The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-05-19
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE SUN PUT OUT" LAST
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
From the Text; THE Sun Shall BE
Turned Into Darkness"-Acts2 2; 90
The Rising sun of the World Is the
Christian Religion.


angels OF malice and horror should be
let loose little while, and be allowed
to extinguish and destroy the sun in
the natural heavens! They would take
the oceans from other worlds, and
pour them on the luminary of the
planetary system. and the waters go
Kissing down amid the ravines and the
caverns, and there is explosion after
explosion, until there are only a few
peaks OF fire left. in the sun, and these
are cooling down and going out until
| the vast continents of flame are re-
duced to small acreage of fire, and
that whitens and cools off until there
are only few Goals left, and these are
whitening and going out until there is
not a spark left in all the mountains
or ashes, and the valleys Of ashes, and
the chasms of ashes. An eXtinguished
sun! A dead SUM- \ buried sun! Let
all worlds wall at the stupendous obse-
quies. OF course, this withdrawal of
the solar light and heat throws our
earth into a universal chill, and the
tropics become the temperate, and the
temperate becomes the arctic, and
there are frozen rivers, and frozen
lakes, and frozen oceans. From Arctic
and Antarctic regions the inhabitants
gather in toward the center, and find
the equator as the poles. The slain
forests are piled up into a great bon
fire, and around them gather the shiv-
ering villages and cities. The wealth
of the coal mines is hastily poured
into the furnaces, and stirred into
rage Of combustion, but soon the bon
fires begin to lower, and the furnaces
begin to go out, and the nations be-
gin to die. Cotopaxi, Vesuvius, Etna,
Stromboli, California geysers, cease to
smoke, and the ice of hail storms re-
mains unmelted 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 the
North and then at the South. Child
frosted and dead in the cradle. Octo-
genarian frosted and dead at the
hearth. Workmen with frozen hand
on the hammer, and frozen foot on the
shuttle. Winter from sea to sea. ALL
congealing winter. Perpetual winter.
Globe of frigidity. Hemisphere
shackled to hemisphere by chains OF
ice. Universal Novia Zembla. The
earth an ice-hoe grinding against 9th
er ice-1oes. The archangels of malice
and horror have done their work, and
now they may take their thrones of
glacier, and look down upon the ruin
they have wrought. What the de-
struction of the sun in the natural
heavens would be to our physical
earth, the destruction of Christianity
would be to the moral world. The sun
turned into darkness!
Infidelity in our time is considered
a great joke. There are people who re-
joice to hear Christianity caricatured,
and to hear Christ assailed with quib-
BILE and qulrk and misrepresentation
and badinage and harlequinade. ]
propose today to take Infidelity and
Atheism out of the realm of jocular-
ity into one of tragedy, and show you
Nh0b ALhdCA5 PlOpCot anu nav ~ AhNs
are successful, they will accomplish.
There are those in all our communi-
ties who would like to see the Chris
tian religion overthrow, and who say
the world would be better without it.
| want to show you what is the end of
this road, and what is the terminus of
this crusade, and what this world will
1, To ha,
triumphed over it, if they can. say,
If they can. l reiterate it, II they can.
In the first place, it will be the COM
plete and unutterable degradation of
womanhood | will prove II by facts
and arguments which no honest man
will dispute. In all communities and
cities and states and nations where the
Christian religion has been dominant.
woman's condition has been anchor
ated and improved, and she is deferred
to and honored in a thousand things,
and every gentleman takes off his hat
before her. If your associations have
been good, you know that the name of
wife, mother, daughter, suggest gra-
cious surroundings. You know there
are no better schools and seminaries
in this country than the schools and
seminaries for our young ladies. You
know that while woman may suffer in
justice in England and the United
States, she has more of her rights in
Christendom than she has anywhere
else.
Now, compare this with woman's
condition in lands where Christianity
has made little or no advance-in
China, in Barbary, in Borneo, in Tar
tary, in Egypt, in Hindostan. The
Burmese sell their wives and daugh-
tiers as so many sheep. The Hindoo
Bible makes IL disgraceful and an out
rage for a woman to listen to music,
or look out of the window in the alb
sence of her husband. and gives as a
lawful ground for divorce woman's
beginning to eat before her husband
has finished his meal. What mean
those white bundles on the ponds and
rivers in China in the morning? In
fanticide following infanticide. Fee
male children destroyed simply be-
cause they are female. Woman har-