The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-11-08

Rome? Their own depravity, and the
fraud, and the drunkenness, and the lech
cry which have destroyed other nations
will destroy ours unless merciful God
prevent. To show you the low state of
public morals, have to call your atten-
ton to the fact that many men nOmi-
mated for offices in different states at diff
ferent times are entirely unfit for the
positions for which they have been NOM
mated.
DEGRADATIONS OF POLITICS.
They have no more qualification for
them than a wolf has qualification to be
| professor of pastoral theology in flock
Of sheep, or a blind mole has qualitica-
ton 20 lecture a class of eagles on optics,
or than vulture has qualification to
! chaperon a dove. The mere prOnuncia-
! ton of some of their names makes de
mand for carbOlic acid and fulnigation!
! Yet Christian men will follow right on
under the political standards.
/ l have to tell you what you know
already, that American politics have
! sunken to sue. low depth that there Is
| nothing beneath. What we see in some
! directions we see in nearly all directions.
| The peculation and the knavery hurled
/ to the surface by the explosion Of banks
and business firms are only specimens Of
| great Cotopaxis and Strombolis of wick
! edness that boil and roar and surge be-
| meath, but have not yet regurgitated to
| the surface. When the heaven descended
! Democratic party enacted the Tweed ras-
! cality it seemed to eclipse everything;
| but after awhile the heaven descended
/ Republican party Outwitted pandemOnl-
um with the star route infamy.
! Nv friends. we have in this country
! people who say the marriage institution
amounts to nothing. They scott at 1t.
| We have people walking i'll polite par
| lors in our day who are not good enough
! to be scavengers in SodOm! went over
to San Fran cisco ten or fifteen years ago
that beautiful city, that queen of the
! Pacific. May the blessings of God come
down upon h7r great churches and her
noble men and women! When gOtlntO
| the city of San Francisco the mayor OF
the city and the president of the board
of health called ON me and insisted that
| | 90 and see the Chinese quarter, no
| doubt so tn 1t on my return to the At
lantic coast I might tell what dreadful
! people the Oillu6Sc are.
But on the last night of my stay in
San Francisco, before thousands of peo-
pie in their great opera house, said.
Would you like me to tell you just
what l think. plainly and honestly:
They said, Yes, yes, yes" l said, do
YOU think YOU can stand it all:' They
said, Yes, yes. yesv' Then" l said,
INV opinion is that the curse of San
Francisco is not your Chinese quarter,
but your millionaire libertines!"
And two OF them sat right before me
Felix and Drusilla. And so 1t Is in all
| the cities. Inever swear, but when see
man go uuwhipped of justice, laugh
ing over his shame and calling his daInna-
bic deeds gallantry and peccadillo, am
TEMPTED to hurl redhot auathena and
to conclude that if, according to some
people's theology, there is no hell, there
ought to be!
THE WICKED, VOLUPTUOUS CITY.
There is enough out and out icentious-
ness in American cities today to bring
down upon them the wrath of that Goo
who on the oath of August, -, buried
Herculaneum and Pompeii so deep Ill
the ashes that the eighteen hundred and
thirteen subsequent years have not been
able to complete the eXhumation. There
Are in some of the American cities TO-
dav whole blocks Of houses which the
| authorities know to be infamous. anl
vet by purchase they are sllenced-by
hush monev-so that such places are as
much under the defense Of government
as public libraries and asylums Of mercy
These ulcers or the body polite blcec
and gangrere away the life Of the na
ton. and public authority in many OF
the cities looks the other way. OF
cauuot cure such wounds as these
with silken bandage. Eou WI!
have to cure them by putting deep II
the lancet of moral surgery and burn
ing them out with the caustic of holy
wrath. and with most decisive amputa
, ton cutting off the scabrous and putre
t fving denominations. AS the Roman
were after the Celts, and as tine Nor
9 mans were after the Britons, so Their
are evils after this nation which Will AT
tend its obsequies unless we first atten'
theirs.
Superstition tells of a marine reptile
the cephaloptera-which EMBODIED ant
s crushed.a ship of war; but it Is no super
A stitiOu when l tell you that the Mstor.
l of many of the dead nations proclaim
1 TO us the fact that our ship of state Is L
/ danger of being crushed by the cepha
, loptera of national depravity. Wher
: is the Hercules to slay this hydra: Is !
e not time to speak by pen, by tongue, b
: ballot box. by the rolling of the prise
5 door, by hangmans halter, by earnes
i prayer, by Sinaitic detonationT
u A son of King CrPsus Is said to hav
Y been dumb, and to have never uttered
v word until he saw his father being pu
n TO death. Then he broke the shackle
[ of his silence and cried out, XIII nC
;, nv father, CrPsus!'' When l see III
d cheatery, and the wantonness, and IL
p manifold crime of this country attemp
:. ing to commit patricide-yea, matrlcld
: upon our institutions, 1t seems TO II
e that lips that heretofore have been DUN
! l. tho SilaOca with cameron