Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1899-08-17


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, We great
army of infidels and atheists, and with |
your battleaXes hew down the cross
and split up the manger Of Bethlehem
On, We great army of intldels ana
atheists, and now they come to the
gravevards and the cemeteries of the
earth. Pull down the sculpture above
Greenwood's gate, for it means the Res
direction. Tear away at the entrance
of Laurel Hill the figure Of Old Mortal
ity and the chisel. On, We great army
of infidels and atheists, into the grave
yards and cemeteries, and where you
see ASLEEP in Jesus" cut it away, and
where you find marble story of Heay-
en- blast it, and where you find over
little child's grave Suffer Little Chill
dren to Come Unto Me" substitute the
words "delusion'' and sham, and
where you find an angel in marble
strike off the wings, and when you
come to a family vault ehisel on the
door: Dead once, dead forever"
But on, We great army of infideis and
atheists, onl 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. lhey
charge up the steep. Now they aim Tor
the throne of Him who liyeth forever
and ever. They would take down from
their high place the Father, the son, the
Holy Ghost. Down with theml they
say. "Down with them from the
thronel" they say. Down forever!
Down out Of sight! He is not God. lie
has no right TO sit there. Down with
HIM Down with Christi"
world without head, universe
without king. Orphan consultations.
Fatherless galaxies. Anarchy SUI
preme. A dethroned Jehovah. An as
sassinated God. Patricide, regieide' del
eide. That is what they mean. That Is
what they will have If they can, say,
II they can. Civilization hurled back
into semibarbarism and semibarbarism
driven back into Hottentot savagefy'
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 Sana"leh
islands. from your schools and from
your colleges and from your reformed
condition to what you were In ls2o'
when the missionaries first came eaii
home the 500 missionaries from lnaia
and overthrow their 1000 schools
where they are trying TO educate the
heather. and scatter the l40,ooo ntlie
children that they have gathered our
Of barbarism into civilization. obit-
crate all the work of DIR. Duff in Indla'
of David Abeel in China, OF DR.. King IN
| Greece. of Judson in Burma, of Davia
| Rraiperd amid the American aborig'
/ ines and send home the 5000 mission
| aries of the cross who are toilng IN TOT
eien lands. toiling for Christs sake
telling themselves into the grave. Tel
these 5000 men of God that they are O.
no use. Send home the medical ms
( sionaries who are doctoring the bodies
as well as the souls of the dying ma
tions. Go home. London Missionary SO
eiety. Go home, American board OF
foreign missions. Go home, We MORAY
ians and relinquish back into darkness
and saualor and death the natloh'
whom We have begun to lift.
oh. nv friends, there has never beer
such a nefarious plot on earth as ina
which infidelity and atheism ha''
MANNED. We were shocked few years
ago because of the attempt TO blow'uI
the parliament houses in London put !
irfidelity and atheism succeed In theli
attempt they will dynamite a world
let them have their full way, and thi'
world will be habitation OF thre'
rooms-a habitation with just thre'
rooms. the one a madhouse. another
Iazaretto, the other pendemonlum
These infidel bands of music have ON!
inst begun their concert-yea, the!
have only been stringing up their III
struments. | to-day put before yo'
their whole programme from beginning
unto close. In the theater the trag
edy comes first and the farce after
ward. but in this infidel drama o
death the farce comes first and the trag
edv afterward. And in the forme
atheists and infidels laugh and mock
but in the latter God himself viii laugl
and mock. He says so. Il Will laugh a
their calamity and mock when thei
fear cometh."
. Al the beginning God said; lie
there be light" and light was, and ligh
is. and light shall be. So Christianit.
is rolling on, and it is going TO warm a.
nations. and all nations are to oask D
, it's light. Men may shut the windo'
, blinds so they cannot see it, or they ma
, smoke the pipe of speculation unit
, they are Swallowed under their oW
yaporing, but the Lord God is the sun
This white light of the Gospel made u
: of all the beautiful colors of earth an
, Heaven-violet Ifucked from amid IN
spring grass. and the indigo OF 10