The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-06-02

Me" substitute the words "delus;on" AMI
SHAN" and where YOU fad an angel in
marble, strike OF the wing, aud when You
cvre to 4 family vault, chisel Oh the coor,
"Deau once, dead forever"
But on, We great army OF infdels and
atheists, on. They will attempt to scale
heaven. There are heights TO be taken.
Pile hill on hill. ami Pe.ion upon Ossa, and
then they hoist the ladders against the
walls Of heaven. On and on until they blow
up tue foundations o. jasper and the gates
OF pearl. Tney 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 Them!'
throne!" they say. Down forever! Down
| out OF sight! He is not God. He has no
right to sit there. Down with Hin. Down
with Christi"
A world without a head, a universe with.
out a king. Orphan considerations. Father
less galayies. Anarchy supreme. A de-
throned Jehovah. An assassinated God.
Patricids, regicide, decide. That is what
they mean. That is what they wall have,
If trey can. I say, IL they can. Civiliza-
,ion hurled back into semibaroarism and
semibarbaris,n driven back into H~ottentot
| The wheel OF progress turned
the other way and turned toward the dark
80 L dO NUN "a tAc NohNO i'S tiN ~
1000 years. Go back, you Sandwich Isl
ands, from Your schools, and from your
colleges, ana from your reformed condi>
ton, to what you were in 1920, when the
missionaries first came. Call home the 200
missionaries from India and overthrow
their 1000 schools, where they are trying to
educate the heather, and scatter the 49,
600 little children that they have gathered
out OF barbarism into civilization. Obliter-
ate All the wCrk 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 abOriSinea,
and send lone the 5000 missionaries OF the
cross Who are to!ling in foreign lands, toll
ing for Chli>t'S sake, tOilinS themselves
into the grave. Tell these 5000 men Of God
that they are Of no use. S-nd home the
medical missionaries who are doctoring
the bodies as we'll rs the sou!s Of the dying
nations. Go home, London Missionary
society," Go home, American board OF
foreign missions! Go home, We Moravians,
and reIinquish back into darkness and
squal0r and death the nations whom We
have begun to lift.
From such a chasm OF individual, ma.
tional, worldwide ruin, stand back. Oh,
Young men, stand back from that chasmI
You see the practical drift OF my sermon.
/ want you to know where that road leads.
Stand back from that clasm Of ruin. The
time IS going to come (you and l may not
live to seq it, but it will come. just as Ger.
tainly as therc is a God, it will Gomez when
the iniide.s and the atheists who openly
and out and out and aboveboard preach
and practice in1delity and atheism, will be
considered as criminals against society, as
they arc now criminals against God. so.
ciety will push out the leper, and the wretct
with soul gangrened and ichOrous and YER
min covered and rottinS apart with his
bestialitv will be left to die in the ditch
and be denied decent burial, and men viii
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 Bible ]appropriat
Tor the funeral sermon will be jeremiah
xiii, -, "He shall be baried with the
bur Il! OF al ass"
the beginning God said, 'Let there b.
light" and light was, md light is, ant
ligit shall be. SO Christianity is rollins
on, aud 1t is going to warm all nations, and
ali nations are to bask in its light. Mel
may shut the window blinds so tney can
not see it, or they may smoke the pipe O
speculation until they are Swallowed under
their own vapOring, but the Lord Goa is
sun! This white light OF the gospel made
up OF all the beautiful colors OF earth anc
heaven-v violet piu 'ked from amid the
spring grass, and the indigo Of the south
ern lungies, and the blue Of the skies. ana
the green Of the foliage, and the yellow O
the autumnal woods, and the orange OF tn.
southern groves. and the red of the sun,
sets. All the beauties OF ealth and HEAVIER
brought out by this spiritual spectrum
Great Britain is going to take ali Europ,
Tor God. The United States are going tc
take America for God Both Of them to
setner will take oil Asia for God. Al
three OF them will take africa for God
."ho art thou, Q great mountain? Besor,
L~erruDbabel thou shalt become n plain ,
me mouth OF the Lord hath spokeo IT.
iallelujah, amen!