The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-26

your colleges, and from your reformed ,
condition, 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 100000 little
children that they have gathered out
Of barbarism into civilization. Obliter-
ate all the work of DIR. Duff in India,
of David Abeel in China, Of DR.. King
in Greece, of Judson in Burma, Of
David Brainerd mid the American
a~borigines. and send home the 5000
missionaries of the cross who are toll
ing in foreign lands, toiling 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, We Mora
vians, and relinquish back into. dark
ness and squalor and death the nations
whom we have begun to lift.
Oh, my friends, there has never been
such a nefarious plot on earth. as that
which inf1delity n atheism has plan
ned. We were shocked a few years ago
because of the attempt ito blow up the
parliament houses in London, but if in
fidelity and atheism succeed in their at
tempt they will dynamite a world. Let
them nave their full way, and this
world will be a habitation of three
rooms-a habitation with just three
rooms; the n a madhouse, another a
lazaretto, the other a pandemonium.
These infidel bands of music have only
just begun their cOncert-yea, they
have only been stringing their instru-
ments. 1 today put before you their
whole programme from beginning unto
close. In the theatre the tragedy comes
first and the farce afterward, but in
this infidel drama of death and farce
m first and the 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 a chasm of individual, ma
tional, worldwide ruin, stand back.
Oh, young men, stand back from that
chasm! You see the practical drift of
my IN I want you to know where
that road leads. Stand back from that
chasm Of ruin The time isgoing to
come (you and I may not live to see it,
but it will come, just as certainly as
there is a God, it will Gomez when the
infidels and the atheists who openly
and out and out and aboveboard preach
and practice infidelity and atheism,
will be considered as criminals against
society, Is they are now criminals
against God. Society will push out the
leper, and the wretch with soul gan
grened and ichorous and vermin cover
ed and rotting apart with his beStiali-
ty will be left to die in h ditch and
be denied decent burial, and men will
come with spades n cover up the car
ass where it falls, that it poison not
the air, and the only text in all the BIZ
BILE appropriate for the funeral sermon
will be jeremiah xxi, 10, HE shall be
buried with the burial of IN ass"
INFTDELITY WILL FAIL.
A thousand voices come up to me
this hour, saying: do you really
think infidelity will succeed? Has
Christianity received it's deathblow?
And will the Bible become obsolete? '
Yes, when the smoke of the city Chin
ney arrests and destroys the MONDAY
sun. Josephus says about the time Of
the destruction of Jerusalem the sun
was turned into darkness, but only the
clouds rolled between the sun the
earth. h sun went right on. 1t is the
same sun, the same luminary, as when
ait the beginning it shot out i k an
electric spark from Gods finger, and
today it is warning the nations, and
today it is gliding the sea, n today it
is filling the earth with it's light. The
same old sun, not at all worn out,
though its light steps one hundred and
ninety million miles a second, though
its ~pulsations are four hundred and ff-
ty million undulations in a second. The
same sun with beautiful white light
made up of the violet, and the indigo.
and the blue, and the green, n the
red, and the yellow, and the orange
the seven beautiful colors, now just as
when the solar spectrum first divided
them.
At h beginning God said, Let
there be light" and light was, and
light Is, n light shall be. So Chris
tianity is rolling on, and it is going tc
warm all nations, and all nations are
to bask in its light. Men may shut the
window blinds so they cannot see it, OIL
they may smoke the pipe Of speculation
until they are Swallowed under Their
own vaporing, but the Lord God Is q
sun. This white light Of the Gospe
made up Of all the beautiful colors O.
earth and heaven-violet piucked from
amid the spring grass, and the indigo
of the southern jungles, and the blue O.
the skies, and the green of the foliage
: and the yellow Of the sutmnal woods
and the orange Of the southern groves
( and the red OF the use All tn,
/ beauties of earth and heaven broueh
/ | out by this spiritual xuecTrum Grca