The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-05-19

thropies. Never mind the blindh
and the deaf ears and the eriA
limbs and the darkeucd intellectsr
paralyzed old age pick up it's own
and orphans fight their own waI,
the half reformed go back To thei},
habits. Forward, march, We n
army of inhdels and atheists. and Y
your battleaNes hew down the n
and split up the manger of Bethel.
On, ye great army of inldels
atheists. and now they come tok
gravcyards and the cemeteries "A I,
earth. Pull down the sculpture al
Greenwood's gate, for ii means the
direction. Tear away at the entr},
of Laurel Hill the figure of Old Mok
ity and the chisel. On. yc great all,
of infidels and atheists, into the on
yards and cemeteries, and where
see Asleep in Jesus" cut IL away,
where you find a marble story OF I'LL
en- blast IL, and where you find owl
little child's grave "Suffer Little ID
drcn to Come Unto Me" substituted
words "dclusion" and sham"
where you find an angel in ma
strike off the wings, and when
come To family vault chiseI on
door: Dead once, dead forever"
But on, We great army of infidels
atheists, on! They will attempt
scale Heaven. There are heights ii
taken. Pile hill on hill and Pelion "a
Ossa, and then they hoist the Iadt5
against the walls of Heaven. On and
until they blow up the foundation{
jasper and the gates OF pearl. ~
charge up the steep. Now they aimf
the throne of Him who liyeth ford
and ever They would take down I'D
their high place the Father, the Son,
lloly Ghost. Down with thcmi"
say. down with them from y
throne." they say. down forey
Down out OF sight! He is not God.
has no right to sit there. Down "
Him, Down with Christi"
\ world without head. a univ,f
without king. Orphan constellatid
ratherless galaNies. Anarchy
preme. \ dethToned Jehovah. Anb
sassinatcd God. Patricide. rcgicide, u
eide. That is what they mean. Thai
what they will have If they can.
il they can. Civilizs ton hurled ID
into standardization aad semibarbarb
driven back into Ho,tento; savagef
The wheel of progress turned the OF q
way and turned toward the dark aa3
The clock of the centuries put 10
1000 yeGra. Go back. you Sandwt
Islands, from your schools and frS
your colleges and from your reforne
condition To- what YOU were in 4
when the missionaries first came. u
home the 500 missionaries from Ind
and overthrow their 1000 schou{
where they are trying To educate I
heather, and scatter the 10000 htt
children that they have gathered u
OF barbnrism into civilization. Dbl
crate all the work of DIR. Dun in Ind
of David Abeei in China, OF DIR. King
Greece, of Judson In Burma. of lad
Brainerd amid the American abcriy
ines, and send home the 5000 mission
aries OF the cross who are toiling in faf
eign lands, toiling for Christs sake
toiling themselves into the grave. Re.
these 5000 men of God that they are o.
no use. Send home the medical m s.
sionaries who are doctoriBg the bod.r.
as well as the souls of the dying GA.
tons. Go home. London Missionary ~
ciety. Go home, American board of
foreign missions. Go home, We MoIy,
ians and relinquish back into darkness
and squalor and death the nations
whom We have begun TO lift.
Oh, my friends, there has never been
such a nefarious plot on earth as that
which infidelity and atheism have
planned. We were shocked q few Yea r.
ago because Of the attempt to blow up
the parliament houses in London. but II
infdelity and atheism succeed in their
attempt they will dynamite world.
Let them have their full way, and tbs
world will be habitation 81 three
rooms, the one a madhousc, another O
lazarettO, the other pcndrmouiun.
These infidel bands Of music Ga,e only
just begun their cOuccrt--y"a. t.ey
have only been strinpng up their m
struments. / to-day put before you
their whole programme from beginning
unto close. In the thcatcr the trsg.
edy comes first and the farce after
ward, but in this infdcl drama of
death the farce comes first and the tray-
ady afterward. And in the former
atheists and infidels laugh and mock.
but in the latter God himself will laugh
md mock. lie says so, 81 will laugh al
heir calamity and mock when their
fear cometh."
At the beginning God said: LET
there be light" and light was, and light
Is, and light shall be. So Christianity
5 rolling on, and it is going to warm all
nations, and all nations are To bask in
is light. Men may shut the window
blinds so they cannot see il, or they NAV
smoke the pipe of speculation until
hey are Swallowed under their own
but the Lord God is the sun!
This white light of the Gospel made Nd
If all the beautiful colors of earth and
ieayen-violct plucked from amid the
pring grass, and the indigo of the
southern jungles, and the blue of the
kies, and the green of the foliage, and
he yellow of the autumnal woods, ano
he orange of the southern groves. sne