St. Landry democrat., 1886-10-23

procuress con essns last week IN
the courts that she had supplied the in.
fernal market with 151 souls in six months
On, for five hundred Pull InuN Gltzettes in
| America to swing open the door of this
lazar-house of social corruption. Expos
ure mustcomo 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 Louis XIV, to put millionaire
Lotharios and Pompadours of your brown
stone palaces into van of popular indig-
nation, 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 to see
n young woman of excellent rearing
stand, and shipper, 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 chapsrone
| meanwhile beamlny from the wall on the
| scene. Matches are made in Hea ven, they
| say. Not such matches, for the brin.
stone indicates the opposite region
The evil is overshadowing all our cities
By some these immoralities are called
peccadilloes, gallant les, eccentr cities
| and are reiega'ed 20 the realms Of jocular-
ity, and few efforts are being made against
it. God bless the "White Cross" move.
! ment, as it Is called, the excellent and tall
ented Miss Frances Willard, its ablest adj
vocate on this side the sea, an organza.
ton making q mighty assault on this evil |!
God forward the tracts on this subject
distributed by the DELICIOUS tract societies
of the land! God help parents In the
great work they are DOING in trying to
start their children with pure principles!
God help all legislator in their attempt to
inhibit this crime.
But is this all. Then 1t is only cues.
ton Of time when the last sige of pur.
ity and home will vanish out of sight.
Human arms, human pens, human voices,
human talents are not sufficient, I begin
to look up. listen for artillery running
down the sapphire boulevaros of heaven.
[ watch to see if in the morning light
there be not the flash of descending scim.
eters. 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 enemte, be scat,
tered!
got letter few days ago asking me
If did not think that the earthquake in
Charleston was the divine chast sement OF
that city for its sins. That letter answer
now by saying that If all cur American
cities got all the punishment they observe
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 til
the tip of our church spires would be five
hundred 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-jangle and racked, that there
seems need of the divine appearance,
but there is enother reason. Hayeyou 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 more years
passed along and God turned anoth- |
err leaf, and it was the deluce, |
About two thousand more years pass
ed on and it was the appearance of |
Christ. Almost two thousand more wears
have passed by, and he will probably soon
turn another leaf What it shall be I can
not say. II may be the demolition of all |
these monstrosities of turpitude and the
of righteousness in all the
arft To Il - H.
am as confident as if it were already ac-
How easily he can do it my
text suggests. 1t does not ask God to
strike with his right hand, or stamp with
MS foot, or hurl a thunderbolt of his
power, but just to get up from the throne
IN which he sits. Only that will be nee.
sssary.
Let God arise
1t will be no exertion Of omnipotenca. II
will be no bending or bracing for mighty
lift. It will be no sending down the skv
If the white horse cavalry of Heaven or
war chariots. He win only rise.
Now he is sitting in the majesty and pa
fence of his reign. He is from his throne
Watching the mastering of all the forces of
'lasphemy and drunkenness and impurity
md 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
nough, and their cup of iniquity is full.
have given them all opportunity for re-
'entance. This dispensation of patience
$ ended, and the faith of the good shall be
ried no 1onger.'
And now God begins to rise, and wha,
mountains give way under his right foot