Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-28

But what win you do with the gambler, who
last night robbed q man Of n thousand dol
iarsi Nothing. What shall be done with that
one who breaks through and destroys the puri-
ty 81 Christian home, and with au adroit-
ness and perfidy that beats the strategy OF hell,
filings shrinking, shrieking soul into a bot
tonless perditiona Nothing. What win you do
with those who fleece that young man, getting
him to purloin large sums OF money from his
empioyer--tbe young man who came to an Of
hcer OF my church and told the story and fran
tcally asked what he might dol Nothing
All we do well to FURNISH small crimes, but
have sometimes thought II would be better IN
some OF our cities II the officials would only
turn out from our jails the petty criminals,
the little offenders, ten-dollar-d esperadoes,
and put I'm their places some Of the monsters
Of iniquity who drive their raon span through
the streets so swiftly that honest men have TO
leap to get out of the way Of being run over.
o, the damnable schemes that protested
Christian men will sometimes engage In until
God puts the finger of his retribution into the
collar of their robe Of hipocricy and rips 1t
clear to the bottom.
ALL WRONGS TO BE RiGHTED.
But all these wrongs are going to be righted.
/ expect to live to see the day think hear
in the distance the rumbling 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 regenerated populations. Three hundred
and sixty bells rang in Moscow when one
prince was married; but when righteousness
and peace kiss each other In all the earth ten
thousand times ten thousand bells shall strike
the jubilee. Poverty enriched. Hunger fed
Crime purified. Ignorance enlightened. All
tie cities saved. Is not this a cause worth
working inl o, you think sometimes 1t does
not amount to muchi You toll on In your
different spheres, sometimes with great dis
enlargement People have no faith and say:
at does not amount to anything; you might
n we'll fbut " Moses stretched
his hand over the Red sea it did not seem to
mean ANYTHING especially. People came out
| suppose, and said: "Aha" Some Of them
found out what he wanted to do He wanted
the sea parted. 1t did not amount to any
thing this stretching out OF his hand over the
sea. But after while the wind blew all night
from the east and the waters were gathered
into glittering palisade on either side, and
the pillows reared as God pulled back on
their crystal bits Wheel into line, o., Israel!
March, march Pearls crashed under feet.
Flying spray gathered into rainbow arch OF
victory for the conquerors to march under.
Shout of hosts on the beach answering the
shout of hosts amid sea. And when the last
line Of the 1sraelites reach the beach, the
cymbals clap, and the shields clang, and the
waters rush over the pursuers, and the swift
fingered winds on the white keys OF the foam,
play the grand march of Israel delivered and
the awful dirge Of Egyptian overthrow.
GODS POWER BEYOND MEASURE.
So you and go forth, and all the people OF
God go forth, and they stretch forth their
hand over the sea, the boiling sea of crime
and sin and wretchcdness. at don't amount
to anything" people say. Don't it, Gods
winds Of help will after a while begin to blow.
A path will be cleared for the army of Chris
tian benefcence, and we viii be greeted to the
other beach by the clippings OF all heavens
cymbas, while those who pursued us and de
rided us and tried to destroy us will go down
under the sea, and all that will be left OF them
will be cast high and dry upon the beach, the
spntercd wheel of chariot, or thrust out
from the foam, the breathless nostril of a
viderless charger.