The Cairo bulletin., 1904-07-31
THE BULLETINS SUNDAY SERMON
BY REV. FRANK DE WITT rALMAcE, 0. o.

we, ,tilt ItOple VI llllb lilF luuu, GIL
decree that hereafter we can attend tc
our business We viii make no pubic
recognition of an overruling Divine
Providence
My friends, as intelligent Americans
have you not recognized the fact that
the inlidels, the agnostics, the atheists,
the deists and all those who would
deny public recognition of God are try
ing to drive out the Almighty from the
control of our public life? What is the
meaning of the movement that has ac-
compished this one fact? There N
hardly state college in all this land
where the Bible Is now studied as a
text book In all those different schools
the faculty makes provision for the
teaching of English bellies lettres They
are willing to teach Grecian ana Ro-
man and Scythian and Alexandrlan
aud Asiatic mythologies. They are
willing to teach Buddhism, Confucian-
ism, Bralimanism ana all other isns,
but they are not willing to teach who
Jesus Christ was and Is and for what
the gospel of Jesus Christ stands.
Now, for my part, while | hold that
densminatlonalism ought never to be
that no young man Is properly educat-
cd who has not been made familiar
with the Bible and its religious and
moral principles | claim that as edu-
Gated men and women it is Just as inn
portant to know who were Moses and
Joshua and David as who were
Shakespeare and Burns and Walter
Sect and Goethe and Victor Hugo. |
claim that it is more important edu-
cationaly to know who Jesus Christ
Is than who Mohammed was and what
was the cause Of the Trojan war. II
the atheistic elements of this country
are not trying to get possession of this
government, why did certain infldel
newspapers a few years ago denounce
the presidential act of taking the oath
of Office upon the leaves of an open
Bible? They claimed that, as the
government had no established church
therefore the president elect had no
right TO render allegiance to any
one particular God. Men who write
sophistries of this kind are enemies
whom we cannot afford to deride.
They masquerade under the banner of
free thought" ard they appeal to
the intellectual pride Which fiourishes
among uneducated or half educated
elements in our population. DO not
Imagine that they are despicable OPP
poncnts or that there Is no danger of
their ever electing Il president of the
American people. tell you that 10
day the church as well as the people
at large should recognize the evil in
fuences which are working under
meath us and all about MS to render
this goddess nation and to exclude
all recognition of God from the acts
and policy of the United States.
The "Bramb,e of Free Thought"
| would especially plead with the
American people to fight the evil
'bramble of free thought because re
sistance to God is the spirit of anarchy
and political anarchy and is subyersive
Of every form Of civil government
When under the teaching of that great
Inhdel Voltairc the churches of Paris
were closed and harlot dressed in COR
yeous robes and seated upon gilded
throne was carried about the French
capital and worshiped. then tho reign
IF terror was Mt hand. Where were
he bullets of the slayer of Garfield
md of the slayer of William Mckinley
Amid the hot, Kissing flames
IF a fire started in the attempt to burn
~ the throne of God. You never saw
n your life an anarchist who was net
It heart an inhdel Furthermore. you
never studied the history Of stable
'orm of earthly government which did
lot first give it's allegiance 10 an over
.uing Providence before IL gave its al
egiancc to nm earthly ruler
| was never moro impressed with !
his thought than when some years
igo frota n noted athcistic a. well as |
paper ] cut ont the full /
developed poisonous results Of those I
.wo accursed doctrines. Like Slnmese |
wins. these two words. atheism aud /
in their ultimate meaning |
should meyer be separated This was /
he editorial ] found In that famous 1
sheet: This Is our doctrine: We be /
love in no divine government. We be I
icvc In no human government. Might !
,nly is right. The only remedy for
wrongs IS butchcry. The tree Of lib /
,rtv bears fruit only WHOM MANFRED .
With the bones Of fat Insurers. insoleut |
lcspots. pcriidious politicians ana /
,lacklegs generally If squatters op- (
,rcss you. plant rackarock for their /
,uggies: also fire low and lay them /
,ut. II Shylocks ~ the bloody city /
leece you. mako their homes desolate. I
;tudv The science ~ death. Use bull I
cts. steel mclinite. Kerosene. phos- [
,harus. fire sticks torpcdocs. litEo- /
'racteur. poison. blasting powder. 4
,ouihshalls- weapon you can get !
,old OF Also Won must steal Ike I
;partans. think Ike heroes and lie like /
leu.~ such is the fnil grown poison I
us plant which ihc soil and -ccd Of I
theism will ultimately produce II left 4
hone. Al. my fellow c0Hntrymen IN 4
bo ,-orr.suffou hall Of the American /