Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-31
IMAGES SERMON.
BROOKLYN Divine Discusses the
Dangers Of Infdelity and
Modern Atheism.
xvnrrs Doubling Thosnases Co
sake on All Fears and Grid
sne s.aspeI Armor On.

warns Dousting Thosnnses TO
ssske on All Fears and Grid
tne Gospel Armor On.
i T.,mage's subject on the 18th, was
ss.,,rs,;on,s and bis tex:
i sna shaiI be turned into daEkness.-Acts ii,
4 said:
Es.F eclipse is here prophestied TO take
.hout the time Of the destruction of
Il Jerusalem. Iosepbus, the historian,
RAJ the prophecy was literally fulfilled,
.h.t about thai time there were strange
.rsnees IN the heavens. The sun was
,e.,royed, but for little while hidden.
ks;ssianity Is the rising sun of our time,
r,.n have tried with the uprolling yapors
s,,ieism and the smoke of their BIAS
. 10 turn the sun into darkness. Sup
tse srchsngels Of malice and horror
Il let loose little while and be allow-
!. sx,inruish and destroy the sun in the
Isl heavens They would take the
g rom other worlds and pour them on
luminary Of the planetary system, and
wsters 60 Kissing down amid the rayines
- rayerns and there Is explosion after
.s,oa until there are only a few peaks Of
En- in the sun, and these are cooling
.nI roIpg out until the vast continents
ne are seiuced 10 small acreage Of
Ysrd mat whitens and cools off until
z are only few Goals left, and these are
fssins and going out until there Is not a
{ jeff in ali Che mountains of ashes aud
f.sI,xs of ashes and the ehasms OF ashes.
s~f,nyuished sun; a dead sun; buried
lei ali worlds wall at the siupendops
luies
ami heat throws our earth into uni
n chill, and She tropics became the tenn
~ md the temperate becomes the are.
ma there are frozen rivers and frozen
1 sna frozen oceans. From arctic and
Fsfs regions the inhabitants gather in
IN The center and find the equator as
EsaleS The slain forests are piled up in.
srr,t bonfire. and around them gather
ibirering villages and cities. The wealth
ooai mines Is hastily poured into the
sess and stirred into rage OF combustion,
snns he bonfires begin TO lower, and the
|secf begin TO go out and the nations be-
s. dc. Cotopaxi, Yesuyfus, Etna, Strom-
CaIifornisn geysers, cease TO smoke,
|lhs Re Of bail-siorms remains unmelted
|,fir efster. All the flowers have breath
<iheif last breath. ShiEs with sailors
n A.. hNlf1 "a
kheel and passengers frozen in the
!; al nations dying, first at the north
Ikher At the south. Child frosted and
NJ the cradle. octogenarian frosted
<Seyi al the hearth. Workmen with
Is hsud on tire hammer and frozen foot
Il shaNle. Winter from sea to sea. ALL
Ealing winter. Perpetual winter
e Of trigiStiy- Hemisphere shaekled 10
epsere by chains Of ice. Universal
! zsmbis. The earth and ice-foe grind
rsipst other ice-foes. The srchangles
Alice snd horror have done their work.
now they may take their thrones OF
er aad laok down upon the ruin they
wruugtit.
bat the destruction of the sun In the
81 beavers would be to our physical
Inc destruction Of Christianity would
! fhr moral wer.d. The sun turned into
hes. infdelitE in our time is consider.
efsst joke. There ale people who re-
10 hear Christianity taricatured. and
ear Christ sssa led with bubble and
end misrepresentation and badinage
srleauiaade.
oyose this morning 70 take infidelity
,heism ont Of the realm OF jocularity
Ne Of tragedy, and show you what they
zs ard what, IL tney are successful.
will accomplish. There are those in
d communities who would ike. 10 see
Xhtsstixn religion oyerthrowr. and who
e world would be better without 1t.
