The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20

might dos Nothing. Al, we do wei 20
punish snail crimes but / have sonetimes
thought il would be better In some CT our
cities if the officials would only turn out from
the jails the petty criminals, the little Of
Tenders, ten dollar desperadoes, and put IN
their places some Of the monsters of iniquity
who drive their roam span through the streets
50 swiftly that honest men have 70 leap to
get out Of the way Of being run over. Oh,
the damnable schemes that professed Chris
tan men viii sometimes engage IN until God
puts the finger Of retribution into the collar
Of their robe Of hypocrisy and rips it clear TO
the bottom.
But all these wrongs are going to be right
ed I expect to live 70 see the day. ! think I
hear In the distance the rurnbling of the
kings chariot Not always IN the minority
IS the church Of God going TO be; or are good
! men going to be. The streets are going 10 be
filed with regenerated populations. Three
hundred and sixty bells rang in Moscow when
I one prince was married; but wheel righteous
ness and peace kiss each otner in all the earth
| ten thousand times ten thousand bells shall
I strike the jubilee. Poverty enriched; hunger
fed; crime purified; ignorance enlightened;
/ all the cities saved Is not this a cause worth
! working inl Oh, you think sometimes it does
| not amount to much! You toll on in your
| couragenent People have no faith and say:
| 1T does not amount TO anything; YOU might
as wen quit that" Why, when Moses
! stretched his hand over the Red sea, i did
not seem 70 mean anything especially Peo-
! pie came out, / suppose, and said: ''Aha.a
Some Of them found out what he wanted to
| do. He wanted the sea parted. It did not
e>1ount to anything, this stretching out Of
his hand over the sea. But after a while the
wind blew all night from the cast, and the
the waters were gathered into a glittering
| palisadc on either side, and the pillows
reared as God pulled back on their crystal
| bits Wheel into line, o, Israel. march,
| march, Pearls crash under feet. Flying
spray gathers into rainbow arch of victory
| for the conquerors to march under, Shout Of
| hosts on the beach answering the shout of
hosts amid sea And when the last line of
the Israelites reach the beach. the cymbals
clap and the shields clang, and the waters
rush over the pursuers, and the swift-fngered
| winds on the white KEYS Of the foam play
the grand march Of Israel delivered and the
awful dirge Of Egyptian overthrow.
SO you and l go forth, and all the people Of
| God 20 forth, and they stretch forth
their hands over the sea, the boiling
sea of crime and sin and wretched-
ness. 1T don't amount to anything, y
| people say. Don't it, Gods winds of help
viii after a while begin to blow A path viii
be cleared for the army of Christian philan-
thropists. The path win be lined with the
treasures Of Christian benefcence, and we
viii be greeted TO the other beach by the clap
ping of all heavens cymbals, while those who
pursued Us and derided us and tried to de
stroy US will go down under the sea, and all
that will be left Of them will be cast high and
dry upon the beach, the splintered wheel of a
chariot, or thrust out from the foam, the
breathless nostril of q riderless charger.