The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-10-09

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IH that hHior time. nHo, coming % thcf
clln. UhrH.a churches W'll hH mofa na-
mefaua and ihuv Wil. Be- iaffnr ani ihaY be
more devoted 10 thU Gospel ni Jesus Christ.
nnd they WliI accomplish greater iubeencH
Ior good NIW. % r. often Che case fHM
churches are rnNIuua uf each other. HHd &c.
nominations collide with ticn oiHrfs nul
rrou ministers of CuF.. sometimes forget the
bend of brotherhood. hut in tnn Time 81
which eImk. WHt1 thfH WNl hl laat W
wIrV difference. uI uFIHlaH nH lI"fn nrH now
there WiIl Ha r1 nH.slalY u1 hyIH'nte.Hui
u fbu day of which i speak. Do
Won believe thpre W.Il he any midnight
cHr0u.a3 WIi' thHrf be amy Sticking 81 ir1m
trn marble seus Oi HHlyHrlur wrnIIeHnIHi
Wnl thor1 uo any uuWAsned, uuled, un-
coubed edillrtuY Will there b' any blaapae-
niles Ia tho stroets2 VIII there bo any inc
bdaJo staggering pas3 no. NO Wine stores.
So Ingar hHer saloons. No dialilleriH8i where
they make tho three ~. no blo0dsh0t eye.
NO Dloaled check. no Instruments % ruin
and destruction. No Iist-p0undod forehead.
The grandchildren of that woman who COOS
down the street with q curse, stoned by tho
boys that follow her, win Boo the reformer
and phIiHnthr0plsts and the Christian men
and the honest merchants OF our cities.
Then, what municipal governments, too.
we wiu hive an alI tho cities. Some cities
are worse thnn others. but in many of our
cities you iust walk down by tho city hall
aud look in at s0mo OF the rooms occupied
by politicians, and seg To- what % ssusual,
l0aths1mc, Ignorant. be8Jtted crew city
politics "a often abandoned. or they stand
around tho City Hall picking their teeth,
waiting for some emoluments OF crumbs Co
fall 10 their feet waiting all day long, ana
waiting att night long.
Who are those wraiched women taken up
for drunkenness, and carried no 20 tho
courts. and put in prison of couu82 What
viii you 10 with the grogshops that make
them drink Nothing. VINO are those
prisoners in JAM One 81 them stole a pair
OF Shoes. That boy stole q dollar This girl
snatched q purse All OF them crimes dam
aging society less than twenty or thirty dol-
lars. Bat what viii yol do with the gam
bier who last night robbed the young man OF
o. thousand dOlars2 Nothing. What shall
Boz done with that ono who breaks through
and destroys the purity Of a Christian home,
and with un ndroituess and peridy thu.
beats the strategy OF hell, aiuE5 a shrinking,
shrlekng soul into ruin2 Nothing What
will you DO with those who aeeoed that
young man, getting him TO purloin large
sums Of money from his emDloyer-the
young man who came 90 an officer OF my
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asked what no should dn2 Nothing.
Ali we DO well 20 punish small crimes but
have sometimes thought IL would be better
I'm some OF our cities e the officials would
only turn out from the iails the petty criml-
nails, the little Offenders. ten-dOllar despera-
does, and put IN their places some Of the
monsters Of iniCuity who drive their roam
span through the streets 50 swiftly that hon
est men have to leapto get out OF the way OF
being run over. on, the damnGbe schemes
that profe5soi Cnristian men viii some
time2 engage In until God puts the finger Of
His retrlbutOu into the collar OF their robe
OF hypocrisy and rips it clear to the boltoml
But all these wrongs win be rlghted. exc
pect to live to see the day. / think hear in
the distance the rumbiGg OF the Kings
chariot Not always in the minority IS the
Church of God going to be, or are good men
going TO be- The streets are going to DO
filled with regenerlted populations. Three
hundred and sixty bells rang in Moscow
when one prince was married; but, when
Righteousness and peace kiss each other in
all the earth, ten thousand times ten thou
sand bells shall strike the jubilee. Poverty
enriched. Hunger fed. Crime banshed.
Ignorance enlightened. All the cities saved.
Is not this a cause worth working in?
Oh, you think sometimes it does not
amount to muchl You toll on In your dtl-
ferent spheres, sometimes with great dis
couragemant People have no faith and say:
"It does not amount to anything; you might
rs we'll quit that" Why, when Moses
stretched his hand over the Red Sea, it did
not seem to mean ANYTHING especially Pen
pie came out, 1 suppose, and ,suid; "Aha!'
Some OF them found out what he wanted to
do. He wanted the sea parted. It did not
amount to anything, this stretching out Of
his hand over the sea. But, after while,
the wind blew all night from the east, and
the waters were gathered into a gliterng
palisade on either side, and the pillows
reared as God pulled back on their crystal
bits! Wheel into line, o, Israel! march,
march! Pearls crashed under feet. Flying
spray gathers into rainbow arch Of victory
for the conquerors to march under Shouts
OF hosts on the beach answering the shouts
Of hosts amid sea- And when the last line OF
Israeites reach the beach the cymbals clap,
and the shields eiaug, and the waters rush
over the pursuers, and the swift-hngered
wings on the white keys Of the foam play
the grand march of israel delivered and the
awful dirge of Egyptian overthrow.
So you and 60 FORTH and all the people
OF God so forth, and they stretch forth their
hand over the sea, the boiling sea OF crime
and sin and wretchedness. 1T don't amount
| to anything" people say Don't it2 Gods
winds of help will, after a while, begin to
blow path will be cleared for the army
OF Christian philanthropists, Tne path will
be lined with the treasures OF Christian
benehcence, and we shall be greeted to the
( other beach by the clapping Of all Of heavens
! cymbals. while those who pursued us anc
derided as and tried to destroy us will &C
! down under the sea and all that Will be Left
/ OF them will be cast high and dry upon tho
beach, the splintered wheel Of chariot, Of
thrust out from the foam the breathless ncs
! tril OF a rlderless charger.