Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-18

all the hauEts of iniquity, and crime, and
squalor, will be eleansed and will be illu-
minated.
HOW Is 1T TO BE DONE?
YDn say perhaps by one influence. Per-
haps i say by another. will tell you
what is my idea, and know / am right
in it. The Gospel of the Son of God is the
only agency that will ever accomplish
this.
Mr. Ecsler, of England, had theory
that if the natural forces Of wind and tide
add sunshine and wave were rightly ap-
piled, and rightly developed, it would
make this whole earth paradise. In a
book Of great genius, and which rushed
from edition to edition, he said: Fellow
men-I promise to show the means of ere
ating paradise within teh years, where
everything desirable for human life may
be had by every man in superabundance
without labor and without pay-where
the whole face of nature shall be changed
into the most beautiful FARMS
and man may live in the most
magnificent palaces, in all imaginable
refnements of luxury, and in the
most delightful gardens, where he may
accomplish without labor in one year more
than hitherto could be done in thousands
of years, and may level continent, sink
valleys, create lakes, drain lakes and
swamps, and intersect the land everywhere
with beautiful canals, and roads for trans
porting heavy loads of many thousand
tons, and for travelling thousand miles
in twenty-four hours.
"From the houses to be built will be
afforded the most cultured views to be
tancied From the galleries, from the
roof and from the turrets, may be seen
gardens as far as the eye can sec, full OF
fruits and flowers, arranged in the most
beautiful order, with walks, cOlonnades,
aqueducts, canals, ponds, plains, amphi-
thcaterS, terraces, fountains. Sculptured
works, pavilions, gondOlas, places of pOpu-
lar amusement 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 lie only needs at the
START \ COMPANY
in which the shares shall be twenty dollars
each, and hundred or two thousand shall
be raised Just to make specimen COM
munity, and then this being formed, the
world will see its practiCability, and very
soon two or three million dollars can he
obtained, and in ten years the whole earth
will be emparadised. The plan is not so
preposterOus as some have heard Of! But
| 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 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 10
emparadise the nations Archimedcs
destroyed fleet of ships coming up to the
harbOr. You know how he did it? He
lifted up great sun-glass, history tells us
and when the fleet of ships came up to the
harbor of Syracuse lie 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.
y! my friends, by the sunglass Of the Cos
pei cOnverging the rays of the Sun OF
Righteousness upon the sins, the wicked
ueSs of the world, we will make tnem
blaze and expire.
In that day of which | speak, do you
believe there will be any midnight carous-
N? Will there be any kicking of from
the marble steps, of shivering medicants?
Will there be any unwaShed, unfed, un-
cOmbed children? viii there be any bias
phemy in the street? Will there he any
inebrates staggering past? No. No wine
stores. No lager beer saloons. No dis
tilleries where they make the three KS.
no bloodshot eye No bloated cheek. No
instruments of destruction. No fist
pounded forehead. The grandchildren of
that woman who goes down the street with
curse, stoned by the boys that follow her
will be the refOrmers and philanthrOpists
and the Christian men and the honest mer-
chants of New York and Brooklyn.
Then,
WHAT MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS, TOO,
we will have in all the cities! Some cit
les 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 Oc-
cupied by politicians, and see what SEN
sual, loathSome ignorant, beSOtted crew
city politics is often abandoned. Or they
stand around the City Hall picking their
teeth, waiting for some emOluments of
crumbs to fall to their feet, waiting all day
long, aud 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 these prisoners in Jail? One of them
stole a pair of shoes. That boy stole
dollar. This girl snatched purse. All
of them crimes damaging society less than
twenty or thirty dollars. But what will
you do with the gambler who last night
robbed the young man OF thousand dol
lars? Nothing. What shall be done with
that one who breaks through and destroys
the purity of Christian home, and with
an adroitneSs and perfidy that beats the
strategy of hell, filings a shrinking, shrek
ing soul into a bOttomlesS perditionf
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 well to punish small
crimes, but ! have sometimes thought
would be better in some of our cities if the
officers would only turn out from the jails
the petty criminals, the little offenders,
ten-dollar desperadoes, and put in their
places some of the monsters of iniquity
who drive their roam span through the
streets so swiftly, that honest men have to
leap to get out of the way of being run
over. Oh, the damnable schemes that
profeSsed Christian men will sometimes
engage in until God puts the finger Of ret
ribution into the collar Of their robe Of
hypocrisy and rips it clear to the bottom?
But all these wrongs are
GOING TO BE RIeHTED.
/ expect to live to see the day. l think l
hear in the distance the rumbling of the
Kings chariot Not always in the minor
ity is the church of God going to be- or are
good men going to be. The streets are go
ing to be filed with regenerated
DOT ulations. Three hundred and sixty
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