7 J ... THE t)XlVt iL-LU; iLAiur, i:i;ilAS!w, lIONDAV, MAV 14. isss. ;ag3 discourses czzcu ration.". the Oalt Restraint Against' j i:vJl fsiatlon of the World Athe- lui Riul Infidelity Arrayed Agaliut M.rlstlaull j. UuorixiA'N, May 13. This morning the Tabernacle to an overflowing congrega tion. Hi liTinn beginning, Efand np, my loul; shake off thy fears, And jrlnl IheGcmjK-l armor on, was filing with magnificent effect. Dr. Talmage's subjort was "ObsKruration," I Pii'I his text, "Tli0 6unEh.il bo turned darkness." Acts ii, IU0. Ho said: Solar eclipse Is here prophesied to tako place about the timo of the destruction of nnciont Jerusalem. Josephus, tho his torian, says that tho prophecy was liter tMv filri!lil. and that about that time there were f.t range appearances in tho heavens. The eun was not destroyed, Lnt for a little while hillcn. Cl.ri - ti;miiy is tLo rising sun of our time, and men have tried with tho un rolling v.iporx of bkepticism and tho hiiK.ko of the ir blasphemy to turn tho n::i into ri. r.'.ss. .Siii;ose tho art-hang N f i:;i!ii-t anil horror should bo let I'"' a little while and lo alloweil to etin.iti:-!i and de.stry tho sun in tho natural l."-:t i-ns. Tlicy wotiM take tho ocean fn-rn .:h--r worM:? and jsour them on t!ii.j I i::iii:: iy of the pi:' -tary system, mid tiie v:;!i r-i hissing down amid tho i-ivin.-s :i:;! th" c;iv( rns, ami there is cx-phi-inn alter c-.-pl.-.ion, until thero are oj.lv a f' w pi-:-!;H of (ire left in the nun, and th :.r cooling down and going out until tin- vast continents of flame are nun I t as::;.;!! acreage cf lire, and tli.it v. !.:: a!ii cools oil until there are ::'v a ( w ':. l.-i 1 ft, and these are w hitr-iiii.;.' nr.d .oing out until thero id in t a spa.!; 1-ft iall the mountains of a.-lies and tho valleys of ashes ami the chasms of ashes. An extinguished sun. A d 'ri'l ?i:.n. A buried tun. Let all worlds wr.il ::t the stupendous olcouios. Of ei-uit', this withdrawal of tho solar h.-';t : 1 he;t throws our earth into a universal t -hi!!, and the tropics lieeomo tho tens; er.it. and tho temjierale le cornes the Arctic, nnd there are frozen rivers and frown lakes and frozen oeecti if I'roni An-tie and A n I arctic region? the in habitants either in toward tho center and Und the equator as the iolcs. The tlaiii f.-re.-t.? ere pilinl up into a great bon lire, and around them gather the shiver ing villages and cities. Tho wealth of the coal mines is hastily jxnirod into tho furnat-vj and stirred into rage of coui-hus-tiou, l-tii. toon the I ion tires legin to lower, ari l tho furnaces legin to go out, nr.d th N:'.t: ns begin t die. Colopaxi, Wrriviu. l-.rna, .Stromholi, Californian vf-rrj err.Sv' to trroke, and tho ice of ;-; ttorr-M remains unmeltetl in their eri'er. Ail tl.v? llowers have l-realht;d -t hivath. bh.ijo witli pailoii ;H the m:ut, and helmsmen t!it wheel, and passen ..;.:! i;i the cabin; all na- t'l-ir 2a-t i'.-".e:i ;H in . n f,.;, tloMS UT!T ;.t i iie y ' the K-m-ll (lend at frv..vj ha: f.nt o:s 1 1. ; r. fir.-t at the north and then ii. Child frosted and dead i i Oetogenarian frosted and tii'j hearth. Workmen with d on the i.arumer and frozen hu:tk Winter from sea to ling winter. Terpctuai All cz: wir:tcr. KlU. of ri;ruiuv. Hemisphere tdsr.ck'.ed to hemi?phero by chains of ice. Universal Nova Zembla. The earth an i.-e live? grinding against other ice floes. !, jTehangels of malice and horror have i! -ne th-ir work, and now they may la1..- their tin ones of glacier and look tiown uti th ? ruin they have wrought. V. hat the destruction of the sun in the . . ... ..i i . . ri.i'ur.'ii ijfavens wiimn uu iu uui cni--raltaith, the destruction of Christianity would U' t: the moral world. The sun turned into darkness. Infldeiiiy in our t iuie is cor.sidereti a great joke. There pt o;j!e wiio rejoice to hear Christi anity caricatured, and to hear Christ as-c-aiied with iuii i.h and quirk, and mis rej re.s. jitalion, and badiMe, and harle 'i:aa!e. i -!!: a wo this morning to take InfiJl i'.v aTid Atlscism out of the realm of joc liJarity i::to one of tragedy, and show vo:i v.-Iirit they r)rr.'K)se, and what, if they r.ro s:iec-.