The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-05-24

1nent Tor tile same reason That CRIMINALS nate
the penitentiary. Oh. I have heard this
the consequences of sin In the next world,
and I have made up my mind It Is merely .
coward s.whistling to keep his conr 'ge up.
I have seen men fiaunt their lMmorIalitIes
in the face of the community, and l haze
heard them defy the Judgment day and s.
at the idea of any future consequence vi
their sin; but when they came to die they
shrieked until you could lear them for near
ly two blocks. and in the suMmer night the
neighbors got up to put tho windows Gown
because they could not endure the horror.
/ would not want to see a rail train with
theft, against immortality, against Hbertin.
ism, against crime of all sorts--the mighttest
restraints are the re tributions Of eternity.
Men know that they 6 IN escape tue law, but
down In the offenders soul there tsthc reall-
cation Of the fact That they cannot escape
God. He stands ar the end of the road
OF profigacy, and He will not clear
the guilty. Take all idea of retribution and
punishm ents out of the hearts and minds of
men, and it would not be long before Br' OK
lyn and New York and Bcs:ol and thar.es-
ton and Chicago became Sodoms. The only
restraints against tie evil passions Of the
world to-day are the Bible restraints.
Suppose now these generals Of atheism and
infidelity got the victory, and SUPP o'e they
marshaled a great army made up Of the ma
iority of the world. They are in companies,
IN regiments, In brigadcs-tile whole army.
Forward, march! We hosts of inidels and
atheists, banners flying before, banners fly
ing behind, banners inscribed with the words:
mo Godl No Christ! No punishmentl No
restraints! Down with the Bible! DO as you
please % The sun turned into darkness.
Forward, marchl ye great army of inf:
dels and atheists. And first of all you will
attack the, churches. Away with those
houses Of worship! They have baen stand
ing there so long deluding the people with
rows. All those churches ought to be
tirpated; they have done 80 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 the tabernacles into the club
houses. Away with those churches!
Forward, march! ye great army OF infidels
an atheists, and next of all they scatter the
Sabbath schools-the Sabbath schools filled
with bright-eyed, bright-cheeked little one
who are singing songs on Sunday atterno,..'
and getting instruction when they ought to
be on the street corners playing marbles, or
swearing on the commons: Away with
theml ye great army Of infidels and atheists;
and next Of all they will attack Christian
asylums-the institutions of mercy support.
ed by Christian philanthropies. Never mind
the blind eyes and the deaf ears and the
crippled limbs and the weakened intellects.
Let paralyzed old age pick up its own food,
ana orphans fight their W way, and the
half reformed 60 back to their evil habits.
Forward, march! ye great army of infidels
and atheists, and with your battle-aNes heW
down the cross and spit up the manager Of
Bethlehem. .
On, ye great army Of infde's and atheists!
and now they come to the grave.yards and
the cemeteries Of the earth. Pull down the
sculpture above 'Greenwood's gate, for 1t
means the resurrection, Tear away at the
entrance of Laurel Hill the figure of Old
Mortality and the chisel On, We great army
OF intidels and atheists, into the grayeyards
and the cemeteries; and where you see
"Asleep in jesus cut it way, and where
you find a marble story Of heaven blast it,
and where you find over little chlld's grave;
"Sufer little children to come unto Me-
substitute the words "delusion" and 'sham,"
and where you find an angel in marble
strike off the wing. and when you come to u
family vault chisel on the door: 'Dead cnse,
dead forever"
But on! ye great army Of inddes and
hsas1sa' II There ear are heights n'' to be- taken.
Pile hill OH 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 tho throne of Him who livcth
from their high place, tho Father, the Son,
the Holy Chest. ''Dewlf with themfPa. they
say. 1'Down with Him from the throne p
they say. .5"Down forever! Down out of
sight! He is not God. He has no right
to sit there. Down with b. Him ~ Down with
A world without a head "a universe with
ont q kiro- ornhon Sonefn1Totion fafharlos GO
ga!axies-anarchy supreme-a ,dethrOned
Jchovah--an as sassinatsd God-parricide,-
~regicide, decide! That is what they mean.
That is what they will have if they can-if
they can--if: they can. Civilization hurled
back into semi-barDarism, and semi-barbar.
ism driven back into Hottentot savagery
The wheel of progress turned the other way
and turned toward the dark ages. The clock
of centuries put back two thousand years.
Go back, you Sandwich Islands, from your
schools and from your colleges. and from
your reformed condition to what you werei in
1890, when the missionarits frst came. Call
no ne the five hundred missionaries from
India aud overthrow their Two thousand
schoo ., where they a:e trying to educate
the hea' hen,~ and scatter the IA 200 little
children that they have gathered out of
barDarism into. civilization. OF ~literate all
the work Of DR.. Duff in India, of David
Abeel in China, Dr.@Klng IN Greece. OF
Judscn in Burmah, of David Brainard amid
the American Aborigines, M send home
the three thonsand m1 ssionaries of The cross
v'ho are toll ng ii fo:eign.iands, toiling for
Cnrist's sake, toillng themselves into the
grave. Tell these three thousand men of
God that they are OF no use. Send home
the medical missionaries who are doctoring
the bodies as we'll as the souls of the dying
nations. 20 home, London Mis- ionary So
| ciety. Go home, American Board of For
oirn MSSslouS CO homo va MnravianS onfi
rellnquish back into darkness n squalor
and filth and death the nations whom ye
| have begun to lift. 49, =
Oh, my friends, there has never been such
q nefariOus plot on earth as that which in
fidelity and atheism, have planned. We
attempt to blow up the parliament house in
London; but il iniiGelity and atheism sue
coed in their attempt they will dynamite a
world. Let them have their full sway and
this world will be q habitatioa OF three
rooms-a habitation with just three rooms
the one a madhouse, another a lazaretto. the
other a pande monium. The infdel bands
yea, they have only been stringing their
Instruments. To-day put before you their
| whole programme from beginning unto
! close. In the theatre the tragedy comes
first and the farce afterward, but in this in
fidei drama Of death the farce ome first
I ana 1he Tragedy aIVeEWaTus NAnu IL tnS
former atheists q id intid els laugh and mock,
but in the latter God Himself will laugh
and mock. He says 50. ~ will laugh al
their calamity and mock when their feal
cometh.'' ~ 9 49, -. 4s tn )
From such a chasm of individual, national
worldwide ruin stand back. Oh. y0uns
men, stand back from that chasm! You sec
the practical drift Of my sermon. i want
you to know where that road leads. Stand
back from that chasm of ruin The time II
going to come (you and l may not live to see
It, but it will come, just as certainly as there
is God, it will coIne) when the infidels and
atheists who openly and out and out anl