The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-07-28
FARMVILLE. VA. FRIDAY. JULY %. 1899.

and the deaf ears and the crippled
limbs and the darkened intellects. Let
paralyzed old age pick up its own food
and orphans fight their own way and
the half reformed 20 back TO their evil
habits. Forward, march, We great
army of infidels and atheists, and with
your battleaXes hew down the cross
and split up the manger of Bethlehem
On, We great army Of inGdels and
atheists, and now they come TO the
grayeyards and the cemeteries of the
earth. Pull down the sculpture above
GreenwOod's gate, for il means the Res
direction. Tear away at the entrance
of Laurel Hill the figure of Old Mortal
ity and the chisel. On, We great army
of infidels and atheists, into the grave
yards and cemeteries, and where YOU
see ASLEEP in Jesus" cut it away. and
where you find a marble story of Heav-
en- blast it, and where you find over a
little child's grave Suffer Little Chill
dren TO Come Unto Me" substitute the
words "delusion" and "sham," and
where you find an angel in marble
strike off the wings, and when you
come to a family vault chisel on the
door: Dead once. dead forever"
Bn on, ye great army of infidels and
atheists, on! They will attempt to
scale Heaven. There are heights to be
taken. Pile hill on bill and Pelion upon
Ossa, and then they hoist the ladders
against the 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, the
Holy Ghost. down with them!" they
say, "Down with them from the
thronel" they say. "Down foreverl
Down out of sight! He is not God. He
has no right to sit there. Down with
Him! Down with Christi"
A world without a head, a universe
without king Orphan consultations.
Fatherless galaxies Anarchy SUI
preme. dethroned Jehovah. An as
sassinated God. Patricide, regicide dei-
eide That is what they mean. That is
what they will have if they can. say
if they can. Civilization hurled back
into semibarbarism and semibarbarism
driven back into Hottentot savagefy.
The wheel of progress turned. the other
way and turned toward the dark ages:
The clock of the centuries put back
1000 years. Go back, you Sandwich
Islands. from your schools and from
your colleges and from your reformed
condition to what you were in 1920,
when the missionaries first came. Call
home the 500 missionaries from India
and overthrow their 1000 schools,
where they are trying TO educate the
heather, and scatter the 100000 little
children that they have gathered out
of barbarism into civilization. Oblit-
crate 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 aborig-
ines, and send home the 5000 mission
aries Of the cross who are tOiling in for
eign lands, toiling for Christ's sake,
toiling themselves into the grave Tell /
these 5000 men of God that they are OF |
no use. Send home the medical mis- /
sionaries who are doctoring the bOdiea /
as well as the souls of the dying ma /
tions. Go home, London Missionary so /
ciety. Go home, American board of /
foreign missions. Go home, ye Moray
ians and relinquish back into darkness
and squalor and death the nations
whom We have begun to lift.
Oh, my friends, there has never been
such nefarious plot on earth as that
which infdelity and atheism have
planned. We were shocked a.few years
ago because Of the attempt to blow up
th6parliament houses in London, butt
infdelity and atheism succeed in their
attempt they will dynamite world.
Let them have their full way, and this
world will be a habitation of three
rooms-a habitation with just three
rooms. the one a madhouse, another a
lazaretto, the other a pendemonium.
These infidel bands of music have only
Just begun their concert-yea, they
have only been stringing up their in
struments. l to-day put before you
their whole programme from beginning
unto close. In the theater the trag-
edy comes first and the farce after
ward. but in this infidel drama OF
death the farce comes first and the trag-
edy afterward And in the former
atheists and infdels laugh and mock,
but in the latter God himself will laugh
and mock He says so. 81 will laugh at
their calamity and mock when their
fear cometh."
At the beginning God said: LET
there be light" and light was, and light
is. and light shall be. So Christianity
Is rolling on, and il is going to warm all
nations. and all nations are to bask in
It's light. Men may shut the window
blinds so they cannot see it, or they may
smoke the pipe of speculation until
hey are shadowed under their own
but the Lord God is the sun!
This white light of the Gospel made up
If all the beautiful colors of earth and
Ieaven-violet plucked from amid the I
pring grass, and the indigo of the
southern jungles, and the blue Of the
kies, and the green of the foliage, and
he yellow of the autumnal woods, and
he orange of the southern groves, and
he red of the sunsets. All the beauties
II earth and Heaven brought out by
his spiritual spectrum. Great Britain
$ going TO take all Europe for God.