Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-09-19

popular amusement, to luro the eye and
fancy. All this to be done by urging the
water. the wind and the sunshine to
their full development.
He goes on and gives plates OF the
machinery by which this work is to be
done. and he says he only needs at tho
start company IN which the shares
shall be $50 each, and 800, 900 or
5000, 900 Shall be raised just to make
specimen community, and then, this
being formed, the world will see its
practicability. and very soon 81, 900, 900
or 'b3, 900, 900 can be obtained, and III
ten years the whole earth will be en-
paradised. The plan is not so preposter-
GUS as some have heard of. But will
take no stock in that company. l do not
believe that it will ever be done i'll that
way by any mechanical force or by any
machinery that the human mind can
put into play. 1t is to be done BY the
gospel Of the Son Of God-tbe omnipo.
tent machinery Of love aud grace and
pardon and salvation. This is to empar-
adso the nations. Archimedes destroyed
feet Of ships coming up the harbor.
You know how he did it? He lifted
grent sunglass, history tells US, and
when the fleet of ships came up the har.
Dor of Syracuse he brought to benr this
sunglass, and he focused the snn's rays
upon those ships. Now the sails are
wings of fire, the masts fall, the vessels
sink. Oh, my friends, by the sunglass
Of the gospel converging the rays Of the
sun Of righteousness upon the sins, the
wickedness Of the world. we will mako
them blaze and expire.
The Cleaused Cities.
In that day Of which l speak do you
believe there will be any midnight ca.
rousal? Will there be any kicking off
from the marble steps Of shivering men,
dicantsi Will there be any unwashed,
unfed, uncolnbed children? Will there
be any blaspkemies in the streets? Will
there be any inebriates staggering past2
No. No wine stores. No lager beer So
looms. No distillories. where they make
the three KS. No bloodshot eye Nc
bloated check. No instruments Of ruin
and destruction. No fist pounded fore
head The grandchildren of that wom-
all who goes down the street with
curse, stoned by the boys that follow
hor. will te the rcformcrs and philan-
thropists and the Christian men and the
honest merchants of our cities.
Then what municipal governments,
too wo will have in all the cities. Some
cities are worse than others, but in
many of our cities you just walk down
by tho city balls and look in at some OF
the rooms occupied By politicians, and
see to what q sensual. loathsome. igno-
rant, 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, whiting all day long. and
waiting all night long.
Who ore these wretched women taken
up Tor drunkenness, and carried up to
the courts, and put in prison, of course?
What will you do with the grog shops
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 a purse. All
of them crimes damaging society less
than $50 or $50. But what will you do
with the gambler who last night robbed
the young man of $1,000? Nothing,
What shall be done with that one who
breaks through and destroys the purity
of q Christian home, and with an adroit-
ness and perfdy that beat the strategy
of hell. filings o shrinking, shrieking
soul intoruin: 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 al officer Of my
church and told the story and franticaliy
asked what he should do? Nothing.
All, we do we'll to punish small
crimes, but have sometimes thought it
would be better in some of our cities If
the officials would only turn out from
the jails the petty criminals. the little
offenders. $40 desperadoes, and put i'll
their places some of the monsters of in
iquity who drive their roam span through
the streets so swiftly that honest men
have to leap to get out of the way OF be-
ing run overI Oh the damnable schemes
that professed Christian men will some
times engage in until God puts the fin
ger of his retribution into the collar OF
their robe Of hypocrisy and rips it clear
to the bottom But all these wrongs
will be righted 1 expect to live TO see
the day I think 1 hear in tho distance
the rumbling of the King 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