The record-union., 1891-08-01

world right side up; humanity with
good start and fair show; the probabili-
ties in our favor; a fair promise that if a
child is born into the world it viii fulfill
its destiny, and not make shipwreck ere
it has left the harbor.
Why might it not be so? Of course 1t
might, but, then, the cost of it, you see.
My neighbor wouldn't do his part and so
| should do twice nv share Nv bust
ness would suffer while | toiled for
others good. While / was at the polls
and in the primaries he would be selling
| goods TO my best customers. OF course
we want clean city, in fact, it is as good
as most, no doubt; we want a clean city,
we want to feel that we are not raising
! children for the saloon and the brothel:
| but it is so hard to get any fair division
of the work: so difficult to get my neigh
| Dor 10 do his share. OF course, cast out
| the demons, but spare my swine. 1t is
| the sentiment of the old Scotchman over
again, who sent out his apprentice to
quell the riot with the patriotic COM
lnand: DO thee's duty, Thamas, but
| toners !" Cast out the demons,
| but spare my swine. 1t is a
gigantic evil, and [ hope to see it
buried face downward, but you will have
to pay the funeral expenses, for am poor
and business is dull. Yes, / know it,
/
earnest inquiry for the best methods are
| everywhere; no doubt it may be the very
| time ordained of God for the liberation
| of race from sin; but I expected to be a
! little fore-handed when the clock struck
redemption's hour; never mind, I'll be
with you by and by; you have my SYM
pathy and my prayers!
Out upon the miserable cowardice, the
contemplate selhshness that thus shuts
the door of liberty upon ten thousand
souls chained of Satan these many years
They want neither your sympathies,
your well-wishes nor your prayers.
| Sympathy let tears ooze from the croco-
dile's blinking eyelids! Well-wishes !!
such wishes are the desert winds that
scar and blast and wither all
THIS FAIR GARDEN OF THE LORD!
Your prayers There are no wings to
to prayers like those; they fall to earth
/ like leaden things, curse on him that
! offered them; stumbling stones that shall
roll in his pathway until he shall himself
fall over them into the pit that swallowed
UP his brother upon whom he looked but
would have no mercy.
You would keep your swine; keep,
then, your driveling prayers; your hypo-
| critical professions; your protestations of
loyalty; loyalty that win not sacrifice
one creature comfort to save to cleanness
of life and eternal hope the sin-crushed
tie, and whom you profess TO love. For
one moment,
LOOK AT THE WORLD ABROAD.
The preacher stands up and tells you OF
the two hundred and fifty millions across
the sea SO degraded that we voted to close
the Golden Gate against them. He de-
picts the horrors Of the floods of the YeI-
low River; thousands Of purifying car
! casses; tens of thousands Of homeless.
| hn JNip "a hot afi,1
fate Of the child widows Of India; he por-
trays the internal barbarities of the
slave trade and the yet more abom-
Unable destruction by American rum
in Africa, and you hold up your hands
IN holy horror and cry, How can there
be just God IN heaven while such awful
crimes exist?" And when he turns your
arraignment OF God upon yourself and
tells you there is wealth and power
enough in the Church of Christ to crush
out this barbarity in a decade, and that
God has given you wealth to help on this
work, you button your Prince Albert
over a dollars worth of Havanas and
mutter that you don't believe in foreign
missions; or else you unlimber your
great brain with the unanswerable CO.
nundrum: "Do you suppose q just God is
going to damn q billion heaIhens who
never heard the gospel preached?" You
had better ask Yourself: ''What will a
j
profess to follow Christ in love Of man,
and yet chew and smoke away, in use
less, selfish vice, more money than they
/ give to save world, two-thirds of which
| is so sunk in crime and shame that it
must make angels weep, though this be
the only hell they will ever know" |
would not give a talIow-dip for that
charity that must see the heather
SHAKEN OVER THE BoTToMLEss PIT
Before its purse-strings are unloosed.
And whether he live in the wilds OF
Africa, or be just common heathen in
Sacramento, the man who is not worth
saving for this world is not worth saving
for the world to come. And the man who
gives his prayers and keeps his gold is
other.
Now, friends. there are three lessons l
learn from this story Of Christ's loving
deed, and first:
FROM NOTHING, NOTHING COMES.
Everything that is worth having in this.
or any world, must have its price You
may think you can run on credit for a
time, but, in the end, the price is to be
paid. If 1t does not come out of your
pocket it win come out of you. You may
pirate loudly about how badly you feel to
see iniquity abound, but you can buy
| righteousness in this city as surely as you
can buy railroads and factories; but you
will have to pay the price. Righteousness
can be bought with gold and time and
toll and prayers, and perhaps bitter tears
This city, SO beautiful in all the material
appointments, in the higher reaches OF
life, may be made to bud and blossom as
the rose. But you cannot cast out the
demons and save the swine. You cannot
permit men to
SELL LIQUID HE'LL
To your sons and daughters and even
children of tender years and expect right
eousnesS to take root in that Slime and
ooze of hell. You can Danish in due
| time all this DEVILS business if you will
| pay the price. 1t is as certain as that the
sun is on its way to light the antipodes.
| But it will not be done by fanaticism. /
/ told you last Sunday that we have no use
| for Jehu in these days. / will neither
| drive with him nor take his dust These
are questions that fanaticism cannot
/ solve.
Nor will it be done by Logging on, a
| halt-doZen men in the teeth of ostracism
! and the boycott, enjoining them to stand
firm and sacrifice their last dollar in the
/ struggle. 1t is this outrageous incon-
/ sistency of moral men and women that
| makes reform so difficult. / have seen
| some Of the loudest and busiest temper
| ance workers in this city habituaIly pass
! by temperance grocery and go into one
! Of the dirtiest grocer-groggeries in the
/ place, and every time the sanity enthusi-
i asst entered that store she looked through
/ another open door into vent-hole of hell
/ She saved perhaps few steps in travel
and few pennies in price. She kept her
swine and she helped to keep the demons
/ also. l Go not often denOunce men but