The Penn's Grove record., 1893-10-13
PENN'S GROVE, NJ. FRIDAY. OCTOBER ID. 1893

! yn aal New York felt an earthquav,--rroo
hat sent the people %afrrlghted into the
rreets andthat sIggestedth there are forces
If nature now suppressed or held In check,
which easier than q child IN q nursery
Knocks down a row of block houses could
orostrate a city or engulf a continent deeper
han Pompeii was engulfed. Our hope is in
he mercy of the Lord continued to our
American cities.
1t amazes me that this city, which has the
! Iuietest Sabbaths on the continent and the
| oest order and the highest tone of morals OF
my city that 1 know of, is now having
brought into as near neighborhood as Coney
Island carnivals of pugilism as debasing as
/ my OF the gladiatorial interests Of Pompeii.
| What a precious crew that Coney Island Ath-
etic Club Is, under whose auspices these
| ,rgies are enacted What n degradation to
| he adjective ''athletic,' which ordinarily
suggests health and muscle developed for
! Useful purpose? Instead of cal II II an
/ gillette club they might better style il 1.-The
Ruff IN Club For Smashing the Human
Visage."
Vile men are turning that Coney Island,
which Is one o: the finest watering places on
III the Atlantic coast, into a place for the
| )ffscouring of tia earth TO congregate, the
ow horse jockeys AMI gamblers, and the
ougliists and the pickpOckets. and the bloats
| :egurgitated from the depths of the worst
wards of these cities. They invite delegates
| TOM ullNbISdl IJdltIupih w Nohi' ~ III
carnival of knuckles. But l do not believe
hat the pugilism contracted for and adver-
Used for next December will take place in
sur neighborhood.
Evil sometimes defeats itself by going one
ytep too far. You may drive the hoop OF a
barrel down so hard that it breaks. L will
lot believe that the international prize fight
will take place on Long Island or in the State
! If New York until / see the rowdy rabble
I .olling drunk off the cars at Flatbush avenue
md with faces banged and cut and bleeding
rom the imbruting scene. Against this In
raction of the laws of the State OF New York
lift solemn protest. The curse of Almighty
God will rest upon any community that con-
tents to such an outrage. Does any one
!hir k 1t cannot be stopped, and that the con-
tabulary would be overborne? Then let
Governor Flower send down there n regiment
IF State militia, and they will clean out the
nuisance in one hour.
Warned by the doom OF other cities that
lave persisted for their ruflanism, or their
.ruelty, or their idolatry, or their absolute
less, let all our American cities lead tue right
way. Our only dependence is on God end
Christrian influences. Politics will do noth-
ng but make things worse. Send polite to
noralize and save a city, and you =
Jmallpox to heal leprosy or a carcass to re-
ieye the air OF malo Tor. For what politics
will do 1 refer you TO the eight weeks OF
qualification enacted at Washington by OF 4,
American senate.
American politics will become a reforma-
DRY power on the same day that pandemoni-
/ am becomes q church. But there are, / am
ylad to say, benign and sllutary and gra'
,ious influences organized in all our cities
which will yet take them for God and right
sousness. Let US ply the gospel machinery
% its utmost speed and power. City evan
selization is the thought. Accustomed as
are religious pessimists to dwell upon statis-
II I'll - 1000 f-as1 sup Urn Vas aNNnn
one with sanctifled heart and good digestion
20 put in long line the statistics Of natures
transformed, and prohigacies baked, and
souls ransomed, and cities redeemed.
Give us pictures of churches, of schools,
If reformstory associations, of asylums Of
mercy. Break in upon the "Misereres" oil
complaint and dependency with ''Te
Deuns'' and "Jubilates of moral and re-
igious victory" Show that the day is COM
ing when a great tidal wave of salvation will
roll over all our cities. Show how Pompeil
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
Jerusalem coming down from God out of
heaven. I hal the advancing MORN.
Imake the same proclamation to-day that
! Gideon made to the shiverinS towards OF MS
army. "Whosoever is fearful and AFRAID. lei
him return and depart early from Mount
Gilead." Close up the ranks. Lift the Cos
pei standard. Forward into this Arranged
don that is now opening and let the word
run all along the line: Brooklyn for God
All u cities for God! America for Goo
The world for God! The most of US here
gathered, though born in the country, will
die in town.
Shall our last walk be through streets
| uuhara ahhriatv md unnH ordnr tnminufa nf
~grogshops stencil the air? Shall our last
look be upon city halls where justice reigns
or d~emagogues plot for the stufing of ballot
boxes? Shall we sit for the last time in some
church where God is worshiped with the
~contrite heart, or where cold Journalism goes
through unmeaning gen%utiexions? God save
the citiesl Righteousness is life iniquity is
death. Remember picturesque, terraced,
tempted, sculptured, boastful Col defyins
and entombed Pompeii!