Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-14
IN ECLIPSE.
sa,ct Of the Withdrawal of Solar
no Iisht Upon the Atmosphere
Of the World
.,,, ChiII-The Temperate
! unno ,ss the Arelic-Frossn
p',sre, Lakes and Oceans
..,,, Have Attempted ito Throw
osrtsh i0o ,cross tho Brilliant sun OK
Ashsao" ,,y-ralra ags's ssrmun.
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s''iA opscURATIoN.
.ovryy, n. Y, May l3.-This
SEU .a the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmsge,
roln'. rS,s,cbed at the Tabernacle to an
~ ,s1wlpg congregation. The hymn be-
frpirg, ,-, .n,ss os thv tesrs
'.s gird the Gospel Armor on;"
ING with magnificent effect. DR..
s' w. subject was "obscurstion,"
Il Isis text: "rhe sun shall be turned
". 6.rkuess. Acts H., v. 20. BE
A S,i,, eclipse is here prophesied to take
~ .bout the time of the destruction Of
ps;r Jerusalem. Josephus, the histo-
wv ss0s that the prophecy was literally
rgIst, sud that about tnat time there
l.i. .. .trsDg . Cd oeArsnces In the heavens.
w. snn was not destroyed, but for q lit
W r'rislIspity is the rising sIn Of our
~ md men have tried with the uprol-
"" y.n0rs Of skapticism and the smoke
w. Is,eit 5lsspaemy to turn the sun into
S.,ETess. Suppose the srchsngels Of
I.Iico snd horror should be let loose &
Ii,,Ie while and be allowed to extinguish
.ns destroy the sun in the natural
s -, They would take the
..o,ns from other worlds
mi pour them on this
'rmiusry Of the planetary system, and the
r,ters 20 Kissing down amid the rayines
'ns The csyerns, and there is explosion
,itsr explosion, until there are only 8 few
ns,ks OF FIRE left In the sun, and these are
soolIpg down and going out until the vast
rontiuents Of fame are reduced to 8
mail acreage CT fire, and that whiteDs
,rd cools CT until there are only few
so.ls left, and these are whitening and
,opp out until there is not spark left
n al the mountains Of ashes and the
ulsys o, ashes and the chasms Of ashes.
A extinguished sun. A dead sun. A
buried sun. Lat 81 the worlds vail st the
;.uoeldous obss quies.
OF course, this withdrawal OF the solar
Hght and neat throws our earth into q
universal chill, and the tropics become
TIE temperate, and the temperate becomes
/ lie Arctic, and there are frozen rivers
Nd frozen lakes and frozen oceans. From
Arctic and Antsrtic reglon the inhablt-
ats gather in toward the center and End
4 he 6Qlstor IS the poles. The slain for
4 sts sTe piled up into G great bonfire, and
I EOuld them gather the shiyerirg villages
! Md cities The wealth Of the coal mines
4 i hastily poured into the furnaces and
stirred into rage of combustion, but soon
the bonfres begin to lower, and the fur
usY begin to go out, aud the nations
5sgtr TO die. Cotop;xi, Vesuvlus, E.na,
SfOmbOli, Californian geysers cease to
smoke, and the ice of hsll- storms remains
unslted in their crater. All the flowers
lave breathed
THEIR LAST BREATH.
Ships with sailors freq N at the mast,
md halmsmen frozen at the wheel, and
passengers frozen in the cabin; all ma
TINS dying, first at the north and then at
nuA. Guild frosted and dead in the
aidle. 0:togensrian frosted and dead
1.-THE hearth, Workmen with frozen hand
% the hammer and frozen foot on the
Au!ae. Winter from sea to SEES. ALL
!1nseailng winter. Perpetual winter.
tiOOe Of irigidity. Hemisphere shsckled
hemisphere by chains of ice. Univer-
MSoVs Zsmola. The earth an ice noe
E1lding against other ice-hoes. The
Nasngels Of malice and horror have
zone their work, and now they may take
Usi thrones Of glacier and look down
'pOl the ruin they have wrought.
What the destruction of the sun In the
Mafa! heavens would be to our physical
a1, the destruction of Christianity
aoaA be to the moral world. TIE sun
@lsa into darkness. Infdelity In our
sas Is considered great joke. There
MNpeople who rej1ice to hear Christ
MY ciflcatured, and to hear Christ as
aAsd with quibble and quirk and
augmentation snd badinage and har-
Eqlintde,
propose this morning to take Infidelit7
=. ~ ATHEISM ou.otthe realms of ocularily
~Vae Of tragedy, and show you what
!! propose, ana whist, il they are sue
su taey will accomplish. There are
Ss'e IN al our communities who would
=, see the Christian religion over
s~Ssn' and who say the world would be
~. - without 1t. want to show you
ass me md Of this road, and what is
@tnlouS OF this crusade, and what
IN, Nullu Will be when Atheism and Inf
az nave trlumphed over it, il they can.
y,h tney can. l reiterete It, If they
=
". - tae fFst place, 1t will be the COM
''* and unuttersble
DEGRADATION OF woMANHooD.
ri M. Prove 1t by facts and arguments
sn",IuHo Genest man will dispute. In sll
asa,lIsle and cities snd states and
IN Were the Christian religion has
sss dominant, woman's condition has
.Itiiorsted and improved, snd she
srcs 10 and honored in q thousand
{a +, ana every gentleman tskes of his
Ian soas her. Hyour associations nave
In sSUu, you know that the name Ct
c~Cssaer, daughter, suggest gracious
sSsrngs. You know there are no
aools and seminaries In Brook
ssr,r IN any city of this
s,S;, than the schools and
4 easm...s ior our young ladies. You
aess - while women may suffer in
ebs, gland and the United States,
ssn,, more Of her rights in Christen-
I'm hss anywhere else.
aato 0ompare this with woman's
y Nv In lands where Christianity
ID, little or no advsnce-in
IN. ohoary, in Borneo, in Tartary,
Y Ss Nj, IN Hindostsp. The Burmese |
sgSs.. wives and daughters as SO |
9sso..sp. The Hindoo bible makes Ii |