Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-14

, death q horror. The missionary Of the
cross to-day in heather lands breaches
generally to two groups group of
men who do IS they please and sit where
they please; the other group women hid
den and carefully secluded In q side
apartment, where they may hear the
voice of the preacher, but may not be
seen. No refinement. No liberty. No
hope for this life. No hope for the life
to come. Hinged nose. Cramped foot.
Disf.ured face.
KMBRUTKD SOUL.
Now compare those two conditions. How
far toward this latter condition that 1
speak OF would woman 60 il Christian
influence were Withdrawn and Chris
tlality were destroyed II Is only q
question of dyAamics. II an object be
lifted to q certain point and not fastened
there, and the lifting power be with
drawn, how long before that object will
fall down to the point from which 1t
startedf 1t will fsll down, and 1t will 60
still further than the point from which 1t
started. Christianity has lifted woman
up from the very depths of degradation
almost to the skies. II that LII lug
power be Withdrawn she falls clear back
rected, not going any lower because there
is NO lower depth. And yet, notwith-
standing the fact that the only salvation
of woman from degradation and woe is
| the Christian religion, and the only indu-
eIce that has ever lifted her in the social
fcale is ChlistiaHity-I have read that
there are women who reject Christianity.
| make no remark in regard to those per-
Loo 4 be arb In "A n
them. In the silence of your own soul
| mske your observations.
II iDfdelity triumph and Christianity
be overthrow, 1t means the demoraliza-
| ton of society. The one idea in the
Blole that atheist and infdels most hate
! s the idea of retrioution. Take away the
idea OF retribution and punishment from
society and it will begin very soon to dis
integrate, and take away from the minds
OF men the fesr of hell and there are q
great many Of them who would very soon
turn this world into hell. The majority
If those who are indignant sgainst the
Bible because Of the idea Of punishment
are men whose lives are bad or whose
hearts are impure and who hate the Bible
because of the idea of future punishment
for the same reason that criminals hate
the penitentary. On, have heard this
brave talk about people fearing nothing of
the consequence Of sin in the next world,
and [ have made up my mind 1t is merely
9 towards whistling to keep his courage
up. have seen men
FLAUNT THEIR INEQUALITIES
in the face Of the community, and I have
heard them defy the judgment day and
scofi at the ides of any future coDse-
gu snce of their sin, but when they came
TO die they shrieked until you could hear
| them for nesrly two blocks, and in the
summer night the neighbJrs got up to
| put the windows down, because they
could not endure the horror.
I would not want to see q rail trSip
| with 500 Christians on board go down
through draw .brldge into watery
grave. l wonld not wsnt to see SEQ
Christian people go into such disaster,
but tell you plainly that I could more
essily see that than l could for any pro
tracted time stand and see an inf lei die,
though his pillow were Of eider-down and
under canopy Of vermilion. I have
never been able to brace up my nerves
for such q spectacle. There is something
at such a time SO indescribable in the
cpuntenance. just looked in upon it for
minute or two, but the clutch Of his q st
was so diabolic, and the strength Of voice
was SO unnatural, could not endure it.
"There is no hell, there is no hell, there
is no hell" the man had said for sixty
years; but that night when I looked in the
dying room Of my inhdel neighbor, there
was something on his countenance which
seemed to say: "There IL, there is, there
Is, there isl"
The mlghtiest restraints to-day egsiust
theft, against immortality, against iber
tinism, against crime Of all eorts-the
mightiest restraints are the retrlbutions
of eternity. Men know thst they can es-
cape the law, but down in the Offenders
soul there is realization OF the fact that
they cannot escspe God. He stands at
the end of the road Of profiigacy, and He
will not clear the guilty. Take all idea Of
retribution and punishment out Of the
hearts and minds Of men, and 1t would
not be long before Brooklyn and New
York and Boston and Charleston and
Chicago became Sodoms. The only re-
strsints against the evil passions Of the
world to-day are Bible restraints.
Suppose now these generals Of atheism
and infdeli.y got the victory, and sup
pose they msrshalled
GREAT ARMY
made up OF the msjority OF the world,
They are in companies, in regiments, In
brigades-the whole army. Forward,
march! ye hosts of infidels and athe-
ISIS; banners flying before, banntrs
flying behind, banners inscribed with
the words: mo God! No Christ! Nd
Punishment! No Restraints! Down
with the Bible! Do as You Pleased"
The sun turned into darkness.
Forward, march! ye great ar ry Of in
fidels and atheists. Aud first Of ell you
will attack the churches. Away with
those houses of Worship They have
been standing there so long deluding the
people with consolation in their beresve-
ments and sorrows. ALI those churches
ought to be exsirpated; they have done
SO much to relievs 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. Psuls and the tenn
pies and tabernacles into club houses.
Away with those churches!
Forward, march, ye great army Of in