Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-05-14

lists and infdeis ladeE and MOCK, bit Id the
latter God himself will laugh and mock. He
says so. Il will laugh at their calamity and
mock when their fear cometh"
From such chasm of individual, national,
world wide ruin, stand back. Oh, young
men, stand back from that chasml You see
the 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 may not live to see
1t, but it will come, just as certainly as there
is a God it will come, when the infideIs and
the atheists who openly and out and out
and above board preach and practice in
fidelity and atheism will be considered as
criminals against society. as they are
now criminals against God Society
will push out the leper, and the wretch with
soul grangrened and ichorous and vermin
covered and rotting apart with his bestialisy,
will be left to die in the ditch, and be denied
decent burial, and men will come with
spades and cover up the carcass, where it
falls, that it poison not the air, and the only
text in all the Bible appropriate for the fun
eral sermon will be Jeremiah xxi, 10: He
shall be buried with the burial OF an ass"
A thousand voices come up to me this
morning. saying: 'Doi you really think in
fidelity will succeedi Has Christianity re
ceived its death blowi and will the Bible
become obsoleteF Yes, when tho 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; but only the clouds
rolled between the sun and the earth The
sun went right on. 1t is the same sun, the
same luminary as when at the beginning it
shot out like an electric spark from Gods
finger, and today it is warming the nations,
and today it is gliding the sea, and today
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 miles a
second, though its pulsaIions are four hun
dred and fifty trilliou 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 yell
low and the orange-the seveu beautiful
colors now Just as when the solar spectrum
first divided them
At the beginning God said: Let there be
light" and light was, and light is, and light
shall be- So Christianity is rolling on, and
il is going to warm all nations, and all ma
tions are to bask in its light. Men may
shut the window blinds so they cannot
see it, or they may smoke the pipe of specu-
lation until they are shadowed under their
own vaporing; but the Lord God is sunl
This white light of the Gospel made up of
all the beautiful colors of earth and heaven,
violet plucked from amid the spring
grass, and the indigo of the southern
jungles and the blue of the skies, and
the green Of the foliage, and the yellow of
the autumnal woods, and the orange of the
southern groves and the red Of the sunsets.
All the beauties of earth and heaven brought
out by this spiritual spectrum. Great Brit
ain is going to take all Europe for God NE
United States are going to take all America
for God Both OF them together will take all
Asia for God All three of them will take
Africa for God "Who art thou, oh great
mountaini before Zerubbabe thou shall be-
come plain" The mouth of the Lord hath
spoken IL. Hallelujah, ameni