The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-09

scoundrols. Honest men deplore Il when
they cannot get work. but those OF Whom
] speak viii not do work when they can
get IL. l tried to employ one VINO asked M
for money. / said, Down i'm my celiar
have some wood to saw, and VIII pay
you for it," For a little while ! heard the
saw going and then / heard it no more.
went downstairs, and found the WOOD, Dul
the workman had disappeared. taxing LOT
company both buck and saw.
Socialism, communism, and nihlllsm
mean, TOO wicked to acknowledge Coz,
and too lazy TO earn "a living, ana among
the mightest obstacles to be overcome are
those organized clements of domestic, so
cial. and political ruin.
There also are the Businesses OF lnHuei-
ity, and atheism and fraud, and pohtical
corruption. and multitorm, hydra-headeu,
milliOn-armed denominations all over the
land. While the mightiest agencies LOT
righteousness on earth are good ana healtn
ful newspapers and good and healthtul
books. and our chief dependence FOR intel
Hgence and Christian achievement IS upon
them, what word among the more than
one hundred thousand words IN our No-
cabulary can describe the work OF thaI
archangel of mischief, corrupt literature!
What man, attempting anything Tor coo
and humanity, has escaped stroke OF IT'S
filthy wing2 What good cause has escaped
it's Underwent? What other obstacle in
all the land so appalling But / cannot
name more than One-halt the batuements,
the bastions, the intrenchments, the re
doubts. the fortifcatiOns to be stormed ana
overcome if this country is ever taken Tor
God The statistics are so awful that n
we had nothing but the multiplication Ia
BILE and the arithmetic, the attempt TO
evangelize America would be an absurd
ity higher than the Tower OF BABEL before
il dropped on the plain of Shinar. w mere
are the drilled troops to march against
those fortiications as long as the CONT
nent? Where are the batteries that can
be unlimbered against these walls? Where
are the guns of large enough caliber to
storm these gates? Well let us look around
and see, the first of all, who is our leader
and will be our leader until the
work is done. Garibaldi, with
a thousand Italians, could do more than
another commander with ten thousand
Italians. Gen. Sherman, on one side,
and Stonewall Jackson ON the other, each
with ten thousand troop, could DO more
than some other generals with twenty
thousand troops. The rough boat in which
Washington crossed the icy Delaware with
a few half-frozen troops was mightler than
the ship of war that, during the American
revolution came through the Narrows,
gun at each portfolio, and sunk in He'll
Gate. our leader, like most great lead
erS, was born IN an obscure place. ana IL
was an humble home, about five miles
from Jerusalem. Those who We're out of
doors that night said that there was stellar
commotion, and music that came out of
the clouds as though the front door of
heaven had been set open, and that the
camels heard his first infantile cry. Then
ne came 10 the failest bOyhoOd that moth
er was ever proud of, and from twelve TO
thirty years of age was off i'm India, if ira
ditiOns there are accurate, and then return
had his pathway surrounded by blind eyes
that he illumined, and epileptic patients
to whom he gave rubicund health, and
tongues that he looSed from silence into
song, and those whose funerals he stop
ped that he might give back to bereaVed
mothers their only boys, and those whose
feVered pulses he had restored into rhyth-
mic throb, and whose paralytic limbs
he had warmed into healthful clrcula-
tion-pastor at Capernaum, but flaming
evangelist everywhere. hushing crying
tempests and turning rolling seas into
solid sapphire, and for the rescue of
race submitted to court room filled with
bowling miscreants and to martyrdom
at the sight of which the sun tainted and
fell back in the heavens, and then tread
ing the clouds homeward like snowy
mountain peaks, till heaven took him
back again, more favorite than he had
ever been; but, coming again, he is on
earth now, and the nations are gather
ing to his standard. Following him were
the Scotch coVenanters, the Theban le-
cfon the victims of the London Hay
Pilgrim fathers, the Huguenots, and un-
counted multitudes of the past joined
by about four hundred millions of the
present and with certainty that all ma
lions shall huzZah at his chariot wheel,
he goes forth, the moon under his feet
and the stars of heaven for his tiara
the mighty leader, he of Drumclog, and
Boutwell, Bridge, and Bannockburn, and
the one who whelmed Spanish Armada,
Coming up from Edom, with dyed gar
ments from Bozrah, travelling in the
greatness of his strength, mighty to
save" and behind whom we fan into
line to-day and march in the campaign
that is to take America for God. Hosan-
ma! Hosanna! Wave all the palm
branches! At his feet put down your
silver and gold, as in heaven you will cast
before him your coronets.
With such n leader do you not think we
/ can do it? Say, do you think we can?
Why, many ramparts have already been
| taken. Where is American slavery? Gone.
| and the south, as heartily as the north,
prays Peace TO its ashes" Where is bes-
al
| United States government urged on by
Christian sentiment and Mormonism, haV-
| ing retreated in 1880 from Fayette New
| York. to Kirkland Ohio, and in 1888 re-
| treated to Missouri, and in 1916 retreated
| 10 Salt Lake city, now divorced from its
/ superiority of wives, viii soon retreat into
| the Pacific and no basin smaller than an
| ocean could wash out its pollutions. IL
| literacy going down under the work of
! Slater and Peabody funds, and Sabbath
/ schools of all the churches of all denomi-
| nationsi Pugilism now made unlawful by
! congressional enactment the brutal GUS
| tom knocked out in the hrSt round! Cor
/ ruption at the ballot-boX, by law of regis
| fration and other safeguards, made almost
| impossiblel Churches twice as large as the
| old ones, the enlarged supply to meet the
! enlarged demand Nihilism getting a stun
| ming stroke by the summary execution of
its opponents after they had murdered
! the policemen in Chicago, received its
| death-blow from the recent treaty which
| sends back to Russia the blatant
| criminals who had been regurgitat-
/ ed on our American shore. The very
things that have been quoted as perls
! to this nation are going to help its saliva
| ton Great cities, so often mentioned as
! great obstacles-the center of crime and
! the reservoir of all iniquities-are to lead
in the work of gospelization. Who give
! most to home missions, to asylums, to re-
| ligious education, to all styles of humani-
| tartan and Christian institutions? The
| cities. From what places did the most re-
| lief go at the time of Johnstown flood,
! and Michigan fires, and Charleston earth
! quake and Ohio freshets? From the cit