Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-10-02

politics 4 often abandoned. or they stand
around the City Hall pickins their teeth
waiting for some emoluments OF crumbs 20
fall 70 their feet, waiting all day long, anu
waiting all night long.
Who are those Wretchei women taken up
for drunkenness, aud carried up 20 the
courts, and put ia prison o. courseg Whi
will you DO with the grogshops that MAKE
them drink Nothing. Who are those
prisoners IN lailg One % them stole pAlt
% shoes. That boy stole dollar. This girl
snHtched purse. All OF them crimes dam
aging society less than twenty or thirty dol
lArs. But what will YOU do with the gam
bier who last night robbed the young man OF
thousand dollars Nothing. What shau
b. done with that one who breaks through
and destroys the purity Of Christian nome
and with an Rdroituess and perhly thA'
beats tho strategy OF he'll, filings a shrinking,
shrekine soul into rUiu5 Nothing what
vii. you do with those who lreced that
young man, getting him 20 purloin large
sums OF money from his omployer-the
ySuug man who came % an Ofacer OF my
church aud told the story, aud franacauy
asked what he should dot Nothing.
An. we do we'll 20 punish small crimes; but
| have sometimes thought IL would BE- better
in some Of our cities II the officials would
only turn out from the iai.s the petty cnmi-
mails, the little offenders, ton-lOlar despera-
does, and put in their places some u the
monsters Of iniguity who drive their roam
span through tie streets so swiftly that non
est men have 20 leapto get out o. the way OF
being run over On, the damnable schemes
that proipssei Cnristian men will some
time engage in until God puts the finger II
His TgIrlbutiOn into the collar OF their robe
Of hypocrisy and rips it clear 10 the bottom!
But ali these wrongs will be rightel. eN-
poet TO live 10 ses the day. l think / hear IN
the distance the rambling OF the King s
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 10 be
filled with regcngrated 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 banishei.
Ignorance enlightened. Alths cities saved.
Is not this n cause worth working in?
Oh, you think sometimes 1t does not
amount to much! You toll on In your dill
ferent spheres, sometimes with great dis
couragement. People have no faith and say:
at does not amount TO anything; YOU might
as well quit that" Why, when Moses
stretched his hand over the Red Sea, 1t did
not seem 10 mean ANYTHING especially. Peo-
pie came out, | suppose, and said: "Aha.'
some OF them found ont what he wanted 70
do. He wanted the sea parted. 1t did not
amount 10 anything, this stretching out Of
his hand over the sea. But. after n while,
the wind blew all night from the east, and
the waters We're gathered into GhtternS
pa,isale on either side, and the pillows
reared ne 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 20 march under. Shouts
othosts on the beach answering the shouts
of hosts amid sea. And when the last line Of
Israeites reach the beach the cymhals clap,
and the shields cIang, and the waters rush
over the pursuers, and the swlft-huSered
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 | 30 forth. and all the people
Of God 20 forth, and they stretch forth their
hand over the sea. the boiling sea OF crime
and sin and wrelchelue-s. at don't amount
to anything" people say. Don't IT. Gods
winds OF help will, after q while, begin to
blow. path will he cleared for the army
Of Christian philanthropists. The path will
be lined with the treasures OF Christian
beucdceuce, and We shall be greeted to tho
other beach by the clapping Of all OF heaven &
cymbals, while those who pursued US and
dcridel us and tried 10 destroy US will 20
down under the sea and all that viii be left
OF them will be cast high and dry upon the
beach, the spliutered wheel Of a chariot, or
thrust out from the foam the breataless mes.
trli OF Il riderless charger.