The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-05-17


Pull down the sculpture above Green
woods gate. for It means the resurrec-
tion- Tear away at the entrance Of
Laurel Hill the figure Of Old Mortality
and the chisel. On, ye great army of in
fidels and atheists. into the graveyards
and cemeteries; and where you see
.Asleep in Jesus" cut it away, and
where you find marble story of heaven,
blast it, and where you find over q little
child's grave: ''Suffer little children to
come unto me-" substitute the words
..delusion" and 'tsham," and where you
find an angel in marble, strike off the
wing, and when you come to family
vault, chisel on the door: dead once,
dead forever"
But on, ye great army Of infidels and
atheists, oni They win 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 i'm for the throne
of him who liveth forever and ever.
They would take dnMn trom their hirh
place. the Fathee, Son, the Holy
Ghost 'Dow1 with themr' they say.
Down with him fkom the throneiw
they say. ssDown fdleveri Down out
Of sighti He 4 not God He has no
right to d1lfcrs Dsvn With himl
Down with 6 u
4 world = ]. :! -.
without 49, q xlrnhsn coszsteIlstions.
Fatherless galax3es. Anarchy supreme.
A dethroned Jehovah. An assassinated
God. Patricide, regicide, decide That
Is what they mean. That Is what they
viii have, II they can, II they can, il
they can. Civilization hurled back into
semi-barbarism, and semi-barbarism
driven back into Hottentot savagery.
The wheel Of progress turned the other
way and turned toward the dark ages.
The clock of the centuries put back two
thousand years Go back, you Sand
wich Islands, from your schools and
from your colleges and from your re-
formed condition to what you were in
1890, when the missionaries first came.
Call home the Eve hundred missionaries
from India and overthrow their two
thousand schools. where they are
trying to educate the heathen,
and scatter the one hundred and
forty thousand little children that
they have gathered out of parbarism into
civilization. Obliterate all the work Of
DR.. Duff in India of David Abeel in
China. of DIR. King in Greece, Of Judson
in Burmah, of David Brainard amid the
American aborigines, and send home the
5000 missionaries of the cross who are
toiling in foreign lands, toiling for
Christ's sake, toiling themselves into the
grave. Tell these 5000 men of God that
they are of no use. Send home the med
ical missionaries who are doctoring the
bodies as well as the souls of the dying
nations Go home, London Missionary
society Go home, American Board of
Foreign Missions. Go home, ye Moravi-
ans. and reiinquish back into darkness
and squalor and filth and death the ma
tions whom ye have begun to lift.
Oh. my friends there has never been
such a nefarious plot on earth as that
which infdelity and atheism have
planned. We were shocked few years
ago because of the attempt to blow ur
the parliament houses in London; but 4
infdelity and atheism succeed in theil
attempt. they will dynamite a world.
Let them have their full way, and thii
world will be habitation of three rooms
"a habitation with just three rooms
| the one madhouse, another a lazaretto
the other pandemonium. These in
| idel bands of music have only just begur
| their concert-yea they have only beer
stringing their instruments. today pu
before you their whole programme from
beginning unto close. In the theatre the
tragedy comes first and the farce after
ward, but in this iIifiael drama of deatf
the farce comes first and the tragedy
afterward. And in the former atheist
and infidels laugh and mock, but in thu
latter God himself viii laugh and mock
He says so. II will laugh at their ca
lamity and mock when their fear com
eth
From such chasm of individual, ma
| tional, world wide ruin, stand back. Oh
young men, stand back from that chasm
You see the practical drift of my sermon
| want you to know where that roat
leads. Stand back from that chasm o
ruin. The time Is going to come (yo,
and may not live to see it. but it vii
come, just as certainly as there is God
it will Gomez when the infidels and tn
atheists who openly, and out and out ant
above hoard preach and practice Infidel
ity and Atheism will be considered a
criminals against society, as they ar
now criminals against God. Societ.
will push out the leper. and the wretcl
with soul gangrened. and ichorous, an
vermin covered, and rotting apart wit
his bestiality. viii be left to die in th
ditch, and be denied decent burial, an
men will come with spades and cover u
the carcass where it falls, that it poiso
not the air. and the only text in all tn
Bible appropriate for the funeral sermo
will be Jeremiah xii, 10: He shall b
buried with the burial of an ass.
| A thousand voices come up to me thi
morning saying: do you really thin
infdelity will succeed2 Has Christianit
received its death blow2 and will th
Bible become obsolete?" Yes, when th
smoke of the city chimney arrests an
destroys the MONDAY SUM- Josephr
says about the time of the destruction {
Jerusalem the sun was turned into darl
ness; but only the clouds rolled betwee
the sun and the earth. The sun wer
right on. II is the same sun, the sam
luminary as when at the begil
ming it shot out like an electr
spark from Gods finger. and toda
it is warming the nations, and toda
! it is gliding the sea. and today 1t
, filing the earth with light The san
old sun, not at all worn out though |
J light steps one hundred and ninety mil
ion miles second. though its pulls
} tons are four hundred and fifty trillie
undulations in q second. Same sun vii
! beautiful white light, made up OF Il
] violet and the indigo and the blue al
/ the green and the red aud the yellow AZ
the orange-the seven beautiful colo
now just as when the solar spectru
| first divided them.
: At the beginning God said: .'Let the
/ be light, /" and light was, and light
and light shall be. So Christianity
rolling on, and 1t is going to warm |
nations and all nations are to bask in
/ L IL l. II.