The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-10-20

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again st an impure life, but many of the
American ministry uttering not one point
blank word against this iniqulty, lest some
old libertine throw up his church.pew.
Machinery organised in oil the cities Of
the United States and Canada by which
to put yearly In the grinding mill Of this
iniquity thousands Of the unsuspecting
of the country farm.houses, one
procuress confessing last week in
the courts that she had supplied the in
fernal market with 10 souls in six months.
Oh, for five hundred Pail Nall Gasettes in
Am erica to swing open the door Of this
lazar.house Of social, corruption. Expos.
ure n,ustcome before extirpation. 4
While the city van carries the scum OF
this sin from the prison to the police couss q
morning by morning, it is full time, If we
do not want high American life to become :
like that of Louis XIV, to put millionaire
Lotharios and Pompadours Of your brown
stone palaces isto asvan Of popular indig.
nation, and drive the m out Of respectable
associations. What prospect of social
publication can there be as long as at
summer watering places it is usual to see
o.. young woman, OF excellent rearing
stand, and shipper, and giggle and roll up
her eyes sideways before one OF those
first -class satyrs OF fashionable life. and
on the ballroom floor Join him In the
square dance, the maternal chaperone
meanwhile beaminS from the wall on the
scene. Matches are ndde in Heaven, they
say Not such matches, for the brim-
stone indicates the opposite region.
The evil il overshadowing all our cities,
By some these immoralitics are, called
peccadillocs, gallantyies, eccentr cities.
and are relegated 10 The realms Of iocular-
ity, and few efforts are being made against
it. God hless the "White Cross" move-
ment, as it Is called, the excellent and tall
ented Miss Frances Willard, its nblest adj
vocate on this side tho sea, an organizn-
ton making mighty assault on this evil!
God forward the tracts on this su ject
distributed by the religious tract societies
Eof the, land l. God help parents In the
great work they are. doing In trying to
start til cir children with pure principles!
| God help all legislators In their attempt to
| inhibit this crime.
But is this oil! Then 1t is only ques-
tion of time when the last vestige OF pur-
| ity and home will vanish out of sight.
human talents are not sufficient, begin
to look up. listen for artillery running
down the sapphire boulevards Of heaven.
1 watch to see II In the morning light
there be not the fash Of descending scim-
eters. Oh, for God! Does il not seem
time for his appearance! Is it not time
for all lands to cry out:
Let God arise, and let His enemies be scat.
4 tered & III BNa
Il got letter few days ago asking me
I'll did not think TINT the ear thquake in
Charleston was the divine chastsement OF
that city for its sins. That letter answer
now by saying that II all our American
cities got all the punishment they deserve
for their horrible Impurities, the earth
would long ago have cracked open into
crevites transconti nental, and taken down
all our cities; and Brooklyn AMI New
York would have gone 20 far under that
the tip of our church spires would be five
hundred feet below the surface. II is Of
the Lords merces that we have not been
copsumed. ,s,sA
No only are the affairs Of this world 50
sa-twist, A-jangle and racked. that there
seems need of the divine appearance,
a but there is another reason. SHaveyou not
noticed that in the history Of this planet
food turns leaf about everytwo thou.
sand years? God turned leaf and this
world was fitted for human residence.
About two thousand mora years
| passed along and God turned anoth.
or leaf, and it was the deluge.
About two thousand more years pass.
ed on and 1t was the appearance Of
Christ. Almost two Thousand more years
have passed by. and he will probably soon
turn another leaf What il shall be ! can
not say. II may be the demolition of all
these monstrosities of turpitude and the
establishment Of righteousness in all the
earth. He can do II, and ne will do il. I
am az confident as IL II were already &C.
complished. How easily he can do It my
text suggests. 1t does not ask God to
strike with his right hand, or stamp with
his foot, or hurl thunderbolt of his
power. hut just to get up from the throne
|, on which he sits. Only that will be nee
essary.
Let God arise!
1t will he no exertion Of omnipotenc'. II
will be no bending or bracing for a mighty
lift. 1t will be no sending down ths sky
; Of the white horse cavalry Of Heaven OF
rumbling war chariots. He will only rise.
Now be is sitting in the majesty and pa.
thence Of his reign. He Is from his throne
watching the mastering of all the forces Of
blasphemy and drunkenness and inpurity
and fraud and Sabbath-breaking, and
when they have done their worst and are
most securely organized, he will bestil
himself and say:
"My enemies have defed me Iona
enough, and their cup Of iniquity is full
have given them all opportunity for re-
pentance. This dispensation Of patience
is ended, and the faith of the good shall b.
tried no longer"
And now God begins to rise, and wha
mountains give way under his right foo
!, and what continents sink under his left
foot know not; but standing in the full
), height and radiance and grandeur of bill
: nature, he looks this way and that, and
: how his enemies are scattered! Bias
phemers, white and dumb, reel down d
!. their doom; and those who have trafficket
, Tin tharwhi DESTROYS the bodies ant
!. souls of men and families will ~ with Gu
foot on the down grade Of broken decant
: ers; and the polluters Of society, that did
; their bad work with large fortunes AM
high social sphere, will overtake il