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companies, In regiments, In brigades-the
whole army. Forward, march, ye hosts OF
in1dels and atheists, banners flying be-
fore, banners flying behind, banners in
scrIbed with the words "No God! No
Christ! No Punishment! No Restraints!
Down With the Bible! Do as You Please!"
The sun turned into darkness!
Forward, marchl ye great army OF In
fldels and atheists. And first OF all you
will attack the churches. Away with those
houses OF worship! They have been stand.
ing there 80 long deluding the people with
consolation in their berea vements and sors
rows. All those churches ought to be eX-
tirpated; they have done so much to re-"
lieve the lost and bring homo the wandere
ing, and they have so long held mp the
idea Of eternal rest after the parozysm OF
this life Is over. Turn the St. Peters and
st. Pauls and tue temples and tabernacles
into clubhouses. Away with those churchesl
Forward, march! ye great army OF In.
fdels and atheists, and next of all they
scatter the Sabbath schools filled with
bright eyed, rosy checked little ones who
are singing songs on Sunday afternoon
and getting instruction when they ought
to be on the street corners playing marbles
or swearing on the commons. Away with
them Forward, march! ye great army OF
infdels and atheists, and next OF all they
will attack Christian asylums-the tnstitu-
tions Of mercy supported by Christian
philanthropies: Never mind the elina
eyes, and the deaf ears, and the crippled
limbs, and the darkened intellccts. Let
paralyzed old age pick up it's own food,
and orphans fight their own way, and the
half reformed 80 back to their evil habits.
Forward, march, ye great army OF fnhdels
and atheists, and with your battleaXes hew
down the cross and split up the manger OF
Bethlehem.
On, ye great army OF infldels and athe-
lists, and now thoy come to the grareyards
and the cemeteries OF the earth. Pull down
the sculpture above Greenwood's gate, for
1t means the resurrection. Tear away at
the entrance OF LaArel Hill the figure OF
Old Mortality and the chisel. On, ye great
army OF infldels and atheists, into the grave
yards and cemeteries, and where you see
"Asleep in Jesus" cut it away, and where
you find marble story OF heaven, blast 1t,
and when you find over little child's
grave, "Suffer little children to come unto
Me-" substitute the words "delusion" and
"sham," and where you find an angel In
marble, strike of the wing, and when YOU
come to q family vault, chisel on the door,
dead once, deud forever.
atheists, onl They will attempt to scale
heaven. There are heights to be taken.
Pile hill on hill, and Pellon upon Ossa, and
then they hoist the ladders against tha
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 aim for the throne Of Him who liveth
forever and ever. They would take down
from Their high place the Father, the Son.
and the Holy Ghost. Down with Them!"
they say. "Down with Them from the
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out OF sight! He is not God. He, has no
right to sit there. Down with Him! Down
With Christi"
A world without head, universe with
out king. Orphan consultations. Father
less gala1ies. Anarchy supreme. A de-
throned Jehovah. An assassinated God.
Patricide, regicide, decide. That Is what
they mean. Tint is what they will have,
II they can. I say, II they can. Civiltza-
tion hurled back into. standardization, and
semibarbarism driven back into Hottentot
suvagery. The wheel Of progress turned
the other way aud turned toward the dark
ages. The clock OF the centu.tes put back
1000 years. Go back, you Sandwich ISL
ands, from your schools, and from your
colleges, and from your reformed condi-
tion, to what you were In 1920, when the
missionaries f1rst came. Call home the 500
missionaries from India and overthrow
their 1000 schools, where they are trying to
educate the henthen, un1 scatter the l40,-
900 little children that they have gathered
out OF barbarism into civilization. ObtterJ
ate all the work OF DR.. Duff In India, OF
David Abeel in China, OF DR.. King In
Greece, OF Judson In Burma, OF David
Brainerd amid the American aborigines,
and send home the 5000 missionaries OF the
cross who are toiling in foreign lands, toll
ing for Christ's sake, toiiing themselves
into the grave. Tell these 5000 men OF God
that they are of no use. Send home the
medical missionaries who are doctorln9
the bodies as we'll as the souls OF the dying
nations. Go home, London Missionary
society! Go home, American board OF
foreign missions! Go home, ye Moravians,
and rellnquish back into darkness and
squalor and death the nations whom ye
have begun to lift.
From such a chasm OF individual, ma
tional, worldwide ruin, stand back. Oh,
young men, stand back from that chasm!
You see the practical drift Of my sermon.
I want you to know where that road leads.
Stand back from that chasm OF ruin. The
time Is going to come (you and / may not
live to see 1t, but 1t will come. just as GER
tainly as there is God, 1t will Gomez when
the infldels and the atheists who openly
and out and out and aboveboard preach
and practice inf1dellty and atheism, will be
considered rs criminals against society, as
they are now criminals against God. So
ciety will push out the leper, and the wretch
with soul gangrened and ichorous and YER
min covered aud 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, that 1t poison not the air,
and the only text in ali the Bible appropriate
for the funeral sermon will be Jeremiah
xii, 19, "He shall be buried with the
bur II! OF an ass"
At the beginning God said, "Let there be
light" and light was, md light is, and
light shall be. SO Christianity is rolling
on, and II is going to warm all nations, and
all nations are to bask In its light. Men
may shut the window blinds so they can.
not see 1t. or they may smoke the pipe ol
speculation until they are shadowed under
their own vaporlng, but the Lord God Is Il
suui This white light OF the gospel made
up OF all the beautiful colors OF earth and
heaven violet plu"ked from amid the
spring grass, and the indigo OF the SOUTH
prn juEg!es, 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 sun
sets. 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 America for God. Both OF thom to.
gether will take all Asia for God. All
three OF them will take Africa for God1
"Who art thou, o great mountain? Before
Zerrubbabel thou shalt become plain"
The mouth OF the LORD hath spoken It."
Hallelujah, amen!
OIL NEARLY RUINS A COLLEGE.