The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-10-12

5 polnt-blank word against this lnlqul-
l tv, lest some old libertine throw up
F.; his pew. Machinery organized in
$ all cities of the United States and
l Canada by which to put yearly in
5 the grinding mill of this iniquity
e thousands of the unsuspecting of
e the country farm-houses, one procu-
ress confessing last week in the
} courts that she had supplied the in
+ fernal market with one hundred and
fifty souls in six months.
OH FOR FIVE HUNDRED PAIL MALL
GAzETTEs IN AMERICA
to swing open the door of this lazar
house OF social corruption. Expo
sure must come before extirpation.
While the city van carries the
scum of this sin from the prison to
the police court morning by morn
ing it is full time, if we do not want
high American life to become like
that of the court of Louis XIV, to
put millionare Lotharios and the
Pompadours of your brown stone
palaces into van of popular indig-
nation, and drive them out of re-
spectacle associations. What pros
pect of social publication can there
be as long as at summer watering
places it is usual to see young
woman of excellent rearing stand,
. and simper, and giggle, and roll up
her eyes sideways before one of those
first-class satyrs of fashionable life,
and on the ballroom floor join him
in the square dance, the maternal
chaperon meanwhile beaming from
the wall on the scene? Matches are
made in heaven, they say. Not such
matches, for the birthstone indicates
the opposite region.
The evil is overshadowing all our
cities. By some these immoralities
are called peccadilloes, gallantries,
eccentricities, and are relegated to
the realms of jocularity, and few
efforts are being made against it.
God bless the "White Cross" move
ment, as it is called, the excellent
and talented Miss Frances Willard,
it's ablest advocate on this side the
sea, an organization making a
mighty assault on this evil! God
forward the tracts on this subject
distributed by the religious tract
societies of the land! God help pa
rents in the great work they are do
ing in trying to start their children
with pure principles! God help all
Legislators in their attempt to inhib-
it this crime!
But, is this all? Then it is
ONLY QUESTION OF TIME
when the last vestige of purity and
home will vanish out of sight. HUI
man arms, human pens, human
voices, human talents are not suffi-
cient. begin to look up. l listen
for artillery rumbling down the sap
phire boulevards of heaven. l watch
the flash of descending scimeters.-I
Oh. for God. Does it not seem
time for his appearance? Is it not
time for all lands to cry out: Let
God arise, and let his enemies be
scattered
l got a letter " few days ago ask
ing me if | did not think that the
earthquake in Charleston was the
Divine chastisement on that city for
its sins. That letter | answered |
now by saying that if all our Amer
lean cities got all the punishment
they deserve for their horrible i'm
purities, the earth would long ago
have cracked open into crevices,
transcontinental, and taken down
all our cities; and Brooklyn and
New York would have gone so far
under that the tip Of our church |
spires would be five hundred feet
below the surface. 1t is of the
Lords mercies that we have not
been consumed,
Not only are the affairs of this
world SO a-twist, jangle and rack
ed, that there seems a need of Di-
vine appearance, but there is anoth-
cr reason. Have you not noticed in
the history of this planet God turns
leaf about every two thousand
years. God turned leaf and this
world was fitted for human resi-
dence. About two thousand more
years passed along and God turned
another leaf, and it was the Deluge |
About two thousand more years
passed on, and it was the appear
ance of Christ. Almost two thous-
and more years have passed by, and
He will probably soon turn another
leaf. What it shall be cannot say.
1t may be the demolition Of all these
monstrocities of turpitude and the
establishment of righteousness in
all the earth. He can do it, and He
will do it. | am as confident as if
it were already accomplished. How
easily he can do it my text suggests.
1t does not ask God to strike with
His right hand, or stamp with His
foot, or hurl thqnderbolt of His.
power, but just to get up from the
throne on which He sits. Only that
will be necessary, "Let God arlsew
1t will be no exertion of omnipo-
tence. 1t will be no bending or
bracing for Almighty lift. 1t will
be no sending down the sky of the
white horse cavalry of heaven or
rumbling war chariots.
HE WILL ONLY RISE.
Now He is sitting in the majesty
and patience of his reign. He is
from His throne watching the mus
tering of all the forces of blasphemy,
and drunkenness, and impHrity, and
fraud, and Sabbath breaking, and
when they have done their worst
and most securely organized, He will
bestir himself and say: "My enc
mics have defied me long enough,
and their cup of iniquity is full. l
have given them all opportunity for
repentance This dispensation of
patience is ended, and the faith of
the geod shall be tried no longer"
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