St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-11-07

carous.l, win There = any 1iieLia,
Oh from the marble steps Of shiverins
mendicants3 Win there b any un
washed. united. uncombed children,
VIII there b. any blaspAenis'
in the streets? No. No wine
storca No lager beer saloons
No distilleries, where they
make the three Ks. No bloodshot eye
No bloated cheek. No instruments o.
ruin and destruction. No Ast-poup lei
forehead. The grandchildren of<hal
woman who goes down the street with
= curse, stoned by tho boys that fol
low her, will be the reformers and
phila nthropists and the Christian mer
and the honest merchants Of our cities
Then, what municipal governments,
too, we will have In all the cities Some
cities are worse than others, but in
many Of our cities you just walk down
f6y tn city halls and look in at soml
of the rooms occupied by politicisns,
and SEQ to what q SEMINAL, leathsoae,
ignorant, besotted crew city apolitin,
il often abandoned. Or they stand
around tho city hall picking theil
teeth, waiting for some emoluments Of
crumbs to fall to their feet-wsiting
al day long, and waiting all night
long. ttf5e .tfTstk
Who are those wretchsd women
taken up for drunkenness,c and car.
ried up to the courts, and put in
prison, OF course? What will yoa dc
with the grogshops that make them
drink? Nothing. Who are those
prisoners in Jail? One of them stole
. pair of shoes. That boy stole
. dollar. This girl snatched .
purse. All Of them crimes dam
aging society less thsn.swenty or thir.
ty dollars. Nut what jell You do9lth
the gambler who last night robbed the
young man OF . thousand dollars7
Nothing. What will be done with
that one who breaks through and dc.
stroys the purity of = Christian home,
and with an adroitness and perfdy
that beats the strategy Of he'll,
filings shrinking, shriekinR
soul into ruin? Nothing. What
will you do with those who deeced
that young man, getting him to pur-
loin large sums Of money from his
employer-the young man who came
an officer Of my church and told the
story. and frantically asked what he
should do? Nothing.
Ali we do well to punish small
crimes; but have sometimes thought
It would Be better In some of our cities
II tho officials would only turn ont
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
swiftly that honest men have to leap
to get out Of the way of being run
over. Oh, the damnable schemes that
professed Christian men will some
times engage in until God puts tho
finger of His retribution into tho
collar of their robe of hypocrisy
and rips 1t clear to the bot
tom! But all these wrongs will
be righted. expect to live to
see the day. Think hear In the dis
tance tho rumbling Of the Kings
Not always in the minority
is the church of God going to be.
The streets are going to be filed
with regenerated populations Three
hundred and sixty bells rang
in Moscow when /: pne prince
was married; but, when right.
cous ness and peace kiss each other in
all the earth, 10000 times 10000 bells
shall strike the jubilee. Poverty en-
riched. Hunger fed. Crime banished.
Ikhorince enlightened. All tAt cities
saved. IL this not . GAUGE worth work.
ing in9
c Oh, you think sometimes it does not
to muchi You toll on your
different spheres, sometimes with
great Encouragement. People have
no faith, and say: 1T does not amount
to anything; you might As well quit
th4t" Why. when Moses stretched his
1aAa over the Red sea it did not seem
10 mean anything especially. Peo-
pie came on, l suppuse, and said:
''Aha!' Some of them found out what
he wanted to do. He wanted the sea
parted. 1t did not amount to any !
thing, this stretching out of his hand
over the sea. But, after awhile. tho
wind blew allnight from the east. and
The waters were gathered into = gilt
Lering palisade on either side, and tho
pillows reared as God pulled back on
heir crys&aIhaes! Wh6e4anto line, o,
Israeli march! marchl Pearls crushed
,nder feet. Flying spray gathers into
'ainbow arch Of victory for the con-
luerors to march under. Shout of
losts ON the beach answering the shout
# hosts amid sea. And when the
asst line of Israelites reach the beach,
he cymbals clap, and the shields clang,
md the waters rush over the pursuers,
md the swift-fingered winds on the
white keys of the foam play tho grand
march Of Israel delivered and the
Iwful dirge of Egyptian overthrow.
So you and l 60 forth, and all the
,eople of God 60 forth, and the stretch
orth their hand over the sea, the
polling sea of crime and sin, and
st don't amount to
people say. Don't It? Gods
Winds Of help will, after awhile, begin
o blow. A path will be cleared for
he army of Christian philanthro pists.
he path will be lined with the trea- |
ures of Christian bcneficence, and We
hall be greeted to the other beach by |
he clappiug of all Heavens GYM
'als, while those who pursued us.
nd derided MS, and tried to d estroy
5, will 60 down under the sea, and all |
hat will be left Of them will be cast
Ugh and dry upon the beach, the
plintered wheel of = chariot, or, thrust
ut from the foam. thssbrea&h3ess nose
ril Of riderless changer.
x Periloas Times. ii
The country has seen no &6rs So
lous, critical time since 1860 than it is
assing through now. Industries are |
and there seems to be no
ssurance of their revival. There is
lso danger that we shall bring down
pom ourselves an avalanche Of disas-
u. It is time to put away our purblind
ptipism and colossal national self