Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-02-01

| unler the luirhery OF the Turks. May tna
I throne on tre banks OF the BoSphorus sooi
crum'ls! The time has already come whei
I the Uniiel Siatas Government and dr n
Britain AMI Germany ght TO iniome th'
/ In iignation OF all civilized Nations. WIFI
! /, il not requisite that arms be sent there e
| uyenga the wholesale massacre OF Armen
| ian- II i requisite that by cable under th'
.ras, ami Is protest that shall thrill thu
wires from Washington and Lon Ton an
Berlin 70 ConSt tntinOPie. the Nations an
athematlEH the diabolisn for which the sui
tan of Turkey is responsible. M0hammeian
,sm is a curse VIII Their in Turkey or New
| York. set ey shall come from the East =
| AMI tay Will come at the earl OF the love
lies. ami grau lest aul hest men aud women
o. all tine. mean tho missionaries. Dis
| souie Americans ant Englishmen who hav
gone 10 Calcutta and Bombay an Canton Ia
| make their fortunes defame the missionaries
because the holy lives and the pure house.
! holds OF those missionaries are a constant re,
buke To- the American and English liberines
| stopping there, hut the men and women oil
God there stationed 90 on Glorously witt
their work. People just ms good and sci
denying as was Missionary Moffat, who
when asked 10 write in an album, wrote
| these wOr 5.
Nv album Is in savage breasts,
Where passion reigns an l darkness rests
| Without one ray OF light.
! To write the name of Jesus there,
Topoint to worlds both bright and fair.
ana see the pagan DOW IN prayer,
| Is all my souls delight.
| In all those regions ara mon AMI women
with the conservation OF Melville b. Cox,
| who, enbarking for the missionary work in
Africa, saii TO fellow stu lent, "If dia in
Africa, come and write my eptaDh." "Whgt
) shall | write for your epltlpi?" sail the
| stu lent. "Write," said he, "these words (:
| "Let a thousand fall before Africa be given
| up
There Is another point of the compass that
my text includes. "TheE shall come from
| the West" That means America redeemed.
Everything between Atlantic ami Pacific
! Oceans 10 he brought within the circle OF
| holiness and rapture. viii il DO done by
/ worldly reform or evangelism? Will 1t be
| law or gospel? l an glad that a wave OF
e'orm has swept across this lanl, and all
the cities are feeling the advantage OF the
! mighty movement. Let the good work 90
| on until the Inst municipal evil is ex-
tirpated. About liteen years ago the dis
! ltnguished eiitOr OF New YORK daily
| newspaper stid to me in his editorinl
! room "You ministers talk about evils OF
! which You know nothing. Why don't Won
/ 20 with tbs I'll GERS OF the law and explore
| or yourself, so that when YOU preach against
SIN YOU can speak from what You have seen
with your own eyes?' | said, ~ WILL" and
in onplny with commissioner OF police
AMI captain otpollce and two elders of nv
, church explore the dens and hiding places
OF all styles OF crime in New York and
preached Il series o sermons warning Young
men ani setting forth the work that must be
. done lest the judgments of God whalm this
city with more awful suomergement than tho
! volcanic deluge that buried Herculaneum
and Pompeii. | received, as nearly as can
member, several hundred columns OF news.
nnper abuse for undertaking that eXplora.
ton. Editorials or denunciaton, double
loaded, aud with captions n great primer
type, entitle The Fall of Talmage." or
"ramage Makes the Mistake of His life"
or Down With Talm1ge," but l still live
| and am in full sympathy with all movements
for municipal publication.
But q movement which ends with crime
exposed AMI law executed stops half WAY
My, 1t stops long beiors it gets half way,
The law never yet saved ANYBODY, never vat
changed anybody. Break up all the houses
OF iniqntty in this city, and you only send
the occupants to other cities Break down
all tho policemen in New York, and while n
changes their worldly fortunes It does not
change their heart or lie. The greatest
want in New York today is the transform
| ing power OF the gospel OF Jesus Christ 10
change the heart and the lite and uplift the
tone OF moral sentiment and make men do
right not because they are afraid OF Ludlow
! Street Jail or Sin: Sing. but because thew
love God and hate uurighteousness, I have
never heard, nor have you heard. OF any.
thing except the gospelthat proposes to re-
generate the heart, and by the influence Of
that regenerared heart rectify the life. Elk.
ecute the law most certainly, hut preach tina
gospel by all means In churches, in theatres.
III homes, IN prisons, on the land and on the
sea. The gospel is the only power that can
revolutionize society and save the yorli. All
else is hal! and half work and will not last.
In New York it has allowed men who got nv
police bribery their thousands and tens OF
thousands and perhaps hundreds OF thou.
sands OF dollars to 20 scot free. while soma
who were merely the cats paw and agents OF
bribery are struck with the Iightnings of the
law. 1t reminds me of a scene in Phiadel.
phla when | was living there. poor wo.
man had been arrested and tried and i'm
prisoned for selling molaSses candy on SIM.
day. Other lawbreakers had been aIloyei
TO go undisturbei, and the grogshops were
open on the Lords Day, and the law. with
It's hanis behind It's back, walked up and
down the streets declining TO modest many
OF the Offenders, but we all rose IN in our
righteous ndtynations aud calling u9on all
powers, visible and invisible, to help us. wa
declared that though the heavens fell no yo
man should be allowed to sell molasses
canly on Sunday.
few weeks ago, after l hal preached in
one OF the churches in this city, a man
staggered up on the pulpit stairs, maudlin
drunk. saying, II am one Of the reformers
mat were elected to high Office at the last
election" got rid of that great reforner-
as soon as | could, but did not get rid of
IA IN aaaip thnF
cure the abontnations OF New York about "a
soon rs smallpox would cure typhoid fever
or a buzzsaw render Haydn's "Creatiop."
folitlcs IN all our cities has become so cor
rupt that the only difference between the
Republican and Democratic parties is that
each Is worse than the other, But whnt
nothing else in the universe can do the gos-
pei can and will accomplish. "They shall
come from the West" and for that purpose
the evangeisttc batteries are planted all
along the Pacific coast, rs they are planted
all along the Atlantic coast. All the prai.
ries, all the mountains, all the valleys. all
the cities are under more or less gospej In.
huence, and when we get enough faith and
consecretion Tor the work this whole Ameri-
eau continent will cry out for God. "They
shall come from the West"
Inc work is not so difficulty as many SUM-
pose. You say, There are the foreign pop
ulatlohs' les, Dul many OF them are Hol-
landers, and they were brought up TO love
and worship Go |, and it will take but little
TO persuade the HoIanders to adopt the re.
ligion OF their iorefathers. Then there ara
among these foreigners so many of the
Scotch. They or their ancestors heard
Thomas Chalmers thunder and Robert Me-
Cheyne pray. The breath or God so often
swept through the heather of the highlands,
ana the voice OF God has SO often sounded
through the Trossachs, and they all know
how to sing Dundee, so that they will not
have often to be invited TO accept the God of
John Knox and Boutwell, Bridge.
Then there are among these foreigners so
many OF the English. They inherited the
same language as we inherted--the English
In which Shakespeare dramatized, and Mil
ton chimed his cnntos and Harry Malrllla