The Penn's Grove record., 1899-05-19
PENIS GROVE, N. j., FRIDAY. MAY 10, 1899.

unu IHhueiity Sot tne victory ana suppose
they marshaled a great army made up of
the majority Of the world They are In
companies, IN regiments, In brigades-thd
whole army. Forward, march, ye hosts OF
in0dels and atheists, banners flying be-
fore, banners flying behind, banners in
scribed with the words: mo Godl No
Christi No Punishment No Restraintsl
Down With the Bible! Do as You Pleasel'
The sun turned into darknessl
Forward, march, We great army OF In
fldels and atheists. And first of all you
will attack the churches. Away with those
houses of Worship They nave been stand
ing there so long %deluding the people with
consolation In their berea vements and sor-
rows. All those churches ought to be ex-
tirpated; they have done SO much to re.
lleve the lost and bring home the wander
ing, and they nave so long held mp the
idea OF eternal rest after the paroGysm OF
this life is over. Turn the st. Peters and
st. Pauls and the temples and tabernacles
into clubhouses. Away with those churchesl
Forward, march! ye great army Of in.
fidels 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
themi Forward, march, ye great army oil
inldels and atheists, and next of all they
will attack Christian asylums-the institu.
lions 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 inldels
and atheists, and with your battleaxes hew
down the cross and split up the manger o.
Bethlehem.
On, We great army Of inndels and athe-
lists, n now they come to the graveyards
and the cemeteries Of the earth. Pull down
the sculpture above Greenwood's gate, fol
It means the resurrection. Tear away at
the entrance OF La1rol Hill the figure Of
Old Mortality and the chisel. On, ye great
army ofinfdels 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 heaven, blast it,
and when you find over a little ehild's
grave, "Suffer little children to come unto
Me-" substitute the words "delusion" and
"sham," and where you find an angel in
marble, strike off the wing, and when you
some to a family vault, chisel on the door.
dead once, dead forever"
But on, ye great army of inhdels and
atheists, onl They will attempt to scale
heaven. There are heights to be taken.
Pile hill on hill, and Pelion upon Ossa, and
then they hoist the ladders against this
walls of heaven. On and on until they blow
up the foundations of jasper and the gates
of pearl. Theyscharge up the steep. Now
they aim for the throne of Him who liyeth
forever and ever. They would take down
from Their high place the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Ghost. "Down with Theml''
they say. "Down with Them from the
thronei" they say. Down ~foreverl Down
out OF sight He is not God. He has no
right to sit there. Down with Himl Down
with Christi"
A world without a head, n universe with
out a king. Orphan consultations. Father.
less galaxies. Anarchy supreme. A de-
throned Jehovah. An assassinated God
Patricide, regielde, decide. That is what
they mean. That is what they will have,
II they can. I say, if they can. Civiliza-
ton hurled back into semibarbarism, and
standardization driven back into Hottentot
savagery. The wheel of progress turned
the other way turned toward the dark
ages. The cloc. the centuries put back
1000 years, Go Z, you Sandwich ISL
ands, from you 81 vols, and from your
colleges, and from your reformed condi-
ton, to what you were in 1920, when the
missionaries first came. Call home the 500
missionaries from India and overthrow
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educate the heather, and scatter the 1i0,-
900 little children that they have gathered
out OF barbarism into civilization, Obliter-
ate all the work of DR.. Duff in India, oil
David Abeel in China, of Dr.. King in
Greece, of Judson in Burma, of David
Brainerd amid the American a~borigines,
and send home the 5000 missionaries Of the
cross who are toiling in foreign lands, toll
ing for Christ's sake, toiling themselves
into the grave. Tell these 5000 men Of God
that they are of nc use. Send home the
medical missionaries who are doctoring
the bodies as well as the souls of the dying
nations. Go home, London Missionary
society," Go home, American board oil
foreign missions! Go home, ye Morayians
and %relinquish back into darkness and
squalor and death the nations whom ye
have begun to lift.
From such a chasm Of individual, ma
tional, worldwide ruth, stand back, Oh,
young men, stand back from that chasml
You see the practical drift of my sermon,
l want you to know where that road leads,
Stand back from that chasm of ruin. The
time is going to come (you and l may not
live to see 1t, but it vii! come, just as Ger.
tainly as there is a God, 1t will Gomez when
the infdels and the atheists who openly
and out and out and aboveboard preach
and practice in1delity and atheism, will be
considered as criminals against society, az
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 and 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 it poison not the air,
and the only text in all the Bible appropriate
for the funeral sermon will be Jeremiah
xii, 10, He shall be buried with the
bur al Of an ass"
At the beginning God said, LET there be
light" and light was, and light is, and
light shall be. So Christianity Is rolling
and it 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 OF
speculation until they are Swallowed under
their own vaporing, but the Lord God is a
sum This white light of the gospel made
up Of all the beautiful colors of earth and
heaven violet plucked from amid the
spring grass, and the indigo of the south
ern jungles, and the blue OF the skies, and
the green OF the foliage, n the yellow oil
the autumnal woods, and the orange OF the
southern groves, and the red OF the sun.
sets. All the beauties of earth n 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 them to-
gether will take all Asia for God. All
three of them will take Africa for God.
"Who art thou, o great mountain Before
~Zerrubbabel thou shalt become u plain"
1.-The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it."
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