The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-10-21


Son of God, the omnipotent machiner-
of love and grace and pardon and salvation
That is to emparadise the nations. Arch
medes destroyed feet of ships coming III
the harboF. You know how he did its H
lifted great sr1nglass history tells us, ana
when the feet of ships came up the harbor O
Syracuse he brought to bear this sunglass ane
he conveyed the SUMS rays upon those ships
Now, the sails are wings of fire, the mast
fall, the vessels sink. o. my friends, by tn,
sunglass of the gospel converging the rays O
the sun of righteousness upon the sins, tn,
wickedness of the world, we will make then
blaze and expire.
In that day of which speak, do you be
| lieve there will be any midnight carousal
VIII there be any kicking off from thC
marble steps of shivering mendicants? Viii
there be any unwashed, unfed, uncombeC
childrena VIII there be any blasphemies il
! the street? VIII there be any inebriates stag
gering past? No. No wine stores No lager
beer saloons. No distilleries where they
make the three Ks No bloodshot eye. Nc
bloated check No instruments of ruin and
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 merchants of New York and
Brooklyn.
Then what municipal governments, too, we
| Will have in all the citiesl 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 poll
ticians, and see to what sensual, 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 and 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 grogshops that made them drink (!
Nothing. Who are those prisoners in Jail 2
One of them stole a pair of shoes. That boy
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 a thousand
dollars! Nothing. What shall be done with
that one who breaks through and destroys
the purity of a Christian home, and with an
adroitness and perfidy that beats the strategy
of hell filings shrinking, shrieking soul into
q bottomlesS perdition! 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 frantically asked what he
might do? Nothing Ali we do well to
punish small crimes, but 1 have sometimes
thought it would be better in some of our
cities, if the officials would only turn out from
the jails the petty criminals, the little Of
Tenders, 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 Chris
tian men will sometimes engage in until God
puts the finger of retribution into the collar
of their robe of hypocrisy and rips it clear to
the bottom
But all these wrongs are going to be right
ed. 1 expect to live to see the day. think 1
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 righteous
ness 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 the cities saved Is not this a cause worth
not amount to mhchl You toll in your
different spheres, sometimes with great dis
couragement. People have no faith and say:
cit does not amount to anything; you might
as well quit that" Why, when Moses
stretched his hand over the Red sea, it did
not seem to mean anything especially. Peo-
pie came out, suppose, and said: "Aha!"
Some of them found out what he wanted to
DO He wanted the sea parted. 1t did not
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his hand over the sea! But after a while the
wind blew all night from the east, and the
the waters were gathered into a glittering
palisade on either side, and the billows
reared as God pulled back on their crystal
bitsl Wheel into line, o, Israeli march,
march, Pearls crash under feet. Flying
spray gathers into rainbow arch of victory
for the conquerors to march under. Shout of
hosts On tho beach answering the shout Of
hosts amid sea And when the last line of
the Israeli1es reach the beach, the cymbals
clap and the shields clang, and the waters
rush over the pursuers, and the swift-fngered
winds on the white keys of the foam play
the grand march of Israel delivered and the
awful dirge of Egyptian overthrow,
So you and go forth, and all the people of
God go FORTH and they stretch forth
their hands over the sea, the boiling
sea of crime and sin and wretched-
ness. "It don't amount to anything"
people say Don't it Gods winds of help
will after a while begin to blow. A path viii
be cleared for the army of Christian philan-
thropists. The path will be lined With the
treasures of Christian beneficence, and we
will be greeted to the other beach by the clap
ping of all heavens cynbals, while those who
pursued us and derided US and tried to de
stroy 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 splintered wheel of a
chariot, or thrust out from the foam, the
hreathless nostril of riderless charger.