Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-05-18

umph of Atheism would Mean
Death of Civilization.
copyright. Louis Klopsch. 1890
WASHINGTON, May 14.--In this sermon
DIR. Talmage gives glimpse of what the
world would be If the gospel were abolish
cd and tho human race left without divine
guidance. The text is Acts H. 90, THE
sun shall be turned into darkness
Christianity is the rising sun of our
time, and men have tried with tho uproll
ing vapors of skeptioism and the smoke OF
their blasphemy to turn the sun into dark
ness. suppose the archanacls of malice
and horror should be let loose little
| while and be allowed to extipRuish and
destroy the sun in the natural heavensl
| They would take the oceans from other
worlds and pour them on the luminary Of
/ the planetary system and the waters go
kissing down amid the ravines and the
cavcrns, and there is explosion after ex
plosion, until there are only few peaks
OF fire left in the sun, and these are cool
ing down and going out until the vast
continents of fame are reduced to small
acreage of fire, and that whitcns and cools
off until there are only n few Goals left,
and these are whitening and goinr out
until there Is not spark left in all the
mountains of ashes and the valleys Of
/ ashes and the chasins of ashes. An cx-
/ tinguished SUM- A dead sun! A buried
sum Let all worlds wall at the stupen-
dous obsequies.
! VI course 'his wlthora"a' Oh ,he SOAR
hshU anu ncao 'hroWs our earuh lhVo
uniVorsai chili, anu inc tropics become the
temperate anu 'he temperate becomes ehe
arcVio' anu 'here are Iroheh rivers anu
iroH,h i"hos anu iroNei, occnnS' rIoih
hrolio anu ahoarc'lc regions the ifiiiapl',
ah's sn'her III ,o"aru 'he center anu hno
'no elua.or "H one poleS' inc siam ioIesVs
or p,iou up in'o si'aO po"iirv, anu
nrounu eheil Ra'her une sniNerlhe 'hlt,eeS
anu oirie' ne "oai'n VI ',io co"l mines
a.,ns P' % nv ...o i,i i' '''y. 'iiu
tho honfros begin IN lower and tho fur-
naces hooin 70 GO ont and tha n,tinns ha
Gin Ia die Cotonar; Vosuy;us Eth,
! Strorholi colisorni, oo,.snrs nooso tn
/ sn,oko and tbn loo Of hails,orr,s ,,,,ins
unmelted in tboir crater All tho ,o,vors
! have bro,+bed tb,ir loci Lro,th Chins
With s,ilors froyon nt tb. mast nnd
/ bclusr,o, <ro,o,, ~ +bo ,,,hoo, ,nd nas-
sengors froyon In tho cobin al n,.inns
! dr;Yr, fre+ az 49,, 18th o,,J 49,, a. +Lo
| eo,,tb ChiId frostod o,,d daod ~ tho
cradle Oo4oc,or.rio,, fros+od ava daod NJ
! the hearth. Workmen with frozen hand
! on the hammer and frozen foot on the
shuttle. Winter from sea to sea All
congcaling winter. Perpetual winter
Globe or irlgldlty. Hemisphere shacklcd
TO hemisphere by chains of ice. Universal
Nova Zembla. The earth an ice foe grind
ing against other ice foes The archangels
of malice and horror have done their work,
and now they may take their thrones of
| glacier and look down upon the ruin they
have wrought. What the destruction OF
the sun in the natural heavens would be
to our physical earth, tho destruction OF
Christianity would be to the moral world.
The sun turned into darkness!
InndeIity "A Tragedy.
Infdelity in our time is considered n
great Joke. There are people who rejoice
to hear Christianity caricatured and To
hear Christ assailcd with bubble and
auirk and instrumentation and badinape
and harleouinade. nropose TODAY to take
infidelity and atheism out of the realm of
iocularitv into one of Tragedy and show