St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-17
VOL. XX1V.-NO. 25.

Bnt on. &c great army of infideis and
atheists, t.n! They will attempt 70
scale Heaven. There are heights to be
taken. Pile hill on kill 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 iveth 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
throne!" they say. "Down forever.
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, q universe
without king. Orphan consultations
Fatherless galaxies. Anarchy SUI
rreme. A 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.
il 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 1S2o.
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 barbarisn into civilization. Oblit-
crate all the work of DR.. Duff in India.
of David Abeel in China, OF DIR. King in
Greece, of Judson in Burma, of David
Eraincrd amid the American Gborig-
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 1900 men Of God that they are OF
no use. Send home the medical mis-
sionaries who are doctoring the bodies
rs well as the souls of the dying ma
tions. Go home, London Missionary So
ciety. Go home, American board OF
foreign missions. Go home, We 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 infidelity and atheism have
planned. We were shocked few years
ego because Of the attempt to blow up
the parliament houses in London, but if
infidelity 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 q madh0use, anothera
lazaretto, the other pendemonium.
These infidel bands Of music have only
Just begun their concert-yea, they
have only been stringing up their in
struments.. 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 infidels laugh and mock,
but in the latter God himself will laugh
and mock. He says so. Il will laugh at
their calamity and mock when their
fear cometh."
From such 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. 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 it,
but it will come; just as certainly as
there is God it will Gomez when the
infidels and the atheists who openly
and out and out and above board preach
and practice infidelity and atheism will
be considered as criminals against So
ciety, as they are now criminals against
God. Society will push ont the leper.
and the wretch with soul gangrened
and ichorous and vermin covered and
rotting apart with his beastiality will
be left to die in the ditch and be denied
spades and cover up the carcass where
it falls, that it poison not the air, and
the only text in all the Bible appro-
pirate for the funeral sermon will be
jeremiah 22:19: lie shall be buried
with the burial of an ass"
a thousand voices come up to me
this hour, saying: do you really think
infidelity will succeed? Has Christi
anity received its dcathblow? and viii
the Bible become obsolete?" Yes.
when the smoke of the city chimney
arrests and destroys the MONDAY sum-
Josephus says about the time of the de-
struction of Jerusalem the sun waE
turned into darkness, but only the
clouds rolled between the sun and the
earth. The sun went right en-. 1t is
the same sun. the same luminary, as
when at the beginning it shot cut Ike
an electric spark from Gods finger, and
to-day il is warming the nations, and
to-day il is gliding the sea. and to-day
it is filing the earth with its light.
The same old sun, rot ct al worn oft,
though its light steps 19o,oc0.oc0 miles
u SccOHus tIcuS IL ltS I<ut-tAtiohS al ( 1So,-
c00, 900 .0eO 900 fluctuations in 4 second.
The same sun with beautiful white
light made up of the violet. and tic In
ligo, and the blue, ard the green. and
the red, and the yellow. and the orange
the seven beautiful colors, now just
as when the solar spectrum first di-
vided them.
At the beginning God said: "Lct
there be light" and light was, and light
is, and light shall be. So Christianity
is rolling on, and it is goirg to warm all
and I'll nations are to Eask in
its light. Men may shut the window
blinds so they cannot see it. or they Tiav
smoke the pipe of speculation until
they are shadowed under their own
but the Lord Ccd is the sun.
This white light of the Gospel made UP
of all the beautiful colors of earth and
Heaven-yiolet rlucked from amid the
spring grass. and the indigo of the
southern iungles, and tie blue Of fhe
skies and tho crreu cf the foliage. and