National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-10-18
Woodward g. Lothrop,
No. 1913 # Street Northwest.

thousand tons, and for travelling thousand
miles in twenty.four hours.
"From the houses to be built will be afforded
the most cultured views 10 be fancied. From
the galleries. from the roof, and from the tur-
Tcls, may be seen gardens as far as the eye can
see, full of fruits and flowers arranged In the
most beautiful order, with walks. cOlonna1es,
queducts, canals, ponds, plains, amphthea-
tiers, terraces, fountains sculptured works, pa
vilions, .gondolas, places of popular amuse-
ment to tire the eve and fancy. All this TO be
done by urging the water, the wind aud the
sunshine TO their full development"
He goes on and gives plates of the machinery
by which this work is to be done, and he says
he only needs at the start u company in which
the shares shall be SO each, and a hundred or
two hundred thousand shall be raised just to
make q specimen community, and then, this
being formed, tho world will see its practical
bility, and very soon two or three million dol
lars can be obtained, and In ten years the
whole earth will be unparalleled. The plan
Is not so prcposterous as some have heard OF.
But win take no stock in that company. /
do not believe that II will ever be done in that
way, by any mechanical force, or by any ma
play. II is TO kG done by the Gospel of the Son
ofGod-thc omnipoteGt machinery of love and
grace and pardon aud salvation. That is 70
n fleet of ships coming up The harbor. You
know how he did ~ lie lifted u great sun
glass, history tells us, and when the fleet of
ships came up the harbor OF Syracuse he
brought 10 bear this sunglass, aud he conveyed
the SUMS rays upon those ships Now, the
sails are wings OF fire, the masts fall the YES
sells sink. oh, my friends, by the sun-glass of
the Gospel, conyerging the rays of the sun of
righteousness upon the sins, the wickedneSs
of the world, we will mako them blazs AMI
expire.
In that day of which speak, do you believe
there will 10 any midnight car0usal! viii
there be any kicking oil from the marble steps
OF shiyerlng medlcane? VIII there be any un.
washed, unfed, unCombed children? VIII
there be any blGsphemiei In the street, WIN
there be any inebIsNtes staggering past? No.
No wine stores. No lager beer saloons. No
distilleries where they make the three KS.
No bloodshot eye, No bloated cheek. No in
strumcnts OF ruin and destruction. M fist.
pounded forehead. The grandchildren of that
stoned by the boys that follow her, will bn the
rcformers and philanthropists. aud the Chris.
tian men ana the honest merchants of New
Then, what municipal governments, too, we
viii have in all the cities Some cities nre
worse than others, but II many Of our cities
in At some of the rooms occupied by politicians,
and see to whats sensual loathsome, ignorant,
besotled crew city politics is often abandoned,
Or they stand around the city hall picking
their teeth waiting for some emoluments OF
crumbs TO fail to their feet, waiting all day
long and waiting all night long
for drunkenness and carried up to the courts,
and Put In prison, of course? What Will you
do with the groBshops that made thcm drink
Nothing Who are those prisoners in jail? one
Of them stole q pair of shoes. That boy stole
dollar. This girl snatched purse All OF them
crimes damaging society less than twenty or
thirty dollars, But what will you do with the
gambler who last night robbed the young man
of u thousand dollars? Nothing. What shall
be done with that one who break KS through and
SGsI9SSS S me pHTy OF GnT ib home ana
strategy of hell, hings shrinking, shrieking
soul Into bOltomlCss perditiOn? Nothing
Nothing What Will You do with those who
fleece that young man, getting him TO purlOin
large sums of money from hi employer-the
young man who came to an officer Ofmy church
and told the story and irantically asked what
punish small crimes. but | have sometimes
thought il would be better In some of our cities
II the officials would only turn ont from the
lails the petty criminals, the little. offenders,
ten-doll0r dcsperRdOes; aud put in their places
some Of the monsters of iniquiiy who drive
their roam span through the streets 80 swiftly
that honest men have to leap To get out of the
way OF being run over, Oh, the damulble
schemes that protested Christian men will
sometimes engage In until God put the finger
of his retributiOu into the collar of their rObI
ofhyDocrlsy and rips II clear to the bottom
But all these wrongs are going 20 he rghtcd,
] expect to live TO see the day think hear
IN the distance the rumblng of tho Kings
chariot. Not always In the minority Is the
church of God going TO DO or ARE god mon
going to be. The streets are going TO b. filed
with Tegeneratcd populations, Three hunltcl
prince was married; but when RlghteDuyney7
ana Peace kiss each other In all the earth, ten
thousnnd times ten thousand bells shall strike
the Jubilee. Poverty enriched. Hunger fed.
Crime purified. Ignorance enlightened. All
the cities saved. Is not this n cause worth
WORKING M Oh, you think s1metlms Il does
not amount TO much You toll in your di-
ltIthl spheres, sometimes with great dlsrOur-
ngfment. People have no faith and saw. "It
does not amount % anything you might ms
Wen quit that Why, when Moses streteas I'd
MS haud oyer the Rel sea, Il di not seem to
mean anything especially. People came oit.
] suppose, aud said "Ahaln some OF tb,m
iuund out what no wanted TO d.. II,Sytnt,I
the sea parted. II did not amount To any.