! TO show you what is the end Of tits
and what Is the terminus of thi,
be. and what thi. world will be when
m and in6deliiy have iriumphed over
5hey can. say, if they can. l yeiter-
i they can.
he first place, nc will be The complete
nutersble degraostion Of woman rood.
prove 1t by facts and arguments which
pest msn will dispute. In all cOmmun-
IND cities and states and nations where
hrisilan rel Il n has been dominant,
ms condition has been smeliorated and
Fesi, and she is deferred TO and honor
Is tsessand Things. and every gentle
ks Of his hat before her. Ii your as
ons lave been good, You know that
tsme Of W fe. mother, daughter, srcge t
Us sssJoandings. You know there are
fster schools and semnaries in BROOKLYN
jSss city OF this courtiy than The schools
tminaries for our Young ladies. You
that while woman may eriniustice
gland and the United Stxes, she has
u her rights in Chnstendom than she
sywbere elss.
iznds where Christianity has made
pr ~ adyaEce-in China. in Barbary,
nee, IN Tsrtary, in Egyp;. in Hindo-
The Burmese sell their wives and
res IS 50 many sheep. The Hindoo
makes II disgraeeftil and an outrage
homaa to listen to music or look out OF
tDdow IN the absence OF her husband,
ises ss lawful ground for divorce a
ps beginning to eat before her husband
ini-hed his meal. What mean those
bundles on the ponds and rivers in
N the moln'ngs mfaniicide follow
faniieide. Femais children DESTROYED
because they are ieanale. Woman
PED 70 plow as an OK Woman yelled
trSssded, aud ia all strles of cruel
tcn- Der birth q misfortune. Her
tsIture- Her death horror, The
Fsry OF the cross to-daY in beYtheu
breaches generally TO two gnoups--a
leg men who do as they please and sit
they please; the other group women
and carefully SECLUDED in side
heni, where they NAV hear the voice
preacher, but may not be seen. No
pent No liberty. No hope for this
pc hope for the life 10 come. Hinged
Cfanlped foot. Disfigiired f.ce. En-
soul Now compare those two condi-
how far toward this latter condition
Epcak Of would woman 20 IL Christian
- were Withdrawn and Christianity
sessioyeds IL Is only question Of
es IL an object he lifted TO certain
end not fastened theie, and the lifting
ne Wlihdrawn. hoS long before that
VIII ish d0ws % the point from which
60. will fall down, and IL will go
fther Than the point from which It
carisnanity has lifted woman I'D
~ very depth Of degradation almost
'sS III that lifting power be with
sle iaiis clear back 10 the depth from
IN vas resurrected, but not going
e. because tslefe Is 10 lower depth.
Notwithstanding the fIet that the
isstion 81 woman fIom degradation
e is tie Christian religion, aud the
uuence That has ever lifted her in the
;sie Is Chris ianity-I have read that
Re women who reject Christianity. /
y rehlaF4 in regsrd to those persons.
% remark in regard to them, In the
Of year own soul make your observa-
haelity triumph and Christianity be
'wn II means the decentralization Of
I've enc idea in the Bible that
ana inhdels most hs e. Is the idea OF
ven, Take away the idea of retri-
ana punishment ir5m society and
sglp very soon to disintagrate and
! ON the minds of men the fear
anu thefe are great manv of them
Hd very soon turn this world into
ne majority Of those who are ludig.
alnst tue Bible because of the idea OF
nehs are men whose lives are bad or
;. ssf's are impure, and who hate the
81 aase oil the idea OF future pu Irish.
u me sane reason that criminals hate
f,,eh'iary. Oh, have heard this
81 ~ soout people fearing nothing OF
faenees Of sin in the next world,
Il - made up nv mind IL is merely
wnssuthg to keep his courage up.
zen men haunt their MUNICIPALITIES
80 Of The eommui ity, and | have
an aely the judgment day and scoff
W o. any future consequence OF
W when they came TO die they
y 4.