Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-05-20
IcopvrIrht. Louis Klopsch. 1891

Humanity Lost Kncc Wthout
Divine Guidance.
copyright. Louis Klopsch. 1891
WASHINGTON. May l4.-In this ger
mon DR.. Talmage gives glimpse OF
what the world would he if the gospel
were abolished and the human race left
without divine guidance. The text is
Acts ii. 20. 1.-The sun shall be turned
into darkness. -
Christianity is the rising sun of our
time. and men have tried with the up
rolling vapors of skepticism and the
smoke of their blasphcmy to turn the
sun into darkness. Suppose the archan-
gels of malice and horror should be let
loose little while and be allowed to
extinguish and destroy the sun in the
natural heavens They would take the
oceans from other worlds and pour
them on the lnminary Of the planetary
system, and the waters 80 Kissing down
amid the ravines and the caverns. and
there is explosion after explosion until
there are only few peaks of fire left
in the sun. and these are cooling down
and going ont until the vast continent7
of fame are reduced to IL small acreage
of fire, and that whitens and cools off
until there are only II few GOALS left,
and these are Whitening and going out
until there is rot II spark left i'll all the
mountains of ashes and the valleys OF
ashes and the chasms of ashes. An ex-
tinguished sunl a dead sun a buried
sun Let all worlds vail at the stu
pendous 0Dseqnies.
Of course this withdrawal of the
solar light and heat throws our earth
into universal chill. ard the tropics
become the temperate, and the temper
ate becomes the arctic. and there are
frozen rivers and frozen LAKES and fro
zen oceans From arctic 10 antarctic
regions the inhabitants gather III to-
ward the center ana find til" equator as
the poles. The slain forests are piled up
into great bonfire. aud aInrnd them
gather the shvering villages and cities
The wealth of the coal mines is hastily
poured into the furnaces and stirred
into rage of combustion. but soon the
bontires begin to lower. and the fur
nuces begin to go ont, and tie nations
begin to die Cotopaxi. Nesnvius, Etna,
Stromboli California geyscrs. cease to
smoke. and the ice of hailstorms re-
maine unmclted in their crater. All the
flowers have breathed their last breath.
Ships with sailors frozen at the mast,
and helmsmen frozen at the wheel, and
passengers frozen in the cabin. All ma
tions 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 congealing winter. Per-
petual winter Globe of frigidity.
Hemisphere shackled to hemisphere by
chains of ice. Universal Nova Zembla.
The earth an ice foe grinding against
other ice foes The archungels of malice
and horror have done their work, and
now they may have their thrones of
glacier and look down upon the ruin
they have wrought What the destruc-
tion of the sun in the natural heavens
would be to our physical earth the de-
struction of Christianity would be to
the moral world. The sun turned into
darkness
What Atheism Would Do.
Intdelity in our time is considered a
great joke There are people who re-
joice to hear Christianity caricatured
and 10 hear Christ assailed with quib-
BILE and quirk and Misrepresentation
and badinnge and harlequinade. l pro-
pose today to take infidelity and atheism
out OF the realm of popularity into one
of tragedy and show you what infdels
propose and what. if they are success
full, 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. | want to show
you what is the end of this road. and
what is the terminus of this crusade,
and what this world will be when athe-
ism and infdelity have triumphed ever
it. if they can. say. if they can. re-
iterate it. if they can.
In the first PLACE. it will he the com.
plete and unutterable degradation of
womanhood. will prove it by facts
and arguments which no honest MAJ
will dispute. In all communities and
cities and states and nations where the
Christian religion has been dominant
woman's condition has been ameliorat-
ed and improved, and she is deferred to
and bonored in thousand things, and
every gentleman takes off his hat be-
fore her If your associations have been
good, you know that the name of wife,
mother, daughter, suggest gracious sur
roundings You know there are no bet
ter schools and seminaries in this coun-
try than the schools and seminaries for
our young ladies. You know that while
woman 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
condition in lands where Christianity
has made little or no advance-ln
China. in Barbary, in Borneo, in Tar
tary. in Egypt in Hindustan. The Bur
,lese sell their wives and daughters as
so many sheep Tile Hindoo Bible
makes it disgraceful and an outrage for
IL wunlan to listen to music or look out
Of the window in the absence OF her
Susl and ard gives as il lawful ground
for divorce wcman's beginning to eat
Erfore her husband has finished his
neal What mean those white bundles
OH the ponds and rivers in China in the
norningt lnfanticide following in
fanticide. Female children destroyed
simply because they are female Wom-
an harnessed to the pillow as an OK.
Woman yelled and barricaded and in
all styles of cruel seclusion. Her birth
misfortune Her life torture. he
death horror The missionary of TIT
cross today in heather lands preache
generally to two groups-a group o
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