Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-05-24
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Preached by Rev. DR.. Talmags.

Preached by Rev. DR.. Talmags.
Word-Pieture OF . Goddess World
Deplorable Condition Into which In.
fidelity Would Plunge the World.
TEXT: ''The sun shall be turned into dark
ness."-Acts H., 20.
Christianity is the rising sun of our time,
and men have tried with the uprolling va
Pors Of skepticism and the smoke OF their
blasphemy to turn the sun into darkness.
Suppose the archangels Of malice and hor-
ror should be let loose a little while and be
allowed to extinguish and destroy the sun
In the natural heavensl They would take
the oceans from other worlds and pour
them on the luminary Of the planetary sys-
tenn, and the waters 20 Kissing down amid
the ravines and the caverns, and there is
explosion after explosion until there are
only a few peaks OF fire left in the sun, and
these are cooling down and going out un-
til the vast continents Of fame are reduced
to a small acreage of fire, and that whitens
and cools on until there are only few
Goals left, and these are whitening and 60.
ing out until there is not spark left In all
the mountains OF ashes and the valleys OF
ashes and the chasms Of ashes. An extin-
guIshed sunl A dead sum- A buried SUM
Let all worlds wall at the stupendous OBJ
seQuies.
or course this withdrawal Of the solar
light and heat throws our e6rth into a uni
versal chill, and the tropics become the
temperate, and the temperate becomes the
arctic and there are frozen rivers and frozen
lakes and frozen oceans. From arctic to an
tarctic regions the Inhabitants gather in
toward the center aud find tn. equator as
tk,ov. al lofn R,r Ill.
into a great bonfire, and around them
gather the shivering villages and cities.
The wealth OF the coal mines is hastily
poured into the furnaces and stirred into
rage of combustion, but soon the bonfres
begin to lower, and the furnaces begin to
go out, and the nations begin to die. Coto-
paxi, Vesuvius, Etna, Stromboli. California
yeysers, cease to smoke, and the ice oil
hailstorms remains unmelted in their
crater. All the flowers have breathed theii
last breath. Ships with sailors frozen at
the mast. and helmsmen frozen at the
wheel, and passengers frozen in the cabin.
All nations dying, first at the north and
then at the south. Child frosted and dead
In the cradle. Octogenarian frosted and
dead at the hearth. Workmen with frozen
hand on the hammer and frozen foot on the
shuttle. Winter from sea to sea. All con-
gealing winter. Perpetual winter. Globe
Of frigidity. Hemisphere shackIed to hem
fsphere by chains of Ice. Universal Nova
Zembla. The earth an ice foe grinding
against other ice foes. The archangels of
malice and horror have done their work,
aud now they may have their thrones of
glacier and look down upon the ruin they
have wrought. What the destruction of
the sun in the natural heavens would be
to our physical earth the destruction of
Christianity would be to the moral world
The sun turned into darkness!
Infldelity In our time Is considered a
0rapf inka Thora nQnnla whn
to hear Christianity caricatured and to hear
Christ assailed with quibble and quirk and
Misrepresentation and badinage and harle-
quinade. 1propose to-day to take infidel.
tty and atheism out OF the realm Of jocu-
larity into one Of tragedy and show you
what infidels propose and what, IL they are
successful, they will accomplish. There
are those in all our communities who would
like to see the Christian religion over
thrown and who say the world would be
better without It. I want to show you
what b sboerd Of this road, and what is
the terminus of this crusade, and what this
world will be when atheism and inhdeiity
have triumphed over IL, II they can. / say,
II they can. I reiterate 1t. II they can.
In the first place. it will be the com plete
hood. l will prove it by facts and argu-
ments which no honest man will dispute.
In all communities and cities and States
and nations where the Christian religion
has been dominant woman's condition has
been ameliorated and improved, and she is
deferred to and honored In thousand
things, and every gentleman takes off his
hat before her. II your associations. have
been good, you know that the name of
wife, mother, daughter, suggest gracious
surroundings. You know there are no bet
ter scho ols and seminaries in this country
than the schools and seminaries for our
young ladies. You know that while wom-
an may suffer injustice 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 condi-
tion in lands where Christianity has made
little or no ;advance-in China, in Barbay,
In Borneo. in Tartary, in.Egypt, in Hindus-
tan. The Burmese sell their wives and
daughters as so many sheep. The Hindoo
for a woman to listen to music or look out
of the window in the absence OF her hus-
band and gives as a lawful ground for di-
vorce q womans beginning to eat before
her husband has finished his meal. What
mean those white bundles on the ponds and
following infanticide. Female children de-
stroyed simply because they are females.
Woman harnessed to the plow as an OK
Woman veiled and barricaded and In all
styles of cruel seclusion. Her birth a mis-
fortune. Her life torture. Her death a
day In heather lands breaches generally to
two groups-a group Of men who do as
they please and sit where they please; the
other group, women hidden and care
fully secluded In a side apartment, where
they may hear the voice OF the preacher,
but may not be seen. No refinement. No
liberty. No hope for this life. No hope for
the life to come. Hinged nose. Cramped
foot. Disfgured face. Embruted soul.
Now, compare those two conditions.
How far toward this latter condition that
speak of would woman go IL Christian in
fluences were withdrawn and Christianity
were destroyed? 1t is only a question of
dynamics. II an object be lifted to a GER
tain point and not fastened there and the
lifting power be withdrawn, how long be-
fore that object will fall down to the
will fall down, and IL will 60
still farther than the point from which
it started. Christianity has lifted woman
up from the very depths of degradation
almost to the skies. II that lifting power
be withdrawn, she falls clear back to the
depth from which she was resurrected,
not going any lower, because there is no
lower depth, and vet Notwithstanding the
fact that the salvation OF woman from
DEGRADATION and woe Is the Christian re-
ligion-and the only influence that has
Christianity-I have read that there are
women who reject Christianity. 1 make
no remark in regard to those persons. In
the silence OF your own soul make your OBJ
sorvations.
II inndelity triumph and Christianity be
overthrow, it means the Generalization
of society. The one idea in the Bible that
atheists and infidels most hate Is the idea
OF retribution. Take away the idea OF re-
tributiOn and punishment from :oc.ety,
and it will begin very soon to disintegrate,
and take away from the minds OF men the
fear of hell, and there are a great many OF
them who would very soon turn this world
into hell. The majority Of those who are