Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-11-05


God as TO take him further up town and intro
uce him where true religion and earnest piety
hOuld ever be found-in the homes and hearts
{ the people. Don't be too ambitious to show
i'm only the fine buildings outside, but point out
you go those of humble degree, and go into
10Th of them. Wait patiently till the return
rom the ride or promenade, or sit with the poor
eamstress and hear her tale of wo. Do not be
90 credulous, for your christian friend will see
trough every disguise, and do equal justice to
III, high and low, rich and poor and Judge wise
y in all cases. Though his sympathies are
trong, he will do injustice to no one. Show
lin the luxurious elegance of the parlors open
he wardrobes, the sideboards and the larders.
You must not remind him of Paul's lessons TO
young Timothy touching such things. Do not
Drget the clubhouses, lager and billiard saloons,
lram-shOps IL gambling houses generally Point
put as you go this or that man he slips into
suspicious doorwaSs.
If it be Sunday, take him to the most fashion
able church and eloquent ministries. Caution
him that his prejudices be not over-dazzled, for
he is plain, simple, minded, humble man, not fa-
miliar with such splendors of sight and sound in
the way of religion. Let him listen lie should
not much observe 1.-The buildings of the temple
or the outside of the people in it. He who presides
there looks into the heart and sets up his Kingdom
there He will judge of all these things justly.
And when you have taken him all over the
city-into the business parts, into the streets
and lanes, into parlors and garrcts into banks
and churches into club rooms and council cham
bers, into prison houses and poor asylums, into
courts of justice and political conclavcs; show
him the outside OF evrythiDg, as 1t is open 10 the
eye of Him whose Judgments are in the earth
that the people may learn righteousness" You
may ask him to seal up his book till he has gone
out over the whole country, of which this city
claims to be and is the commercial metropolis,
and inspected everything bearing upon the great
question at issue, with equal scrutiny i'll the far
pFairies of the West and savannas of the South,
the mountain houses and fashionable watering
places, that justice may be done TO all. When
this is all done and well done, ask him il there Is
any doubt as to the cause of this evil which IS
come upon us Can any one doubt?
lie will not say--this Christ man will not
that this evil is to be attributed to "dH HntOrtU
nate combination Of circumstances, and so divide
the sum of responsibility that nobody may
be blamed for it nobody be expected to
repent of it, and do works meet for repentance
lie will show you very clearly-will make it per
fectly plain to all who will take the trouble to be
candid and consider, that the present disasters
have all resulted as the natural, inevitable and
necessary consequence of the causes and means
with which nearly every man and woman has
lad something to do And he will make il equal
IL plain and simple that all are alike concerned
in the renedy--ana that all haveit more or less
in their power TO aid in the removal OF the evil
complained Of
Reluctant as we may be- severe as tho trial,
and alarming as the fears growing out Of our want
of faith we must make atonement for our d.sobe-
dience God has told us what to do, aud ace hare
not done II. We have disobeyed and fled from him
into the May rounds of extravaganza and profit
gate living. When aTraigned ut the bar OF his
Judgment, must own our fault. We cannot
disguise it. He will not justify us in it, We
must confess and forsake Our sins. The cause o!
the evil must be removed. Plasers, and paIlia
tions, and braces, and bandages, and magnetic
batteries cannot effect cure. Draw out the
poisoned dagger. Probe the wound othe bottom
Apply your remedy there. And 1t mustbe, LEI
every one say, Take me up and cast forth
into the sea, SO shall the sea be calm, for know
that for my sake this great evil is come upon
YOU" The wise men of the earth may as
bravely as the men with Jonah did to get TO land
They will not reach twill find it of 10 avail,
so long as the faithess and disobedient the cause
OF the evil, is retained. Let them cry unto the
Lord. and "beseech him that he will not lay up
on them innocent blood of which there is no
danger-and then cast the real cause of the evil
from them and the sea will cease from its raging,
aud all will 60 smoothly forward. The fair gales
OF permanent prosperity will return, and all will
be JOY and peace; quietness and assurance for
ever
Let us be little more precise and specific, and
discover if we can the producing cause fthe evils
which are come upon From what has been
said, it is manifest that the guilt is widespread
rs the calamities, or nearly SO. Innocence is
sometimes made to suffer by its almost nee
essary connection with the guilty. Natural
and social evils frequently involve the pure and
good in trouble and sorrow, and honesty suffers
at the hand of the knave.
| would notice at this time, two causes which
seem to me more controlling and apparent than
any others.
l. The inordinAte desire to pet rich
= Making haste to get rich
1t is not want of n competence that has filed
all hearts with anxiety and fear Few people in
this country ever doubt but they can procure
food and raiment;" but very few learn there
with TO be content" 1t is not the strife for the
necessares and comforts of life thBt has plunged
our commercial interests into to the vortex OF
danger and destruction, but the inordinate de-
sire to excel i'll weath-to become immensely
rich to be millionaire. OF all the men who have
failed, and of all who still hang on the verge of
insolvency, not one in hundred has really need
ed to make any risks in their business for years
past. For the sheer love of business and the ex-
panding, crowding out more modest aspirants
overriding the honest and earnest enterprise of
young and ambitious men, who to maintain the
shadow of success, have been compelled to reach
up and spread out a'together beyond their means
This rivalry has gone forward TO such an extent
thateyery temptation has beenheld out to buyers.
Long credits have been given abroad, and bank
facilities have been employed at home. The coun-
try merchant has sold and invested both cost *
profit IN outside speculations- --in railroads and
Western lands; and their paper has been used rs
the basis for similar Investments at home. Cred
its have thus been expanded without limit and in
all directions. Every body has regarded himself
rlch or as sure to be i'll few days, ana suppos-
cd all others to be in like condition of prosper
ity That thing called confidence was the electric
battery which sent out the viazing power, and
Kept the whole astir and towards universal pros
penty. Every man was i'll the condition OF the
ambitious traveller ascending BIT. Blanc. In
motion is his only safety. To stop is to die
The payday comes at last The recuperation
commenced When it will end God only knows.
Now, had the ambition of each man been
bounded by the desire of competence-all
one can possibly enjOy-the whole community
would to-day be quiet and in the course OF health
tu progress in ali the essentials of personal so
cial and national prosperity. Strange that en-.
Hghtened and christian men should dare run
such hazards. Men who have read their bibles
should have Needed the Apostles instructions
when he said, They that triH be rich, fall into
temptation and snare and into many foolish
and hurtful lustS which drown men in destruc,
lion and perdition, For the tore ofmonev is the
root OF all eyli' which, while some coveted after
thty nave erred from the faith, and pierced
themselves through with many sorrows -
Strange such instructions are not Needed SEEING
they are from Eod, and sustained by all human
experience. But pride has inflated their hearts
aud bewldered their minds. They cannot see
the folles, and extravaganza, and sintulness OF
their ways, and SO rush on and are punished a.
Alas too late, many have found that Prid.
goeth before destruction and naughty spirit
before fall"
But not only have men set their hearts on be.
ing rich, but they have resolved to become so \,
once Fortunes have been made in dav. and
why may not they sccceed as well So tbev
plunge IN at hazard, cast their light shaIlon
upon ioamlng sea, and steer foFthe Ell Dora