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But shall take no stock in that company,
and do not believe any human machinery
will ever eiTecta any such result Itwants om-
nipotent machinery organized by the Lord
Almighty, machinery of pardon and peace
and divine grace and salvation. That is the
only machinery that will do it, Ar him
edes burned up a fleet of ships as it ad
vanced to take city, History SAYS he lifted
great sanglass, and he converged the rays
OF the sun, on that feet Of shios Now the
sails are wings of fire and the masts fall and
the ships sink. Oh, nv friends this world is
to be saved by the power of the Gospel. and
we are to lift great sunglass, conve"g ng the
rays of the Sun o. Riyhteo ness on the sins
and the denominations AMI the folles of the
world, and first they will blaze and then
they will expire Do you think in that
ahay thsy .aere steeet, VIII n be any earoua along
day there will be any kicking OF from mar
bic steps of shivering mendicants' Do you
think in that day there will be any inebriatas
staggering past! No, no. No wine cellars.
no lager beer saloons, NJ distil cries where
they make three KS, no bloodshot eye no
bloated cheek no iist.pounied forehead. The
grandchildren of t at woman who goes down
the street with curse, stoned by the boys that
follow her, will be the honest merchants and
the reformers and the rhilanthropists and
the Christians sixty years from now. In that
day of which my text speaks, what municipal
governments! Now know thore is a great
difference between municiDal govern
mants. But IN many or the cities -ou Just
go down and look around the City Hall,
and then Just look into the rooms where
the politicians reign AMI see to what
a sensual, be2otted, loathsome accurse1
crew city politics for the most part has been
abandoned, and see them standing all day
long around some of our City Halls, picking
their teeth and waiting for some crumbs of
emOlument to fall at their feet. Who are
those drunken women taken to the police
station and then Of couse thrust into the
prisonI What will be done with the
grogshops that made them drunkl Moth
ing. Look into that prison, and see bere a
woman who has stolen pair Of shoes, there
a boy who stole dollar, there a girl who
snatched purse. All the crimes less than
twenty or thirtv dollars Bnt what
will be done with he amber who last night
took the young mans S50o' Nothing.
What will they do with that man who
broke through and destroyed the purity of
Christian home with an adroitness and a
perfidy that beats the strategy of hell, fling
ing shrieking soul into bottomless peditionl
Nothing. What will they do with those men
who induae1 young man to take sums of
money from his employer, which young man
came to an officer OF this church aud frantic
ally asked what h. must do' Nothing. No
mercy for small criminals. If a man
steals $40 send him to the Raymond
Street Jail. If man steals S200,000
let him get to Canada We punish people
because they do not steal enough How is it
with the trials in the court rooms of this
ccountry', What are they doing with these
Coney Island gamblers' Where is the genius
in the American court room that can arrest
try and condemn such scoundrels' Before the
trial Is over, in some way. somehow, nobody
knows exactly, but one of the jurors has had
given to him ,nair of gold soectacles through
which he sees things in different light. Pun
ish the small criminals by ali means, but 1
have sometimes thought it might b. good
thing if the officers of the law wolll turn out
of the prisons some of the ten cent offenders
and the ten dollar desperaioas aud petty
criminals and put in their places some Of
these monsters of iniIuity who ride through
the street with their. melted span going
to leap to get out of the way
Of being run over. Oh, what dam
nable schemes even professors of religion are
sometimes engaged in, until the Lord puts
tha finger of retribution in the collar of the
robe of hypocrisy and rips it clean to the
are going 70 be rightei. The Bible de-
clares it. l must either give up
my Bible or I must believe the %
statements. The cities are goin, to be
filed with regenerated population. do
not know how soon that day will come
Sometning Will de -ent uoon you and upon
me and upon all Christian people, God is
work in righteousnass Are we alert!
Are we doing all our dutys Are
We much on our knees before
Col suppioating divine help' Three
hundred and 81 ;ty bells chimel in music
when prn was married but when Right
eons1ess and Peace shall kiss each other in
all the earth ten thousand times ten thousand
bells VIII strike the Jubilee Oh, is MS not
a cause worth working in' How are you
engaged in it, my brother2 How are you
engaged in it my sister 2 Are you dishsart-
ened, You are. Sometimes the forces
of iniquity seem so mighty, you are in
despair, and while You are telling in
this s2hera or that spaere snneb,dy CONES
and addresses to vol s)m, diSi 1lr5sniay
words. Take good heart this m)cni15 taxa
the promises OF the gospel, tals the utter
ance Of the text, take a thoI'all promises
for the gool cheer Of your SOIL Oh, says
some one to you, all YOU do for Christ won't
amount to anything. All yoar work
is of no avail | Suppose when Moss
and the people knew that he eIpect,d
to soc it part-I suppose they sad: That is
ve:y foolish, that is a very weak thing to
do. What has the stretching out of the hand
of Nose over the sea got to do with tn t.
ing of that great bo1v of water! 1t ca %
done in that wa" But NJ ISIS kept S ret III
ing his han1 over the Rel Sen, and af5ec a
while the wind began to blow from tn east
and it kept blowing until the water gathered
up into glittering walls on eithar side, aud
the way was clear. The hillowS rsl @ a.
God pulled back Oh their bits. Wheel into
line, oh Israeli March March. Path Of
pearl, flying spray lifted into rainbow arch
for the con uerors to march unle' Shoat We
troops on the beach. Answer We t. ops Oh the
sea and when tn last linz OF the lsrae ties