The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-11-07

politics Is oifen abandonea. 81 they stand
around the City Hall picking theif f1eth,
waiting for some emoluments Of crunnN To-
fall to thair fest, WAITING al day long. and
waiting alt night long.
Who are those xros ched women taken up
sor drunkenness, and carried mp to the
:ourfs, and put 10 prison Of couree? What
viii you do with the grogShops that make
them drink? Nothing. Who are those
IT shoes. That boy stole doslar. 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
thousand dollars? Nothing. What shall
De done with that one who breaks through
and destroys the purity Of q Christian hons
and with an adroitness and perfldy thai
beats the strategy Of hell, nings shrinking,
,hrieking soul into ruin? Nothing. What
will you do with those who deeced that
young man. getting him to purloin large
sums OF money from his employer-.hs
young man who came to an off1cer OF my
church and told the story, aud frantically
asked what he should do? Nothing.
All! We do well to punish small crimes; but
have sometimes thought it would be better
in some OF our cities II the officials would
only turn out from the jails the petty crini-
nails, the little offenders, ten-lollar despera.
does, and put in their PLACES some OF the
monsters Of iniquity who drive their roam
span through the streets go swiftly that hon.
est men have to leap to get out OF the way of
being run over. Oh, the damnable schemes
that professed Christian men will some
timec ems age in until God puts the finger OF
His retribution into the collar OF their robe
of hypocrisy and rips it clear to the boltoml
But all these wrongs will be righted. I ex-
Al Iva 70 ,,a 1oy ttfpk 4 n
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
filled with regenerated populations. Three
hundred and sixty bells rang in Moscow
when one prince was married but. when
righteousness and peace kiss each other In
all the earth, ten thousand times ten thou
sand bells shall strike the jubilee. Poverty
enriched. Hunger fed. Crime banished.
Ignorance enlightened. Allths Q ties saved.
Is not this cause worth working in?
Oh, you think sometimes It does not
amount to muchI You toll OH in Your dtf-
ferent spheres, sometimes with great dis
couragement. People have no faith and say:
SIT does not amount to anything; you might
as we'll quit that" Why, when Moses
stretched bis hand over the Red Sea. it did
not seem to mean anything especially. Pew
pie came out, suppose, and said: "Ahaf'
Some of them found out what he wanted to
10. He wanted the sea parted. 1t did not
amount to anything, this stretching out OF
his hand over the sea. But. after while.
the wind blew all night from the east, and
the waters were gathered into glittering
paisade on either side, ani the pillows
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 tho 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 rush
over the pursuers, and the swift-hpgered
wings on the white keys OF the foam play
the grand march OF Israel delivered and the
awful 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 Indebtedness. "It don't amount
to anything" people cay. Don't it? Gods
winds OF help will, after while, begin to
blow. path will be cleared for the army
OF Christian philanthropists. Toe path Will
be lined with the treasures OF Christian
beneiicence, and we shall be greeted to the
other beach by the clapping OF all OF heavens
cymbais, while those who pursued US and
derided US and tried to destroy US will go
down under the sea and all that will DO left
Of them will be east high and dry upon the
beach, the splintered wheel OF chariot, or
thrust out from the foam the breathless ncs-
tril Of riderless charger.