The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-05-25

tAsater the tragedy comes 6sss end ~
farce sfterward. But IN this inldel drama
Of death the farce comes Arss and The
tragedy aftarward And In the former
atheists and inildels langh and moc:s, but
In the latter God himself win langh and
mock. He says 90 II win laugh ct their
calamity and mock when their fear com
eth"
a. world wide ruin stand back. U. young
see the practical drift Of my sermon. ]
want you 70 know where the road leadA
Stand back from the chasm Of rum. The
time Il going to come (you and I may not
live to see it but It will come just ~ cor.
family rs there 10 God, It will come) when
the infldels and atheists who openly and
out snd out and above board preach snd
practice infldel,ty and atheism will be con-
sidered - criminals against society, a.
they are now CRIMINALS against God. 30
ciety will push out the leper, and the
wretch with soul gangrened and ichorous
vermin covered and rotting apart with his
bestiality will be left to die In the ditch
and be denied decent burial, and men will
come with spades and cover up the car
cass where 1t falls thatit poison not the air,
snd the only text in all the Bible appropri-
ate for the funeral sermon will be Jere-
miah, xxi. 10: HE shall be buried with
the burial Of an ass"
A thousand voices come up to me this
morning saying: DO you really think
infidelity will succeedl Has Christianity
received its. death blowi and will the Bible
become obsoletei Yes, when the smoke Of
the city chimneys arrests and destroys the
monday sun. Josephus says about the
time Of the destruction Of Jerusalem the
sun was turned into darkness; but only
the clouds rolled between the sun and the
earth. The sun went right on. It Is the
same sun, the same lumInary a. when Of
the beginning It shot out like an electric
spark from Gods finger, and to-day it ID
warming the nations, and to-day 1t Is gild-
ng the sea. and to-day it Ii filing the earth
with light The same old sun, not II
all worn out though its light steps
190,OOO.0O miles . second, though
its pulsations are about $50. O0O, 900.
O0O. 900 undulaiions in second. same sun,
with beautiful white light made up Of thu
violet and the indigo and the blue and the
green and the rcd and the yellow and the
orauge-and seven beautiful colors now
just 40 when the solar spectrum first
divided them.
At the beginning God said: "Let there b
light" and light was, and light is. and
hight shall be. 50 Christianity IL rolling
on and it Is going to warm all nations and
all nations are to bask in its light. Men
may shut tho window blinds 30 they can
not see it, or they may smoke the pipe Of
speculation until they are Swallowed under
Their own vaporing, but the Lord God
Is q sun. This white light Of the Cos
pei made up Of all Of the beautiful colors
Of earth and heaven-vi0let plucked from
amid the spring grass. and the indigo Of
the southern jungles, and the blue Of the
skies, and the green Of the foliage, and the
yellow of the autumnal woods, and the
orange Of the southern groves. and the red
Of the sunsets. All the beauties Of earth
and heaven brought out by this spiritual
spectrum. Great Britain Is going to take
all Europe for God. The United States are
going to take all America for God. Both
| Of them together will take all Asia fo'
God. All three Of them will take Africa
for God. "Who are thou, o, great mount
ainl Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become
u plain" The mouth Of the Lord hail
spoken it. Hallelujsh, amen!