Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-05-18

"delusion' and sham" and where you
lind an angel in marble strike off the
wings, and when you como to u family
vault chisel on the door, Dead once, dead
srever"
But on, We great army Of inf1els ard
atheists, on Thoy will attempt to scale
heaven. There are heights to be taken
Pile hill on hill and Pclion 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 tho steep.
Now they aim for tho 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 I" they say. Down with them from
the throncl" they say. Down forever
Down out of sight He is not God. He
has no right to sit there. Down with him
Down wsh Christi
Back to barbarian.
A world without n head universe
without king. Orphan consultations.
Fathorless galaxies Anarchy supreme.
A dethroned Jehovah. An assassinated
God Patricide, regicido, decide. That
is what they mean. That is what they
will have IL they can. 1 say, If they can.
rism and semibarbsrism driven back into
Hottentot savagery. The wheel of pro-
Eress turned the other way and turned to-
ward the dark ages. The clock of the cen
turtles put back 1000 years Go back, you
Sandwich Islands, fran your schools and
from your colleges and from your reform
cd condition to what you were in 1920,
whom the missionaries first came. Call
home the 500 missionaries from India and
overthrow their {, 900 schools where they
are trying to educate the heather, and
scatter the l40, 600 little children that they
have gathered out of barbarism into civil
cation. Obltcrate 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 abo-
rhymes, and send home the 3, 600 mission
aries of the cross who are toiling in for
eign lands, toiling for Christ's sake, toll
ing themselves into the grave. Tell these
5000 men of God that they are of no use.
Send home the medical missionaries who
are doctoring the bodies us we'll as the
souls of the dying nations. Go home, Lon
don Missionary society Go home, Ameri-
can Board of Foreign Missions. Go home,
ye Moravians and relinquish back into
darkness and squalor and death the ma
tions whom yc have begun to lift.
A Nefnrious plot
Oh, my friends, there has never been
such Il ncfarious plot on earth as that
which infldclity and atheism have planned.
We were shocked few years ago because
of the attempt to blow up the parliament
houses in London, but if infdclity and
atheism succeed in their attempt they will
dynamite % world Let them have their
full way, and this world will be a hahita-
ton of three rooms--a habitatiOn with
just three rooms, the one madhousC, an
other lazuretto the other n pandcmo-
mum. These infdel bands Of music have
only just begun their concert-yea, they
have only been stringing their instru-
nents. | today put before you their whole
programme from beginning unto close.
In the theater the tragedy comes first and
the farce afterward, but in this inldel
drama OF death the farce comes first and
the tragedy 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 cham of individual. ma
tional, worldwide ruin, stand back. Oh,
You see the practical drift of my sermon.
I want you to know where that road leads.
Stand back from that chasm of ruin. The
time is going to come (you and may not
live TO see it, but it will come; just as Ger
tainly as there is God it will GOMEZ
when the infidels and the atheists who
openly and ont 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 out the leper, and
tho wretch with soul gangrened and ichor-
Gus and vermin covered and rotting apart
with his beastality will be left TO die in
the ditch and be denied decent burial, and
men will come with spades and cover up
the carcass where it falls, that 1t poison
not the air, and the only text in all the
Bible appropriate for the funeral sermon
will be jeremiah xxi, 10, HE shall be
buried with the burial of an ass. -
victory For Cbristianity.
A thousand voices come up to me this
hour, saying: do you really think inf
deity will succeed? Has Christianity re-
ceived its dcathhlow? and will the Bible
become obsolete?' Yes, when the smoke
Of the city chimney arrests and destroys
the MONDAY sun. Josephus says about the
time of the destruction of Jerusalem the
sun was turned into darkness, but only
the clouds rolled between the sun and tho
earth. The sun went right on. 1t Is the
same sun, the same lulninary, as when at
the beginning it shot out like an electric
spark from Gods finger, and today 1t is
warming the nations, and today ii Is gild-
ing the sea, and today it is filling the
earth with its light. Tho same old sun,
not at all wornout, though its light steps
1870, 900, 600 miles a second, though its pull
sations are $50, 900, 600, 900, 900 undula-
tons in n 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 orange--the seven beautiful colors,
now just as when the solar spectrum first
divided them.
At tho beginning God said "Let there
! be light and light was, and light is, and
light shall be- So Christianity is rolling
on, 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
cannot see it, or they may smoke the pipe
of speculation until they are Swallowed un-
der their own vaporing, but the Lord God
is sum This white light of the gospel
made up of all the beautiful colors OF
earth and heavcn--violet pluckod from
amid the spring grass, and the indigo OF
the southern jungles, and the blue of the
skies, and the green OF the foliage, and
the yellow OF the autumnal woods, and
the orange of the southern groves, and the
red of tho sunsets All the beauties OF
earth and heaven brought out by this