Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-18

book of great genius, and which rushed
from edition to edition, he said: "F5iioW
men-I promise TO show the means OF
creating a paradise within ten years,
where everything desirable for human
life may be had by every man in super
abundance without labor and without
pay-where the whole face OF nature shall
be changed into the most beautiful farms,
and man may live in the most maPnln-
cent palaces, in all Imaginable rehne-
I ments Of luxury, and in the most delight
full 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 every
| where with beautiful canals, and roads
for transporting heavy loads of many
thousand tons, and for travelling thou
sand miles in twenty-four hours.
"From the houses to be built will be az
| forded the most cultured views to be fam
cied. From the galleries, from the roof,
and from the turrets, may be seen gar
| dens as far as the eve can see, full OF
| fruits and flowers, ARRANGED in the most
| beautiful order, with walks. cOlOnnades,
! aqueducts, canals, ponds, plains, amphi-
theatres, terraces, fountains, scuiptured
works, pavlliOns, gOndolas, places O.
popular amusement to tire the eye ard
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 ma
chInery by which this work is to be done,
and he says he only needs at the start a
| company in which the shares shall be
| twenty dollars each, and hundred or
two hundred thousand shall be raised
just to make specimen community, and
then this being formed, the world will see
Its practicability, and very soon two or
three million dollars can be obtained, and
in ten years the whole earth will be en-
paradised. The plan is not so prepOster-
Gus as some have heard of! But | will
take no stock in that company! | 40 not
| believe that il 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 ma
| chinery of love and grace and par
don and salvation. That is to
emparadse the nations. Archimedes
DESTROYED a feet Of ships coming up the
harbor. You know how be did it? He
lifted a great sun glass, history tells us,
and when the fleet of ships came up the
harbor of Syracuse he brought to bear
this sun glass and be conveyed the SUMS
rays upon those ships. Now, the sails
are wings oil fire, the masts fall, the yes
sells sink. o. my friends, by the sun glass
of the Gospel converging the rays OF the
Sun of righteousness upon the Gins, the
wickedness OF the world, we will make
| them blaze and expire.
In that day Of which l speak, do you
believe there will be any midnight car
ousal? win there be any kicking off from
the marble steps OF shiveriDg mendicants
| Will there be any unwashed. unfed, I'M
combed childreni viii there be any bias
phemies in the street, Will there be any
Inebriates staggering past? No. No wine
| stores. No lager beer saloons. No dis
tillerles where they make the three KS.
No bloodshot eye. No blOated cheek. No
| instruments of ruin and destruction. No
| fist-pounded forehead. The grandchil-
dren OF that woman who goes down the
street with a curse, stoned by the boys
that follow her, Will be the retormers and
philanthrOpists aud the Christian men
and honest merchants of New York and,
Brooklyn.
Then what municipal governments, too,
we will have in all the citiesl Some cities
are worse than Others, but in many OF our
cities yoH just walk down By the city
halls and look in at some Of the rooms &C.
cupied by politicians, and see to what a
sensual. loathsome, ignorant, besotJed
crew city politics 8 often abandoned. Or
they stand around the city hall picking
their teeth, waiting for some emoluments
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 th at
made them drink Nothing. Vino are
=. those prisoners in Jail? One of them stole
a pair of shoes. That boy stole dollar
This girl snatched purse. All of them
crimes damaging society less than twenty
or thirty dollars. But what will you dc
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
putty of Christian home, and with an
adroitness and perfdy that beats the
strategy of hell. filings a shrinking,
shrieking soul into a bOttomless perdi-
ton? 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 VINO 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 ouI
cities II the officials would only turn out
rom the jails tue petty criminals, the
little offenders, teD-dollar deperadoes, and
put IN their places some of the monsters
OF inlquity who drive their roam span
through the streets so swiftly that honest
men nave to leap to get out OF the way Of
being run over. Oh, the damnable
schemes that professed Christian meI
will sometimes engage in until God puts
the finger of his retribution into the collar
OF their robe OF hypocrisy and rips it clear
to the b0tt0ml
But all these wrongs are going to be
righted. | expect to live to see the day
l think | hear in the distance the rum b
ling of the Kings chariot. Not always
IN the minority is the church OF God
going to be; or are good men going to be-
The streets are fgoing TO be fled with re
. generated populations. Three hundred
and sixty bells rang in Moscow when ont
Prince WAS married; but when Rig teous
{ ness and Peace kiss each other in all thG
earth ten thousand times ten Thousand
bells shall strike the jubilee. Poverty en-
} riched. Hunger fed. Crime purified
, Ignorance enlightened. All the elite,
saved. Is not this ii cause worth workinG
in. Oh, YOU think sometimes IL does
t not amount to muchl You toll on in YOU
} different spheres, sometimes with grea
' encouragement People have no faitt
3 and say: at does not amount TO any
thing; you might as well quit that
. Why, when Moses stretched his hand ovel
she Red Sea, IL did not seem to mean any