The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-04-20


,...5srr, CITY cannot exist but for the
blood that rours into it from our rural
districts. and this blood IL consumed
from day 10 day in this fiery furnace OF
: eorrupt and corrupting life. You can
-. ,x,int ont to me to-day in . single
,-raat .itv Of America u solitary man
bnr,, under the conditions OF modern
,-itx life whesss. influence counts for any
thing in this nations life today.
pIslli1as Crooks was born IN Boston.
hut he was born in Boston hfEy years
ago. aud Boston was struggling coun-
trx village at that time as compared with
the Boston of today. The modern city.
a. at present constituted, does not pro
due. men. Il cannot produce men. II
they are born within it, they cannot he
reared To vigorous manhood. he forces
that destroy character are overwhelming
as cofnpared with The forces that build
character. The doors that open To de-
strnctien are hundred tn one that opSn
for life. | do not believe that there has
been enough manhood lorn end reared
i'm our modern cities within tis past gem
Grafton to save single one Of them from
hell for ~ hours, if that salvation de-
nended upon the capacity Of that man.
hood for organization, for direction. for
production.
DANGERS OF THE MODERN CITY.
| am rot a pessimist, but facts are
facts. believe III the race. | believe i'll
its future-bat what race? The modern
CITY threatens the future of our nations
.1s,Sf finn
dar,, and threatening, full of disease, and
of sin. aud of death. that rise today froGl
these great centcrs If our life. form a
dark cloud whose threatening STERN
must burst upon the nation with awful
fury in the future. That which is
worthy to live will live. Truth viii tri-
umph God viii reign supreme. The
question is, Will you be in that triumph?
/ believe that the hour is come in which
Christian manhood in these rapidly de-
veloping centers must take firm stand
and draw the sword of the righteousness
of Christ and defend its strongholds if
we are to save the people. Mothers write
me from country towns to look after
their boys and save them. tell you it
is next to impossible. The forces that
tend 10 destroy character i'll New York
city are Il hundred to one. We fight
against an army that is overwhelming.
and we fight with children's toys. We
are playing with issues, and our enemies
laugh at us in our helplessness. With
our delicate white ties and our clerical
cut clothes we are trifhng with the great
question of the salvation of a people, of
a generation, of race. There are times
when Christian manhood should take
firm stand. Only in such a stand can
the people be saved. Our enemies are
capable of persuasion. The devil in the
modern city is Turk in spirit.
Sir Charles Euan-Smith, the recent
British envoy to Fee, III the empire of
Morocco, had a perilous experience in
the anti-Christian riots of last July. The
mission house had been attacked The
windows were smashed with stones. 1t
became unsafe to venture in the gar
dens. As Sir Charles was giving the
necessary orders for the defense of the
mission, an embassy from the sultan APP
peared and implored him to go at once
to the palace. Courier after courier,
mounted on magnificent Barbary horses,
dashed up, repeating the summons.
Bending at his feet, they declared: my
lord, we pray thee to hasten. Our lord
beseeches that you come to him. He
will neither eat nor drink nor sleep nor
have any peace until you come to him.
Our lord languisheth for the light of
your countenance." No less than go of
these messengers delivered their dra-
matte summons on the way.
The sultan met Sir Charles in great
agitation. Your life is in DANGER" he
said. '.Your wife and your people must
come Immediately to the palace. The
populace is greatly excited against YOU I
can no longer protect you. Come tonight
and sleep here. In the morning I will
send thousand soldiers to escort you to
the coast" Your majesty is mistaken"
replied Sir Charles coolly. MY life is
not In danger. am in your majestys
safe keeping Il am powerless to pro-
tect you," cried the sultan. eff you re-
turn to the mission, you will be killed"
Perhaps | am to be killed." replied Sir
Charles. ''The mission may be massa-
cred, but there will be another British
minister in Fee within a month, who
will be accompanied by staff as well
equipped as mine and better, for" added
the minister in deliberate tones, "then
there will not be sultan ct Fez."
1t is ne less to say that Sir Charles
and the mission We're protected. The
men who were responsible for the riots
were beaten and imprisoned. The pasha
who urged the mob to stone the British
vice consul was fined 500 He crawled
on foot and placed the money at Minis
ter Smiths feet. He swore ON the Koran
he had not melted the riots. His guards
We're logged before the palace And
Minister Smith gave the money to the
poor of Fee and rewarded his faithful
servants and soldiers.
FACE SATAN In HIS STRONGHOLD.
SO the great soldier of today has but
to face the devil in his stronghold. draw
his sword and defy him, and the victory
will be his. The hour has come, if the |
future of the city is to be Christian, when
we must overturn and overturn. and |
with sccurge and sword drive out the
forces that now make life impossible. |
The prophecy which DR.. Strong uttered |
In 1888 today rings in our ears with
more startling emphasis than when he
flrst gave it utterance. 1t is well to read
1t again. Referring to the inevitable cri-
SIS which the forces of evil are bringing
to pass in our modern cities, he says:
when such a commercial crisis has
closed factories by the ten thousand and |
wage earners have been thrown out of
employment by the million; when the
public lands, which hitherto at such
times have afforded relief, are all ex-
hausted; when our urban population has
been multiplied several fold. and our
Clncinnatis have become Chicagos. orr
Chlcagos New Yorks, and our New
Yorks Londons; when class antipatbies
are deepened; when socialistic organiza-
lions, armed and drilled ara in o-o.