-! "id. tSiey will acompliili. Thereai.Mhi'-e in all our communities who woald ii-j to see the ChrUtian re-li-ir-n overthrown, an! who say the world would lo better withoc it. I want ! i-ho'v yoti what is the end cf this r.. vl. and wu: h the terminus cf this c: l; .i.Je. r.::d what this -orJd will be when AtiieiiJi and Inlideiitv have ti!l'!'-' d over it. it they can. 1 say, u tiiev :: la t; J reiterate ii. if they can. lir.-t j.Jjee. it will he tii poru- ;::id uiiuiu r.ihjo degradation ot ' o. 1 1 will provj it bv facts i r i. .. . i. ;i Iklf wo; i an an-1 nri !iMi?-l i 5' u:eu no innicst ; ;i disTiite. J: a'' coir.munities and cities nnd fclaN ar 1 nations wGro the Chris- turn rt. J-'i' b .- b "l:i dominant, woii:,in condition h.: :s 1 een umtdiorated and im- proved, a:-. ! !it is Ieferred to and hon- ored m a ' V(iiir t :;i.sar.d things, and every s o'J his hat before her. . .ams have been good, you know that ti. name of wife, mother, tlaiiThter. sui-gest grr.cious surroundiiiga. Vou know there are no better schools and seminaries in r.rooklvn cr in any city cf this country than the schools and eerair-aries for our young ladies. You know that while woman may Buffer in justice in England and the United States, f he lias more of her rights in Christen dom than she has anywhere else. Now compare this with woman's con dition i:i lands where Christianity has made Ii:t!e or no advance in China, in 5ar!arv. i:i JJomeo, in Tartary, in Egypt, in iliii'jLV.an. The Durwese sell their v. ives and daughters :is so many shec-p. Tlie Iliadco iiilie maks it disgraceful and an outrage for a woman to listen to tun sic, or to !ok out of the window in the a!e--once i f her husband, and gives as n law f;:l ground for divorce a woman's lgi.:ni::g to cat beforo her husband haa tial-h.-d tii meal. What mean thcKr-e white bundles on the ponds and rivers in Chir.a in the morning? Infanticide fol-lov.-ing infarticide. Female children ! -siroyed siaiply because they ere female. Woman harnessed to a plow as an ox. Woman veiled and barricaded, and hi all ctvles of cruel seclusion, llcr birth a mi-fortune. liar Life a torture. l?cr death a lienor. Tho missionary of tho crofcik today in lit at hen lands preacls goneralJj to two group a group of men who do as tliej please and Bit where they please; tho other a group of women hidden and carefully secluded in a side ftijurtmcnt, where they may hear the Toico.of the preacher, but may not be seen. No refinement. No liberty. No hopo for tliis life. No hope for the life to come. Hinged nose. Cramped foot. Disfigured face. Embruted soul. Now compare theso two conditions. How far toward this latter condition that I speak of would woman go If Cliristian' influ ences were withdrawn and Cbrl:ianity were destroyed? It is only a c".:k)n 'of dynamics. If an object be- LT:;J. to a certain xint and not fastened there, and tho lifting power bo 'withdrawn, how long before that -object will fall down to the point from which it started? It will fall down, and it will' go still further than tho point from which it Etartcd. Christianity has lifted woman up from tho very deptlis of degradation almost to tho skies. If that lifting txwer be with drawn she falls clear baclr to tho depth from which she was resurrected, not go ing any lower because there is no lower depth. And yei, notwithstanding the fact that tho only sanation of woman from degradation and woe is tho Chris tian religion, and the only influence that has ever lifted her in the social scale is Christianity I have read that there are women who reject Christianity. I make no remark in regard to those persons. I make no remark in regard to them. In the silence of your own soul make your ob servations. If infidelity triumph and Christianity bo overthrown, it means tho demoraliza tion of society. Tho one idea in the I:ible that atheists and infidels most hate i the idea of retribution. Take away the idea of retribution and punishment from society, and it will begin very soon to disintegrate; and take away from the minds of men the fear of hell, and there :'.ra a great many of them who would very soon turn this world into a hell. Tho majority of those who are indignant against the Pible lecause of tho idea of punishment are men whose lives are bad or