Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-05

sense of chapel prayers, and the obsolete
Bible was not to be found there. The
faculty was made up of the enemies of
Christianity. The college buildings were
reared and the work begun. But such an
institution could not prosper. A minister
of the Presbyterian Church was in n bank
one day on business, and he overheard in
an adjoining room the College Board of
Trustees discussing what they had better
do with their college, as they could not
make it go any longer. One of them said:
LET us hand it over to the Presby-
terians," prefacing the word "Presby-
terrain" with an unhappy expletive. The
motion carried, and that college,
built as a fortress of skepticism,
has become a fortress of old-fashioned,
orthodox religion. The devil built
1t, Righteousness captured it. So
there are in our cities very expensive
club-houses, the architecture and the fur
nlture and all the equipment a bedazzle-
ment of wealth, employed in making gam
bling and dissipation respectable. But
fret not. These buildings will yet be free
libraries or hospitals or galleries of pure
art. Observatories nave been put up at
vast expense by monomaniacs of atheism,
and, the first you know, they are in pos
session of Christian science. God said He
would put a hook in the nose of SEN
nacherib and turn him. And all the mod
ern Sennacheribs Of infdelity and sin
have q hook in their nose and are turned
this way and that as the Lord wills it.
Great marble halls now devoted to sinful
amusements will yet be dedicated for
religious assemblage. All these castles of
sin will surrender under the battle-cry
with which Oliver Cromwell led his army
on the field of Naseby: "Let God arise;
let His enemies be scattered" Some of
the worst men God has harnessed for spe.
cialmission. Witness Cyrus and Nebuchad-
nezzar- With the bayonets of a bad man
the Bastile was pried open. Some of the
most selfish and wicked merchants have
by their talents opened new fields for law
full commerce.
God let's the wicked live that all NAV
understand that there must be another
world for adjustments. So many of the
bad up and SO many of the good down.
There must be a place where brilliant
~scoundrelism shall be arraigned and limo
cence arise from under the heel of op-
preston. Common fairness as we'll as
eternal justice demands it. To the Grand
Assize we must adj ourn the stupendous
injustice of this life. They are not righted
here. There must be some place where
they will be righted. God can not afford
to omit the judgment day or q reconstruct
tion OF conditions: You can not make me
believe that that man, stuffed with abomi-
nations, having devoured widows houses
and digested them and looked with basilisk
or tigerish eyes on his fellows, liking no
music so well as; the sound of breaking
hearts, is going at death to get out of his
landau at the front door of the sepulcher
and pass right through to the back
door of the sepulcher aud there get
into a celestial turnout, already hitched
up, to drive tandem up the primrosed
hills, one glory riding as lackey ahead
and another glory riding as position be-
hind, while that poor woman who sup
ported her invalid husband and helpless
children by taking in washing and iron
ing, often putting her land to her side,
where a cancerous trouble had already be-
gun it's work, and falling dead late one
night while trying to get one of the chill
dren's garments ready for the Sabbath
day, and going afoot into the front door
OF the sepulcher, is to cross to it's back
door and find nothing w~aiting-no one to
say: 81 am glad you have come," and
no one to show her the way to the Kings
gate. 1t can not be. Solomon bemoaned
the Princess afoot and the beggar a-horse-
back, and there must be O time when the
right foot shall get into the stirrup. To
demonstrate to all the world that there
must be another state for ~rearranging
these inequalities, God lets the wicked
live.
TO I I FOR REPENTANCE.
God let's the wicked. live for the reason
that He has let us live-to give us time for
happiness. What would you and I have
been if God had followed sin with immedi-
ate catastrophe? What a mercy God has,
according to the Canticles, the fleet foot of
the roe-buck when He goes to save! He
moves as though hoppled by great languor
and infinite lethargies when He comes to
punish. I celebrate Gods adjournments,
and Gods postponements, and Gods put
ting off of retribution. The slower the
rail train moves the better if the draw
bridg is off. Let our impatient criticism
of Providence because that man, by
WuGeiluS oUOCh, 14LhoS u LllIl4Ou ny Ouo
swoop, and keeps it, and these other
men roll in blooted arrogance all
their days, be exchanged for graft
tude everlasting that God did let
us live when we AZ deserved nothing
but capsizes and demolition. How long
nave you lived u~npardoned? Fifteen
years, twenty years, forty years, sixty
years. You lave lived through great re-
ligious awakenings, through domestic
calumities, through business disaster,
through alarming illness, through provi-
dences that startled nations, and living
yet strangers to God and duty, and with
no hope for a future into which at any mo-
ment you may be precipitated. Through
Jesus Christ get your nature revolu-
tionized and TRANSPORTED, for God some-
times changes His gait, and instead of the
deliberate step He becomes a swift wit
ness, and people in your state may be sud-