Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-09-14

book of great genius, ana winch rushed
from edition to edition, he said: Eel
low men. / promise to show the means
Of creating paradise within ten years.
where everything desirable for human
life NAV be had by every man in super
abundance without labor and without
pav-vhere the whole face of nature
shall he changed into the most beautiful
\ farms. and man may live in the most
magnificeuu palaces, in all imaginable
refinements of luxury, and in the most
delightful gardens-where he may ac-
compIish without labor in one year
more than hitherto could be done in
4 thousands of years. FROM the houses to
| be built will be afforded the most cul-
tured views that can be fancied. From
the galleries, from the roof, and from
the turrets may be seen gardens as far
! as the eye can see, full of fruits and
flowers, arranged in the most beautiful
order, with walks colonnades, aque-
ducts, canals, ponds, plains, amphithca-
tiers, terraces, fountains, sculptured
works pavilions. gondolas, places Of
popular amusement, to lure 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 the
start a company in which the shares
shall be $50 each, and 500, coo or
$780, coo shall be raised just to make
a specimen community, and then, this
being formed, the world will see its
practicability, and very soon So, 600, 900
or So, 600, 0G0 can be obtained, and in
ten years the whole earth will be en-
paradised The plan is not SO preposter-
Gus as some I have heard Of But I will
take no stock III that company. do not
believe that it will ever be done III 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-the omnipo-
tent machinery Of love and grace and
pardon and salvation. This is to empar-
adise the nations. Archimedes destroyed
a feet of ships coming up the harbor
You know how he did it? He lifted a
great sunglass. history tells US, and
when the fleet Of ships came up the har-
Dor of Syracuse lie brought.to bear this
sunglass, and he focused the sun S rays
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 CT the world, we will make
them blaze and expire.
The CIeansed Cities.
In that day of which / speak do you
believe there will be any midnight ca
rousal? Will there be any kicking off
from the marble steps OF, shivering men
dicants? Will there be any unwashed,
unfed, uncombed children? Will there
be any blasphemies in the streets? Will
there be any inebriates staggering past?
No. No wine stores. No lager beer sa-
looms. No distilleries, where they make
the three ks. No bloodshot eye. No
bloated cheek. No instruments of ruin
and destruction. No fist pounded fore
head. The grandchildren of that wom-
an who gees down the street with
curse, stoned by the boys that follow
her, will be the reformers and philan-
thropists and the Christian men and the
honest merchants of our cities.
Then what municipal governments,
too, we will have III all the cities. Some
cities are worse than others, but i'll
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 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, waiting all day long, and
waiting all night long.
Who are those wretched women taken
up for drunkenness, and carried up to
the courts, and put III 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 a
dollar. This girl snatched purse. All |
of them crimes damaging society less
than $40 on $50. But what will you do |
with the gambler who last night robbed |
the young man of 81, coo? Nothing.
What shall be done with that one who |
breaks through and destroys the purity |
of Christian home, and with an adroit-
ness and perfdy that beat the strategy
of hell, filings a shrinking, shrieking
soul into ruin? Nothing. What Will you
do with those who heeced that young
man, getting him to purloin large sums
of money from his employer-the young
man who came to all officer of my
church and told the story and frantically I
asked what he should do? Nothing
All, we do we'll to punish small
crimes, but I 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, SO desperadoes, and put in
their places some of the monsters of in
EQUITY who drive their roam span through
the streets SO swiftly that honest men