The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-05-11

Inc majority of those who are indirn an
against the Bible becalise OF the idea OF nm
| lshment are men whose lives are bad O
%n0oe hearts are impure, and who hate tn
DUE because OF the idea of future punish
ment Tor the same reason that criminals hat
the penltentiary. Oh, have heard this BRAY
talk ABOUT people fearing nothing of the con
sequences of sin in the next world. and
nave made up nv mind it is merely a coward
Whlstllng 10 Keep his courage up | have
seen men faunt their immoralities in tn,
lace OF the community, and l have heard
them defy the Judgment Dav
and scott at the idea of any future future
consequence of their sin i but when the,
game to die they shrieked Until you could
near them for nearly two blocks. and in the
summer night the neIghbors got up to put
the windows down because they could not en-
dure the horror
=, would not want to see rail-tranwith FIVE
hundred Christian people on board go dowt
through drawbridge into a waterv grave,
Would not want to see five hundred Christian
people go into such disaster, but | tell Won
PLAINLY that could more easily see that than
could Tor any protracted time stand and
see an lnhdeI die, though his pillow were of
elderdown and under a canopy of vermilion.
nave never been able to brace up my nerves
| Tor such spectacle. There is something at
such time so indescribable in the counte-
nance just looked in upon it for a minute
or TWO, but the clutch of his fist was so dia-
Oollc' and the strength of voice was so un-
naturab | could not endure it. There is
no no nell, tnere is no hell, there is no bell p
the man had said for sixty wears hut tina
night when looked in the diving room of nv
lhndel nelghbor, there was something on his
countenance which seemed to say: t"Tbere
is, there is, there is, there is ~
Inc mIghtleSt restraints TO-DAY against
Ineit, against immortality, against ibertinism,
against crime Of all sorts-the mightiest re.
of
Men know that they can escape the law, but
uoWh IN the offenders soul there is the real
Eatlon OF the fact that they cannot escape
Uou: lie stands at the end of the road of
RE[onlgacy, and he will not clear the guilty.
1ake all idea of retrbuton and punishment
out of the hearts and minds of men. and
IL would not be long before Brook
lyn and New York and Boston
ana Charleston and Chicago became
t SouollN Inc only restraints against the evil
passions OF to-day are Bible restraints.
suppose now these generals of Atheism and
Inndellty got the victory, and suppose they
!nalsna.eu great army made up of the ma
!orlty OF the world. They are in companies.
IN regiments, in Brigades-the whole army,
Onward march We hosts of infdels and
sehels5S, banners tlying before, banners flying
behind, banners inscribed with the words:
mo God No Christ! No punishment! No
restraints! Down with the Bible! Do as
you pleaseW The sun turned into darkness,
Forward, march We great army of infdels
ana atheists And first of all you will attack
the churches. Away with those houses TO
Worship They have been standing there
80 long deludng the people with consolation
IN their bereavements and sorrows. All those |
churches ought to be extirpated; they have |
lOne so much to relieve the lost and brine |
nome the wandering. and they have so long |
lelo up the idea of eternal rest after the |
Daroxysm of this life is over. Turn the St.
Peters and St. Pauls and the temples and
aoernacles into club houses. Away with
hose churches!
Forward, march We great army of infdels
ma atheists, and next of all they scatter the
'aboath schoOls-Sabbath.s schools filled with
)rlght-eyed, bright.cheeked little ones who
ire singing songs on Sunday afternoon. and
[ettlng instruction when they ought to be on
he street corners playing marbles, or swear
ng on the commons. Away with them! For.
Vard, march! We great army of intidels and
Ltnelsts ana next OF all they will attack
hrlstlan asylums-the institutions of mercy
Imported by Christian phlanthropies
Never mind the blind eyes and the
eaI ears and the crinnled
limbs and the weakened intelIects. Let para
yea OLD age. pick up its own food, and Or
mans night their own way, and the half re-
Ormed go back to their evil habits. For
ard, march re great army of infdes and
tnelsts, ana with your battle-axes hew
own the cross and split UP the Manager of
bethlehem.
On, We great army of infidels and atheists.
nd now they come to the graveyards and the
Of the earth Pull down the
culpture above Greenwood's gate, for it
'eans the resurrection. Tear away at the
ntrance OF Laurel Hill the figure of Old
!ortality and the chisel On, We great army
lnnQels and atheists, into the gravcyards
nd the cemeteries; and where you see
Asleep In Jesus" cut it away. and where
q M 10 cfn IF
M where you find over little child's grave:
Snter little children to come unto me-" .
Institute the words ''delusion" and ''sham. :"
I'D where you find an angel in marble
rlke OFF the wing, and when you come to a
nily vault, chlsel on the door; Dead once,
lad forever"
But on, We great army of infidels and athe-
ts on They will attempt to scale heaven.
lere are heights to be taken. Pile hill on | J
II ana PeIion upon Ossa, ana then they 7
'ist the ladders against the walls of hea.
n. On and on until they blow I'D the
undation Of Jasper and the gates of pearl. l
ley charge up the steep Now they aim for I
G throne of Him who liveth forever and I
err Iher would take down from their high q
ace the Father, the Son. the Holy Ghost.
Down with themW they say. Down with '
i'm from the throne" they say. Down for !
er! Down out of sight! He Is not God. 1
? has no right to sit there. Down with
IN! Down with Christie
world without head, a universe without
King. Orphan consultations Fatherless
LAKES. Anarchy supreme. dethroned
hovah. An assassinsted God. Patricide o
riscide, decide. That is what they mean "
at is what they will have, if they can if l
ev can, If they can. Civilization hurled 5
ok into semi barharism. and semi -barbarism
wen back into Hottentot savagery The >.
leel of progress turned the other way and
'ned toward the dark ages The clock of v
: centuries put back two thousand wears IL
back you Sandwich Islands, from your
FOOLS and your colleges and from YOUR re.
med condition to what you were in 1920.
en- the m ssiOnaries first came. Call home /
i've hundred missionaries from India and
erthrow their two thousand schools, where I n
~ are trying to educate the heather. and !,
liter the one hundred and forty thousand =
lie children that they have gathered out OF a
rbarIsm into civilization. Obliterate all q
work Of D. Dntf in India, Of David ."
eel in China, OF DR.. King in Greece. OF n
1son in BuImah. Of David Brainard amid / a
American aborigines and send home the :,
ee thousand missionaries of the cross who D
tollIng IN foreign lands, lOiinc tor 81
-isrS sake, toilIug themselves into the Ia
We. leIl these three thousand men Of God o,
I they are Of no use. Send home the \
deal missionaries who are doctoring !,
bcdies SIS well as the souls OF the IL
ne nations. Go home, London Mis- a