Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-05-25

inert, against immortality, against libertin-
Ism, against crime of all sorts-the mightiest
restraints are the retributions Of eternity
Men know that they can escape the law. bnt
down In the offenders soul there Is the realI-
cation of the fact that they cannot escape
God He stands at the end of the road of
profligacy, and he will not clear the guilty.
Take all idea Of retrlbution and punishment
out of the hearts and minds Of men. and il
would not be long before Brooklyn and New
York and Boston and Charleston and Chi.
cago became SodomS. The only restraints
against the evil passions OF the world today
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 COM
panies, in regiments, in brigad es-the whole
army. Forward, march, We hosts Of infides
and atheists, banners flying before, banners
flying behind, banners inscribed with the
words: mo Godl No Christi No punish
Do as you pleased" The sun turned into
darkness.
Forward, march, We great army of infdels
and atheistsl And first of all you will attack
the churches. Away with those houses of
worship! They have been standing there so
long and deluding the people with consola-
ton in their bereavem ents and sorrows. All
have done so much to relieve the lost ana
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
tabernacles into club houses, Away with
those churchesl
Toward, march, We great army Of in
hdels and atheists, and next OF all they scat.
ter the Sabbath scholastic Sabbath schools
hVstCr ff.hn Ia
ones, who are singing songs on Sunday after.
noon, and getting instruction when they
ought to be on the street corners playing
marbles or swearing on the common. Away
with them Forward, march 20 great army
of infdes and atheists, and next of all they
will attack Christian asylums-the institu-
lions of mercy supported by Christian phi
lanthropies 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 go back to
their evil habits. Forward, march, ye great
army of infidels and atheists and with your
battle axes hew down the cross and split up
the manager of Bethlehem.
On, ye great army of infides and atheists,
and now they come to the graveyards and
the cemeteries Of the earth. Pull down the
sculpture above Greenwoods gate, for it
means the resurrection. Tear away at the
entrance of Laurel Hill the figure of Old
Mortality and the chisel. On, we great army
of intidels and atheists, into the graveyards
and the cemeteries; and where you see
ASLEEP in jesus cut it away, and where
you find marble story of heaven, blast il,
and where you find over little child's grave:
"Suffer little children to come unto me"
substitute the words 'deIusion" and SHAM"
and where you find an angel in marble, strike
of the wings, and when you come to family
vault, chisel on the door: Dead once dead
forever
But on, we great army of infldels and
atheists onl 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 walls of
heaven On and OH until they blow up the
foundations of jasper and the gates of 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 theml" they say.
Down with them from the throne!" they
say. down foreverl Down out of sight
He is not God. He has no right to sit there.
Down with himl Down with Christi"
A world without a head a universe with
out king. Orphan consultations. Father
less galaxies. Anarchy supreme A de-
throned Jehovah. An assassnated God.
Parricide regcide, decide That Is what
they mean That is what they will have, if
they can, if they can, If they can. Civiila-
ton hurled back into standardization, and
Soni- ha rharism driven hack into Hntt0ntot
savagery. The wheel of progress turned the
other way, and turned toward the dark ages.
The clock of the centuries put back 1000
years. Go back, you Sandwich Islands, from
your schools and from your colleges, and
from your reformed condition, to what you
were in 1920 when the missionaries first
came. Call home the 500 missionaries from
India and overthrow their 200O schools
where they are trying to educate the
heather, and scatter the 100000 lit
tie children that they have gathered
out of barbarism into civilization. OBJ
lterate all the work OF DIR. Duf IN India,
of David Abel in China, of DR.. King in
Greece, of Judson in Burmah, Of David
Brainard amid the American aborigineS, and
send home the three thousand missionaries
of the cross who are toIlng in foreign lands,
toiling for Christ's sake, toiling themselves
into the grave. Tell these three thousand
men of God that they are of no use. Send
home the medical missionaries who are doc
toring the bodies as we'll as the souls of the
nations Go home, London missionary So
ciety. Go home, American board Of foreign
missions. Go home, we Moravians, and re-
!inquish back into darkness and squalor and
filth and death the nations whom 10 have
begun to lift.
Oh, my friends, there has never been such
nefariouS plot on earth as that which inf
deity and atheism have planned. We were
shocked few years ago because OF the at
tempt TO blow up the parliament houses IN
London; but if infidelity and atheism sue
coed in their attempt they will dynamite &
world. Let them have their full way anC
this world will be habitation of three rooms
"a habitation with just three rooms; thu
one a madhouse, another lazaretto, thu
other a pandemonium. These intidel band!
of music have only just begun their concert
| yea, they have only been strlnglng thell
instruments. to-day put before you theil
whole programme from beginning unto close
| In the theatre the tragedy comes first anC
the farce afterward; but in this intide
drama of death the farce comes first and thu
tragedy afterward. And i'll the former athe
lists and intidels laugh and mock, but in thu
latter God himself will laugh and mock. HI
says go: II will laugh at their calamity ant
mock when their fear cometh."
From such chasn of individual, national
| world wide ruin, stand back. Oh, yOung
men, stand back from that chasml You SEE
| the practical drift of my sermon. l wan
you to know where that road leads. StanC
| back from that chasm OF ruin. The time
going to come you and may not live to Sc,
it, but it will come, just as certainly as there
is God, it will Gomez when the iniidels ant
the atheists who openly and out and on
and above board preach and practice in
fidelity and atheism will be considered a
criminals against society, as they ar
now criminals against God. Societ,
will push out the leper, and the wretch will
soul gangrened and ichorous and vermil
covered and rotting apart with his beastiality
will be left to die in the ditch and be denie'
decent burial, and men will come witt
spades and cover up the carcass, where il
falls, that it poison not the air, and the onl,
text in all the Bible appropriate for the fu
neral sermon will be jeremiah xii, ID: III
shall be buried with the burial of an ass"
A thousand voices come up to me thi
morning, saying; "Do you really think in
fidelity will succeed. Has Christianity re
ceived its death blowl and will the Bibl
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