The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-12

the hall. Thatwss kind husband and an
indulgent father. he VIII kneel with thenl no
more as once he did at family PRAYERS the little
ones with Clssped hands looking up INTO the
heavens with thanksgiving for their happy
home; but at midnight Will drive them from
their pillows, and curse them down the stairs,
and howl altor them a, they hy down the street
in nght-garmeIts under Inc calm starlight.
Who slew that man? Who blaste that home
Who plunged those cblldeIn into worse than
O1phanage, I'LL their hands are blue with the
cold, and their cheeks blancbed with fear, ana
their brow SCARED with abuses. and their eyes
hollow With grlPiy VINO made that life wreck
and filed eternity with the uproar oil destroyed
spirit? H
My friends there are those whose regular
business it is TO work this death. Ihey mix a
cup that glows ana flashes ana loans with
enchautmenU, and call IL COgnac, mock, swan
gin, Heldsieck, old Bouf Don bran0y, Champaign;
mt tell them nor that IN the rudy glow there
Is the blood OF sacrifice, and in Its fa.h the eye
of uncoiled adders, and IN the foam the white
mouth-frotb of eternal death' And not owing
what a horrible mixture it Is, men take it up
and drink il down, the sacri1cial blood. the
uncoiled adders. the death-roth AMI smack
their lips and cal, 1t "a delightful beverage
Ohi il i had some art by which [ could break
the charm oil the tempter's bowl, and could
with matted hand, lit out OF 1t that long SER
pent OF eternal despair, and shake out It's coils
in your presence, ana cast it dowu and crush it
our! but the enchanl ment cannot thus be
broken. 1t hides in the bottom OF the bowl and
not until the man is utterly fallen does the
monster lit itself up and strike him with its
iangs, and answer all his lmporations for
mercy with tiendlsh blssi
We must rouse up public opinion till CITY and
state otlic ais shall no longer dare TO neglect
the execution of the law, We have enough
enactments now to revolutionize the city and
strlEe terror through drinking saloons, and
gambling dens, and houses OF sin. Tracts dis
trbuted Will not 40 1t. Bibles printed will not
accomplish it. VIII tracts do it? As well try
with three OF four sno@-hakes to put out Coto-
paXi. We want police officers, Common Coun-
cllnen, aldermen, sheritls, and mayors who
will execute the law. Give us for two weeks
in Philadelphia an honest City Hail. and public
pollution would tall ike lightning from Heaven
If you Republicans and Democrats 90 not have
enough determination through the men You
elect 10 co their duty in this regard, we will
alter awhile form a party OF our own, and put
men IN positions pledged to antl-rum, auti-dirt,
antl-nulsances, antl-all municipal abominatlons,
and will give 10 those OF you who have been so
long lattenlng on public spolls careless of
public morals not so much as the wages OF
street-sweeper.
1t may seem TO many that all our battling
against these evils will come 20 noueht Not so.
The zoopbytes of the sea themselves toll IN
little industret until there rises up as result Of
thelr toll. great islands aud bars; and hope IN
God that.by patience and concentration OF effort
we may, a ] together, build break wafer chat
will dash back the surges OF municipal crime.
Besides that, we toll not IN our own strength. 1t
must have seemed insignificant for Moses to
strelCn out MS hand over the sea. What a silly
thing to stretch out his hand over the sea eX.
pectng 1t to fly awav! But the east wind begins
to blow. The waters pile up INTO glIttering
palisades. The blllows reared as Gods hand
pulled back upon their crystal bits. Wheel mo
line Israel! Pearls crash under the feet.
The lying spray springs its rainbow arch over
the victors. The shout of hosts mounting the
other beach answers the shout of hosts mit-sea,
tI as the last line OF the Israelltes have gained
the beach, the shields clano and the cymbals
Clap, and as the waters whelm the pursuing foe,
the swift-hneered winds on the white keys
OF the foam play the glad anthem OF Israel de-
hvered," and tie awful dirge of Egyptian
Overthrow"
SO we 20 forth and stretch out the hand of
PRAYER and Christian eilort over these dark,
boiling waters of crime and suffering. People
laugh, and say, "What good viii that do?"
but wait. The winds Of Divine help will
begin to bow, and the way Will clear for the
great army of Christian pbilanthropists. The
clustering treasures of the worlds benefcence
shall line the path OF our 1eet And TO the
other shore we will be greeted with the clash of
all Heavens cymbals; whilst those who resist,
and deTide, and pursue us, will fall under the
sea, and there will be nothing left of them, bat
here and there, cast high and dry upon the
beach, the splintered wheel of chariot or
thrust Out from the surf the breathless nostrll
of a rderless charger.