g? "And in a final judgment." It will be a
set day. All of us will be there, and the thousands, and millions, and
billions, and trillions, and quadrillions that have died will be there.
It will be the day of judgment, and the books will be opened and our
case will be called. Does anybody believe in that now that has got the
slightest sense?--one who knows enough to chew gum without a string?"
"The issues of which are everlasting punishment for the wicked and
everlasting life for the redeemed. "That is the doctrine today of the
Congregational church, and that is the doctrine that I oppose. That is
the doctrine that I defy and deny.
But I must hasten on. Now this comes to us after all the discussion
that has been, and we are told that this religion is finally to conquer
this world. This is the same religion that failed to successfully meet
the hordes of Mohammed. Mohammed wrested from the disciples of the
cross the fairest part of Europe. It was known that he was an
impostor. They knew he was because the people of Mecca said so, and
they knew that Christ was not because the people of Jerusalem said he
was. This impostor wrested from the disciples of Christ the fairest
part of Europe, and that fact sowed the seeds of distrust and
infidelity in the minds of the Christian world. And the next was an
effort to rescue from the infidels the empty sepulchre of Christ. That
commenced in the eleventh century and ended in 1291. Europe was almost
depopulated. For every man owed a debt, the debt was discharged if he
put a cross upon his breast and joined the Crusades. No matter what
crime he had committed the doors of the prison were open for him to
join the Crusades. And what was the result? They believed that God
would give them victory over the infidel, and they carried in front of
the first Crusade a goat and a goose, believing that both those animals
had been blessed by the indwelling of the Holy Ghost. And I may say
that those same animals are in the lead today in the orthodox world.
Until 1291 they endeavored to get that sepulchre, until finally the
hosts of Christ were driven back, baffled, beaten, and demoralized--a
poor, miserable religious rabble. They were driven back, and that fact
sowed the seeds of distrust in Christendom. You know at that time the
world believed in trial by battle--that God would take the side of
right--and there had been a trial by battle between the Cross and
Mohammed, and Mo
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