Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-11-10
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ton of our American institutions Is
the low state Of public morals.
What killed babylon of my text?
What killed Phmnicia? What killed
Rome? Their own depravity; and the
fraud and the drunkenness and the
iechery which have destroyed other
nations will destroy ours unless mer-
ciful God prevent. 70 show you the
low state of public morals, ! have to
call your attention to the fact that
many men nominated for Office in diff
fcrcnt States at different times are en-
tircly unfit for the positions for which
they have been nominated.
They have no more qualification for
them than wolf has qualification To
bc professor Of pastoral theology in
flock of sheep, or Il blind mole has
qualification to lecture class of eagles
on optics, or than u vulturc has quail
fication to chapcron II dove. The mere
pronunciation of some of their names
makes demand for carbolic acid and
fumiyation. Yet Christian men will
follow right on under the political
standards.
have to tell you what you know al
ready, that American politics have
sunl<en to such a 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 brns
are only specimens of great Cotopaxis
and Strombolis of wickedncss that boil
and roar and surge beneath, but have
not yet regurgitated to the surface.
When the heaven-desccnded Demo
cratic party enacted the Tweed rascal
ity it seemed to eclipse everything;
but after while the heavcn-descended
Republican party outwi,tcd Pande-
monium 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 go and
nj
that on my return TO the Atlantic
coast might tell what dreadful peo-
pie the Chinese are. But on the last
night of my stay in San Francisco, be-
fore thousands of people in their great
opera-house, L.said: would you like
me to tell you just what / think;
plainly and honestly?" They said:
YES, yes, yes"' | said: "Do you
think you can stand it ALP They
said: YES, yes, ycs"' Then" said,
my opinion is that the curse of San
Francisco is not your Chinese quarter
but your millionaire libertincs"'
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 if,
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 1873 subse-
quent years have not been able to
complete the eShumation. 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 of government
as public libraries and asylums of
mercy.
| Superstition tells of a marine reptile,
the cephaloptera, which embodied and
crushed ship of war; but it is no SUI
perstition when | tell you that the his
| tory of many of the dead nations pro-
claims to us the fact that our ship of
| state is in danger of being crushed b.
the cephaloptera of national depravity.
| Where is the Hercules to slay this
| hydra? Is it not time to speak by pen,
by tongue, by ballot-box, by the rolling
of the prison door, by hangman's
halter, by earnest prayer. by Sinaitic
| detouation?
All! it will not be long before it viii
| not make any difference TO you or to
me what becomes of this continent, SO
far as earthly comfort is concerned.
| All we will want of it will be seven
feet by three, and that will take in the
largest, and there will be room and to
spare. That is all of this country we
will need very soon, the youngest of
u.s. But we have an anxiety about
the welfare and the happiness
of the generations that are
coming on, and it will be grand thing
| if, when the archangers trumpet
sounds, we find that our sepulchre,
like the one Joseph of Arimathea pro-
vided for Christ, is in the midst OF a
garden. BY that time this country
will be all Paradise, or all Dry T1rtu.
gas Eternal God, to thee we commit
the destiny of this people!
How = Little Ali. ator Got Even
once saw very funny combat be-