Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1899-05-13

civilization hurled back into scmiharha
rism and scmihnrharism driven back into
lluttentOt saNagcry The wheel of pro
grcss turned the other way aud turned To
ward the dark aers The clock of the cen
turtles pat back . 1000 years to hack YOU
Sandwich Islands. fr, IA your schools ard
from Your colleges and from Your reform
rd condition 10 what yen worc IN lS20
when the missionaries first came Can
home the boo missionaries from India aud
overthrow their 900 schools where they
arr trying 10 educate the heathcn, and
scatter th" TO. una little Children that they
have gathered out Of harharism iutoCiNih
cation Ohlitcratcall the work OF nr Dun
/ In India at David Ahcrl Ia China. Of nr
/ King ~ Greeer, Of hudson IN burma, Of
David Brnerd amid the American abe
4 regimes, and send home the 3 600 mission
1 aries of "a, cross who arr toiliug IN for
cign lands toiliuE Tor Christ > sake toll
ing themselves into the grave. T,ll these
5000 men of cod thut They arr of no use
send home the medical missionaries who
are doctoriug the bodies as woll rs the
souls Of the dying nations TO home. Lon
don Missionary society Go homo. Amori
can Board 81 Foreign Missions Go home
~ Moravians and rcliuquish back into
darkness aud squalor and death the ma
tons whom " have begun "a lift
Nrfnrious Plot.
oh. my friends. there has never been
such nciarious plot ON earth as That
which nfdcliiy and atheism, have planned.
We were shocked "A fcw Wears ago h,causo
uf the attempt Co blow up the parliament
houses In London but II iniidcliiy and
atheism suceed IN their attempt they viii
dynamite "a world Lat them have their
full way, and this world viii De- u hahita
ton at three ruomS--a hahitation with
just three rpoius. the one madhou>c. an.
other laxarcttu the othcr - pandcmo
MUM These iniidrl bands Of music have
only Just begun their concert Yea, they
have only been striugirg their instru
mcnts. ] today put before You their whole
programme from beginning unto close.
In the thcatcr the tragedy comes first and
the farce aftvrward. but in this intidci
drama ~ death the farce comes first and
the tragedy aft,rward. And in the former
atheists and inildcls laugh and mock, hrt
I'm the latter God himself will laugh and
mock lie says 50 I will laugh AT their
calamity and mock when their fear
comcth
From such u chasm of individual. ma
tional. wordw Idle ruin. stand back. oh,
young men. stand back from that chasm
You see the practical drift of my sermon.
want you 10 know where that road leads.
Stand back from that chaSm Of ruin. The
time IS going To come tyuu and may not
live to see it. hut il will come. just as Ger
tainly rs there is tod 1t will GOMEZ
when the infldcls and the atheists who
openly and ont aud ont aud above board
preach and practice iniidolity and atheism
will Ia considered ~ criminals against 81,
cicty. as they are now criminals against
God society will push oui the lepcr, and
the wretch with soul gangrcnod and ichor
Gus and Ncrmin covered and rotting apart
with his hcasiiality will hc left To- die I'm
the ditch and hc denied decent burial, and
men viii come with spades and cover up
the carcass where il falls that It poison
not the air, and the only text in all the
Bible appropriate for the funeral sermon
will hc Jeremiah xxi. -, lie shall be
buried with thu burial of an ass
Victory For Christianity.
A thousand voices come up to me this
hour, saving: Do you really think inn
deity will succeed? Has Christianity NJ
ccivcd It's dcathhlowg and will the Bible
become obsolete" Yes, when the smoke
OF the city chimney arrests and destroys
the MONDAY sun .Ioscphus says about the
time of the destruction of Jerusalem tho
sun was turned into darkness but only
| the clouds rolled between the sun and the
earth. The sun went right on. II Is the
same sun, the same lumnarv. rs when at
the beginning 1t shot ont like AN electric
spark from Gods finger. and today IL is
warming the nations. and today II j. gild
ing the sea, and today ii is filling tho
earth with its light The same old sun,
not NJ all vermont. though its light steps
! 1870 600, 600 miles u second, though its pul
sations are i50. 900, 600 600, 900 undula-
tions In second The same sun with
beautiful white light made up Of the VIC.
| let and the indigo, and the blue, and the
green and the red, and the yellow, and
| the orangc-thc seven beautiful Colors
now just rs WHEN the solar spectrum first
divided them.
At the beginning God said: let there
| hc light, I" and light was. and light j.. and
| light shall be - Christianity is rolling
on, and II Is going Ia warm all nations
and all nations arc 10 haSk in its light
Men may shut the window blinds 50 they
cannot see il, or they may smoke the pipe
Of speculation until they are shado,,rl uu-
der their OWN yapuriug. hut the Lord God
| Is "a sun This white light of the gospel
made up Of all the beautiful cplnrs Of
earth and hcaven--vinlct pluckod from
amid the spring grass, and the indigo Of
the southern iungcs. and the blue Of the
skies. and the green of the foliage, and
the yellow Of the autuunal woods, and
the orange Of the southern groves. and the
rcd OF the sunsets All the beauties Of
earth ana heaven brought out 10y this
! spiritual spectrum Grca, Britain is going
Ia take all Europe for God The United
States arr going 10 take America for tod.
Both of them together will take all Asia
for God All three 81 them will take
Africa for God Who art thou. q great
mouutains Before Icruhbal1cl thou shalt
become plain THE mouth of the Lord
hath snoE,u II 80 IfnlIaluiuh ur,.uf