Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-05-20


dead once, dead forever.
But ON. ye great army of infidels and
atheists. on They will attempt to scale
heaven There are heights to be taken.
Pile hill on hill, 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 liveth forever and ever.
They would take down from their high
place the Father, the Son. the Holy
Ghost. Clown with theml' they say.
"Down with them from the thronel"
they say. down foreverl Down out
of sightl He is not God. He has no
right to sit there. Down with himl
Down with Christi
Turned Buck to Savagery.
A world without head. universe
without a king. Orphan consultations.
Fatherless galaxies. Anarchy supreme.
A dethroned Jehovah. An assassinated
God. Patricide. regicide, decide. That
is what they mean. That is what they
will have, if they can. l cay, if they
can. Civilization hurled back into
standardization, and semibarbarism
driven back into Hottentot snyagery.
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 1920,
when the missionaries first came. Call
home the 500 missionaries from India
and overthrow their 1000 schools,
where they are trying to educate the
heatlen and scatter the 40. 600 little
children that they have gathered out
of barbarism into civilization. Obliter-
ate all the work of DR.. Duff in India,
of David Abeel in China of DR.. King
in Greece. Of Judson in Burma, OF
David Braincrd amid the American
aborigines, and send hcme the 5000
missionaries Of the cross who are toll
ing in foreign lands. toiling for Christ's
sake, toiling themselves into the grave.
Tell these 3, 600 men of God that they
are of no use Send home the medical
missionaries who are doctoring the
bodies as well as the souls of the dying
nations Go home, London Missionary
society Go home, American board OF
foreign 1nissions Go home, ye Mora
vians. and relipquish back into darkness
and squalor and death the nations
whom ye have begun to lift.
Oh, my friends, there has never been
auch nefarious plot on earth as that
which infideity and atheism have plan
ned. We were shocked few years ago
because of the attempt to blow up the
parliament houses in London, but if in
fidelity and atheism succeed in their at
tempt 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 madhouse, another
lazaretto, the other a pundemonium.
These infidel bands of music have only
have only been stringing their instru-
ments. l 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 intidel drama of death the farce
comes first ard the tragedy afterward
And in the former, atheists and infdels
laugh and mock, but in the latter God
himself will laugh and mock. He says
so. 81 will laugh at their calamity and
neck when their fear cometh. .
From such a chasm of individual ma
tional, worldwide ruin, stand back
Oh, young men. stand back from that
chasml You see the practical drift CT
my sermon. l want you to know where
that road leads Stand back from that
chasm of ruin The time is going to
come lyon and may not live to see it.
but it will come. just as certainly as
there is God. it will Gomez when the
infdels and the atheists who openly
and out and out and aboveboard preach
and practice intidelity and atheism
will be considered as criminals against
society, as they are now criminals
against God. Society will push out the
leper. and the wretch with soul gan
grened and ichorous and yermin cover
ed and rotting apart with his bestiall-
ty will be left to die in the ditch and
be denied decent burial and men Will
come with spades and cover up the car
cass where it falls, that it poison not
the air, and the only text in all the Bi.
BILE appropriate for the funeral sermon
will be jeremiah xii. 10. HE shall be
buried with the burial of an ass. t"
Infdelity VIII Fall.
A thousand voices come up to me
this horr, saying: "Do you really think
inhieity will succeedY Has Chris
, tianity received its dcathblowY And
! will the Billie become obsolete2'' Yes,
when the smoke of the city chimney
arrests and destroys the monday SUM-
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 the
earth. The sun went right on. 1t is the
same sum- the same luminary, as when
at the beginning it shot ont like an
electric spark from Gods finger, and
today it is warming the nations, and
today it is gliding the sea, and today it
is filing the earth with its light. The
same old sun. not at all worn out,
though its light steps one hundred and
ninety million miles second, though
its pulsations are four hundred and fifty
trillion undulations in a second. The
same sun with beautiful white light
made up of the violet, 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 the beginning God said, Let
there be light and light was. and
light is, and light shall I've. So Chris
tianity is rolling on, and it is going to
warm all nations, and all nations are
to bask in its light.~yMen may shut the
window blinds so they cannot see it, or