Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-06-15


further consequence Of their sin, but when
they came 10 die they shrieked until you
could hear them for nearly two blocks, and
In the summer night the neighbors got up
to put the windows down, because they
could not endure the horror.
The mfghtjest restraints to-day against
theft, against immortality, against libertin.
ism, against crime OF all sorts the
mightiest restraints are the retributions OF
eternity. Men know that they can escape
the law, but down in the offenders soul
there is the realization Of the fact that
end OF the road OF profigacy, and He will
not clear the guilty. Take all idea OF re-
tributton and punishment out OF the
hearts and minds Of men, and 1t would not
be long before our cities would become
Sodoms. The only restraints against the
evil passions OF the world to-day are Bible
restraints.
Suppose now these generals OF atheism
and tnfdelity got the victory and suppose
they marshaled great army made up OF
the majority OF the world. They are In
companies, in regiments, in brigades-the
infidels and atheists, banners flying be-
fore, banners flying behind, banners in
scribed with the words: "No Godl No
Christi No Punishment No Restraintsl
Down With the Biblel Do as You Pleased"
The sun turned into darkness!
Forward, march! ye great army OF in
f1dels and atheists. And first Of all you
will attack the churches. Away with those
houses of worship! They have been stand
ing there so long deluding the people with
consolation In their bereavements and sor-
rows. All those churches ought to be ex-
tirpated; they have done SO much to re-
lieve the lost and bring home the wander
ing, and they have SO long held mp the
idea Of eternal rest after the paroxysm OF
this life is over. Turn the st. Peters and
st. Pauls and the temples and tabernacles
into clubhouses. Away with those churchesl
Forward, march! ye great army OF in
fidels and atheists, and next OF all they
scatter the Sabbath schools filed with
bright eyed, rosy checked little ones who
are singing songs on Sunday afternoon
and getting instruction when they ought
to be on the street corners playing marbles
or swearing on the commons. Away with
them! Forward, march! ye great army OF
infldels and atheists, and next Of all they
will attack Christian asylums-the institu-
tions Of mercy supported by Christian
philanthropies. Never mind the blind
eyes, and the deaf ears, and the crippled
limbs, and the darkened intellects. Let
paralyzed old age pick up its own food,
and orphans fight their own way, and the
half reformed 60 back to their evil habits.
Forward, march! ye great army Of infldels
and atheists, and with your battleaxes hew
down the cross and split up the manger of
Bethlehem.
On, ye great army OF infldels and athe-
lists, and now they come to the graveyards
and the cemeteries OF the earth. Pull down
the sculpture above Greenwood's gate, for
it means the resurrection. Tear away at
the entrance Of Laarel Hill the figure of
Old Mortality and the chisel On, ye great
army of inhdels and atheists, into the grave
yards and cemeteries, and where you see
"Asleep in Jesus" cut 1t away, and where
you find marble story of heaven, blast it,
and when you find over little child's
grave "Suffer little children to come unto
"sham," and where you find an angel in
marble, strike off the wing, and when you
come to u family vault, chisel on the door,
"Dead once, dead forever"
But on, ye great army Of inf1dels 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. Theyscharge up the steep. Now
they aim for the throne OF Him who liveth
from Their high place the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Ghost. down with Theml'
they say. "Down with Them from the
throne!" they say. Down forever! Down
out of sight! He is not God. He has no
right to sit there. Down with Him! Down
with Christi!
A world without a head, a universe with
out king. Orphan consultations. Father
less galaxies. Anarchy supreme. de-
throned Jehovah. An assassinated God.
Patricide, regicide, decide. That is what
they mean. That Is what they will have,
II they can. l say. If they can. Civiliza-
tion hurled back into semibarbarism, and
semibarbarism driven back into Hottentot
savagery. 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 Isl
ands, from your schools, and from your
colleges and from your reformed condi-
tion, 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 heather, and scatter the 140,-
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
Brainerd amid the American aboriSlnes,
and send home the 5000 missionaries OF the
Cross who are toiling In foreign lands toll
ing for Christ's sake, toiling themselves
into the grave. Tell these 5000 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, ye Moravians,
and rellnquish back into darkness and
squalor and death the nations whom ye
have begun to lift.
From such chasm OF individual, ma
tional, worldwide ruin, stand back. Oh,
young men, stand back from that chasm!
You see the practical drift Of my sermon.
I want you to know where that road leads.
Stand back from that chasm OF ruin. The
time is going to come (you and I may not
live to see it, but 1t will come. just as GER
tainly as there is a God, 1t Will come) when
the infdels and the atheists who openly
and out and out and aboveboard preach
and practice inf1delity and atheism, will be
considered as criminals against society, as
they are now criminals against God. So
ciety will push out the leper, and the wretch
with soul gangrened and ichorous and YER
min covered and rotting apart with his
bestiality 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 1t falls, that 1t poison notthe air,
and the only text in all the Bible appropriate
for the funeral sermon will be Jeremiah
xiii, 10, "He shall be buried with the
bur q! OF an ass.''