Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-18
to come. Hinged rose. Campsd foot.
Diefgured face.
EMRRUTED SOUL.

Disfgured face.
EMRRUIKD SOUL.
Now compare those two conditions. How
far to ward this lXt.er condition that /
speak of would woman go II Christian
influence were Withdrawn and Chris.
tIanity were destroyed? II Is only
question OF dyn amics. II an object be
lifted to certain point and not fastened
there, and the lf,irg power be with
drawn, how long before that object will
fall down to the point from which 1t
stsrted7 II Will fall down, aud 1t will go
still further than the point from which 1t
started. Christianity has lifted woman
up from the very depths OF degradation
simost to the skies. II thas lifting
power be Withdrawn she falls clear back
to the depth fron which che was resur-
reeted, nSs goIug any lower because there
Ia no lower depth. And yet notwith-
standing the fact that the only salvation
CT women from degradation and woe is
the Christian religion, and the only in6u-
ence that has ever lifted her in the social
scele liz Chfisti.si.y--I have read that
there ere women who reject Christianity.
make no remark 10 regard to those per-
sous. make no remark In regard to
them. In the silence of your own soul
IN Ike your observations.
III fnfielits triumph and Christianity
be overthrowp, Il rnesps the dsmorslizs-
tioE of society. The one idea Ia the
Biole that atheist and iuhdels most hate
Is the ides CT retribution. Take away the
'i1es OF Ietrinutioa and punishment from
society and it will begin very soon to dis
integrste, snd take Away from the minds
of men the fesroz hell and there are
great msny Of them who would very soon
turn this world intOa bell. TIE majority
Of these who are Indignant sgsinss the
Bible oecsuse OF the idea Of punishment
are men whose lives are bad or whose
hearts ere impure and who hate the Bible
because of the idea Of future punishment
for the same reason thes criminals hate
the penisentsry. On, l hsve heard this
brave talk about people fearing nothing Of
the consequence of sia III the next world,
aud have made up my mind 1t is merely
towards wbistling to keep his courage
up. have seen men
FLAUNT THEIR IMMoRALITIEs
In the fece Of the community, and I have
heard them defy the judgment day ana
scof ct the idea of any future conse-
gu .nce Of their sin, but when they came
10 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 tie horror.
I would not wsnt to see rail train
with 500 Christians on board go down
through q draw bridge into watery
grave. I would not want to see 800
Christian people go into such disaster,
out tell you plsin'y that I could more
easily see that than could for any pro-
tracted time stand and see an iuf,del die,
though his pillow were Of eider-down and
under a canopy Of vermllion. hsvs
never been able to brace up my nerves
for such spectacle. There is something
at such q time SO indescribsble In the
countenancs. I Just looked in upon it for
minute or two, out the clutch Of his fist
was SO disbelic, and the strength OF voice
was 80 unnatural, could not endure it
"rhere Is no hell, there is no he'll, there
is no hellI" the man had ssid for sixty
years; but that night when looked in the
dgiUg room Of my inf lei neighbor, there
was something ON his cuuntensuce which
seemed to ssy: "Tnere Il, there is, there
is, there ism
The mightiest restraints to-day egiirst
theft, against immortality, against liber-
tinism, against crime Of all sorte-lhe
mightiest restraints are the retrIoutions
Of eternity. Men know that they Cen es-
cape the Law, bu. down in the Offenders
soIl there is o realization of the fact that
they csnnot escape GID. He stands at
the end of the road Of profigacy, aud He
will not clear the guilty. Take all idea Ct
retribution ami punishment ous OF the
hearts and minds of men, and 1t would
not be long before Brooklyn and New
York and Boston ard Charleston and
Chicago became Sodoms. The only re-
strsints against the evil passions of the
world to day are Bible restraints.
Suppose now these generals of atheism
and infdeli!.' got the victory, and sup
pose they marshalled
AGREAT ARMY
msde up OF the maj ority OF the world.
They are in companies, in regiments, in
whole army. Forward,
march! ye hosts of infdels and athe-
Is s; banners flying before, banners
lying behind, barne's inscribed WITH
The words: mo God! No Christ! N,
Punishment! No Restraints! Down
with the Biblei Do as You Pleased"
The sun turned into darkness.
Forward, msrchi ye grest ar ny Of IN
feels and atheists. Aud fi;st Of all you |
VIII attack the churches. Away with !
those houses Of worship! They have
been standing there 80 long deluding the |
people with consolation in their bereave- |
ments aud sorrows. All those churches |
ought to be extirpated; they have done
50 much to relieve the .ost and bring |
home the wandering. and they have SO
long held up the idea of eternal rest after |
The psrnxYsm OF this life is over. Torn |
the St. Peters and st. Psuls and the tenn |
piles AM tebernscles into club houses. |
Away with those churcbeei
Forward, msrch! We great army Of in
fldels aud atheists, and text Of sill they |
scatter the Sabbath schools-the Sabbath
schools filed with bright-eyed. rosy |
checked little ones who are singing songs !
on Sunday afternoon, and getting in
structions when they ought to be |
on the street corners PLAYING |
or swearing on the commons. |
AWAY with them! Forward, march, ye |
great army Of irfliels and atheists, and |
next OF sll they will attack Christian ssy-
lums-she Institutions OF mercy supported |
By Christian pailanthropies Never mind
The blind eyes and the desf ears and the
crippled limbs and the weakened intel
Iects. Let psralyzed old. age pick up its
\ wn food and ornh ans frht their oVu