The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-11-04

were almost free from all sign Of the social
evil, now night by night rivals upper
Broadway in its famboyans wickedness
The Bible all afame with denunciation
against an impure life, but many of the
American ministry utterng not one point.
blank word against this iniquity, lest some
old libertine throw up his church-psw.
Machinery organized in all the cities OF
the United States and Canada by which
to put yearly in the grinding mill of this
iniquity thousands of the unsuspecting
of the country farm-houses, one
procuress confessing last week in
the courts that she had supplied the in.
fernal market with Is souls in six months.
Oh, for five hundred Pail Mall Gazettes in
America to swing open the door of this
lazar- house of social corruption. Expos
ure must come before extirpation.
While the city van carries the scum OF
this sin from the prison to the police court
morning by morning, 1t 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 a 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
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 chaperone
| meanwhile beaming from the wall on the
scene. Matches are made in Heaven, they
| say. Not such matches, for the brim.
stone indicates the opposite region.
The evil is overshadowing all our cities,
| By some these immoralities are called
peccadilloes, gallantries, eccentr'cities.
| and are relegated to the realms of ocular.
| ity, and few efforts are being made against
| it. God LESS the "White Cross" move-
ment. as it Is called, the excellent and tai.
| en,ed Miss Frances Willard, its ablest adj
vocate on this side the sea, an organize.
| tion making mighty assault on this evil!
| God forward the tracts on this sui ject
distributed by the religious 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 legislators in their attempt to
inhibit this crime.
But is this all Then it is only ques-
ton of time when the last vestige of pur-
| ity and home will vanish out of sight.
Human arms, human pens, human voices,
human talents are not sufficient, l begin
to look up. listen for artillery running
down the sapphire boulevards of heaven.
watch TO see il in the morning light
there be not the flash of descending scim-
| eters. Oh, for God! Does it not seem
time for his appearances? Is it not time
for all lands to cry out:
Let God arise, and let His enemies be scat.
teredi
I got letter few days ago asking me
If did not think that the earthquake in
that city for It's sins. That letter answer
now by saying that If all cur American
| cities got oil the punishment they deserve
for their horrible impurities, the earth
would long ago have cracked open into
| crevices transcontinental, and taken down
oil our cities; and Brooklyn AMI New
York would have gone so far under that
| the tip of our church spires would be five
hundred feet below the surface. It is of
the Lords mercies that we have not been
consumed.
Not only are the affairs of this world so
a-twist, a-jansle and racked, that there
| seems a need of the divine appearance,
lut there is another reason. Haveyou not
noticed that in the history of this planet
| God turns a leaf about every two thou
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world was fitted for human residence.
| About two thousand more years
| passed along and God turned anoth-
err leaf, and It was the deluge.
About two thousand more years pass.
ed on and it was the appearance OF
| Christ. Almost two thousand more years
| have passed by. and he will probably soon
| turn another leaf What 1t shall be can
hot say. It may be the demolition of all
these monstrosities of turpitude and the
| establishment OF RICH eousness in all the
| earth. He can do II, AMI ne will do it.
am as confident as il il were already ac-
complishei. How easily he can do it my
| text suggests. 1t does not ask God TO
strike with his right hand, or stamp with
| his foot, or Eurl a thUnderbolt of his
power, Int just 10 got up from the throne
on which he sits. Only that will be nee.
| essary.
| Let God arise!
1t will lie no exertion of omnipotenc'. It
| will be no bending or bracng for mighty
| lift. 1t will be no sending down the sky
of the white horse cavalry of Heaven or
rumbling war char lots. He will only rise.
| Now he is sitting in the majesty and pa
thence of his reign. He is from his throne
watching the mastering of all the forces of
| blasphenny and drunkenness and impurity
| and fraui and Sabbath breaking, and
when they have done their worst and are
most securely organized, he will besth
himself and say:
"My enemies have defied ME long
enough, and their cup of iniquity is full.
have given them all opportunity for res
pentance. This dispensation of patience
is ended and the faith of the good shall he
| tried no longer
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