The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-14

Cledf DACh 10 lne uepin from WnlCn sue was
resulrectd d, 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 woo is the
Christian religion, and the only influence
that has ever lifted her in the social scale is
Christianity have read that there are
women who reject Christianity make O
remark in regard to those persons make
no remark in regard TO them. In the
silence Of your own soul make your obser
vations.
If iuhdelty triumph and Christianity he
overthrown, it means the demoral2ation of
society. The one idea in the Bible that
atheists and infdels most hate, is the idea
of retribution. Take away the idea of
retribution and punishment from society
and il will begin very soon to dislnteIrate;
and take away from the minds Of men the
fear of hell, and there are 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 tho
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 penitentiary. Oh,
| have heard this brave talk
about people fearing nothing of the
consequences of sin in the next world, and
have made up my mind it is merely a
cowards whistlinE to keep his courage up.
| have seen men flaunt their immoraiities
in the face of the community, and | have
heard them defy the Judgment day and
scoif 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 win
dows down because they could not endure
the horror
Iwould not want TO see a rail-train with
five hundred Christian people on board go
down through drawbridge into a watery
grave. | would not want to see five hum
dred Christian people go into such disaster,
but tell you plainly that | could more
easily sec that than could for any protract-
cd time stand and see an inhdel die, though
his pillow we're of eider-down and under a
canopy of vermilion. | have never been
able to brace up my nerves for such spec
tacle There is something at such time so
indescribable in the countenanCe | Just
looked in upon it for a minute or two, but
the clutch of his fist 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 hellm the man had said
for sixty years; but that night when looked
in the dying room of my lnfidel neighbor,
there was something on his countenance
which seemed to say: There is, there is,
there is, there isl"
The mightiest restraints to-day against
theft, against immortality, against lib
ertlnism, against crime of all sorts-the
mightest restraints are the retrbutions 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
cannot escape God He stands at the end
of the road of profigacy, and He will not
clear the guilty Take all idea of retri-
button and punishment out of the hearts
and minds of men, and it would not bo long
before 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 marshalled IA great army made up of
the majority of the world. They are in
companies, in regiments, in brigade5-the
whole army. Forward, march, ye hosts Of
infidels and atheists, banners flying before,
banners flying behind, banners inscribed
with the words: mo God! No Christ |
! No punishment No restraints! Down
with the Biblel Do as you pleasew The
sun turned into darkness.
Forward, march! ye great army Of inf
| UelS ana dJnelSJS. Anu llI5b Ol All you Will
attack the churches. Away with those
houses Of worship They have been stand
ing there so long deluding the people with
consolation in their bereavements and sor-
rows. All those churches ought to be ex-
tirpated; they have done SO much to relieve
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 tabernacles into club
houses. Away with those churches
Forward, march, We great army Of inf
dels and atheists, and next of all they scat
ter the Sabbath school5-the Sabbath
schools filed with bright-eyed, bright
checked little ones who are singing songs
on Sunday afternoon, and getting instruc
ton when they ought to be on the street
corners playing marbles, or swearing on the
commons. Away with them Forward,
march ye great army Of iniidels and athe-
lists, and next Of all they will attack Chris
tian asylums-the institutions of mercy
supported by Christian philantbropies.
Never mind tue blind eyes and tho deaf
cars and crippled limbs and the weakened
intellects. Let paralyZed old age pick up
its own food, and orphans fight their
own way, and the half-re-
formed 20 back TO their evil
habits Forward, marchi ye great army of
iutidelS and atheists, ana WIN your DhJJl6-
axes hew down the cross and split up the
manger Of Bethlehem.
On ye great army Of infidels and atheists
and now they come TO the graveyards and
the cemeteries of the earth. Pull down the
sculpture above Greenwood's gate, for it
means the resurrection. Tear away at the
entrance of Laurel Hill the figure of Old
Mortality and the chiseL On ye great army
Of inddels and atheists, into the graveyards
and cemeteries, and where you see "Asleep
in Jesus" cut it away, and where you find
marble story of Heaven, blast it, and
where you find over a little child's grave
"SufHer little children to come unto me-"
substitute the words "delusion" and ''sham," :"
and where you find an angel in marble,
strike off the wing, aud when you come 10
family vault chlsel on the door: Dead
once, dead forever"
But on, ye great army of inidel5 and
atheists, ont They viii attempt to scale
heaven There arc 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 on 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, tho
Son, the Holy Ghost. "Down with them ~
they say "Down with him from the
tbronew they say. "Down forever! Down
out Of sight, He is not God. He has no
right 10 sit there. Down with him! Down
with Christ"
A world without a head a universe with