The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-09-24

asFluHs, for parents win be able to
leave competency to their Children
Inere Will be no voting of large sums
OF money Tor municipal improvements,
W ll',l moneys, before they get to the
improvements, drop into the pockets of
those who voted them. No over and
termlner kept up at vast expense to
the people. No impane1ing Of iuries to
try theft and arson and murder and
SANDER and blackmail. Better factor
les; grander architecture; finer equip
age; larger fortunes; richer opulence;
better churches.
In that better time also, coming to-
those cities. Christ's churches will be
more numerous, and they will be
larger, and they will be more devoted
to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and they
will accomplish greater influences for
good. Now, it is often the case that
churches are envious of each other,
and denominations collide with each
other, and even ministers of Christ
sometimes forget the bond of brother
hood. But in the time of which
speak, while there will be just as many
differences OF opinion as there are now,
there will be no acerbity, no hypercrit-
icisn no exclusiveness
In that time also of which I speak
all the haunts of iniquity and crime
and squalor will be cleansed and will
be Illuminated. How is it to be done?
You say, perhaps, by one influence.
EPefhaps ! say by another. I will tell
you what is my idea, and know am
right in it: The Gospel of the Son Of
God is the only agency that will ever
accomplish this.
In that day of which 1 speak do you
believe there will be any midnight
carousal? Will there be any kicking
off from the marble steps of shivering
mendicants? Will there be any I'M
washed, unfed, uncombed children?
Will there be any blasphemies in the
streets? Will there be any inebriates
staggering past? No. No wine stores.
NO lager beer saloons. No. distilleries,
where they make the three KS No
bloodshot eye. No bloated cheek No
instruments of ruin and destruction.
No fist pounded forehead The grand
children of that woman who goes down
the street with1a curse, stoned by the
boys that follow her will be the re-
formers and philanthropists and the !
Christian men and the honest mer-
chants of our cities.
Then, what municipal governments,
too, will have in all the cities. Some
cities are worse than others, but in
many of our cities you just walk down
by the city halls and look in at some
of the rooms occupied by politicians,
and see to what sensual. loathsome,
ignorant, besotted crew city politics S
often abandoned. Or they stand
around the city hall picking their teeth,
In re nf
crumbs to fall to their feet, waiting all
day long and waiting all night long
WHO are those Wretched women
taken up for drunkenness and ,.arried
up to the courts and put III prison of
course? What will you do with the
grogshOps that make them drink?
Nothing. Who are those prisoners in
jail? One Of them stole pair of shoes
That boy stole a dollar. This girl
snatched a purse. All Of them crimes
damaging society less than twenty or
thirty dollars. But what will you do
with the gambler who last night rob-
bed the young man of a thousand dol
lars? Nothing. What shall be done
with that one who breaks through and
destroys the purity Of Christian
home, and with an adroitness and
peridy that beats the strategy of hell,
filings shrinking, shrieking soul into
ruin? 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 franti-
cally asked what he should do? Moth
ing.
All! we do well to punish small
or limo h17f T hor ~
it would be better in some of our cities
if the officials would only turn out
from the jails the petty criminals, the
little offenders, ten-dollar desperadoes,
and put in their places some of the
monsters of iniquity who drive their
roam span through the streets so fast
that honest men have to leap to get out
Of the way of being run over. Oh, the
damnable schemes that protested
Christian men will sometimes engage
in until God puts the finger of His ret
ributlOn into the collar of their robe
of hypocricy and rips it clear to the
bottom! But all these wrongs will be
righted. expect to live to see the
day. / think 1 hear in the distance the
rumbling of the Kings 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 to
be filled with regenerated 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 thou
sand times ten thousand bells shall
strike the Jubilee Poverty enriched
Hunger fed Crime banished Ignor-
ance enlightened All the cities saved
Is not this cause worth working in?
So you and go forth, and all the /
people of God go forth, and they
stretch forth their hands over the sea,
the boiling sea Of crime and sin and
Indebtedness. TT don't amount to-
anything" people say. Don't it? Gods
winds Of help will, after awhile, be-
gin to blow. A path will be cleared
for the army Of Christian philanthro
pists. The path will be lined with the
treasures of Christian benefcence, and
we shall be greeted to the other beach
by the clapping Of all heavens Gym
balls, while those who pursued US and
sderided us and tried TO destroy us, will