West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-05-24
lNFIDELS AND ATHEISTS.
STRONG WORDS OF WARNING.
A Glance at the World Under Their
Rule

Solar eclipse is here prophesied TO TAX,
place about the time OF the destruction OF
ancient Jerusalem. Josephus, the historian,
says ,nat tne prophecy was literally fulfilled,
and that about that time there were strange
appearances in the heavens. The sun was
not destroyed, but for n little while hidden.
Christianity is the rising sun OF our time,
and men have tried with tho uprolling va
pors of skepticisn and the smoke OF their
blasphemy TO turn the sun into darkness
suppose TIRE archangelS of malice ana horror
should be let loose a little while and be al.
lowed to extinguish and destroy the sun in
the natural heavens. They would take the
oceans from other worlds and pour them on
TINS iunlnary OF the planetary system, and
the waters go Kissing down amid the ravines
and the caverns, and there is explosion after
explosion until there are only a few peaks of
IRE left in the sun, and these are cooling
down and going out until the vast continents
OF hame are reduced TO small acreage Of
nre, ana that whitens and cools Off until
there are only few Goals left, and these are
whitening and going out until there is not n
sf~lr-- e. L. II I-c..-l-.s -, .is,.i,,s and
the valleys OF ashes and the chasms OF ashes.
An extinguished sun. A dead sun. A buried
sun. Let all worlds wall at the stupendous
obseques
OF course this Withdrawal of the solar heat
and light throws our earth into a universal
chill, and the tropics become the temperate
ana the temperate becomes the Arctic, and
there are frozen rivers and frozen lakes and
frozen oceans. From Arctic and Antarctic
regions the inhabitants gather i'm toward the
center and find the equator rs the poles. Tho
siam Forests are piled no into great bonfire
and around them gather the shiyering vii.
lagos and cities The wealth OF the coal mines
IL hastily poured into the furnaces aud
stirred into rage of combustion, but soon the
Doniires begin to lower aud the furnaces be-
GIN TO go out and the nations begin 10 die
Cotopaxi, Nesuvius, Etna, Stromboli, Cali
fornian geysers cease TO smoke, and the ice
Oh hall storms remains unmelted in their
III fnaU s.Nar.. H. -
last breath. Ships with sailors frozen
at the mast and helmsmen frozen at the
wheel, and passengers frozen in the cabin;
al nations dying, first at the north and then
at the south. Child frosted aud dead in the
cradle. Octogenarian frosted and dead at
the hearth. Workmen with frozen hand on
the hammer and frozen foot on the shuttle
Winter from sea to sea- All congealing win
Ter. Perpetual winter. Globe of frigidity
Hemisphere shacklel to hemisphere by
chains of ice. Universal Nova Zembla.
Inc earth an ice foe grinding against other
ice noes The archange.s OF malice and hOr-
ror nave done their work, and now they may
take their thrones of glacier and look down
upon the ruin they have wrought.
what the destruction of the sun in the
natural heavens would be to our physi-
cal earth, the destruction of Christianity
would be to the moral world The sun
turned into darkness. lnfdeity in our time
rs considered great joke. There are people
who rejoice to hear Christianity caricatured,
and to hear Christ assailed with bubble and
quirk and Misrepresentation and badinage
and harlequinade.
propose this morning TO take infidelity
and atheism out OF the realm of popularity
into one Of tragedy and show you what they
propose, and what if they are successful
they will accomplish. There are those i'm All
our communities who would like 10 see The
christian religion overthrow, and who saw
the world would be better without it, l want
10 show you what is the end of this road
and what Is the farminuq Of
and what this world will be when atheism
and lntdelty have triumphel over it. If they
can. say If they can. l reiterate it, II
they can.
In the first place. il win be the connlete
and unutterable degradation OF womanhood
VIII prove 1t by facts and arguments which
no honest man will dispute In all com
munitles and cities and states and nations
where the Christian religion has been domi-
nant, Womans condition has been ameIi-
GRATED and improved. and she is deferred to
and honored in thousand things, and every
gentleman takes Off his hat before her. III
your associations have been good YOU know
that the name of wife, mother daughter
suggest gracious surroundings You know
there are no better schools and ssminaries in
brooklyn or in any city of this country than
the schools and seminaries for young ladies'
You know that while woman may suffer in
justice in England and the United States,
she has more OF her rights in Christendom
than she has anywhere else
ANOWs toHlIdIe LUlS with WOInan'S COn0i-
ton in lands where Christianity has made
little or no advance-in China, in Barbary.
IN Eorneo, ia Tartary, in Egypt in Hindo-
stan. The Burmese sell their wives and
daughters as 50 many sheep. The II ndoo
Bible makes il disgracetul and an outrage
Tor woman TO listen to music or look out Of
the window in the absence OF her husband
and gives-as lawful ground for divorce a
womans beginning TO eat before her husband
has finished his meal What mean those
white bundles on the ponds and rivers
In China in the mornings Infantcide fol.
lowing infanticide. Female children de
stroyed simply because they are female
Woman harnessed to plow as an OK Wo-
man veiied and barricadetl, and in all STYLES
OF crue seclusion. Her birth misfortune
her life torture. Her death n horror
The missionary Of the cross to-day In
heathen lands breaches generally to two
they please and sit where they please:
the other group-women hidden and care.
July secluded in a side apartment where they
may near the voice OF the preacher but
may not De seen NO refinement. No Ito
erty No hope for this life No hope for the
NE 70 come. Hinged nose Cramped foot.
Dishgured face. Embruted soul. Now com
pare those two conditions How far toward
TINS latter condition that I spsal, Of world
woman 90 II Christian influences were with
drawn and Christianity were DESTROYED 10
- only question Of dynamics II an object
De hited 70 certain point and not fastened
shSIe, anu buo Auting power he Withdrawn.
now long before that object will fall down 70
the point from which IL startedi 10 VIII
Iail down, and II will go still further than
tne point from which II started Christian
ny mas litted woman up from the very depths
OF degradation almost to the skies IL that
liftng power be withdrawn she falls clear
back 70 the derth from which she was resur-
rectedi not going any lower because there is
no lower depth. And yet, notwithstanding
the TACT that the only salvation Of woman
from degradation and WOO is tho Christian
religion, and the only influence that has ever
Ltted her IN the social scale Is Chrisfiantv-
nave read that there are women who reject
Jhrstianity. 1 make no remark i'm regard
70 those persons / make no remark ina re-
Bard - them. In the silence Of your own
boul make your observations
III lnhdelity triumph and Christianity be
oVerthrown. 10 means the demora milton al
society. The one idea in the Bible that atho-
ISIS ana inhdels most hate Is the idea Of ret.
ubut1 on Take away tho f1ea ~ ratrifjr1.
Vol and punishment from society. aud IL
VIII begin very soon 20 disintaurata. and
take away from the minds q men the fear
oi neHf and there arc a great many Of them
VIC would very soon turn this world into
nell. Inc ma gritv Of those who ara iudf~-
nant gainst the Bible becausa of the idea of
punishment are men whose lives are bad or
Wnoae hearts are impure. and who hate tho
blOie because Of the idea Of future punish.
afent TOT the same reason Tint criminals hate
the penitentiary Oh, have heard This bravo
telk about people fearing uOfh'nZ of tho
consequences Of sin in the next world. and
haVo made up my mind it ig merely
2owafds wbistling % keep his courage up. 7