whoso hearts aro impure, and who hate the Rible because of the idea of future pun ishment for the same reason that criminals hate the penitentiary. Oh, I have heard this bravo talk a) tout joople fearing noth ing of the consequences of sin in the next world, and I have made up my mind it is merely a coward's whistling to keep his courage up. 1 have seen men flaunt their immoralities in the face of the com munity, and I havo heard them defy tho judgment day and scolf at the idea of any future consequence of their sin; but when they came to die they shrieked until you could hear them for nearly two blocks, and in tho summer night the neighbors got up to put the windows down because they could not enduro the horror. I would not want to see a rail train with hvo hundred Christian people on hoard go down through a drawbridge into a watery grave. I would not want tq see live hundred Christian people go into such disaster, but I tell you plainly that I could more easily see that than I could li.-r any protracted time stand and see an mlidcl die, though his pillow were of eider down and under a canopy of ver milion. I have never been aWe to brace ur my nerves for such a spectacle. There i.; something at such a time so indescrib able in the countenance. I just looked in upon it for a minute or two. but the clutch of his fist was so diabolical, and tho strength of voice was so unnatural, I CDitld not endure it. "There is no hell, thero is no hell, there is no helll" the man hpd said for sixty years; but that night when I looked in the dying room of my infidel neighbor t here vaa' soaii; thing on his countenance which seemed to say: "There is, tliere is, there is, there is!' The mightiest restraints today against theft, against nnmoraiily, fegauist ibep tini;m, against crimo of all sorts the mightiest restraints are the retributions of eternity. Men know that they can escape tho iaw, but down in the offend- or s souj mere is tne realization or me fgot that they cannot escape God. He stands at the end pf the road of prof ligacy, and ho will not clear the guilty. Take" all idea of retribution and punish ment out pf the hearts and minds of men, and it would not be long beforo lirooklyn and New York and Boston and Charles ton and Chicago became Sodoms. The or.lr restraints against the evil passions of the world iodtiy tud pibla vtrft. Suppose now these generals of Atheism and Infidelity got tho victory, and sup pose thc-y marshaled a great army made up of the inajonty ot" ine worju. Thy are in companies, in regiments in brigades the whole army. Forward, march i a hoct? pf hiGdc Is and atheists, I anners flying before, banners flying be hind, banners inscribed with the words: Jo Cod! No Christ! No punishment 1 No restraints! Doirn with the Bible 1 Do as you please!" Tho sun turned Into darkness. Forward, marclj 1 ye great army of in fidels and atheists. And first of all you wjll attack tho churches. Away with those hous; pf worship 1 They have I icon standing there so long deluding the people with consolation in their bereayer ments and sorrows. All those churches ought to bo extirpated; they have done so much to relieve tho lost and bring homo the wandering, and they have so long hel l up the idea of eternal rest after the paroxysm of lhi3 life Is over. Turn the St. Peters and St. Pauls and the tem ples and tabernacles into club houses. Away with those churches 1 Forward, march I ye great army of in-Gd-'ls and atheiots, and next of ail they scatter the Sabbath schools the Sabbath schools filled with bright eyed, bright cheeked little ones who are singing songs on Sunday afternoon, and getting instruc tions when they ought to be on the street comers playing marbles, or swearing on the commons. Away with theml For- I ward, marchl yo Teat army of infidels I and atheists, and next of all they will at ' tack Christian asylums the institutions cf mercy supportea oy tno cnrisnan philanthropies. Never mind tho blind e ves and the deaf ears and the crippled i limbs and tho weakened intellects. Let) paralyzed old ago pick up its own food, ami orphans fight their own way, ar-d ; the lialf reformed go back to their evil 1 habits. Forward, march ! ye gveat army of infidels and