The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-05-20

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 1t go any longer. One of them said;
''Let us hand 1t over to the Presby-
terians," prefacing the word "Presby-
terian" with an unhappy expletive. The
motion carried, and that college,
built as a fortress of skepticism,
has become fortress of old-fashioned,
orthodox religion. The devil built
it, Righteousness captured 1t. 80
there are In our cities very expensive
club-houses, the architecture and the fur
niture and all the equipment 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
would put hook In the nose of Sem
nacherib and turn him. And all the mod
ern Sennacheribs of infidelity 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
q sin will surrender under the battle-cry
r with which Oliver Cromwell led his army
| al 81 ttT ar God arfaa
l. le. His enemies be scattered" Some Of
the worst men God has harnessed for spe-
4 cial mission. Witness Cyrus and Nebuchad-
4 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 lets the wicked live that all may
10 understand that there must be another
world for adjustments. So many Of the
n bad up and so many Of the good down.
i There must be place where brilliant
i. scoundrelism shall be arraigned and inno-
cence arise from under the heel Of op-
"a preston. Common fairness as well as
y eternal Justice demands it. To the Grand
n Assize we must adj ourn the stupendous
- injustice Of this life. They are not righted
:. here. There must be some place where
4. they viii be righted. God can not afford
TO omit the judgment day or reconstruc-
ton of conditions. You can not make me
believe that that man, stuffed with abomi-
70 , nations, having devoured widows houses
i and digested them and looked with basilisl
y or tigerish eyes on his fellows, liking nc
~ music so well asi the sound of breaking
60 hearts, is going at death TO get out of hi
y landau at the front door of the sepulche
~ and pass right through to the back
50 door OF the sepulcher and there &c
VI into a celestial turnout, already hitchet
up, to drive tandem up the primroset
, hills, one glory riding as lackey aheat
Nc and another glory riding as position be-
J, hind, while that poor woman who sup
u ported her invalid husband and helples
nc children by taking In washing and iron
ny ing, often putting her hand to her side
hs where a cancerous trouble had already be
n- gun its work, and falling dead late on
N night while trying to get one of the chill
i'S dren's garments ready for the Sabbat
o. day, and going afoot into the front doc
ne OF the sepulcher, is to cross TO its bac
Gu door and find nothing waiting-no one I
oy say: "Iam glad you have come" an
an no one to show her the way to the King
ne gate. 1t can not bo. Solomon bemoane
ID the Princess afoot and the beggar a-horse
rs back, and there must be a time when th
io- right foot shall get into the stirrup. I
re- demonstrate to all the world that ther
Oh must be another state for rearrangin
yer these inequalities, God lets the wicke
n ,ne live.
oo TO GIVE TINE FOR REPENTANCE.
Oh God lets the wicked live for the reaso
D. that He has let us live-to give us time fo
"h happiness. What would you and hay
me oeen II God had followed sin with immedI
So ate catastropheg What a mercy God ha
na- according 10 the Canticles, the feet foot {
YER the roe-buck when He goes TO savel 3
=, moves as though hoppled by great languC
ler and infinite lethargies when He comes
30 punish. celebrate Gods adjournment
m and Gods postponements, and Gods pu
ting of Of retribution. Tho slower Il
rail train moves the better II the draw
OF bridge Is of. Let our impatient criticis
ad- of Providence because that man, b
the watering stock, makes a million by on
ere swoop, and keeps it, and these othe
one men roll In bloated arrogance a
his their days, be exchanged for graf
uc- tude everlasting that God did !
ven us live when we deserved nothir
not but capsizes and demolition. How lor
one have you lived unpardonedS Fifte'
all years, twenty years, forty years, six
sed years. You have lived through great r.
and ligious awaksnings, through domest
ais calamities, through business disaste
,wY through alarming illness, through prov
/ to dences that startled nations, and liyir
ork yet strangers TO God aud duty, and wi
an no hope for future into which at any m
ing ment you may be precipitated. Throu;
vor, Jesus Christ get your nature revolt
the tionized and transAgured, for God som
la times changes His gait, and instead OF u
srse deliberate step He becomes swift wi
With ness, and people in your state may be s1
ach denly destroyed, and without remed
iost Give up your war against God and ha
re- Him your eternal ally. When King Ph
ness ip, Of France, led his army, with Boz
ast- and arrows, to ight King Edward ILL.,,
by England, at the most critical time In
I in battle a shower of rain 80 dissolv
the the w-strings that they were OF
day effect, and Phillips army was worste
the and NV hearers, all your weaponry W