The weekly Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 1882-188?, 1886-11-04

yet for all religious purposes would
'ataer have shc oushrcskia- sanc o. a
hackwool Methodist camp meeting.
Let one of these artistic = thst
have sometimes heAri stag in church
i, would looS beside oae Of tie
great doxelogics o. the redeemed
Why, il ore Of hose operatic
airs that sometimes goes up from a
church should got three hoars' start Il
~ould be oyeTtaksa and passed hv the
hosanna of sunday school children.
hen. in hat time am speaking OF, all
the haunts OF iniqaity will be broken
zap; oil city iniguiiies will b. banishei
aud abolished. You say by he power
Of education. IL will Dot be done Ia
that way. You say 10y humanitarian
EFFORT. II will not be done in that way.
| viii tell yon how it will be done. by
tho power af thSaGssssel n aha Sssn al
God. la that day what municipal gov
ernments. Now know there Is grea,
difference between municipal govern
mcuts. But in many Of the cities YOU
just 90 down and look around the City
Hall, and Just look where the politicians
are and see TO what a sensual, besottcd,
loathsome, accursed crew city politics
for the mos; part has been abandoned.
and see them standing all day long
around some Of the City + alls pic k ing
their teeth and waiting for some crumbs
OF emolument 10 fall AT their feet Who
are those drunken women taken to the
police station, and thea, of course,
thrust into prison What will he done
with the grog shops that made item
drunk, Nothing What will he done
with that gambler who last night took
the young mans $500 Nothing.
What will they do with that man who
broke through and destroyed the purity
of Christian home with an adroitncss
and a pertidy that beat the strategy OF
hell, ilinging shricking soul into
bottomless perdition Nothing. What
will they do with those men who
induced a young man to take
sums of money from his employc ycrs,
which young man came to an officer of
this church and frantically asked what
he must do Nothing. No mercy for
small criminals. II man steals $40
send him to RAYMOND street Jail. II n
man steal $500, 900 let him get to Can
ada. We punish people because they
do not steal enough. How is it with
the trials in the court rooms Of thi,
country What are they doing with
these Coney Island gamblers Where
is the genius in the American court
room that can arrest, try and condemn
such scoundre.s! Before the uial is
over, in some way, somehow, nobody
knows exactly, but one Of the jurors ha'
had given to him a pair of gold specta
cles. through which he sees things in {
different light. Punish the small Grim
inals by all means, but have sometime
thought it might be good thing if th'
| officers of the law would turn out of tn,
| prison some of the ten cent offender
and the ten dollar despcradoes and petit
criminals and put in their places some o
| these monsters of iniquity, who rid'
span, going so swiftly that honest mel
/ have to leap to get out of the way 0
/ being run over. Oh, what damnabl'
schemes even professors OF religion ar
sometimes engaged in, until the Lore
puts the finger of rctributiOn in the col
i lar Of the robe Of hypocrisy and rips |
I clean to the bottom But, my friends
all these wrongs are going to be righted