The Penn's Grove record., 1896-09-25
NUMBER 10.

and patilnfAroJists auI tn ChrI-tini mru
and the hon st merrltris Of our r%itit..
Then, what municipal governments, too.
we will have in AT the cities. Soui' citir.
are wOrsr than Others. but IN many OF our
cities you Just walk down by thr city ball
and look in at sOmb Of tho rooms occupied
by politicians, and See to wlut u sensual,
loathsDmp. ignorant. b~sSJttet crew ritv
politics IL often abandoned. or they stand
around the City Hall picking their teeth,
waiting for som emoluments OF crumbs to
fall to their feet, waiting all Jay long, and
waiting all night long.
Who ara tho5s wrstchsi woman taken up
for drunkenness, HuI carried up to tho
courts, and put in prison Of course? Waat
will you do with the crOgshOps that make
them drink? Nothing. Who arc thosa
prisoners In iail2 One OF than stole a pair
Of Shoes. That hoy stolo II do lar. This glrl
snatched n pnrss. An OF them crimes dam
aging society less than twenty or thirty doi-
Iars. But what will YOU do with the gam
bier who last night robbed the young man OF
b thousand dollarsl Nothing. what sinai
be dOae with that ons who breaks thrDu Eh
and destroys ths purity OF CHRISTIAN home,
and With an Airoitness aul peritdy tina:
beats the strategy OF nell. ftngs 4 sarInkiuE,
shriektng soul into ruin! N)th,ug. what
will you do with those WAC irscei that
young man. getting him to purlotn large
sums of money from his employer thu
young mar who came to an OH ar OF nv
church and toll the story, ana franticaliy
asked what he should do? Nothing.
Alb! We do well to punish small crimes but
[ have sometimes thought 1t would be b 'tter
In some OF our cities il the OH 'inl. would
only turn ont from the jaiis the p'tty Grim =
mails, the little offenders. teu-dO!lar de-p1ra-
does. aud put in their pltc 5 same OF this
monsters of iniquiiy who irIF9 their roam
span through tn streets so swiftly that hon
est men have to leapto get ont Of the wtyof
being run over. On, the damnabln schemes
hat professsl Christian men will splle-
time engage In until God puts the finger II
His fetributiOn into the collar OF their r1be
of hypocrisy and rips 1t c eur u the bottom!
But all thess wrongs will be rielltel. | tx
pect to live to ser the DAY. think | hear in
the distance the runJiiES VI the Kings
chariot. Not always in the minority Is the
Church ofGod going to be, or are good m-n
going to be-. The streets ARE going to be
1iled With regpnarated populations, ThreA
hundred ami sixty bells rang in Moscow
when one prince was married but, when
righteousness aud peace kiss each other in
all the earth, ten thousand times ten thou
sani bells shall striie the jubilee. Poverty
enriched. Hunger fed. Crime banishet.
ignorance enlightened. Althr g ties saved.
Is not this u cause worth working I'M
oh, YOU think sometimes it does not
amount to much! You toll m in your dit
lerent spheres, sometimes with Gr,Sat dis
.o~uragemrnt. People have no faith ani SAY:
at does not amount to Hnvthin-: you might
As well quit that" Why, when Moses
stretched his hand over the Red Sea, 1t did
not seem to mean ANYTHING especially. Pc.
pie came out, | suppose, amt said: AHA
Some of them found out what he wanted to
DO. He wanted the sea parted. 1t did not
amount to anything, this stretching out OF
ais hand over the sra. Bot. after II while.
The wind blew all night from the east, md
The waters were gathered into Il Eiiitering
paiisaie on either side, aud The pillows
reared as God pulled back on their crvatat
bits Wheel into line, o, Israel! march!
march! Pearls crashed unier feat. Flying
spray gathers into rainbow arch OF victory
for the %conQuefor5 to march under. Shouts
OF hosts on the beach answering the bouts
of hosts amid sea. And whnn the last line OF
Israeiites reach the beach the "ylihals clap,
and the shields Gang, aud the waters rush
over the purluerS, and the swift-ingertd
" ngs on the white keys OF the foam play
he grand march OF israel delivered and the
awful dirge Of Egyptian overthrow.
So you and | go forth. and all the people
Of God go forth, and they stretch forth their
hand over the sea, the boiling sea OF crime
and sin and wretchedness. "it don't amount
to anything" people say. DON'T it, dods
winds Of help will, after a while, begin to
blow. A path will be cleared for the army
of Christian philRnthropists, TIE path viii
be lined with the treasures OF Christian
beneticepce, and We shall b. greeted to the
other beach by the clapptnso OF allot heaven
eymbaIs, while those who pursued US and
derided us and tried to destroy Us Will go
Town under the SEA and all that will be left
| OF them will be cast high aud dry upon the
beach, the splintered whesl Of IA chariot, or
thrust out from tine foam the breatnless nC5-
ril of Il Iiderles5 charger.