Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1896-10-01

Will there he any nnwashed, un:ad, NJ
children? Will there b, any blaspga
mics in the streets? VIII there ba anyina-
briates staggering pas? 10. No wine stores.
No lager beer saloons. No dis5i:leries. wh.-e
they make the three Ks. No bloodsh0t eve
No bloated cheek. No Instruments Of ruin
and destruction. No f~st-pounded forehead
The grandchildren OF that woman who coca
down the street with a curse. stoned BY tn.
boys that fellow her. will be the reformer-
and philanthropists and the Christian men
and the honest merchants of our cities.
Then, what municipal governments. too.
we viii have in oil the cities. Some cities
are worse than others. but in many Of our
cities you Just walk down by the city hall
and look in at some OF the rooms occupied
by politicians. and seq to what a sensual,
loathsome, ignorant. besotted crew citv
politics is often abandoned: Or they stand
around the City Hall picking their teeth,
waiting for some enolunents Of crumbs 70
fall 70 their feet, waiting ali day long. aud
waiting all night long.
Who are those wretched women taken up
for drunkenness, and carried UP to the
courts, and put in prison OF course? What
will You do with the grogshops thas make
them drink? Nothing. Who are those
prisoners in jail? One OF them stole a pair
OF shoes. That boy stole a dollar. This girl
snatched a purSe. All OF them crimes dam
aging society fass than twenty or thirty dol
'"A". D'h "Ha VIA SoN W. Win IA Shd4"
bler who last night robbed the young man Of
a thousand dollars? Nothing. What shall
be done with that one who breaks through
and destroys the purity OF a Christian home,
and with an airoitnes5 and peridy tha.
beats the strategy Of hell, filings a shrinking,
shrieking soul into RUM? Nothing. What
will you do with those who feeced that
young man. getting him to purloin large
sums OF money from his employer-the
young man who came to An officer OF my
church and told the story, and franticaliy
asked what he should do? Nothing
All. we do we'll to punish small crimes; but
1 have sometimes thought 1t would be better
in some OF our cities If the officials would
only turn out from the jails the petty crimi-
mails, the little offenders, ten-dollar despera-
does, and put in their places some Of the
monsters of iniluity who drive their roam
span through this streets 50 swiftly that hon
est men have to leap to get out OF the way OF
being run over. On, the damnable schemes
that protested Cnristlan men Will some
times engage in until God puts the finger OF
His retributiop into the collar OF their robe
OF hypocrisy and rips it clear to the bottom!
But all these wrongs will be riRhted. l ex-
pect TO live to see the day. think l hear in
the distance tho rumbling OF the Kings
chariot. Not always in the minority 10 the
Church Of God going to be, or are good men
, going to be. The streets nre going to be
filled with regenerated populations. Taree
hundred and sixty bells rang in Moscow
when one prince was married but. Vhan
righteousness and peace kiss each othnr IL
:. all the earth, ten thousand times ten thou
, SAINT bells shall strike the jubilee. Poverty
enriched. Hunger fed. Crime bani5'.ed.
Ignorance enlightened Allthe cities saved
), Is not this a cause worth working IN?
, Oh, you think sometimes it does no
). amount to much. You toll on in your dlf
: ferent spheres, sometimes with great dis
~couragenent. People have no faith and DAY
tiIt Innl pnt nmn n ny fn a n vthinO. Won JnfOl
as well quit that" Why, when Moso
, stretched his hand over the IRed Sea. it 'dit
not seem to mean ANYTHING especially. Fec
! pie zane out, l suppose, and said: AHA!
Some OF them found out what he wanted t
do. He wanted the sea parted. 1t did 40
. amount to anything, this stretching out 0
. his hand over the sea. But, after n while
) the wind blew al! night from the east, an
: the waters were gathered into a glitterin'
: palisale on either side, and the billow
reared as God pulled back on their crvsta
: bits Wheel into line, O, Israel! march
y y march! Pearls crashed under feet. FLYNN!
;, spray gathers into rainbow arch OF victor
Tor tho conquerors to march under. Shout
OF hosts on the beach answering the shout
of hosts amid sea. And when tho last line c
Is-aelite3 reach the beach the cymba!s clay
: and the shields c.ang. and the. waters rus
over the ,ur3urrs, and the swift-1ingere
wings on tho white keys Of the foam pla
the grand march Of Israel delivered and tn
: awful dirgo Of Egyptian overthrow.
so you &nd l go forth. and all the peopl
:. Of Go 20 forth, and they stretch forth thei
:. hand over the sea, the boiling sea Of Grim
ana sin and Indebtedness. cit don't amour
20 anything" pee pie say. Don't it? God
VIM, OF help will, after a while. begin t
i blow. A oath will be cleared for tie arm
20 Of Christian piilanthropists. The path WI
- b. lined with the treasures OF Christia
"a benciicence, and we shalt be greeted to til
~ other beach by the clappinG of all Of heaven
lr - W." -,
~ down under the sea aud all that will be le
al Of them will be east high and dry upon tt
= beach. the splintered wheel Of a chariot, {
~ thrust out from the foam the breathless Nc
- trll Of Il riderless charger.