The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-09-25

Will there be nnv unwashed, unfed, uG-
combed children? Will there b" any blasp le-
mics in the streets? Will there be- any inc
briates staggering past! No. No wine stores.
No lager beer saloons. No distilleries, where
they make tho three rs. No bloodShot eye.
No bloated cheek. No instruments OF ruin
and destruction. No fist-pounded forehead.
The grandchildren Of that woman who goes
boys that fellow her, will be the reformerS
and philanthropists and the Christian men
and the honest merchants of our cities.
Then, what municipal governments, too.
we will have IN all the cities Some cities
ure worse than others. but in many OF our
cities you just walk down by the city hall
and look in Mt some OF the rooms occupied
by politicians, and see to what a sensual,
loathsome, ignorant. besotted crew city
politics is often abandoned. Or they stand
around the City Hall picking their teeth,
waiting for some emoluments OF crumbs to
fall to their feet, waiting oil 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 course2 What
will yea do with the grogshops that make
them drin>? Nothing. Who are those
prisoners In Jail? One OF them stole pair
o: shoes. Tint boy stole dollar. This girl
snatched purse. All OF them 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
n thousand dollars? Nothing. What shall
be done with that one who breaks through
and destroys the purity OF u Christian home,
aud with An adroitness and periidy thai
beats the strategy OF hell. filings a shrinking.
shriekinS soul into ruin? Nothing. What
will you do with those who fieeced that
young man. getting him to purloin large
sums OF money from his employer-the
young man who came to an onicer OF my
church and told the story, and frantically
asked what he should do? Nothing.
All. we do we'll to punish small crimes; but
l havo sometimes thought II would be better
in some OF our cities II the officials would
only turn out from the jails the petty crlmi-
nails, the little offenders. ten-dollar despera-
does, and put in their places some OF the
monsters Of iniquity who drive their roam
span through the streets so swiftly that hon.
est men have to leapto get out OF the way OF
being run over. Oh, the damnable schemes
that professed Christian men will some
time, engage in until God puts the finger Of
His retribution into the collar OF their robe
OF hypocrisy and rips IL clear to the bottom!
But all these wrongs will be- righted. ex-
pect to live to see the day. think hear IN
the distance tho 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 ono prince was married. but. when
righteousness and peace kiss each other in
nll the earth, ten thousand times ten thou
sand bells shall strike the jubilee. Poverty
enriched. Hunger fed. Crime banished.
Ignorance enlightened. All the cities saved.
Is not this cause worth working in2
Oh, you think sometimes it does not
amount to much You toll on In your diff
ferent spheres, sometimes with great dis
coursgoment. People have no faith and say:
"a well quit that" Why. when Moses
stretched his hand over the Red Sea. 1t did
not seem to mean ANYTHING especially. Per-
pie came out. suppose and said: aha"
Some OF them found out what ho wanted to
do. He w;tutei the sea parted. 1t did not
his hand over the sen. But. after u while.
the wind blow all night from tho east, and
the waters were gathered into gittering
palisado on either side, and tho billows
reared as God pulled back on their CRYSTAL
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
Israeitcs reach the beach the cymba!s clap,
and the shields cang, and tho waters rush
over tho pursuers, and the swift-1ngered
wings on the white keys OF tho foam play
the grand march OF Israel delivered and the
aw Il dirge OF Egyptian overthrow.
SO you and go forth. and oil the people
OF God go forth, and they stretch forth their
hand over the sea, the boiling sea OF crime
and sin and wretchedneSs. at don't amount
TO anything" people say. Don't 1t? Gods
winds OF help will, after while, begin TO
blow. A path will be cleared for the army
OF Christian phtlanthropists. Tne path will
be lincd with tho treasures OF Christian
and we shall be greeted to the
other beach by the clapping OF all Of heavens
cymbnls. while those who pursued us and
derided us and tried to destroy us will 90
down under tho sea and all that will be left
OF them will be cast high aud dry upon the
beach, the splintered wheel OF II chariot, or
thrust out from the foam the breathless ncs-
tril Of Il rlderleSs charger.