The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God;
But children of the Heavenly King
Should speak their lows abroad,


choir.
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God;
But children Of the Heavenly King
Should speak their joys abroad.
"Praise ye the Lord let everything with
breath praise the Lord" In the glorious
time coming III our cities, and in the world,
hosanna viii meet hosanna and hallelujah,
halieuiah.
In that time, also, of which / speak, all the
haunts of iniquity and crime and squalor will
be cleansed and viii be Illuminated. How IS
it to be done? You say perhaps by one influ-
ence. Perhaps l say by another. win tell
you what is my idea, and 1 know l am right
in it. Tho gospel of the Son of God is the
only agency that will ever accomplish this.
Mr. Ecsler of England, had theory that
if the natural forces of wind and tide and
sunshine and wave were rightly applied, and
rightly developed, it would make this whole
earth paradise. In a book of great genius,
and which rushed from edition TO edition he
he said: "Feflow men promise to show the
means of creating a paradise within
ten yea. where everything desirable
for human life may be had by
every man III superabundance without labor
and without pay-where the whole face OF
nature shall be changed into the most beauti-
full farms, and man may live in the most
magnificent palaces, in all imaginable refine
ments of luxury and in the most delightful
gardens-where he may accomplish without
labor in one year more than hitherto could be
done in thousands of years, and may level a
continent, sink valleys, create lakes, drain
lakes and swamps, and intersect the land
everywhere with beautiful canals, and roads
for transporting heavy loads of many thou
sand tons, and for travelling a thousand miles
| in twenty-four hours.
"From the houses to be built viii be af-
| forded the most cultured views to be fancied
| From the galleries, from the roof and from
| the turrets may be seen gardens as far as the
| eye can see full of fruits and flowers, ar
ranged in the most beautiful order, with
| walks, colonnades, aqueducts, canals, ponds,
| plains, aInphitheatres, terraces, fountains,
| sculptured works, paviions, gondolas, places
| of popular amusement to tire the eye and
! fancy. All this to be done by urging the
water the wind and the sunshine to their fun
| development
| 9e goes on and gives plates Of the machinery
| by Syhich this work is to be done, and he says
he only needs at the start company in which
| the shares shall be $50 each, and 500 900 or
| 5000 shah I've raised just TO make speci-
men community, sud then this being formed
| the world will see its practicability, and very
soon s., 900 600 or IS, 000, 900 can be obtained,
and in ten years the whole earth win be EN-
| paradised! The plan is not so preposterous as
some have heard of But win take no stock
| in that company. do not believe that it win
ever be done in that way, by any mechanical
force or by any machinery that the
human milpl can put into play. 1t
| is to be done by the gospel of the
| Son of God, the omnipotent machinery
of love and grace and pardon and salvation.
| That is 70 emparadise the nations Archi-
medes destroyed fleet of ships coming up
| the harbor. You know how he did it, He
lifted a great sunglass, history tells us, and
when the fleet of ships came up the harbor of
| Syracuse he brought TO bear this su1sglass and
| he conveyed the suns rays upon those ships.
| Now, the sails are wings of fire, the masts
| fall, the vessels sink. o. my friends, by the
| sunglass of the gospel conveTging tho rays Of
the sun of Righteousness upon the sins, the
wickedness of the world I'VE viii make them
blaze and expire.
In that day of which speak, do you be-
lieye there viii be any midnight earousalE
win there be any kicking Off from the
marble steps Of shivering mendicantsf Will
| there be any unwashed, unfed, uncombed
childrens Win there be any blasphemies in
| the street, VIII there be any inebriates stag
1
beer saloons. No distilleries where they
make the three Ks. No bloodshot eye. No
bloated cheek No instruments Of ruin and
destruction. No fist-pounded forehead The
| grandchildren of that woman who goes down
the street with a curse, stoned by the boys
that follow her, will be the rnformers and
| philanthropists, and the Christian men and
the honest merchants of New York and
Brooklyn.
Then what municipal governments, too. we
! win have in all the citiesi Some cities are
worse than others, but i'm many of our cities
you just walk down by the CITY halls and look
in at some OF the rooms occupied by poll
ticians. and see TO what a sensual. locthsone
ignorant, besotted crew city politics is often
abandoned Or they stand around the city
ball picking their teeth waiting for some
emoluments OF crumbs 20 fall to their feet
waiting all day long and waiting all night
long.
Who are those wretched women taken up for
drunkenness and carried up 10 the courts, and
put In prison, OF course What will You do
with the grogshops that made them drink !
Nothing. Who are those prisoners IN jail !
One of them stole pair of shoes That boy
boy stole dollar. This girl snatchees a purse.
AL Of them crimes damaging society
less than twenty or thirty dollars But
what win you do with the gambler who last
night robbed the young man Of thousand
dollarsf Nothing, What shall be done with
that one who breaks through and destroys
the purity Of q Christian home, and with IN
i adroitness and newfi1y that beats tho strategy
| Of hell flings aHhrinking, shriekinx soul into
4 bot<om1es pcrdition} Nothing. Wha1
4 VA you do with fhosc who heece that young
i man, eatfin8 him 10 purloin largo sums q
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