atheists, and with your j battle axe3 hew down the cross and split u; the manger of Bethlehem. j On, ye great army of infidels and athe-; ists, and now they come to the grave-1 rarda and tlie'cemetrles of tho earth. Pull down the sculpture above Green wood's gate, for' it means tho resurrec tion. Tear away at the entrance of Laurel Uill the figure of Old Mortality and the chiscL On, ye great army of in fidels and atheists, into the graveyards and cemeteries; and where you see "Asleep in Jesus," cut it away, and where you find a marble story of heaven, blast it, and where .you find over a little child's grave: "Suffer little children to come unto me," substitute the words "delusion and sluun',' and where you find an angel in mart'?, strike off the wing, and when : jr." i to a family vault, chisel on tL 3 Dead once, dead forever." ' But on. ye great &rri r cf infidels and atheists, on I They .will attempt to scale heaven. There aro heiglfts to be taken. Pile hill on hill 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 high place the Father, tho Son, tho Holy Ghost. "Down with theml" they 6ay. "Down with him from the thronel" they say. "Down forever! Down out of sight I lie is not God. He has no right to sit there. Down with him! Dow n with Christ !' A world without a head, a universe without a king. Orphan constellations. Fatherless galaxies. Anarchy supreme. A dethroned Jehovah. An assassinated God. Patricide, regicide, dcicidc. That is what they mean. That is what they will have, if they can, if they can, if they can. Civilization hurled back into semida'rlarism, and semidn !ai ism driven back into Hottentot savagery. Tho wheel of progress turned the other way and turned toward the dark ages. The clock of the centuries put back two thousand years. Go back, you Sand wich Islands, from your schools and from your colleges and from your re formed condition to what you were in 1820, when the missionaries first came. Call home the five hundred missionaries from India and overthrow their two thousand schools, where they are trying to educate tho heathen, and scatter the one hundred and forty thousand little children that they have gathered out of barbarism into civilization. Qbliterato all tho work of Dr. Dun in India, of David Abeel in China, of Dr. King in Greece, of Judson in Burmah, of David Brainard amid the American aborigines, and send home the 3,000 missionaries of the cross who are toiling in foreign lands, toiling for Christ's sake, toiling themselves into tho grave. TelJ these 8,000 men of God that they are of no use. Send home the med ical missionaries who are doctoring the bodies as well as the souls of the dying nations. Go home, London Missionary society. Go home, American Board of Foreign Missions. Go homo, ye Moravi ans, and relinquish back into darkness and squalor and filth and death tho na tions whom ye have beguu to lift. Oh, my friends, there has never been such a nefarious plot .on earth as that which infidelity and atheism havo planned. We were shocked a few years ago because of the attempt to blow up tho parliament houses in London; but if infidelity and atheism succeed in their attempt, they will dynamite a world. Let them have their full w?.y, aud this world will be a habitation of three rooms a Jiabitation with just three rooms the one a madhouse, another a lazaretto, the other a pandemonium. These in fidel band3 of music have on j josi begun their pMnceilA yea 'they' have only been stringing their instruments. I today put before you their whole programme from lieginning unto close. In the theatre the tragedy comes fust and the farce after ward; but to this Infidel diaa:,& of dcAth the farce" corses' first 'drid' the tragedy afterward. "And in the former atheists and infidels laugh and mock, but in tho latter God himself will laugh and mock. no pays q, wtxi ugn at tneir pa laroity and mock when their fear com-eth."- - ........ From such a phasm pf individual na tional, world fyidq ruin, stand back. Qii, young men, 'stand fcaclt 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 time is going to come (yv and pay not iye to seeit," but ' it will couie, jjiiflt as certainly as there is a God, it will come) when the infidels and the atheists who openly, and out and out and above hoard preach and practice Infidel ity and Atheism will ba considered as crimiiials against society, as -they are now criminals against God. Society ci'J push - put lha leper, a.id the wretch with soul gangrened," and ichorous, and vermin covered, and rotting apart with his bestiality, will be left to die in the jjijeh. &r4 bs denied decent burial, and men will come with spades and cover up the carcass where it' falls, that it poison not the air, and the only text in all the Bible appropriate for the funeral sermon will bo Jeremiah xxii, 19: 'IIe shall be buried with the burial of an ass. " A thousand voices come up to me this mprning. saying: "Do you really think infidelity nj-fil succeed? Has Christianity received its ' death bow ? and will the Bible become obsolete?" Yes, when tho smoke of the city chimney arrests and destroys the noonday sun. Joscphus says about the time of the destruction of Jerusalem the sun was turned into dark ness; but only the-clouds rolled between tho sun and the earth. The sun went right on. It is the same sun, the same luminary as when at the begin ning it shot out like an electric spark from God's finger, and today it is warming the nations, and today it is gilding the sea, and today it is filling the earth with light. The same old 6un, not at all worn out, though its light steps one hundred and ninety mill ion miles a second, though its pulsa tions are four hundred and fifty trillion undulations in a second. Same sun with beautiful white light, made up of the violet and the indigo and the blue and the green and the red and thej'ellow and tho orange the seven beautiful colors now just as when the solar spectrum first divided them. At the beginning God said: "Let thero be light,'- and light was, and light is, and light shall be. So Christianity i rolling out and it ia going to warm ail nations, and all nations are to bask in its light. Men raay shut the window blinds so they cannot see it, or they may smoke the pipe of Fpectdation nnUl they are fcliadowed under their own vaporing ; but tho Lord God is a. sun! Thii white light of tho Gospel, maido up cf r' Vt beauti ful colors of earth .- " violet plucked frorn r x and the uidi and the I the green, r of ti:-' of r tt ar , and ; yellow LLt orange . the red of ies of earth . by this spiritual . .Lain is going to take . The United States a all America for God. all L. are gOi..' , Both of them together will take all Asia for God. All three of them will take Africa for God. "Who art thou, oh, great mountain? before Zerubbalicl thou shalt become a plain." Tho mouth of the Lord hath tpoken it. Hallelujah, amen ! DAUGHTERS OF EVE. Mrs. Langtry owns a stable full of blooded horses. Ellen Terry is fond of eccentric cos tumes and big bunches of roses. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton has been president of tho Woman Suffrage asso ciation twenty years. Mrs. I licks-Lord wears the costliest fan in the country suspended from a chain of diamondsand iiearls. Miss Emma Thiusby says sho dixs not see the necessity of froirvr to TV: cultivate the Voice, iiavu its hue teachers as are to Ijo found anywhere. A sultseription of more than $1,200 has Ix-en raised in Boston for the plucky Ne bniska scluxd ma'am, who buffeted the blizzard with her pupils tied to a string. An old lady of TO living in Dooly county, Ca., is able to jerforui the feat of dancing a jig with a tumbler of water balanced on her head w ithout spilling a drop. IdaC. Allen, of Dover, N. IJ., has been offered a professorship in Smith's college at a salary of $3,700 a year. There are professional Iwiseball players who do not make more than this. Lexington, Miss., has three feminine residents who play an important part in keeping the town in communication with the rest of tho world. One of the ladies aforesaid is jvost mistress, another express agent, and the tliird has charge of the telegraph office. Mrs. Lillian M. Pavy, of London, Eng land, is a commercial traveler now v'sU ing the western states it; the interest of an English hotise. She travels alone and finds that in this country a woman does not need an escort to protect her from annoyance. The