West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-05-24


that night when looked i'm tho dying room
OF my infidel neighbor, there was something
on his countenance which seemed to say:
There is, there is, there is, there isn
The mightiest restraints to-day against
theft, against immortality, against libertin-
ism against crime OF all sorss-she migat,,-.s
restraints are the retributions OF eternity
| Men know that they can escape the law, but
| down in the offenders soul there Is the reali-
Iation of the fact that thev cannot escape
| God. He stands at the end OF the road of
proiligacy. and he will not clear the guilty
Take all idea OF retribution and punishment
out OF the hearts and minds OF men, and IL
would not be long before Brooklyn and New
York and Boston and Charleston and Chi
cago became SodomS Tho only restraints
against tho evil passions Of tho world 20 day
are Bible restraints.
Suppose now these generals OF atheism
\ and iniidelity got the victory, and suppose
| they marshaled great army made up OF the
| majority OF the world They arc in COM
| panics in regiments. in brigad es--the whole
| army. Forward. marchl We hosts of infdels
and atheists, banners flying before, banners
| flying behind, banners inscribed with the
words: 'No Cod No Christi No punish
mentl No restraintsl Down with the Bible!
Do rs You pleased" The sun turned into
darkness.
Forward, marchl We great army of inGdels
| and ethestsl 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-
| ton in their bereavem cnts and sorrows. All
those churches ought 10 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 aud
| tabernacles into club houses. Away with
those churchesl
Toward, marchl We great army of in
| iidels ami atheists. and next OF all they scat
| ter the Sabbath scholastic Sabbath schools
ones, who are singing songs on Sunday after.
noon, and getting instruction when they
ought Co be on the street corners playing
marbles or swearing on the common. Away
with theml Forward, marchl ye great army
Of iniidels and atheists and next OF all they
will attack Christian asylums-the institu-
tions OF mercy supported 10y Christian phi
lanthropies. Never mind the blind eyes aud
the deaf ears and the crippled limbs and the
weakened inteects. Let paralyzed old age
pick up its own food, and orphans fight their
own way, and the half reformed 60 back to
their evil habits. Forward. march, ye great
army of infdels and atheists, and with your
battle axes hew down the cross and split up
the manger of Bethlehem
On, we great army of infidels and atheists
and now they come to the graveyards and
the cemeteries OF the earth. Pull down the
sculpture above Greenwood's gate, for il
means the resurrection. Tear away at the
entrance of Laurel Hill the figure of Old
Mortality and the chisel. On, We great army
of infdels and atheists, into the graveyards
and the cemeteries; and where you see
''Asleep in jesus cut it away, and where
you find marble story of heaven. blast il,
and where you find over a little child's grave:
"Suifer little children to come unto me-"
substitute the words 'delusion" and sham"
and where you find an angel in marble strike
OIL the wings, and when you come to a family
vault, chisel on the door: Dead once, dead
forever"
But on, ye great army OF inhdels and
atheists, on 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 aud on until they blow up the
foundations Of jasper AMI the gates of pearl
They charge mp the steep. Now they aim
FOR the throne OF him who liveth forever
and ever. Trey would take down from their
high place tho N'ther, the Son. the Holy
Ghost. Down atth themln they say
Down with them from the thronelp they
say. Down foreveri Down out of sightl
He Is not God He has no right to sit there
Down with himl Down with Christi
world without head, universe with
out king. Orphan consultations. Father
les galaTies Anarchy supreme. A de-
Parricide, regcide, decide. That is what
they mean. That is what they viii have il
they can, IL they can, If they can. CiviliAa-
ton hurled back into semi-barbarism, and
semI-barbarsm driven back into Hottentct
savagery. The wheel of progress turned the
other way, and turned toward the dark ages
The clock of the centuries put back 300
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 500 missionaries from
India and overthrow their 2O0O schools
where they are trying To educate the
heather, and scatter the 10000 lit
tie children that they have gathered
out OF barbarism into civilization. OBJ
hterate all the work of Dr. Duff in India
nj xyiI in - n T..
Greece, OF Judson in Burmah, of David
Brainard amid the American aborigines, and
send home the three thousand missionaries
OF the cross who are toiling in foreign lands,
toiilng for Christ's sake, toiing themselves
into the grave. Tel these three thousand
men OF God that they are of no use. Send
home the medical missionaries who are doc
toring the bodies es wolf as the souls of the
nations Gro home, London MISSIONARY 80
ciety. Go home, American board of FOREIGN
missions. Go home, ye Moravians, and re-
hnquish back into darkness and squalor and
NTH and death the nations whom We have
begun 10 lift.
Oh, my friends there has never been such
nefarious plot on earth as that which inf
deity and atheism have planned. We were
shocked a few years ago because of the at
temptt to blow up the parliament houses in
London; but IL inhdelity and atheism sue
coed I'm their attempt they will dynamite a
world. Let them have their full way and
this world will be n habitation of three rooms
"a uADitdtlOn WIN just three rooms, the
ono a madhouse, another a laZaretto, the
other a pandemonium. These inhdel bands
of music have only just begun their concert
yea, they have only been stringing their
instruments. day put before you their
whole programme from beginning unto close.
In the theatre the tragedy comes first and
the farce afterward; but in this infidel
drama OF death the farce comes first aud the
tragedy nfterward. And i'm the former athe-
ISIS and iuiidels laugh and mock, but i'm the
latter God himself viii laugh and mock lie
says 90: II will laugh nt their calamity and
mock when their fear cOmethn
From such n chasm Of individual national
world wide ruin, stand back. Oh. young
men, stand back from that chasmi You SEQ
the practical drift Of my sermon. ] want
you 70 know where that road leads Stand
back from that chasm Of ruin. The time Is
going 70 come you and may not live 70 500
it, but IL viii come Just as certainly as there
is God, IL will come when the inhdels and
the atheists who openly and out and out
an above board preach and practice in
fidelity and atheism will be considered as
criminals against society, as thoy are
now criminals against God. Society
win push OUt the leper, and the wretch with
soul Rangrened and iChorou9 and vermin
covered and rOtt nE npart with his beastiality
viii De left % die in the ditch and be- denied
decent burial, and men viii como with
sails and cover up the carcasg whore 10
falls that 10 poison not Tho air onI the only
text in al th8 Bible appropriate for tho fu-
neral sermon viii be- jeremiah % xiii. 10. Gle