Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18

I waiting Tor some emolumenpS OF crumbs Ut
fall to their feet waiting all day long and
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
1 will you do with the grogshops that make
/ them drink Nothing. Who arc those pris-
oners in jails Ono of them stole a pair OF
I shoes That boy stole a dollar. This girl
snatched a purse. All Of them crimes
damaging society less than SEQ or $50.
| But what will you do with the gambler
who last night robbed the young man of
81, 900? Nothing What shall be done
with that one who breaks through and de-
stroys the purity Of u Christian home, and,
with an adroitness and perfidy That beat
the strategy of hell flings a shrinking,
shrieking soul into ruin? Nothing. What
will you do with those who heeced 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 frantically
asked what he should dog Nothing.
All, we do well to punish small crimes,
but have sometimes thought it would be
better in some Of our cities If the officials
would only turn out from the jalls the pet
ty criminals, tho little offenders, $40 des-
peradoes, and put in their places some Of
the monsters of iniquity who drive their
roam span through the streets so swiftly
that honest mem have to leap to get out of
the way Of being run over. Oh, the damna-
bic schemes that professed Christian men
will sometimes engage in until God puts
tho finger Of his retributiOn into the collar
of their robo of hypocrisy and rips it clear
to the bOttOml But all these wrongs will
be righted. I expect to live to see the day
think 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 filed with regenerated pop
ulations Three hundred and sixty bells
rang In Moscow when one prince was mar
ried, but when righteousness and peace
kiss each other in all tho earth, ten thou
sand times ten thousand bells shall strike
the jubilee. Poverty enriched Hunger
fed. Crime banished. Ignorance en-
lightoned All the cities saved. Is not
this n cause worth working in?
Wheel Into Line.
Oh, you think sometimes it does not
amount to much You toll on in your
different spheres, sometimes with great
discouragement People have no faith
and say; 1T does not amount to anything
You might as well quit that. Why, when
Moses stretched his hand over the Red sea |
it did not seem to mean anything especial |
~ People came out, 1 suppose and said, |
"AhaP Some Of them found out what he |
wanted to do. He wanted the sea parted |
1t did not amount to anything, this stretch |
ing out of his hand over the sea- But after |
awhile the wind blow all night from the
cast, and tho waters were gathered into |
glittoring palisade on either side, and tho /
pillows reared as God pulled back on thor |
crystal bits. Wheel into line o Israeli |
March! march, Pearls crashed undor
feet. Flying spray gathers into rainbow
arch of victory for the conquerors to march
under Shout of hosts on the beach an
swering the shout Of hosts amid sea, And
when the last line Of Israelites reach the
beach the cymbals clap, and the shields
clang, and the waters rush over the pur-
sucrs, and the swift fingered winds on the
white keys Of the foam play the grand
march Of Israel delivered and the awful
dirge Of Egyptian overthrow.
So you and l go forth, and all the people
IF God go forth, and they stretch forth
their hand over the sea, the boiling sen Of
rhine and sin and wretchedness. sit
DOESN'T amount to anything, people say.
Doesn't it? Gods winds of help will after
lwhile begin to blow. A path will be
cleared for the army of Christian philan-
ihropists. The path will DO lined with the
of Christian beneficence, and we
hall be greeted to the other beach by the
,lapping Of all heavens cymhals, while
hose who pursued us and derided us and
ried to destroy us will go down under the
Ca, and all that will be left of them will
,e cast high and dry upon the beach, the
plintered wheel of chariot, or thrust out
rom the foam, the breathless nostril Of
idcrless charger