Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-11

~ think sectionalism is dead" But
alasl no. The difficulty will never be
ended until each State of the nation is
split up into two or three great polit-
ical parties. This country caunot
exist unless q exists as one
body, the national capital the heart,
sending out through all the arteries of
communication warmth and life to the
very extremities This nation cannot
exist unless it exists as one family, and
you might as well have solid brothers
nc a;nst so i'll sis ters and soil brass
ira against so id cradle, and solid
nursery against a solid dlning-room;
and you might as we'll have solid ears
against solid eyes, and solid
head against solid foot. What
is the interest of Georgia is
the interest of Massachusetts; what is
the interest of New York is the inter
est of South Carolina. Does the Ohio
river change its politics when it gets
be ow Louisville? 1t is not possible
Tor these sectional antagonisms to con-
tinue for great many years without
permanent compound fracture.
Another evil threatening the destruc-
tion of our American institutions is
the low state of public morals
What killed Babylon of my text?
What killed Phnnieia? What killed
Rome? Their own depravity; and the
fraud and the drunkenness and the
lechery which have destroyed other
nations will destroy ours unless mer-
ciful God prevent. To show You the
low state of public morals, l have to
call your attention to the fact that
many men nominated for office in diff
ferent States at different times are en-
tirely unfit for the positions for which
they have been nominated.
They have no more qualification for
them than wolf has qualification To
be professor of pastoral theology in a
flock OF sheep, or a blind mole has
qualification to lecture class of eagles
on optics, or than vulture has quail
fication to chaperon dove. The mere
pronunciation of some of their names
makes n demand for carbolic acid and
fumigationl 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
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 wickedness that boil
and roar and surge beneath, but have
not yet regurgitated TO the surface.
When the heaven-descended Demo
cratic party enacted the Tweed rascal
ity it seemed to eclipse "verything;
but after while the heaven-descended
Republican party outwitted Pande-
monium with the Star Route infamy.
My friends, we have in this country
people who say the marriage insGtu-
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 Sodomi
| 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
womenl 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 go and
see the Chinese quarter, no doubt so
that on my return to the Atlantic
coast might tell what dreadful peo-
Pile the Chinese are. But on the last
night of my stay in San Francisco, be-
fore thousands of people in their great
opera-house, said: Would You like
me to tell you just what l think;
plainly and honestly?" They said:
YES, yes, yesr' said: "Do you
think you can stand it alp" They
said: Eyes, yes, yesw "Then," said.
my opinion is that the curse of San
Francisco is not your Chinese quarter
but your millionaire libertinesp'
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,
laughing over his shame and calling
his damn able deeds gallantry and
peccadillo, / am tempted to hurl red
hot anathema and to conclude that il,
according to some peoples theology,
there is 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 cath of August.
20, buried Herculaneum and Pompeii
SO deep in ashes that the 1913 subse.
quent years have not been able to
complete the eXhumation. There are
in some of the American cities to-day
whole blocks of houses which the au-
thorities know to be infamous, and
yet by purchase they are silenced, by
hush money, so that such places are as
much under the defence ofgovernment
as public libraries and asylums OF
mercy.
Superstition tells of marine reptile,
the cephaloptera, which EMBODIED and
crushed a ship of war; but it is no SUI
perstition when tell you that the his
tory of many of the dead nations pro-