The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-10-07

around the City Hall picking their teetn,
waiting for some emoluments OF crumos 70
fall to their feet, waiting all day long, and
! waitin: all night long.
Who are those wretched women taken up
for drunkenness, and carried up TO tne
courts, and put in prison Of course' Wnat
will You do with the groSsnops that make
them drink? Nothing. who are those
prisoners In jal? One of them stole pair
of shoes. That boy stole dollar. This girl
snatched purse. All of tnem crimes dam
aging society less than twenty or thirty dol
lars. But what will you do with the gam
bier who last night robbed the young man OF
thousand dollars? Nothing. What shall
b. done with that one who breaks through
and destroys the purity Of a Christian home,
and with an adroitness and perady that
beats the strategy OF hell. filings shrinking,
shriekng soul into ruin? Nothing. What
will you do with those who fleeced 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 do? Nothing.
Ah! we do we'll to punish small crimes; out
I have sometimes thought it would DO better
in some OF our cities II the officials woula
only turn out from the jais the petty crlml-
nails, the little offenders. ten-dollar deSpera-
does, and put in their places some OF the
monsters of iriquity who drive taelr loau
span through the streets so swiftly tnat nou.
est men have to leapto get out OF the way
being run over. Oh. the damnaole scnelnes
that professed Christian men will some.
timeo ei ace in until God puts the finger OF
His retribution into the collar OF their ROBE
of hypocrisy and rips it clear to the bottom!
But all these wrongs will be richted. e3-
meet TO live to see the day. think hear IN
the distance the ruubling 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 resenerated populations. Three
hundred and sixty bells rang in Moscow
when one prince was married; but. Wnen
righteousness and peace kiss each othrr IN
all the earth, ten thousand times ten thou-
sand bells shall strike the jubilee. Poverty
enriched. Hunger fed. Crime banished.
Ignorance enlightened. Allthe cities saved.
Is not this cause worth working in?
Oh, YOU think sometimes it does not
amount to much! You toll on in your dif-
ferent spheres, sometimes with great dis
couragement. People nave no faith and say:
"It does not amount to anything; you might
as we'll quit that" Why. when Moses
stretched his hand over the Red Sea, 1t did
not seem to mean ANYTHING especially. Pen.
Pile came out, suppose, and SAID: ana!
Some of them found out what he wanted TO
do. He wanted the sea parted. 1t did not
amount to anything, this stretching out OF
his hand over the sea. But. after a while.
the wind blew all nigat from the east, and
the waters were gathered into glittering
palisade on either side, and the pillows
reared as God pulled back on their crvsta!
bits, Wheel into line, o, Israel! march!
march! Pearls crashed under feet. Flying
spray gathers into rainbow arch OF victory
for the conquerors to march under. Shouts
OF hosts on the beach answering the shouts
of hosts amid sea. And when the last line OF
Israe!ites reach the beach the cymbals clap,
and the shields clang, and the waters rusn
over the pursuers, and the swift-fngered
wings on the white keys OF the foam play
the grand march OF Israel delivered and the
awful diree of Egyptian overthrow.
So you and so forth. and al! the people
of God 60 forth, and they stretch forth their
hand over the sea, the boiling sea OF crime
and sin and wretchedness. ut don't amount
to anything" people say. Don't 1t? Gods
winds of help will, after while, begin to
blow. A path will he cleared for the army
OF Christian philanthropists. The path VIII
be Incl with the treasures OF Christian
beneiicence, and we shall be greeted to the
other beach by the clapping OF all OF heavens 9
cymbals, while those who pursued US and
derided US and tried to destroy US will go
down under the sea and all that will be LETT
OF them will be cast high and dry upon the
beach, the splintered wheel OF q chariot, or
thrust out from the foam the breathless ncs-
tril of a riderless charger.