Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-16

| gled in sin, administrative OF evil. God
will thunder against you with His con-
! demnation in the day when millionaire
and pauper, master and slave, king and
subject, shall stand side by side In the
4 judgment, and money bags and judicial
ermlne and royal robes shall be riven
I with lightnings.
/ Behold, also, how giant may be slain
! of sOrceress. Delilah started the train
| of circumstances that pulled down the
/ temple of Dagon about SamsOn's ears.
And tens of thousands of gante have gone
| down to death aud hell through the same
impure destinations. 1t seems TO me that
1t Is high time that pulpit and platform and
printing-press speak out against the inn
purities OF modern society. Fastidi0us-
/ ness and prudery say: "Better not speak
you will rouse up adverse criticism;
/ you Will make worse what you want to
make better; better dealin gllttering gem
! eralities; the subject is too delicate for
! polite ears.D But there comes a voice
/ from heaven overpOwering the minclng
I sentimentaliues OF tne day, saying: "Cry
/ aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like
/ trumpet, and show my people their
transgressiOns and the house OF
] Jacob their sins" The trouble is
/ that when people write or speak upon
/ this theme they are apt To cover II up
/ with the graces of bellies iettres so that
]
! repulsiye. Lord Byron IN "DOn juan
adorns this crime until it smiles like
/ May queen. Mlchelpt. the great French
/ writer, covers 1t up with bewitching
/ rhetoric until it glows like the rising sun,
when 1t ought 70 be made loathsOme as a
smallpox hospital. There are to-day in
! huences abroad. which, If unreslSted by
the pulpit and the printing press, Will
/ turn New York and Brooklyn into SOdom
n NJ J t1nfsr srsh ~ anntVr tnr al a
| fire and birthstone that overwhelmed the
/ cities OF the plain. You who are seated
! I'm your Christian homes, cOmpassed by
moral and religious restraints, do not
| realize the gulf of iniquity that bounds
( you on the north and the south aud
/ the east and the west. While
! speak there are tens OF
| thousands of men and women going over
/ the awful plunge of an impure life; and
while cry to God for mercy upon their
souls, call upon you to marshal in the
defense OF your homes, your church and
/ your nation. There is a banquating hail
/ that you have never heard described.
/ You know all about the feast OF Abasu-
erus, where q thousand lords sat. You
/ know all about BelshaZZars car0usal,
where the blood OF the murdered king
! spuried into the faces OF the banqueters.
I You may know OF the scene Of riot and
J wassail, when there was set before EsOpus
one dish of iocd that cost 100000. But |
/ speak now OF different banquetng hall.
/ It's roof is fretted with fire. Its floor is
tesselaied with fire. Its chalices are
chased with fire. Its song is a song Of
fire. It's walls are buttresses OF fire.
/ Solomon refers TO it when ne says: "Her
/ guests are in the depths Of hell''
Our American communities are suffer
/ ing from the Gospel Of Free LOyeism,
which, fifteen or twenty years ago, was
/ preached on the platform and in some OF
the churches OF this country. l charge
upon Free Loveism that IL has blighted
! nnumerabe homes, and that it has sent
! innumerabie souls 20 ruin. Free LOveism
/ is bestial: 10 is wOTse--it is Internal. IL
has furnished this land with about 1000
divorces annually. In one county In the
State Of Indiana IL furnished eleven di-
vOrces In one day before dinner. IL has
reused mp elOpements, North, south,
East and West. You can hardly take up
paper but you read of an elope-
ment. As far rs can under
stand the doctrine of Free Loveism, it
is this: that every man ought to
have somebody else's wife, and every
wife body elee's husband. They do
| not like our Christian organization Of So
ciCty, and wish they would all elOpe, the
wretches OF one sex taking the wretches
/ Of the other. and start tomorrow morning
/ for the great Sahara desert until the ST.
noon shall sweep seven feet OF sand all
over them, and not one passing caravan
/ fOrsthe next five hundred years bring back
! one miserable bone Of their carcasses.
| Free Loveisml 1t il the double distilled
extract of nuX vOmica, ratsbane and ad-
! der's tongue. Never until society goes
back 10 the old Bible and hears it's eulogy
4 Of purity and its anathema Of unclean-
ness, never until then will this evil be
/ eXtlrpated.
Behold, also. in the giant Of the text
/ that great physical power must crumble
and expire. the Samson OF the text long
| fought the Philistines. He could hght
anything. But death was too much for
/ him. He may have required a longer
grave and a broader grave, but the tomb,
1 neYerthe less, was his terminus. All, II
! the giant OF the text could not finally sue
ceed in the contest against death, we Of
] lesser fibre and lesser strength, think,
will have 10 surrender. Whatl DO you
/ tell me that the muscle OF the arm must
! be shrunken, that the tongue must
/ be palsied, that the foot must halt
/ in It's march and halt forever!
/ Yes; II the giant Of the text surrendered
/ we shall surrender. BY prudence
/ by good habits, by the enthrone-
ment Of moral principle, we may post
] IOilE buE AONIa Duh tDiit ~ must anu tUHlt
/ 10 will. III then we are TO be compelled 10
/ 20 out of this world. where are we 10 90
/ tOY This body and soul must soon part
J Whall snail be the destiny Of the forlneri
/ ] know. Dust 10 dust. But what shall
/ be the destiny OF the latter? Shall 10 rise
! into the cOmpaniOnship Of the white-rObed
4 whose sins Christ has slain. or shall il be
/ down among the unbelieying who tried 10
/ gain the world and save their souls, but
were swindled out Of bOthf Blessed be
/ God we have "a champion. He is so styled
/ in the Bible, champion who has con-
quered death aud he'll, and - ready %
fight All our battles from the first 10 the
last. "Who is this that cOmeth from
Edom, with dyed garments from BOzrah
mighty 20 saypY' III we fan In the wake
1 ofthat champion, death has no power and
the grave no victory. The worst man
trusting in him shall have his dying
pangs allevated and hisfuture illumined.
In the light ~ this subject, / want 70
call your attention TO q fact which may
not have been rightly considered by five
men IN this house, and that Is, that We
must be brought into Judgment for the
I employment OF our physical organism.
/ Shoulder, brain, hand, fOOt-We must an
swer In judgment, for the use we have
made Of them. Have they been used for
the elevation Of society, or It's depressionf
In proportion, as our arm is strong and
our step elastic, will our account at last
be intensified. Thousands Of sermons are
1 preached 10 inYalids; / preach this SER
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