Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-19

Itheists, 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 res
direction. Tear away at the entrance
of Laurel Hill the figure of Old Mortal
ity and the chisel. On, We great army of
infdels and atheists, into the grave
yards and cemeteries, and where you
see, 'Asleep In Jesus, cut il away,
and where you find marble story of
heaven, blast it, and when you find
over little child's grave, 'e1ffer little
children to come unto me. Institute
the words ''delusion ',and ''sham," and
where you find an angel in marble,
strike off the wing, and when you come
to a family vault, chisel on the door.
"Dead once, dead forever"
But on, ye great army of infidels 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. They charge up
the steep. Now they aim for the throne
of him who liveth forever and ever
They would take down from their high
place the Father, the Son, the Holy
Ghost. Down with theml" they say.
Down with them from the thronel"
they say. Down foreverl Down out
of sightl He is not God. He has no
right to sit there. Down with himl
Down with Christi"
Turned hack to SRvagery.
A world without head, universe
without king. Orphan consultations.
Fatherless galaxies. Anarchy supreme.
A dethroned Jehovah. An assassinated
God. Patricide, regicide, decide. That
is what they mean. That is what they
will have. if they can. l say, if they
can. Civilization 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
Islands, from your schools, and from
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 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
aborigines, and send hcme 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 3, 900 men of God that they
are of no use Send home the medical
missionaries who are doctoring the
bodies as well as the souls of the dying
nations. Go home, London Missionary
society," Go home American board Of
foreign missionsl Go home. ye Nora
vians, and relinguish back into darkness
and squalor and death the nations
whom ye have begun to lift.
Oh, my friends, there has never been
such nefarious plot on earth as that
which infidelity and atheism have plan
ned. We were shocked few years ago
because of the attempt to 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 have their full way, and this
world will be a habitation of three
rooms-a habitation with just three
rooms; the one madhouse, another
lazaretto, the other pandemonium.
These infidel bands of music lave only
just begun their concert-yea, they
have only been stringing their instru-
ments: l today put before you their
whole programme from beginning unto
close. In the theater the tragedy comes
first and the farce afterward, but in
this infdel drama of death the farce
comes 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. 81 will laugh at their calamity and
neck when their fear -cometh. -
From such chasm of individual, ma
tional. worldwide ruin, stand back.
Oh, young men, stand back from that
chasml You see the practical drift CT
my sermon. 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 atheists who openly
and out and out and aboveboard preach
and practice infidelity and atheism,
will be considered as criminals against |
society, as 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 the ditch and |
be denied decent burial, and men will |
come with spades and cover up the car
cass 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, 19, "He shall be
buried with the burial of an ass.
InfdeIity VIII Fail.
A thousand voices come up to me
this hour, saying: "Do you really think
will succeed? Has Chris
tianity received its deathblow? And
will the Bible become obsolete7" Yes,
when the, smoke of the city chimney
arrests and destroys the monday sun.
Josephus says about the time of the