The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-09-25

off from the marble steps OF shlverihR
mendicants? viii there be any un-
washed, unfed, uncombed children5
win there be any biasphemies
in the streets? No. NO wine
stores No lager beer saloons.
No distiller:ea where they
make the three KS. No bloodshot eye.
No bloated cheek. No Instruments =.
ruin and destruction. No hst-poun aeo
forehead. The grandchildren OF tnas
woman who goes down the street Win
a curse, stoned by the boys that tol.
low her. will be the reformers ana
phila nthropists and the Christian men
and the honest merchants OF our clues.
Then, what municipal governments,
too. we will have in all the cities. Some
cities are worse than others, put IN
many of our cities you just walk down
by the city halls and look in at some
of the rooms occupied by politicians.
and see to what sensual, loathsome,
IGNORANT. besotted crew city politics
is often abandoned. Or they stand
around the city hall picking thelr
teeth, waiting for some emoluaents OF
crumbs to fall to their feet-v,aiting
all day long, and waiting all nlgnt
long.
Who are those wretched women
taken up for drunkenness, aud car
ried up to the courts, and put In
prison, of course? What will You DO
with the grogshops that make them
drink? Nothing Who are those
prisoners in jail? One of them stole
a pair of shoes. That boy stole
dollar This girl snatched q
purse. All of them crimes dam
aging society less than twenty or thlr-
ty dollars. But what will you do with
the gambler who last night robbed the
Young man of a thousand dollars?
Nothing. What will be done with
that one who breaks through and de-
stroys the purity of Christian HON e,
and with an adroitness and perhdy
that beats the strategy OF hell,
filings shrinking, shrieking
soul into ruin? Nothing. What
will you do with those who feeced
that young man, getting him to pur-
loin large sums Of money from ms
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
If the officials would only turn out
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 the
finger of His retribution into the
collar Of their robe of hypocrisy
and rips it clear to the bot
tom! But all these wrongs Will
be righted. / expect to live to
see the day. think hear in the dis
lance the rumbling of the Kings
chariot. Not always in the minority
is the church of God 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 right
eousness and peace kiss each other in
all the earth, 10000 times 10000 bells
shall strike the jubilee. Poverty en-,
riched Hunger fed. Crime banlshea
Ignorance enlightened. All the cities
saved. Is this not cause worth work
| ing in?
Oh. YOU think sometimes it does moi
amount to muchl You toll on your
different spheres, sometimes with
| great discouragement. People have
no faith, and say: sit does not amoun
to anything; you might as well qu,'
that" Why, when Moses stretched hi
hand over the Red sea it did not seen
to mean anything especially. PEG
| pie came on, / suppose, and said
sAha!" 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 hant
over the sea. But, after awhile, the
wind blew all night from the east, and
the waters were gathered into gilt
tering palisade on either side, and tn
pillows reared as God pulled back oil
their crystal bits! Wheel into line. Q
Israel! march! march! Pearls crushed
under feet. Flying spray gathers int
rainbow arch of victory for the con
ouerors to march under. Shout o
hosts on the beach answering the shou
of hosts amid sea. And when tn
last line of Israelites reach the beach
the cymbals clap, and the shields claRe
and the waters rush over the pursuer'
and the swift-fngered winds on tn
white keys of the foam play the gran