Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-06-23
life torture. Her death horror. The

missionary OF the cross To-Day III
heather lands breaches generally TO
two groups--a group of men who do as
they please and sit where they please;
the other group, women hidden and
carefully secluded in side apartment,
where they may hear the voice of the
preacher, but may not be seen. No re-
finemant No liberty. No hope for this
life. No hope for the life to come.
Hinged nose. Cramped foot, Disiigured
face. Embruted soul. Now, compare
those two conditions. How far toward
this latter condition that ! speak OF
would woman go il Christian influ-
ences were withdrawn and Christianity
were destroyed? 1t is only question
of dynamics. If an object be lifted to
a certain point and not fastened there
and the lifting power be Withdrawn,
how long before that object will fall
down to the point from which it start
ed? 1t will fall down, and it will go
still farther than the point from which
it started. Christianity has lifted wom-
an up from the very depths of degrada-
ton almost to the skies. If that lifting
power be withdrawn she falls clear
back to the depth from which she was
resurrectcd, not going any lower, be-
cause there is no lower depth. And yet,
notwithstanding the fact that the only
salvation of woman from degradation
and woe is the Christian religion-and
the only influence that has ever lifted
her in the social scale is Christianity
| have head that there are women who
reject Christianity. | make no remark
in regard to those persons. In the ST.
lence of your own soul make your OBJ
servations.
If infidelity triumph and Christianity
be overthrown, it means the demoraliza-
ton of society. The one idea in the
Bible that atheists and infidels most
hate is the idea of retribution. Take
away the idea of retribution and pun
ishment from society, and it 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 because of the idea
of punishment are men whose lives are
bad or whose hearts are impure and
who hate the Bible because of the idea
of future punishment for the same rea-
son that criminals hate the peniten-
| tiary. Oh, have heard this brave talk
about people fearing nothing of the
consequences of sin in the next world
and | have made up my mind it is mere
ly towards whistling to keep his cour-
| age up. have seen men tlaunt their i'm
moralities in. the Face of the communi
| ty, and have heard them defy the iudg-
ment day and scott at the idea of any
| future consequence of 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 neighbors got up to put the win
dows down because they could not en-
dure the horror.
| NOulNl NV Nult W StC idll Train
with 500 Christian people on board &c
| down through drawbridge into a
watery grave; | would not want to see
500 Christian people 20 into such dis
aster, but tell you plainly that could
more easily see that than | could for
any protracted time stand and see an
infidel die, though his pillow were OF
cider down and under a canopy of yer.
million. ] have never been able to
brace up my nerves for such a spec.
tacle. There is something at such q
| time so indescribable in the counte.
nance. just looked in upon it a min
ute or two, but the clutch of his fist was
so diabolic and the strength of his voice
was so unnatural could not endure it
There is no hell, there is no hell, there
is no hell" the man had said for &C
years, but that night when | looked
in the dying room of my inGdel neigh
Dor there was something on his counte
nance which seemed to say; "There Is
there is, there is, there isl" III,
mightiest restraints to-day agains
theft, against immortality, against lib
ertinism, against crime of all sorts
the mighticst restraints are the retri
buttons of eternity. Men know tina
they can escape the law, but down il
the offenders soul there is the realiza
ton of the fact that they cannot escape
God. He stands at the end of the roaC
of profigacy, and He will not clear TIL
guilty. Take all idea of retribution ant
punishment out of the hearts ant
minds of men, and it would not be Ions
before our cities would become Sodoms
The only restraints against the evil pas
sions of the world to-day are Bible re
straints.
Suppose now these generals of athc
ism and infidelity got the victory, ant
suppose they marshaled great arm,
made up of the majority of the world
They are in companies, in regiments
in brigades-the whole army. For
ward, march, We hosts of infdels ant
atheists, banners flying before, banner
flying behind, banners inscribed will
the words: mo God! No Christ! N
Punishment! No Restraints! Dow
with the Bible! Do as You Pleased!
The sun turned into darkness!
Forward, march, yc great army o
infdels and atheists! And first of al
you will attack the churches. Ava.
with those houses of worship. The,
have been standing there so long de
luding the people with consolation Il
their bereavements and sorrows. Al
those churches ought to be eNtirpated
they have done so much to relieve tn
lost and bring home the wandering
= and they have so long held up the ide
of eternal rest after the paroXysm o
this life is over. Turn the st. Peter
and st. Pauls and the temples and tab
ernacles into clubhouses. Away witt