St. Landry democrat., 1886-10-30


hosanna will meet hosanna and hallelujah
hallelujah.
In that time, also, Of which / speak, al
the haunts Of iniquity and crime and squal
or will be cleansed and will be Illuminated
How is it to be donea You say perhaps BY
one influence. Perhaps say by another
l will tell you what is my idea, and I know
/ am right in it. The Gospel of the Son o.
God is the only agency that will ever &C
complish this.
Mr.. Eesler, of England, had a theory tina;
if the natural forces Of wind and tide ant
sunshine and waves were rightly applied
and rightfully developed, it would maxi
this whole earth a paradise. In a book O.
great genius, and which rushes from edi
ton to edition, he said: "Fellow-men, !,
promised to show the means OF creating {.
paradise within ten years, where every
thing for human life may be had by every
man iR superabundance, without labor ant
without pay-where the whole face of nat
ure shall be changed into the most beauti
full forms, and man may live i'll most mag
uifcent palaces, in all imaginable refine
ments of luxury, and in the most delightful
gardens-where he may accomplish with
out labor IN one year more than hitherto
could be done in thousands of years, an(
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lakes, drain lakes and swamps and inter
sect the land everywhere with beautiful
canals and roads for transporting heavy
loads of many thousand tons, and for trav
cling a thousand miles in tWenty-fouf
hours.
ssFrOm the houses to be built will be al
forded the most cultured views to be fan
cied. From the galleries. from the roof
and from the turrets may be seen gardens
as far as the eve can see. full OF fruits and
flowers arranged in the most beautlfui
order. with walks, ~colonnades. a~queducts,
canals, ponds, plains, amphltheaters, ter
races, fountains, sculptured works, pavlll-
ions, gondolas, places of popular amuse-
ment to tire the eye and fancy. All this to
be done by urging the water, the wind and
the sunshine to their full development"
He goes on and gives plates of the ma
chinery by which this work is to be done.
and he says he only needs at the start a
COMPANY in which the shares shall be
twenty dollars each. and one hundred thou
sand or two hundred thousand dollars shall
be raised just to make a specimen commu'
nifty, and then this being formed the world
will see its practicability. and very soon
two or three million dollars can be OBJ
tanned. and in ten years the whole earth
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posterous as some l have heard of. Blu ]
will take no stock in that company. | do not
believe that it will ever be done in that
way. by any mechanical force or by any ma
chinery 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's
to emparadise the nations. Archimedes
destroyed a feet of ships coming up the
harbor. You know how he did it? He
lifted a great sun-glass, history tells us,
and when the feet of ships came up the
harbor at Syracuse he brought to bear this
sun-glass and he conveyed the suns rays
upon those ships. Now, the sails are wings
of fire, the masts fall, the vessels sink.
Oh. my friends, by the sun-glass of the
Gospel converging the rays of the sun OF
righteousness upon he sins, the wicked.
ness of the world, we will make them blaze
and expire.
In that day of which l speak, do you be-
lieve there will be any midnight c%arousal!
VIII there be any kicking off from the mar.
BILE steps of shivering mendicants! Will
there be any unwashed, unfed, uncombedi
Win there be any blasphemies in the street
Will there be any inebriates staggering
past? No. No wine stores. No lager
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make the three KS. No bloodshot eye. Nc
bloated cheek. No instruments of ruin anG
destruction. No tist-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 re.
formers and philanthropists, and the Chris
tan men and the honest merchants Of New
York and Brooklyn.
Then what municipal governments, too,
we will have in all the cities! Some cities
are worse b others, but in man. of ouI
cities you just walk down by the city halls
and look in at some of the rooms occupied
by politicians, and see to what a sensual.
loathsOme, ignorant, besotted crew city
politics is abandoned. Or they stand around
the city hall picking their teeth, waiting
for some emoluments of crumbs to fall te
their feet, waiting all day long and waiting
all night long.
Why are those wretched women taker
up for drunkenness and carried up to the
courts and put in prison, of course! What
will you do with the grog shops that make
them drink? Nothing. Who are those pris.
oners in Jail? One of them stole a pair OF
shoes. That boy stole a dollar. This cir.
snatched a purse. All of them crimes
banging society less than twenty and
thirty dollars. But what will you do with
the gambler who last night robbed the
young man of a thousand dollarss Moth
-ng. What shall be lone with that one
who breaks through and destroys the puri-
ty of a Christian home, and with an
adroitness and perfidy that beats the STRAIT
egy of hell, filings a shrinking, %shrieking
soul into a bottomless perditions Nothing.
What will you do with those who fleece
that young man, getting him to purloin
large sums of money from his employer
the young man who came to an officer of
my church and told the story and frantical-
ly asked what he might do? Nothing. All!
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