The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-10-15

her eyes sideways before one Of those
frst.class satyrs Of fashionable life, and
! on the ballroom floor Join him In thu
90. rare dance, the maternal chaperone
mean while beamIng from the wall on the
scene. catches are madc in Heaven, til ey
say. Not > uch matches, for the brim.
stone indicate. tho opposite region.
The evil Is over ..hadowing all our cities,
By some these I'm. uoralities are called
peccadilloea, GALLANT les, eccentricities.
and are relocated to the reN Inns Of jocular-
ity. and few efforts are being n. ade against
it. God bless tho "whits Cross" move.
ment, as IL Is called, the excellent ant tai.
ented Miss Frances Willard, its sblest al.
vocate on this side the sea, an organise.
ton making . mighty assault on this evil !
God forward the tracts on this subject
distributed by the religious tract societies
Of the land! God help parents in the
great work they are doing in trying to
start their children with pure principlesl
God help all legislators in their attempt to
inhibit this crime.
But is this all! Then IL Is only ques.
ton of time when the last vestige Of pur.
ity and home viii vanish out Of sight
Human arms, human pens, human voices,
human talents are not sufficient, begin
to look up. listen for artillery running
down the sapphire boulevards of heaven.
l watch to see IL In the morning light
there be not the flash Of descending scim-
eters. Oh, for God! Does It not seem
R,~,1 - r "a
for all lands to cry out:
Let God arise, and let Ills enemies be scat
teredi
Igot letter few days ago asking me
IL did not think that the ear thquake in
Charleston was the divine chastisement of
that city for its sins. That letter / answer
now by saying that II all our American
cities got oil 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 five
hundred feet below the surface. It is of
the Lords mercies that we have not been
consumed.
Not only are the affairs Of this world so
a-twist, a-jangle and racked, that there
seems q 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 thou.
sand years? God turned a leaf and this
world was fitted for human residence.
About two thousand moro years
passed along and God turned ahoth.
or leaf, and It was the deluge.
About two thousand more years pass.
cd 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 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 rs confident as IL it were already &C.
complished. How easily he can do IL my
text suggests. It does not ask God to
strike with his right hand, or stamp with
power, hut Just to get up from the throne
on which he sits. Only that will be nec.
essarv.
Let God arise!
It will be no exertion Of omnipotenc.. It
will be no bending or bracing for mighty
lift. It viii be no sending down the sky
of tho 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 his throne
watching the mastering Of all the forces Of
blasphemy and drunkenness and impurity
and fraud and Sabbath breaking, and
when they have done their worst and are
most securely organized, he will bestir
himself and say:
"My enemies have defied me long
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 be
tried no longer"
And now God begins to rise, end 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
how his enemies are scattered! Bias
phemers, white and dumb, reel down to
their doom; and those who have trafdcked
in that which DESTROYS the bodies and
souls Of men and families will fly with cut
foot on the down grade of broken decant.
ers; and the polluters Of society, that did
their bad work with large fortunes and
high social sphere, will overtake il
their descent the degraded rabble
Of underground city life as they
tumble over the eternal precipicss; and the
world shall be left clear and clean for
the friends of humanity and the worship.
ers Of Almighty God. The last thorn
plucked of, the world will be left bloom.
ing rose ON the bosom Of that Christ who
came to gardeuizs II. This earth that
stood snarling with its tigerish passion,
thrusting out its raging claws, shall lie
down lemb at the feet of the Lamb Of
God who took away the sins Of the world.