The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-10-21
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God;
But children of the Heavenly King
Should speak their lows abroad.

hallelulah.
In that time, also, of which speak, all the
haunts of iniquity and crime and squalor will
be cleansed and will be Illuminated. How is
It to be donel You say perhaps by one inilu-
ence Perhaps say by another will tell
you what is my idea, and know am right
in it, The gospel of the Son of God is the
only agency that will ever accomplish this.
Mr.. EcSler, of England, had theory that
If the natural forces of wind and tide and
sunshine and wave were rightly applied, and
rightly developed, it would make this whole
earth paradise. In book of great genius,
and which rushed from edition 10 edition he
he said "Fellow men promise to show the
means of creating paradise within
ten years, where everything desirable
for human life may be had by
every man in superabundance without labor
and without pay-where the whole face of
nature shall be changed into the most beauti-
full FARMS and man may live in the most
magnificent palaces, in all imaginable refine
ments of luxury, and in the most delightful
gardens-where he may accomplish without
labor in one year more than hitherto could be
done in thousands of years, and may level
continent, sink valleys, create lakes, drain
lakes and swampS, and intersect the land
everywhere with beautiful canals, and roads
for transporting heavy loads of many thou
sand TONS and for travelling a thousand miles
in twenty-four hours.
"From the houses to be built will be af-
forded the most cultured views to be fancied.
From the galleries, from the roof, and from
the turrets may be seen gardens as far as the
eye can see, full of fruits and flowers, ar
ranged in the most beautiful order, with
walks, colonnades, aqueducts, canals, ponds,
plains, amphitheatres, terraces, fountains,
sculptured works, pavilions, gondolas, places
of popular amusement to tire the eye and
fancy. All this to be done by urging the
water, the wind, and the sunshine to their full
development"
He goes on and gives plates of the machinery
by which this work is to be done, and he says
he only needs at the start company in which
the shares shall be $50 each, and 100000 or
100000 shall be raised just to make a speci-
men community, and then this being formed
the world will see its practicability, and very
soon 100000 or $3,0OOOOO can be obtained,
and in ten years the whole earth will be en-
paradised The plan is not so preposterous as
some / have heard Of But will take no stock
in that company. do not believe that it will
ever be done in that way, by any mechanical
force or by any machinery that the
human mind can put into play 1t
is to be done by the gospel of the
Son of God, the omnipotent machinery
of love and grace and pardon and salvation.
That is to emparadise the nations. Archi-
medes destroyed feet of ships coming up
the harbor. You know how he did itl He
lifted a great sunglass, history tells us, and
when the fleet of ships came up the harbor of
Syracuse he brought to bear this sunglass and
lle conveyed the suns rays upon those ships
Now, the sails are wings of fire. the masts
fall, the vessels sink o. my friends, by the
sungass of the gospel converging the rays of
the sun of Righteousness upon the sins, the
wickedness of the world, we will make them
blaze and expire.
In that day of which / speak, do you be-
lieve there will be any midnight carousali
Will there be any kicking off from the
marble steps Of shivering mendicants! Will
there be any unwashed, unfed, uncombed
children? viii there be any blasphemies in
the street? Will there be any inebriates stag
! gering past9 No. No wine stores. No lager
beer saloons No distilleries where they
make the three Ks. No bloodshot eye No
bloated cheek No instruments of ruin and
destruction. No fist-pounded forehead. The
grandchildren of that woman who goes down
the street with a curse, stoned by the boys
that follow her, will be the reformers and
philanthropists, and the Christian men and
the honest merchants of New York and
Brooklyn.
Then what municipal governments too, we
will have in all the cities! Some cities are
worse than others, but in many Of our cities
you Just walk down by the city halls and look
in at some of the rooms occupied by poll
ticians, and see to what sensual, loathsome
ignorant, besotted crew city politics is often
abandoned. Or they stand around the city
hall picking their teeth, waiting for some
emoluments of crumbs to fall to their feet,
waiting all day long and waiting all night
long.
Who are those wretched women taken up for
drunkenness and carried up to the courts, and
put in prison, of course What will you do
with the grogshops that made them drink
Nothing Who are those prisoners in Jail
One Of them stole pair Of shoes. That boy
boy stole II dollar. This girl snatched a purse.
All Of them crimes damaging society
less than twenty OF thirty dollars. But
what will you do with the gambler who last
night robbed the young man Of thousand
dollars. Nothing. What shall be done with
that one who breaks through and destroys
the purity of Christian home, and with an
adroitness and perfidy that beats the strategy
of hell filings a shrinking, shrieking soul into
bottomless perdition! Nothing. What
will you do with those who fleece that young
man, getting him to purloin large sums OF
money from his employer-the young man
who came to an officer of my church and told
the story and frantically asked what he
might do! Nothing. All! we do well to
punish small crimes, but | have sometimes
thought it would be better in some of our
cities, if the officials would only turn ont from
the jails the petty criminals, the little Of
Tenders, ten dollar desperadoes, and put in
their pnces some of the monsters of iniquity
who drive their roam span through the streets
so swiftly that honest men have to leap to
| get out of the way of being run over. Oh
the damnable schemes that professed Chris
tan men will sometimes engage in until God
puts the finger Of retribution into the collar
of their robe of hypocrisy and rips it clear tc
| the bottom!
But all these wrongs are going TO be right
I'd. Iexpect to live to see the day. think
hear in the distance the rumbling Of thu
kings chariot Not always in the minority
| is the church of God going to be; or are gooC
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