The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-05-15


ida, may be turned back to its origina
bloom and glory, or it will be shut q
as museum of crystals for curiosity
seekers once in awhile to visit. Blu
| Arctic and Antarctic, in some shape
will belong to the Redeemer's realm
| What about other unproductive o
repulsive regions? All the desert
will be irrigated, the waters Will 81
forced up to the great American deser
between here and the Pacific by ma
| chinery now known or yet to be in
vented, and, as Great Salt Lake City
| has no rain and could not raise an ap
| ple or bushel of wheat in hundred
wears without artificial help, but il
now through such means one great
garden, so all the unproductive parts
of all the continents will be turned in
to harvest fields and orchards. A
half-dozen De Lesseps will furnish
the world with all the canals needed
and will change the course OF
rivers and open new lakes and
the great Sahara desert will be
cut up into farms with an astounding
weld of bushels to the acre. The
marsh will be drained of its waters
and cured of it's malaria. l saw what
was for many years called the Black
swamp of Ohio, its chief crop chills
and fevers, but now, by the tiles put
into the ground to carry off the sur
plus moisture, transformed into the
richest and healthiest of regions. The
God who wastes nothing, | think,
means that this world, from pole to
pole, has come to perfection OF
foliage and fruitage. For that
reason He keeps the earth
running through space, though so
many fires are blazing down in
it's timbers and so many meteoric ter
rors have threatened to dash it to
pieces AS soon as the earth is COM
pleted Christ will divide it up among
the good. The reason He does not di-
vide now is because it is not done. A
kind father will not divide the apple
among his children until the apple is
ripe. In fulfillment Of the New Tesla
ment, THE meek shall inherit the
earth," and the promise OF the Old Tes-
'He shall divide the spoil
with the strong" the world will be
to those worthy to pos
sess it.
It is not so now. In this country,
capable of holding, feeding, clothing
and sheltering l,2Oo,O0O,0 900 people, we
have only 6O,000,OoO inhabitants, we
have 100000 who can not get honest
work, and with their families an aggre-
cation of 5000, 900 that are on the verge
IF starvation. Something wrong, most
In some way, there will be
new apportionment. Many OF the
estates will crack to pieces
IN the dissipation Of grandchildren
ind then dissolve into the possession
Of the MASSES who now have an in
sufficiency.
What, you say, will become of the
and elaborate buildings now
devoted to debasing amusements?
They will become schools, art CALLER
es, museums, gymnasiums and
churches. The world is already get
ing Disguised with many of these
and no wonder. What
IN importation of unclean theatrical
fluff we have within the last few years
lad brought to our shoresl And pro-
'essors Of religion patronizing such
,hingsl Having sold out to the devil,
Why don't you deliver the goods
Ind 60 over to him publicly,
body, mind and soul, and withdraw
your name from Christian churches,
Ind say: "Know all the world by these
presents that I am patron OF un.
and child of hell!" Sworn
to be the Lords, you are perjurers.
If you think these offenses are to go
on forever, you do not know who the
Lord is. God will not wait for the
Day of Judgment. All these palaces
If sin will become palaces of right
,ousness. They will come into the
of those strong for virtue
md strong for God. HE shall divide
The spoil with the strong"
If my text be not deception, but
The eternal truth. then the time is
coming when all the farms will be
owned by Christian farmers, and all
The commerce controlled by Christian
and all the authority held
by Christian officials, and all the ships
by Christian captains, and
Ill the universities under the instruc-
ton of Christian professors; Christian
Kings, Christian presidents, Christian
Christian mayors, Christian
common councils. Yet, what a scour-
ing out! what an upturning! what a
what a resurrection must
precede this new apportionment!
But" you say, this is pleasant to
think of for others, but before that
time I shall have passed up into an
other existence, and shall get no adj
vantage from that new apportion-