Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-04

ali-dcsiructlvo habit OF treating custom
ers. And II Is q treat on their coming 10
town, aud treat while the bargain pro
crosses, and a treat when the purchase Is
made, and treat when he leaves town.
Others, 70 drown their troubles snbmerge
themselves with this worse trouble Oh,
the world Is battered, and bruised, and
blasted with this growing evil II Is
more and more entrauced and fortified.
I They lave millions Of dollars subscribed
/ TO marshal and advance the alcoholic
forces. They nominate, and elect, and
govern the vast majority OF the Office
! holders OF this country On their side
they have enlisted tho mightiest political
power of the centuries. And behind
them stanc eli the myrmldons OF the
neither world, satanic and apollyonic,
aud diabolic. It Is beyond all human
effort 70 throw this bastile Of decanters,
or capture this Gibraltar OF rum Jugs.
Aud while approve Of all human agencies
OF reform, would utterly despair II we
had nothing else. But what cheers me
Is that our best troops are yet to come
Our chief artillery Is In reserve. Oar
greatest commander has not yet fully
taken the Geld. L all hell Is on tneif
side, all heaven Is on our side. Now,
"Let God arise, and let His enemies be
scattered" Then look at the impurities
Of these great cities Ever and anon
there are In the newspapers
EXPLOSIONS or SOCIAL IrFK
that make the story Of sodom quite re-
spectacle; for such things, Christ says,
were more tolerable for Sodom and
Gomorrah than for the Chorazlus and
Bethsaidas Of greater light. IL Is no
unusual thing in our cities to see men in
high position, with two or three families,
or refined ladies willing solsmnly 70
marry the very swine Of so
ciety II they be wealthy. BROOKLYN,
whose streets fifteen years ago
were almost free from all signs
OF the social evil, now night by night riy-
aling upper Broadway 10 It's fiamboyant
wickedness The bible all afame with
denunclation against an impure life, but
many OF the American ministry utterlug
not one pointblank word against this In
iquity lest some old libertlne throw MP
his church pew. Machinery organized in
oil the cities OF the United States and
Canada by which 10 put yearly into the
grinding mill OF this iniqulty thousands
OF the unsuspecting OF the country farm.
houses, one procuress confessing last
week 10 the courts that she had suoplled
the Internal market with | so souls in six
months. on for five hundred Pail Mall
Gazette's In America to swing open the
door of this lazar-house OF social corrup-
ton! Exposure must come before extir.
patton.
While the city van carries the scum of
this sin from the prison to the police
court morning by morning, II Is full time,
II We do not want high American life TO
become Ike that OF the court of Louis
Nv, 10 put millionaire lotharios and the
pompadours OF your brown stone palaces
into van OF popular indignation, and
drive them out of respectable associations.
What prospect Of
SOCIAL PUmFICATIoN
can there be as long as at summer water.
ing places II Is usual to see young
woman Of excellent rearing stand, and
simper, and giggle, and roll up her eyes
sideways before one of those nrstclass
satyrs OF fashionable life, and on the bali,
room floor join him in the square dance,
the maternal cnaperoD meanwhile beam.
Ing from the wall on the scene? Matches
are made IN heaven, they say. Mt such
matches for the birthstone Indicates the
opposite region.
The evil Is oyershadowing all our cities.
BY some these immOralities are called
peccad Hoes, gallantries, eccentriclties,
and are relegated 10 the realms Of iocu
larity, and few efforts are being
made against IL. God bless the "White
Cross movement, as IL Is called, the ex-
cellent and talented Miss Frances Will
ard, It's 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 parents In the great work thew
are doing IN trying to start their children
with pure principles God help all lepis.
lators in their attempt to inhibit this
crime!
But is this alp Then IL Is only a auee
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
/ watch TO see II in the morning light
there be not the flash OF descending sciIn.
itars. Oh, for Godl Does II not seem
time for His appearance? Is It not time
for all lands TO cry out, "Let God arise,
and let His enemies be scatteredp
got letter few days ago asking me
II / did not think the earthquake in
Charleston was the divine chastisement
ON that city for It's 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 crevices trauscontinental, and
taken down all our cities; and BROOKLYN
and New York would have gone so far
under that the up Of our church spires
would be five hundred feet below the sur |
face. II is OF the Lords mercles 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 a |
leaf and this world was fitted for human
residence. About two thousand more
years passed along and God turned |