The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-05-23

the sun, and these are cooling down and
going out until the vast continents OF flame
are reduced to a small acreage OF fire, and
that whitens and cools OF until there are
only a few Goals LETT, and these are whiten-
ing and going out until there is not spark
LEFT in all the mountains OF ashes and the
valleys OF ashes and the chasms Of ashes.
An extinguished sun; dead sun buried
sun. Let all worlds wall at the stupen-
dous obsequies.
OF course, this withdrawal of the solar
light and heat throws our earth into
universal chill, and the tropics become
the temperate and the temperate becomes
The arctic, and there are frozen rivers and
frozen lakes and frozen oceans.
From arctic and antarctic regions the in
habitants gather in toward the center and
find the equator rs the poles. The slain
forests are piled up intOa great bonfire,
and around them gather the shivering
Villages and cities. The wealth of the
coal mines IS hastily poured into the fur
naces and stirred into rage OF combustion.
but soon the bonfires begin 10 lower, and
the furnaces begin 10 go out, and the ma
tons begin to die. COtopaxi, Vesuvius,
Etna, Stromboli, Californian oevsers.
cease to smoke, and the ice OF haii-storms
remains unmelted in their craters. All
the flowers have breathed their last
breath. Ships with sailors frozen at the
mast and helmSmen frozen at the wheel
and passengers frozen IL the cabin; all ma
tons dying, first at the north and then at
the south. Child frosted and died in the
cradle. 0ctogenarian frosted and dead at
the hearth. Workmen with frozen hand
ha
shuttle Winter IRON sea to sea. ALI
rongealing winter. Perpetual winter.
Globe OF trigiditv. Hemisphere shackled
10 hemisphere BY chains OF ice. Univer-
cal Nova Zembla. The earth and ice-floe
grinding against other ice-foes The arch
angels of malice and horror have done
their work, and now they may take their
thrones OF glacier and look down upon the
ruin they have wrought.
What the destruction of the sun in the
natural heavens would be to our physical
earth, the destruction Of Christianity
would be to the moral world The sun
turned into darkness. Infidelity in our
lime is considered a great joke. There are
people who rejoice to hear Christianity
IaTlcatured, and to hear Christ assaiied
with bubble and quirk and misrepresen-
sation and badinage and harlequinade
propose this morning to take infdelity
and atheism out OF the realm of popularity
into one OF tragedy, and show you what
khey propose and what, ii they are sue
cessful. they will accomplish. There are
those in all our communities who would like
10 see the Christian religion overthrow,
and who say the world would be better with
out it. l want to show you what is the
end of this road, and what is the termi-
nus of this crusade, and what this world
will be when atheism and inhdelity have
triumphed over it, ii they can. say, if
they can. / reiterate il, ii they can.
In the first place it will be the complete
and unutterable degradation of woman
hood. will prove it by facts and argu-
ments which no honest man will dispute
In all communities and cities and states
and nations where the Christian religion
has been dominant. woman's condition
has been ameliorated and improved, and
she is deferred to and honored in a thous-
and things, and every gentleman takes off
his hat before her. Ii your associations
have been good, you know that the name
OF wife, mother, daughter, suggests gracious
surroundings. You know there are no
better schools and seminaries in Brooklyn
or in any city of this country than the
schools and seminaries for our young
ladies'. You know that while woman NAV
EuUtf III usltCc IL LII Eidllt anu TIC Culltt
States, she has more of her rights in
Christendom than she has anywhere else.
Vow, compare this with woman's con-
dition in lands where Christianity has
made little or no advance-in China, in
Barbara. in Borneo, in Tartary, in Egypt,
In Hindostan. The Burmese sell their
wives and daughters as so many sheep.
The Hindoo bible makes it disgraceful and
an outrage for woman to listen to music
or look out OF the window IN the absence
OF her husband, and gives as a lawful
ground for divorce woman's beginning
TO eat before her husband has fin
ished his meal What mean
those white bundles on the
penis and rivers in China in the morning?
1nfanticide following infanticide. Female
children destroyed simply because they
arefemale. Woman harnessed 10 a pillow
n an OK Woman yelled and baTricaded,
and in all styles OF cruel seclusion. Her
birth misfortune. Her life a torture.
Her death horror. The missionary of
the cross to-day in the heather lands