Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-09

bloats reeurgitad from the depths OF the
worst wards OF these cities. They In
vite delegates from universal loaterdom
10 come TO their car nlval OF knuckles.
Rut I do not believe that the pugllism
contracted for and advertises for next
December will take place 10 our neigh
borhood.
Evil sometimes defeats itself by 60
ing one step too far. You may drive
the hoop of a barrel down so hard that
it breaks. l will not believe that the
international prize fight will take place
on Long Island, or in the State OF New
York. until I see the rowdy rabble roll
ing drunk of the cars at Flatbush Ave
nue. and with faces banged and cut and
bleeding from the imbruting scene.
Against this infraction OF the laws oil
the State Of New York 1 lift solemn
protest. The curse Of Almighty God
will rest upon any community that con
sents
TO SUCH AN OUTRAGE.
Does any one think 1t cannot be stop
ped and that the constabulary would DC
overborne, then let Governor Flower
send down there a regiment OF State
militia, and they will clean out the null
sance in one hour.
Warned by the doom of other cities
that have persisted for their Rutianism'
or their Cruelty or their Idolatry or their
Disturbances let all our American cities
lead the right way. Our only depend
ence is on God and Christian influences.
Politics will do nothing but make things
worse. Send politics TO moralize and
a a city and you send smallpox to
heal leprOsy, or a carcass to relieve the
air of malodor. For what politics will
do | refer you TO the eight weeks OF
qualification enacted at Washington by
our American Senate. American poll
tics will become a reformatory power
on the same day that pandemonium be-
comes a church.
But there are I am glad to say be-
nign, and salutary and gracious intiu-
ences organized in al our cities when
will yet take them for God and rlghte-
business. Let US ply the Gospel ma
chinery to its utmost speed ond power.
City evangelization is the thought. Ac-
customsd as are religious pessimists TO
dwell upon statistics Of evil and dolor-
Gus facts we want some n with sane
titled heart and good digestion to put In
long line the statistics of natures trans
formed, and profligacies baked, and
souls ransomed, and cities redeemed.
Give us pictures of churches, OF schools,
OF reformAtory associations. OF asyiums
OF mercy. Break in upon the Mtsereres
Of complaint and dependency with Te
Dcums, and JIbilGtGS OF
MORAL AND RELIGIOUS VICTORY
Show that the day is coming when 9
great tiyal wave of salvation will roll
over all our cities. Show how Pompeii
buried will become Pompeii resurreeted.
Demonstrate the fact that there are
millions Of good men and women who
will give themselves no rest day mol
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 hail the advancing norm. l make the
same proclamation to-day that Gideon
made TO the shivering towards or hi'
army, 'tWhosoeyer Is fearful and afraid
let him return and depart early from
| Mount Gilead." Close up the ranks.
Lift the Gospel standard. Forward
into this Armageddon that is now open
ing and let the word run all along thu
line: Brooklyn for God! All our citiei
for God! America for God! The world
for God! The most OF Us her gathered
though born in the countr will die IL
town. Shall our last walk be through
streets where sobriety and good ordel
dominate, or gr%og-shops stencil the Air
Shall our last look be upon City Halls
where Justice reigns, or demagogue!
plot for the stufing Of ballot-boxesi
Shall we sit for the last time In som
church where God is worshipped witt
the contrits heart, or where cold formal
ism goes through unmeanlng %genunsx
ions? God save the eitiesl Righteous
ness is life. iniquity is death. Remem
her picturesque, terraced, tempted
sculptured, boastful. God-defyIng and
entombed PompelI