Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-05

his church pew. Machinery organized in
all tie cities of the United States and
Canada by which to put yearly in operation
the grinding mill of this iniquity thousands
OF the unsuspecting of the country farm
houses, one procuress confessing last week
III the courts that she had supplied the in
ternal market with $50 souls in six months.
Oh, for 500 Pail Mall Gazettes in America
to swing open the door of this lazar-ho
OF social corruption. Exposure must come
before extirpation.
=, While the city van carries the scum of
ehls SIN from the prison to the police court
morning by morning, it is full time, if we
40 no: want high American life to become
like that of the court of Louis XIV, to nut
millionaire Lotharios and the Pompadours
OF your brown-stone palaces into q van of
popular indignation and drive them out of
respectable associations. What prospect
OF social publication can there be as long
as at summer watering places it is usual
70 see young woman of excellent rearing
stand and shipper and giggle and roll up
her eyes sideways before one of those
frst- class satyrs of fashionable life, and on
the ballroom floor join him in the dance,
the maternal chaperon meanwhile beamlng
from the wall on the scene? Matches are
made in heaven, they say. Not such
matches, for the birthstone indicates the
opposite direction.
The evil is overshadowing all our cities.
by some these immoralities are called
peccadllloes, gallantries, eccentricities, and
are relegated to the realms of jocularity,
ana rev efforts are being made against it.
900 bless the "White Cross" movement, as
it is called; the excellent and talented Miss
Frances Willard, it's ablest advocate on this
side the sea; an organization making a
mighty assault on this evil. God forward
the tracts on this subject distributed BY the
rellglous tract societies of the land! God
heip parents in the great work they are
DONG IN trylng to start their children with
pure principles! God help all legislators
in their attempt to inhibit this crime,
But is this all? Then it is only a ques-
ton OF time when the last vestige of purity
and home will vanish out of sight. Human
| arms, human pens, human voices, human
talents are not sufficient / begin TO look
up. listen for artillery rumbling down the
sapphire boulevards of heaven. I watch
! TO see il in the morning light there be not
he Hash of descending cimeters. Oh, for
God! Does it not seem time for His APP
pearance? LIS it not time for all lands to
| cry out: Let God arise, and let His enc
| mics be scattered?"
| 70. IL letter lew 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 I answer
now by saying that if all our American
cities got all the punishment they deserve
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 SO far under that the tip
of our church spires would be 500 feet be-
low the surface. 1t is of the Lords mer.
cles that we have not been consumed.
Not only are the affairs of this world so
a-twist, a-jangle, and racked that there
seems need of the divine appearance, but
there is another reason. Have YOU not
noticed that 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 thousand more years
passed on, and it was the appearance of
Christ. Almost two thousand more years
have passed by, and He will probably soon
turn another leaf. What it shall be I can
not say. It may be the demolition of all
these monstrosities of turpitude and the
establishment of righteousness in all the
earth. He can do it, and He will do it. ]
am as confident as if it were already ac-
complished. How easily he can do it my
text suggests. It does not ask God to
strike with His right hand or stamp with
His foot, or hurl thunderboldt of His
power, but just to get up from the throne
on which He sits. Only that will be neces-
sary: "Let God arise!'
| 1t will be no exertion of omnipotence. II
will be no bending or bracing for q mighty
lift. 1t will be no sending down the sky
of the white-horse cavalry of heaven OF
rumbling war; chariots. He will only rise.
Now He is sitting in the majesty and
patience of his reign. He is from His
throne Watching the mastering of all the
forces of blasphemy, and drunkenness, and
impurity, and fraud, and Sabbath break
ing, and when they have done their worst
and are most securely organized He will
bestir Himself and say: "My enemies have
de6ed me long enough, and their cup of
iniquity is full. have given them all op-
porlunity for repentance. This dispense
ton of patience 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 stan1ing in the full
height and radiance and grandeur of His
nature He looks this way and that. and how
His enemies are scattered! Blasphemers.
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 pol
luters 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 precipices;
and the world shall be left clea,
and clean for the friends of humanity
and the worshipers of Almighty God. The
last thorn plucked off, the world will
be left 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 lamb at the feet of the
Lamb of God, who took away the sins Of
the world.
And now, the best thing can wish TO,
you, and the best thing can wish for my
self, is that we may be found His warm
and undisguised and enthusiastic friends
in that hour when God shall rise and His
enemies shall be scattered.
Fore0rdinatiOn.
"Has Smith sued Jones?" asked 6
lawyer of a Dakota justice Of the peace