The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-05-24

depth from Which she was ressurrected.
not going any lower, because there is no
lower depth. And yet, notwithstand-
ing the fact that the only salvation Of
woman from degradation and woe is the
Christian religion-and the only infu-
ence that has ever lifted her in the So
cial scales is Christianity-l have read
that there are women who reject Chris
tianity. | make no remark in regard to
those persons. In the silence Of your
own soul make your observations.
If infdelity triumph and Christiani-
ty be overthrown, it means the demor-
alization of society. The one idea IN
the Bible that atheists and lnhdels
most hat, is the idea Of retrlbutlon;
Take away the idea Of retribution and
punishment from society, and 1t 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 Indignant against the
Bible because Of the idea Of punish
ment are men whose lives are bad O.
whose hearts are impure and who hate
the Bible because of the idea Of future
punishment for the same reason that
criminals hate the penitentiary. Oh,
l have heard this brave talk about peo-
pie fearing nothing Of the consequences
of sin in the next world, and ! have
made up my mind it is merely a cow
ards vhistling to keep his courage up.
l have seen men iaunt their immorali-
ties in the face Of the community, and
| have heard them defy the Judgment
day and scof at the idea Of any future
consequence CT their sin, but
when they came to die they
shrieked until you could hear them for
nearly two blocks, and in the summer
night the reighbors got up to put the
windows down because they could not
endure the horror.
l would not want to see a rail train
with 800 Christian people on board go
down through drawbridge into wat
cry grave; l would not want to see 800
Christian people 60 into such disaster,
but | tell you plainly that could more
easily see that than I could for any pro-
tracted time stand and see an infdel
die, though mis- pillow were of elder
down and under canopy of vermilion.
| have never been able to brace up my
nerves for such spectacle. There is
something at such time 20 indescrib-
able in the countenance. I just looked
in upon it for minute or two, but the
clutch of his fist was so diabolic and
the strength Of his voice was so unnatu-
raj could not endure it. There is no
hell, there is no hell, there is no hell
the man had said for 60 years, but that
night when I looked in the dying room
of my infdel neighbor there was some
thing on his countenance which seemed
to say, "There is, there is, there is,
there Isl" The mightiest restraints
today against theft, against immortality,
against libertinism, 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 realiza-
tion of the fact that they cannot escape
God. He stands at the end Of
the road Of proaigacy, and be
will not clear the guilty. Take
all idea Of retribution and punish
ment out Of the hearts and minds Of
men, and it would not be long before
our cities would become Sodoms. The
only restraints against the evil passions
Of the world today are Bible restraints.
Suppose now these generals of athe-
ism and in6delity got the victory and
suppose they marshaled a great army
made up of the majority of the world.
They are in companies, in regiments, IN
brigades-the whole army. Forward,
march, ye hosts Of infdels and atheists,
banners flying before, banners flying
behind, banners inscribed with the
words: "No God! No Christ! No Pun
ishment No Restraints Down With
the Bible! Do as You Please!" The
sun turned into darkness!
Forward, march, ye great army of in
fdels and atheists! And first of all you
will attack the churches. Away with
those houses of worship! They have
been standing there so lJng deluding
the people with consolation in their
bereavements and sorrows. All those
churches ought to be eztirpated, they
have done so much TO relieve the lost
and bring home the wandering, and
they have so long held up the idea Of
eternal rest after the paroxysm Of this
life is over. Turn the St. Peters and
St. Pauls and the temples and taber-
nacles into clubhouses. Away with
those churches
Forward, march, ye great army Of in
fdels and atheists, and next of all they
scatter the Sabbath schools filled with
bright eyed, rosy-cheeked little ones
who are singing songs on Sunday after
noon and getting instruction when they
ought to be on the street corners play
ing marbles or swearing on the COM
mons. Away with them! Forward,
march, ye great army Of infdels and
atheists, and mkt of all they will at
tack Christian asylums the institutions
Of mercy supported by Christian phi
lanthropies. 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 go back to their evil
habits. Forward, march, ye great army
Of in6dels and atheists, and with your
battleaxes hew down the cross and split
up the manger of Bethlehem.
On, ye great army of in6dels and
atheists, and now they come to the
graveyards and the cemeteries of the
earth. Pull down the sculpture above
Greenwoo6's gate, for it means the