Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-05-18
AN ETERNAL GLOOM.
DR.. Talmgge Pictures the Earth
Without the Gospel.
Ni,idIy rortrnSs the tI"om Of nm Iu-
RdrI N"rid-Iriumph ot Atheism
N.uid Nrnn Death of
ti,iIiSatIon.

| la thus Stitluu IN. ldlnliHt gives
| glimpse at what the world would bc il
the Gu~prl were abolished and the hu-
man race left without zine guidance.
| The text g. Nets 80. The sun shall
hr turned into darkness
| Christianity - the rising sun of our
time. and uru have tried with the mp
| rnlliu" ,apnrs at skrptIci~m and iii"
smoke "i their hlasphcmy I" turn the
-uu into darkness. suppose the arch
| angel, uf malice aud horror should he
| let lnn~r a litilr while aud hr allowed e"
c\tiu"ul,h aud drsiruN th" >un III III"
natural heavens. They would take ia"
oceans from other worlds and pour
| them on the huinarv of the planetary
so stem. aud the waters 90 hISSin" down
amid the raViurs and the caN"rns, and
| there * expulsion after explosion. untIl
| there are only few peaks at fire l"it
| in the SUI. and thc>r are "oolIn" down
| aud goin" ont until the vast continents
Of ilaInr are reduced Ia u small a"r"aS"
nf iiI,.. AMI that whitruS aud cools oil
until there are only u few Goals left.
| nd these ate whitening aud going ont
until there ~ not u sprck left in all ih"
mountains Of ashes aud the valleys at
aShr,, aud the chasm~ of ashes. I'm "N-
| iinguiShrd sun, \ dead >un, y buried
sun, Let all worlds vail at the stupcn-
dous ohScquirS
Of cnur~, this withdrawal Of the solar
light and heat throws our earth into n
| universal chill. aud the tropics brcom"
the temperate. aud the temperate he
| comes the arctic. and there are frozen
rivers aud frozen takes and frozen
| oceans. From arctic and antarctic re-
| ciunS the inhabitants gather in toward
the center aud find the equator a. the
| poles The slain forests are piled up
| into Il great bonfire. and around them
| gather the ShiNrring villages and cities.
The wealth of the coal mines is hastily
| poured into the furnaces and stirred
| into rage Of combustion. but soon the
| buniircS begin Ia lower. and the fur
nacrS hcgin To go out. and the nations
| begin 10 die. Cotopa Vi. \rsuNius. Etna,
| Stromholi. California grNSrrs. cease Ia
smoke. and the ice of hailStorms re-
mains unmrltrd in their crater. All
| the flowers have brrathcd their last
| breath. Ships with sailors frozen at
the mast. and hclmSmcu frozen M the
wheel. and passengers frozen in the
cabin. all nations diving, first at the
north aud then at the south. Child
frosted and dead in the cradle. Octo-
gcnariau frosted aud dead AT the
| hearth. Norkmcn with frozen hand on
| the hammer and frozen foot ON the
| shuttle. Winter from sea to sea. All
congraling winter. Perpetual winter.
Globe of friridity. Hemisphere shack-
led Ia hemisphere Ivy chains of
| ice Universal Nova /embla. The earth
an ice ilrr grinding against other ice
| foes. The archan"rls of malice and
| horror have done their work. and now
they may take their thrones of glacier
| and look down upon the ruin they have
wrought. What the destruction of the
sun in the natural heavens would he
to our physical earth. the destruction
| of Christianity would he to the moral
| world. The sun turned into darkness.
Intidelity in our time is considered a
| great Joke. There are people who re-
| ioicc Ia hear Christianity caricatured
and To hear Christ assaulted with bubble
and Tuirk and misrepresentation and
| badinagc and harlequinade. propose
TODAY Ia take iniidrlity and atheism
Dut of the realm of popularity into one
OF tragedy and show YOU what iniidrls
| propose aud what il they are successful
| they will accomplish There are those
in our communities who would like To
see the Christian religion ovcrthrown
and who say the world would he better
without it. | want Ia show You what
* the end of this road and what is the
terminus of this crusade and what this
world Will hc when atheism and intidel-
ry have triumphrd over it. il they can.
] say. if they can. I rcitcratc il, If they
| can.
In the first place. il will I've the com
| plete and unutirrahlc DEGRADATION of
womauhood ! will prove il by facts
and arguments which no honest man
will dispute. In all communities and
| cities and states and nations where the
| Christian religion has been dominant
|
rated and improved and she is deferred
to and honored in Il Thousand ihir"s.
and every gentleman takes off his hat
before her. If YOUR associations have
been good. You know that the name of
wife. mothcr. daughter suggests gra-
ciouS surroundings. You know there
are no better schools and srminarirS
| -, al \
sem;narirs for our youn" ladies. You
| know that while woman NAV suffer in
| justice in England and the United
States she has more of her rights in
| christendom than she has anywhere
else
Now, compare this with woman's con
Hilton in lands where Christianity has
made little or no advancr--in China.
IN Barbary. in Borneo. in Tartary, in
| Egypt, in ilindusian The burmese sell
their wives aud daughters as 80 many
sheep. The llindoo Bible makes il dis
| graceful and an outrage for woman tn
listen to music or look ont of the win
| low in the absence of her husband and
| gives as a lawful ground for divorce a
woman's beginning t. eat before her
husband has finished his meal. What
mean those white bundles on the poud,,
aud rivers in China in the morning ?
| lntanticidc following infanticide Fe-
male children DESTROYED simply because
they are female. Woman harncssed To
| he pillow as an OK. Woman yelled and
larricadcd and in all STYLES of cruel Sc
| riusion. Her birth u misfortune. Her
life a torture. Her death "A horror. The
missionary of the cross TODAY in
heather lands breaches generally Ia
two groupS-a group of men who do as
hey please and sit where they please;
the other group. women hidden and
carefully secluded in side apartment,
where they may hear the voice of the
preacher. hut may not I've seen No re-
incmcnt, No liberty No hope for this
life. No hope for the life to come
Hinged nose Crampvd foot. Disigured
face. Embrutc,l soul Now. comparr
those two conditions. How far toward
this latter condition that | speak of
would a woman go if Christian iniill.
enccs were withdrawn and Christianity
were DESTROYED? 1t j. only IA question
Of dynamite. IT an object hr lifted tn
| n certain point and not fastened There