The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-06-14


there. Down with Him! Down with
Christv
world without head, universe with
out King. Orphan consultations. Fa-
therless galaxies. Anarchy supreme. A
dethroned Jehovah. An assassinated
God. Patricide, 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 bar
barism, and semi barbarism driven back
into Hottentot savagery. The wheel OF
progress turned the other way, and turned
toward the dark ages. The clock of the
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 were
in 1920, when the missionaries first came.
Call home the five hundred missionaries
from India and overthrow their two thou
sand schools, where they ar e trying to
educate the heather, and scatter the
one hundred and forty thousand
little children that they have gathered out
of barbarism into civilization. Obliterate
all the work of DIR. Duff in India, of
David Abeel in China, of DIR. King in
Greece, of Judson in Burmah, of David
and send home the three thousand mis-
sionaries of the cross who are toiling in
foreign lands, toiling for Christ's sake,
toiling 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 well as the souls of the dy-
ing nations. Go home, London Missionary
- Of
Foreign Missions. Go home, We Mora
and squalor, and filth, and death the ma
tions whom We have begun to lift.
Oh, my friends, there has never been
such a nefar1ous plot on earth as that
which infdelity and atheism have
planned. We were shocked few years
ago because of the attempt to blow up the
Parliament houses in London; but if in
fidelity and atheism succeed in their at
tempt, they will dynamite the world. Let
them have their full sway, and this world
will be a habitation of three rooms-a
habitation with just three rooms; the one
mad-house, another lazaretto, the
other a pandemonium. These infdel
bands of music have only just begun
their concert-yea, they have only been
before you their whole programme, from
beginning unto close. In the theater the
tragedy comes first and the farce after
ward, but in this infdel drama of death
the farce comes first and the tragedy after
ward. And in the former atheists and
infidels laugh and mock, but in the latter
God himself will laugh and mock. He
says SO.
Of hair oil unit md han,
their fear cometh.
From such a cnasm of individual,
national, worldwide ruin, stand back. Oh,
Young men, stand back from that chasm!
You see the practical drift of my sermon.
l want you to know where that road leads.
Stand back from that chasm of ruin. The
time is going to come (you and l may not
live to see it, but it will come, Just as GER
tainly as there is God, it will come)
when the infidels and the atheists who
openly and out and out and above board
preach and practice infdelity 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 gangrened and
1chorous and vermin covered and rotting
apart with his bestiality, will be left to
die in the ditch and be denied decent
burial, and men will come with s1Wdes
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
funeral sermon will be jeremiah xii, 10:
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass.
A thousand voices come up to me this
morning saying: "Do you really think in
fidelity will succeed? Has Christianity
rprpjupd re h !, ID III
become obsolete?" Yes, when the smoke
OF the 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 lumina-
ry as when at the beginning it shot
out like an electric spark from Gods
finger, and to-day it is warming the ma
tions, and to-day it is gliding the sea,
and to-day it is filling the earth with
light. The same old man, not all worn
out, though it's light steps one hundred and
ninety million miles second, though its
pulsations are four hundred and fifty trill-
ion undulations in second. Same sun
with beautiful white light, made up of tn
fAoiOo shu the Dluo duu Tie
green and the yellow and the orange-the
seven 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, an
light shall be. So Christianity is rolling
on, and it is going to warm all nations,
and all nations are to bask in its light.
Men may shut the window blinds so they
can not see it, or they may smoke the pipe
of speculation until they are Swallowed
under their own vaporing; but the Lord
God is sun! This white light of the Cos
pei, 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 Britain is going to take
all Europe for God. The 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