St. Landry democrat., 1885-05-30

violence and horror enough I to teach
five hundred eternities that the most
acute and prolonged and stupendous re-
bellion against God and righteousness
shall come down into crash of everlast-
ing ruin. God is not going to do it by
piecemeal. He is not going to do it in
small skirmish. He is waiting till all the
forces are massed, and some day
when in confident and defiant mood at the
head of his army this great Goliath of hell
stalks forth, our champion, the son of
David, will strike him down, not with
smooth stones from the brook, but with
fragment of the Rock of Ages. Yet this viii
not be done until the giant of evil and his
holy antagonist stand fully within sight of
the two great armies of Heaven and hell.
This tragedy is only postponed to make
the scene more warningly and tremen-
dously climacteric. That is the reason
why God does not kill the devil. 1t is not
quite time yet to kill him. Be patient. If
God can afford to wait, you can afford to
wait. The clock of destiny strikes only
once in thousand years.
ANOTHER REASON.
Sometimes God lets the wicked live that
they may build that which righteousness
may appropriate for good uses. At the
last meeting of our Church Court we were
told of a college started at the Far West
by Intdels. There was to be in it no nom
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 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 fortress Of skepticism,
has become fortress of old-fashioned,
orthodox religion. The devil built
it, righteousness captured it. So
there are in our cities very expensive
club-houses, the architecture and the fur
niture 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 have 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
would3 put hook in the nose of Sem
nacherib and turn him. And all the mod
ern Sennacheribs of inidelity and sin
have 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: eLet God arise;
let His enemies be scattered" Some of
the worst men God has harnessed for spe-
cial mission. Witness Cyrus and Nebuchad-
nezzar With the bayonets of 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 may
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 inno-
cence arise from under the heel of OPP
preston. Common fairness as well as
eternal justice demands it. To the Grand
Assize we must adj ourn the stupendousA
injustice of this life. They are not righted
here. There must be some place where
they viii be righted. God can not afford
to omit the judgment day or a reconstruc-
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 sepu1cher and there get
into 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 hand to her side,
where cancerous trouble had already be-
gun its 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 its back
door and find nothing waiting-no one to,
say: $ am glad you have come," and
no one to show her the way to the Kings
gate. It can not be- Solomon bemoaned
the Princess afoot and the beggar a-horse-
back, and there must be time when the
right foot shall get into the stirrup. To