The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-11-03

we are to lift great sunglass, ,convergng thu
rays Of the Sun Of Righteousness on the sins
and the denominations and the follies of the
world, and first they will blaze and then
they will expire. Do you think in that
day there will be any carousal along
the streets Do you think in thai
day there will be any kicking or from mar
BILE steps of shivering mendcants' Do you
think in that day there will be any inebriats:
staggering paSt' No, no. No wine cellars
no lager beer saloons, no distileries where
they make three KS, no bloodshot eye. nc
bloated check, no fist pounded forehead. The
grandchildren of that woman who goes down
the street with curse. stoned by the boys that
| follow her, will be the honest merchants and
the reformer, and the rhilanthropistS and
the Christia rs sixty years from now. In that
day of which, my text spea 'iS.wEat municipal
| governments! Now know thare is O great
| difference between municipal govern
ments. But in many of the cities you just
| 90 down and look around the City Hall,
and then Just look into the rooms where
the politicians reign and see to what
| a sensual, besotted, loathsome accursed
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
emolumeat to fall at their feet. VINO are
those drunken women taken to the police
prison3 What will be done with the
grogsLops that made them drunks Moth
ing. Lco!i into that prison, aud see bore
woman who has stolen pair Of shoes there
boy who stole o dollar, there a girl who
snatched purse. All the crimes less than
twenty or thirty dollars. But what
will be done with the gambler who last night
took the young mans $500! Eothing.
What will they do with that man who
hro1 n II bay of n
Christian home with an adroitness and a
perfdy that beats the strategy of hell, fling
ing shrieking soul into bottomless pedition?
Nothing. What will they do with those men
who indu -el young man to take sums Of
money from his employer, which young man
came to an officer of this church and frantic
ally asked what he must do? Nothing. No
mercy for small criminals. If a man
steals $40 send him to the Raymond
let him got to Canada. We punish people
because they do not steal enough! How is it
with the trials in the court rooms of this
country. 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 tho
trial is over, in some way, somehow, uoSody
knows exa"tly, but one of the jurors has had
given to him pair of gold sDectacles through
which he sees things in adifferentlight. Pun.
ish the small criminals by all means, but
have sometimes thought it might b. good
thing if the officers of the law would turn cut
of the prisons some of the ten cent offenders
and the ten dollar desperadoas and petty
criminals and put in their places some Of
these monsters Of ini1uity 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
sometime; engaged in, until the Lord puts
thu finger OF retribution in the collar of the
robe Of hydro; ;risy and rips it clean to the
bottom. Oh, my friends, all these wrongs
are going to be rights1. The Bible de-
my Bible or must believe thee
filled with regenerated population do
not know how soon that day will come.
Something will deoenl upon you and upon
me and upon all Christian people. God is
ready in answer to prayer to cut short ths
work in Righteousness Are, we alerta
Are we doing all our dutyl Are
Goa GO un supp1icatng i'm diT divine help helpl Three Three
hundred and sixty bells chimed in music
when prince was married. but when Right.
eousness and Peace shall kiss each other in
all the earth ten thousand tineS ten thousand
bells will strike the jubilee Oh, Is this not
a cause worth working in9 How are you
engaged in it, my brother How are you
engaged in it my sister ? Are you disheart-
ened You are. Sometimes the forces
of iniquity seem so mighty, you are in
this sphere or that sphere somebody comes
and addresses to you s0ms dishsartening
words. Take good heart this morning, take
the promises OF the gospel, take the utter.
ance Of tho text, take thousand promises
for the gnod cheer of your soul. Oh, says
some one to you. all you do for Christ won't
amount to anything. All your work
is of no avail. I suppose when Moses
stretched out his hand over the Red Sea
to see it part-I suppose they said: THAT is
a very 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 the part
ing Of that great body Of waterl 1t can't be
done in that way" But Moses kept stretch
ing his hand over the Red Sea, and after
while the wind began to blow from tn, east
up into glittering walls on either side, and
the way was clear. Ths billows reared as
God pulled back on their bits Wheel into
line, oh Israel! March! March! Path Of
pearl, flying spray lifted into rainbow arch
for the con luerors to march under. Shout ye
troops on the beach. Answer we trtops on the
sea- and when tn, last line Of the Israelites
reaches the beach, the cymbals clap, and the
shields clang and the waters rush upon the
pursuers, and the swift-ansered winds on the
white keys of the foam play the grand march
of Israel delivered and the awful dirge of
Egyptian overthrow So 90 forth, oh, my
brother, 20 forth and stretch out your hand
of faith and prayer DER the Red Sea, the
boiling sea of municipal crime and suf-
fering. "Oh." says some one, cit won't
ans,unt to ANYTHING" You keep right on,
keep stretching out your hand or falth
and prayer over the Red Sel of municipal
crime and suffering, and after while Gods
winds of help will blow and the path
will be cleared for the great army of Christ
ian rerormers, and tho path will be strewn
with the treasures of Christian beneiconce,
and we will be greeted to the other beach by
the clapping Of all Heavens cymbals,
while those who pursued us and those who
derided US and those who mo'ked
at us will 20 down under the sea, and all
that is left Of them will be cast high and dry
mon the beach, the splintered wheel Of
Roman chariot, or thrust out from thu foam
of the breathless nostrils Of O rderless
charger. eBlessed be the Lord God OF Is.
rael from everla ting to everlasting, and lei
the whole earth be filed with his glory.
on and Amenl
REGARDING NJ. Pasteur's treatment
for hydrophobia DR.. Charles r. Drys-
dale, senior physician to the London
Metropolitan Free Hospital, writes as
follows to the London Times from
Paris:
Having felt some uncertainty as to the eff
cacy of NJ Pasteur's process for combating
that fatal disease hydrophobia, came hero
some DAYS ago to study tho question and the