Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-05-19

David Brainerd amid the American
aborigines, and send hcme the 5000
missionaries Of the cross who are toll
ing in foreign lands. toilng for Christ's
sake, toiling themselves into the grave.
Tell these 3. 600 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 missions Go home, ye Mora
vians. and relinquish back into darkness
and squalor and death the nations
whom ye have begun to lift.
Oh, my friends there has never been
such a 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 ard atheism succeed in their at
tempt they will dynamite a world. Let
them have their full way, and this
world viii be a habitation Of three
rooms-a habitation with just three
rooms: the one 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 | 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 infidel drama Of death the farce
comes first and the tragedy afterward.
And in the former, atheists and infdels
laugh and mock. but in the latter God
himself will laugh and mock. He says
so. Il will laugh at their calamity and
meek 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 CT
my sermon | want you TO know where
that road leads Stand back from that
chasm of ruin The time is going to
come lyon and may not live to see il.
but it will come. just as certainly as
there is a God, it will Gomez when the
inhdels and the atheists who openly
and ont and ont and aboveboard preach
and practice infidelity and atheism,
will be considered as criminals against
society. az they are now criminals
Ggainst God. Society will push out the
leper, and the wretch with soul gam
grened and ichorous and yermin 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
bic appropriate for the funeral sermon
will be jeremiah xxi, 19, "He shall be
buried with the burial of an ass.
InfdeIity VIII FAN.
A thousand voices come up to me
this hour, saying: "Do you really think
infdelity will succeedl Has Chris
tianity received its deathblowl And
will the Bible become obsoleteY' Yes,
when the smoke of the city chimney
arrests and destroys the MONDAY sub.
Josephus says about the time of the
destruction of Jerusalem the sun was
turned into darkness. but only the
clouds rolled between the sun and the
earth. The sun went right on. 1t is the
same sun, the same luminary, as when
at the beginning it shot ont like an
electric spark from Gods finger, and
today it is warming the nations, and
today il is gliding the sea, and today 1t
is filing the earth with its light The
same old sun. not at all worn cut
though its light steps one hundred and
ninety million miles a second, though
its pulsations are four hundred and fifty
trillion undulations in a second. The
same sun with beautiful white light
made mp of the violet. and the indigo,
and the blue, and the green, and the
red, and the yellow, and the orange
the seven beautiful colors. now just as
when the solar spectrum first divided
them.
At the beginning God said, "Let
there be light, and light was, and
light is, and light shall be- So Chris
tianity Is rolling on. and it is going to
warm all nations, and all nations are
to bask in its light Men may shut the
window blinds so they cannot see it, or
they may smoke the pipe Of speculation
until they are shadowed under their
own vaporing, but the Lord God is
SUM- This white light Of the gospel
made up Of all the beautiful eolors OF
earth and heaven-violet plucked from
amid the spring grass, and the indigo
of the southern jungles, and the blue OF
the skies, and the green Of the foliage,
and the yellow of the autumnal woods,
and the orange of the southern groves,
and the red Of the sunsets. All the
beauties Of earth and heaven brought
out by this spiritual spectrum. Great
Britain is going TO take all Europe for
God. The United States are going TO
take America for God. Both Of them
together will take all Asia for God. All
three Of them will take Africa for God.
"Who art thou, o great mountain
Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a
plain" 1.-The mouth Of the Lord hath
snol,en II" Halleluiah, amenl