Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-26

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hfom the houses to be built will be
Afforded the most cultured views to DO
sancied. 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, arranged in the most beautiful
order, with walks, colonnades. agueducts,
canals, ponds, plains, amphitheaters. te.
races, fountains, sculptured works, pa
vll'ons, gondolas, places Of popular nmuse.
ment to tire the eye and fancy. All this %
be done by urging the water, the wind. and
the sunshine to their full development
de gees on and gives plates of the ma
chlnery by which this work is to be done,
and he says he only needs ut the start
company in which the shares shall be $40
each, and 800 or - 900 shall be raised just
to make specimen community, and then
this being formed, the world will see it's
practicability, and very soon $4,000, 900 or
$3 100000 can be obtained, and in ten
Years the whole earth will be unparalleled.
The plan is not SO preposterous as some
have heard of! But will take no stock in
that company! l do not believe that it will
ever be done in that way, by any mechanical
force, or by any machinery that the human
mind 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 to en-
paradise the nations. Archimedes DESTROYED
a heet of ships coming up the harbor. You
know how he did it? He lifted great
sun glass, history tells us, and when the
fleet Of ships came up the harbor of SYRIA
cuse he brought to bear this sun glass and
conveyed the suns rays upon those ships.
Now, the sails are wings Of fire, the masts
fall, the vessels sink. Oh! my friends. bv
the sun-glass Of the Gospel converging the
rays OF the Sun of Righteousness upon the
sins, the wickedness Of the world, We will
make them blaze and expire.
In that day of which speak do you
believe there will be any midnight carousal?
Will there be any kicking off from the
marble steps of shivering mendicants?
Will there be any unwashed, unfed, I'M
combed children? Will there be any bias
inebriates staggering past? No. No wine
stores. No lager beer saloons
No distilleries where they make
the three KS. No bloodshot eye.
No bloated check. No instruments "a
ruin and destruction. No iist-pounded
forehead. The grandchildren of that
woman who goes down the street with q
curse, stoned by the boys that follow her,
will be the reformers and philantrophists,
and the Christian men and the honest
merchants of New York and Brooklyn.
| Then, what municipal governments, too,
we will have i'll all the cities! Some cities
are worse than others, but in many of our
cities you just walk down by the city halls
and look in at some of the rooms occupied
by politicians, and see to what sensual,
loathsome, ignorant, besotted crew city poll
tics is often abandoned. Or they stanu
Iva oil r,tol SLo;.
waiting for some emoluments of crumbs to
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 to the
Courts and put in prison, Of course? What
will you do with the grog shops that made
them drink? Nothing. Who are those
prisoners in Jail? One Of them stole a
pair of shoes. That boy stole a dollar.
| This girl snatched a purse. All of them
! crimes damaging society less than 500 or
$50.
But what will yon DO with the gamble.
who last night robbed the Young man Of
$1,000? Nothing. What shall be done
with that one who breaks through and de.
stroys the purity Of a Christian home, and
with the adroitness and pertdy that beats
the strategy Of hell filings q shrinking,
\ SIlTleklnGs SOUL lu(O Il DOllOlul0SS pGTulVlOu!
Nothing. What will you do with those
who fleece that young man, getting him to
purloin large sums Of money from his en-
ployer--the young man who came to an
officer of my church and told the story,
and frantically asked what he might do;
| Nothing. All! we do we'll to punish small
crimes, but have sometimes Thought ii
would be better i'll some Of our cities if the
officials would only turn out from the jail
the petty criminals, the little offenders,
the ten-dollar desperadoes, and put in their
place some Of tho monsters of iniquity,
who drive their roam span through the
streets SO swiftly that honest men have to
leap to get ont of the way Of being run
over. Oh, the damnable schemes that
professed Christian men will sometimes
engage i'll until God puts the finger of His
retribution into the collar of their robe Of
But all these wrongs are going to be
righted. l expect to live to see the day
l think hear in the distance the rumbline
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 to be filled with regeneratec
populations. Three hundred and sixty
Idells rang in Moscow when one Prince waf
married; but when righteousness anc
Peace kiss each other in all the earth, ter
thousand times ten thousand bells shall
strike the jubilee. Poverty enriched
Hunger fed. Crime purified. Ignorance
, enlightened. All the cities saved. is no
{ this a cause worth working in? Oh. yot
, think sometimes it does not amount tx
much! You toll on in Your ditieren
, spheres, sometimes with great discourage
, ment. People have no faith and cay: II
, does not amount to ANYTHING: you nigh
as we'll quit that" Why, when Moses
stretched his hand over thu
Red Sea it did not seem tt
mean anything especially. PEG
) pie came out, suppose. and said; aha!
{ Some of them found out what he wantet
, to do. He wanted the sea parted. 1t dix
not amount to anything this stretching on
of his hand over the sea! But after awhile
the wind blew all night from the east, ant
the waters were gathered into slitterin!
palisade on either side, and the billow
! reared on either side as God pulled bacl
J on their crystal bits! Wheel into line, 0
Israel! march, march! Pearls crashe'
, under feet. Flying spray gathers int
rainbow arch of victory for the conqueror
! to march under. Shout OF hosts on til
; beach answering the shout OF hosts ami'
the sea. And when the last lines OF tn
Israelites reach the beach the cymbals clal
and tho shields clang, and the waters rusl
l cut r. fin