The Forrest City times., 1888-05-19

straints are the retributions of eternity. Men know that they eau escape the law, but down in the offenders soul there is the real ization of the fact that they cannot escape God. He stands al the end Of the road of prohigacy, aud He will not clear the guilty. Take sll idea of retribution and punishment out Of the hearts aud minds ot men, and 1t would not be long before Brook bn. and New York and Boston and Charleston and Chicago became sodoms The only restraints against the evil passions Of to-day are B be restraints.
 Suppose now these generals Of Atheism and lnhdelity got tue victory, aud suppose they marshalled's great army made up Of the ma joriy of the world. They are in companies, in regiments, In Brigades the whole army. Forward, march ye hosts Of infdels and atheists, banners I ing before, banners flying behind, banners Inscfibei with the words: 'No Godl No Christi No punishment No restralntsl Down with the Bible Do as Jou plcasew The sun turned into darkness
 Forward, march ye great army of inidels and atheists. And first of all you will attack the churches. Away with those houses To worshipl They have been standing there so long deluding the people with consolation fin their bcreavemenis and sorrows. All those churches ought to be extirpated; 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 psrox, sm of this life Is over. Turn the St Peters and St. Pauls and the temples and isbernacles Into cub houses. Away with those churchesl
 Forward, march ye great army of infldels and atheists and next of all they scatter the Sabbath. h.schools--Sabbath schools filled with bright-eyed, bright checked ittls ones who arc singing songs on Sunday afternoon, and getting instruction when they ought to be on the street corners playing marbles, or swear ing on the commons. Away with theml For ward, marchl ye great army Of inhdeis and atheists, and next Of all they will attacS christian asyiums-the Institutions of mercs supported by Christian phlauthroples Never mind the bind eyes and the deaf ears and inc crippled limbs and the weakened inteiects Let para hzed old age pick up It's own food, and or pllans fight their own way, and the hall re- formed go back to their evil habits. For ward, march ye great army of inndels aud athelss and with your battle-axes hew. down the cross and split up the manager of Bethlehem.
 On, ye great army of infiels and atheists, and now they come to the graveyards and the cemeteries of the earth Pull down the sculpture above Green9oods gate. for it means the resurrcct on Tear nway at thd entrance of Laurel II Il the figure Of Oid Mortality and Inc ehiseL On. yc great army of intuels and atheists, Into the graveyards and the cemeteries; and where you sec "Aslecp in Jesus" cut it awnv. and whers you lind marble story of heaven, blast it, and where you find over little child's grave: Suffer little children to come unto me,n substitute the words "Lelusionn and 'sham," and where you find an angel in marble. strike of the wing, and when you come to family vault, chisel on the door: Dead once, dead forever"
 But on, ye great army of inndels and athe. fists, onl They will attempt to scale heaven. There are heights to be taken. Pile hill on hill and Pelion upon 0ssa, and then they hoist the ladders against the walls of hea- ven. Ca and on until they blow up the foundation of ia per and tue gales Of pearl. They charge up the steep. Now they aim Tor the throne of Hun who llveth forever and ever. The would take down from their high place the Father. the Son, the Holy Ghost. Down with themi" they say. Down with Him from the throneii they say. Down for everl Down out of sight, He Is not God. He has TO right 10 sit there. Down with Himi Down with Christ l'
 world without head, q universe without a king. Orphan cancellations Falherless galaxes. Anarchy supreme. A delhroned Jehovah. An assassinaied God Patric'de regiscIde, decde. That is what they mean. That is what they will have, if thcY can. II they can, If the can. Civilization hurled back into semi -barbar sm. and sent barbarian driven back into Hotientot savagery. The wheel of progress turned the other way anl turned toward inc dark ages The clock of the centuries rut back two thousand years. nO nHCN, NON ChhuNlfU Iflthu-, HUH AoW schools and ,our colleges and from your re formed condition to what tou were in iS2o, when he m ssionaries first came. Call homo the five hundred miss onarles from luda and overthrow their two thousand schools, where they are trying to educate inc heatheu, and scatter the one hundred and forty thousand little children that thev have gathered out oI barbarsm into civil ion Obiterate al the work of Dr. Dnff in India, of Davld Abeei in Chino, Of Dr. King in Greece, oi Judson In Burmah. of Day q Brainard amid the American ahorlgiues, and send home the three thousand missionaries of the cross who are ioilng in fore gn lands, toiing for Christ's sake, toling themselves into the grave. Tell these three thousand men of God that they are of no use. Send home inc medical missionaries who are dOctorina the bodies as well as tho souls of the dying nations. Go home, London Mis- sionary Society. Go home Americar Board of Foreign Missions. Go home, ye Moravians, and relinquish back into darkness and squalor and filth and death the nations whom ye have begun 10 lift.
 Oh, my friends, there has never been such a nefarious plot on earth as that which Inf dellty 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 lniidelity and Atheism sue ceed in their attempt, thcs will dynamite world Let them have their full way, and this world will be habilaiinn Of three rooms "a habitation with just three rooms; the cue a mad house another a laz1rctto ibe other pandemon um. These ntle. nanls of music have only just begun their concert-yea, they have only been siringng the.r instruments l today put before you their whole pro gramme from beginning unto cluse. In the theatre the tragedy comes first an the farce afterward: but in this in!ilel drama of death the farce comes first and the tragedy after ward And In the former atheists and inf. dels laugh and mock, but fn the latter God Himself will laugh an'l mock. He says SO. 'I will laugh at their calamity and mock when their fear cometh.
 From such chasm Of individual national, world-N ide ruin, stands back. Oh, young men, stand back from that chasm You see inc practical drift Of my sermon. want you to know where that road leads. Stand back from that chasm Of ruin. The time Is going to come (you and l may not live To see tt, but it will come, just certainly as there Is God, it will eome) when the infides and the atheists who openly and out and out and above board preach and practice lnhdel- fly ond Atheism will be considered as erimi- nals against society, as they are now criml- nals against God. Society win push out the leper, and the wretch with soul gran grened and ichorous and yermin-c0vcred and rotting apart with his bestislitY, " Il be left 10 die in the ditch, and be denied decent burial, and men will come with spades and cover up he carcass where It falls, that it poison not the air, aud the only text in all the Bible apJropriaie for the funeral sermon will be Jeremiah xxil, l9: He shall be buried with the burial of an ass
 A thousand voices come up 10 me this morning saying Do you really think in fidelity will succeed Has Christianity re. eeived its death blow and will the Bible become obsolete fP Yes, when the smoke of The city chimney arrests and destroys the monday sun. Josephus says about the time of the destruction of Jerusalem the sun was turned into darkness tut only the clouds rolled between the sun and the earth. The sun went right on. lt is the stme sun, The same luminary as when at the b,ginniug lt shot out like an electric spark from Gods finger, and to day it is warming the nations, and today 1t Is gliding the sen. ani to-day it is filling the earth with light. The same old sun, not at all worn out though its light steps one hundred and ninety million mics a second, though its pulsatlons are four hun dred and fifty trillion undulations in a sec ond. Same sun with beautiful white light made up of the violet and the indigo and the blue and the green and the red and the vel low and the orange-the seven beautiful colors now just as then the solar spectrum first divided them.
 At the beginning God said Let there be light" aud light was and light is, and tiOht ehalt he Sn ClFSffNnitg "a