St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-11

New York politics and finance in his vest
pocket. He winked and officials went
down. He lifted his little finger and igno-
ramuses took high place. He whispered
and at Albany and Washington people said
it thundered. Higherup and higher up un.
til pandemonium seemed about to adjourn
to this world and there was some prospect
that in the satanic realm there should be
change of administration and that Apollyon
after holding dominion so long would
have an earthly competitor. To
bring all to climax wedding
came in the house of that man.
Diamonds as large as hickory nuts, pin
OF sixty diamonds representing sheaves of
wheat. Musicians in semi-circle, half
hidden by great harp of flowers. Ships
of flowers. Forty silver sets, one of them
with 24S pieces. One wedding dress that
cost SIS, 600. A famous libertine who owned
several Long Island steamboats,, and not
long before he was shot for his crimes, sent
as wedding present to that house frosted
silver iceberg with representations of Arctic
bears walking on icicle handles and ascend
ing the spoons. Never such cOnvocation
OF brOnZes, of pictures, Of shawls. The
highest wave of New York splendor rolled
in upon the scene and recOiled, never again
W lioC SO lllS1s Dub db tilC iAOulCIlG WIlcu
all observation of earth and hell was con-
centrated upon the scene, eternal justice
impersonated in that wonder of the Ameri-
can bar. Charles O'Connor, got on the
TRACK OF THE OFFENDER.
First arrest, then indictment, then sentence
of twelve years imprisonment on twelve in
dictments, then penitentiary on Blackwelrs
Island; then suit against him for $6, 900, 600;
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flight in foreign country; then return under
tight grip of the cOnstabulary and death
from broken heart in a prison cell,
allowed to 60 on until all the world
learned as never before that the way of the
transgressor is hard, that dishonesty does
not pay permanent dividend, that a man
had better be an industrious chairmaker on
days wages than a fraudulent commissioner
of public works with all his pockets
crammed with plumber. Sometimes God
lets the wicked live that they may build
that which Righteousness may appropriate
for good uses. At the laStmeeting of our
church court we were told Of college
started at the far West by intidels. There
was to be in it no nonsense of chapel pray
ers, 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 a bank one day on business and he over
heard 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: 'sLet us hand it over to the Presby-
terians," prefacing the word ''Presby-
terians' with profane 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 it. So
there are in our cities very
EXPENSIVE CLUB HOUSES,
the architecture and the furniture and all
the equipment and bedeZzement of wealth
employed in making gambling and dissipa-
ton respectable. But fret not; these buildings
will yet be free libraries OF hospitals or gal
leries of pure art Observatories have been
put up at vast expense by mOnomaniacs of
atheism, and the first you know they are
in possession of Christian science. God
said He would put a hook into the nose of
Sennacherib and turn him, and all the
modern Sennacheribs of infdelity and sin
have hook in theig'65loSe 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 re-
ligious assemblage. All these castles of sin
will surrender under the battle cry with
which Oliver Cromwell led his army OH the
field of Naseby: ''Let God arise, let His
enemies be scatteredH' After the great
London fire there was found the ruins of a
house with nothing standing but the arch,
,of%
structed it. On these great ruins Of
humanity that astonished the world are
marked the name Of the God who built
them and the blackening sins that con-
sumed them. Some of the worst men God
has harnassed for special mission. Witness
Cyrus and Nebuchadnezzar. With the
bayonets of bad man the bastile was
pried open. Some of the most selfish and
WICKED MERCHANTS
have by their talent opened new fields for
lawful commerce. God lets 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 place were
brilliant ScOundreliSm shall be arraigned
and innocence arise from under the heel of
oppression. Common fairness as well as
eternal Justice demands it, To the Grand
Assize we must adjourn the stupendous
injustice of this life. They are not
righted here. There must be
some place where they will be
righted God cannot afford to omit the
judgment day or a reconstruction OF con-
ditions. y
God lets the wicked live for the reason
that he has let us live-to give us time for
happiness. What would you and have
been if God had followed sin with immedi
ate catastrophe? What a mercy that God
has, according to the canticles, the fleet
foot of the roebuck when He goes to save.
He moves as though hoppled by great Ian
guor and infinite lethargies, when He
comes to punish. I celebrate Gods ad-
journments, Gods postpOnements and
Gods putting off OF retributiOn.
The slower the rail train moves the
better if the draw-bridge is off. Let our
impatient criticism of Providence, because
that man by watering stock makes a million
by one swoop and keeps it and these other
men rolling on in
BLoATED ARROGANCE
all their DAYS, be exchanged for gratitude
everlasting that God did let us live when we
deserved nothing but capsizes and demOl-
ition. How long have you lived unpar-
doned? Fifteen years, twenty years, forty
years, sixty years. You have lived through
great religious awakenings. through domes-
tic calamities through business disaster,
through alarming illness, through provi-
dences that startled nations, and living yet
strangers to Gcd and duty, and with no
hope for a future into which any moment
you may be precipitated. Through Jesus
Christ get your nature revolutionized and
transfgured, for God sometimes changes his
gait; and instead Of the deliberate step he
becomes swift witness, and people in
your state may be suddenly destroyed and
without remedy. Give up your war against
God and have Him your eternal ally. When
Kinn Philin of Erance led his army with