The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-03-11


well as out of hogs" One of the lead
ers of communism left inscribed on his
prison wall, where he had been justly |
incarcerated, these words; when |
once you are dead, there is an end OF
everything; therefore, ye scoundrels,
grab whatever you can, only don't let |
yourselves be grabbed. Amen" There
are in this country hundreds OF thou
sands of these lazy scoundrels. Honest
men deplore it when they cannot get
work, but those of whom / speak will
not do work when they can get it.
tried to employ one who asked me for
money. / said; "Down in my cellar !
have some wood to saw, and will pay
you for it." For little while heard
the saw going, and then l heard it no
more went down stairs and found
the wood, but the workman had dis
appeared, taking for company both
buck and saw.
Socialism, communism, and Nihilism
mean, "Too wicked to acknowledge
God, and too lazy to earn living"
and among the mightiest obstacles to
be overcome are those organized ele-
ments of domestic, social, and political
ruin.
There are also the Businesses of inf
deity, and atheism, and fraud, and po-
litical corruption, and multiform, hy-
dra-headed, millicn-armed abomina-
tions all over the land. While the
mightiest agencies for righteousness
on earth are good and healthful news
papers and good and healthful books,
and our chief dependence for intelli-
gence and Christian achievement is
upon them, what word among the
more than 100, 900 words in our vocabu-
larry can describe the work of that arch
angel Of mischief a corrupt literature?
What man., attempting anything for
God and humanity, has escaped a stroke
of its filthy wing? What good cause
has escaped it's hinderment? What
other obstacle in all the land so appall-
ing? but l cannot name more than one
half the battlements, the bastions, the
intrenchments, the redoubts, the forth
fications to be stormed and overcome
if this country is. ever taken for God.
The statistics are so awful that II we
had nothing but the multiplication
table and the arithmetic, the attempt
to evangelize America would be an alb
surdity higher than the Tower Of
Babel before it dropped on the plain OF
Shinar. Where are the drilled troops
to march against those Notifications az
long as the continent? Where are the
batteries that can be unlimbereC
, against these walls? Where are thu
, guns of large enough caliber to storm
these gates? Well, let us look arount
4 and see, the first of all, who is ou
. leader, and who will be cur leade
= un til the work is done. Garibaldi witt
: 1000 Italians could do more than an
> other commander with 10000 Italians
= Gen. Sherman, on one side, ant
Stonewall Jackson on the other
4 each with 10000 troops, could do NOR
- than some other generals with 5000
. troops. The rough boat in which Wash
- ington crossed the icy Delaware with
- few half-frozen troops, was mightie
1; than the ship of war that, durin
the American revolution, came throug
= the Narrows, gun at each portfolio
; and sunk in He'll Gate. Our Leader
:, like most great leaders, was born in a
- obscure place, and it was an humbl
. home, about five miles from Jerusalem
q Those who were out of doors tina
!, night said that there was stellar con
:. motion, and music that came out
the clouds, as though the front door {
a. Heaven had been set open, and thf
. the camels heard His first infantile or.
. Then He came to the fairest boyhoo
- that mother was ever proud of, an
- from IL to 80 years of age was off
4 India, if traditions there are accurat
:, and for three years had His pathwa
% surrounded by blind eyes that He ILL
aS minated, and epileptic patients to who
~ ~ He gave rubicund health, and tongu,
= that He loosed from silence into son.
70 and those whose funerals He stoppe
~, that he might give back to bereave
ar mothers their only boys and tho'
10 whose fevered pulses He had restore
,o into rhythmic throb and whose par
~ lytic limbs He had warmed into healt
l. full circulation-pastor at Capernaur
II but flaming evangelist everywher
Pc hushing crying tempests and turnir
co rolling seas into solid sapphire, and +,
the rescue of u race submitted to cou
,t room filed with bowling miscreant
a. and to martyrdom at the sight
,d which the sun tainted and fell back
1. x,1
at clouds homeward, like snowy mounta
=, peaks, till Heaven took Him back agai
=. more favorite than He had ever bee
nd but, coming again, He is on earth nov
m and the nations are gathering to H
nd standard. Following Him were Il
l,e Scotch covenanters, the Theban legio
ro the victims of the London Haymarke
A. the Piedmontese sufferers, the Pilgri
Iic Fathers, the Huguenots, and uncountl
os multitudes of the past, joined by abo
ha 400, 600, 900 of the present, and with II
no certainty that all nations shall huzzi
he at His chariot wheel, He goes forth, Il
as moon under His feet and the stars
be heaven for His tiara-the Nigh
a Leader, He of Drumclog, and Bothwe
No Bridge, and BannoclSburn, and the OF
rc who whelmed Spanish Armada, "Col
a. ing up from Edom, with dyed carmen
an from Bozrah, travelling in the greu
$ ness of His strength, mighty to- save
nv and behind whom we fall into lii
30 to-day and march in the campaign tn
n is to take America for God. Hosann
a. Hosanna! Wave all the palm branche
!. A Hin font mt dornr,, ,ro,,.. eli ,rn,. n,