The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-05-25

silence or your own soul make your Ob-
servations.
IF infidelity triumph and Christianity be
overthrown, it means the decentralization
of society. The one idea in the Bible that
atheists and lnhdels most hate, is the idea
of retribution. Take away the idea
of retribution and punishment from
society, and it will begin very soon
to disntegrate; and take away from the
minds of men the fear of hell, and there
are great many of them who would very
soon turn this world into hell. The ma
jority of those who are indignant against
the Bible because of the idea of punish
ment are men whose lives are bad or whose
hearts are impure, and who hate the Bible
because of the idea of future punishment
for the same reason that criminals hate
the penitentiary. Oh, have heard this
brave talk about people fearing nothing
of the consequences of sin in the next
world, and have made up my mind it is
merely a towards whistling to keep his
courage up. have seen men flaunt their
immoralities in the face of the communi-
ty, and have heard them defy the judg-
ment day and scoff at the idea of any fut-
ure consequence of their sin; but when
they came to die they shrieked until you
could hear them for nearly two blocks,
and in the summer night the neighbors
got up to put the windows down because
they could not endure the horror.
would not want to see rail train with
five hundred Christian people on board go
down through draw bridge into watery
grave. l would not want to see five hum
dred Christian people go into such disas-
ter but l tell you plainly that 1 could
more easily see that than l could for any
protracted time stand and see an infdel
| die, though his pillow we're of elder down
| and under a canopy of vermilion. / have
| never been able to brace up my nerves for
such a spectacle. There is something at
| such a time so indescribable in the cOun-
| tenance. / just looked in upon it for a
minute or two, but the clutch of his fist
was so diabolic, and the strength of voice
was so unnatural, l could not endure it.
''There is no hell, there is no hell, there
i is no hell" the man had said for sixty
| years: but that night, when / looked In
the dying room of my infidel neighbor,
there was something on his countenance
| which seemed to say: There is, there IS
| there is, there sP
The mightiest restraints to-day against
| theft. immortality, against libertinism
against crimes of all sorts-the mightiesi
restraints ARE the retributOns OF eternity
| Men know that they can escape the law
but down in the Offenders soul there is
the realization of the fact that they car
not escape God. He stands at the end o
the road of prOfigacy, and He will not
clear the guilty. Take all idea Of retribu
ton and punishment out of the hearts an'
minds of men, and it would not be lont
before Brooklyn, and New York, ant
Boston, and Charl leston, and Chicago be
came Sodoms. The only restraints agains
the evil passions of the world to-day ar
Bible restraints.
Suppose now these generals of atheism
and infidelity got the victory, and suppos
they marshaled a great army made up Q
the majority of the world. They are i
companies, in regiments, in brigades-th
whole army. Forward, march ye hosts {
; infdels and atheists, banners flying be
fore, banners flying behind, banners In
scribed with the words: "No GOdi N
! Christ! No punishment No restraints
, Down with the Biblel Do as you please
! The sun turned into darkness.
Forward, march ye great army Of inf
dels and atheists And first OF all you WI
attack the churches. Away with thof
. | houses of worship They have bee
standing there so long deluding the peop
with consolation in their bereavement
l and sorrows. All those churches ought
be extirpated; they have done so muC
3 to relieve the lost and bring home Il
wandering, and they have so long he
! up the ideas of eternal rest after the pa
oxvsm of this life is over. Turn the
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tabernacles into club houses. Away wit
y | those churches.
: Forward, marchl ye great army of II
u fidels and atheists, and next OF all the
g scatter the Sabbath -schOols-the Sabbatl
schools filled with bright-eyed, brigh
checked little ones, who are singing SOM
on Sunday afternoon, and getting instru
ton when they ought to be on street corr
u ers playing marbles, or swearing on Il
s commons. Away with theml Forwar
u march, ye great army of inhdels al
: atheists, and next of all they will atta'
y Christian asylums-the institutions
II mercy supported by Christian philal
thropies. Never mind the blind eyes al
l. the deaf ears and the crippled limbs al
y the weakened intellects. Let paralyz
q old age pick up its own food, and orpha
) fight their own way, and the half reforms
ID 60 back to their evil habits. FOrwar
n march! We great army Of inhdels al
l. atheists, and with your battle axes ht
l. down the cross and split up the mang
r of Bethlehem.
D On, We great army OF infdeis and ath
If lists, and now they come to the graVeyar
" and the cemeteries of the earth. Pull dO'
r, the sculpture above Greenwood's gates I
III it means the resurrection. Tear away
Id the entrance of Laurel Hill the figure
OF Old Mortality and the chisel. On, ye gre
10 army of infdels and atheists, into
1u graveyards and cemeteries; and whe
d you see "Asleep in Jesus" cut 10 awt
's, and where you find a marble story
n Heaven, blast it, and where you find oV
a little child's grave "Suffer little chtldr
IL to come unto Me-" substitute the VOL
de ssdeIusion" and "sham;" and where y
y, find an angel in marble, strike of
n wing: and when you come to fam
nd vault, chiselEon the door, "Dead once, de
90 forever"
ge But on, ye great army OF infdels q
ok atheists, Onl They win attempt TO SC
er Heaven. There are heights to be tax
or Pile hill on hill and Pelion upon Os
re and then they hoist the ladders agai
Iat the walls of Heaven. On and on, VI
ds they blow up the foundations Of JAS
n and the gates Of pearl. They charge
lie the steep. Now they aim for the thr'
ey Of Him who lives forever and ever II
ow would take down from their high pl
I'D, the Father, the Son, the Holy Che
Ter 'sDown with them!" they say. "Do
re. with Him from the throneY they 5
Of 'fDown forever! Down out Of sig
les He is not God. He has no right TO
IN, there. Down with Him. Down v
icy Christp
an A world without head, universe wi
TT ont King. Orphan consultations.
Of therless ga1axies. Anarchy supreme.
en-. dethroned Jehovah. An assassina
,pe God. Patrlcide, reglclde' uelcioS'
for is what they mean. That Is what they
Sc. have, if they can, if they can, IL they {
m i Civilization hurled back into semi-b
vo barism, and i-barbarism driven 3
ter into Hottentot savagery. The whee
ian progress turned the other way, and tur
wp toward the dark ages. The clock OF
is centuries put back two thousand ye'
ob- Go back, you Sandwich lsIands' from
not schools and from your colIeges' ana =
be your reformed condition 70 "hat you
ect / in 1920, when the missionaries first ca
/ il I Call home the five hundred mlssiona
90 from India and overthrow their two Ia
b il sand schools, where they are tryini
nan educate the heather. and scatter
ion one hundred and forty tnous
- laatla -hiIdran Ahat lnaH haNe gatherec