The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-05-15

would not want to SEQ a rail train
with 500 Christian people on board go
down through drawbridge into wstery
grave; would not want to see 500 Chris.
tian people 60 into such disaster, but tell
you plainly that could more easily see
that than could for any protraoted time
stand and see an infldel die, though his
pillow were Of elder down and under a
canopy of vermilion. have never been
able to brace up my nerves for such a
spectacle. There Is something at such a
time so indescribable in the countenance
just looked In upon 1t for minute or
two, but the clutch Of his fist was so dia-
bolic and the strength of his voice was so
unnatural could not endure 1t. "There
Is no hell, there Is no hell, there is no
hell" the man had said for 80 years, but
that night when l looked in the dying
room of my infidel neighbor there was
something on his countenance which SEEM
ed to say, "There is, there is, there Is,
| there isl" The mightiest restraints today
against theft, against immortality, against
libertinism. against crime of all sorts--ths
mightiest restraints are the retrbutions
Of eternity. Men know that they can es.
cape the law, but down in the offenders
soul there is the realization Of the fact
that they cannot escape God. He stands
at the end Of the road Of profigacy, and
he will not clear the guilty. Take all idea
OF retribution and punishment out of the
hearts and minds Of men, and It would
not be long before our cities would become
Sodoms. The only restraints against the
evil passions Of the world today are Bible
restrai nts.
If Atheism Triumphed.
Suppose now these generals. of atheism
and infdelity got the victory and suppose
they marshaled a great army made up Of
the majority of the world They arc in
companies, in regiments In brigades-the
whole army. Forward, march, ye hosts
OF infidels and atheists banners flying be-
fore, banners flying behind, banners in
scribed with the words ''No God! No
Christ! No Punishment! No Restraintsl
Down With the Biblei Do as You Please!''
The sun turned into darknessl
Forward, march, ye great army Of In
fldels and atheistsi And first Of all you
will attack the churches Away with
those houses Of yorshipl They have been
standing there so long deluding the people
with consolation in their bereavelnents
and sorrows. All those churches ought to
no CAtlIp utGu tucy LAVO uOAo bU lAuCu W
relieve the lost and bring home the wan
dering, and they have SO long held up the
idea Of eternal rest after the paroxysm Of
this life is over. Turn the St. Peters and
St. Pauls and the temples and taber-
nacles into clubhouses Away with those
churches!
Forward, march, ye great army of in
fldels and atheists, and next of all they |
In Cali HAL I1..l
bright eyed, rosy checked little ones who |
are singing songs Oh Sunday afternoon |
and getting instruction when they ought |
to be on the street corners playing marbles |
OF swearing on the commons. Away with |
theml Forward, march, ye great army Of
infidels and atheists, and next Of all they /
will attack Christian asyluns, the institu-
tions Of mercy supported by Christian
philanthropies. Never mind the blind
eyes 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 go back to their evil habits.
Forward, march, ye great army Of infldels
and atheists, and with your battleaxes
hew down the cross and split up the man.
ger of Bethlehem.
army u Destruct1OH. |
On, ye great army of infidels and athe-
lists, and now they come to the graveyards
and the cemeteries of the earth. Pull
down tho sculpture above Greenwood
gate, for it means the Resurrection. Tear
away at the entrance of Laurel Hill the
figure of Old Mortality and the chisel. On
ye great army of inf1dels and atheists, Into
the graveyards and cemeteries, and where
you SEQ ASLEEP In jesus cut it away,
and where you find marble story of
heaven blast it, and where you find over a
little ohild'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
WINGS and when you come to a family
vault chisel on the door, Dead once, dead
forever"
But on, 20 great army of inf1dels and
atheists, on They will attempt to scale
heaven. There arc heights to DO taken.
Pile hill on hill and Pelion upon Ossa,
and then they hoist the ladders against
tho walls Of heaven On and on until they /
blow up tho 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 tho Father,
the Son, the Holy Ghost. down with
themn' they say. down with them from
the thronel" they say. down forever!
Down out Of sightl He is not God. He
has no right to sit there. Down with him!
Down with Christ!''
Back to Barbarian.
A world without head, universe
without king. Orphan consultations.
Fatherless galaxies Anarchy supreme
A dethroned Jehovah. An assassinated q
God. Patricide, rcgicide, decide That
3 what they mean. That is what they t
will have II they can. say, If they can. S
utilization hurled back into semibarba- I
ism and semibarbarism driven back into
Iottentot savagery. The wheel of pro-
ross turned the other way and turned to-
'ard the dark ages. The clock Of the CEN
uries put back 1900 years. Go back, you
andwich Islands, from your schools and
rom your colleges and from your reform
4 condition to what you were in 1920,
hen the missionaries first came. Call
ONE the 500 missionaries from India and
verthrow their 1900 schools, where they
re trying to educate the heather, and
'atter the lao, 900 little children that they ,
ave gathered out Of barbarism into civil. y
alton. Obliterate all the work of Dr.. Duff p
l India, Of David Abeel In China, Of DR..
ing in Greece, of Judson in Burma, of
avid Brainerd amid the American abo- n
ginos, and send home tho 5000 mission :
-ies Of the cross who are toiling in for d.
gn lands, toiling for Christ's sake, toll r.
ig themselves into the grave. Tell these v
900 men Of God that they are of no use.
,nd homo the medical missionaries who
e doctoring the bodies as well as the
uls of the dying nations Go home Lon =
IN Missionary society. Go home, Ameri-
N Board of Foreign Missions Go home
J Moravians and relinquish back into
.rkness and squalor and death the ma
ons whom ye have begun to lift.
A Ncfarious Plot. -
Oh, my friends there has never been /
ch nefarious plot on earth as that /
hich infldelity and atheism have planned. y.
9 were shocked few years ago because mi m,
the attempt to blow up the parliament pa
uses in London, but If infidelity and 20
heisin succeed in their attempt they will ali
mantle world. Let them have their Of
II way, and this world will be habita- 70
III of three rooms-a habitation with 70
st three rooms, the ono madhouse, an II
her q lazaretto, the other pandcmo-
s..n I. 4 I, i. 4.