Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-03-18


turtles? How many hopes blasted?
How many children turned ont on the
world. accursed with stigma of n de-
bauched ancestry? Until the worm
of the distillery becomes the worm
that never dies, and the smoke
of the heated wine watts be-
comes the smoke of - the torment
that ascendeth up forever and ever! Al
coholism, swearing-not with hand up
lifted toward Heaven. for from that di-
rection 1t can get no help: but with
right hand stretched down toward the
perdition from which il came up
swearing that il win not cease rs long
as there are any homesteads TO despoil,
any magnificent men and women to de-
stroy, any immortal souls To damn. any
more nations, to ballS, any more civiliza-
lions to eNtingliish.
Then there is in America what we
call socialism. in France communism,
and in Russia Nihilism-the three
names for one and the same thing-and
having but two doctrines in its creed:
First, there il no God Second, there
shall be no rights of property. One of
their chief journals printed this senti-
ment: Dynamite can be made out Of
the dead bodies of capitalists rs well as
out of hogs" One of the leaders of
communism left inscribed on his prison
wall, where he had been justly incar
cerated, these words: when once YOU
are dead, there is an end OF everything:
therefore. We scoundrels. grab what
ever you can-only don't let yourselves
Ice grabbed. Amenr' There are in
this country hundreds of thousands of
these lazy scoundrelS
Honest men deplore it when they can
not get work, but those of whom |
speak will not do work when they can
get 1t. tried to employ one who asked
me for money. l said: Down in nv
cellar is some wood to saw, and / will
pay You for it, For little while L
heard the saw going, and then / heard
1t no m6re. | went downstairs, and
found the wood, but the workman had
disappeared. taking for company both
buck and saw
Socialism, communism and nihilism
mean, Too wicked to acknowledge
God, and too lazy To card "A living and
among the mighticst obstacles 10 be
overcome are those organized elements
of domestic, social and political ruin.
There are also the businesses of inf
deity, and atheism, and fraud, and DO
litical corruption, and multiform, hy-
dra-headed million harmed denominations
all over the land. While the mightiest
agencies for righteousness on earth are
good apd henlthful newspapers and
good and healthful books, and our chief
dependence for intelligence and Chris
tian achievement is upon them, what
"a M h.a
dred thousand words i'm our vocabulary
can describe the work of that archan-
angel of mischief, "A corrupt literature?
What man, attempting anything for
God and humanity, has escaped a
stroke of its lithy wing? What good
cause has escaped its Underwent?
What other obstacle in all the land
so appalling? But / can not name
more than one-half the battlements.
the bastions, the intrenchments. the re-
doubts, the Notifications to be stormed
and overcome if this country is ever
taken for God. The statistics are so
awful that if we had nothing but the
multiplication table and the arithmetic
the attempt To evangelize America
would be an absurdity higher than the
| Tower of Babel before il dropped on
the plain of Shinar. Where are the
drilled troops To march against those
Notifications as long as the continent?
| Where are the batteries that can be un-
limbered against these walls? Where
are the guns of large calibcr to storm
these gates? Well. let MS look around
and see, the first OF all. who is our
leader and will be our leader until the
work Is done. Garabaldi with "A thou
sand Italians could do more than an
other commander with 10000 Italians.
Gen. Sherman on one side. and Stone
wall Jackson on the other. each with
10000 troops, could do more than some
other generals with 900 troops. The
rough boat in which Washington
crossed the icy Delaware with few
! half-frozen troops was mightier than
the ship of war that. during the Amer
lean revolution, came through the mar
rows gun at each portfolio and sunk
in Hell Gate. Our Leader like most
great leaders, was born in an Obscure
place, and il was an humble home.
about five miles from Jerusalem. Those
who were 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
He came TO the fairest boyhood
that mother was very proud OF.
and from II TO 80 years of age WIS
off in India, if traditions there are az
curate, and then returned TO His n,-
tive land, and for three years had His
pathway surrounded with blind eyes
that he illumined, and epileptic patients
90 whom He gave rubicund health. and
tongues that He loosed from silence in.
TO song, and those whose funerals lie
stopped that He might give back to
bereavcd mothers their only boys, and
those feycrcd pulses He had restored in
20 rhythmic throb. and whose paralvtic
limbs He had warmed into healthful
circulation-pastor at Capernaum. hut
! Naming evangelist everywhere. hush
ing crying tempeSts and turning roll
I ing seas into solid sapphire. and for
the rescue OF "a race submitted TO court
room filled with bowling miscreants
ana To martyrdom at the sight Of
which the sun tainted and fell back in
the heavens. and then treading the
crowds hOmcyvard like snowy noun