Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-11

ming the city debt from $50, 00O, 900 to SJl,-
100000. Now he stands high up in mil
liOnairedom, country seats, terraced and
arbOred and parterred to the water S
brink. Horses enough to stock a kings
equarrY. GrOoms and pOstillions in full
rig. Wine cellars enough TO make wnole
Legislatures drunk. New York politics
and finance in his vest pocket. He
winked and officials went down. He
lifted his little ringer and ignoramuses
took high places. He whispered and at
Albany and Washington people said 1t
Numbered. Higher up and higher up, until
pandemOn ium seemed about to adjourn to
this world. and there was some prospect
that in the Satanic realm there would be a
change of administration, and that Apoi-
lyon after holding dominion 50 long would
nave an earthly competitor. 10 bring all
to climax, wedding came
in the house Of that man.
Diamonds as large as hickory nuts. A
pin Of sixty diamonds, representing
circle half hidden by a great harp Of
flowers. Ships OF flowers. Forty silver
sets-one of them with $40 pieces. One
wedding dress that cost $4,000. A famous
] Hbertine, who owned several Long Island
sound steamboats,, and not long before
/ he was shot for his crimes sent as we'd
ding present to that house a frosted silver
]
bears walking on icicle handles and as
cending the spoons. Never such a con-
vocation of brOnzes, of pictures, of
shawls. The highest wave Of New York
splendor rolled in upon the scene and re-
cOiled, never again to rise so high. But
at The moment when all observation
of earth and hell was concentrated
upon the scene, eternal justice, imperson-
ated in that wonder OF the American bar,
Charles O'COnOr, cotton the track Of the Of
| fender. First arrest, then Indictment, then
sentence OF twelve years i'm prisOnment on
twelve indictments; then penitentiary on
Blackwelfs Island; then suit againsth him
for S6 900. 600; then Ludlow street jail;
then escape and flight in foreign country;
then return under tight grip Of the con-
stabulary and death from broken heart
in prison cell Allowed to 90 on until all
the world learned as never before that the
way Of the trangressOr is hard, that dis
honesty does not pay a permanent
dividend, that man bad better be an in
dustriOus CLEARWATER on days wages
than a fraudulent commissioner OF public
works with all his pockets crammed with
plumber.
How proudly in history sounded the
name of William the Conqueror, intimi-
dator of France and AnjOu and Brittany,
victor at Hastings, snatching the English
crown, driving people from their homes
that he might have game forest, making
Doom sday Book by which all the land
was put under despOtic espionage, to
avenge a joke at his obesity prOclaiming
war, trampling harvest fields and vine
yards under cavalry hOOf until nations
were horror-struck. But at that apex of
renown, while he was riding one day his
horse put fore foot on a hot cinder and
plunged, wOunding the rider against the
pOmmel of the saddle 80 that he died; has
son Fastening to England to get the Gro vn
before his fathers breath ceased. The
imperial corpse, cOffinless, carried in a
cart and most of the attendants leaving
it in the street at fire alarm that they
might go and see the eOnfagratiOn.
The burial in the church built by the Con-
QuerOr interrupted by some one who
cried: "Bishop, the man whom thou hast
praised was a TO5ber: the very ground
on which we are standing is mine, and is
the site where my fathers house stood.
He took it from me by violence to build
this church upon it. | reclaim it as my
right and in the name of God, and forbid
you to bury him here or cover him with
my glebe." 'Go up" said the ambition
OF William the COnquerOr; Ego up by way
of a throne, 90 up by way of criminality,
go up by way of revenge "COme
down." says God; "cOme down by the way
of miserable death; come down by the
way of ignominiOus Obsequies; come
down in the sight of all nations; come
clear down, come forever down."
So, all around us, though on smaller
scale, the wicked are allowed to live so
that their overthrow may be the mere inn
pressive, memorable and climacterc.
And what l say of sin may be said of
Satan. its author, sometimes called Abad-
don. the dragon, the serpent, ApollyOn, the
Prince of the power Of the air. That there
doubts. The Persians called him AhrI-
man, the ii indoOs called him silva. In
medieval times he was represented on
canvass as a NEUROLOGICAL combination Of
Thor, Cerherus, Pan, Vulcan aud other
horrible addenda. But, whatever Won
call him, this monster is abroad. aud Only
for destructive purposes. AlthouEl Mill
ton sometimes glOriticd him by sp'endor
of description, he is the concentration of
all meanness and despicabilty. My little
child of seven years asked her mother
"Why does not God kill the devil at
once and have done with it?" In less
terse phrase we have all asked the same
question. 1t is promised that he shall be
put back into the pit and chained. Why
not heave the old miscreant into his den
now? 1t would seem that he has done
enough TO close up the chapter of infamy.
His work in the last half century would
make an appropriate peroratiOn. No.
God is going to let him get to the tip-tOp
of all endeavor, and then. while all the
earth and all the solar system and all con-
stellatiOns and galaxies and the universe
are watching, hurl him down with viO-
lence and horror enough to teach five
hundred eternities that the most acute
and prolonged and stupendous rebellion
against God and Righteousness shall come
down into a crash Of everlasting ruin.
God is not going to do il by piecemeal.
He is not going TO do it in small skIr-
mish. He is waiting till all the forces
are massed; and some day, when in con-
ident 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 q frag-
ment Of the Rock Of Ages. Yet this will
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 warningiy and
tremendously climacterc. That is the
reason why God does not XII the devil.
1t is not quite time yet 10 Kill him. Be
patient. IL God can afford 10 wait, you
can afford to wait. The clock OF destiny
strikes only once in a thousand years.
Sometimes God let's the wicked live
that they may buiid that which righteous
ness may appropriate for good uses At