The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-05-26

I EaSEL 1ua crowd IN tee CITY Il EiwEys
/ passing. hurrying ~ith swift feet. II Il
IN age Of steam ard electricity, and the
work. Is ia = rush. the population Is in q
rush-ihey are always literally moving.
la the past we have tried to head Oft the
movement uf population by DESERVING
aOo,eoo people, moving Eve miles Ia
catch aoa Our people have thus by
moving uptown tried 10 anticipate the
movement Of population. Bless you. IL
you keep up with the movement Of popa-
latiun IN New York you viii have to
build your church On wheels, for they
all move on al average once year,
speaking generally. leaving ont the
fragment Of people who hive in perrna-
nent homes. They are always passing
and swiftly passing, Your Institution
must be built 10 save this swiftly NOV
ing mass.
The rapidity with which a snan goes
TO hell in this town Is something appail-
ing ! see a mah today, tomorrow
don't see him: he Is gone-lost for time
and eternity. Our methods are too slow:
they are rheumatic with age. The world
PUSHES past Us on to destruction. while
We are raking up the dying embers of
the past and thinking Of what our IA
theirs thought and felt and did. The
crowd is always on the move. In the
language of the common people, il You
lay hold of the crowd you must "get the
move on them. Yots are too slow.
TEE VERY sassE HORSE.
The churches % New York remind me
of story which distinguished minis
ter in Cleveland told the other day. He
said that csT,...a. people desired to
give their pastor a present They de-
cided 10 give him horse. They circu-
lated a petition and took M the collec-
ton. 1t only amounted 10 $3.50. They
were panied at results, but they gave
him the horse. The next day promi-
nent horseman passed the parsonage,
and saw the old horse grazing in the
parsonage yard. he looked over and
said to the preacher, Well, dominic,
that's little the worst horse ever saw
in my life" The preacher replied,
That's better horse, sir, than our
Saviour rods into Jerusalem on" The
horseman went into the yard, looked at
the horses mouth and then replied,
Dominic, its The rerg same horse"
Well, 1t Is fact. We have been try
ing to drive the antiquated animals |
which our fathers used thousands of |
years ago. We have hitched them up
to Pullman palace cars, and we try to |
drive these animals that belong to years |
gone by along the highways of modern |
life. 1t is an age Of steam and electrici- |
ty, and we are some thousands of years
behind this fact. Paul declared, 81 am
all things to all men, if by all means /
can save some" We should go back to
Paul and learn this first lesson of his
OH, GOD, THE CRIME OF IT!
We are talking about rapid transit in
the city of New York, underground and
viaduct. We have rapid transit already.
To my certain knowledge there is a sys-
tenn of underground roads, Grand Trunk,
four track roads, that run straight from
New York city to hell, and they have
ample transit and passenger facilities.
They have at least 90, 900 Grand Central
1epots in this city alone. We have not
enough stations on the elevated road.
We won't have enough stations on the
new system. But we have on this sys-
'em at present in operation 10000 sa-
oons, and at every saloon there is
Grand Central station.
At every dive, and every brothel, and
every race track and poolroom and
gambling den in the city there is a Grand
central depot for this grand underground
ystem. And from these depots there
'un every minute in the day and night
# every day and every year lightning {
straight into hell without
'hange of cars. They pull out loaded (
md they come back empty, and the
,rand switch station is in the city hall {
tself, from which they get their run
ing orders as they come in and go out
md we sit idly dreaming of antiquities {
)h, God the crime of it! !