The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-05-31

ism, against crime of all sorts-the mightiest
restraints are the retributions Of eternity.
Mea know that they can escape the law, but
down In the offenders soul there is the reali-
zation Of the fact that they cannot escape
God. He stands at the end Of the road Of
profigacy and he will not clear the guilty.
Take all idea of retrlbution and punishment
out of the hearts and minds of men, and it
would not be long before Brooklyn and New
York and Boston and Charleston and Chi
cago became Sodoms. The only restraints
against the evil passions Of the world to day
are Bible restraints
Suppose now these generals OF atheism
and infidelity got the victory, and suppose
they marshaled great army made up OF the
majority of the world. They are in COM
panies, in regiments, in brigades-the whole
army Forward, march ye hosts of infideis
and atheists banners flying before, banners
flying behind banners inscribed with the
words: "No Godl No Christi No punish
mentl No restraints Down with the Biblel
Do as you please!n The sun turned into
darkness.
Forward, march! We great army of infdels
and atheistsl And first Of all you will attack
the churches. Away with those houses OF
worship! They have been standing there so
long and deluding the people with consola.
tion in their bereavem ents and sorrows. AL!
those churches ought to be extirpated; they
have done so much to relieve the lost and
bring home the wandering, and they have Sc
! long held up the idea of eternal rest after the
paroxysm of this life is over. Turn the st.
Peters and st. Pauls and the temples and
tabernacles into club houses Away with
! those churches!
Toward, march ye great army of in
| fidels and atheists, and next of all they scat
| ter the Sabbath -schools-the Sabbath schools
filled with bright eyed, bright checked little
ones, who are singing songs on Sunday after
noon, and getting instruction when they
ought to be on the street corners playing
marbles or swearing on the common Away
with theml Forward, march! yc great army
of infidels and atheists and next OF all they
will attack Christian asylums-the institu-
tions of mercy supported by Christian PM
lanthropies. Never mind the blind eyes aud
the deaf ears and the crippled limbs and the
weakened intellects. Let parayAed Old age
pick up its own food, and orphans fight their
own way, and the half reformed go back to
their evil habits. Forward. march! We great
army of infidels and atheists, and with your
battle axes hew down the cross and split up
the manger Of Bethlehem
On, ye great army of infidels and atheists,
and now they come to the graveyards and
the cemeteries Of the earth. Pull down the
sculpture above Greenwoods gate, for 1t
means the resurrection. Tear away at the
entrance of Laurel Hill the figure of Old
Mortality and the chisel. On, ye great army
of infidels and atheists, into the graveyards
and the cemeteries; and where you see
"Asleep in Jesus,n cut it away, and where
you find marble story of heaven, blast it,
and where you find over little child's grave:
"Suffer little children to come unto me,
substitute the words "delusion' and sham,
and where you find an angel in marble, strike
of the wings,and when you come to family
vault, chisel on the door: Dead once, dead
forever"
Rut on vo praat army IF ipfide1S and
atheists, onl They will attempt to scale
heaven. There are heights to be taken. Pile
hill on hill. and Pelion upon Ossa and then
they hoist the ladders against the walls of
heaven. On and OIL until they blow up the
foundations of jasper and the gates Of pearl.
They charge up the steep Now they aim
for the throne of him who liveth forever
and ever. They would take down from their
high place the Father, the Son, the Holy
Ghost Down with them!" they say.
"Down with them from the thronel" they
say. "Down forever! Down out of sight
He is not God. He has 10 right to sit there.
Down with him! Down with Christ"
A world without head, universe with
,ut king. Orphan consultations. Father.
less galaxieS. Anarchy supreme. A de-
shroned Jehovah. An assassinated God.
Parricide, regicide, decide. That is what
they mean. That is what they will have, il
they can, if they can, If they can. Civilila
yemi- mi-barbarism driven back into HOttento
,avagery. The wheel Of progress turned the
other way, and turned toward the dark ages
The clock of the centuries put back 20O(
years. Go back, you Sandwich Islands, from
your schools and from your colleges, ant
from your reformed condition, to what yo,
were in 1920, when the missionaries frs
came. Call home the 500 missionaries from
India and overthrow their 203o schools
where they are trying to etiucate th'
heathen, and scatter the 10000 lit
tie children that they have gathered
out of barbarism into civilization Ob
iiterate all the work of DR.. Duff in India
Of David Abeel in China, Of Dr. King il
Greece, of Judson in Burmah, Of Davi'
Brainard amid the American aborigines, ant
send home the three thousand missionaries
of the cross who are toiling in foreign lands
toilmg for Christs sake, toiling themselve:
into the grave. Tell these three Thousand
men of God that they are of no use. Seno
home the medical missionaries who are doc
torng the bodies as well as the souls Of thu
nations Go home, London missionary so
ciety. Go home American board of foreig
missions. Go home ye Moravians, and re
. linquish back into darkness and squalor an
!. filth and death the nations whom ye hav
!, begun to lift.
Oh, my friends, there has never been sue
4 anefarious plot on earth as that which inf
!. delity and atheism have planned. We wer
a blocked few years ago because Of the at
!. tempt to blow up the parliament houses /
!. London; but if infdelty and atheism SUI
i ceed in their attempt they will dynamite
i world. Let them have their full way an
: this world will be habitation of three room
4 "a habitation with just three rooms: tt
4 one a madhouSe, another a lazaretto, II
i other pandemonium These infidel bant
of music have only just begun their concel
Q yea, they have only been stringing the
r 20 Ilty y,H,,fh hafn ha
a whole programme from beginning unto clos
: In the theatre the tragedy comes first an
, the farce afterward; but in this infid
4 drama Of death the farce comes first and I'll
r tragedy afterward. And in the former ath
!. lists and infidels laugh aud mock, but in tf
/, latter God himself will laugh and mock. l.
says so: II will laugh at their calamity al
, mock when their fear cometh."
, From such chasm Of individual, nationa
p worldwide ruin, stand back. Oh. youn
: men, stand back from that chasml You st
4 the practical drift of my sermon wal
4 you to know where that road leads Stan
: back from that chasm of ruin. The time
n going to come you and may not live to 81
it, but it will come, just as certainly as thel
a is a God, it will come when the infdes al
,f the atheists who openly and out and o.
; and above board preach and practice,
+. fidelity and atheism will be considered
l. criminals against society, as they a
- will push out the leper, and the wretch wi
- soul gangrened and ichorous and verm
u covered and rottiny apart with his beastialit
u will be left to die in the ditch and be deni
d decent burial, and men will come wi
:. spades and cover up the carcass, where
:. u falls, that it poison not the air, AMI the on
u text in all the Bible appropriate for the f
10 neral sermon will be jeremiah xii, 10: 81
y shall be buried with the burial Of an ass"
q A thousand voices come up to me IL
70 morning, saying do you really think
le fidelity will succeed! Has Christianity
ceived its death blow7 AMI will the Bill
become obsoletep Yes, when the smoke
the city chimney arrests and destroys t
n MONDAY sun. Josephus says about the til
d of the destruction of Jerusalem the sun W
10 turned into darkness; but only the clou
a; rolled between the sun and the earth. !
d sun went right on. 1t is the same sun. t
10 same luminary as when at the beginning
h. shot out like an electric spark from Go
,e finger, and to-day it is warming the natiol
and to-day it is gliding the sea, and to d
h it is filling the earth with light. The SAT
70 old sun, not at all worn out, though its liz
" steps one hundred aud ninety million miles
Il second though its pnlsations are four hu
| dred and fifty trilion undulatons in 81
ee ond. Same sum, with beautiful white liz
10 made up of the violet and the indigo and