The majority oi
those who are iudigu mt against the Bible
because Ot the idea ol punishment are men
whose lives ara bad or whose hearts are
impu7c, and who hat the Bible because OF
the idea Of future put ishmsnt for the same
reason that criminals hate the peEiten-
tiary. On, | have heard this brave talk
about people fearing nothing of the Couse-
queuceS Of sin in the next world, and
have made up my mind it is merely a
towards whistliUg tu keep his courage
up. have seen mCn Haunt their immOr-
alties III the face of tie community, and |
have heard them defy the Judgment Day
and SCOT at the IA of any future
consequence OF their sin; bat when they
came to die they shIicEed until you could
hear ;hem 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 raIl-traiu with
five hundred Christian people on board 90
down through drawbridge into watery
grave. | would not want to see hve hun
dred Christian people 60 jntO such di2aster,
but | tell yOu plainly that | could more
tTaCt,d time stand and see an intidel die,
though his pillow were of eider-down and
under a canopy Of yermilliou. | have
never been able TO brace up my nerves for
such spectacle. There il something at
such time 80 indesCrihable in the counten-
ance. Just looked IL upon it for a min
ute or two, hut the
GLITCH OF HIS FIST
was 50 diabOlic, and the strength of voice
was so unnatural could not endure It,
There is no hell, there is no hell, there
IL no helln' the man had said for sixty
years; hut that night when looked in the
dying room of my jntii neighbor, there
WAS something on his COuDtenancs which
seemed to say: There IL, there is, there
is, there is,'
The mightiest restraints to-day against
theft, against immortality, against lib.r.
tiugm, against crime of all sOrts-tha
mightirst restraints are the rctribut!0n5 of
eternity. Men know that they can escape
the law, but down in the offenders soul
there is the realization c. the fact that they
cannot escape God. He stands at the end
OF the road Of protligacy and lie will not
clear the guilty Take all idea Of retribu-
tion and punishment out Of the hearts and
minds of men, and it would not be long
before Brooklyn and New York and BDs-
ton 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 iulidelity got the victory, and suppose
they marshsll,d great army made up o:
the majority OF the world. They are in
companies, in regiments, in brigades the
whole army. Forward, march, ye hO,tH
Of intiiels and atheists, banners flying he.
fore, banners flying behind banners in
-cribed with the word. "N0 God, No
Christ. No punishment No restraint-l
Down with the Bible! 10 as you please ~
Tho sun turned into d., zoNss.
Forward, march! ye great army of in
iilcls and atheists. And first OF ali you
viii attack the CHURCHES Away with
those houses Of worship! They have been
standing there 50 long
DELUDING THE PEOPLE
with consolation in their bercaycments
and sorrows All those churches ought
to he extirrated; they have done 50 much
torelicve the lost and bring home the
wandering, and they have so 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-
uacles into club-hOuses. Away with those
churches,
Forward march! ye great army OF inf
dels and atheists, aud next OF all they scat
ter the Sabbath sChOOls-the Sabbath
schools filled with bright-eyed, bright
checked little ones who are singing s0ng9
on Sunday afternoon, and getting in'truc
ton whan they ought TO be on the street
corners playing marbles, or swearing on
the commons Away with them For
ward, march ye great army Of infiels and
atheists, and neXy of all they will attack
Christian asylums the institutions Of
mercy supported Ivy Christian philanihro-
pias Never mind the blind eyes and the
deaf ears aud the crippled limbs and the
weakened intellects. Let paralyzed O'd
age pick up its own food, and orphans
fight Their own way, and the half reformed
20 hacl: Ia their evil habits Toward,
march, ye great army of inliiels and athe-
istp. and with your battlcaXes new down
the cross aud split up the Inanger Of Beth
lehem.
On, We great army Of infdels and athe-
ists, and now they come to the grayeyards
and the cemeteries of the earth. Pull down
the sculpture above Greenwoud's gate, for
il means the resurrection. Tear away at
the entrance of Laurel Hill the figure OF
Oid Mortality and the chisel. Ca, ye
great
ARMY OF IEFIDELS
aud atheists, into the graveyards and tie
cemeteries; and where you seU ASLEEP in
Jesus" cut it away, and where you iiud a
marble story Of heaven, blast IT. and
where YOU find over little child's grave,
"SuiIer little children to come unto Me, y
suhs,itute the words ''delu7ion" aud
.'sham," and where yor ID m angel in
marble, slrike of the wing e 1 when y0u
come to family yault, chIssl on the door:
dead once, dead forever
PVT IN va arn,v of infIels and atheists