Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-09-12
The Road to Victory.

think we uug' t-aEd l take IL for
granted you ARC interested In this great
work of cvangelizing the cities and saving
the world--wc ought to toll with the sun
light in our faces We are rot fighting in
"a miserable Bull Run Of Gnfcat. We are on
our way to final victory. We are not fol
lowing the rider an the black horse. lead
ing MS down to death and darkness and
doom, but the rider on the white horse,
with the moon under his feet and the stars
Of heaven for his tiara. Hail. Conqueror.
hail!
know there are sorrows, and there are
sins, and there are sufferings all around
about us, but MS in some bitter cold win
ter day, when we are thrashing our arms
around ms Ia keep our thumbs from freez-
Ing, we think OF the warm spring day that
will after awhile come, or in the dark win
ter night we look up and sce the northern
lights the windows Of heaven illuminated
by some great victory, just so we look up
from the night Of suffering and sorrow and
wretchedncss In our cities, and we see a
light streaming through from the other
side. and we know we arc on the way 10
morning-morc than that, on the way 70
IA morning without clouds.
want you to understand. all you who
ARE toiling for Christ. that the castles Of sin
arr all going to be captured. The victory
for Christ In these great towns Is going to
bc So complete that not man on earth or
an angel in heaven or u devil In hell will
dispute IT, How do know? know Just
Us certainly as God lives and that this Is
holy truth The old Bible Is full Of It, II
the nation Is to be saved. Of course all tho
cities are To- bc saved It makes n great
difference with you and with me whether
we are toiling on toward a defeat or toll
ing ON toward victory.
Now. In this municipal elevation of
which speak. have TO remark there will
he greater financial prosperity than our
cities have ever ssrn. Some people seem 10
have u morbid lea of the millennium, and
they i.,;nk wien the lctfer time comes to
our cities and the world people win give
their time up 10 psalm singing and the
relating Of their religious experience, and
as all social life will be purified there will
b. no hilarity, and ms all business will be
purified there will be no enterprise. There
Ii no ground for such an absurd anticipa-
tion In the time Of which speak where
now ore fortune Is made there will be n
hundred fortunes made We all know
business prosperity depends upon conf
dcncc tetwccn man and man. Now, when
that time comes III which l speak, and
when all double dealing, all dishonesty
and all fraud are gone out of commercial
circles. thorough confidence will be estab-
lished. and there will be better business
done. and larger fortunes gathered, and
mightier successes achieved.
The g.cat business disasters of this
country have come from the work Of god.
less SPECTATORS and infamous stock gam
blcrs The great foe to business is crime
When the right shall have hurled back the
wrong, and shall have purified the com
mercial code. and shall have Numbered
down fraudulent establishments, and shall
have put into the hands Of honest men the
keys Of business. llrSscd time for the bar
gain makers. ain NOT talking an abstrac-
ton, am not making guess am tell
ing you God eternal truth