Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-05-14

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Bible because OF the idea Of future punish
ment 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 1t is merely
towards whistling to keep his courage up.
have seen men faunt their immoralities in
the face of the community, and | have heard
them defy the Judgment day and scott at the
idea of any future 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 neigh
bors 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 drawbridge into wetery
grave would not want to see five hundred
Christian people go into such disaster, but
tell you plainly that could more easily see
that than could for any protracted time
stand and see an infidel die, though his pillow
were of elder down and under 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 countenance. just looked in upon it for
a minute or two, but the clutch of his fist
was so diabolic, and tie strength of voice
was so unnatural, | could not endure il,
'There is no hell, there is no bell, there is no
hellI" the man had said for sixty years; but
That night when looked in the dying room
II my infidel neighbor, there was something
IN his countenance which seemed to say:
There is, there is, there is, there isIn
The mightiest restraints today against
theft, against immortality, against libertin-
ism, against crime of all sorts-the mightiest
restraints are the retributions Of eternity.
Men know that they can escape the law, but
down III the offenders soul there is the reali-
zatiou of the fact that they cannot escape
God He stands at the end Of the road Of
profiigacy, and he will not clear the guilty.
Take all idea of retribution 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 today
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 brisades-the whole
army. Forward march! ye hosts of infidels
and atheists banners flying before, banners
firing behind, banners inscribed with the
words: mo Godl No Christi No punish
menti No restraintsI Down with the Bible
Do as you pleased" The sun turned into dark
ness
Forward, march, ye great army of inadels
and atheists! And first of all you will attack
the churches. Away with those houses Of
worshipl They have been standing there 80
long and deluding the people with consola-
tion in their bereavements and sorrows. All
those churches ought to be extirpated; they
have done SO much to relieve the lost and
bring home the wandering, and they have SO
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 churchesl
Forward, march, ye great army Of in
fidels and atheists, and next of ali 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 themi Forward, march! ye great army
Of infidels and atheists, and next of all they
will attack Christian asylums-the institu-
tons Of mercy supported by Christian phil
anthropies. Never mind the blind eyes and
the deaf ears and the crippled limbs and the
weakened intellects. Let paralyzed 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! ye 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 infdels and atheists,
and now they como to the graveyards and
the cemeteries Of the earth Pull dow n the
means the resurrection. Tear away at the
entrance Of Laurel Hill the figure of Old
Mortality and the chisel. On, ye great army
of infdels and atheists, into the graveyards
and the ceme cries: and where you see
Asleep in Jesus, cut it away, and where
you find a marble story Of heaven, blast it,
and where you find over little chiid'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 tine door: dead once, dead
forever
But on, ye great army Of infidels 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 and on 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 hveth forever
and ever. They would take down from their
high place the Father, the Son, the Holy
Ghost. Down with themr they say.
Down with him from the thronel" they say
Down foreyerl Down out Of sightl He is
aot God He has noright to sit there. Down
with him! Down with Christi"
A world without a head, O universe with
out king. Orphan consultations Father
less gala1iea Anarchy supreme. A do
.hroned Jehovah. An assassinated God
Parricide, regicide, decide That is what
they mean That is what they will have, il
hey can, if they can, if they can. Civiliza-
aon hurled back into semi -barbarism, and
seni- -barbarism driven back into Hottentot
avagery. The wheel of progress turned the
,ther way, and turned toward the dark ages
The clock of the centuries put back 1000
years, Go back, you Sandwich Islands, from
your schools and from your colleges, and
from your reformed condition, to what you
were in 1870, when the missionaries first
came Call home the 500 missionaries from
India and overthrow their 1900 schools,
where they are trying to educate the
heathen, and scatter tho 1000 lit
tie children that they have gathered
out of barbarism into civilization OBJ
hterate all the work Of DR.. Duff in India,
of David Abeel in China, of DR.. King in
Greece, of Judson In Burmah, Of David
Brsinard amid the American aborigines and
send homo the three thousand missionaries
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 doc
torinp the bodies "A we'll as the souls of the