following advertisement reoeiitly appeared in The Jxmdoi! Standard: "A lady of good family, without means, with a thorough knowledge of everything, would be grateful to any ono who would give her occupation, not particular as to what." Tho years clutch all alike, and Queen Victoria has fallen mto the habit of tak ing little "cat naps" in her chair, even when visitors are present. At such times the royal lady gxs through tho f;iiie routine followed by the most bumble, of her subjects. Hex head talis a little for ',Vid, swaying slightly from side to side; then she sits bolt upright, opens her eves very wide and assumes an apjieavanco" t great intelligence and alertness. Aunt Becky Young! or Cedar Rapids la., is a meiM.Vr cf the Grand Army oi tho Republic, and attends ail its reunions in her slate. Left a widow with two children at the age of 32, she left he; home in Ithaca, N. Y., to go. to. t he front as an hwpitjtl, Aunt Becky "is GO vews jiu ' hovv, and her brown hair i3 streaked with gray, but she is full of life and energy, and no old soldier finds a keener relish in shouldering his crutch, and showing how field-i were, won than does Aunt Becky in relating stories of her hospital experiences on the field, It ceems queer to hor of tho life tho Qneen of & eueifj doctors aro making her lead to overcome a distressing nerv ous malady with w hich she is alEieted. They make her get up almost at day break, wash in cold water. uske her ow n bed, clean !;,cv own rooui, do garden work, takb long walks and go to bed early. They have on several occasions, in order to secure fatiguo and g'.vo he mind the necessary interait and occupa tion, required her to cook and even w ath tdothes. ' Un;kr this regime she ia t'i fing 6trong and heart3 but one does not need to be a queen to ?njoy such au ex-pt-rieccfu There is cr.3 woman in the department of tho interior who cannot be dispensed with. Administrations may corao and go, but she goea on forever. She was. left over from the last Republican admin istration, and somebody wanted hey place. Her salary was f 700 a year. Sho worked only flva days in the week, as she was a Hebrew. Assistant Secretary Muldron said: "We cannot get along without her. She can write a letter that can be understood. She knows just where to put her capitals. She can punc tuate with exactness. Her sentences are models of lucid brevityn" So she not only staid, but her salary is raised to $ 1,100 a year, and sho is worth i. Washington Letter in Detroit Free Press. "The German empress," says a writer ijj The Journal des Debats, "is the soul of the imperial honsehold. She is much better loved there thuu outside, where people are unjust to her. She has com mitted the mistake of remaining English as all the English do and to carry the pride of her race into the middle of a people which admires itself with a naive and enormous complaisance ; she brought the pride of her birth into a family which believes itself the first in tho world; her aristocratic tastes into a town where art ehows itself in clumsy imitations and patchwork; the independence of her ! views into a court where everything U regulated and prearranged ; and the lib erty of her religious and political senti- ments into a center where religion has its narrow forms, as tho politics of which it is the servant. A man in a western town seriously proposed to issue an edition of tho Dible, with pages devoted to advertising inserud in the te.xt, but he gave up the iJea w hen he learned what indignation it excited. The Plattsmouth Is on joying a BAXSST AND WE! EDITIONS. The Will lie ono during which the subjects of Tuttioiial interest ami importance will lu strongly agitated ami the election of :i President will take jibice. llie people of Cass County who would like to leani of Political, Commercial and Social Transactions of this year and. would keep apace with the times should FOK aily or Now while we have the suojeet before the people we will venture to speak ol our mm BEpPTlEl illJll PCi r risl 1 IfiEii y a Which is first-class in all respects and from which our job printers are turning out much satisfactory work. PLATTSMOUTH, iera Boora in "bet la its KITH Kit Till: eekly Herald. NEBRASKA. 1888