Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-05-20

white bundles on the ponds and rivers in
China in the morning? Infanticide fol-
lowing infanticide. Female children
destroyed simply because they are female.
Woman harnessed to a plow as an OK.
Woman yeiled and barricaded, and in all
styles OF cruel seclusion. Her birth a
misfortune, Her life a torture. Her
death horror. The missionary of
the crosa today in heathen lands
breaches generally to two groups-a
group OF men who do as they please and
sit where they please; the other group
of women hidden and carefully secluded
in 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.
Disfgured face. Embruted soul. Now
compare these two conditions. How far
toward this latter condition that | speak
Of would woman 60 if Christian influ-
ences were withdrawn and Christianity
were destroyedl 1t is only question Of
dynamics. II an object be lifted TO
certain point and not fastened there, and
the lifting power be withdrawn, how
long before that object will fall down to
the point from which it started? 1t will
fall down, and it will go still further
than the point from which il started.
Christianity has lifted woman up from
the very depths of degradation almost to
the skies. If that lifting power be with
drawn she falls clear back TO the depth
from which she was resurrected, not GO
ing any lower because there is no lower
depth. And ye., Notwithstanding the
fact that the only salvation Of woman
from degradation and woe is the Chris
tian religion, and the only influence that
has ever lifted her in the social scale is
I Christianity VI have read that there are
women who reject Christianity. make
no remark in regard TO those persons. i
make no remark in regard TO them. In the
silence of your own soul make your OBJ
servations.
If infidelity triumph and Christianity
be ovcrthrown, il means the demoraliza-
tion of society. The one idea in the
Bible that atheists and infidels most hate
is the idea Of retribution. Take away
the idea Of retribution and punishment
from society, and it will begin very soon
TO disintegrate; and take away from the
minds Of men the fear Of hell, and there
are a great many Of them who would
very soon turn this world into a hell.
/ The majority of those who are indignant
against 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 pun
ishment for the same reason that criminals
hate the penitentiary. Oh, have heard
this brave talk about people fearing moth
ing of the consequences Of sin in the next
world, and have made up my mind il
is merely towards whistling TO keep
his courage up. ! have seen men haunt
their immordities in the face Of the com
munity, and have heard them defy the
judgment day and scofT 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 n rail train
with five hundred Christian people on
board go down through a drawbridge into
watery grave. would not want 10 see
five hundred Christian people 60 into
such disaster. hut tell you plainly that
/ | could more easily see that than / could
/ for any protractcd time stand and see an
infidel die. though his pillow were Of
elder down and under a canopy Of wr-
million. ] have never been able 20 brace
up my nerves for such spectacle. There
| is something at such time So indcscrih-
able in the colntcnance. | Just looked
in upon it for a minute or two. hut the
clutch of his fist was 50 aabolical aud
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 | looked in the dying room
of my inlidel neighbor there was some
thing on his countenance which seemed
10 say; There is, there is, there is,
there ISL
The miChtiest restraints today against
theft. against immortality, against liber-
tinism. against crime Of all sorts-the
mightiest restraints are the reuibutions
of eternity. AleE know that they can
escape the law, but down in the offend
er's soul there is the realization Of the
fact that they cannot escape God. He
stands at the end Of the road Of prof
Hgacy, and he will not clear the guilty.
Take all idea Of retribution and punish
ment out Of the hearts and minds Of men,
and it would not he long before Brooklyn
and New York and Boston and Charles
ton aud Chicago became Sodoms The
only restraints against the evil passions
of the world today are Billie restraints.
Suppose now these generals of Atheism
and lnfdclity got the victory, and sup
pose they marshalcd great army made
up Of the majority Of the world. They
are in companies, IN regiments, in
briyades- the whole army. Forward,
march, We hosts of infdlls and atheists,
banners Gying before banners lly ing he
hind. banners inscribed with the words;
DNo Godl No Christi No punishment
No restraints! Down with tho Bihel
DO as you pleased" The sun turned into
darkness
Forward, mnrchl ye great army of in.
fldcls and atheists, And first Of all you
will attack the churches Away with
those houses OF worshipl They have