The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-11-09
the positions for v which they have been

for them than wolf mas quanncaVio'i
to be professor of pastoral theology In
a flock of sheep, or blind mole mas
qualification to lecture q class OF eagles
on optics, or than vulture has qualin-
cation TO chaperon q dove The mere
pronunciation of some of their names
makes demand for carbolic acio
and fumigation! Yet Christian men
will follow right on under the political
standards.
have to tell you what you know al
ready that American politics nave
sunken TO such a low depth that there
is nothing beneath. What we see IN
some directions we see in nearly all d.
rections. The peculation and the knav-
cry hurled to the surface by the expio-
sion Of banks and business firms are
only specimens Of great CotopaXis ana
Strombolis OF wickedness that boil ana
roar and surge beneath, but have not
yet regurgitated TO the surface. When
the heaven-dcscended democratic party
enacted the Tweed rascality it seemed
to eclipse everything; but after while
tho heav"ndescended republican party
outwittch ran. .iemonium with the Star
Route infamy.
NV friends, we have in this country
people who say the marriage institu-
tion amounts to nothing. They scof
at it. We have people walking IN
polite parlors in our day who are not
good enough to be scavcngers in Sodom!
! went over to San Francisco ten or
fifteen years ago--that beautiful CITY,
that queen Of the Pacific. May the
blessing of God come down upon her
great churches, and her noble men ana
women! When got into the city OF
San Francisco the mayor of the city
and the president of the board OF health
called on me and ins 'sted that go and
see the Chinese quarters, no doubt SO
that on INV return to the Atlantic coast
might tell what dreadful people the
| Chinese are. But on the last night OF
my stay in San Francisco, before thou
sands of people in the great opera
house, said: "Would you like me to
tell you Just what think, plainly and
houestlyP" They said: Eyes, yes, yes"
l sud: "Do you think you can stand it
all?" They said: "Yes, yes, yes!"
"Then," said: my opinion is that the
curse of San Francisco is not your Chi
nese quarter but your millionaire liber-
tinesm
And two of them sat right before me
Felix and Drusilla- And so it is in all
the cities. / never swear, but when l
see a man go unwhipt of justice, laugh
ing over his shame and calling his
damnable deeds gallantry and pecca-
dillo, | am tempted to hurl red-hot ana
thema and to conclude that it, accord
ing to some peoples theology, there is
no hell, there ought to bel
There is enough out and out Icon
tiousness in American cities to-day to
bring down upon them the wrath OF
that God who, on the oath of August,
70, buried Herculaneum and Pompeii
so deep in ashes that the eighteen hun
dred and thirteen subsequent years
have not been able TO complete the ex-
humation. There are in some OF
the American cities to-day whole
blocks of houses which the author
tiles know to be infam Gus, and yet by
purchase they are silenced, by hush
money, so that such places are as much
under the defence of government as
public libraries and ssylums of mercy.
These ulcers on the body polite bleed
and gangrene away the life Of the ma
ton, and public authority in many OF
the cities looks the other way. You can
not cure such wounds as these with q
sillSen bandage. You will have to cure
: them by putting deep in the lancet OF
moral surgery, and burning them out
with the caustic Of holy wrath and with
most decisive amputation cutting of
: the scabrous and putrciy!ng abomina'
tions. As the Romans were after the
Celts, and as the Normans were after
the Britons, so there are evils after this
nation which will attend its obscquies
unless we first attend theirs
Superstition tells of a marine reptile
the cephaloptera, which EMBODIED ant
crushed a ship OF war, but II is NJ
, superstition when / tell you that tht
history of many of the dead nations
t proclaims TO us the fact that our shiI
\ of state Is in danger OF being crushed by
the cephaloptera of national depravity
\ Where Is the Hercules 20 slay thi
4 hydra? Is II not time to speak by pen
! by tongue, by ballot-box, by the rollinl
: of the prison door by hangman's halter
4 by earnest prayer, by Sinaitic detona
i tion?.
+ A son OF King Crosus is said to hav,
been dumb and TO have never uttered
a word until he saw his father being pu
+ TO death. Then he broke the shaclsle
: of his silence, and cried out 'ltill no
G nv father, Cresus" When | sec tn
u cheatery and the wantonness and tn
o manifold crimes Of this country at
: tempting to commit patricide--yea, ma
; tricide upon our institutions, II seem
c 10 mo that lips that heretofore hav
been dumb ought TO break the silenc
with Generous tones Of fiery protest
want to put all of the matter befor
you, so that every honest man an,
woman will know just how matter
stand, and what they ought TO do 1
!, they vote, and what they ought TO do
= they pray. This nation lie not going +
!, perish. Alexander, when he heard o
= the wealth Of the Indies, divided Mace
y donia among his soldiers Some on
u asked him what he had kept for him
u self, and he replied: II am keeping
hopep And that jewel I keep brigh
: : and shining in my soul, whatever else
!, shall surrender. Hope thou In God
y He will set back these oceanic tides Q