Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-18

glass OF the Gospel converglng the rays
OF the Sun of Righteousness upon the
sins, tho wickedness Of the world, we
Will make them blaze and expire.
la that day OF which | speak, do you
believe there will be any midnight ca
rousRl? win there be any kicking on
from the marble steps, or shlyering
mendicants2 win there be any UNI
washed, unfed, uncomOed children
Will there be any blasphemies IN
the street, WIN there be any inebrl-
sites staggering pastp No. No wine stores'
No lager-beor saloons. No dlstillories
where they make the three &'s. No
bloOdshot eye, no bloated cheek, no in-
struments OF ruin and destruction, no
fist- pounded heads The grandchildren
OF that woman who goes down the street
with curse, stoned by the boys that tol'
low her, Will be the reformers and phllan'
throplsts, and the Christian men, aud the
honest merchants Of New York and
Brooklyn.
Then, whist municipal governments,
too, we will have IN all the citieHl 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 10
what sensual, loathsome, ignorant be-
sotted crew city politics Is often aOan-
doned. Or they stand around the city
hall picking their teeth, waiting for some
emoluments Of crumbs
70 pALL 10 THEfR FKET
waiting all day long, and waiting all night
| long.
Who ara those wretched women
taken up for drunkenness and carried 70
the courts, and put in prison, OF coufeef
What will You do with the grogshops that
made them drink Nothing. Who are
those prisoners In jail2 Ono OF them
stole pair OF shoes. That boy stole q
dollar. This girl snatched q purse. Al
OF them crimes damaging society lesi
than $50 or $50. But what Will you dc
| with the gambler VINO last night robbed
the young man OF Sl0O0T Nothing
| What shall be- done with that one whs
breaks through aud destroys the purity
! OF = Christian home, and with an adroit
neaa aud per1dy that beats the strategy o
hell, nlngs shrinking, Shrieklng sou
into q bottomless perditionf Nothing
What Will you do with those who neec'
that young man, getting him 10 purloii
large sums Of money from his employer
the young man who came 10 an officer
my church and told the story anC
franically asked what he might do
Nothing Ali we do well 10 punish smHi
crimes, but have sometimes thought
would be better ia some OF our cities
the officials would only turn out from VI
iails the petty criminals, the little ohend
,rs, ten.dollar desperadoes, aud put J
their places some Of the monsters 2
lniquity who drive their roam spa
, through the streets 80 swiftly that homes
men have 10 leap to get ont OF the way
being run over. on, the damnable scheme
that protested Christian men Will eom'
, times engage In until God puts the hng'
OF his retribution into the collar OF The
robe Of hypocrisy and
RIPS II CLEAR TO TnE BoIfoM,
But ali these wrongs are going 10 I
. rigbted. / expect 10 live 70 see the ga
, think hear ia the distance the rnmoliI
) OF the Kings chariot. Not always Ia VI
r minority is the church Of God going
3 be, or are good men going
: be-. The streets arc goir
!. 10 be allied with rcgenefat'
: populations. Three hundred and biz