Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-04
WF5EETJNG W VA MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER T. 1885.


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 internal market with one
hundred and fifty souls in six months.
OH FOR FIVE HUNDRED PAIL MALL GA
ZETTEs IN AMERICA
to swing open the door Of this lazar-house
of social corruption. Exposure must come
before extirpatiOn.
While the city van carries the scum OF
this sin from the prison to the police court
morning by morning it is full time, if we
do not want high American life to become
like that of the court of Louis XIV, to put
millionaire LOthariOs and the Pompadours
of your brown stone palaces into van of
popular indignation, and drive them out
of respectable associations. What pros
pect of social publication can there be as
long as at summer watering places it Is
usual to see young woman of excellent
rearing stand and simper, 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 chapeIon
meanwhile beaming from the wall on the
scene? Matches are made in heaven, they
say. Not such matches, for the birthstone
indicates the opposite region.
The evil is overshadowing all our cities.
Bv some these immoralities are called
peccadillOes, gallantrieS, eccentricities, and
are relegated to the realms OF
iocularity, and few efforts are being
made against it. God bless the white
Cross" movement, as it is called. the ex-
cellent and talented Miss Frances Willard,
its ablest advocate on this side the sea,
an organization making mighty assault
on this evil! God forward the tracts on
this subject distributed by the religious
tract societies of the land! God help pa
rents in the great work they are doing in
trying to start their children with pure
principles! God help all Legislators in
their attempt to inhibit this crime!
But is thir all? Then tits
ONLY A QUESTION OF TIME
when the last vestige Of purity and home
will vanish out OF sight. Human arms,
human pens, human voices, human tai
ents are not sufficient. begin to look up.
listen for artillery rumbling down the
sapphire bOulevards of heaven. | watch
the flash of descending scimetcrs. OH!
for God! Does it not seem time for his
appearance? Is it not time for all lands
to cry out LET God arise, and let his
enemies be scatteredn'
l got letter few days ago asking me
if did not think that the earthquake in
Charleston was the Divine chastisement on
that city for its sins. That letter ! an
swered now by saying that if all our Amer
ican cities got all the punishment they de-
serve for their horrible impurities, the earth
would long ago have cracked open into
crevices, tranScOntinental, and taken down
all our cities; and Brooklyn and New York
would have gone 50 far under that the tip
of our church spires would be five hunered
feet below the surface. 1t is of the Lords
mercies that we have not been consumed.
Not only are the affairs of this world so
a-twist a-iangle and racked, that there
seems need of Divine appearance. but
there is another reason. Have you
not noticed in the history
of this planet God turns leaf about every
two thousand years. God turned leaf and
this world was fitted for human residence.
About two thousand more years passed
along and God turned another leaf,
and it was the Deluge About two thous-
and more years passed on, and 1t was the
appearance OF Christ Almost two thouS-
and more years have passed by, ana lie
will probably soon turn another leaf.
What it shall be | cannot say. 1t may be
the demolition of all these mOnstrOsities of
turpitude and the establishment OF right
business i'll all the earth. He can can do
it, and He will do it, | am as confident
as if it were already accomplished. 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 n
thunderbolt of His power, but Just to get
up from the throne on which He sits. Only
that will be necessary, Let God arise!
1t will be no eXertiOn of Omnipotence.
1t will be no bending or bracing for a
mighty lift 1t will he no sending down
the sky of the white horse cavalry of
heaven or rumbling war ChariotS.
HE WILL ONLY RISE.
Now He is sitting in the majesty and pa
thence of his reign. He is from Ills throne
watching the mastering of all the forces OF
blasphemy, and drunkenness. and impur-
itv. and fraud, and Sabbath breaking, and
when they have done their worst and most
securely organized, He will bestir himself
and say: "My enemies have deiied me
long enough and their cup of iniquity is
full. | have given them all opportunity
for repentance. This diSpensation of pa
tiencc is ended, and the faith of the good
shall be tried no longer"
And now God begins to rise, and what
mountains give way under his right foot,
and what continents sink under his left
foot, know not; but standing in the full
height, and radiance, and grandeur of
His nature He looks this way, and that,
and His enemies are scattered! Blasphem-
erS. white and dumb, reel down To their
doom: and those who have traffiCked in
that which DESTROYS the bodies and souls
of men and families, will fly with cut foot
on the down grade of broken decanters;
and the polluters Of society, that did their
bad work with large fortunes and high
social sphere. will overtake in their descent
the degraded rabble of underground city
life as they tumble over the eternal pre-
cipiceS; and the world shall be left clear
and clean for the friends of humanity and
the worshipperS of Almighty God. The
last thorn plucked of, the world will be
left a blooming rose on the bosom of that
Christ who came to gardenize it. This
earth that stood snarling with its tigerish
passion, thrusting out its raging claws,
shall lie down a lamb at the feet of the
Lamb of God, who took away the sins of
the world.
And now the best thing can wish for
YOU, and the best thing can wish for my
self, is that we may he found His warm,
and undisguised, and enthusiastic friends
in that hour when God shall rise and His