Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-10-16

or the centuries. And behind them
stand all the myrmidons Of the neither
world, Satanic, and A~pollyonic, and
diabolic. 1t is beyond all human effort
to throw this Bastile of decanters or
capture this Gibraltar Of rum Jugs.
And while l approve of all human
agencies OF reform. ! would utterly de-
SPAR if we had nothing else. But what
cheers me is that our best troops are
yet TO come. Our chief artillery is in
reserve.
OUR GREATEST COMMANDER IA NOT
T. FULLY TAKEN THE FIELD.
II all hell is IN their side, all heaven is
on our side. Now, 'Lct God arise,
and let His enemies be scattered"
Then look at the impurities OF these
great cities. Ever and amor there are
in the newspapers explosions of social
life that make the story OF Sodom quite
respectable; for such things, Christ
says, were more tolerable for Sodom
and Gomorrah than for the Chorazins
and Bethsaidas Of greater light. 1t is
no unusual thing in our cites to
see men in high position with two or
three families, or refined ladies will
ingly solemnly to mfrry the very swine
of society if they be wealthy. Brook
lyn, whose streets fifteen years ago
were almost free from all sign
of the social evil now night by night
rivalling upper Broadway in its fam
boyant wickedness. The Bible all
ailame with denunciation against an
impure life, but many of the American
church ministry uttering not n point.
blank word against this iniquity lest
some old libertine throw up his church
pew. 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 sup
piled the Internal market with
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SOULS IN SIX
MONTHs.
Oh for five hundred Pail Mall Gazettes
in America to swing open the door of
IN IhLiI HouSt VI SOCldl COIIUDtIOl
Exposure must come before extirpa-
ton.
When the city van carries the scum
of this sin from the prison to the police
court morning by morning, it is full
time, if we do not want high American
lite to become like that of the court of
Louis Nv, to put millionaire Lothar-
los and the Pompadours Of your brown
stone palaces into Il van of popular in
%dignation, and drive them out Of re-
spectacle associations. What pros.
pect of social publication can there be
rs long as at summer watering places
1t is usual to see a young woman of ex-
cellent rearing stand, and shipper, and
giggle and role up her eyes sideways
before one of those iirst-class satvrs of
fashionable life, and on the ball room
floor join him in the square dance, the
maternal chaperon meanwhile beaming
from the wall on the sceneP Matches
are made in heaven, they say. Not
such matches. for the birthstone midi
Gates the opposite region.
The evil is overshadowing all u
cities. BY some these innoralities
are called peccadilloes, g~allantries, &C.
centricities, and are relegated to the
realms of popularity, and few efforts
are being made against it.
GOD LESS Ii "wHIE CROSS MOVE
MENT,
nc - ic on1loI tba axn.llopt .pJ ,,1op.
ed Miss Frances Willard, its ablcst adj
vocate' on this side the sea. an orgsni-
zation making a mighty assault on this
evil! God forward the tracts on this
subject distributed by the religious
tract societies of the land! God help
parents in the great work they are do
Ing in trying to start their children
with pure principles! God help all
legislators in their attempt to inhibit
this crime!
| GOT o letter a few days ago asking
me if | did not think that the earth
quake in Charleston was the Divine
chastisemcnt on that city for is sins.
That letter | answer now by sa.ing
that if I'LL our American cities got AL
the punishment they deserve for their
horrible impurities, the earth would
long ago have cracked open into crew
ices transcontinental, and taken down
all our great cities; and Brooklyn and
New York would have gone so far un-
der that the tip Of our church spires
would be 500 feet below the surface.
1t is Of the Lord S mercies that we have
| not beer consumed.
Not only are the affairs Of this world
so a-twist. a-jangle and racked. that
there seems a need Of the Divine APP
| p%earance, but there is another reason.
Have you not noticed that in the his
tory Of this planet,
GOD TURNS A LEAF
about every 1900 years. God turned
a leaf and this world was fitted for hu-
man residence. About 1000 more
years passed along and God turned an
other leaf, and it was the deluge.
About 1900 more years passed on, and
it was the appearance Of Christ. AL
most 1000 more years have passed by,
and He will probably soon urn an
other leaf. What it shall be | cannot
say. 1t may be the demolition of all
these monstrosities Of turpitude and the
establishment of righteousness in all the
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