The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-06-02
TALMAGE'S SERMON
Z o,nxriaht ILLI4 Eionsch. 80
PREPARED ESPECIALLY FOR
YOUNG AND OH.
Subject: Turned to Darkness"-A Graphic
WoTd-Picture OF "a Goddess World
DepIorable Condition Into Which In.
fidelity Would Plunge the World.

DepIorAble Condition Into Which In.
fidelity Would Plunge the World.
TEXT: The sun shall be turned into dark.
Eess."-Acts H., 20.
Christianity is the rising sun Of our time.
and men have tried with the uproiiipg va
pors OF skepticism and the smoke Of their
biaspheny TO turn the sun into darkness,
suppose the archangels Of malice and hof.
FOr should be let loose a little while and be
allowed to extiDguish and destroy the sun
IN the natural heavensi They would take
The oceans from other worlds and pour
them on the luminary o. the planetary sys.
TEN, and the waters 20 Kissing down amid
the ravines aud the caverns, and there is
explosion after explosion until there IRE
only a few peaks OF fire left in the san. and
these are cooling dow ard going out IN.
III the vast continents OF flame are reduced
70 u small acreage OF fire, and that whitens
and cools of until there are only a few
Goals LETT, ana these are Whitening and 90
ing out until there is not E spark left III all
the mountains OF ashes and the valleys OF
ashes and the chasins OF ashes. An extin-
guished sun! A dead sun, 4 buried sun!
Let All worlds wall 1T the stupcntous OBJ
sequies.
OF course this withdrawal OF tho solar
light and heat throws our earth into q uni
versal chill, and tn: tropics become tho
tenn prrate, and the temperate becomes the
arctic, and there are frozen rivers and frozen
lakes and frozen oceans. rom arctic to an
tarctlc eEiOn tho inhabitants gather in
toward the center and lind tht equator rs
the poles. The slain forests are piled I'd
into n great bonfire, and around them
gather the shiyeriny villages and cities.
The wealth OF the coal mines is hastily
poured into the furnaces and stirred into
rage OF combustion, but soon the bonfres
begin to lower, and the furnaces begin to
go out, and the nations begin to die. Coto-
paxi, Fcsuvius, Etna, Stromboli, California
yeysers, cease to smoke, and the ice OF
hall3torms remains unmeited In their
crater. All the flowers have breathed their
last breath. Ships with sailors frozen at
the mast. and helmsmen frozen at the
wheel, and passengers frozen in the cabin.
All nations dying, first at tho north and
then Mt the south. Child frosted and lead
IN the cradle. OctogeHarian frosted and
dead at the hearth. Workmen with frozen
nand on the BANNER and frozen foot on tho
shuttle. Winter from sea to sea. All con-
EeaiinS winter. Perpetual winter. Globe
OF friRidity. Hemisphere shackled to hon.
tsphere by chains of ice. Universal Nova
Lemb!n. The earth an ice foo grinding
against other ice foes. The archangels OF
malice and i6rror have lone their work.
and now they may have their thrones Of
glacier and look down upon the ruin they
have wrought What the destruction Of
the sun in the natural heavens would be-
: u PDSSlCai ttItu tue destruction OF
christianity would be to the moral world.
The sun turned into darkness!
Inldelliy IN oar time is considered q
great Joke. There arc people who rejoice
to hear Christianity caricatured and to hear
Enrist assail"d with bubble aud quirk and
misrepresentation and badinage and harle-
quinade. l propose to-day to take inhde
Ey and atheism out Of the realm OF iocu.
iarity into one OF tragedy and show Won
what infldels propose and what, il they are
successful, they will accomplish. There
are tlose in all our communities who would
like to see the Christian religion over
thrown and who say the world would be
better without 1t. l want to show Won
what Is the end OF this road, and what is
the terminus OF this crusade, and what this
world will be when atheism and inndeIity
have triumpbed over ii, If they can. Isay.
uthey can. reiterate it. ifthey can.
Ia the first place. it will be the complete
and unutterablc degradation of woman
hood. l will prove * by fncts and arru.
ments which no honest man will dispute
IN all communities and cities and States
ana nations where the Christian religion
nns been dominant woman's condition has
been ameliorated and improved. and she il
deferred to and honored in a thousand
things. and every gentleman takes of his
hat before her. II Your associations have
been good. you know that the name of
vile. mother, daughter. suggest gracious
surroundings lou know there are M ho--
Ter schools and scrninaries in this country
fhan the schools and seminaries for mr.
young ladies. lou know that while Uom-
al may suffer injustice in England and the
United States, she mas more OF her rights
In Christendon than she has anywhere
else.
Now, compare this with womGn's conSi.
lion In lands where Christianity has NADIA
little or no advance-in China. in Barhav
Ia Bornto, in Tartary. in'Egvpt. in Uindu,.
tan. Tho Burmese sell their wives and
daughters as SO many sheep. The Hindoo
bi'ir makes itdi>graceiui and an outrage
fora woman TO listen 10 music or look orr
OF the windo IN the absence of her hu-.