The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-11-23


for them than a wolf has qualification
to be professor of pastoral theology in
u flock of sheep, or a blind mole has
qualification to lecture class OF eagles
on optics, or than a vulture has qualiti- |
cation TO chaperon u dove. The mere
pronunciation of some of their names
makes a demand for carbolic acid
and fumigatijn! Yet Christian men
will follow right on under the political
standards.
have to tell you what you know al
ready, that American politics have
sunken to such low depth that there
is nothing beneath. What we see in
some directions we see in nearly all di-
rections. The peculation and the knav-
cry hurled to the surface by the eXplo-
sion of banks and business firms are
only specimens of great CotopaXis and
Strom bolts of wickedness that boil and
roar and surge beneath, but have not
yet regurgitated to the surface. When
the heaven-descended democratic party
enacted the Tweed rascality it seemed
to eclipse everything; but after while
the heaven descended republican party
outwitted pandemonium with the Star
Route infamy.
My friends, we have In this country
people who say the marriage institu-
ton amounts to nothing. They scott
at it. We have people walking in
polite parlors in our day who are not
good enough to be scavengers 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 and
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 insisted that l go and
see the Chinese quarters, no doubt so
that on my 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
houestly?' They said: Eyes, yes, yes!'
l said: "Do you think You can stand it
ALP" They id: Eyes, yes, yes"
Chen" said: my opinion is that the
curse of San Francisco is not your Chi
nese quarter but your millionaire liber-
tinesp'
And two of them sat right before me
Felix and Drusilla. And SO it is in all
the cities. | never swear, but when |
see man go unwhipt of justice, laugh
ing over his shame and calling his
damnable deeds gallantry and pecca-
dillo, | am tempted to hprl red-hot ana
thema and to conclude that if, accord
ing to some peoples theology. saerS sa
no hell, there ought to be!
There is enough out and out licen-
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
bred 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
t public libraries and asylums of mercy
: These ulcers on the body polite bleed
and gangrene away the life of the ma
ton, and public authority in many O
: the cities looks the other way. You can
: not cure such wounds as these with {
l silken bandage. You will have to cur,
: them by putting deep in the lancet o
: moral surgery, and burning them on
!! with the caustic of holy wrath and will
t most decisive amputation cutting of
: the scabrous and putrefying abomina
e tions. AS the Romans were after tn,
e Celts, and as the Normans were afte
Il the Britons, so there are evils after thi
nation which will attend its obsequie.
: unless we first attend theirs
e Superstition tells of marine reptile
h the cephaloptera, which embodied an,
. crushed n ship of war, but it is n
:, superstition when l tell you that TIL
!, history of many of the dead nation
It proclaims to us the fact that our shi'
a of state is in danger of being crushed b
l. the cephaloptera of national depravity
a Where is the Hercules to slay thi
II hydra? Is it not time to speak by per
It by tongue, by ballot-box, by the rollin
l. of the prison door, by hangman's halter
d by earnest prayer, by Sinaitic detona
d tion?.
A son of King Cresus is said to hav
'e been dumb and to have never uttered
n word until he saw his father being pu
l. to death. Then he broke the shaclIle
C. of his silence, and cried out: "Kill nc
lie nv father, Cresusw When l see tn
n cheatery and the wantonness and tn
% manifold crimes of this country a
is tempting to commit patricide-yea, ms
rs tricide upon our institutions, it seem
lie to me that lips that heretofore hav
lie been dumb ought to break the silenc
ID with Generous tones of fiery protest.
a. want to put all of the matter befor
lie you, so that every honest man an
&c woman will know just how matter
Ia stand, and what they ought TO do
e, they vote, and what they ought to do
i'd they pray. This nation is not going t
II perish. Alexander, when he heard {
Id the wealth of the Indies, divided Mac,
Is donia among his soldiers Some on
Of asked him what he had kept for hin
OF self, and he replied: II am lleepin
O. hope,' And that jewel l keep brigt
is and shining in my soul, whatever else