Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-19

No hope for this life. No nope for the
life to come. Hinged nose. Cramped
foot Disfigured face. Embruted soul.
Now compare those two conditions.
How far toward the latter condition
Christian influences were Withdrawn
and Christianity were destroyed? Ii is
ony a question of dynamics. If Gn OBJ
ject be lifted TO certain point and
not fastened there, and the lifting
power be withdrawn, how long before
that object will fall down to the point
from which it started? 1t will fall
down. and it will go still further than
the point from which it started. Chris
tianity has lifted woman up from the
very depths of degradation almost TO
the skies. If 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withdrawn she falls clear back to the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 yet, n0twlth-
standing the fact that the only saliva
ton OF woman from degradation and
woe is the Christian religion. and the
only influence that has ever lifted her
in the social scales is Christianity
nave read that there are women VINO
reject Christianity. | make no re-
mark in regard 10 those persons. In
the silence of your own soul make your
observations.
A world without a head. a universe
without king. Orphan consultations.
I. Il hxr
\ dethroned Jehovah. An assassinat-
ID God. Patricide, regicide. decide.
That is what they mean. That is what
they will have, if they can. say. II
they can. Civilization hurled back IN
% semi barbarism. and semi-barbarism
driven back into IIottentOt savagery
The wheel of progress turned the otner
way and turned toward the dark ages.
The clock of the centuries put BACK
two thousand years. Go back, you
Sandwich Islands, from your schools,
and from your colleges and from your
reformed condition 10 what you were
IN 1920. when the missionaries hrst
came. Call home the five hundred
missionaries from India, and over
throw their two thousand schools
where they are trying to educate the
heather. and scatter the one hundred
and forty thousand little children that
hey have gathered out OF barbarism
INTO civilization. Obliterate all the
work Of Dr. Duff in India, of David
Abeel in China, of Dr. King in Greece,
If JudsOn in Burmah. OF David Brain
ard amid the American aborigines. and
send home the three thousand mission
aries of the Cross who are tOiling in
foreign lands. toiling for Christi
sake, tOilng themselves into the
grave Tell these three thousand men
of God that they are of no use. Send
home the medical missionaries who are
doctOring the bodies as we'll as the
souls of the dying nations. Go home,
London Missionary society. Go home,
American Board of Foreign Missions.
Go home. we Moravians, and relinquish
back into darkness and squalor and
death the nations whom We have begun
TO lift.
Oh. my friends. there has never been
such nefarious plot on earth as that
which infidelity and atheism have
planned. We were shocked few
years ago because of the attempt to
blow up the Parliament Houses in
London; but if infidelity and atheism
succeed in their attempt they Will dy-
Mantle 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 a mad
house, another lazaretto, the other a
pandemOnium. These infidel bands Of
music have only just begun their con-
cert-yea, they have only been string
ing their instruments. today put be-
fore you their whole programme from
beginning unto close In the theater
the tragedy comes first and the farce
afterward; but in this infidel drama of
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 chasm of individual.
national, worldwide ruin stand back
Oh, young men, stand back from that
chasm. You see the practical drift OF
my sermon. 1 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
certainly as there is God. it will
Gomez when the infidels and the athe-
lists who openly and out and out and
above-bOard preach and practice inf
deity and atheism will be considered
as criminals against society. as they
are now criminals against God Soci-
ETY. will push out the leper. and the
wretch with soul gangrened and ichor-
Gus and vermin-covered and rotting
apart with his beastiality. will be left
to die in the ditch, and be denied de-
cent burial, and men will come with
spades and cover up the carcass where
it falls, that it poison not the air. and
the only text in all the Bible appropri-
are for the fIiDoral sarmop will H. To-