Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-10-09
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world forget God and with their indie
cencies shock the heavens let them
know that the God who on the Oath of
August, 79, dropped on city of Italy
superincumbrance that staid there II
centuries is still alive and hates sin now
as much as he did then and has at his
command all the armament of destruc-
ton with which he whelmed their in
iquitOus predecessors.
1t was only a few summers ago that
Brooklyn and New York felt an earth
quake throb that sent the people af
frighted into the streets, and that sug
gested that there are forces of nature
now suppressed or held in check which
easier than q child in nursery knocks
down a row of block houses could pros
trate a city or engulf q continent deep
er than Pompeii was engulfed. Our hope
is in the mercy of the Lord continued to
our American cities.
1t amazes mo that this city, which
has the quietest Sahbaths on the CONT
nent aad the best ORDER and the highest
tone of morals of any city that 1 know
Of, is now having brought into as near
neighborhood as Coney Island carnivals
of pugilism as debasing as any of the
gladiatorial contests of Pompeii. What
a precious crew that Coney Island Ath-
1etic club is, under whose auspices
these orgies are enacted! What degra.
dation to the adjective ''athletic," which
ordinarily suggests health and muscle
developed for useful purpose! Instead
Of calling it an athletic club they might
better style it ''The Ruffian Club For
Smashing the Human Visage."
Vile men are turning that Coney Island,
which is one of the finest watering places
on all the Atlantic coast, into place for
the offscouring of the earth to congre-
gate, the low horse jockeys and gamblers,
and the pugilists, and the pickpockets,
and the bloats regurgitated from the
depths of the worst wards of these cities.
They invite delegates from universal
loaferdom to come to their carnival of
knuckles. But do not believe that the
pugilism contracted for and advertised
for next December will take place in our
neighborhood.
STEP TOO FAR.
Evil sometimes defeats itself by going
one step too far. You may drive the
hoop Of barrel down so hard that it
breaks will not believe that the inter
national prize fight will take place on
Long Island or in the state of New York
until I see the rowdy rabble rolling
drunk off the cars at Flatbush avenue
and with faces banged and cut and bleed
ing from the imbruting scene. Against
this infraction of the laws of the state of
New York 1 lift solemn protest. The
curse Of Almighty God will rest upon
,He,I
outrage. Does any one think it cannot
be stopped, and that the constabulary
would be overborne? Then let Governor
Flower send down there a regiment of
state militia, and they will clean out the
nuisance in one hour.
Warned by the doom of other cities
that have persisted for their ruffianism,
or their cruelty, OF their idolatry, or their
dissoluteness, let all our American cities
lead the right way. Our only dependence
is on God and Christian influences. Poll
tics will do nothing but make things
worse. Send politics to moralize and
save city, and you send smallpox to
heal leprosy or a carcass to relieve the
air of malodor. For what politics will
do I refer you to the eight weeks of stul-
tifcation enacted at Washington by our
American senate.
American politics will become a re-
formatory power on the same day that
pandemonium becomes q church. But
there are, ! am glad to say, benign and
salutary and gracious influences organ
lied i'll all our cities which Will yet take
them for God and righteousness. Let
us ply the gospel machinery to its ut
most speed and power. City evangelical
ton is the thought. Accustomed as are
religious pessimists to dwell upon statis-
tics of evil and dolorous facts, we want
some one with sanctified heart and good
digestion to put in long line the statis-
tics of natures transformed and profit
gacies baked, and souls ransomed, and
cities redeemed.
Give us pictures of churches, of
schools, of reformatory associations, of
asylums of mercy Break in upon the
"Misereres' of complaint and despond-
ency with ''Te Deums" and "Jubilates OF
moral and religious victory. Show that
the day is coming when a great tidal wave
of salvation will roll over all our cities
Show how Pompeii buried will become
Pompeii resurrected. Demonstrate the
fact that there are millions of good men
and women who will give themselves no
rest day nor night until cities that are
now of the type of the buried cities of
Italy shall take type from the New Jeru-
salem coming down from God out of
heaven. I hail the advancing morn.
make the same proclamation today
that Gideon made to the shivering cow
ards of his army. whatsoever is fear
full and afraid, let him return and depart
early from Mount Gilead." Close up the
ranks Lift the gospel standard. For
ward into this Armageddon that is now