The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-14

lily vault, chisel on the door; dead once
dead forever"
But on, ye great army Of inGdes and
atheists, onl They will attempt to scale
heaven. There are nights to be taken.
Pile hill on hill and Pclion upon 0ssa, 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,
the Son, the Holy Ghost. down with
theml" they say. "Down with him from
the thronel" they say. "Down forever
Down out Of sight lie is not God. lie
has no right TO sit there. Down with him!
Down with Christi"
A world without q head universe
without king. Orphaned consultations
Fatheress galaNics, Anarchy supreme.
A deihroncd Jehovah. An assassinated
God. ratricidc, regicide, delcidc. That
is what they mean. That is what they
will have, II they can, II they can, II they
can. Civilization hurled back Into semi
barbarism, aud standardization driven
back into llottentot sayagcry. The wheel
of progress turned the other way and
turned toward the dark ages. The clock
OF the centuries put back 1000 years. Go
back, you Sandwich islands, from your
schools and from your colleges, and from
your reformed condition TO what you were
in 1890, when the missionaries first canr.
Call home the 500 missionaries from India
and overthrow their 1900 schools, where
they are trying 10 educate the heather,
and scatter the li0,0 little children that
they have gathered out OF barbarsm into
civilization. Oblitcratc all the work OF
DIR. Duff In India, OF David Abcel In
China, OF DIR. King In Greece, OF Judson
in Burmah. OF David Brainard amid the
American aborigncs, and send homo the
5000 missionaries OF the cross who are
toiling in foreign lands, tolling for Christ's
sake, toiling themselves into the grave.
Tell these 5000 men OF God that they are
Of no Use. Send home the medical mis-
sionarios who are doctoring the bodies ~
well as tho souls OF the dying nations. Go
home, London Missionary society; 20
home American board Of foreign missions;
20 home, yo Momvians, and relinquish
back into darkness and squalor and filth
aud death the nations whom yo have boz
gun 10 liit
Oh, my friends, there has never been
such nciarious plot on earth as that which
/ infidclity aud atheism have planned. We
were shocked few years ago because Of
| the attempt to blow mp the Parliament
| houses In London; hut II inhdelity and
| atheism succeed in their attempt, they
will dynamite world. Let them have
| thew Gull way, and this world will be a
| hahitation OF three rooms-a habitation
! with Just three rooms: the one n madhouEo,
! another laznrctto, the other pandemo.
MUM. These iniidcl bands pf music have
only lust begun their concert yea, they
have only been strlnging their insiru-
mcnts. l today put before you their
! whole program from beginning unto close.
In the thcatcr the tragedy comes first ant
the farce aitcrward; but In uliA inhdo
| drama ot death th- i4Nc comes first an,
the tragedy aitcrward. Aud IN the iurno
atheists and inildels laugh and mock, bu
, in The latter God himself will laugh an
mock. lie snys 40. n viii laugh nc thci
calamity and mock when their fea
comcth.'
From such ohasm Of individual, M
tiOnal, worldwide ruin, stand back. Oh
Young men, stand back FROM tho chasml
You see the practical DRIFT Of my sermon,
want YOU 10 know where that rond leads.
Stand back from that chasm Of ruin. Tho
time " going to come tyou and | may not
live 90 sco IL, but Il viii come, Just as Ger.
tainly M there IL God, II will comc)
when the infldls and the atheists who
openly and out and above board ITcach
and practice iniidrlity aud atheism will be-
considered ~ criminals against society, M
they arc now nguinst God Society will
push out the lcpcr, and the wretch
| with soul gangrcncd and ichor-
orous aud vcfmin.coycrcd and rot
ting apart with his bcstiality, will be
left 10 die in the ditch and be denied do.
cent burial, and men will come with
spades and cover up the carcass whore u
falls that u poison moi. the air, and the
only text In al the Bible appropriate for
the funeral sermon will bc jeremiah xxi.
No. "llc shall be buried with the burial
OF an ass"
A thousand voices come up 10 me this
morning. saving "Do YOU really think
inRdclity will succcod? Has Christianity
received ~ death blow, and will the Bible
| become obsolotc?' Yes, when the smoke
of the city chimney arrests and destroys
the MONDAY sun. Joscphus SAYS about
the time oi the destruction of Jerusalem
the sun WIS turned into darkness; but
only the clouds rolled between the sun
| and the earth. The sun vent right On.
| II is the nmc sun, the same luminary ~
when at tho beginning IL shot out like an
electric spark from Gods finger, and tD.
day Il IL warming the nations. aud today
/ Il Il gliding the sea, and TO-DAY Il n filling
the earth with light. The same old sun,
not at all worn ont, though its light
steps 100. .OO0. 900 miles second; though
is pulsations are 10000, 900, ! ,OOO,O 600 un.
dulations In q second. Same sun with
beautiful white light, made up Of the
| violet aud the indigo and the bluc'nnd the
green aud tho rcd and the yellow aud
the orange-thc seven beautiful colOrs
now just a. when the solar spectrum ilni
divided them.
At the beginning God said, "Lct there
be- light" aud light was, and light Is,
and light shall be. 30 Christianity
Ia rolling ON, md Il u going 10
warm all nations, and all nations arc 10
bask In is light. Men may shut the
window blinds 70 they cannot SEQ u, OF
they may smoke the pipe Of speculation
until they are shndowcd under their own
vaporng; but the Lord God II n sun. This
| white lipht 0i the gospel made up OF all
the beautiful colors Oi earth and heaven
violet plucked from amid the spring grass,
and the indigo Of the southern Iunglcs,
and the blue OF the skies, and the green
Of the foliage, aud the yellow oi the
autumnal woods, aud the orange OF the
southern groves. and the red Of the sun
sets. All the beauties Of earth aud heaven
brought out by this spiritual spectrum.
Great Britain u going 10 take all Europe
for God. The United States are going 10
Inkn nm Amnrirn Tor God. 10th Of ihem