Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-01-21

has swept across this land, and all the
cities are feeling the advantage of the
mighty movement. Let the good work
go on until the last municipal evil is
extirpated About l 5 years ago the dis
tingufshed editor Of New York daily
newspaper said to me- in his editorial
room: "You ministers talk about evils
of which, yo1- know nothing. Why don t
you go with the officers of the law and
explore for yourself, so that when you
preach against sin you can speak from
what you have seen with your own
eyes?" / said, 81 will, and in company
with q commissioner Of police and q
captain of police and two elders of my
church [ explored the dens and hiding
places of all styles Of crime in New York
and preached q series Of sermons warn
ing young men and setting forth the
work that must be done lest the Sudg
mopts of God whelm this city with
moro awful submergement than the vol
canic deluge that buried Herculaneum
and Po1npeii. received, as nearly as
can remem Der, several hundred columns
Of newspaper abuse for undertaking that
exploration. Editorials OF denunciation.
double loaded, and with captions in
great primer type, entitled ''The Fall of
Talmaee, or t"Falmage Makes the Mis-
take Of His Life, . OF Down With Tai
mage" but I still live and am in full
sympathy with all movements for mu-
nicipal publication.
But movement which ends with
crime exposed and law executed stops
half way. Nay, it stops long before it
gets half way. The law never yet saved
anybody, never yet changed anybody.
Break up all the houses Of iniquity in
this city, and you only send the occu-
pants to other cities. Break down all
the policemen in New York, and whiIo
it changes their worldly fortunes it does
not change their heart Or life. Tho
greatest want in New York today is the
transforming power Of the gospel of
Jesus Christ TO change the heart and tho
life and uplift the tone of moral senti-
ment and make men do right not be-
cause they are afraid Of Ludlow Street
jail or Sing Sing, but because they love
God and hate unrighteousness. | have
never heard, nor have you heard, of any
thing except the gospel that proposes to
the heart, and by the inf1u-
ence of that regenerated heart rectify
the life. Execute the law most certain
ly, but preach the gospel by all means IN
churches, in theaters, in homes, il pris-
ons, on the land and on the sea. Tbs
gospel is the only power that can revo-
lutionize society and save the world.
All else is half and half work and will
not last. In New York it has allowed
men who got by police bribery their
thousands and tens of thousands and
perhaps hundreds Of thousands of dol
lars to go scot free. while some who
were merely the cats paw and agents of
bribery are struck with the lightnings
Of the law. It reminds me of a scene in
when I was living there.
A poor woman had been arrested and
tried and imprisoned for selling molasses
candy on Sunday. Other lawbrealzers
had been allowed to go unIsturbed,
and the grogshops were open on the
Lords day, and the law, with its hands
behind it's back, walked up and down
the streets declining to modest many Of
the offenders, but we all rose up in our
righteous indignation, and calling upon
all powers, visible and invisible, to help
rs, we declared that though the heavens
fell no woman should be allowed to sell
molasses candy on Sunday.
Party and Politics.
A few weeks ago, after had preached
in one Of the churches in this city, q
man staggered up on the pulpit stairs,
drunk, saying, 81 am one oi
the reformers that were elected to high
office at the last election. l got rid Oh
that great reformer' rs soon as I could,
but did not get rid Of the impression
that man like that would cure the
of New Y ork about as soon
as smallpox would cure typhoid fever OF
a buzzsaw would render Haydn's "Crea
tion " Politics in all our cities has be-
come so corrupt that the only difference
between the Republican and Democratic
parties is that each is worse than the
other But what nothing else i'll the uni
verse can do the gospel can and will &C
"They shall come from the
vest" and for that purpose the evan
gelistic batteries are planted all along
the Pacific coast, as they are planted al
along the Atlantic coast. All tho pr;ti
ries, all the mountains, all 90 valleys
all the cities are under more or less COS
pei influence, aud when we get enough
faith and conservation for the work thl.i
whole American continent will cry out
for God. ''They shall come from tho
west. I"
The work is not so difficult as many
suppose. You say, ''There are the for
eign populations F" Yes, but many of
them are Hollanders, and they weto
brought up to love and worship GOO,
and it will take but little to persuade
the Hollanders to adopt the religion of
their forefathers. Then there are among
these foreigners SO many of the Scotch.
They Or their ancestors heard Thomas
Chalmers thunder and Robert Nc
Chovra 1arau Tho breath of God Oft1,ri