The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-09-29


| or rnid6ie-aged man. or cIt man. VINO quits
the throne of his opportunity and turns rs
back upon heavenly throne and traTnps Of
into ignominy and everlasting exile That is
an abdication enough to shake universe In
Persia they viii not have blind man on the
/ throne, and when reigning monarch Is
! jealous Of SONG ambitious relative he has his
+ eyes extinguished, so that he cannot possibly
| ever come to GROWING. And that suggests
/ the differences between tho way sin and di-
vine grace takes hold Of a man The former
I blinds him 50 he may never reach throne.
| while the latter nluu7ines the blind that he
/ may take coronation.
I Why this serm0n7 I have made up nv
mind that our city life Is destroying too many
/ young men There comes in every Septen-
I Der and October large influx Of those be-
tween lG and p years Of age, and New York
! and Brooklyn damn at least thousand Of
| them every year They are shoveiad of and
and dosgn with no more eonpunction than
I that with which coal HEAVIER SCOOPS the an
/ thracite into a dark cellar What with the
wine cup and the gamblers dice md the scar
/ let enchantress, no young man, without the
grace Of God. is safe ten minutes.
J There is much discussion about which is the
worst city Of the continent. Some say
New York, some say New Orleans. some
| say Chicago. some say st. Louis What I
I have to say Is, you cannot make much COM
1 parison between the infinities, and in all our
/ cities the temptation seems infinite We keep
a great many mills running day and night
I 10 riCe mills or cotton mills Not mills Of
| corn or wheat but mills for grinding Up
men Such are all the grog shops, licensed
and unlicensed Such are all the gambling
saloons. Such are all the houses OF infamY
And we do the work according TO law, and
! we turn out a new grist every hour, and
| grind up warm hearts and clear heads and
the earth about a cider mill is not more satu-
rated with the beverage than the ground
about all these mind destroying institutions
is saturated with the blood Of victims We
say to Long Island neighborhoods and VII
| lagos: Send US more supply and to
Westminster and Ulster and all the other
counties OF New York; Send us more men
and women to put under the wheels Give
US full chance and we could grind up in the
municipal miil five hundred day. We have
enough machinery, we have enough men who
can run them Give US more homes to crush!
Give US more parental hearts to pulverizel
Put into the hopper the wardrobes, and the
family Bibles, and the Hyelihoods of wives
and children. Give Us more material for
these mighty mills, which are wet with tears
and suiphUrOus with woe, and trembling with
the earthquakes Of an incensed God, who VIII,
unless our cities repent, cover us up as quick
and as deep as IN August of the year - We
suvius avalanched Herculaneum.
o, man and woman, ponder the path of thy
feet See which way you are going. viii
you have the destiny Of Edward or Nicholasl
On this sacramentaI day, when the FURNISHED
chalices stand in the presence OF the people,
start from the foot Of the cross for useful
ness and heaven. Plutarch tells us that after
Caesar was slain and his twenty-three wounds
had been displayed to the people, arousing
al uncontrollable excitement, and the body
OF the dead conquerer, according to ancient
custom, had been put upon the funeral pile,
and the flames arose, people rushed up, took
from the blazing mass torches, with which
they ran through the city, crying the glory
of the assassinated ruler and the shame
Of his assassinators. On this sacra-
mental day, when the five bleeding wounds
of Christ your king are shown to you, and the
fires Of his earthly suffering blaze before your
imagination, each one of you take torch and
start heavenward-a torch with light for
yourself and light for others; for the race
that starts at the cross ends at the throne.
While the twenty-three wounds of Caesar
wrought nothing but the CONSERVATION of the
people, from the five wounds of our Con-
queror there flow transforming power TO
make all the amounted millions who viii
accept 1t, forever happy and forever free.