Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-05-24

heft, against immoraury, against libertin.
sm, against crime OF all sorts-the
nightiest restraints are the retributions ot
ternity. Men know that they can escape
here Is the realization of the fact that
hey cannot escape God. He stands at the
snd of the road of profigacy, and He will
aot clear the guilty. Take all idea Of re.
:ribution and punishment out OF the
hearts and minds of men, and 1t would moi
3odoms. The only restraints agsinst the
,vil passions OF the world to-day are Bible
restraints.
Suppose now these generals of atheism
md infldelity got the victory and suppose
hsy ioriex maIsasea a. gre great army made hss up
companies, in regiments, In brigades-the
whole army. Forward, march, ye hosts Of
nfidels and atheists, banners flying be-
ore, banners flying behind, banners in
,cribed with the words: mo Godi Nc
Christi No Punishment No Restraintsl
Down With the BibIel Do as You Pleasel''
The sun turned into darknessl
Forward. marchl ye great army OF In.
1dels and atheists. AND first OF all you
will attack the churches. Away With those
houses of worshipl They have been stand.
Ing there SO long deluding the people with
rows. All those churches ought to be ex.
tirpated; they have done SO much to re-
lieve the lost and bring home the wander
ing, and they have so long held up the
idea of eternal rest after the paroxysm o.
this life is over. Turn the st. Peters anG
st. Pauls and the temples and tabernaclet
into clubh ouses. Away with those churches
Forward, march! ye great army OF In
1dels and atheists, and next of all they
scatter the Sabbath schools filed with
bright eyed, rosy checked little ones who
are singing songs on Sunday afternoon
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to be on the street corners playing marbles
Or swearing on the commons. Away with
them! Forward, march, ye great army oil
lnfidels and atheists, and next Of all they
will attack Christian asylums-the institu-
ions Of mercy supported by Christian
ohilanthropies. Never mind the blind
eyes, and the deaf ears, and the crippled
limbs, and the darkened intellects. Let
paralyzed old age pick up its own food
and orphans fight their own way, and the
half reformed go back to their evil habits.
Forward, march! ye great army of inidels
down the cross and split up the manger o.
On, ye great army Of infldels and athe-
lists, and now they come to the graveyard.
and the cemeteries Of the earth. Pull dowI
the sculpture above Greenwood's gate, fol
1t means the resurrection. Tear away al
the entrance Of Laarel Hill the figure o.
Old Mortality and the chisel. On, ye great
army of finfidels and atheists, into the grave.
yards and cemeteries, and where you see
asleep in Jesus" cut it away, and where
you find a marble story Of heaven, blast it,
grave, "Suffer little children to come unto
Me" substitute the words "delusion" and
"sham," and where you find an angel fr
marble, strike off the wing, and when you
come to a family vault, chisel on the door:
dead once, dead forever
D.. - - o-u, ;oGJ,I, ocS
at theists, opl They will attempt to scale
heaven. There are heights to be taken.
Pile hill on bill. 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 nigh place the Father, the Son.
and the Holy Ghost. "Down with Themi'
they say. "Down with Them from the
shronei" they say. "Down foreverl Down
out OF sight He is not God. He has nc
right to sit there. Down with Him! Down
with Christl''
A world without head, universe with.
out king. Orphan consultations. Father
less galaxies. Anarchy supreme. A de-
-thfon5d jehov.s. An assassfnated God.
Patricide. regfcide, deicide. That is What
they mean. That is what they will have
II they can. 1 say, II they can. Civiliza.
tfon hurled back into standardization, 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 Isl.
ands, from your schools, and from your
colleges, and from your reformed condf-
tfon, to what you were In 1920, when the
missionaries first came. Call home the SOC
missionaries from India and overthrow
their 1000 schools, where they are trying to
educate the heather, and scatter the 140,-
300 little children that they have gathered
out OF barbarism into civilization. Obliter.
ate all the work of DR.. Dun 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 home the 5000 missionaries OF the
cross who are toiling In foreign lands, toll.
ing for Christ's sake, toiling themselves
Into the grave. Tell these 5000 men Of God
that they are OF no use. Send homo the
medical missionaries who are doctoring
the bodies as we'll as the souls Of the dying
nations. Go home, London Missionary
societyl Go home, American board Of
foreign missionsl Go home, ye Moravians,
and relinquish back into darkness and
squalor and death the nations whom ye
have begun to lift.
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 sermon
I want you to know where that road leads
stand back from that chasm of ruin. The
lime Is going to come (you and l may moi
live to see it, but it will come. just as Ger.
tainly as there is q God, 1t 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. So
.
with soul gangrened and ichorous and YER
min covered and rotttng apart with his
oestiality 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 1t poison not.the air.
and the only text in all the Bible appropriate
for the funeral sermon will be jeremiah
xii, 10, "He shall be buried with the
bur a! OF an ass"
At the beginning God said, LET there be
light" and light was, and light is, and
light shall be. So Christianity is rolling
IN, and 1t Is going to warm all nations, and
ALI nations are to bask in its light. Men
may shut the window blinds SO they can
not see 1t, or they may smoke the pipe OF
speculation until they are shadowed under
their own vaporing, but the Lord God is a
sun! This VIII lite light Of the gospel made
up Of all the beautiful colors Of earth and
heaven-violet plucked from amid the
spring grass, and the indigo of the south
ern 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 sun.
sets. All the beauties OF eaith and heaven
brought out by this spiritual spectrum
tireat Britain is going to take all Europe
tor God. The United States are going tc
take America for God. Both OF them to.
eether will take all Asia for God. All
three OF them will take Africa for God
"Who art thou, o great mountain? Before
Zerrubbabel thou shalt become a plain.r
''The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it,
Hallelujah, amen!
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