The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-17

very high. 90 that whole communities may
see 1t; very high. 90 that all continents may
sse 1t; very high, 90 that al, the world may
sse it The higher it rises tho harder it will
fall az d The greater the vlndication of right
eousnets. Sin Is not to be permitted 10 sneak
out OF the world in silence. 1t is not merely
to resign aud quit Ii Is no. a case to 20 By
default btcause no one appears against it Is
is to be srIa'gned. handcuffed. put in prison
ers box, condemned by the verdict OF all the
OF the gibbet stood on Mount Washin gton
and the other on the Himalayah it would
not be any more conspicuous,
About fifteen ysa-s eco We bad Al illu .
trious instance of how God LET'S man 90 on
only to make his undoipg the more impress.
sive az moral lesson. FIRST an honest chair
maker. then Aldermen, then Member OF Con-
gress, then Supervisor OF the City. then
SCHOOL Commissioner, then State Senator,
then Commissioners of the Department OF
Public Works. On and up: stealing thou.
sands OF dollars here and thousands of dol.
lars there, swindliDg on the largest scale OF
malfeatance ever witnessed in the country,
80 that the new City Court House of New
York Is monument Of municipal crime,
having cost more than the Capitol at Wash
ingt0n or the Parliament Houses of London,
and increasing the city debt from thirty-six
millions OF dollars TO ninety-seven million.
Now he stands high up in millionairedom.
Country seats. terraced and arbored and par.
tered TO the waters brink. Horses enough
to stock kings equerry. Grooms and pos.
tiilions in full rig. Wine cellars enough to
make whole Legislatures drunk. New York
politics and finances in his vest pocket. he
winked and officials went down. He lifted
his little finger and ignorance took high
place. He whispered aud at Albany and
Washington people said it thuodered.
Higher up and higher up until psudemon-
lom seemed about to adjourn to this world,
and there was some pro pect that in the So.
tanic realm there would be q change of ad.
m nisuatiop, and that Ap0llyon, after hole
ing dominion so long, would have al earthly
competitor. To bring all to climax a wed.
ding came in the house of that man.
Diamonds as large as hickory nuts. pin
OF sixty diamonds representing sheaves of
wheat. musicians in &c mi-circle half hid.
den by great harp of fowers-ships of
flowers. Forty silver sets, one of them with
245 pieces. One wedding dress that cost
50 COO A famous libertine who owned
several Long Island Sound steamboats,, and
not long before he was shot for his crimes,
cent IS wedding present to that house q
frosted silver iceberg, with reprssen ts.ions
OF Arctic bears walking on icic!e handles
and ascending the spoons. Never such q
convocatl0n IL bronzes, of pictures. of
shawls. The highest wave of New YORK
spiendor rolled In upon the scene aud re.
c0iled, never TO again rise 80 high. But at
the moment when all observation of earth
and he'll was concentrated upon the seems
eternal justice, impersoDeted In that wonder
OF the American bar. Charles OConor, got
on the track OF the offender. First arrest,
then Indictment, then sentence of twelve
years imprisonment on twelve indictments,
then penitentiary on Blackwelrs Island;
then suit against him for Sc 900 0G0; then
Ludlow.street Jail; then escs pc aud flight in
a aoyl rQr atHu- thAx. H. s.-l~A
grip OF the cons:abulary, and death from
broken heart in prison cell. Allowed to 90
on until all the world learned as never be
fore that the way OF the !ransgressor Is hard,
that dishonesty does not pay a permanent
dividend, that man had better bs IA in.
6ustIious chair.maker OH days wages
than fraudulent Commissioner OF Public
Works with all his pcckets crammed with
pluDder.
How proudly in history sounded the name
OF William the CoDqueror Intimidator of
France ADD Aniou and Brittany, vlclor ut
Hastip gs, sna ching the English crown, driv.
ing people from their homes that he might
have game forest, making doomeday
book by which all the land was put under
despotic espionage, to aveDge \ joke at his
obesity proclaimiDg war, trampling harvests,
fields and vineyards under cavalry hoof until
nations were horror. struck. But OF that apex
OF renown, while he was riding one day, his
horse put forefoot on hot cinder and
plunged, wounding the rider against the
pommel OF the saddle 80 that he died, his
Son Fastening to England to get the crown
before his fathers breath ceased. The lmpe.
rial corpse, coffinless, carried In q cart, and
most OF the attendants leaving Ii in the street
at IRE alarm, that they might 90 and see
the coniagration. the burial in the church
built by the conqueror Interrupted by some
one who cried Bishop, the man whom
thou hast praised was a roboer; the very
ground on which We are standing is mine
and Is the site where my father house stood.
ii took 1t from me by violence to build this
church upon ii. reclaim it as my right add
IN the name OF God forbid you to bury him
here or cover him with glebe." go up"
said the ambition OF William the Conqu or,
GO up by way OF throne 20 up by way OF
20 up by way OF revengslu
Cone down" says God, come down by the
way OF miserable death. Come down by
the way OF ignominions obsequies Come
dow In the sight of all nations. Come clear
down. Come forever DOWN.
SO, all around Us, though on smaller scale,
be wicked are allowed to live so that their
overthrow may be the moro impressive,
and ciimaoteric.
SIN AND ITS AUTHOR, SATIN.
And what / say Of sin may be said OF
Satan, its author sometimes called Abaddon,
the dragon, the serpent Apollyon, the
Prince Of tho power OF the air. That there
is COMMUNICATIVE CHIEF of all evil no one
doubts. The Persisns called him Ahriman.
the Hindoos called h m Siva In medieval
times he was represented on canvas AS a my
biological combination OF Thor, Cerberus
Pan, Vulcan and other horable addenda.
But, whatever you call him, this monster Is
abroad, aud only for destructive purposes.
Milton sometimes glorifcd him by
splendor OF description, he IL the concentra.
ton OF all meanness and despcability. Ny
little child OF seven years asked her mother:
why does not God kill the devil at once
and have done with it?' In less ter'e phrase
We have ell asked the same question. It's
promised that he shall be put back into the
pit and chained. Why not lead the old
miscreant into hle den nov. II would seem
that he has done enough to close the chap.