The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-25
THE SIGNS Of THE II MES
Progress Wrought by the Work Of
God Among the Affairs
of Men.

Rev. j. G. Jackson of the. Holding
NJ. Z. Church preached an interesting
sermon last evening on '"The Signs OF
the Times" He choie as his text
Matthew XVI. 3--"Can Ye Not Discern
the Signs of the Times" He said:-
cit WAS the declaration OF Christ that
be Kingdom of God cometh not with
observation. that is. its slow and silent
approaches are almost uuobserved by
men. The sun does not make a loud
report as 1t appears above the horizon In
The east and almost unexpectedly the
light comes on aud BY it is day. You
glide from the lower bay in New York
Harbor past Sandy Hook and II you sit
still IN the cabin you would scarcely
know you had passed the liue be-
tween the bay and sea at all.
But go out n notice the city
standing way behind you and the ATTAIN
tic Highlands rising to your right, and
you viii become conscious tha you have
pass ed futu the Ocean. And SO looking
upon the storms of time marking what
events we have left behind. may we
see that we are continually passing into
new eras, that the old order chanReth'
and all things become new. Let us note
n ItW Vi LueS6 Si9uS VI pkOktceo WtVukup
BY the mighty working OF God among
the affairs of men,
II was but q very young CHILD thi rty-
five years ago. and yet | remember as
though it were but yesterday how this
whole land sat under the obligating In
fiueuce of slavery. The young people
vino have come TO years of knowledge
since that period have no idea of how
dark and dRmnipg that influence was. It
terrorized the true people of this country.
1t entered the church aud divided
the North and South. saw my fathers
lite threatened in church because he was
O friend of the slave and stood up for
freedom in Kansas. Bus II day the
Almighty awoke 10 his strength. o ut OF
the North came a black cloud and a
stormy wind and cut Of it God rained a
horrible tempest upon slavery, and when
the tempes was ended slavery had been
swept away, and we may put down the
destruction of IL as sign No. l of his pro-
gress in our time.
again, eighteen years ago / remember
the talk of Mormonism as q twin relic
Of Barbarism.' but b came the North
cru Pacific Railroad carrying light and
civilization into that territory IN the per-
SOUS Of thousands of 'settiers.' Many of
Brigham Youug's associates advised
against permitting it to come, but he had
faith in Mormonism and said it was a
poor rell2lOu IuaL Couldn't SbanO q
railroad. But his advisers were right
and with the blast of the locomotive
whistle was a Jonn the Baptist. Then
followed q host of our missionaries IN
teachers, so that now the Mormon power,
which twenty years ago was strong
enough to defy the government. is
utterly broken. No. 8 is the destruction
OF the power of the Louisiana Lottery
System In the United States. Five years
ago in 1t was in its might. 1t was like a
huge octopus, grasping with its long
arms and using to its purposes the mails.
buying legislators, corrupting courts and
bribing whole States. But at last the
people secured a Governor VINO vetoed the
Lottery bill and its power was forever
broken.
'sIn Peoria, H.. on the very lot where
Colonel Ingersoli once livedtand. where he
wrote some of his infidel lectures, a Y.
MICA. building worth $125, 900 is being
erected. This is but another sign of the
times.
But there are still other evils that
must be fought. Que of these is the rum
power. This must also be destroyed. and
some glad day we nav be able TO put 1t in
Inc same graveyard with Slavery, Nor
monism and the louisiana Lottery n
write on its dishonored tomb in Europe
and America, The Rum Power Was.'"